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Chromium is slim? Compared to what exactly? The only browser I've ever used with similar memory usage to Chromium would have to be Opera. Even on a relatively optimized build of Chromium 7.0.510.0, it's pretty typical for me to see memory usage of ~300MB with only three tabs open. I shudder to think how much memory Chromium eats when used by tab junkies who have 20+ pages open at a time.

I can see how Chromium gives users the illusion that it's slim, but I don't think it's accurate to call it that. I would reserve the word slim for browsers like uzbl and Midori.
I you want to add another one, New York Nighowls is a co-working club that goes from 10pm to 4am.

http://nynightowls.com/
If you think facebook is bad try getting a response from a 'live human being' out of google.
You may have fallen prey to anthropomorphism here. We're so used to man-made constructions that when we see something that we did not build, we tend to attribute its existence to an entity which is conveniently like us.

What did you mean by "creator"? From what I can see: us, or God. So, what we did not create (like the complexity of life), must have been created by God.

But what did you mean by "God"? Most of the time, God is refereed to as an infinitely smart, infinitely potent, utterly incomprehensible entity ("the ways of God are impenetrable"), which is very much like us ("he made us in his image"). In other words, magic with a personality.

I have a problem with magic: it explains everything, by explaining nothing. It's what in http://lesswrong.com they call a "curiosity stopper". In the face of magic (or God), I feel like a balrog before Gandalf: I cannot pass. It's very frustrating, because I'm naturally curious.

And to a point, I can satisfy my curiosity. For instance, the creator the complexity of life is evolution (skipping very very long explanation that I don't fully understand). The creator of evolution is the laws of physics, whose creator is… I don't know. For now the buck stops there. It doesn't mean, however that it should stick there. That would be freezing the current boundaries of our knowledge. If I replace "I don't know" by "God", I forbid myself to look further. Maybe there isn't anything further, but that I don't know.

So, you don't "know" there's a creator. You just marvel at the mystery of the creation. You don't want to really explain the creation, for it's precious mystery would be gone. Or you are just uncomfortable with uncertainty, so you tell yourself a story where the scariest uncertainties are easily explained.

Or you just didn't think this through. Yet.
As long as you don't get into the algorithms it's pretty simple.

A hand written http parser is kind of like writing a "white-list" of what the server rejects. Since there's no algorithm backing it the only thing you can do is list out all the things you can think of or have run into that is "wrong".

Using a parser (well lexer really) like Ragel I can make something that's relaxed, but it's more of a white-list of what it accepts. The algorithm explictily says this particular set of characters in this grammar is all that I'll answer to.

If you then write the grammar so that it handles 99% of the requests you run into in the wild, you get the same relaxed quality as a hand written one, but it explicitly drops the 1% that are invalid or usually hacks.

This is also the same parser that's power a large number of web servers in multiple languages, so it's proven to work.
It's true, when I said "standard of living", I simply meant "consumption". "Standard of living" is a fairly nebulous and poorly defined concept. I should have been more specific about what I meant. Thanks for pointing that out. I've edited my post to reflect this.
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Okay - let's say that I, a technical person, meet you at a bar. We start talking and you mention just what you said - that you are looking to meet a possible co-founding developer but that you don't really know anyone and you're stuck on even where to look for such a person. You know what I'm thinking to myself? "If this guy can't figure this part out, then I'm certainly not about to tell him that I could be that technical co-founder."

Sorry - that's the truth though. IMO, if you are business & marketing person, then either you should already have a set of contacts that you could ask for help on or, plan b, you would have a handle on groups locally in your area that would lead you to such a person (or to someone who could lead you to someone). If plan A isn't working out for whatever reason, then figure out plan B. I can promise you that posting here is less productive than pressing the flesh with local folks in your own town.
It can be argued that as soon as capital begins to concentrate, the benefactors begin to affect policy making to their advantage. Thus you end up with the current system.

Just as attempts at establishing communism end up with coercion and purges of dissent, theoretical capitalism ends up with powerful interest groups in practice.
I can't help taking that further and imagining (but not wishing for, obviously) a case where the driver spooked by the illusion swerves into a collision with a school bus full of kids. Oh, the irony.
Canadians also pay much more for gasoline than Americans. Of course, not all of this is in taxes.

To check this: find a "gas buddy" site for a place in Canada, then find one for the nearest US city/town close to it (to control for price disparity due to shipping).

Multiply cost per liter by 3.6 to get equivalent US Gallon; then adjust it by current exchange rate.

Example: lowest for Vancouver, BC: http://www.vancouvergasprices.com/ is currently 106.9 per liter ($1.069 CAD) , times 3.6 = $3.85 CAD , about $3.66 per US Gallon in USD.

Closest city on the US side is Bellingham, WA, lowest price there is $2.82, or about US $ 0.80 difference per gallon.

Assuming a fill-up is 12 gallons, that is ~$10 per tank difference.
I like your version so much that I have submitted this as a separate story. Link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1656606
Have to agree with this thread. Interesting idea, still needs actual work. Inexperienced cooks will be all over the place. Experienced cooks will be frustrated with the limitations.

As an experience cook myself, I'm frustrated just by looking at the screenshots.
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Thanks man. Can't wait to get to the next level with it.
I thought, "this whole v4 thing has gotta be bs" originally. Yet, I'm generally just on HN, ./ and reddit, so I don't notice.

Then yesterday I went to Digg to submit a link, and I was shocked. This wasn't a minor UI tweak that got users upset (like Facebook does monthly), but it seemed to flip the site on its head completely. I can see why users were upset.

I agree, the ideas were good- but good for another site, not to take a community a flip it upside down.
It certainly was at at least one stage in history. Before nation states, a common religion could unify a large army that would otherwise be divided by tribal/ethnic loyalties. It did for the Byzantine army after Constantine's conversion, and worked spectacularly well a few hundred years later for the armies of the Caliphs.
Or they could do microtransactions in the app to sell more content as well. Then Apple takes care of the billing.
It's irrelevant that there are benefits from paid time off.

What is relevant is whether the benefits exceed the costs. Most people with the freedom to choose believe the benefits of time off do not exceed the costs.
I won't know until I try cooking with it, but it looks pretty awesome upfront. Good presentation too!
I tried a box of Kleenx that's sitting on my desk and that worked, so there is something in there.
Microsoft has in the past made fantastic PDA products. I've owned and used 3 generations of them.But the current crop is just awful. The devices themselves are so-so. The fatal flaw is their synchronization.

For several years now, the only change to Microsoft's ActiveSync application has been to gradually remove features -- and yes, I do mean this literally. When I bought my most recent device, the top-of-the-line iPAQ (that isn't a phone), it came with WM6 and required an upgrade to the most recent ActiveSync, forcing me to abandon the features I'd kept for years just by not upgrading.

But now, on both the computers I (attempt to) connect it with, ActiveSync will not work at all. Several hours of trouble-shooting haven't gotten me anywhere.

Even if my experience is an aberration, the fact that ActiveSync does not (and, according to MS, will not) support Outlook 64-bit can only mean that they already view the platform as a dead end.

If Microsoft won't support ActiveSync on what they claim to be their flagship communication application, how can I possibly invest the money in continued use of WM devices?
The main issue is that we're still taxing income, instead of taxing consumption.

We (no matter the country) could save billions in administrative costs simply by moving all tax to point of sale style VATs. (As a sidenote this does not mean that something like the FairTax proposal is a good example of this concept.)
True, but the problem with voting rings is that links may be submitted by different participants to the ring each time, and if they all have genuine high karma, that is difficult to track down.
Apache's architecture is such that it's very bound to "files" and a strict request/response message pattern. That makes things like long polling, async sockets, and even streaming say ICY (check our mp3stream demo) really difficult.

In Mongrel2 it's kind of like every thing's long poll or an async socket. That let's you do a ton of very cool things you can't do easily in Apache or other web servers. Sure you could hack them in, but it's a nightmare.
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> Hackers also read everything way too literally.

How true is that! =)

I think the problem is your making it sound like a hacker or a consumer is just a person, rather than a person using a particular tool at the time.
Assuming you are talking about a place in the USA, are you sure that there is not a state "CHIP" program that he can enroll in at little to no charge? http://www.cms.gov/home/chip.asp

Or did you mean complications other than health issues?
History repeats itself:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longitude_Act
No worries :) just added epub / mobi :D
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This is true. I just moved from Boston to Columbus, Ohio. Stopped by Sandbox the other day (which has an amazing building). It was really different than what I'm used to for coworking (betahouse in Cambridge). The most shocking thing was that it was much more 'small business' focused than 'startup/tech' focused. At betahouse 75% of people are developers of some type. At Sandbox, they seemed to have less than 10% of the people there as developers.

Potentially not my thing, but very cool and I was happy to see them pulling in the larger small business community into the coworking idea.
It's not like the entire tax goes into a black hole -- it would be interesting to see what the return is on the average tax rate: how much benefit is derived from state, federal, and city services (roads, water, security, libraries, parks) and benefits (unemployment, social security, disability).
I find myself supporing my fingers over my Magic Trackpad, which is tiring. At the very least I have to raise all my fingers except the ones I want to use in a gesture.

My other preferred device is a thumb-ball trackball. I have a logitech trackman, and the discontinued one from Microsoft. I find those much more comfortable, if a bit problematic for high precision. I just wish I could get a bluetooth one.
Can you explain how this is different from the FairTax and why a sales tax style VAT would be better?
Full disclosure: I developed this app, and Nancy's article really gets to the meat of why I'm excited about it.
Tales like this are exactly the reasons I haven't even CONSIDERED developing for FB. I'd always heard their support was atrocious.

This is very enlightening as to WHY people I know were completely ignored -- they weren't YC Alumni. I'll be sure to forward this to them, so they realize why they were denied support. I'm sure they'll be interested.
Just saw this - it shows a voting ring using links rather than user names: http://i.imgur.com/4MOZr.jpg
I was amazed at the ZIP of the phone when I saw a demo model at a iPhone event.

It's very snappy, app startup and the menus itself.
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I don't dispute that, I just dispute that the solution is to encourage procreation as the original post stated.
A flat marginal rate with a curved average rate certainly is impossible:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_theorem_of_calculus
I had to disable pinch-to-scale with mine. All too often I'd be reading something in the Xcode documentation window, and a slight, inadvertent movement of my fingers would cause the text to get really big or really small.
The cap is per person. However, payouts increase by 50% for married couples where only one person worked. This is then cut in half if the spouse who worked dies. If the non working spouse dies then the worker is left with their normal benefit.

Edit: Each benefit is considered independently, so if you both made the same amount then there is no increase in maximum payout, however you can take the spouses lower benefit early (62) and put off using your benefit till (67) which would increase your total payout assuming you lived to 85.

PS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_Wage_Base

Ops, looks like they did not raise the cap so it's $106,800 in 2010.
Some people do that. It actually was used in jruby, and I think a couple projects generated the raw ruby rather than the C version. Uhm, I want to say Rubinius?
I've also read on the c2 wiki. TVTropes also fits your third paragraph about no expectation of polished writing in stubs.
This page isn't loading for me, but to answer the question: absolutely.

My whole goal of becoming financially independent is based on my desire for two things: the freedom to continue my own 'unschooling', and the ability to invest all of my time and energy into my family. Sending my children to a detention center five days a week is incompatible with the sort of family life I'd like to have.

The biggest argument for sending kids to school is that it gives them an opportunity to socialize. I'd agree with this in a limited sense. Yes, they get to be surrounded by other children, but socialization outside of sanctioned time periods is punished (I spent a lot of my time in school sitting in 'timeout' in the hallway), and the socialization that occurs in such an unnatural setting is probably not optimal - in fact, it's common in America to refer to immature social settings as being 'high school'. I have friends who were home schooled, and they had no trouble meeting friends during their school age years.

I'd let my kids go to school to see what it is like, provided they know enough not to buy in to it, and they are going just to have fun and make friends.

* I'm a little reluctant to make this claim, since I am not yet a parent, but it all boils down to this: there is no way in hell that anyone cares more about my children's education and personal development than I do, so I am the best candidate for assuming that responsibility.
HN does sometimes appreciate that, but you have to lead a bit. Maybe if you'd quoted the title immediately before your response, since most people will have read one or more other comments (and maybe the article itself... shocking, I know) before reading your comment. The headline has expired out of memory at this point. That's my excuse for why I didn't get it.
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Your claim assumes that it's all economic,...

No, all my claim really assumes is that people have a better idea about what is good for them than I (or some enlightened bureaucrat) do.

Suppose men do prefer working because they enjoy feeling masculine, or that women prefer maternity leave because they enjoy feeling feminine. I generally accept people's desires as they are, rather than treating them as defective when they prefer things different from me and penalizing them if they don't make choices that conform to my desires.
That's good to hear. I just don't understand why they all launched 7'' tablets first. Maybe they wanted to fail, in subconscious conspiracy with Apple.
I think what most people fail to understand when it comes to market significance here is the leverage in the developer community. I know most HN people are not MSFT fans but Silverlight is a great technology and the phone dev platform is based on Silverlight. Microsoft has won markets in the past because of developers and they will be strong in the 3rd party application market here. Having had a iPhone for years, now and Android and developed for all three platforms I think that Android is going to be in trouble unless the quality of user experience quickly rises for apps in their market.

Because of contract cycle lengths on phones I think this is a battle that will be waged for at least the next 6 years. Going to be fun!
This was originally the comment here ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1655325 ), but somebody asked me to blog it. I added some pretty pictures.

I'll shut up for a while now, I promise.
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Canadians also pay much more for gasoline than Americans. Of course, not all of this is in taxes.

I think most of the difference is taxes -- unlike pretty much everything else, advertised gasoline prices include federal and provincial sales taxes. In Vancouver they also include a carbon tax (currently $0.048/L) and an additional fuel tax to fund mass transit (currently $0.12/L).
He didn't "prove", it's just an argument. The "all things have a mover" doesn't have to apply to the universe. (If it was proven then there would be no atheists right?). Also the "unmoved mover" could be the universe itself, why not?

I can perfectly imagine the universe being forever the same as a creator being forever (if anything the first is easier since we have no evidence of the latter).
That's an incredibly mature edit.

[User was dmm, unsure what original post was but he edited it to read "Reply to this if you're a nazi"]
News, yes. Hacker News? I don't think so ...
It's not like the entire tax goes into a black hole

It's arguable that we'd be better off were that so... part of the tax burden is all the people employed by those taxes who don't actually contribute anything to society on net (that is, whose jobs wouldn't be done at all on the free market)... in this way, taxes can have something like double their cost in harm, potentially.
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Are there businesses who have streamlined all of the operations, billing, furnishing, marketing, and setup of the co-working space for space owners, in exchange for a percentage of the co-working rents?
Go down to Seattle and it's probably $2.50. We Bellinghamsters have been getting screwed for years (at least relative to the Seattle metro area).

There's an odd effect where a high-price area spills over into the neighbo(u)ring areas. I haven't quite figured out an explanation.
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I've been thinking about what makes a good coworking space. After 3.5 years in the best coworking space ever betahouse (imho), I've moved to Columbus, Ohio and I'm checking out the spaces here. I haven't found one that is as tech-heavy as betahouse, which is something I highly enjoy.

I feel one mistake that is easy to make with coworking is to make the space 'too nice' with too much privacy. If everyone's got an office with a door, something is wrong. Remove the door at least, and think about bashing down a few walls. Part of the sheer joy of coworking is being right there with people. When you step away for anything more than a quick phone call, or a business meeting in the conference room, then you're not coworking efficiently.

Sure, coworking can be a distraction, but having access to brilliant and skilled people around you to bounce ideas off, look at your code, or make your day better is priceless and far outweighs time lost due to distraction.

The reason that many of us gravitate toward coworking to begin with is that we're lonely. Working from home, alone, often not leaving the house for the entire day, isn't good for you. We might have coworkers, but they are only as close as skype. With coworking, you can establish deep bonds that go beyond your current job/gig.
First time I ever heard something positive about confluence. (But I only heard about it, because we use it at work and people like to complain about it.)
I heard Jobs say it was Facebook or Twitter but for music. Seems pretty unambiguous.
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It's not so much regressive as it is "supposed" to be a penion insurance plan separate from the rest of your taxes. There is a cap on benefits, so there's a cap on what you contribute to it, not unlike the cap on contributions to a 401(k) or IRA.

Of course, we never got our lockbox so the upcoming generation of retirees elected governments that spent that retirement money on other stuff now wants to raise taxes so that the current young folks can pay for their irresponsibility.
Mainly because of our excessive military spending, and our health care system that brilliantly combines the drawbacks of capitalism and socialism while avoiding nearly all of the benefits of either.
I guess I didn't find that to be the case, any more than any other forum, at least. In what ways was K5 more of an echo chamber than, say, HN is?
Sorry for the outage. The site is back up now. Fingers crossed, praise Murphy. :-)
And in case the upvotes dont' convey the sentiment, yes, I think we would be interested.
Do you have a coder working with you? If so, (and they're familiar with PHP), they should be able to extend the functionality you need.

If not, I'd recommend finding someone on odesk type sites. Find someone who specializes in WP customization (they'll prob be a little more expensive, but IMO worth it.
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You could always try the military... you've got one hell of an expensive lean, mean fighting machine there. I'm pretty sure it would still be as good for defence at a fraction of the cost.
I like the idea and feel that a significant number of students (including myself when I was in school) would benefit from it. I think the majority of students are better off with some kind of formal education. Now, whether we're providing the appropriate formal education is another question entirely.
In addition to some of the great summaries here, you should check out Sal Khan's videos on capital and funding

http://www.khanacademy.org/video/raising-money-for-a-startup

http://www.khanacademy.org/#Venture Capital and Capital Markets
Good work Zed!
> "Unfortunately it's not possible now to rewind the movie, so to speak, and see what actually happened. So these speculations will remain just that: speculations."

I wish every ev-psych article made this point.
I got to spend about half an hour playing with a hardware reference device not too long ago. While it was fast (and had the best OSK I've used), the UI was just a complete mess. Navigation was clumsy, and it's almost shocking that MS would bring out a platform without multitasking after even Apple has conceded that point.

The best description I've heard is that it sort of feels like using iPhone 1.5. That was great in 2007, but I don't know how it's going to fly in 2010/2011 given it's going up against a growing iOS and Android, an entrenched RIM, and potential for HP to breathe new life into the superior WebOS.
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Yes that is what I'm talking about. While they are not helped directly by getting loans, they are helped by overall growth in the economy.