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I did.

"The rich spend a much smaller proportion of their incomes than the rest of us."

Not from my experience.

"The rich don’t necessarily invest their earnings and savings in the American economy."

In fact, the rich fund quite a bit of investment in the American economy, and no numbers are provided to show how much they do or what percentage of American investments go towards the American economy.

"Little has been done since 2008 to widen the circle of prosperity. Health-care reform is an important step forward but it’s not nearly enough."

No backing data here. Nice throw-in of what I assume means that we need socialized healthcare. How would socialized healthcare improve the economy overall?

"Policies that generate more widely shared prosperity lead to stronger and more sustainable economic growth - and that’s good for everyone. The rich are better off with a smaller percentage of a fast-growing economy than a larger share of an economy that’s barely moving."

A.k.a. the author is saying that "spreading the wealth" (known by some as socialism) is good because it takes away money from the rich and gives it to the poor. If the author just embraced that on its own, that's fine- the author is a Socialist, and that's just an opinion. But the author argues that the poor will then spend it, which will increase revenue to companies, which will create more jobs. This is the opposite approach as the Trickle-down Economics of the Reagan era, but suffers the same problem of assuming that any group (rich, middle-class, or poor) will spend during a down economy if the government gives them money (directly via tax breaks or via various programs, etc.). The fact is no one spends during a down economy.

Instead what the government should do is to do as much as they can to be supportive of businesses of all sizes (even individuals) while working to stabilize the economy, pay down our national debt, and promote education and research. Then and only then will our economy recover.
We should have startup poker night
I'm in Los Angeles/Santa Monica

Who's down to start a group and do something monthly? Good way to socialize

PM or email phillipyang04@gmail.com
There already is a fork (django-experimental), though interest seems to be limited at the moment.

There has been limited work on it. Essentially I just fixed the demented logging system... though I will probably fix the demented templating system, and ORM in due time.
Would you mandate your system or sizing? What if they just changed their form of measurement? Or they said recommended size? Is this a problem you are constantly facing? I don't have any difficulty buying pants - why do we need a law?
Why don't we investigate this more? It sounds very promising. What are the primary obstacles?
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Yeah, I know. I'm using google DFP and I've set it to sell my remnant ad space to Adsense, and it does it for me. So technically google is letting me do this.
Yeah, I didn't mean it as a criticism, just was surprised/amused to see it in a VC-backed company. My impression is that a more Randian spirit is somewhat more common, which views anything altruistic as being screwed. I don't have any survey data, but my guess is that a more common arrangement is based on some sort of swap, e.g. the young/no-dependents co-founder who can afford to take a lower salary might negotiate to work for 50% of the other co-founders' salaries, but gets something in return, e.g. an extra equity share--- as opposed to just taking a lower salary for the good of the company.

I don't actually have any problem with the principle the slogan represents, though. IMO the main problems with it are implementation, since there's no way to base a whole country's economy around it without an authoritarian government enforcing who gets what. That's obviously not an issue with voluntary arrangements in smaller groups.
When we first started, the defining quality of incubators, as established in the 1990s, was that the startups worked out of the investors' space. Since we considered that a mistake and made a point of avoiding it, we didn't think of ourselves as an incubator. But the weird thing is that now YC is becoming more established, the meaning of the word "incubator" is changing to something closer to us.
Yep. I have two advertisers paying me CPM from the UK.

It pays my rent in San Francisco :-)

I'd really concentrate on it if I had time, but I'm too busy building Djangy.com
> One of these experiments is SPDY (pronounced "SPeeDY")
Very cool idea... I have my critical hat on though, so don't take offense to any of this and please weigh it with the other feedback you get -- this is just my own personal take on the service.

-- As soon as I read "You and your friends can propose places, times, discuss them, and vote on them." I thought "well that isn't going to work" or at the least "I wouldn't use that" because...

* The few times I've had to plan group events (3 or more people) unless I brought choices to the table, no more than 3 typically, and times... the planning died immediately. No one ever provides feedback to the capacity you'd like them to when planning an event, the most time-slice you can get out of most folks is to click a "yes" or "no" button -- unless you have unusually patient friends... mine are all in tech and we all have A.D.D.

* "Synnk keeps track of it..." I love that you don't require a login. I created an event and got the email and clicked it and was looking at my event. YAY

* Right now I might plan something like Synnk is targeting by just SMS'ing my friends. Trying and figure out how to offer something more convenient or compelling than this... cause SMS is so damn simple and personal that more times than not, you get a reply... email's sit in people's inboxes and die. Just a thought.

ETC NOTES
* Great name!
* If this takes off, support for SMS is a must.
* You might define like 2 or 3 simple markup-esque codes that can be used in email or SMS messages that the system parses out into locations and times easily and quickly so when I send that original email, it's all in there for me... something like parsing "l:" as a location and "t:" as an optional time slot. This is pie in the sky stuff, just listing it here.

So in summary, I think if you focus on the participant feedback being the hardest thing to get, and structure some changes to the service around making all that part of it easier, the service will be easier and more attractive to use for simple quick stuff.
I've used http://microformats.org/ in the past for marking up dates, addresses and the like.

Looking at the examples on the Google page (http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en...) of marking-up breadcrumb links though there is a clear step away from clean functional markup. It looks like the sort of code people make (have made) to add styles to containers and what not. Couldn't semantic info be simply added in any tag available thus:

<a href="/a.htm" typeof="breadcrumb1">a</><a href="/b.htm" typeof="breadcrumb1">b</> ...

Why would that be so hard?

Perhaps further detail could be added by having a typeof-sheet that references the id of a node and details the information it presents (like external CSS).
"The sad part about this is that people who didn't get "their thing" into core is going to use this as self-validation, even if the idea really was bad to begin with."

Most of what is mentioned in this talk are not that much of an improvement, non-issues, or all around horrible ideas.

The fact is though there are major issues with the framework (not mentioned in this talk), and much of it is due to how things are being managed at the moment rather than a lack of ready, willing, and able contributors.
I think the comment was less about looking down on off-shored coding tasks and more about the guy not being able to maintain his own site. HN readers would generally take full responsibility for a task like that.
I agree that the Rails model seems to be working well for them (especially since seeing Rails 3), but it always comes down to the accepted decorum of the community. Its really up to them.
Submit your application when it's 90% as good as it will be.
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"Because thinking is hard and suffering is easy."

This explains so much about the world.
I'm not trying to rush you or anything. Just want to let you know that at least one person is still looking forward to seeing it.
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Where though? Django lacks and clearly defined interface for framework plug-ins, python eggs don't exactly ooze with win here...
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If you're ever in London, we at The Next Web are starting one :)
I upvoted you because you make a valid point ... what exactly, are the government services that Greeks who "should" be paying their taxes actually receiving?
"Sad reality"? I see the biggest opportunity for US growth since the Great Depression. When that struck, people became reflexively wary of investing in markets, blaming Wall St. and scorning robber barons. So, they sold apples on the street, or built scrap metal businesses, or little collective cottage industries, or invented the better mousetrap or dish detergent or soda or milk delivery service.

The Obama administration has the chance to change the narrative away from the WPA-type government works, consumer stimulus and all these other FDR/Keynesian tricks that tea partiers liken to Soviet Russia and instead focus on the biggest driver of employment and b2b consumption: Small business.

I think it's well passed time for us to really soak corporations who in the early 2000s took every tax break and still continued outsourcing, offshoring, right-sizing, and "pivoting toward core competencies" or whatever that hell the new PHB term is today. Tax the s--t out of them. What are they doing with that cash, anyway? They're definitely not hiring here and they're not reinvesting except outside of the US, where the growth is larger and the market less stagnant. Tax them until they hurt or move to Dubai or wherever the hell they go nowadays. Don't believe their narrative in the press that they're the biggest driver of employment. SMBs have _always_ been the big hirer; larger than the Fed, larger than the megacorps.

Obama's administrative focus should be almost laser-like on small business and entrepreneurship, and not just Green ones. ALL of small business should get every damn tax break his administration can give. That, added with tax incentives for SMB purchase of health care, can make working for an SMB even more attractive to potential hires.

This is the moment for the SBA to become one of the most important departments in the Government during this recession. They should be flush with cash, doling out loans at-cost or at lower rates than the stingy big banks that won't lend to Main St. anymore. Let them sit on the sidelines while the government guarantees the survival of the US economy. They'll come around eventually and drop their CDO and leveraged funny money games and start focussing on lending money to fuel growth industries again.

Hey, one can dream.
I have no idea what's up with all the hate in this thread. Code is both a means to and end and an end in itself. Hacker News attracts people of each perspectives, and also some people like me who share both perspectives. Can't we all just get along AND give this guy some credit for a massively resourceful accomplishment, and a nice contribution to the global economy?
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You know, not everything is the next Google. Network effects and the size of the userbase are very important.
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>where the amount a school gets for having taught a kid depends on test scores at the end

Presumably you'd be making some assessment of value added, which would be hard of scores alone. A school in an area of high illiteracy that manages to improve literacy levels of pupils could arguably have added more value than a school in a high achievement area where achievement levels are pretty constant - moving people from a fail in Maths/English to a pass might impact their lives far more than moving them from a B to an A (or A to A* as they're now called in the UK; grade inflation FTW).
How much of an alternative syntax do you want? Factors at least as flexible as a lisp
I seem to be able to toggle on and off the twitter settings. I use markdown mode, and when I reblog something, I just delete all the copy in the text area, an attribute line is still given to the original source. Or I can par it down and quote one of the other rebloggers, but usually feel it is best to site the source, which happens automatically.
"I don't know about this interpretation of "just start". My take on the "just start" thing is to avoid procrastinating forever, and feeling like it's not the right time, or your idea isn't good enough, or you aren't ready."

My experience has been that if I can't resist procrastinating to begin with, then I likely won't be able to resist procrastination once I've started either. If you need to do "productivity hacks" to get started, is the project really worth doing at all? I mean getting started is the easy part.
Manage your sleep hygiene.
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I agree quoted strings in queries would be nice. There are some technical challenges in handling mixed queries where some terms are quoted and others are not, though.
Some info in an interview about the design decision to use php and some mention of the tools they use http://www.marco.org/1081635130
I prefer that David fell the Goliath, with no help from the government or anybody else.

If small business have merits, than they should be able to thrive on the free market.
I assume "other professionals" means professionals who are not teachers, as per BLS classifications.

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/1981/11/rpt1full.pdf

Also, if you bothered to read my source as far as page 2, you'd realize that it does provide breakdowns based on teacher age. Apparently it's young teachers who work less, and older (50+) teachers who work more (5.1 hours). See table 2 on page 2.
As did I, back in mid-2003. Of course, it was just an excuse to try out the then-new "Google Web APIs" :-)

http://lars.com/tools/IncGoogleSearch/inc-google-search.jpg
This article irritates me. It seems like trying to apply the equivalent of the Waterfall Method to life. I'm perpetually disappointed that ideas like this have such a big following here, because I like to think that most HNers would agree with me when I say that I think the Waterfall Method was stupid even at the time.

That's without even getting into the smug "only 5% of the population is smart enough to understand me" drivel.
Getting started is a prerequisite. A lot of people procrastinate and never get started. So from that perspective, getting started should be the most important thing for procrastinators

However, getting started -in itself- is obviously not sufficient. Getting started on the wrong project is obviously not good (though sometimes, you won't know it is wrong until you do some work on it). Getting started on too many things will result in a lack of focus. Most of this is common-sense. As long as you're aware of all this, I think the "just get started" idea does make a lot of sense.
Ask HN: What habits made you a better programmer?
- How you think about a problem
- Pushing past resistance

things like that
Scientists: Go ahead, kill all the mosquitoes.
That looks like iteration to me.
The "value" of the monasteries also seems like it requires assumptions about what would be permitted. I imagine Mount Athos, for example, could be quite valuable as a tourist and resort destination--- could make some nice boutique hotels out of those historic monasteries. But since secular development has been banned on the peninsula for centuries, I can't imagine that actually happening. If we assume that Mouth Athos will stay off-limits to secular development, and assume that the removal/sale of historic items from the monasteries wouldn't be permitted, the value of their land and holdings (e.g. manuscripts) is much lower, because it isn't commercially exploitable.

Now shell companies owned by the church engaged in normal for-profit business, those seem pretty reasonable to tax.
Me too, but the problem is starting up. There is no cash to start. If you've got an idea and it takes some capital to bring it from PoC to finished product, you're stuck because banks _are not_ lending to small business, full stop.

That's why I see the SBA coming to the forefront with direct microlending and guaranteed super-low interest rates for mom and pop loans.

Not everyone has a business idea that can get the attention of YC or TechStars. It sometimes takes a nudge to get things going. It's a big country, with people that have varied skillsets, education levels, and means of opportunity. If we want to encourage entrepreneurship, we need to either empower them directly with tax dollars, or we give those dollars to banks who may or may not do it for us.

What we obviously can't do is cut taxes for the rich and corporations and hope they hire the unemployed, because I'm sure you'll agree that it obviously hasn't happened.
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Greece has a debt crisis. The state borrowed some €216 billion and now cannot pay it. This isn't just some slow down caused by the business cycle that can be fixed by reducing taxes.

Tax evasion costs the Greek government an estimated $20B a year. I would say that improving tax collection would significantly help Greece make payments on their debt. You have a big problem when there are millionaire doctors not paying a cent in taxes to the state.

Sure, they have money wasting state enterprises, they could try to privatize some of them - but it is something that should not be done in a hasty manner. Rushes to privatize have led to massive failures (see Russia, parts of Latin America).

So in order to get out of this mess they should 1. Restructure the debt to get a longer payment schedule 2. Improve their ability to collect taxes so that they can make some of those payments. 3. Work to privatize certain state owned businesses / infrastructure.

... or drop out of the EU, devalue currency, grow GDP
One big group of tax evaders are doctors, who like to play both sides of the game. They accept large government subsidies and equipment on the one hand, and run off-the-books side businesses with that equipment on the other hand. Sometimes the side business isn't even very "side": doctors frequently demand and receive under-the-table cash payments to "expedite" service in the state hospitals.

They also, of course, didn't pay tuition for their medical degrees--- their education was paid for by the people who actually pay taxes.
Tins of tuna with dolphin meat in that was labelled "dolphin friendly" - are they OK? People can simply do a DNA test and determine the species of animal the flesh comes from, no?

As far as I'm aware, "dolphin un-friendly" fisheries never actually chop up dolphins and can them. It's just a matter of whether dolphins are accidentally killed during the fishery.
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<smartass>I like the way it instantly changes my C# queries to C in the suggest list.</smartass>
> It's illegal to yell fire in a crowded movie theater

[1]"Shouting fire in a crowded theater" is a popular metaphor and frequent misquoting of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.'s opinion.

The misquote fails to mention falsely shouting fire to highlight that speech which is merely dangerous and false which can be distinguished from truthful but also dangerous.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_thea...
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Some would include that it super heats the air to gain thrust, as you get higher the air gets thinner meaning less thrust.
Also there are limits to how narrow you can keep a laser beam through air and atmospheric absorption and diffusion.

All these things combine to make it more difficult to get energy to the craft as it get's further away.
For me, it has been writing small little utility projects using technologies that I'm curious about.

Recently it was jQuery and the Play! Framework -- for the longest time I was trying to think of some "grand" project that I could write to use them all together and become the master of all that is web... then a year went by and I continued to try and figure out what this ultimate project would be.

What a waste.

Then one Saturday I was bored and sat down and wrote a simple collection of AJAX utilities that do the most basic crap that anyone could write - using those two technologies. It helped get me over that hump and I learned a lot about the two techs I was curious about.

I went ahead and stuck the utils online for anyone to use and moved on with my life.

It was a great exercise for me, and a method of write/release I plan on using from this point forward for just about anything.
"But everything not being equal, I'll choose the better project every time, no matter what the environment is like."

Really? Don't get me wrong, I largely agree with the spirit of your post, but... there are some real shitholes out there. At one job my chair was so bad that I could barely move at the end of the day. I had to exercise more often than usual to ease the back pain. The office was often dirty because the owner was too cheap and would only send a cleaner when he really had to. I don't care if you're working on an OS kernel or movie special effects, doing something you love should not come at the expense of your health or personal hygiene. Now I don't particularly care for free lunches or private offices (I prefer shared offices myself, with 3 or 4 developers per office). But the reason Joel's message resonates strongly with so many people is precisely because most developers work in conditions few professionals would put up with. Even in software companies where software is (or should be) a profit center, the accountants, office administrators, etc. often work under much better conditions than the developers.
If people like this and it makes search more server-intensive to run, that works in Google's favor by making it more expensive to compete with them on instant search. They're the champions when it comes to infrastructure, and they know it.
That's not what I said. I said they should tax the church's income.
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Facebook rode the tide of popularity first among young people. This group is notoriously fickle and fad-driven. I visualize a school of fish or flock of birds suddenly all changing direction at once, for no apparent reason. It absolutely could fall out of favor at any time.
I became a better programmer by writing a lot of programs.
Given a choice between what we have now and a cram school culture, I would prefer the latter. At least then the (predominantly poor, black, and latino) students our public education system routinely fails would have a fighting chance at a decent life.

That said, I don't want to give the impression that cram school culture should accepted and imported wholesale to America. I used cram schools as an example of outside forces based in capitalism acting as a self-correcting mechanism for a public school system. Given the political difficulties of transforming public schools, I think it would be helpful to have at least one place students can go to receive an education.