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I couldn't agree more. There was an article in the WSJ last week about the benefits of sleeping on the job. I'm sure it was read because it seriously clashes with the NY state of mind, but I saw some pretty supportive comments on Twitter from Californians and New Yorkers alike. I would never want my office to be in France where you get to work at 11, go to lunch and have a few bottles of wine from 12-4, and then take off at 5. I'm glad Sarkozy raised the retirement age to 62 though. I just don't want a culture swap, but it looks to be one of the many directions our melting pot could take. My french roommate used to put the eggs in the cupboard! Crazy!

If I saw one of my employees put the eggs in the cupboard and then take a nap in my New York office, my brain would implode.

I'm not suggesting to operate like a sweatshop and I'm aware that manufacturing power in the United States is quite volatile right now, but even when people focus on those right-brain activities, the earth still spins and capitalism still exists. Some of my best work is produced when my fatigue becomes delusion :D
Does Xpra offer the same level of compression as NX?

NX is designed to work fast over low bandwidth connections.
Microsoft need not necessarily be an advocate of "do not track" if their only interest is in damaging Google's brand.
I think the key take away is, if he's arguing that ferociously that we're doing it wrong, he must be betting against what we're doing.
I’m confused, didn’t European nations have smaller stimulus programs compared to the United States? Isn’t he consequently arguing for the US to become more European in solving this crisis?
Oh you know know for sure that every user would want their data broadcast to 3rd party developers to do what they please with ... the way Facebook has done ... and oh by the way, how is that going for them?

Look, Craigslist doesn't want an api.

Its their software and its that simple

People need to get over it or ... you know ... go build their own classifieds listing service or something.
The name change thing is bogus and isn't a solution anyway.
Aren't these copyrighted?
That's one point that one could defend.

The Shadow Government Statics site seems to put the current rate at about 23%.

http://www.shadowstats.com/

And sgs altogether makes a fairly plausibly argument... unlike parent article...
My Sony TV is just a TV, and that is the way I like it, no apps, no internet; just channel buttons. Currently I am watching "Starwars II: Attack of the clones" in high def and commenting on this post at the same time.

Two screens are a far better experience than trying to both large video and interactive apps in one device. This is one of the reasons that interactive TV has never taken off. It just isn't feasible for general consumption.
Well, in a normal web app you put it where you normally do; it gets shoved in various .rb or .py or whatever and you just call the database as usual.

for an app written in coudb:

http://guide.couchdb.org/editions/1/en/managing.html is a breakdown of the source tree and explains things.
(like the dubious assessment that unemployment is twice the stated rate).

I've actually seen this claim made a lot, both in the media and on blogs. The basis for that claim is that the speaker believes U6 rather than U3 should be the official unemployment rate, and U6 is typically about double U3.

[edit: See joe_the_user's post, which was submitted as I was writing this.]
No apology necessary - this is an awesome find. Essential mixes are probably my most listened to programming tracks.
You are funny.

I must say, those French are damn impressive. They work only ten hours a week (probably eight because – honestly – you just know that they will take fridays off) and still manage to be the fifth largest economy in the world. Isn’t that something we all should try to imitate, not scoff at?
Thanks for the insight; that clears up a lot.
I think I was not fully clear on who I meant treats school and knowledge. I was talking about the public, about the fact that we, and the media, exclaim and proclaim her diligence and hard working nature. That's the ironic and sad part.

Working smart is better than working hard (except, of course, when you need to work hard and smart). Imagine if instead of the current computerized mail sorting system we had thousands of post workers sitting there and sorting mail, diligently. Is that something to be applauded?
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The strip clubs don't compete, not here in NYC. You have to audition. They pick you.

The business behind it is actually kind of interesting. The girl will audition, they get accepted and then they pay a house fee (usually around $100) to work there. Sundays are typically house fee free. Everything else is based on tips and the girls have to tip everyone: bouncers, house moms, makeup (if they don't do their own).

And it's really a scaling issue. I'm guessing (and I'm just guessing) that the median income for a stripper in a particular area is directly related to the median income for that area.

Also, a lot of girls travel to work, between NYC, Vegas and Los Angeles. Also, Miami is pretty big.

You don't need to be a super model to work at the "top flight" clubs in NYC either. I have photographic evidence of that. You do need to have some hustle to make a lot of money though, and a casual disdain for men doesn't hurt either.

I would most certainly NOT recommend it as a career for people. I think it has the capability of ruining healthy sexual attitudes in people. It certainly made my relationship much harder.

That being said, a lot of these girls have very few options that provide the sort of income and lifestyle flexibility that stripping offers. My ex-wife supported her entire family with it. Could she have done something else? Maybe, but she didn't finish high school and her family required her support. What career can someone in her situation take on that offers 90K+ for 4 days work without a high school diploma?

It's really interesting too because the entire perception of stripping is so culturally rooted. Where she is from (Japan) it's no big deal. It's another job, like being a hostess girl. Not something you wear on your sleeve, but not something you necessarily are ashamed of. Of course, being American, nobody in my family knows or knew - that would have been a disaster.
There's a save/load feature in beta. It just didn't launch with it.

http://devbug.deviantart.com/blog/34734592/
I like this one http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/2010/upside_down_lounge/
It could be a pet, I'm no expert. They don't have to have a harness, though, I'v seen seizure alert dogs with just a leash. They do usually have to have some kind of identifying clothing on, though, so you're probably right on that one.
All business logic is in the database itself. It has ACL's and data validation built into one feature (update validation) and as for deciding which data to display and when, the map/reduce-based view API is extremely powerful.

Force yourself to use CouchDB for a project where you're handling large amounts of data and you'll discover how incredible it really is. There's tons of other great features you'l pick up along the way too.
Apple has missed a trick it should have learned from the iPhone in the value of allowing controlled third party apps on to a platform. Apple TV + downloadable/purchasable iOS apps aimed solely for TV use would be awesome. Or maybe they're hoping to pull the same idea off using the iPad->Airplay->Apple TV integration coming later in the year?
An awful piece. I repent that I read it. His introduction is good though. Grand claims, appealing to ancient lands, myths.

However, the man seems to have no patience. Jumping from one idea to another like an adolescent trying to figure out what to do with himself. Grand claims, without explanation or elaboration, merely statements. We have lost the way of the ancients. By ancients we are probably led to believe the innocence of Aristotle.

A complete mess. Examples selected. A very narrow argument. Not a person engaging, not really a person communicating, but, possibly, a person with an agenda, someone who is trying to "school" the great ignorant public, to fill the place of the ancient medieval priests.

That is my impressions. Of which I might be entirely wrong. I must however say, his world is dark, made dark by limitations of his imaginations, by loss of hope in the human spirit, by lack of understanding of the human resilience.

Europe has free trade, it has too a fairly similiar ideologies of democracy and capitalism, yet each country in europe is as different as China and America. Globalisation in practice is much different from the globalisation of rhetoric. No need to use the bible. Nor repeat the term apocalyps on and on in the introduction, to present an impression of something really serious, deep and secret being told.

Tell what the world is, we have the brains to understand what it should be.

Though this I should not say - I am frankly disappointed in the consciousness of Hacker News who allowed this article to get sufficient point to make me force myself to read a most ghastly article.
She was a poor rural villager. She got the right to drive and a free $16,000 car. Its like getting magic powers and a king's ransom. I'd wager her life changed more for the better as a result of these events than most of ours would if we did get that big fym exit.

In her world, she joined indeed.
i'd be interested in hearing from people that are serious in startup tech or marketing and are interested in travel. i have a significant property in this area and need help.
My Samsung TV has most (if not all) of that, and already has Hulu Plus.

And Hulu Plus was a huge disappointment. For those that don't know, ONLY 'plus' content can be streamed to a device directly. You can't watch the vast majority of Hulu's catalog directly on your TV/PS3/whatever. It cost me $10 to learn that.
The US outlier may be explained by other variable. For example, church attendance may be positively or negatively correlated with wealth, depending on the state, which suggests a more complex relationship, at least in the US.

Besides being a very rich country (at least globally), the US have other very particular features, like multi culturalism, etc... There was also an interesting article in the economist about the more competitive market for religion in the US compared to other countries - I unfortunately cannot find it back.
> it is somehow a little bit surreal to read a call for "A Return to Traditional American Virtues" written by a Swiss professor who works in Germany.

But it is somehow OK, since he writes it for the European audience who also doesn't live in America.

I guess it would be possible to build a system of perceived American values from abroad. Perhaps with so much information and so much exported American culture (via Hollywood movies for example), it would be possible to get a fairly accurate idea of what American values would be !?

But then again, an expert is an expert if there are enough people calling him that, so as long as there are others who share the same (possibly skewed) interpretation, the author will probably be considered now a local expert on Americanism.
> Or maybe they're hoping to pull the same idea off using the iPad->Airplay->Apple TV integration coming later in the year?

Very likely. It seems Apple's strategy is that the Apple TV is a "dumb box", like a modem for your TV, that allows other devices (computers) to talk to it. They don't want to add an App store, because then it wouldn't be a "dumb box" any more.

The Apple TV is as cheap as it is now because they're targeting the market segment that doesn't care about anything other than watching movies, listening to music, and looking at pictures. These people won't comparison-shop based on the internal processor speed, or the hard disk capacity.

Apple got stuck in a spec race with the iPhone, and they don't want to have to do it again with the Apple TV, because spec races inevitably up prices—more speed, more capability, more storage—when what they want the ATV to be is a commodity that every TV has hooked up to it, so people can use their computers (specifically, their Apple computers) to stream things to them.

They want the ATV to do as little as possible, not as much as possible, just to act as a little adapter that brings your TV into your wi-fi network. It's not part of their computer or phone businesses; rather, it an extension of the "ubiquitous networking" strategy they've always had with the Airport Express (in fact, I bet the Airport Express and Apple TV teams are now merged under the "AirPlay" banner.)
The huge disks look stupid in retrospect, but during the '80s (and well into the '90s) Laserdisc was the only way to get movies in their original aspect ratio, with digital sound, or with special features like commentary tracks. It was a huge step up from VHS, and totally worth the expense and inconvenience if you were seriously into movies.

Don't knock 'em if you weren't there, is all I'm saying.
Without looking, one easy way to do it would be to AJAX the entire site, such that when you click on a link, it loads the entire content panel dynamically, while keeping the player div active. Basically, reload everything on the page except the player, but never actually take the user to another page.
Part of the US government's stated purpose is to "promote the general welfare" of its people. The real questions are these:

1. What social effects does the proliferation of extramarital sex have? (I don't buy the flat assertion that it "destroys the family unit" -- and I know some polyamorists who would be downright incensed by that claim -- but it's got to have some effects. Let's see what they are.)

2. Are those social effects good, bad, or some mixture? To what extent, and for whom?

3. If there turn out to be bad effects, are they sufficiently bad that some form of government intervention would be worthwhile? If so, what's the least heavy-handed way to intervene that stands a good chance of working?
It might be a long shot, but anyone in the Brisbane Australia area?
How is it "utterly ridiculous" to "[suggest] that children may want to change their names when they grow up to escape the embarrassing online mistakes of their youth that will have been recorded on social networking sites"?

It's ridiculous that people might need to do that or that they feel ashamed enough of being themselves to do that but it's not ridiculous to note that yes, sadly, this might be a requirement for some people who have tarnished their reputations. People have changed their names to escape previous misdeeds for centuries.

Schmidt is just giving advice that hints at truths some people don't want to accept. That's not ridiculous; it's advice.
The funnt thing is that Germany had a BIGGER stimulus than the US. Look at the data of real government consumption of goods and services, it has risen more in “austerity” Germany than in the United States.

Quarter Gemany US

2007Q4 100.0 100.0

2008Q1 100.4 100.6

2008Q2 101.5 100.8

2008Q3 101.7 102.2

2008Q4 102.5 102.9

2009Q1 103.6 102.5

2009Q2 104.2 103.8

2009Q3 105.1 104.0

2009Q4 104.8 103.9

2010Q1 106.9 103.8

2010Q2 107.3 104.5

Source: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/28/angela-and-the-f...
A statement like "I don't know the momentum of this particle" is likely encoded somehow in the state of specific neurons in my brain (though some philosophers would disagree), but it's not a claim about physical reality inside my head so long as we don't know how it works nor which neurons we would have to examine to verify it.
I don't think those are the problems that led to the "failure" of podcasts and companies like odeo. Sure they are nice problems to solve, but they don't fix the real issue.
I met a Jewish man who had survived the holocaust,(he spent about a year in Auschwitz before being liberated) and then decided to go back to Soviet controlled Hungry, where he was born. He explained to me that he believed living under Soviet rule was worse then living under Nazi rule.

I'm pretty confident (no sources sorry, but thats not the point) that the vast majority of people would disagree with him, but it goes to show you that one side wasn't necessarily better than the other.

Of course I'm sure American control wan't nearly as bad - but that could just be my American bias talking.
He's like the Karl May of economics!

(For those who've never heard of Karl May, he wrote a bunch of Westerns that are very popular in Europe. He had never been to America - and it shows in the books. But they are popular.)
What is the source of revenue on the site? Just ads? (I know this has nothing to do with community. Just curious since you mentioned that you are almost profitable.)
One option, if you are good at what you do, is if you can get a 'treaty' company to say they want you. I need to confirm with our lawyer, but if we said that you would be helpful in building our company, all you would need to do is pass an interview with the US consulate.

I am not sure if there is a list of treaty companies available, but there should be a way of finding them.
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Thanks!

My sons have been dragging me slowly into the gaming world. They have introduced me to Tiberian Sun and, more recently Master of Magic. I have played Simcity for years and, historically, was really good at games like Tetris, Dr. Mario and Minesweeper but always hated games involving fighting and generally was not good at them. My sons keep emphasizing the aspects of the games they introduce me to that are "like Simcity" -- ie the infrastructure development parts which are critical to supporting a good military force and that this is actually a bigger part of some of these games than the fighting per se. Then they sit with me and coach me sometimes so I don't get thrown to the wolves. We recently started a website together in part to talk about games ...well, that doesn't do it justice but it will have to do for now. So I am, actually working on stuff. Just not actually coding and that makes me very frustrated. It feels so far away.

But thank you for the feedback! It makes me feel better about where I am on this whole thing -- that maybe I am not just spinning my wheels.
What has the FED buying US Treasury securities to do with Europe? That's the opposite of what Europe is doing to handle the economic crisis. The ECB is defiantly not buying German securities or anything like this. Health care and welfare are completely different topics and don't have anything to do with the unemployment rate or economic growth, yet he mentioned them as example of how America became too European and that's supposed to have caused all these problems.

If the FEDs decision is the right one is another discussion, but the way he used Europe in this article to convey his point doesn't make much sense.
I'm personally not a big fan of the interactive TV idea myself. What I am all for is a TV that connects to different sources of media. I have music from Pandora and movies on netflix.
It's a pretty good piece of work. Very simple 10-foot interface.
Correct me if I'm wrong here but you seem to be using only cases that fit your theory. Seems like confirmation bias.
Must be a misunderstanding. As I said:

I've been talking about Peak Oil for years. I think it is a serious issue. But I'm an optimist and I think we can adapt. It doesn't have to be some nightmare scenario. It will only turn into that if we engage in too much denial and foot dragging and resistance to change.

Can doesn't mean will. I imagine lots of Americans will drag their feet and only embrace change when a gun is to their head on this issue. But I will not and I hope others can be encouraged to be more proactive as well.

Thanks.
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But you have to consider that government spending in Germany is about 280 billion euros, while the US budget is at 3.8 trillion. It's a larger country and all, but these number are really out of proportion.
I would love to know what everyone thinks of Businesshug.

Although we are only in beta, hopefully our service will save you some time and make it more fun when looking for restaurants and hotels in a particular city. If you have a second, give us some feedback on what you like and dislike?

Regards
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Running it without deprecation warnings is supposed to be a warm fuzzy for a Rails 3 upgrade.
Also, doesn't Hulu Plus have ads? I will pay $10 for a bunch of ads when hell freezes over.

(This is why I don't read magazines.)
It certainly doesn't fit every application, but it's possible to write a write-controlled app using validation functions[1].

I've written an introduction to using Evently and CouchApp if you're interested in seeing how that works[2].

[1] http://guide.couchdb.org/draft/validation.html

[2] http://mindeavor.com/blog/the-anatomy-of-a-couchapp
His thesis of structural problems being a large part of the crisis (rather than simple systemic risk) is probably true though. The "fire" instead of "hire and fire" partially reflects that the unemployed aren't useful to employers. Yes, a sizable chunk is due to lower production due to the recession.

Remember how this is the "man-cession"? This means construction and manufacturing. Productivity is up (and not only because people work harder to not lose jobs) due to a well-needed gutting due to having a good excuse. This is some painful creative destruction.

Instead of pouring money out piecemeal, stimulus needs to address the structural issues: modernizing the workforce/education system, rearranging (cut/add) regulations, and useful infrastructure (e.g. not just fixing potholes).
I wonder how will this runs once you have a half dozen independent objects running around the screen. The extra layer provided by the browser (especially on mobile devices) must cause an enormous hit.

From the movie, things look like they have serious lag.

I'm hoping this works, could be a great teaching tool.
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Primarily ads, but have two other things in the works for the next month or so.
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std::vector<std::string> v = getList();
std::for_each(v.begin(), v.end(), boost::mem_fn(&std::string::sort));

Hadn't used it in, well, forever, but have done something similar. Pretty much stolen straight off of http://live.boost.org/doc/libs/1_34_1/libs/bind/mem_fn.html . For non-boost solution:
http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/std/functional/mem_fun/
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Yeah, basically you're paying to have access to a larger catalog. It's kind of nice if you want to go back and watch X-Files from the beginning, I guess, but I'll probably cancel it when the month is up...
Oh I did forget about that... although I wish it had some sort of auto playlist feature that mixes in recommended music... basically I want it to be Pandora that lets me sometimes choose songs.
I've only dabbled in moral philosophy (the study of ethics!) but my understanding is that the more common use amongst professional philosophers is that ethics relates to a system established usually by a particular group, like a legal code or religious doctrine whilst morals concern an individuals actions. Morality then is considered to concern a naturally occurring right whilst ethics concerns a constructed set of rules (often based on or intended to enforce particular morals).

The terms in common parlance are used interchangeably and unfortunately even those (possibly novices) working in the art use the terms in a contrary way - http://www.philosophyblog.com.au/ethics-vs-morality-the-dist... highlights the mess very well.

Perhaps you could enlarge on your objection, is it merely semantic or does it have a substantial element too?
All your points are fine, except for one. The article does not seek to enlighten or inform, but instead it seeks to influence, by whatever mean, for whatever reason.

Thus the author is in no way to blame, but those in this community who up voted it.