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"The last century wages haven't increased at the same rate as the real cost of living."

Are you sure?

"In 1901, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that in major industrial expenditure item for families was food — half of spending in low-income third in more affluent ones. In 1999, food took only 15 percent of household
more than a third of that spending was for food prepared away from home."

Source:
http://bit.ly/dkLEux
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I think the most important metric on whether or not to trust someone is there research methodology. Everything regarding MMR has been tested via a double blind study (ie the people analyzing the data are different and separated from the people collecting the data).

The "evidence" about a link between chiropractic care and asthma was not tested with such rigor. Similarly, virtually all of the evidence suggesting anthropogenic global warming is published by the same people who collect the data. They willfully ignore counter evidence and they rely on loads of proxy data that can easily be manipulated. If you haven't read Michael Crichton's essay on global warming, I highly recommend it. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122603134258207975.html
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The thing is... these devices are quite hypnotic and addictive for fully grown adults, let alone infants.

As a father of two young children, I kept them away from computers and screens as much as possible until they were 3 years old.

Babies are wired to be learning about and interacting with their physical environment and the lifeforms around them. Exposing them to highly artificial and abstract phenomena before they have developed the abstract thought processes to assign relevance and meaning to them seems to be at best at waste of hard earned neural circuitry, at worst developmentally damaging.

We need to be gently nurturing our children's imaginations not flattening it and rendering it obsolete via technology. There's plenty of time for kids to discover computers, but once they do other all the other things they love doing will have some serious competition for their attention.
I think you're going down a rat-hole by trying to frame things in terms of "points of information". There's a lot more to "experience" than the simple collection of data points.
You are probably not going to be able to do enough volume initially to get a discount on your execution. In futures the top tier requires 10's of thousands of contracts per month, in equities you'll need to be trading millions of shares per month. It would be extremely hard to overcome this even with great algorithms.
I'm currently using this to learn programming and couldn't agree more.
This needs to be done well, I agree. Everybody I know in academia has had this idea, so there is demand. However, journals are far too late. In many disciplines everything is shared a year in advance via working papers. These are often posted on authors webpages or on conference pages before anywhere with a formal rss feed. I want to subscribe to specific authors and be confident I get things first.

This will be hard to do well and while the CPM might be great for some categories, it's a niche product. It would be a great service though.
"Exposing them to highly artificial and abstract phenomena"

...you mean stuff like stuff human speech, maths and other modern inventions?
If there are only 2 options for America,

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iOS 4 on the 3G seems almost unusable and with little additional features I wonder why Apple bothered with it. There are downgrade tutorials around I'd suggest looking at them.
Sure it implies something: By noting it, the reporter weights it as relevant/important.
Also, http://www.int80h.org/smallest/

The rest of int80h is also interesting, but is FreeBSD oriented. The site presents its own Hello World - http://www.int80h.org/bsdasm/#first-program
Well, I'm glad that I forced you to read the article, because I really enjoyed reading your comments. :)

Although I agree with you, I did enjoy Theil's essay. I think it really captures and explains the desperate and almost suicidal mindset that is so common. You put it well. His is a dark world of little imagination and not much faith in humanity.
And here's a Linux version of smallest - http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.htm...

Edit: previously submitted - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=68056
Of course, rolling your own encryption has more than one peril.

The catch in this case seems to be that "encryption" includes even making an HTTPS request with built in iOS libraries.
he probably worked there for a few weeks, so that he could use it as an interesting tidbit in his interviews
Isn't that something that Mendeley is trying to do? I would be interested in seeing something like this and helping when and where needed.
One reason might be the ability to hire quality developers in sufficient numbers. The BBC is big, with developers (both internal BBC and external contracts) working all over the UK on a wide range of output.
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Paypal is great as a backup payment system. However it's trigger happy shutdown procedures make it a horrible single point of failure.

You sound like you're at the critical mass where you should be able to use a payment gateway. You should offer both as a mechanism, then if paypal tosses you out, you're set.
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These are some really useful changes for front-end developers. I am glad that they are addressing many issues that used to drive us crazy for a long time.

One other issue that needs to be addressed is the extra baggage of html tags (wrapper divs) that come with each block/view. If only there were a way to keep it minimal and turn on the extra wrappers only when they are absolutely necessary...
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This isn't a new idea but it's hard to pull off. Especially if you look at the details, these are supposed to be mostly artistic projects(Yes coding is artistic) but not business ones.

I know Seth Godin is a fan of this type of concept.

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2005/05/fundable_a_n...

Also here is a blog post by Kevin Kelly of wired Magazine
http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/03/1000_true_fan...
What a great Top 5 apples and oranges article. kate and GEdit - two text editors - are there, but not vim and emacs? Where are IDEs like Xcode, Dreamweaver, or even Code::Blocks? Somebody needs to get it together.
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You might want to read aboout how web infrastructure works at the BBC: http://iamseb.com/seb/2007/12/perl-on-rails-why-the-bbc-fail...
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There's also a karma threshold for flagging, but I think it's pretty low.
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Good article, but the point is that you should roll your own when you gain a competitive advantage by doing so, and you have the talent to actually execute. I would argue that if your situation matches these criteria, you'll already know it. If you had to read a blog post to start thinking you should write your own big data stack, you probably shouldn't.
A good job for talking with real people is working as a telephone market researcher - basically a poller. You have a huge list of randomly generated phone numbers, and a handful of questions about brands, current events, and politics, and you just call people randomly, asking what they feel and how they like subject X, Y, or Z.

I worked as one for a month. It was a very enlightening experience - actually listening to what people wanted and felt - and answering to the hostile respondents as well. On any given day, I would talk to over 100 of my fellow citizens, and got them to tell me their income, what they felt about politicians and the law, which banks and credit cards they use, how they like their barbecue set up, how often they surf the web, which websites they repeatedly visit, etc.

It was great fun at times - but a hard, grinder of a job - the turnover rate was massive.
If you're just looking for an advanced logic analyzer, http://www.saleae.com/logic/ is relatively cheap and pretty awesome. Linux and Mac OS X versions of the software coming soon I believe. It also includes an SDK so it's awesome for programmers.

It's about the size of the new iPod Nano and comes with a carrying case to store the modular leads, and USB cable.

EDIT: Before people flame, yes this product is pretty different from the OP's link, however it might be somewhat what s/he's looking for.
On the contrary, it was there checking out the Magic Trackpad, perfectly accomodated to a hoof.
Here is the dillio for those who don't want to click on the link. :)

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If you want to work on a site that hundreds of thousands of people use religiously, and work with peers who take enormous pride in their work, there is probably no better family to join.

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lol @ google saying one of them doesn't count because they are a "click arbitrage" site.... as they funnel a mountain of traffic into a million shitty little sites that wouldn't even exist without AdSense.
Same in Norway, that being said: when someone says “mobil” people will usually think of a cellphone and voice communication (or SMS), but that meaning will probably change.
update just found a great article on scaling with CouchDB using Lounge
http://nosql.mypopescu.com/post/683838234/scaling-couchdb

and a company that provides the service Cloudant:
https://cloudant.com/

Here's another shard manager project, Pillow: http://knuthellan.com/2010/07/14/feature-prioritization-for-...

I think the design philosophy for couch is keeping smaller pieces of Big Data synchronized. The sum of all those small pieces is like one larger database.
hmm, its not necessarily Utopian.

I have seen some successful companies actually have similar strategies in their people development policies.

They have strategies to develop people with breadth of experience that would make them good for certain roles like project leaders. They also have strategies to develop people with depth of experience that would make them good for other roles like functional excellence leaders.

Its just I don't think they formulate based on the phrase 'points of information' but simply call it experience or exposure.

I agree that many employers/managers don't care. But there are good managers and bad managers, there are companies with great people development policies and ones with the bad policies. So have hope. :)

Not trying to justify, but its just my process of refining, if I can't explain, then I have to work on it.
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No one is saying they aren't testing them. Of course they are.

They are just not testing them in any normal sense.

I.e. they don't invite users to test it in usability labs or any other typical test environments.

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_12/b3925608....
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Very interesting thoughts...

I think Ping is a "Trojan horse" to enter the Web space without causing too big of a scene. They are testing a few theories out in iTunes before dropping the bomb in January with their next batch of products. Apple is historically cunning and sly in this way. No one can fully guess their next batch of moves.
You're great answer helped me better understand the app/DB relationship, and added value to the post. I should be thanking you, in fact I will. Thanks shotgun!
That is interesting. I run ~35K/month through Paypal and have yet to win on a chargeback. I receive probably 2-3 a month, and Paypal will specifically indicate in each resolution that virtual goods (in my case subscriptions) are not covered by their protection policies.
Condition variables (although somewhere underneath, locks are probably used).
As I understand you can always write to a node. Where's the lock?
Usually when an expert prediction is wrong I'm fairly ambivalent because I wouldn't know what to say either, and hey they can't all be right at the same time. But in this case it contradicts my own observations and gut feeling about the iPhone from when it was first demo'd (reinforced when I got my hands on one). Sometimes folks instincts are just so off about things it amazes me. I think it happens in other walks of life too, like music critics who totally fail to detect hits on a new album. I don't like the word 'overthinking' but there definitely is some sort of phenomenon whereby experts become blind to the obvious.
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Well here is the rub of it. Are you willing to pay a monthly subscription fee? How much?
> If Newton didn't write Principia, America would not have happened

That made me curious. What is the chain of causation here?
I'd be more interested in knowing why he quit McDonald's. I had (teenage) friends who busted their asses there...many say it was the toughest job they had.

Sounds like he wanted to experience life as part of the proletariat, but discovered that "American Beauty" was well, just a really good movie.
Supposedly, iOS 4.1 that just came out is MUCH faster on 3G.
http://lifehacker.com/5628991/iphone-3g-speed-test-ios-40-ve...
I think you could construct this in a day using Yahoo Pipes. http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/ It doesn't require programming skills.
Might be worth checking this out, I asked a similar question a few hours ago and it hit the front page:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1663784
Writing shared-state thread safe code is very hard to get right especially in the context of large systems. When you move beyond safely coordinating mutation of shared resources there are many other headaches that can pop up, like priority inversion issues, lock ordering problems, etc.

Atomic operations are not a panacea either. Lock free data structures are very difficult to write correctly and the performance benefits associated with using atomics can start to evaporate when there is contention between multiple threads. There are also numerous subtle problems that can arise, from data visibility problems when modifying an unaligned address on multi-socket x86 platforms to ABA problems.

The easiest to write, and safest, multithreaded code is that which shares no state. Saying that atomic operations are the way to go is like saying NoSQL is the way to go, they are useful for a subset of problems but in general they are the wrong level at which to be thinking when approaching concurrency.
Looks like you need more than just an oscilloscope - you need a trend recorder. The DSO Nano is a great for casual work, but if you have some electronics skill, you can easily build an attenuator to hook into your laptop's microphone or line-in (1 channel or 2 channel) jack and record the signal for trend analysis. You can also use an MP3 player with recording abilities as long as it records to a WAV file, not MP3 directly.

Take a look at these links:
http://www.ledametrix.com/oscope/index.html
http://www.zelscope.com/

And if you grow out of it, this is a very hackable, real oscilloscope for an affordable price:
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Here is info on hacking the Rigol to make it a 100MHz scope:
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That phrase "points of information" is a common term I apply to all pieces of knowledge, whether it is gained through practical hands on experience, reading, observations and analysis or talking with others to know what they gained from their hands on experience, reading, observations or analysis and so on.

End of the day, however it is gained, first hand or second hand, it is all knowledge.

To quite some extent, if one is low on one type of knowledge, one can make up with increasing the knowledge from another source.

Imagine a 3-d space filled with points. Some points may be of one color, some of another color, some bigger, some smaller, but all can be used if you want to make a network of points/pattern (that is, form an idea using that knowledge/points)

In fact, though not explicit, the benefits of having a network(the people type) is this, to have access to a much bigger universe of points than one's own, to increase the ability to find solutions(which is an idea, at the end) to one's problems.
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Looks like what you want is a version of this:
http://techlens.cs.umn.edu/tl3/

Read an article about Techlens on ACM here:
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I wouldn't go quite that far, but it certainly isn't for beginners.
Thanks for the clarification. Are there any good sources (books, articles) on this period and what happened to IBM? I've read about it from IBM's point of view, but when your business is selling Big Iron, you figure you fail because of something Big Iron-related, not something external.
I have NEVER won a chargeback. When I used paypal I just treated it as a cost of business. The problem is they dominate the market. I had two payment options, Paypal and Googlecheckout... people preferred paypal 10 to 1. There's pros and cons, and that massive gap in people's preference of payment system was worth more than the chargebacks.
One would think so, but the Forbes 400 is not dominated by people who cater to vices. In fact, folks who bet against at least some of those (the 0% ARM loans) are well-represented among hedgies.
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He said that integration tests cover the tests he needs and that unit tests don't add much, while being time consuming. And he never said one word about "spec".
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I don't think you read the article.

We can't support a consumerist economy when the top 1%, who don't reinvest their money necessarily, earn 23% of the wealth.

Who is taking money away from those trying to earn it? Sounded to me when Reich suggested free public education and eliminating federal payroll taxes on the first $20,000 earned, is not punishing earners.
Yea, that's exactly what he did. He actually says he worked there for a few weeks. Total interview attention whoring in my book. "Oh, I made millions, then immediately connected with with real people by working the grind at McDonald's." BS. No way, did he make any kind of connection in that amount of time other than the ability to score interviews with that "intriguing" introduction.

He does have interesting things to say in the interview, but you can tell the McDonald's thing was relatively meaningless to him. Now, had he done it for a year and lived solely off the wages from working shifts at McDonald's that would be something that likely would have provided a real connection for him. It probably also wouldn't be a story he'd tell in a mere 30 seconds with a smile on his face the whole time.
Ah yes of course Siemens. They who provided the BBC's £2bn phone network - which apparently barely functions.
This looks intriguing. Know anyone big taking it?
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Ha - fair enough point. Perhaps this will help young burgeoning startups give more thought to their options, though.
Listen to the samples on Amazon. The first track's clip, in particular, sounds like what the negative reviewer is complaining about.

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Maybe it's being used for effect?
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I don't want to sound harsh or anything, but how/why exactly is paypal to blame here?

It's Paypal's fault if the company makes it appear that I have the money safely in hand... and then it turns out that I don't. If someone sends me a check, and I deposit it, within a day or two I know the money is mine and can't be yanked back.

Furthermore, they don't make it obvious that they'll do this. It's yet another "gotcha." As another commenter noted, Paypal is great, right up to the point you have a problem, at which point they're terrible to me.

No company is more indicative of the power of Metcalfe's law than this one: that another, less jerky company hasn't superseded them is amazing.
Right, if you invest that money, you will only realize the value through dividends or selling a stake. And the value of that stake is once again based on the NPV of future cash flows, which are taxed.
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Heroku is great for site that might work out and might not. The initial cost is zero, but you can scale out as needed. Hopefully youve structured your business properly so that herokus cost is a small percentage of revenue.