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This is illegal tax evasion. However... "you wouldn't steal a car, would you?"
I don't believe that yummyfajitas was arguing that we should lower taxes on the rich, but rather that if society as a whole becomes wealthier it is possible that the government may need to spend less to support a relatively smaller number of poor.
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It's nothing like quickbooks. It's literally like the main tab of mint.com, it shows your current balance and you can drill down into transactions. If you want a proper quickbooks-like experience, I recommend xero.com which is, unlike indinero, actually useful for a small business.
> Or, to look at it another way: if MySQL's such a load of crap, how'd it ever get so popular?

Justin Bieber.
What those PHP guys are unable to understand, is that all the coolness and beauty of Sinatra comes from the lack of () {} $ and other meaningless (it this context) symbols and words, like function and echo.

The same effect is in Clojure, but it is a little bit more difficult to explain.

They're lost the beauty of Lisp (especially Scheme) when they broke the clarity and unambiguity of the syntax pushing all those foreign symbols into it. Moreover, they also renamed and broke most of common idioms, using words that could be better as a variable names instead of keywords.

So, it is not a Lisp dialect, even not so-called Lisp-1. It is just yet another JVM-targeted pseudo-functional language, which, OK, looks like lisp to those who never seen a Lisp before.

But, its cool (and ugly), I must admit. ^_^
You can use a RDBMS. That's a pretty big difference.
kcachegrind

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I was thinking that the signature needed to be kept on the server, away from the attacker, because they could simply re-sign the message, but now I realize that checking the signature first would prevent the routine from ever getting to the decrypt algorithm, and thus no information would be leaked, so the attack would fail.
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The point I'm making is that Oracle probably measures the quality of its keynote in terms of profit, not in terms of how enjoyable or ethical it was. In these terms, perhaps the keynote was in fact good. An interesting thought experiment, no?

Of course, it's hard to measure whether this sales-pitching, partner-insulting keynote will result in greater profits, until those profits appear (and even then, hard to judge its causative role - if any.) I certainly don't approve or agree with it - I'm just saying that that is a fruitful (in a scientific sense) way to think about it. Whether it was enjoyable and/or ethical for a particular person is also important, but it's unlikely to aid understanding or prediction of Oracle, and very unlikely to make any difference.

We can however look at how Oracle has behaved in the past, and how that worked out for them. I've observed them be quite unkind and changeable, though pragmatic in providing working products etc - and to be profitable.
Subscriptions are not available yet, but they will be in a few weeks. Just to clarify, the user does not pay per click, but rather per link. If a user has already paid for a link, clicking the link a second time will forward the user to the correct content.
I love it that you claimed I had an "extremely loose understanding" which, we must presume you know because you're psychic, right? And then you go on to quote numbers showing that spending went up %50. Of course, you must attack me personally, because at the end of the day, I'm arguing for fiscal responsibility, and your position is that you and people like you better know how to run our lives, and so you feel the right to take, at gunpoint, money to spend on initiatives you personally approve of, and it really shouldn't matter what us peons with a "loose understanding" think, right?

Which is, of course, why you hate the initiative process. About the most democratic process in the state.
>Some people use a mapping that turns search highlighting off and on, but I don’t like that solution. It means I have to remember to turn it back on later once I’ve probably already forgotten about the original search.

:nohlsearch removes highlighting, doesn't modify search history, and also doesn't disable highlighted search. It will still highlight matches for the next search.

> nnoremap <leader>S ?{<CR>jV/^\s*\}?$<CR>k:sort<CR>:let @/=''<CR>

I'm curious why not just use `ViB:sort`?

> When I press return, create a new line at the same indentation level as the current one. Don’t try to be clever and adjust the indent of new line in any fashion.

set autoindent nosmartindent nocindent

Wrap it in a filetype line if you like.
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The rest of my line that you omitted when quoting the start of it was:

"I admit I don't know why most users use it."

Note: most users. If you can't answer, please restrain from trying to make a conflict. The responses like "embed," or "ease of upload," or "read statistics" are actually useful! I'd really like more of such answers, but your answer is both unusable and insulting. When I commented on some of the features mentioned it's only because I want to hear something "yes feature A is easy but there is also the advantage B" etc.

The argument that you can post to scribd and worry less that it will become inaccessible compared to when you upload it to some other site is what scribd themselves already proved to be false.
A litte off topic. Much that I like vim I haven't found any plugin than can indent Javascript properly. To be honest whenever I write Javascript I just open up emacs. Is there something close to js-mode in vim?
Which is why it has a thriving startup scene. "progressive taxation" is nothing more than the idea that people should be punished for benefiting society.

If everyone paid the same percentage taxes, then the rich would pay more than the poor because the rich have more money. You would call this "Regressive" even though the rich pay more.

You cannot make an argument that is logical that rich people should pay a higher percentage of taxes, not without throwing out the entirety of everything we know about economics.

"progressivism" is simply socialism, and the real goal is to eliminate private enterprise. IF you can't do it directly, taxing it until it stops moving is the alternative you choose.
A lot of talk in this field is that this would help amputees but I'm excited for the day I can enhance my uninjured body with something like this. Why not a third or forth arm? Or how about being able to control wheels on my feet?
Those Goddamned Ugg boots spammers. My blog has been being hit by those Asians lately over those ugly shoes. Do they even realize no one one REMEMBERS those things?

Akismet isn't catching all the Ugg spam, but thankfully I moderate all comments from unrecognized users.
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Actually, she did own a small business[1]. She ran one from 12 until something like 15 (the source below gets the ages wrong), and one of her biggest problems was keeping track of the financial complexities, projecting cash-flows, etc.; out of that frustration has come InDinero.

[1] http://www.inc.com/magazine/20090301/university-of-californi...
I, too, am in high school, but have been programming for several years. One of the best things that I've been able to do that I wholeheartedly recommend you try to do as well is to find someone in your school or community that knows computer science (the theory and principles involved, not just how to program). A solid knowledge of computer science is a terrific foundation to have, but it's hard to learn on your own. If you have a mentor (I found mine in my school's computer science teacher, and a professor at my local college), you will have someone to guide you and someone to go to when you're confused about something.

In addition, as tommynazareth said, find something to make. It doesn't have to be the next Facebook or the Linux 2.8 kernel, but you should find something that you can program. You mentioned Android/iPhone applications were something you were interested in doing. If that is the case, try deciding on a single-functionality app like, for example, a "Where's My Car" clone, where you create an app that remembers where the user last parked his car by using the Android's GPS data. Or maybe you want to make an app that can interact with Twitter. Whatever the case is, pick something and make it. If you have a mentor, you can go to him or her if you get stuck (or even for project ideas!). Contributing to open-source projects (once you're comfortable programming in whatever language the open-source project is in) is a great way to not only make contacts in the programming world and improve your skill set, but also add to your college and job resume.

If you're interested in learning CS theory on your own, the more power to you. How To Design Programs, mentioned previously, is a great textbook -- in fact, it's the same one I used when I was first starting out. MIT's OpenCourseWare has copies of most MIT class lectures, and you can try to follow along. Stanford has something similar. Read pretty much anything by O'Reilly. If you want your brain to explode, you can try working your way through Don Knuth's Art of Computer Programming. Since you mentioned "languages ... valuable to learn," check out why's (poignant) guide to ruby at http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/book/chapter-1.htm... (although programming languages come and go like grains of sand on the wheel of time).

The most important thing of all, though, is to never stop wanting to learn. TED talks can provide the inspiration for that.

Now I must go and finish my homework that I have due for tomorrow. Hope this helped.
Eh, seems like they've got some emotional reason for disliking "Go". I've never encountered a person[1] who doesn't see a single field + a button that says "search" or "go", and can't figure out how to use them.

[1]: this assumes they're at least somewhat familiar with websites. To a total web newbie? Yeah, "search" is probably better. But it's also bigger.
Another good vimrc is the vimrc from grml http://git.grml.org/?p=grml-etc-core.git;a=blob_plain;f=etc/...

It is a good start to a simple but yet powerful vim configuration, especially integration with screen, pastetoggle, etc.
Its facing a significant budget problem because the state is irresponsible in its spending. so you want to punish the victims of this irresponsibility, and give even more money to the people who have been irresponsible.

Calling it "Regressive" is just code to let us know you're a socialist and you won't agree with anything that doesn't punish "the rich".
I agree. Where's the meat and potatoes? Folks around these parts love some multivariate and/or A/B testing, plenty of fresh looking graphs and some detailed analysis.

Come one guys, if you submit to Hacker News at least put a little effort into your posts.

Update: Don't mean to sound brash but I'm tired of folks telling me what I should/should not do without giving me some detailed CR datasets, including some demographic data (if possible).
In practice, not really. People just ignore what they don't use.
> It is in his contract that he cannot blog or otherwise express his opinion

Exactly what is so ridiculous. That it wasn't a arbitrary decision doesn't make it a good one.
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Next year?

That's an eternity in internet time!
Somewhat clever, but above all else, I'm incredibly lazy when it comes to finding information that is little more than an interest piece (by that I mean pretty much all traditional reporting and blogging/meta-reporting) and such a form of advertisement would make me look elsewhere in the land of ubiquitous information. Hell, I can barely be bothered to log into nytimes, and in fact will usually bypass is because I know I'll have to log in if I want to read the story. Every once in a while there will be a story that interests me enough, but truthfully, I feel that most of the stuff being reported on by anyone is crap and I only read it to kill a little time while waiting to do something else.

I do realize though that I'm not the target audience for most websites as I never click on ads and won't even bother to log into a free site. If someone wants to earn money from me, they really need to produce something that I consider quality content, which I will then gladly pay for, but the number of things I pay for is minuscule.
>The posing makes a difference. Whatever you feel inside, you can move and shake things with the illusion. Then, somewhere along the lines, you believe in the illusion, have molded yourself into it. You pretended to be an alpha, and then you became it.

I find this quite interesting. I'm curious if you have any articles/links to something that expands on this idea? Especially this:

>Getting into the habit of a particular mindset CAN change you. Forcing a smile will eventually result in a real smile. Sure, your self-esteem can rise, purely on this.
This is a state that paid something close to $2B for new fancy stadiums that weren't needed, and has never met a glamor or status project that it didn't want to do. It is constantly spending money on status symbols whose real purpose is not to benefit the people, but to aggrandize the politicians who got them built.

Paved roads are really cheap, and are a tiny fraction of the expenses of the state. But they let them go to hell, even though they have plenty of money to keep them up, because people notice broken roads and you can extort more taxes from them this way.

Its the oldest trick in the book.

So, talking about paved roads as a reason to create a whole new tax and remove one of the few decent things about the washington business environment is disingenuous. I'm sure you weren't being disingenuous, but the politicians who bring it up are.
You try that. I did that last week and almost got fired (I'm currently experiencing a "fun" work environment, that's why I'm reading).
We Aussies, home of the Ugg boot, remember them well (well, we never really forgot, we just went through a brief period of amusement when the daggy (pun intended) footwear we wear with pyjamas on a cold night started showing up on fashion show runways!)

And yes - they are ugly!
Yeah, seriously. I can't even imagine how I would use this in production. Super expensive Xcode + built in apache that probably can't proxy to a backend server all that easily? It's just too inflexible to be seriously considered.
They seem the most likely....who else might be in the mix? A large progressive bank?
For nearly the last decade, I've paid income taxes at the lowest rates of my professional career. Before that, I paid at higher rates. And if you want the simple, honest truth, from my perspective as an entrepreneur, the fluctuation didn't affect what I did with my money. None of my investments has ever been motivated by the rate at which I would have to pay personal income tax.

This is wrong and he's missing the point. It's not important what he feels he's motivated to do, or not do. The important part is that every additional dollar he pays in taxes is one dollar fewer he get's to invest in whatever it is he's motivated to invest in. It's the opportunity cost that we need to evaluate. And a large percentage of every dollar he pays in taxes will be lost in the inefficiencies of large government bureaucracy. He would be able to make much more efficient decisions on how to spend that money himself, and that's what's lost when when he pays a higher tax rate.
I thought the website was funny - then I started reading the sample. When I got to "Have lunch with every fking person," I lost it.

I'm forwarding this to my editor - it's too good to not exist.
I think we had different interpretations on who was wasting time and money on conferences like this.

It seems I interpreted as the attendants were wasting time and money. It seems you interpreted as Oracle wasting time and money. I agree with you that, for Oracle, this is a good form of promotion.
To add to what Steve said, I would say: don't be afraid to use the mouse if you're in a graphical Vim. In MacVim, if I want to change a word, I'll double-click it, hit c and type whatever I want.

You might say, "But you had to hit 'c' instead of just typing!"

Maybe, but I could run any number of commands over that word instead of just changing it. Also, if I were in insert mode, double-clicking and typing would overwrite the word as if I were in a normal editor.
Yup, that's fair. I think best practice in email design is to put the unsubscribe at the top and bottom.

And I would point out that requiring a password or a verification email is almost certainly a violation of CAN-SPAM.
I thought that analysis was ridiculous the first time I read it. I read Chrome's design docs when they were released. Chrome's design is approaching that of an operating system. Considering that it has to manage processes, there is no alternative.
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Even worse, IE6. The fact that it initially offered crappy implementations of some features that users were looking for doesn't make it any less crappy.
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I wasn't thinking of anyone wasting time and money, but I see now that attendants might feel that (though these things are often more about networking.) Yes, it's (probably) good promotion for Oracle.

I'm thinking also that Oracle feels it is in a very powerful and dominant position, owning a whole stack, and they're letting everyone know it. It's not all bad though - like Apple and console makers, they can then integrate the stack to make a better whole product (and charge more for that greater value.) They can also charge more through lock-in, but doing that alone is a terrible long-term strategy, because it gives oxygen to new entrants.

Like "paranoia" Intel and "crown-stealing" Microsoft, I think Oracle well-understands that they won't keep their success automatically
Here is one interesting bit from the nut-shell: "We are also interested in other non-traditional ways an embeddable Ruby web app server might be useful for native app development."
* Do you want to eliminate the state income tax?
X Yes
_ No*

The issue in Washington State is:

* Do you want to create a state income income tax where none presently exists?
_ Yes
X No*

Why not? For the same reason other posters have noted: Seattle has a thriving startup scene, and its comparative advantages over California are a) no income taxes; b) you can live in Seattle and not have a car; c) you can buy a condo on a vaguely normalish salary, unlike in much of L.A. and Silicon Valley. If you remove a), you've mostly got a state where the major city has weather that most people don't especially like and a taxation system that punishes the creation of wealth.

That's bad.
it will not be true for most humanoids

You don't know that. Not true for most humans, yes. (Sorry for a trivial comment, had to set it straight.)
> (although programming languages come and go like grains of sand on the wheel of time).

C what I did there?
You've got cause and effect reversed. The economy is strong because people are successful, and they are successful because previously there hasn't been a heavy burden of taxation. This does not justify increasing the burden of taxation. "Supply side economics" is a political term, not a school of economics and it has not been "proven wrong".

In fact, the US economy is strong because it is relatively low in taxation and regulation, compared to other economies around the world. This shows the benefit of low taxes (for everybody). You guys focus on the rich because you want to pretend like you're just taxing the rich, figuring most voters are not rich. But whether you tax the rich or the poor, taxes lower the standard of living and slow economic growth.

You can see proof of this just by looking at states and the countries and seeing which ones do better than others.
It's not just being able to fire/reward teachers (depending on quality).

The definition of "good teacher" they seem to be using is some variant of the "value-added" model, by which teachers are evaluated based on how much the test scores of their students improve. However, the tests are only barely valid (if at all), and don't measure much (if anything) worth measuring.

Meanwhile, the reading and writing go by the wayside in favour of multiple-choice "comprehension" questions, math becomes an exercise in gaming in the arithmetic, and science (held up so high in theory and so low in practice) becomes a glorified exercise in vocabulary memorization.

This isn't even beginning to mention the arts.

I'd have more faith in Superman if I thought schools knew what they wanted to do, or if there were a cohesive and coherent philosophical approach.

As it is now, there is a system which reduces good teachers, protects bad teachers, and hamstrings learning in favour of that which can be easily measured and that which can be taught with only a modicum of thoughtfulness required.

Wake me up when "education" is something other than scripts delivered to teachers by bureaucrats and specialists who haven't ever felt what it's like to actually teach.
any companies have tried the freemium model and then realize that it can't scale (IE: the costs to support this free user base out weighs the benefits).

It has scaled wonderfully for Evernote:

"From the start, Libin modeled Evernote to be profitable at a 1% conversion rate ... Right now, roughly 2% of all Evernoters are premium customers ... Libin wants to maintain that rate at 5% or less. If people start converting en masse, 'that means our free product isn't good enough,' he says."

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/147/next-tech-remember-t...
From what I can tell from skimming Tononi's papers 'integrated information' means the relative entropy between the full joint distribution (of variables/nodes of a network) and the distribution that results when you cut the network into particular partition, and assume that each of the resulting subsets is independent of the others. The unsatisfying part of this (for me) is that so far as I can see, by this definition, lots of pieces of software and signals processing stuff should have some measure of 'consciousness'.
That paywall pays for hosting, the platform and the tools that guy used--not to mention the fact that it also pays for hundreds of jobs and fuels the entrepreneurial economy. If that causes a benign blogger to add the service to his or her shitlist, then I think Scribd will live on.
PostgreSQL forces you to write proper queries. MySQL is designed to accommodate lousy practices, and all those implicit type conversions and non-standard syntax will come back to bite you as a big WTF.

Other reasons I like PostgreSQL: more data types (MySQL doesn't even have a boolean type), partial indexing (a godsend when you have large tables), ability to use multiple indexes when querying, full-text search and ACID are not mutually exclusive, and multiple procedural languages.

[edit] Oops, didn't mean to make this a reply.
Why? It's just as easy to get a Gunicorn server running, and it's not platform locked the way this is.