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> saith O'Hare: It’s worth a close look because the author is a law professor, not some high-school dropout Limbaugh lemming, and because the tone of entitlement and whining is typical of a fair number of the comments I got on my post about intergenerational equity (and by extension, equity).

That little snippet gives the whole game away. We have a strange situation in which Michael O'Hare, speaking as an ostensible advocate of "equity" and "the poor", nevertheless casually mentions that he would not pay attention to a word coming out of the mouth of an actual poor person, and that only a law school professor is worth listening to.

Of course, he wouldn't frame it that way. There is a tacit and unspoken mental calculation in which "Limbaugh listener" cancels out and reverses the street cred of "high school dropout", and in which "rich" reverses the intellectual cred of "law professor". So he feels fully entitled in trashing a poor person who does not share his views.

He does not spare one moment to consider that perhaps his views are a function of his power and social class as a Berkeley professor, rather than the outcome of some Platonic reasoning process. He believes what he believes and mouths what he mouths because that's what everyone else around him believes, and because political deviation is punished with social ostracism.

In particular, he is one of those who calls most loudly for "equity" without practicing it himself in his treatment of others.

The point is that there are other things in life that people value beside income. Income can be quantified, so we tend to fixate on that. But what about things like looks? Or IQ? Or power? Or status? Like the status to get people to take you seriously. Especially the last.

That can't be taxed, at least not directly. Imagine how Harvard professors would howl if Harvard degrees were handed out willy nilly, or redistributed from the (no doubt privileged) people who'd earned them to the unprivileged who hadn't. Imagine if column inches of New York Times columnists were taxed and redistributed to people who don't have as much of a say in national affairs.

The narrow focus on income happens for a reason. People who have more status than money (like O'Hare and Delong) are using the government to attack people who have more money than status. There is no question that Brad Delong will come out better in this trade, because he and those like him are the ones dictating its terms.
in-depth discussion on the subject by 'psnively' over at reddit : [ http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/dg1n3/alexander... ]
Me, I listen to my body.

Yes, exactly. I've been doing this for years now, and it's worked well. The problem is that most/many people are pretty out of touch with their body, and getting in touch takes time and effort.
Netbook manufacturers gave up Linux too easily. I originally got my with Linux and only replaced it with Windows because I needed to write about a Windows-only software.

Just as is currently the case with the iPad, I think most early adopters of netbooks didn't really care that they were on a different OS. They just cared that they could browse, email, use social networks, etc.
And "substantially"? His taxes are only going up by ~3%

Which is, like, $15,000 a year. That's substantial -- in fact it's more than most people pay in taxes at all!

We should start from the fundamental question: why should this guy pay more than Joe Schmo at all? Why shouldn't the tax bill be spread equally over everybody, so it's (say) ten thousand dollars per head? That would be what I call "fair".

It's also not possible because some people just aren't getting off their butts and earning $10K per head, but that should be considered a deviation from fairness. We should look down upon those with below-average incomes as jerks who aren't working hard enough to pay their share.
So, it's interesting they say their traffic died down due to lower Google ranking.

One aspect that I don't know has been mentioned anywhere is the loss of traffic from blogs/news sites. As a news site owner, I stopped using Digg to try to promote stories when Twitter started rising in popularity.

Digg's "Digg button" was very much a web1.0 "top site" pyramid scheme type promotion. Where you send your traffic to Digg, in the hope that you boost your rank and get traffic sent back to you. For digg, it worked for a while because Digg's aggregate traffic was greater than yours.

What ended up wearing on me was the all-or-nothing effect of digg. Either your story made it, and you got a burst of traffic -- or it didn't, and you had nothing to show for sending them a bunch of traffic.

Meanwhile, promoting your stories through Twitter has an incremental effect. Every re-tweet has some small value. There's no all-or-nothing to it.
The party has a very clear highly racist agenda and yet they received upwards of 20% in some regions. It's quite depressing that people would give up their privacy in favor of "not having that foreigner in the neighborhood".
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Ask HN: Applied for startupschool weeks ago, when should I expect to hear back?
Should I expect a reply whether I have a seat for startupschool or not? I am in Austin, TX and need to plan for the trip if there is a seat for me.
Actually, I just checked and almost every CS field rests on substantial understanding of math, you can safely ignore the parent post.
Nassim Taleb makes exactly that point in Fooled by Randomness, which is a terrific read incidentally.
This one is by our very own smanek:

http://www.postabon.com/
I'm not even going to tell you how long it took and how complex it was to replace one single icon sometimes in Vista. I worked in the Windows UX team at the time and tried really hard during Windows 7 to improve that process, because there were so many people involved and so many hours spent for such simple things. So yes, I believe what this guys is saying about his feature is possible - to swap an icon we sometimes had to track a ridiculous number of people, wait several builds to see it, and get approval from a room full of people many times several management levels above me.
But, curiously enough, not angry at the senior law firm partners who extract surplus value from their associates and their clients, or angry at the financiers, but angry at... Barack Obama, who dares to suggest that the U.S. government's funding gap should be closed partly by taxing him, and angry at the great hordes of the unwashed who will receive the Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security payments that the government will make over the next several generations.

First, his jab at entrepreneurs who "extract surplus value" is an appeal to the core tenant of Marxism: that all profit is an exploitation and an unfair "extraction of value" from labor. I don't want to have a knee-jerk reaction to his argument just because of that, but it doesn't set a good tone for me.

Second, part of the problem I have with the tax increase is this: who knows what all that money will be used for? It could be used for taking care of the great unwashed masses (disdainful much?), or it could just as easily be used to invade more foreign countries in the name of "freedom", prop up outdated and failing industries, or bail out gamblers on Wall Street. The government of the last twenty years seems to have been shockingly bad at allocating the ridiculous amounts of money they collect from us; why should we give them more?
"Google Chrome 6.0.472.62" is hardly better.
You might be interested in looking into the PaNu approach to paleo.[1] The author of that blog puts a lot of emphasis on focusing on metabolism rather than, as he puts it, food reenactment. e.g., dairy isn't strictly paleo, but he acknowledges that it's an easy way to up fat intake without the type of ill effects that you're more likely to see from glutens.

Worth checking out anyway. It's certainly changed the way I approach nutrition, even if I haven't bought into the paleo thing wholesale.

>I think it's a blood sugar effect -- all the food I eat is low in GI so I'm not getting the blood sugar spikes I used to.

Definitely agree here. I've noticed a definite shift in appetite since I've made a point of limiting my intake of high GI foods.

[1] - http://www.paleonu.com/
I keep it simple. Xmarks, adblock (adthwart on chrome), and sometimes greasemonkey.
How is it harder than trying to write a novel without the constraint of fitting in what's on the cover?

Constraints often make creativity easier. Tell me to write a Hardy Boys novel and I won't know where to begin. Show me a cover with a lighthouse and some treasure on the beach and stories begin to suggest themselves.
"We should start from the fundamental question: why should this guy pay more than Joe Schmo at all? Why shouldn't the tax bill be spread equally over everybody, so it's (say) ten thousand dollars per head? That would be what I call "fair"."

Let us leave aside "fair" or "unfair" for a moment.

The problem with a poll tax is that you can only raise the amount of money you can charge the poorest people you are taxing multiplied by the number of people you are taxing.

A tax scheme that operates on a percentage of income (or even increases that percentage as income increases) allows the government to maximize its income in the same way that having higher margin 'premium' products and lower margin "economy" products so rich people can pay more and poor people can pay less allows a business to maximize it's income.
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They're going up 3% on the amount over $250,000. It's $7500. If you didn't give him access to accounting software, he would be unable to detect the presence or absence of that money.

* That would be what I call "fair".*

When I made $50,000/yr, the primary value I got from the government was some physical safety, some education, and roads so I could go to work and buy things.

When I made $500,000/yr, the primary value I got from the government was protection of my assets, access to an educated labor pool, and roads so I could transport my goods, so my workers and customers could get to them.

The value received from government doesn't correlate perfectly to income, but it does correlate strongly, and as such is a reasonable approximation of a fair price.

We should look down upon those with below-average incomes as jerks who aren't working hard enough to pay their share.

This is possibly the most disgusting thing I've ever seen. It's wrongheaded in so many ways that I hope you're a troll.

If you are not a troll you are a sociopath, and to be frank... your comments are so nonsensical that I doubt you'll ever have the "problem" of paying taxes that you fear.
I read The Three Investigators, and never read The Hardy Boys, so I was scanning this thread to see whether anyone had brought them up.

The main thing I remember from those books was the feeling that I had a deprived childhood because I didn't grow up in a junkyard. (Nor have a chauffer on call, but the lack of a junkyard was the main thing I really felt.)
On Chrome:

Adblock, RSS Subscriber (puts an RSS icon on the location bar where relevant and allows you to subscribe to the feed).

I also wrote my own delicious extension to easily add bookmarks into delicious.

On Firefox:
Firebug, Adblock

I basically only use firefox these days for debugging web apps.
There's a few points where he really gives the game away:

-$60k/year for three children in private school
-$50k building home equity
-$50k in the 401k

But the real point is in the sections about having bought the house at the top of the market and the equity portfolio having fallen: Mr. Henderson feels poor because his net worth has dropped. He has less savings than he used to, so of course he feels he has to save several average family's annual income to catch up.

Being a high-powered law professor can't help, of course -- that's one of those jobs where your not-so-clever peers are big law firm partners and your half-decent students make your salary two years out of school. Even more so than the average 99%er, law professors have a ginormous amount of keeping-up-with-the-jones' self-pity.
One comment on that page and already I want to cry: no, custom error pages do nothing to prevent this attack. Textually identical responses can be distinguished by side channel attacks, such as via timing. If you have distinct code paths depending on what kind of error you are throwing, you take different amounts of time to get through them, and even if that difference is tens of microseconds the magic of high school stats will let any computer capable of counting figure out which errors are the ones it is interested in.
From the article:

Now there is a caveat to this. You only need to be exposed to things like gluten once every ten to fifteen days to keep the gut damaged. This can bedevil people as they “cut back on gluten” but do not notice an improvement in their overall health. I’m sorry but there is not a pink “participant” ribbon given out for doing this “almost correctly.” You need to be 100 percent compliant for thirty days, then see how you do with reintroduction.

As for:
Is it the fact that you are likely eating more fiber and nutrients? Is it a difference in blood sugar levels that you notice?

Those are both directly related to what you are eating. I feel better when my blood sugar levels don't spike -- which is why I'm eating paleo.

Also, you didn't really put for an argument as to why the advice to cut out foods then add them back in is bad. If your body has healed itself and is functioning great without grains, then you eat a big pizza -- you will almost surely see how it affects your system.
Gmail sometimes does this when a message is reported as spam. It will ask if you want gmail to attempt to automatically unsubscribe you. I assume that the emailer provides some sort of header info to gmail that allows it to do that, perhaps to receive a higher likelihood of not getting put in the spam folder to begin with, but I do not know. See:

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ctx=m...
I think I'm the only person that doesn't use adblock.

Anyways on chrome: ireader, google reader "note in reader", hckr news (never noticed what it does though), and delicious. Using the dev channel build of chrome.

On FF: Treeview, someone on hn suggested it to me and I'm really hoping something similar comes to chrome. I'd use firefox more but still experience it memory leaking/crashing too much.
FireBug, Delicious, Tails Export and Operator mostly cause I make sites not so much as consume them...
Firebug

Greasemonkey

S3Fox

ColorZilla

DownloadHelper

Vacuum Places

... and a shameless plug for Compass, a Firefox/Chrome/Safari add-on I wrote that adds a "table of contents" to various e-commerce sites to help you find stuff faster. Search for "compass" on the various extension galleries if you're interested.
> Which is, like, $15,000 a year.

No, it isn't. That not how taxes work. His marginal rate for the highest bracket will go up, for his first 250k his taxes will be exactly the same. It's hard to take an argument seriously from someone about taxes being too high if they don't even know how they're computed.

> We should look down upon those with below-average incomes as jerks who aren't working hard enough to pay their share.

You need help, serious mental help.
Actually I think the primary function of most coffee shops would be, to create a 'third place' - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_place

This is the strategy that the Apple Stores, Starbucks and lots of other organisations attempt to create. If this is successfully achieved, the actual quality of the cup of coffee would be less important.

I think the majority of us, as consumers, like to think that we are completely rational and would frequent a coffee shop based upon the quality of the coffee. However the environment/branding of the shop, locality and the type of customers who are present - is in my opinion - more likely to increase sales once a minimum standard of coffee is achieved.
Gmail already does this - if you have the List-Unsubscribe header set up, when someone clicks on the "Spam" button, it asks them whether they want to unsubscribe as well. If they say "yes", an email gets sent to the unsubscribe address with "Unsubscribe" as the subject.
I'd agree that there could be something done. There's vast amounts of information about people out there. At least in the software industry I see software tools being very useful in pre-screening resumes before inviting people in for interviews.

It's something I've started working on. Job hunting myself. Lots of free time. :S
"I follow a paleo diet strictly on weekdays, and for probably 75% of my calories on weekends."

What about the article's claim that you have to follow the diet 100% or it doesn't work?
Progressive taxes are approximations of flat taxes that are based on utility rather than nominal dollars.
The DMCA bans circumventing effective technological measures intended to prevent copying. The technological measure you'd be circumventing here is one intended to prevent you from using a feature of the hardware, not prevent you from copying a copyrighted work. The DMCA does not appear to apply.

(On the other hand, if they designed it such that you needed to upload a piece of (copyrighted) microcode to the CPU on each boot, then that could well bring it within the remit of copyright law. In that case, if you wanted to produce a third-party version, you'd have to write your own "clean room" version of the necessary microcode, which seems like a pretty high hurdle).
It is actually very common for hosts to automatically renew and charge if you don't explicitly cancel the domain.

Customers get upset if their domain expires, someone snaps it up, and their widely publicized email addresses stop working. Getting a late payment notice is preferable.

Of course, if 1&1 never notified you there is no excuse for them sending you to a collection agency.

Still, every web hosting company that I've seen sells their packages as a recurring service.

If you want the service to not auto-renew then you need to explicitly cancel the service.
99% bullshit, really? It sounds like its working pretty well for you.

> If you don't need to lose weight I wouldn't recommend it, because frankly it's hard to eat enough paleo food to maintain weight while physically active.

It's really not hard to get plenty of calories -- those calories are just more likely to come from fat. Make sure you get enough protein (~1g/lb bodyweight), eat lots of veggies, then fill up on fat sources -- coconut oil, animal fats, nuts, olive oil, etc.
Subways of the world, to scale
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From personal observation I find this statement to be true: "[the super rich] put $$$ in the Cayman Islands or use fancy investment vehicles to shelter their income".

It's for this reason that I find the concept of a "flat tax" so compelling.

There are plenty of holes in implementing a flat-tax, but fundamentally everybody putting an equal share of their income into the pool feels right to me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_tax
They have a point. HFCS isn't necessarily very high in fructose - it's called that because natural corn syrup is all glucose and has to be processed into what we in the UK call "glucose-fructose syrup". I hope I don't need to point out that fructose is a perfectly natural sugar and is the predominant source of sweetness in apples, pears and many other natural foods.

It's also worth pointing out that fructose is not only 73% sweeter than sucrose, but is also synergistically sweeter when combined with other sweeteners. As a result, HFCS can be used in significantly smaller quantities than ordinary corn syrup.

HFCS isn't really the issue - it's just the cheapest source of sweetness, without the subsidies it'd just be replaced with plain old sucrose. The real problem is that the average American consumer demands phenomenal levels of sweetness in almost all foods. HFCS is everywhere because consumers expect nearly everything they eat to be sweet. Food manufacturers don't dare reduce the sweetness of their foods because it would cost them countless millions, something no public company has any legal right to do. Without a federal mandate or a massive cultural shift, I can't see any progress being made.
You do realize that 48% of all Americans pay $0 dollars in Federal Income tax. The top 10% pay 40% of the pie. I'm for the tax cuts expiring but I do also agree with the whole "equality" argument. I'm of the generation where I'll probably never see any Social Security but I do know that I'm paying for it.
> AutoAuth

Just wanted to say thanks; this is the first time I've ever seen one of my extensions listed in a "What extensions do you use?" discussion.
> His taxes aren't going to go up...his tax CUTS are about to expire

That isn't a meaningful distinction for individuals. It only means something for the government's budget outlook. It is a little silly for the law professor to complain about a tax increase without considering the alternatives, which are insolvency or drastic budget cuts. Regardless of the merits of the latter option, it's clearly not politically feasible.
I have the same problem. I just wish IE would get all their problems fixed and invest wisely in their browser unlike their past releases.
" But isn't this just reinventing the blog?"

Or Friendfeed.
most CS PhD are funded - not much money, but you don't need to go into debt, which is unlike med or law school.
Interesting article on correcting camera lens distortion
Every person I know who makes over $200K per year spends WAY too much time on tax-related paperwork instead of being productive at what they are good at.

Assume a scenario where a simplified tax (your choice of methods such as flat, no-income-but-higher-sales-tax, etc.) exists such that, say, 10 hours of time is enough to prepare a high net worth individuals' return.

Even if the net taxes were a little higher, productivity would go up because this busywork which does nothing for the economy disappears.

And since many CPA firms would be getting less hours, they could go and do something productive as well.
Resumes, and the entire "fire a resume and pray" job search model, are for people who suck at sales and/or are ignorant about how hiring works. Have one, sure, but the main use is after you have gotten preferential consideration or an offer. (You get these by introductions by people trusted by the decision maker, being identifiably the best at the problem, etc.)

Networking, a portfolio, and a sales page on your website are much, much better plays for most of the people here.
"I'm slightly ranting but I think, food wise, the best way to judge whether or not something is good for you is quite simply, how it makes you feel immediately afterwards...
I really think it's that simple."

Sorry, this really doesn't make sense to me. Do you think people eat fatty, sugary, salty foods because it makes them feel bad? No, it makes them feel great.

But, you may say, that is only temporary pleasure. They won't feel great a few hours later when their blood sugar crashes. One should, you could argue, look at how you feel all day.

But then why stop at one day? Why not look at your happiness over years. Maybe that diet that makes you feel good during the day slowly causes a disease, such as cancer, that REALLY makes you feel bad later. This could, for example, be the effect of eating a lot of red meat.

"Eat what makes you feel good" is simple and appealing advice. Like most complex issues, however, a simple and appealing solution is not likely to be the best.
Can someone post where this problem can be shown to the IE team? I would love for them to fix it, but don't know where to start.
My parents (both physicians) both readily admit they are rich. They also believe the highest tax bracket (their tax bracket) should be raised considerably.