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I think you misunderstood my post. My point was that Silverlight was NOT the web, but was not incompatible with it. By this I meant that having Silverlight doesn't destroy the web. The same way gay marriage doesn't effect your marriage. They can both coexist. And you can choose what you want to use.

I disagree about your reason why the web because so big. Frankly, I think what caused to become so big was ease and speed of deployment. If the web was PC only it would have grown on marginally slower.

I don't know how MS is trying to make money, but I think I see what they're doing:

1) Focus on Bing Search. Search revenue is a huge chunk of money and allows them to move to the web more easily.

2) Make IE the BEST browser experience. I think they've finally decided that the web can actually have differentiated experiences, and I think they want IE/Windows to be the best platform for it.

But at the same time they continue to also focus on business users. And the fact that a lot of consumers still need a desktop OS. I spend a fair bit of time editing movies, and while I'm sure there's a web app that will render BluRay movies from HD video, I've yet to find one as good as the desktop tools I have.

You don't leave money on the table when you're a business. Just like Google won't leave money when it comes to selling your eyeballs.
Great point. The last thing I need is payment that requires legal action.
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Sure, the same guy has ;-) .. See http://programmingzen.com/2010/07/19/the-great-ruby-shootout...
It's a little gimmicky, but I have to say that it is a clever bit of journalism that really helps to make the whole ordeal a slightly more understandable to less financially literate (like myself).
I think the "excuse" if you could call it that is people have no idea who this is and have no way of contacting them.

Besides that, people choose who to work with based on reputation. I'm saying if this person has banked credibility with people over an extended period, he could probably pick up a few gigs from fellow HNers.

At this point, no one knows anything about this person, and so they have no idea what skills or other unique value to ask for or trade cash for.

Besides, you're much more likely to go out on a limb for someone you know is a good guy.
As an editor I'd correct it if it was in a very formal context but it's a perfectly acceptable colloquial usage for casual communication including emails and online forums.

Language is living, breathing and constantly changing. Words mean what people intend them and understand them to mean, not necessarily what they mean ... uh ... literally.
It doesn't use Rubinius 1.1 so can't be said to be entirely up to date, but this is only two months old: http://programmingzen.com/2010/07/19/the-great-ruby-shootout...
Any reasons on why to avoid 99designs and ilk?
Except that your personal credit is linked to your business credit. Just because they can't come after you for the money doesn't mean that you'll be able to get a business loan, lease, etc in the future.
"Why do people move to suburbia? To have kids! So no wonder it seemed boring and sterile. The whole place was a giant nursery, an artificial town created explicitly for the purpose of breeding children."

Not to breed, they go to raise.
Glad to see FIRST on that list. That organization is largely responsible for my (and many of my friends') interest in engineering and product development.
Good for you for trying the no-grain diet! Just one question, however: you seem to eat food that is likely to include corn syrup. For example: the smoothie at McDonald's. Don't you think corn syrup should also be eliminated?
He's a minority shareholder.
I did a similar experiment last year. For 3 months I stuck to a low carb diet, influenced by the Atkin's diet, but not following it strictly. I was a very healthy weight and decided to try it after a number of arguments with friends and family where I defended the science behind it. I wanted to see whether it was genuinely a healthy diet, and not just the weight loss tool that it was getting all the buzz about.

I'm pleased to say the results where overwhelmingly positive. After the first unpleasant week as my body adjusted, I started to feel more energetic, less hungry and I needed less sleep. The biggest quantitative improvement though was the quality of my skin. I've always had problems with acne, even now I'm past my troubled teen years but on a low carb diet my skin almost completely cleared up. I'm sure it was more nutritious too because when you're not bulking your meals out with pasta, rice or potatoes, you don't have much choice other than to eat more veg.

After about 3 months, enough carbohydrate had crept back into my diet that I wasn't really doing anything special anymore, but I'm very tempted to go back and try to stick to it properly.

Good luck with your own experiment!
His emphasis isn't on weight loss, it's overall health. The American obsession with waistsize vastly oversimplifies a complex equation. All the people I've known personally that obsessed over their diets this way would have been better off spending that time on a long walk.

The paleolithic diet is hardly generally accepted among nutritionists either:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleolithic_diet
Ditto on the PSD advice. There are plenty of PSD to HTML chop shops that will do a much better job slicing and creating standards compliant markup for your site.

It ends up costing a little more in the long run, but you also get a better quality product.
Could easily be an inside job. Stew Leonard was put in jail for stealing money from his own pneumatic tubes.
It's their job to try and collect as much as they can. Even if your contact is friendly and sympathetic, if they think you can pay on better terms than you offer they will hammer you. On the flip side it is your job to be honest about your situation and get them to accept terms that you can actually meet. Other people have given better and more specific advice but the bottom line is they will take what they can get. No hard feelings. Business is business.
Summary: “You should be motivated in the same manner that I am.”

Er, what’s wrong with someone looking to non-specifically contribute something to a movement (GNU/Linux) or to improve their skills in a particular language? Not anything, necessarily; they’re probably just young.
Club 'em, trap 'em, spear 'em (spears are at least 300,000 years old) or even grab 'em with your hands (easier if you live a million years ago before human fishing has depleted fish stocks).

I tried to find out whether chimps eat fish... apparently they've never been observed to do so, but baboons do.
FYI, that's: http://public.resource.org/
Installing Ruby 1.9 and Rails 3 on Mac OS X
I don't have my email listed, but I have my website listed: http://inklesspen.com/

It's a simple "personal portal", I guess you'd call it. My email address is the first thing listed, followed by my erratically updated programming blog, github, twitter, flickr, linkedin, and resume.

I'd rather keep all those links in one place and just hand out my domain link, rather than have to update things everywhere when I add a new link.
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Have you looked at Wuala?

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/what-do-you-get-if-you-combine-...

Cheers
I think there's another technical solution.

Instead of having a link directly to the article, have the link go to the discussion page instead, but with an added header.

That extra header would check for a cookie. If that cookie is set, no action. If the cookie is not set, set the cookie, then forwards the user to the actual article.

Then, when you finish reading and decide it's worth an up vote, when you go 'back', you're already at the discuss page where you can vote the story itself up, as well as comment on it.
You're right and I did see it, so I shouldn't have said there wasn't one. I was looking at the course page and desperately wanting some questions answered so I threw my hands up and said "where's the FAQ!". I would have preferred a bit more info in the Site FAQ, but it definitely did answer a handful of my questions.

Anyways, now that you're here, do you guys do video lectures/interaction of any sort? I think that would persuade me to follow through~
"This technological terror you've constructed pales in comparison to the power of the Force"
It seems this is a common theme. I switched to a sans stack, that should be easier to read, if not so pretty.

An aside, but one thing I love that both Safari and Chrome now do (at least, maybe others do as well) is remember the font size instructions for a site. So, if you bump up the font size -- next time you visit it keeps it at the larger font size.
You can propose a course here:

http://codelesson.com/courses/suggest

What topics would you like to see covered in a software engineering course? What kind of person would you like to see teach it?
Why not? Surely a combination of Google and Facebook experience is more valuable than an equal amount of experience at just one or the other.

I can see how you'd choose FB over Google coming in from the outside but if you get the chance to work with both it seems like a smart choice.
> Stop and think about all of your personal interests and solve a simple problem related to one of them.

That's why there are so many programmer tools and frameworks. :-)
Yeah the thing that I don't understand is, so it is dead with no payments but their is collateral behind that asset so what happens when the foreclosures are sold. Do they receive a check for their portion of the asset sale? That would offset the the numbers I should imagine. So if they have collected roughly $450 of their $1000 investment and then receive a $300 check from the asset sale. that is $750 of their principal returned. In regards to the banks that hold these assets they received a bailout so I would assume that they still see a profit on these "Toxic"assets due to the bail out. As well this asset was purchased in the middle of the housing fall out while some of the other assets had been producing returns for some time before this whole mess. Also what about that PMI they make people buy if they finance more than 80% that is supposed to protect the mortgage holders principal, in the event of a default. One of the reasons I love math is one of the reasons I hate it the numbers are so easy to skew, to someone who does not know what variables to look for. I am not accusing NPR of anything here after all they are journalist by trade not economists or bankers, but I think there are some missing variables here.
Haha - I'd totally like to see fully annotated, backdated diffs for each revision--also known as amendments (starting with the Bill of Rights)--and branches and merges for each HR/SR (by accounts that represent who authored said resolutions), and forks for countries whose constitution was based on the US.

That network graph would be AWESOME.
I would _never_ want Digg and HN to compete. They are two entirely different sites. I was merely comparing their design philosophies, not their general purposes.

And I apologize if my post is seen as a complaint. I was trying to be constructive.
If you want people to start taking you seriously, then YES!

I have been turned off on a number of occasions by the lack of a professional design.

You could probably scrape by, by getting a free theme from the intertubes, but what about your logo/branding.

Go to your local college and post something for a design job. You will get a ton of replies and it probably won't cost you that much.
Funny, in German the literal translation "Willst Du mitkommen?" is perfectly fine ("mit" means "with").

But we do not normally strand our preposition (i.e. put them at the end of a sentence).
It looks a little complicated at first glance, but it's an excellent visualization, especially once you get the relationship between the "How we are doing" and "How long we have left" graphs (the left not mattering until January 2010). Watching the right one throughout the history of the asset is actually a little horrifying.
1. Maybe state laws would be a better place to start. It's more plausible that a hacker could get into a state house/senate/gubernatorial position and elicit change at a local level. Also, there's potentially more room for refactoring than feature changes.

2. The same way software commits or Wikipedia edits are evaluated. Discussion and voting. As with OSS and Wikipedia, few would actually propose changes, but it's better than the current system (which is closer to the model of proprietary software and traditional encyclopedias).

3. As ry's node is the official Node.js, "usgov" would host the legally binding repo, and individuals would simply have their own non-binding forks. Congress's role would shift to primarily merging in pull requests.

4. I imagine most aren't interested in proposing laws any more than they are in editing Wikipedia. But everyone would benefit from a more succinct, optimized legal structure, as they do from a better source of information.

This is all really beside what I had in mind though. I don't think there's much point trying to do anything official, in cooperation with the current government. The way you improve Windows is by building a better operating system, not directly trying to change Windows.
Study breaks down divorce rates by occupation: Engineers one of lowest
I think it would be more interesting to use github to devise a better language for law.

It could try to find a way to allow more specificity with less verbosity, and provide a standard way of creating abstractions that would allow for easy checking of conflicting definitions. Maybe even include a comment system for stating the intentions at time of writing, which could be taken into account when modifying the code.
It seems like eliminating the ability for noobs with less than, say, 20 karma from submitting stories would fix this and get rid of a lot of the spam that gets posted.

I know it seems unwelcoming to noobs, but we already have a tiered system where you need N karma for your votes to count, to downvote, to submit polls, etc.

I didn't submit anything for months after joining, which I think is the best way to go. Through actively participating in the comments, I got a good idea of what the HN community was really like.

And even now I don't submit that much (though since I discovered the bookmarklet my rate of submissions has increased). HN isn't about submitting to me, it's about comments (though obviously I realize we need good stories to comment on).

The biggest drawback I see is that it might impact the quality of comments. If users desperately want to hit that submission threshold, they might comment a lot or comment group-think-ily trying to pick up a few points here and a few points there until they hit that threshold.
Timeless classic games:

- Super Mario 3

- Super Mario World

- Mega Man X

- Baldur's Gate

Still 100% fun. Dunno how they manage it.
I doubt there's anything terribly wrong with cutting out dietary grains, but the basis for a "paleo" diet appears to rest on two principal assumptions:

1. Pre-agricultural humans didn't eat grains

2. The human digestive system has evolved little since the introduction of agriculture

The problem is that both of these assumptions are dubious at best. If paleolithic humans didn't eat grains, then how were grains ever domesticated in the first place? Obviously, someone was eating grains in the wild, and evidently over time people learned how to cultivate them. I have no trouble believing that the paleo diet contained far fewer grains than the typical post-agricultural diet, but that suggests eating select whole grains in moderation, not eliminating them entirely.

In addition, the idea that ten thousand years isn't enough time for substantial evolution is clearly wrong. The reason the New World was ravaged by smallpox, plague, influenza, etc., upon contact with Europeans was because Americans (in the generalized sense) lacked the resistance that Eurasians had evolved in the time since the invention of agriculture. Meanwhile, some people (especially northern Europeans) have no trouble digesting milk because they evolved the ability to metabolize lactose—presumably a recent innovation, since dairy animals were domesticated around the same time as grains. (Yet many "paleo" advocates also recommend eschewing dairy.) Indeed, "lactose intolerance" is a misnomer; what's remarkable is that anyone is lactose-tolerant—lactose-tolerant humans are the only mammals to produce the necessary lactase enzyme as adults. There is every reason to expect that a similar evolutionary process has led to an enhanced ability to digest grains; it may not be true, but it should be the null hypothesis.

In short, the basic idea of eating nutrient-dense foods is based on sound science, but the complete elimination of perfectly healthy foods such as whole grains and dairy doesn't have any basis in reality.
Yes, many classic games are terrible by today's standards. Even those of us who are old enough to have played these games when they came out, and who thoroughly enjoyed them, now consider them unplayable (or close to it), simply because many games have come out since that are better in every possible way (graphics, sound, playability, UI, ...). All in all, it's just a matter of expectations, and how they change over time.

Which makes me wonder, will today's games be considered unplayable 20 years from now? You'll explain to your (grand)child how revolutionary the Wii was when it came out, and they will just look at you funny, and throw away the controller in disgust after five minutes of playing on it?
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I worked as a collector at one point. You have incentives to get money collected. A collector will say everything they can to get you to pay (sometimes skirting the collection laws).

They know that you have a limited amount of money and the chance you actually paying decreases as time goes by.
Some of our courses include pre-recorded screencast videos. I am teaching the CodeLesson PHP course right now and I use a few videos in my course. I don't know if Zed is planning on using any in his course but I don't think so. If we ever offer Introduction to Oil Painting we'll probably do a lot more videos for that course.

Philosophically, we are avoiding the notion of live video formats for a couple of reasons. First, there are products that exist to do live video today (Skype, etc.). But more importantly, the big benefit of an online course is that because the course has no set meeting time, students and instructors can time-shift (this is the same benefit of email versus talking on the phone). With live video, you lose that. That isn't to say that live interactions in our courses aren't an option (you're still free to pick up the phone), they just aren't a differentiator for us.

Because our courses are instructor-led, you're going to get answers to your questions, which is something that pre-recorded videos can't really provide.
if his name is on the paperwork, it doesn't matter.
Loam modifications are post-signing agreements to alter the terms of a loan, most commonly to reduce principal, waive interest, or alter the interest rate going forward. They are historically considered highly abnormal for residential mortgages.

They have very negative effects for lower tranches of mortgage backed securities.
My co-worker just told me his mother is level 137 at Farmville :) Apparently she spends 6 hours a day playing it...
Ask HN: tools to find patterns of data on disk?
I'm looking for tools (Mac OS X and /or Windows) to find data matching certain patterns on my disks.

I would use this to ensure I don't keep "sensitive" data after working for a given client, for instance.

Are there any particularly useful tools to achieve this, before I go find/grep/sed all the way ?

Note: I don't need to scan unusused space (which I can 0-purge), but scanning archives (zip/7z etc) would be useful.

Thank you!
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Sorry, I responded to your question in the wrong point in the thread. See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1724883
I am not in finance. This is a second-hand explanation. Tablespoon of salt and all that.

These sorts securities were structured in such a way that some people get a lower ROI, but better risk profile. The way that works is that whoever accepts the lowest rate of return gets their portion first. When the money runs out, the assets that would have the highest rate of return miss out entirely.

There are two major ways that a loan can change: default (where the debtor simply does not pay; this typically leads to foreclosure and the bank often takes a loss) and renegotiation (where the debtor negotiates a reduction in how much the debtor will eventually need to pay on the theory that the lower amount will make default less likely). Both of these reduce the amount of money coming in (and, indeed, the amount that is ever going to come in).

What happened is that the amount of money coming in (and expected to come in) dropped to the point where, after paying every asset promising a lower rate than Toxie, there was no money left to pay Toxie. As there is no means by which this situation can change, Toxie no longer has value.
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Ahh, I see, I didn't know about that. Thanks for the info! :)
I buy my 'green' servers for 900 euro or so, and the colocation costs are 25 euro per month. I place big (media)files on the Amazon S3/Cloudfront. $1k/year for a dedicated server sounds a bit expensive to me.
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Bépo keyboard layout is missing! Okay maybe it's because it's optimized for writing in French... But after a false start and a painful first month I'm really happy to have made the transition from the qwerty/azerty world.

The first month was really frustrating, especially at work or when using IM but I'm glad I kept using it because for now, a few months after, it's a pleasure to have every keys always right next to one of my finger and never having to move my hands anymore.
I have one boy that reads constantly. I too used a lot of the points here and seems to have worked, thinking about it my parents did the same with me.

I will, however, chime in and mention that we also have a PS3/Wii/PS2/Gamecube/N64/NES & 2 DSs that are all in use, and often played, so the systems being around has not impacted his love of reading. He'll often put his DS down and pick up his most recent book. My daughter is the same way.

I think that point #8 is likely the biggest reason for this, as although I like to game, I often will be reading instead.