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"consensus means nothing but politics"

Actually, why don't you do this if you think it's all about politics. Get your favorite politician, see who their economic advisers are, then understand their views. Mankiw stated economic points that are accepted by a wide political spectrum.
Cool! The mobile version is just the normal login though. At least they have a link to the standard version.
"Best"--I'm not sure of, it's certainly up there though. "Safest"--It's quite safe, especially if done in the right set and setting [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_and_setting
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I'm not going to speak out for or against the use of smart drugs, but please note that although Adrafinil does metabolize to Modafinil and thus appears to be a legal (depending on your location) alternative, it can damage your liver and cause stomach pain.
Yea, guess enough people did not see it.

This might be interesting http://github.com/antimatter15/weppy using JS and canvas to display the file format.
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Buy a few books and build something in python, and when you're done reread the books and build something in python (this is a recursive sentence!).

Well, no, it's not. But never mind. Still reasonably good advice...
#4 is a bit misleading. It states "Fiscal policy (e.g., tax cut and/or government expenditure increase) has a significant stimulative impact on a less than fully employed economy. (90%)".

While that sounds harmless, a lot of people will take that item and extrapolate it to our current situation and say the correct policy response is to stimulate the economy with fiscal policy. That has to be right since 90% of economists agree right? Well, what happens if you add a little context to the quote and add the text "with high levels of debt as a share of GDP". That 90% number would likely come down massively most likely skewed by biases not related to economic theory.

In short, the quote is very misleading if you are trying to use it as a guide to our current mess. What does this imply the right policy response for us is now?:

We have to make major cuts in areas of excess that have little stimulative impact. This means cutting back on government pensions, entitlement reform, and cutting things like 9/11 contracts that don't provide any real increase in safety.
It means we can also strategically spend in areas that have been neglected the last 10 years like an energy grid for a more stable energy policy, alternatives to petroleum based fuels, a modernized air traffic control system and infrastructure.

At a macro level this means net spending decreases in very sensitive areas like entitlements but also strategic increases that make our country more able to compete like education, energy independence and infrastructure.
It's still great advice, even if you gave it to the wrong person. And if he takes my advice and bookmarks it, he might come back and read it at the right time. ;-)
you dont need it to be displayed in color to work. you can use other text attributes or tags. the blind programmers prefer black on black color schemes i hear...
I normally shy away from writing provocative information-light rants. The important parts (for me):

1. github is a social service, or perhaps best used as a social service

2. it has "the momentum", which is paramount for social services

3. git has "the momentum" wrt adoption of dvcs

There are assumptions implicit within these arguments that I've accepted, based largely on the summation of 'soft' and anecdotal evidence that has built up over the last couple years. People are right to challenge them, and right in their criticism that I take them at face value.
wouldn't believe there is anything to be done to your brain, like enhancing cognitive abilities through drugs, without unintended consequences.

Although there are many illegal drugs that have negative consequences, the practice of applying this as a naive general law of medicine is largely a result of many years of this idea, or ideas similar to it, being drilled into us by the war on drugs propaganda machine. Each substance must be evaluated on a case by case basis and if people have been taking certain drugs for 30 years with no deleterious effect, the evidence is certainly in favor of long term safety, or even * gasp * benefit.

There are other beliefs similar to this, such as any radio signal emitting device causes cancer, that have silently entered the culture as fact without much science to support them.
Forget about your past, look at the future. If you keep living in your past you won't get sh*t done in your life.
Chillout is my go to. Check out groups like Blue Sky Black Death (instrumental hip-hop), Portishead, and Apparat. The genre is big -- you can spend a lot of time finding stuff you like.
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Thunderstruck on repeat. Always. From now and until the end of time.
The point regarding introverts is very important. I am probably the most shy person you could ever meet, I can't look people in the eye when talking or hold conversation, but I don't see myself as an introvert. Introverts are people who don't want or need others, think of the most famous and well liked person ever and they could easily be an introvert, how you carry yourself or act around others is unrelated to introversion, it seems like a weird misconception, the idea that shy == introvert, social == extrovert, when there's no real correlation.
Ask HN: Costs & Pricing?
Hi,

We are working on a product targeting businesses. This involves supplying hardware (that we source from elsewhere) and software to go along with it. About 50% of the cost is going towards the hardware.
Now, we are trying to essentially figure out two things:
1) How much it would cost us?: Currently we have taken into account Hardware & software costs (basically how much it would take to sustain us for the period of customizing the product), shipping, supplementary hardware to be kept in the inventory and misc expenses like costs during the pitching period etc.

2) How do we price the product: We are working in a market where our customers might be reluctant to come onboard initially. So we figure the pricing model should be aggressive. That said, we are low on capital and hence we need to make some money from the initial customers also to sustain ourselves.

Are we ignoring anything major in deciding the costs? How do we build an effective model for pricing? Any links or articles on the subject would be of great help.

Thanks in advance.
I feel your pain, but it gets better. I buried myself with work to get over the emotional times, and then when I felt like I needed a girlfriend.

I went and found one. The key is to get up to bat, then try again (and then again (and then again)). I went through 873 girls before I found the one. I had an Excel spreadsheet and everything. I used match.com, eHarmony, and craigslist to troll for women. Persistence and an ever evolving filter eventually converges.

Professors are not the best people to take advice from unless you want to live in the ivory tower, so I wouldn't look to them for life advice. Instead, look around and figure out what you want out of life. Do you want money? Do you want happiness? Do you want to create things?

Once you figure out what you want, you have to work core for it.

Your grades are not what matter in life. When I interview people, I don't even consider their education background. If I exist, then I'm sure there are others like me in your area.

Your past is your past, and there will always be times that you regret the stupid things you've done. Everyone has regrets, and the key is to look toward the future and work towards it.

Instead of focusing on programming and hoping the school system will work out for you, find a bread and butter job like psd2html where you could offer the skills you have to keep life decent enough to build up more powerful and effective skills.

The key to building relationships is to offer something up. Tell a joke. Help someone move. Generally be a good person to hang around. Be someone you would want to hang out with, and you will find friends everywhere. Humans are social creatures, and I was extremely introverted. However, now, I can go anywhere and strike up a conversation. How did I do this? I tried and then I tried some more. Now, I can hustle where as I used to only be able to hack.

Life is complex, and no sequence of words will ultimately help. It is up you to decide that you want to make things better.
Are you saying that we should ignore rainbow tables? I appreciate that you know way more about crypto than I do, but I think you're working from the standpoint that people know how to do things the right way, as opposed to the real world situation where people very clearly don't (e.g. NTLM, Oracle being 'Unbreakable', iPhone screen lock security mechanisms).

For as long as there's people using unsalted MD5 hashes in their PHP applications, Rainbow Tables are a real threat.
Hi ambition, I was painting with pretty broad strokes, and I did not intend to say Facebook employees are "greedy" (I do not believe I did say that). I meant that the value systems of the people I know in both places tend to be slightly different.

One way to quantify the difference between the two types of engineers (if there is such a difference, as I hypothesize), would be to measure the volume of their open-source work prior to joining the companies. Maybe just number of contributed-to projects X years before joining as a rough estimate? Actually, I'd be interested in seeing that data for employees across the board at the major SV tech companies.
Trigraphs.
I have actually programmed professionally in APL. You don't ever ever ever want to go there. Reading that stuff is awful.
I recently listened a lot of "Grateful Dead" , it really kept me going.
EPL and UEFA Champions League are available on foxsoccer.tv. FIFA World Cup matches were streamed for free in Canada, so for a $15/mo Canadian proxy server I got those too.
"No, you won't get a single econ prof to say that the Chinese are more efficient at sewing buttons."

Are you serious? A Chinese worker will produce more sewing buttons for $1 than an American can. I'm very sure every reputable economist agrees.
I've found this to be true for my wife, who has fairly advanced Huntington's Disease (please do read about it -- to say that we'd love a cure is a massive understatement: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntingtons_disease), as well.

Although it seemed odd to me at first, she performs far better with the iPad than the iMac that I bought her years ago. Typing, clearly a chore for her with a physical keyboard, is somehow simpler on the iPad in landscape.

A clear benefit of the iPad: it is relatively simple to constrain what can and can't be done. The base set of apps are simplistic.

The only downside: I can't hide apps that she doesn't want to use or that I would rather insulate her from. I'm looking at you, Settings.app.

But between E-mail, bookmarks as desktop icons, Friendly, Proloquo2go, Safari, and the iPod app, my wife's quality of life suddenly improved dramatically.
Dude, that moved me.
"If you've seen firsthand what a drug like meth does to a person, it makes you think twice about the ideal that everyone has the right to put whatever they want into their body/mind."

It's been stated in other replies, but it bears repeating: this argument is nonsense. You can use the exact same reasoning to argue for banning anything that has ever caused harm to people (which is pretty much everything, ever).
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I think the youtube acquisition was more about controlling the direction of online video than anything else. Before Youtube, online video was a mishmash of proprietary codecs. Proprietary online video was the only thing at that time that Microsoft or some other big player could use to destroy the open web platform.
It's not a big surprise to realize that mass-market movie theaters will soon have the same fate as local movie rental shops and chains such as Blockbuster.

The only people who don't seem to understand that digital distribution will soon be the only way to make money on media are large content marketing companies.

It's an "all or nothing" battle where folks who understand that this is the future of media distribution also know that a few rogue firms, films or artists won't be able to solve the problem of piracy. If every firm, every artist, everyone who is currently making any money from content understood that new ways to monetize digital content existed, we could move beyond leaked DVD Screeners and the current state of piracy.

People will pay for content... but today, they will pay on their own terms. It doesn't mean giving it away for free, it means changing the current model.
OS X Lion will probably push this first as they apply what they learned on iPad to OS X.
Actually, what's even more heartbreaking is people still continuing to use illicit drugs from countries like Mexico when thousands of Mexicans are dying to get them those drugs. Maybe they should wait on buying those drugs until they become legalized to stop the brutal killings of Mexicans.

"what about legalizing harder drugs like cocaine"

I'm guessing you've never lived with anyone who's been addicted to drugs.
With all due respect, I fairly clearly indicated that I am aware of such things. I even typed a unicode character that for me is one keystroke: ‽. I've got that mapped to backspace, since I moved that to Caps Lock (and just discarded Caps Lock).

But that's not the actual point. Learning a new language is a challenge. Learning a new language when you haven't already learned 10 is an even bigger challenge. Learning your first language is very difficult, which most of us have probably forgotten. Now, to the list of things you have to learn to do so, we want to add learning several dozen brand new keystrokes that nobody knows offhand? It may not seem like much compared to everything else one has to learn to program, but having to learn a lot of stuff is annoying; having to fight your input devices is like being rendered mute. Try switching your keyboard map for a few days to see how you like it. This is not a level of frustration worth pursuing.
Atari Teenage Riot.
I had cable for a short period of time in the 1990's. I thought that the quality was never as good as free over the air broadcast TV. Where I grew up we had a very big TV antenna on a tall mast with a rotor that could be positioned with a dial that sat beside the TV. We could pick up a lot of channels, and we could even get different broadcasts on the same channel depending on the position of the antenna. I know that there were way more unique broadcasters than what you find today on 500-channel satellite TV. By the way, I think that most digital flat screens can receive free over the air digital high-definition TV.

For quite a while, I have not had a TV. I don't miss TV. And, when I do see TV somewhere else, I marvel at how inane the content is.
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Some good advice here so far. Some tips on turning this thing around to consider:

1. This is 100% mental; beating yourself up mentally internally or otherwise only contributes to the problem - try the opposite. 'Meditate' on positive thoughts (or even a single thought) when this crops up. Self-doubt is the mind-killer; never forget that.

2. Everyone is good at a thing or two - for me it's hockey and music (well other than coding of course) - focus on the positives that those bring into your life when you feel your self-worth going south. Make a habit of reminding yourself of the things that few people can do better than you.

3. Start to exercise regularly. It's amazing how effective regularly releasing endorphins into your bloodstream is. Plus, it helps boost your self-confidence.

4. When you go out for lunch, groceries, errands - whatever- make a habit of striking up a conversation with a total stranger or a group of strangers (yes, it is scary actually). I do this when I'm at lunch alone, often talking with someone, or a group of people sitting near me. No your waiter/waitress or bartender does not count. I find that it forces me out of my 'shell' and I usually learn something interesting as well (people are pretty interesting if you give them a chance it turns out). BTW, when I chat people up at lunch or in the line at the bank, grocer store, wherever I never consider who they are or their age... aka, I'm not just doing this with women I may be interested in, or just guys around my age... I'll strike up a conversation with an older women, teens, a family, whomever. It's a great way to break out of your natural introversion shell and it's interesting to see what 'normal folk' think (cause let's face it - Hackers are not normal folk at all).

5. The more comfortable you are with yourself the more comfortable you will be around others; the opposite is also true.

6. Do not seek professional help - you are normal for your age. If anything you might want to look into something like David DeAngelo's books/vids, which I've recommended to several friends who recently divorced (which your situation is oddly similar too I might add - it's a very isolating period for most men); DeAngelo 'preaches' a lot about developing a stronger mental/inner 'game', honing your social skills and above all being confident (and funny) in who you are - if you can master just that - being confident and funny - you will be a whiz in social situation in no time.
Per Schneier's point, focusing on "threat scenarios" is useless if you have a diffuse threat and unlimited targets.

As an aside, try to look at the history of the definition of terrorism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definition_of_terrorism . It's quite difficult to find an all-encompasing term that does not include the US or her allies.
I have no choice but to keep it because tv + internet is apparently cheaper than just internet.
Have taken your advice and ordered 30x100mg of the Alertec, and will sort the fax out on Monday - cheers :)

(I assume I'm right in thinking there's no advantage to Provigil over Alertec?)
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Zoiks.
… if they care about it. Luckily they care about the UI and accessibility on their iOS devices. (Except for certain things like notifications their iOS UI has been a home run since day one.)
Zzzzz. Old spare computer with no network connection, DVD burner, done.
If it's all about freedom and all this kind of stuff then why are we regulating it? It seems silly to have "trained professionals" that "administer" hits of meth, crack, etc. I mean, really, is that what you envision? How stupid is it to have some licensure board to certify people on helping people do drugs that are extremely dangerous for them? What are they certifying? Anyway, if the point is all this hoopla about freedom then isn't regulation running the oppposite way of that? What if I feel you are destroying my rights by forcing me to feel out some silly paperwork that some bureaucrat deamt up before I do some heroin? To me it seems like people throw up "regulation" to make their vision of the world seem less silly.
I'd recommend it, though it's not your traditional "you need to see this in a cinema" movie.
I have a legal prescription for 200 mg Provigil.

Many of the comments here have factual inaccuracies.

- Provigil is Schedule IV, which is not highly restricted, and is prescribed on regular scrip paper, not DEA paper.

- Some STATES restrict its dispersal more stringently, like New York, even with a scrip. Others do not, like California.

- Provigil has NOT been classed a stimulant. Its action is currently described as "unknown."

This information comes from my doctor and my doctor's PDR.

EDIT: for grammar error, and mistake about its schedule level.
I've never owned a TV. So, I've never had any motivation to get cable television or an antenna for viewing local broadcasts. I don't even know what channels there are locally.

But, I do watch a couple TV shows.... On the Internet. I can count them on one hand, and have no motivation to pay for a Cable service that delivers programming I'm not interested in, and makes it hard to access what little programming I am interested in.

If I could get something like Cable TV, and only had to pay for what little material I actually watched, I might perhaps be interested in considering it.
Take "Crash-Only" one step further and you get apps that back themselves up automatically. Re-install the app on your new device and it restores all of your data.
Two problems with your post, not counting your tone: Your reading comprehension fails, I already mentioned I know how to remap keys. In fact what happens when you type on my keyboard bears only a passing resemblance to what is on the keycaps.

Second, what "productivity benefits"? Are you such an astonishing programmer than your primary bottleneck is typing your symbols? It's too slow to type -> instead of Alt-Gr->, or whatever? Or maybe the agony of having to read -> instead of →? I find it hard to believe that's much more than a rounding error.
One important thing that's worth noting: Just because you have trouble concentrating doesn't mean you have ADHD. There are a lot of other things that could cause that.
"It is far easier, cheaper and more humane to educate a population and provide them with the healthcare and counseling that they need than it is to deal with the horrors that are going on around you today due to prohibition."

This is a seemingly simplistic statement to something a lot more complex. Your brain doesn't care if you get counseling. It just wants its next high. If you can't get that next high from a computer game, you'll certainly want it from something more powerful (and in most cases, harmful). I'm surprised you haven't mentioned the neurological effects of using drugs like cocaine.
I don't see why any of this would affect piracy, beyond perhaps saving someone the step of ripping a Screener DVD.
Do you get enough sleep each night?
It's a cute idea, but feels a whole lot like the things coming out of the MIT media lab in the late 1990s.
I don't know, theaters still have a period of exclusivity, and it's possible for studios to implement tighter controls for things like screeners, so it's not quite the same as an example where a business has to compete against a studio-sanctioned digital release.

I personally still enjoy going to the theater, and I don't mind paying for the experience. I think theaters are going to have to focus more and more on the experience in the future. If studios ever do start to do digital releases on the same day as theatrical releases, then all the theaters will have is their ability to provide a first-rate experience. It's like a lot of things, making a customer happy can and will bring in business.
Well, less people target Linux as less use it. If I hooked up to one of these, though, it'd have to be with an isolated partition or in Haiku.
I've been trying to find it on usenet since I saw it in theaters a month ago.

But then I saw that the pirate DVD lady in my neighborhood in Brooklyn had it this morning. Went back, found it!
1) Join a gym. Lift progressively heavier weights. Its fine if you stick to Deadlifts, Squats, and Bench-press (all preferably with free weights) i.e the basic [functional+compound] lifts.
Make sure a trainer corrects you on proper Form or you'll injure yourself.

2)Pick a challenging puzzle/problem to solve during the lifting session.

You'll get over your confidence hangups and make bold strides forward in no time.
Give git a shot and you'll be amazed at how primitive svn is. Can't speak for other DVCSes though, because I haven't tried them.
If they were smart, they'd already be streaming everything on the web.
"Provigil is NOT a Schedule IV drug. It is prescribed on regular prescription paper, NOT DEA paper."

I think you have it backwards. Schedule IV drugs are prescription-only, but don't require DEA papers like Schedule II drugs do (such as Adderall, Ritalin, etc). They aren't as highly regulated, but they do still require a prescription.
You're right. I was just a bit excited that I found it. HN wouldn't be as good if everyone did this.