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How many programmers you know would accidentally include GPL'ed code into proprietary apps that get sold to other people? Is there any documented case of such accident?
The author is mostly write about the usage cases of Haskell, but simply "systems" is a bit misleading because there are certain performance characteristics of lazy programs which make them bad choices for some systems programs. Any type of real-time system, for example, can suffer unpredictable performance in critical sections, which is pretty undesirable.
Did you even read the article? Please do, so you don't look so ignorant.
That is the document I'm talking about. I think their answers to questions about derivative works and whatnot (basically the "how do I violate the GPL without getting caught?" questions) are not entirely forthcoming. I can't fault them too much for this, as providing a truthful and complete answer would amount to being a guide to circumventing the GPL which is not in their interest, but the questions and answers are carefully phrased to avoid answering the real question you're probably asking.

There is more wiggle room than the FSF would like people to believe (although it's probably also less wiggle room than those people hope for).
Are Tasers safer than guns in bear country?
I don't think so, Ashton Kutcher can only bring some attention to Blekko. Outside of geekdom search engines by default are not cool and may never be. Blekko should only be concerned about being a very useful tool, something better than google.
Some of these lists are an interesting distraction, but I'm far past the point of clicking 'Next' 25 times just to give them more page views and ad impressions. These days if at least 50% of the article content isn't on the first page, I hit Back before my Flash blocker has even had a chance to swat all the ads.
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AFAIK it's not possible to project out into open space like that with real holograms.
The concept behind the article is good, but his actual investment portfolio is pretty questionable.

Basically, there are 5 main factors you need to be aware of in investing:
1) Compound interest: An investment making small gains over a long period of time will do amazingly well. Thus, start saving early, and far in advance of any expected draws.
2) Diversification: I was going to say mean-reversion on individual stocks, or portfolios reducing risk, but I'm not sure what the dominant factor really is. Suffice it to say, all eggs in one basket bad, and there are a lot of logical falacies borne of trying to predict the future.
3) Stacked deck; not a level playing field: There is one consistent winner in any casino: the house. If you're investing as if it's betting, the winners will be those charging you to play (commissions, spreads) and better-informed counterparties. You want minimal fees, and minimal number of transactions, and to participate in big, liquid markets with openly displayed prices.
4) Psychological costs of investing: this isn't your job. In order to hedge against wild swings, you need a very large amount of money relative to the size of your investments, and if you're spending your time and energy managing investments, you're probably taking away from either making money through your profession or enjoying life.
5) Don't leave money on the table: take advantage of any 401k matching, etc. you can, even if you just put money into cash or treasuries. This is literally free money.

In the end, a strategy which encourages you to buy ARMH because the iPhone is cool is probably suboptimal for most investors.

What I want in my investing is for it to be relatively automatic, well balanced, and low stress. While I do make individual stock purchases sometimes (BP, or a list of companies I really like and would love to buy on dips when P/E is proper), I generally believe in investing primarily in low-fee no-load mutual funds. The key is that fees (expense ratio) are as low as possible, and that the overall mix of funds gives you the best asset allocation. Hint: most ETFs actually are really expensive relative to the underlying assets; the premium for exchange-traded liquidity is huge. Combine that with buy and hold/compounding and the low fees are a big win. Another way to save is to use tax-advantaged accounts like roth or regular 401k or IRA to hold investment assets.

You can worry about things at the level of "how much risk do I want", "how much can I afford to save each month", and then just plug things into relatively standard portfolios.

I try to have this low-risk investment portfolio, coupled (as Taleb suggests) with a high-risk high-return slice (my startup, and hopefully at some point angel investments and LP status in some great funds). I do agree with him that the middle ground of risk is a really bad place to be; go with safety (in terms of diversification across a bunch of safe assets) and then focus your risk in areas where you have expertise and insight.

It's a shame most of the "target retirement date" mutual funds are actually high expense and kind of scammy; in theory they would be ideal.
As a tangential note, investing in Australian index funds (as I do) is probably not a totally wise move. It's a massively concentrated market.

Just 10 companies (the 4 big banks, the 3 biggest miners, Wesfarmers, Woolworths, Telstra) form the majority of the capitalisation of ASX indices.
> Frankly I think any system that encourages people to create homes for others to rent as doing a public good.

I don't see the tax breaks as a good thing as it skews market forces and inflate property prices. They also throw up a moral dilemma: Why should property investors get tax breaks (offset interest payments against personal tax) and not home owners.

What you start to see some single young professionals in Australia doing is buying an investment property to lease out and then renting another property to live in themselves. This is to take advantage of the government-funded tax breaks. So the flow of money goes a little something like: government tax revenue -> property prices. I can't see this helping the public good at all.
Awesome idea. I've been saving recipes to a google doc for a while and have been looking for a product to make it worthwhile to go through and import all of them.

I've had a few issues with images (both URL and upload), but other than that this is by far the least buggy online recipe box I've used.

One suggestion - enable some sort of tagging/categorization system to help with planning meals.

Thanks for your work!
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I don’t understand how this is newsworthy or interesting. The iTunes Store already broadcasts special offers via Twitter, why wouldn’t the App Store also do that sooner or later?

Broadcast-only Twitter accounts (which all of these are) are boring and don’t deserve this kind of attention.

(The article also contains a confusing error. It’s not “Twitter executives” who were “joining in on the fun” but Apple executives.)
I don't have a Facebook user, so there's a lot of slack to be cut, before I get to that step. :)

It just puts Facebook in another perspective on my relative axis.
Any tips on where to find them? When I look through the mls I see very few forclosures.
An additional benefit to imposing constraints on potential meeting times like this is that you appear to respect your own time, which conveys to the recipient that you may be in demand rather than desperate for a meeting.
spreedly is another recurring billing option.
Do we honestly believe the technology was there in the 1960's to go to the moon? If so, why didn't the soviets beat us there, their space program was way ahead of ours, and probably still is.

Moon landing isn't real, forget science, use common sense.
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I really enjoy this article. It really shows that there is more to being acquired than creating a throwaway product just so you can be the target of some HR acquisition.
My guess was enough demand to move a property before foreclosure occurs, but just a guess.
I watched it, and see no deception, just nervousness mixed with formality.

Also a little regret knowing they will never go back.
You're right that the carbon footprint is lower, but that doesn't change the fact that the collision of politics and economics has prevent urban density from increasing in Australia. We need both to release land and increase density or will are beggaring ourselves unnecessarily.

As for stamp duty, the states rely on it too much to give it up.
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There is money to be made trading on "multitudes of people" and their awareness of technology. At least there has been in the past. The best example I can think of is when 3com spun off Palm. On the opening day of trading Palm had a larger market cap than 3com even though 3com still owned 80% of Palm.

The market was demonstrably irrational at the end of the 90's and it's unlikely such extreme situations will happen again, but there's still something there.

EDIT: "Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent." is a famous aphorism and markets are frequently irrational in ways that you can't necessarily profit from. The difference in 1999-2000 was that the market was actually insane. It was fairly easy to find stock prices that were mathematically impossible. Along with trading opportunities that offered large reward with almost no risk. That's the part that won't happen again.
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i use oppression theory, intersectionality, and standpoint epistemology as much as i use probability and GIGO. your mileage may vary.

good diagram but i'm not sure why its relevant. i don't have a PhD in any of these things, i just find them very useful transformative techniques that most people don't know about -- or don't understand well enough to apply in practice.
This is the first of (hopefully) many statistics/AI related blog posts I'm going to make as I work on http://viewfinder.io/

Feel free to correct me if I've done something wrong -- my Clojure, R, and general statistics skills are a bit rusty.
Thank you for sharing that article, Jason. :) Paraphrasing Joel Spolsky in response to DHH:

A final thought: You have to be careful when it comes to embracing the latest business idea. A single anecdote filtered through the eyes of a founder about a new cool philosophy for running a company has to be considered in the light of other evidence, such as the way thousands of other companies are set up and operate.

I sometimes wonder why DHH and Spolsky are so different. DHH speaks as if what he says is law, will work for everyone, Spolsky seems to constantly pad his advice with warnings about context.
I know the Bank of Canada better (econ prof from there) than the Federal Reserve. Their goal is to keep inflation at ~2%. Basically there are only a few tools they use, money supply and interest rates.

It is hard to bet on when inflation will become a concern and to what level. Banks are already betting on it happening with their 5 year fixed rates increasing before the actual rate has changed.

But it comes back to the point that if rates do skyrocket within 5 years at the end of your fixed term you could be stuck with a house lower in value than you purchased it and monthly rates you can't afford.
If you must conclude that every public speaker who is visibly nervous and unpolished is a liar, you should avoid tech conferences.
Scraping from a central server has two problems:

1) you have to pay for it

2) you can be blocked by the content providers

Would it be possible to leverage your end users instead?

While your users read articles in your app, the app probably does little; couldn't it use that (mostly idle) time to scrape other articles, and send back to your central server the scraped/cleaned content? Then all the server does is store and serve.

(Of course you'd have to warn users and check for the type of connection (only do this when the user is on wifi?) but it would be quite legitimate for your app to download content that has actually been requested by the user).
Safari on iPad doesn't work with IP address?
Has anyone else noticed that Safari does not work with a dotted-decimal ip address?
It's definitely nice to see coworking taking off. There's a combination of factors that I think are leading to increased popularity of coworking: proliferation of smaller teams, more remote workers, cheaper real estate prices. Even with the lower real estate prices, however, it's very difficult to make them profitable, so operating one is often a labor of love.

Anyway, to any Chicagoans looking for a nice coworking space, check out Desktime: http://desktimeapp.com

I'm currently opening a 2500 sq ft coworking space in Evanston, IL (http://coworkingevanston.com/). The website isn't updated yet and we are still building out one of the private areas, but we are already fully operational in the main spaces (http://desktimeapp.com/spaces/92-coworking-evanston). Even before officially opening we already started developing a nice community of developers and designers. If you are on Chicago's north side, in Evanston, the North Shore or anywhere else in the area, drop by (600 Davis, 2nd Fl).
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I didn't know you could invest in ARM stock. Some time ago I tried, but I couldn't find them, so I just assumed they are not publicly traded.

These are the kinds of problems you have as a complete noob in the stock market.

I still remember my first stock trading game, where I wanted to buy Sharp (the ones who build flatscreens - this was in the year 2000). I ended up "buying" a company called "Sharp" that produces furniture.

What is a good way to get around these problems?
Assuming you have friends in the field looking for work, maybe. However, maintaining a barrier between my personal and professional relationships is worth more than a pittance to me. It's worth $500-2000 to me to keep that barrier in my life and avoid poisoning the friendship if the professional side goes sour. I'd rather help my unemployed friend find work in other ways or even loan them money to help keep them afloat while this was going on (and yes, I've done both).

More to the point, my understanding of these referral programs is that companies want to poach talent from other places on the cheap. It's never couched in terms of "help your unemployed friends and get paid" - it's always phrased as "know someone sharp? why not convince them to work for us!" Why should I help them do that? If they offered me some substantial fraction of what they would pay a headhunter for the EXACT SAME SERVICE (actually it's inferior service because I am trained to know who's good - they have no idea), I might be more flexible. $10,000, even after tax, would be enough of a positive impact on my life that it's worth the risk to the friendship. $500 means I'll pass.
You can measure the distance by modulating the laser and checking how time shifted the reflection is. The moon is pretty close for light but it's measurable.
Why Don't Techies Care About Education?
I usually would say both ... hey, let me know what's a good time for you. How about Mon around 5, or Tue around 7? Gets them thinking.
That's definitely the map's weakness. We are using a force-based model which is nice in that it is dynamic (if lazy), but does not have the same consistency as the NYTimes example. For the NYTimes I understand they baked and tweaked the layouts in advance in order to play it as an animation as well as keep the layouts in the same position, which we should probably do on future vaguely geographic explorations like this :)
China stealth fighter 'copied parts from downed US jet'
I was responding to the claim in the title about "cloning" Qwiki. What Banksy did was nowhere near cloning Qwiki.

Turns out that Banksy is just claiming to have built a proof-of-concept showing that the underlying technology is simple. You are right that the three points I made don't have much at all to do with technological innovation. Point granted. :)
Here's a google calendar gadget that searches your calendar and makes a list of open times suitable for copying. So that takes care of point #2.

http://www.websimple.com/blog/scheduling-assistant-gcal-gadg...

Good for tungle-challenged.
Yay Hacker News. I come for articles but I stay for the endless sarcasm.
I quit because I moved to Italy for 2 years. That was 4 years ago. I miss the job and the people. I would recommend taking a 'leave of absence' before quitting.
When consulting I used to ask this of clients when they asked to meet. It would end up with emails back and forth with me only me proposing a vague timeframe and them just giving a yes or no answer.

After a little change in attitude about myself and my worth overall, I just lead and send them a time. Most of the time it ends up working fine and saves emails. And I think makes me look better in the end.
"... General Assembly has three tiers of membership. Entrepreneurs and start-ups can rent desks and work spaces for $500 per month to use as a full-time office, which roughly 90 people already do. ..."

Remove the middle man.

A startup cost for an office is a) access to "cheap processing" (Laptop) and b) "cheap office
(house, rented flat or coffee shop) and c) "cheap net access". The common factor, cheap. Spending excess money can be a substitute for being "relentlessly resourceful" and fostering a culture of "cheapness".
Another thing I would like to point out, is that if you say “I’m pretty free the next two weeks, let me know when works for you.” it allows the second party to keep pushing it off if they are busy.

If you give them a couple of times within the next few week, their choice is shifted from (speaking from second part POV) "Whether I should meet you or not" to "Which day works best for me to meet you".
True.

I don't use FB, but someone on Slashdot was saying it likes to reply with every link going to http anyway. Based on my experience with Twitter and other sites, this sounds very plausible.
easy is procrastinating. Having the drive to succeed is hard, because it takes discipline and hard work to focus and pursue the dream.
I was to be under the impression that it is not illegal to create your own currency. I believe the secret service protect "dollars" and issues related to that such as counterfeiting. If you have a link that says otherwise, i'm very much interested!
> On one axis, housing purchases are cheap or expensive. On the other axis, the local economy is vibrant or moribund.

Neither of these things is binary.
I love Opera Mobile.. the interface is much simpler, the text zooming/wrapping features work nice.. and I still get my tabs.
Even though that is the case, you can also start things off by suggesting a couple times. I find it more of a linguistic construct that's harder to get out of.

Let's face it, you only care about this stuff if there is a chance the person might not meet with you. In that case, it's better to use a little psychology and set the "frame of the interaction" -- meaning you determine how it's going to go by starting a well-known formula that everyone has been conditioned to follow, and they accept. It's like a handshake in the west, vs in Japan. You initiate it, chances are they will follow through even if they aren't that interested.
But it's Apple!
As many people have posted in this thread - they went to see it just to see how the 3D effects look. It is the mystique behind how realistic the effects are that is such a great marketing tool.

A friend sees the movie and says 'you HAVE to see this in 3D' and it becomes less about the plot, and more about the effects driving them to purchase a ticket.
The difference between metropolitan statistical areas and cities is particularly noticeable with respect to Miami.

The city itself is only the 42nd largest in the country (population 450K) but the MSA (which includes Fort Lauderdale and many suburbs) is the country's 7th-largest (population 5M+).
Interesting idea! A couple things to think about...

1) The image on your front page has some pretty bad compression artifacts, which is kind of a turn off.

2) It would be cool to allow color effects, like sepia or black and white.

3) Simple design is great. You may want to add a little more to your design, though, to make this feel like a more solid app.
My point is that you're taking on significant risk with a cavalier attitude. Let me try another:

> if rates soar that means the economy has recovered and your house is worth more

You realize that LTCM went bankrupt betting on asset price correlations?
It's also a reason to make sure your middle managers are not paper-pushing bozos.

The idea that a middle manager has to be an entity that generates meetings, paperwork, stupid rules and hot air is prevalent, but by no means necessary. Hard to believe, but trust me - the good ones see their role as exactly the reverse.
Thanks. I'm investigating the image issues (seems you bumped into it right off the bat).

There is tagging & tag/ingredient-based searching, though it's not integrated with the planner per se. I'll think about that. EDIT: FYI, tags are in the Your Notes section if you didn't notice
If it wasn't clear, I'm using "axis" in the sense of continuous values.
I have had my Public Folder disabled twice after sharing few non-copyrighted music sets to reddit's underground. I don't think they really care about copyright, since I did in fact have copyrighted music in my Dropbox as well that I shared only to friends, but rather by monitoring bandwidth. Dropbox isn't saying out loud what exact number is, but I figure it could be around somewhere 10GB of traffic per month per user.
Euphemism for pushed aside, is my amateur guess.
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I can't speak for the interferometry side, but when it comes to reducing distortion caused by the atmosphere, a lot of advances have been built into the latest generation of big terrestrial telescopes that go a long way towards solving the problem. I have no idea what sort of improvement over the status quo you might need for such a system as described, but it's not unreasonable to think that at least that part of it would be feasible one day.
> you can always go back to renting in 5 years

For definitions of "always" where the real estate market never tanks and houses are easy to sell.
As a 'skeptic' I don't doubt that objects have been to the moon, but not humans. Its not possible.
So one thing I notice on HN a lot (here and in the Qwiki thread) is that people have a tendency to belittle projects without enough information. "That's just X, and X isn't very hard" or whatever.

It's sickening, and the people that do this are vigorously indicating they have at best shallow reasoning facilities.

Some really great companies have much lower profiles than you might expect. Try not to draw conclusions on limited data, or at least understand the quality of said conclusions.
I lived in NYC during 2009-2010 and looked at a number of rental 1BRs under $2000 in Chelsea/Flatiron/Murray Hill & that area around Gramercy that isn't really Gramercy.

I wouldn't say the buildings were falling apart but they did have dated architecture, and not dated enough to be classic. (think 70s/80s).

Likewise, I thought it would be a good time to buy, and there are a lot of 1BR < $600K in those same areas. Also, Upper East Side towards the river had similar "deals." Oddly enough, I feel Morningside Heights is overpriced, probably because there were so many TimeOut NYC style articles about how it's great for gentrifiers.

Maintenance fees were indeed always too expensive, but was more around $600.

Your prices do apply, but more to brand new buildings, or buildings in "hot" neighborhoods.
I'll give you one, in a previous project I was working on the requirements were C++/QT/J2ME/Android and I was the Jave guy. I had people coming who couldn't tell the difference between String and StringBuffer
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These languages differ from INTERCAL in that their designers were serious