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There's so much I find wrong here I don't know where to begin. I'm not the type to line-by-line somebodies post, but I'm tempted here.

Remember what Einstein called "The most powerful force in the universe" -- compound interest.

Small savings, done consistently, can grow into fortunes. Haggling; Couponing; Finding the best cash-back credit offers (and changing regularly to the currently-best credit card), the best APYs, the best coupon codes for websites;

Three general things I listed. In my own personal experience, you can very easily save $1000 a year from each of those 3, so in total, $3000 a year. (In fact, we save that from couponing alone.)

At a fair, 5% APY, when I retire in 40 years, that has grown to nearly $400,000. And if you can approach a historically-avergae 8%... wow: That's now $840,000.

There's no "social cost" to that. There's certainly pressure to conform: Pay the asking price, don't waste the time using coupons to full-effectiveness which often requires doing more than one transaction when you checkout, don't have the audacity to use the best deals possible from every bank you can find. But "cost"? No. There's no cost. Having strangers like you upset at us doesn't cost me a thing.

I've noticed that others with your POV dismiss the potential, they think they have it figured out. That coupons waste hours to save pennies and even then only on things you may not want or need anyway. That there's no way to "win" when you game the banking systems rewards. That haggling just doesn't work unless you're buying a car or a house.

But an additional $840k at retirement should illustrate to anybody that discounts the potential that they're just wrong on this one.
The best example of that is a website. It provides links to other documents. It just happens to be that the output is usually HTML, but there's no reason why JSON or XML can't contain links to other hypermedia as well.
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Even if they never convert it to USD, taxes has to be paid on all revenues, regardless of currency.

The fact the transactions can be pretty anonymous makes them think they will be able to hide them.
Ask HN: What is the format of date in apple iTunes store receipts?
I'm doing a survey about all possible date formats that can be found within apple iTunes store receipts for purchased iPhone/iPad applications. Can you help me by stating which apple app store you are connected to and what is receipt date format (you can see it in your email as purchase date).
Thanks a lot.
Team finds simple way to split hydrogen from water
Do they really live eight hours every day every week? Even if you have to compile stuff every once in a while?
the infoq page layout is annoying (there is a button for a full page transcript) and I didn't see much (if anything) about the future of Erlang but there is some very interesting discussion there

Q: There are a lot of ideas about implementing several languages on top of the same VM. So the JVM has started for Java and it has Java inside like and all the bytecode is Java like and then people try to implement other languages or whatever, even Erlang but also various languages like Scala and Ruby and other things. Is it a good idea?

Joe Armstrong: No, it’s a silly idea.

...

Because the virtual machine is good at nothing. I mean it’s equally bad for all languages, slightly better for Java than other machines, if you look at the JVM instructions set and the .Net instructions set, you can’t detect integer overflows and other things. If you look at JErlang because we do exact arithmetic you have to detect the overflows into big numbers if you want. So you have to do the multiplication twice with higher precision and compare and see you got an overflow, because you can’t get a hold of the overflow flag which is in the instructions set. So something like the low level virtual machine is much better. Forget this stuff it was a mistake. It will be a historical parenthesis.

Robert Virding: I don’t think so actually. ...It might survive Java

...

Joe Armstrong: But the good thing about the JVM is the brilliant implementation. But I don’t think the abstraction things are very good. You have to distinguish them...
Alas, I fear that this review (like Gowers before it) will be respected only to the extent that it suits special interest groups. As the report itself notes on many occasions, it is important for policy in this sort of area to be evidence-led, and this has often not been the case to date.

The report itself seems like a fairly realistic assessment of the current situation and at least advocates some steps in the right direction for the future, though, so let's hope it does better than other recent efforts.
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In the kitchen alone: A good set of stainless pans (even the best nonstick will need replaceed eventually), A couple cast-iron skillets, enameled cast-iron (le cruset). Good knives, like yourself. Good steak knives as well.

In the garage: Any cars you're committed to taking care of. For me, my passion, is Mercedes. I see somebody slse mention Vette's. But there's all the tools I have. Spend a little more and they'll truly last.

High quality hi-fi equipment.

High quality hardwood furniture.

Aeron Chairs.

Probably more, but that's what came to mine :)
In a way, most economists are armchair observers. Economists don't have "practice" economies in which theories are testable -- we ARE the test dummies. It's unfortunate they run the same experiment over and over: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation
The authors argue that, in a dielectric medium, light can induce an electric dipole moment in the direction of the light propagation by shifting the average location of atomic electrons in that direction. This moment becomes a means of storing energy, and they expect that heat loss would be much less than in traditional semiconductor solar cells.
If there is financial incentive to keep the growth of the bubble going isn't it in the interest of first movers to influence the markets by feeding media with "get rich quick" stories.
I'll concede that my dates were totally arbitrary, but I believe my overall point still stands. That point, btw, was more about the relative decline of First w/r/t Coach than about the absolute decline of either. As far as I'm concerned, domestic First is nowhere near what it used to be, and it's currently approximating the Coach experience of X years ago, where X is an imprecise but extant number.

Coach, as well, is certainly nothing like it used to be. It's been getting better in recent years, to your point, but only very slightly. I think it's still somewhere in the basin of an overall historic trough, though perhaps with upward direction.

(Full disclosure: as a very tall person, I feel changes in seating configuration, etc., a lot more accutely than most people do. So it's possible my opinions are either amplified by, or colored by, my individual perspective).
Only when I have to split a $10.55 bar tab with them and we're doing math.
I just installed on Rockmelt and it doesn't work all you see is "-"
...windy? Open the door just a little and squeeze out without the entire car contents blowing into Kentucky? No way. Grandma likes to go anywhere alone? Nope, unless she can enlist a random stranger to hoist her out. Car battery dead? Maybe the door opens, no way it will close. Everybody doesn't have this cool door? You still get door dents just the same. And again, raining? Better have a mop and bucket to clean the rear seat when the kids take 2 minutes to get unbuckled, find their umbrella, open it INSIDE the car, struggle to close it again, finally get it closed, get out of the car, forgot their lunchbox...
I spend 40 hours a week on that computer. I would rather not have to strain my eyes every workday for years. But I guess for less intensive use your laptop is already sufficient.
I was an intern at a YC company (Allerta of inPulse) during the W2011 term, and I got to attend a few YC dinners and meeting. I can say that Steven Levy was always there, always jotting down stuff and meeting and talking to people.

I was quite amazed how involved he was with the research for the story.
2011 still doesn't support external data sources.
U.S. Agencies Plan a Public Forum on Location Services
I'm a little lost on your comment. If Microsoft is embracing and extending mobile phone technology (and the carriers that provide them), how would they ever go about extinguishing something as entrenched as this?
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I can sleep on anything and be comfortable. A mattress salesman even told me that someone who has my body type doesn't need to spend big on a mattress if they're comfortable with a cheaper one. But there are things I put good money into that others wouldn't. Bloviating about what "everyone" needs or should do is pointless and shows a lack of understanding that people have different values.
I am no expert on american taxes (eh, IANEOAT?) but I believe there is a treaty between France and USA preventing double taxation. You might or might not be forced to file the papers but if you're already paying taxes from the income in France (as would be the case - since the employer would just deduct it) you wouldn't have to pay the US taxes.

Sorry for the OT
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one word: genius!
s/easier/less costly/
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Using HTTP status codes for error messaging leaves quite a bit to be desired. You don't have that many options beyond a handful in the 4xx (400, 404, 409) and 5xx (500, 503) range. For the most part, they are either really general or too specific to be correctly used. It'd be nice if there were a standard for supplemental error messages.

Edit: (to the downvoter) this post explicitly mentioned "You get clean exception handling via HTTP status codes". The exception handling may be clean, but it's extremely coarse.
Java.next() - JRuby: The Rubyists Strike Back
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them locks need more jell, bro
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I also use it (from Visual Studio), but I can't edit while in the "blame" view, it's something outside VS, I guess the Ankh plugin is responsible for that.

What I need is something in the code when I'm editing it, it could be some kind of hint how "old" is the line and if I mouseover it would give me the blame information.

I will check if I can build some plugin for VS or if somebody has done it.
I like the idea, but the centralized platform means it would be hard to buy/sell drugs, sex and contraband, which would make it really interesting :) I'd also like to see a bidding component; for example, head to the Apple store on a big launch day, and bid for an iPad 3/iPhone 5--those at the front of the queue could make a tidy profit, and those with deeper pockets could skip the queue.
Well, why would they? Even today, they still have a reputation as the dream place to work (even tho' with what, 20,000 engineers now, they are more like HP or IBM than they are a startup). They have zero need to change until their deluge of candidates starts to dry up.
The first thing to realise is that the existing UNIX data processing tools deal fall into two categories - those that process (including generate or consume) an ordered sequence of text records (eg. sort, comm, uniq, awk, sed, grep, tr, cut, find, xargs, ls...) , and those that process arbitrary binary data (cat, dd). Most fall into the first category.

Now, while it might make sense to use a better interchange format than "newline-separated text" for those ordered text records, I don't think that adding other arbitrary data types is particularly useful, unless a way can be found to make these arbitrary data types self-describing. This is because there's little to no commonality in the types of processing that you do on different data types: the article shows the example of "cat termkit.png", but what does it mean to concatenate two images ("cat foo.png bar.gif"), or concatenate an image with a text file? Making some assumptions, we can certainly define arguably useful semantics for those, but what does it mean to "sort" an image?

And how do we write "cat" to deal sensibly with currently unknown data types, that will be defined in the future?
I've read countless Apple store-related stories like this.
Yes.

There are people who take consumption too far, and there are people who take frugality to the point of miserliness. I don't think it's fair to peg the definition of frugality to either of these extremes.

Furthermore, I take issue with the author's (or anyone's) attempts to stake out objective ground on what does or does not constitute "the right place" to spend money. Everyone lives differently. "The right places" are subjective. If I derive a ton of personal utility and happiness from splurging on something someone else considers worthless, while saving on something someone else considers vital, then that's my prerogative. So long as my overall strategy is sound, and I'm living within or under my means, I'm fine with my choices.
presumably because this is a crowd effort. It'll take a little while and a few users to make it work.
Lots of advice about stonewalling police. Then you get robbed, and imagine your frustration when the neighbors, who witnessed the van pull up while you were away and empty your house, turn their backs and walk back into their houses.

You get the world you're willing to participate in. Enlightened self-interest may be in play here.
I'm skeptical as well. While the terms are broad there may be a reason. Statistics and game usage information for developers come to mind. I'm sure there are other rather mundane uses of this data.

The content and scope of the ToS seems rather scary and far reaching, but one has to wonder if Nintendo is publishing thie ToS because it intends to use the devices as surveillance devices or are simply protecting their collective *sses from a litigious society.
My comments work fine; they are moderated. I don't see anything in the queue, though.
So what's the line on this practice? It does seem to work in out some cases, but entrepreneurs seem to be gaming the system now, which would make this practice a much worse deal for the buying companies.

24 months does seem to be the avg. term, minus let's say, 3 months ramping up and 3 down. Consider weekends and holidays, and companies are not getting much for their dollar.

I understand the company's need to compete in an entrepreneurial market, but the investment doesn't seem to be worth it on it's face.

Am I missing something?
I think you've severely hyperbolised my comment. I didn't say you shouldn't be smart with your money, most especially when the cost of doing so in resources or obnoxiousness is small. I didn't say you should always pay sticker price, and never seek a good deal.

I merely encourage judiciousness about the wisdom and worth-it-ness of bargain-hunting in a given situation, and the recognition that doing it in every situation is not necessarily the best thing ipso facto.

Also, left unsaid is that I am coming from the perspective of someone who started a business from cash, with nothing, in a high-cost area. Having had to tenaciously brute force my way through every step of of the process without the benefit of 5% APY offers or anything of the sort has taught me important lessons in when it's worth it to pursue a discount.
Thanks for checking it out :)

As an early adopter, it's quite likely that you'll see comments that are missing scores. This occurs when there is insufficient data to even make an approximation for a comment.

I can see the points on your reply, and the number of points on this comment should show up for you. As more users start using HNPoints, more comments should show scores.
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How do I install it on Firefox 1.5.0.6?
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"Notmuch is an answer to Sup. Sup is a very good email program written by William Morgan (and others) and is the direct inspiration for Notmuch. Notmuch began as an effort to rewrite performance-critical pieces of Sup in C rather than ruby. From there, it grew into a separate project. One significant contribution Notmuch makes compared to Sup is the separation of the indexer/searcher from the user interface."

http://notmuchmail.org/
I know it sounds like a pain in the ass, but I've got a somewhat stable solution.

Invest in a good VPN with several US based end-points (I like StrongVPN myself) which by itself will allow you to watch normal Hulu. I personally then go a little further and use a US based mail forwarder (which I use for several other things, not just this) to sign up for Hulu+ and Netflix.

It costs me about $20 per month, plus the standard cost of Hulu+ and Netflix obviously.
WordPress add custom body class for specific pages
It's a beta, and they rolled out support for Chrome just this week.
You can lose all you Bitcoins if your computer storage is lost or compromised. Maybe a BitBank would be cool.
Thanks! :)

I don't have 1.5 to test on, but the Greasemonkey script should work, or you can email me at hnpoints at gmail and I'll try to help you get it working.
They do to an extent. The original iPhone lacked many 'non-essential' features that were later added.
Agreed, this is bull. The program prints a single string - hardly threatening. It's not malicious in any way. There's no reason for a heuristic scanner to pick it up.

The EICAR file itself is pretty interesting though: a pure-ASCII executable! http://mirror.href.com/thestarman/asm/eicar/eicarcom.html
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Experimental settings like these are also interesting because they provide opportunities for the application of active learning.

For example, if we wish to learn the properties of some family of new materials, we may have to choose which particular elements of the family to synthesise before we can begin measuring anything. Even if we can only afford to take 100 samples, or less, the synthesis procedure might have a dozen parameters or more.

We then have the problem of sensibly selecting a small number of samples from a relatively high dimensional space. In this situation it could be very easy to justify some serious computational effort if it could potentially save months of wasted effort in the lab.
But your time has a cost. How much time do you spend cutting coupons, seeking discounts, finding, and then pursuing rebates, cash back offers, etc? Could you spend it doing something else? Would that time expenditure make more money than $3k/yr? The last calculations I saw, you were almost always better off picking up a part-time job or a hobby that makes stuff you can sell.
I've also seen similar language described on other websites' TOS; didn't Facebook have a debacle about this too at one point? It was explained then that it was necessary basically because distributing uploaded/shared photos to CDNs and the like might involve additional production and distribution the user didn't explicitly authorize. They might need to copy your photos to give to the CDN vendor and the license needs to be sublicensable so the CDN vendor can legally copy shared photos across their network.

On the other hand, though, the marketing purpose part just sounds downright shady.
That's what FreshBooks does with their report cards. They also throw in a very small amount of jitter to make sure math savvy people can't back calculate the number of people in a geographic location.
The OP is arguing mostly for _better_ stuff, not _more_ stuff. It doesn't argue for credit. It does argue for conservation of time and attention, rather than cash. I'd say reading comprehension is step one for free thought.

And you overlook the point that "better" == "more functional". Good shoes will walk much farther, in better comfort and health, than bad ones. If you choose bad shoes, everyone who understands this will see that you do not.
Precisely. When you NEED that next sale to stay alive it is near impossible to justify saying 'No' to the potential customer.

In my experience though, once you make it a habit of adding features to placate prospects, it is a very hard habit to shake.
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Skype: From Conception to Acquisition [infographic]
This. The peace of mind that comes with owning disposable or easily replaceable stuff is priceless. Every item I have to spend time and effort maintaining and worry about losing or damaging it is another golden ball and chain around my carefreeness.
Tell HN:Sync your presentation video with slides
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Try out demo at http://www.9slides.com/demo and let us know your feedback
Ummm needs to be corrected: LikeALittle:
A slick iPad-based app for doctors that collects all of a patient’s chart info in one place. The application has gotten raves from the physicians who have tried it so far.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monetarism

Monetarists believe in controlling the money supply rather than interest rate. Is that what you're looking for?
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Show HN: Requesting feedback on my side-project chatteranalytics.com
Fyi, I think the current recommendation is to install both node and npm as a regular user.

I generally follow the pattern described here for node: http://blog.nodejs.org/2011/04/04/development-environment/. If you do that, and then install npm as you describe (but as a regular user), then npm will automatically be installed under the node installation.
"This transition has been happening over the last decade, as users become reliant on online services—imagine not being able to check Google Maps to find your way to a distant location, consult Yelp for the nearest source of burritos, or transfer funds from savings to checking right from a web browser. WiFi and mobile broadband untethered such activities from the desk, and smartphones freed them further by putting them in your pocket."
I built this out of a desire for a simple tool to give insights on user interaction/usability without the need to define and track a ton of custom events for basic web interactions.

I started with a basic real-time stream of common events, used it in a few projects, and gained some valuable information from it.

If there's enough interest for this type of tool, I'll build it out and launch it.

The long term vision is to visualize individual user sessions.

Thanks!
Another point of reference: 14 nm is about 126 silicium atoms in a row.

Another amazing number: if a chip is 2cm across and runs at 2 GHz then a light ray can go from one side to the other side of the chip about 10 times in a clock cycle. Note that light goes around the earth about 7 times per second. In other words: suppose you have quick child who takes one step of 20cm in each clock cycle. Then the child walks around the earth about 7 times per second.
Warning All PSN Users: Accounts are still not safe (?)
Hmmm could this also be a way to get early signups?