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"Let's just assume that the investment bank's only goal is to accurately predict the demand for a new IPO"

I'd say that their main goal is to make sure that the shares are all sold at a price that everyone is happy with - the management team of the company going public is heavily involved in all the steps on an IPO.

Like taking VC money, nobody makes you go public and both are things to do with your eyes wide open.
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Sometimes stupidity is indistinguishable from pure evilness. That's why I believe it's more practical to focus on removing inefficiency instead of corruption.
"whichssd.com"?
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But that would mean that the investors didn't know how to do math. Everybody that buys knows what percentage of the company they're supposedly are overpaying for.
Anyone know how to get a mailing (shipping) address for the flying men of Yungas valley, or their families in La Paz?

Looks like they could use new harnesses, clips, and pulleys.
The First Basic Law prevents me from attributing a specific numerical value to the fraction of stupid people within the total population: any numerical estimate would turn out to be an underestimate.

We could always start with 100% and see how it goes. I suspect this upper bound method was applied by more than one writer.

Never mind the quibbles, it's good to see this one back. As the footnote says, there's genius in it.
I have been living the lifestyle business for more than 10 years now.
Here in HN I feel a bit ashamed of:
- not having raised millions
- not having made millions
- my small company staying small for so long.

but who cares? What I wanted was traveling and travel I did.
The author is right to point out that there's an (easier?) alternative to make it big.
Make it now.
Someone's wrong on the internet...must avoid spending time correcting them
> That's because numbers look better when they are right justified.

They don't look better to a computer though. And that's what I don't get. Why are the defaults geared towards typesetting (human consumption) while cut/sort/join friendly output is so painful to produce?

This is a very common scenario when processing log files: line numbering, then sorting on another field followed by join/grep/head to grab a subset of interest, then recovering the original line numbers for the subset of interest.

Honestly half the time I end up doing this, just because it's the shortest invocation that comes to mind:

perl -lape '$_="$.\t$_"'
Right. This is reminiscent of the famous line about what your accountant is supposed to say when someone asks him about profit.

Profit? Who's askin'?

- If it's a customer, you're making a little bit of profit.
- If it's an investor, you're making a LOT of profit.
- And if it's the government, you're making no profit at all.

Joe Nocera wants everyone to make just a little bit of profit. If they make too much, he's calling for a Congressional investigation. And if they make too little...he's calling for a bailout:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/24/business/24nocera.html

Most important, the government has made clear it will not
allow a major bank to default, to avoid the replay of the
Lehman catastrophe.

Nocera is one of the guilty parties in the prestige press who propounded the "too big to fail" mythology. Now sovereign defaults are on the horizon, in part because we didn't let banks that made bad bets simply go into bankruptcy. His observations about banks should therefore be taken with a grain of salt.
By the way, aren't coca leaves, apart from being chewed by the locals as a narcotic, also used to make, you know, cocaine?
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What I don't get about this trend (I must be missing something) about software hiding every toolbar (and sometimes useful ones) to get more "vertical space" like "vertical space" was a very valuable asset, while the computer industry is forcing everyone to screens with less vertical resolution...

Moreover, since most websites are fixed-width and that computers are moving to 16/9, I don't get why browsers (I know, not Opera) make it very hard to make vertical toolbars (like shortcuts and bookmarks, for example) on the sides...
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I think I'm missing something here, because I can achieve the same using normal js

stuff = {
"author": {
"name": {
"first": "Lloyd",
"last": "Hilaiel"
},
"drinkPref": [
"whiskey",
"beer",
"wine"
],
},
"thing": "JSONSelect site",
"license": "(cc) BY-SA"
}

stuff.author.drinkPref[0]
> "whiskey"
I suspect that humanities worst moments come from a combination of evil and stupidity, even if that stupidity is just a failure to predict what your actions will actually mean for others.
A lot of truth here, but one statement seems incorrect:

"If all members of a society were perfect bandits the society would remain stagnant but there would be no major disaster."

There would be no incentive to actually work, as everything presumably would be stolen. So I don't think stagnation would be the result. A steady decline back to hunter gatherer seems more likely.
Just don't get stuck in the research/reading trap- doing is the best learning ;).
Yes, that was painful.
It's worth moving to San Francisco at least, for whatever reason. :-)
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The thing is though that a lifestyle business is quite stressful in many ways: you have to innovate like a technologist while also having the enormous stress of bottom line responsibility for profit & loss...without the possibility of getting more hands to help you out through growth, or the margin of a large company to tide you over should times get bad.

37Signals is not the typical lifestyle business. A business you've never heard of, or which you frequent without paying much thought, is the typical lifestyle business. No one will make a movie about such a business, or be in awe at its growth rate, or fund a bunch of competitors to get into the space. It certainly has its pluses and minuses, but if you are an ambitious kind of character who loves the clang of battle, there's a reason that a lifestyle business seems like a defeat.

Finally, it's not much easier to build a lifestyle business that actually makes more money (and hence provides more freedom) than your alternatives. If you have such talent, you could probably make more of an impact either at a big company or by joining/founding a top startup.
> Mrs Gaga is not a public servant

We are all public servants. To cooperate with each other we are, to that extent, serving each other. And we want to cooperate because when we do we gain.

We can cooperate enormously by sharing information/data. There is nothing in that that means we cannot pay people to produce it. Just that what has been produced is then best shared.

And the marvelous thing about information is that sharing it is free. It costs nothing to share it because copyability of info is infinite and abundant. We can all cooperate, and gain from it, yet no-one needs to give up anything at all.

Some people say we need to restrict information copying in order to make a market to pay for production. But that is nothing more than a pragmatic suggestion. It only makes sense to do that if we cannot devise some better arrangement that would fully realise the benefits of sharing data.

(Or in short, please wake up from all that Randroid casuistry and start seeing reality.)
Beautiful explanation. One thing, though:

> Second, there is a known effect -- the placebo effect --
> that can affect results. In other words your null
> hypothesis is that there may be some effect. These
> things mean that, without a control group, the evidence
> in favor of a drug's effectiveness is not very strong.

Placebo effect is but one confound variable you'll encounter in pharmacological and all other "non-quantitative" prediction experiments. There are plenty of others; for instance, order of measurement, influence of experimenter, subtle pre-existing differences, and so on.

In order to keep confounds in check, scientists attempt to keep everything either equivalent (by matching samples as precisely as scientifically feasible) or randomly distributed (by using, for instance, Latin squares and other randomization techniques).
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But selecting a list of similar items in plain JavaScript would be troublesome.
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The question isn't that the sites are/are not poorly situated; the question is "what impact does that have on overall average temperature readings?"

Here's the most relevant paper http://pielkeclimatesci.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/r-3671.p... . It "surveyed 82.5% of the U.S. Historical Climatology Network (USHCN)",

"""Temperature trend estimates vary according to site classification, with poor siting leading to an overestimate of minimum temperature trends and an underestimate of maximum temperature trends, resulting in particular in a substantial difference in estimates of the diurnal temperature range trends. The opposite-signed differences of maximum and minimum temperature trends are similar in magnitude, so that the overall mean temperature trends are nearly identical across site classifications. Homogeneity adjustments tend to reduce trend differences, but statistically significant differences remain for all but average temperature trends."""

In other words, for purposes of determining average temperature trends - which is what we are talking about - the siting does not play a statistically significant role

Note also that the numbers you gave ("Class 5 (CRN5) (error > 5C)") come from NOAA's Site Information Handbook where it clearly says "The errors for the different classes are estimated values." The results of that paper will no doubt help refine those estimates.

Finally, I point to the difference in how "artificial heat source" is defined for purposes of that classification vs. how it's understood in general reading. Without knowing the technical definition, most people will assume that it's near an active heat source, like "an air conditioner exhaust". But "artificial heat source" also includes "parking lot, or concrete surface" which are passive heat sources. And as the paper shows, the result is that they moderate the temperature but do not significantly affect the overall average.
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Manning doesn't use DRM with their ebooks either.
Totally a solved problem. Even in wealthy countries, the poor are often poor because many governments discourage savings (by lower interest rates into the basement), discourage work (with high income taxes, welfare payments, unemployment insurance, food stamps, Medicaid). All of this fosters a culture where work is not seen as the vital thing that it is and where giving up is the easiest thing to do.

Other policies are made to cater to the monied interests, at the expense of the non-monied, causing many things to be more expensive than they need to be. Housing, health care, education, transportation all fall into this category. All of these things should be getting cheaper over time, but once government establishes control, that control is inevitable hired out to the highest bidder and used to benefit them at the expense of the consumer.

Of course, where there is no rule of law, the thugs just take everything as soon as you produce it, which is worse, I guess. But at least people who escape it often still have the work ethic necessary to succeed in a free society. That is, unless the government "helps" them.
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That made me wonder if there is something that uses an XPath like approach rather than CSS selectors, turns out there is just such a thing:

http://goessner.net/articles/JsonPath/

These tools could be fun for writing map functions for CouchDB.
Some very apt descriptions there, good read. Interesting and pithy lens to view the world through.

One dimension that struck me as missing: What about indifference? Surely there's a difference in quality between say helplessness and indifference, even if it isn't captured in the win/loss-for-me/you framework.

Many behaviours can be explained by indifference, as it's not obviously right or even rational to think of the Total Humanity Utility as a goal-in-itself. There seems to be an assumption of utilitarism hidden there.

Despite this problem the view described here seems to me to shine light on many phenomena of human existance.
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When you own something you can keep it forever, you can pass it down to your children or give it (or sell it) to others. When you license something you can lose access on the whim of the licensor. Considering the importance of the dissemination of ideas, sometimes subversive ideas, through books, this point should not be taken lightly.
If somebody makes it easy to show my favorites without using a separate toolbar for it, I think that will be far more cleaner UI than show/hiding address bar.
> In that future you'll type all your urls in the google search box

The URL box and the search box have been merged in just about every current browser in some form or the other already. To most people, they're actually the same thing.

The scarier implications of this could be for phishing, which the article touches on. I'm expecting some kind of visual cue on tabs that are HTTPS eventually.

> I wonder how long before Google introduces a 'keyword' product where you can register a specific keyword to go straight to your domain.

They've had it forever: I'm Feeling Lucky.
Chrome does have a side tabs option, and I'm sure maximizing horizontal space will become important going forward.
Thanks, I'll "drive" some more! ;)
I still can't believe Nvidia didn't do this themselves.

Last year for the first time ever, I specifically refused to buy a laptop with Nvidia. I didn't want to spend money on a discrete graphics card that I wouldn't be able to use.
I agree that Google wants to make the web as fast as possible and as good as possible because it's directly in their interest so they have incentive to do it. They are mostly a web company after all.

On the other hand Apple and Microsoft don't really have to want to make the Internet as fast or good as possible. They either do it to support a different agenda, like not needing Flash, or from a defensive point of view, like Microsoft with IE9. But when it comes to choose between what they really care about, they won't choose the web. That's why Apple hasn't made the embedded browser as good as the main one, and Microsoft would rather use more proprietary stuff to couple with their browser, like DirectX.

My point is it feels natural to these companies to use the web only to help their main objective indirectly, which is different than simply wanting to make the web better, while in Google's case, it feels natural to them to want to improve the web because that interests them directly. So when it comes to who really wants to improve the whole web the most, I'd trust Google.
>I wonder how long before Google introduces a 'keyword' product where you can register a specific keyword to go straight to your domain.

Forever. They wouldn't restrict their market in that way. As it stands they sell the same words over and over which makes them more money and gives a better user experience.
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> The URL box and the search box have been merged in just about every current browser in some form or the other already. To most people, they're actually the same thing.

The semantics are different though.

Type in 'books.com' in your URL bar.

Type in 'books.com' in the Google search box.

Not the same. The former is disappearing.
I don't know very much about the stock market, so forgive my stupid question... but couldn't you circumvent this problem by not selling all the stock at once, but rather sell it in packets of a few percents at a time?

Then you'd get a feel for an appropriate price on the first few trading days, so you can't get scammed except for a few percent of the stock.
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So, not malice, but incompetence? It's their job to know, and if they are wrong by about a factor of two...
I made a QuickLook plugin for it: https://github.com/dchest/webp-quicklook
I'd try to create a big stink about it in the press ("BIGCORP steals indie company's idea!!"), but not actually sue them or anything. This would have the benefit that people would hear about your product, which would benefit you both (though I assume you more because you'll have higher SEO and ranking in the App Store?).
>wouldn't it be kind of outrageous if a police team were allowed to storm your home and violate your right to privacy in search for an illegal copy of 1984?

No more outrageous than if they were taking a copy of a DVD that you'd acquired that was produced by copyright infringement.

I think the police (in my country) do have power to retrieve goods on order of the court because you've committed a tort, contributory copyright infringement. If you were aware that you were supporting an act of infringement by paying for the goods produced by that act then I'd expect you could also be sued successfully.

The economics don't work well for the company suing though so this is an unlikely reality.
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Most properly configured VPN service providers will reroute any DNS request traffic to their private NS servers (e.g., privateinternetaccess.com).

Another thing I'd like to mention is MPPE is not functioning in most Android builds, so don't rely on PPTP based VPNs on your phone - encryption won't work! Make sure your VPN service provider has IPSec/L2TP tunneling available.

Obviously root users should opt for OpenVPN. (e.g., cyanogenmod 7+)
I don't think you can be prosecuted for guessing wrong. Otherwise weather reporting would be really risky business...

edit: presuming your client understood you were guessing. If you pretended to KNOW and were guessing, you could be prosecuted then.
If this "essentialism" were to be consistent, I would assume there would be only one iPhone rather than what, five?

It's a model with merit, but it's not a holy thing that it sometimes is made out to be. It's still, rather obvious perhaps, subordinate to making profits.
I was thinking more like what you would see on Reddit, a lot of temporarily attractive/gratifying links that hold little long-term value. Great for attracting the masses and short-term traffic, but the exact reason people have been leaving this site in droves.

Also, a lot of people on Reddit blatantly talk about their intent to farm more karma with their posts.

Not that I have anything against reddit - I do frequent the site - but when I come to HN, the type of content I'm looking for is quite different than when I go to reddit.
Google simply wants to make true that proposition that the web browser needs to be invisible to the user, so people consider more and more web apps over native apps. Remember, a good rule for UI design is that the UI should be invisible to the user.
Yeah, it is pretty cool. It is amazing how much thought has gone into the concept of dynamic web pages and building that technology back in the days when the internet started getting popular. We take it for granted these days.
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We have a lot to thank the Chrome devs for. I'm keen to see how this new experiment fares. So long as I can still cmd-L and type with pattern matching, I'm good.
Ok, I see that now, and it fits with what I know - if your blood glucose is saturated, then any extra fat and sugar you eat goes straight to your arse.

Interesting that whole milk dropped off so sharply in the 1970s and 80s - about the time that 'fat is bad' started up? From what I've read, low fat milk contributes to heart disease too - something about the level of fat-soluble vitamins?
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Phishers will most certainly love this. The users used to have a chance to see they were not on a legitimate site. Now that information is hidden at browser level.
Encrypt, encrypt, encrypt. If possible, use ecryptfs or TrueCrypt or some other non-transparent encryption mechanism on files that you back up to remote sites so that you know they are always safely encrypted and don't have to think about it (just copy the lower-level, encrypted container). Both ecryptfs (with filename encryption) and TrueCrypt can back up encrypted versions of your files without even giving away filenames, so RIAA can't go acking for MP3s. Of course, manually using gpg and specifying an unrelated output filename works too.

If you're uploading anything remotely important to a third-party service, you should encrypt all of it beforehand. As we see time and time again, it can be really surprising how easy it is for an insider, a random script kiddie, or in this case, a company with a posse of anxious lawyers to grab your data. You need to encrypt that data before it ever leaves your disk for persistent storage on someone else's infrastructure. Encrypt encrypt encrypt.
You're probably not along. At the same time, I believe significant number of people (myself included) will respectfully deem this view too gloomy and pessimistic. One could probably use the same logic arguing about the first (or second, ...) round of VC financing.

In each case, you are relaxing some control of your company in exchange for something else valuable: other people's money. Whether such exchange is fair or not depends on specific circumstances; each side can always ask for more (money, control) to make the exchange fair.

I don't know of any company of any significant size (e.g. with >$100M of annual revenue) that hasn't made such an exchange at some point in its history.
I was just wishing I had 'startswith' the other day again in PHP. Not that I can't write it myself, but I just really hate to create global functions like that... Simple things like that should already exist.
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Is there a reason why Bash or *nix shells in general aren't popular on Windows?
Apple currently markets iPhone 4 and iPhone 3G. Compared to their competitors, some which have hundreds of available cell phone models, Apple's product lineup is extremely lean.

It's a way of doing business that's proven to be exceptionally successful. Not only in terms of profit but also creating products that ignite passion in consumers.
That's what I aim for termkit ls to be. The current ls is a toy meant to show off the potential.

As for why? Because it will be optimized for keyboard interaction and rapid context switching.
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115 points of such a story on HackerNews? Seriously???
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