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Yes. IIRC, the critical change was that a major investment firm successfully lobbied regulators to allow them to give investors the option of indefinitely rolling over their commodities investments for a small fee. Investment firms are making a ton of money on the rollovers, and investors are simply purchasing commodities orders at whatever price they're available for and sitting on them until the market prices raise enough for them to feel like selling the orders.

So, I could buy a pile of grain or a truckload of oil or what-have-you, not on the expectation that I'll be able to sell it for more money 6 months from now, but on the expectation that I can sit on it until I can sell it for more money. Basically, it gives me a place to stash money, that's guaranteed to pay me back at whatever rate I feel like demanding.

The downside for everyone else is that this is creating artificial scarcities in markets across the board. There's a glut of oil in storage right now that isn't being refined into gasoline or other products just because investors somewhere are waiting for the price to go up before they let go of it.

When you look at the peculiar way that so many commodities prices have risen so quickly in recent years, and at the way that other more traditional markets have been recovering more sluggishly than people are expecting, and at the way that the real estate market has been staying in gutter, this theory starts to make a lot of sense. There seems to be a lot of investment capital missing somewhere, and commodities seems to be inflated.
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That's assuming that being a programmer or whatever you're referring to is related to education and not something that you're born able to do or not able to do.

I just interviewed a CS grad from a great school with 10 years experience who could barely write a line of code let alone do something useful for my company. The village didn't do him much good from where I sit.
With regards to the idea of them pulling out, where would they go? I'd say that the UK doesn't have such smothering laws, but then again I wasn't aware the USA did until 3 minutes ago.

Is there anywhere that it would be possible for them to go to? And if so, what (in)practicalities would be involved?
It's not that simple. Attenuation increases when it rains and the tree gets wet, but whether the attenuation is enough to cut off your connection entirely depends on a lot of things. But sometimes, yes.
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I find myself surfing to tripadvisor often when travelling. They would have the potential to build a airbnb right in there..
I have lived here for one here, I bought a house and opened a one-man company. I don't speak dutch at all.

Paperwork is in dutch, but you get plenty of help everywhere.
While your point may or may not be true - I fail to see how this pertains to whether the state should be involved in legislating morality? I feel that if you picked some other moral issue - say gay marriage for instance - the majority of us would be of the opinion that the government has no business telling gays that they can't get married because its "immoral." But on this issue its okay for the government to dictate what's moral because you happen to agree with it?

How easily we seem to be willing to trade freedom for comfort when we agree with what's traded. Certainly I wouldn't want a 12 year old's perception of reality to be entirely shaped by video games, but that falls to sound parenting and not the government.

That being said - I'm not entirely sure I even agree with your premise, I grew up on Doom, Wolfenstein, etc which were graphically violent for their time and have turned into a successful well rounded "moral" person.
I doubt that $100 covers everything the Dutch system would. And, if you have/had any kind of illness (current or pre-existing), I sincerely doubt it.
The title is worded too strongly. According to the article, Sprint will let you uninstall bloatware from your Android device.

It doesn't say that they won't install it in the first place, and it doesn't say that they will let you uninstall it from non-Android devices.

I still think it's great, but let's not overstate it.
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There is something they could do. Google doesn't have to quietly sit on its hands. It could lobby against the PATRIOT Act.

Of course, you could argue that Google has no financial incentive to lobby against it, and therefore it can't justify doing so as its primary responsibility is to make its shareholders richer.

This is a problem with all corporations that try to act in their financial best interests without consideration for what is best for society at large, and also without being accountable to society at large.

Does that make them evil? Not necessarily, except maybe in a "banality of evil" sort of way (see IBM's willing participation in the Holocaust for an example). More usually, it makes them amoral.

Amorality and great power could be a dangerous combination.
Is it your premise that lowering the legal consequences for selling crack to minors is a good idea?
I sincerely doubt this (though I'm no lawyer.) Generally the rules are written so that it applies to the act of recording. The copy is being made on the phone, then sent.
Why is this not common sense?

For the numbers 1-19, more than half of them start with 1.
For the numbers 1-199, more than half of them start with one.

Change the examples to 1-299, 1-399, etc, and you'll get percentages of all digits matching Benford's law.
You're right, the name isn't perfect: It actually means that no deal can last more than 72hours.

"Have you considered partnering with some well known players to help launch the service?"

Yes! After launch, the first thing I'm going to do trying to find meaningful partnerships.

Thank you for the feedback!
Isn't that always the theme? The little guy starts losing market share so he has to disrupt the Status Quo in order to attract new customers. Between this, Google Voice integration and better pricing, Sprint is looking to be an appealing option going forward. Now if only their service didn't suck in my house.
My advice, start with javascript:

1. Learning C-like syntax provides a basis for reading a lot of other code.

2. Javascript examples can be seen on any webpage simply by switching to developer mode.

3. The javascript console allows experimenting with code while you read about programming on a webpage without leaving your browser.

4. It is perhaps the most widely used programming language currently.

5. Even if you are not interested in the DOM and webpages, there are still interesting exercises you can do in Javascript - I recommend project euler.
Some of the best coders I know grew up playing games like Mortal Kombat and Halo. I'm not sure I see the connection you're trying to make.
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First, this is a really cool idea, and something that I need.

Second, at the risk of disrupting the author's groove (and further belaboring the established criticism of the project name), I've become accustomed to git's convention for commands. A synonymous git-task command would be nice to have for something like this.
A village, perhaps.

But not a government.

We can raise our children just fine without a nanny state.
I read a case that if you look like you're recording everything in general, the people being recorded give permission to be recorded in public space.

I think it was aimed at protecting journalists though.
It shouldn't be a surprise that `Cascadian Farms Organic Oats and Honey Granola` has a lot of sugar. Honey is a sugar.
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It takes a village to raise a child. At some point I, and every other parent in every part of every city, needs to send my kid out to pick up a gallon of milk as a test of their maturity, and know that they're relatively safe from having to make other very costly decisions along the way.
If new startups in tech, businesses in general, google, and other large data providers did decide one day to make a point, and move operations to a country that was more free, and more aligned with the public's interest, what would be the best current country?

Specifically, where issues like The Patriot ACT, DMCA, overbearing authority, open and known corruption etc are the least problematic in comparison to the USA.

So far, I am thinking that wherever The Pirate Bay is hosted would not be a bad place. Perhaps Russia, as they seem to have allowed sites like allofmp3 to exist a while back. I understand there will be no ideal place, but there are degrees of idealism that could be located.

If companies the size of google even hinted at it, perhaps that would enact change in the USA, and they would not end up needing to move. Twitter has been largely dictating many conveniences in order for the city of SF to keep them local, I seem to recall Netflix gets pretty nice deductions for propping up the USPS in general, and specifically for keeping the local San Jose economy in better shape.

I believe all these companies could enact change if they looked into moving operations. Follow the money is often said, and that is what the US would do. We can't afford to lose the one thing that is protecting out economic future.
"When mankide moves into space and Google can claim an asteroid or planet all of their own, they can make the rules and won't be subject to someone else's."

This wouldn't necessarily be a good thing either. Not being subject to any laws but their own could very well make them more "evil" than ever.
Filled with sugar, sure, but gives you a morning sugar high to get ready to be productive, which to me is a good thing.

Sugar plus a cup of coffee (caffeine high is good too :-) and I'm ready for a good day of work.
Does anyone know of any good books for people that are proficient with Python and want to learn more about the language and come closer to being an expert?

The idea of LPTHW has always seemed cool, but I've looked at the table of contents a couple of times and thought "huh, 80% of these topics seem trivial to me"; maybe I could still benefit by skimming through and reading anything that I don't already know. Also, it's kind of a bummer that there's no .mobi version.
I think domains should just be more expensive, with the money going towards something useful. Would you prefer to pay $200/year for a domain or $20000 to get it from a squatter and then $5/year to keep it?

The economy is the system we've used to balance supply and demand for centuries. We should use it to sort the .com mess out.

Companies can afford to pay significantly more for their domains. Personal users can easily use subdomains at a lower cost if they wish, as DNS intended.

To implement, just ramp up the cost of gTLDs every year.
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Thank you so much for the feedback, I'm really happy I was able to create something that people need.

I'm sorry but I'm a little confused as to what the second part of your comment is suggesting. Are you saying that the name should be changed to something like git-task, or that the commands for the utility should follow git's command conventions?
Brian Cox's various physics and astronomy series [1]

I hear high praises for Carl Sagan's Cosmos[2]

Michael Mosley is very good at telling you about medicine [3]

David Attenborough is just him really, world's most famous natural history presenter? Watch again every time you upgrade your TV [4] [5]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Cox_(physicist)#Televisio...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_J._Mosley
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Attenborough#Filmography
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Life-Collection-David-Attenborough-D...
Thanks very much for digging that up, that's a good find and very relevant. That is the source he uses to claim it's $2000, and the interview it's from claims the actual cost has gone down from $2000 to $1600, but then near the end admits that loan debt is not considered part of college cost using the reasoning that "it's the students contribution". So it's not a cost, it's a contribution.

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/19/q-a-the-real-co...
Also strip personally identifying information for immediate anonymity. A phone serial could be embedded or at least a phone make (mine does phone make. Flickr enjoys this btw). Combine that with who owns the phone serial or used phone make in the area (apparently some phones broadcast such information) and the person can be identified.
I am not a mathematician but the "law" seems to be an inherent property to any number system based on exponential increases, i.e. the hundreds digit, tens digit etc (is there any other kind of number system?)

I think it seems "counter-intuitive" to some because they are not used to thinking of numbers and counting as being related to exponents and bases.

This may seem more intuitive to those of us that work with computers all day since we are intimately familiar with how to count in a handful of different bases (base-2, base-10, base-16 etc).
Unfortunately I didn't make the list this year.
> I would like to see some video (not screencast, video) of your 12 year-old son playing some game with his mostly nude, thoroughly adult female character slavishly hacking on the corpses of other characters. Is that normal?

These two aren't even remotely related. Legislating morality is great for legislators, not for the citizens.
> Can you explain your thinking on this?

I'm not worried about addiction. I'm worried about the slippery slope of becoming complicit in cooperating with people who engage in torture.

> But that's why we have parents

So, you'd rather make their job harder?
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Internet Explorer compatibility, anyone? I mean, I'm as much in favor of the latest and greatest as the next man, but...

RaphaelJS has IE covered.
However, you are using a PAM module that was developed by Google. I'm not sure if Google's Authenticator program has enough of an API to allow any program to implement 2-factor authentication using their program yet, but it could be possible.
Yeah, LPTHW isn't for you if you already know Python. I guess I would recommend Mark Lutz books, but really, if you are already proficient in Python then I'd say go out and read code and implement algorithms in Python to learn more.

As for .mobi version, it's a pain in the ass to generate it well enough for a "code book". It's supposed to be coming out on the Kindle store soon, but all of my previews of it just look like junk. I got it as close as I could, but .mobi just doesn't cut it when there's strictly formatted code. If you've got a suggestion on making code look nice in .mobi I'd love to hear it.
On his way to get milk, if your son stops along his way, a movie theater won't let him in to see an NC-17 rated film, and they won't let him see an R-rated film alone without your consent. A video game retailer won't sell him an AO-rated game, nor will they sell him an M-rated game without your consent. Online game marketplaces have parental controls and gates which rival those used to block streaming of R+ rated commercial films. Why should the law have to double enforce this already deemed successful institutionalized self-policing?
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> People who aren't provided financial services by their employer or investment company simply take their financial advice from free or traditional sources.

Yes, but since those folks are already ignoring the many for-pay services, what are you going to do differently.

The answer better not be "I'll take their list of choices and produce a plan" because folks at ricedelman.com (among others) have done that for years. (I mention him because he has a nationally syndicated radio show advertising his services. There are many others who don't. How are you going to complete with that?)

You seem focused on how the plan is created. I doubt seriously that that will be enough to make you successful in the 401(k) advice biz.

My free advice is to sell your investment tools as tools instead of saying that you're in the 401(k) advice biz. The tools are independent of 401(k)s.

Which reminds me, you keep saying "stocks". Do you really think that there are many 401(k)s that allow specific stock purchases but don't have employer-paid advisors? I haven't looked at a lot of 401(k)s but in my sample the (few) employers who allow individual stock purchases also have employer-paid advisors. Some of the plans with lots of fund choices (but no "individual stock" option) also have employer-paid advisors.

For the most part, the plans with no employer-paid advisors are the ones with crappy mutual fund choices and no "buy specific stock" option (with the possible exception of the employer's stock). What can you do for them?
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I haven't used Paper.js, but I've used Raphaël and the main differences I see right now is that Paper uses Canvas, while Raphaël simulates/uses SVG. As a result, Paper should be more practical for making dynamic content that uses user input or is "very dynamic".

Raphaël on the other hand, provides a simple system for making relatively "static" vector images with very good support for a lot of browsers (IE6 support, even). If you need user input, I think I would've tested out Paper and most likely ended up with that.

So basically: Raphaël for vector images that may be scaled and simple, dynamic images. Paper for animations and e.g. games.
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The point of the decision was aimed at "deviant violence". Combining sexuality with gratuitous violence is the most common form of deviance in the first-person shooters that I've seen.
Ooooh, you're about two months too late for me! If I hadn't discovered taskwarrior a few months back I would be all over this, though I must admit having all my tasks in git is nice.
I'd be interested to know if having an open phone line while speaking to the police could be defended in court. Consider an app that didn't actually _record_ locally, only streamed to a remote server (in a state where the recording was legal) that recorded the conversation.
From Jason's recent tweet:

"...were doing way more than iOS. The criticism on HN is from a small disconnected minority."

Disconnect minority??

http://twitter.com/#!/JasonLBaptiste/statuses/85387519486726...
Amazon recommends using JPEGs to display table data in Kindle books. Perhaps the same solution could work with code in .mobi files.
I miss my friends and family a lot - all the time. It's not something to be undertaken lightly.

I frequently worry about my annual visa renewal, knowing that I'm not a citizen in the place that I live and keep all my stuff. Should they ever decide to say no, I have to pick up and leave.

I live in a rather wonderful place (Berlin), but I frequently miss my home and native culture. I wish I could go back, but I have a general personal policy now of not visiting countries that keep political prisoners. Being a hacker and relative weirdo, I've seen too many cases of harassment of those who make a point of themselves (within the confines of the law). Examples include everyone from Sklyarov to Appelbaum.

I'm writing a rather lengthy paper about my reasons for leaving. It covers the data points that spell out, in my opinion, why it's now lunacy for reasonable people to continue living in the United States when they have the option of getting on a plane and going somewhere else. Unfortunately my current project workload means I probably won't have it edited down until at least winter, but stay tuned.
thanks for the explanation :) does your layer only sit between the mobile and the point at which the network becomes a wired connection? like, just the other side of the cell towers?
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"video game violence develop a shitty moral compass"

Do you have any evidence of this (a study, etc)?

Having played video games in my youth (and still dabble), I don't believe that it's affected my "moral compass."

In fact many "violent" video games are chucked full of ethical dilemmas (e.g. Dragon's Age, Mass Effect, Fallout). You're confronted by choices that have consequences. As a 15 year old in America, how many complex moral/ethical choices do you really get?

So, to lump in all games into one category b/c of violence or sex or whatever is ridiculous.
"I am not a doctor, this is a question honestly asked. Wiki claims Ativan is not addictive for short-term use."

The issue is that giving someone drugs without their knowledge or consent is akin to rape. Especially when you're talking about a drug that's fairly dangerous.
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I'm less interested about his coding abilities, than his ability to lead a team in 3-5 years. Leadership requires a strong ability to do the right thing.
That doesn't work well, at least in this case. From the article, "We're turning over to the Iraqis — mostly either for a small penny or for free — the infrastructure that we built in Iraq. But we won't see back any money from that infrastructure."
> Here's the point: video game violence develop a shitty moral compass.

No, shitty parents develop shitty moral compasses. Take your pick about shitty information sources: TV, video games, the internet, trashy magazines/newspapers. If that's where you learn about normalcy, you're going to have a shitty moral compass.

Yes, there are also cases of great parents having shitty kids, parenting is a complicated and messy business. My point is that if you can actually say one source (e.g. video games) is developing a child's moral compass, that's shitty parenting.
I hadn't seen that before...I'll definitely try it out
Everything in your post is the absolute best case.

It can easily go the other way and your contributions can be ignored and never used, you will be reacted to with hostility by developers who think that design is an "extra" feature, and that even if you do succeed and something you do does hit a release, the overwhelming majority (nearly all) of people who use the software won't know you exist.

There are two sides to open-source development (at least, when it's not with people you know personally IRL) and one is, sad to say, generally not very pretty. Institutional hostility toward non-programmers still lives in a lot of open-source projects--usually the ones who need them the most!

(EDIT: Mind you, this isn't a reason to not at least try to contribute if you feel it's important to you, but the results are often not as rosy as your post suggests.)
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> 1, It's going to incur wrath.

Yeah, especially when the company is Disney. Remember, these are the folks that tried to trademark "Seal Team 6" after the Bin Laden raid.
I'm not terribly interested in their coding. I'm interested in their abilities to be leaders in your organization in 5-10 years.
I think, then, that it is the duty of the parent to prepare them for those decisions deemed likely to be encountered. Restricting the potential moral dilemmas that a person (child) may encounter does no more to prepare them for that eventuality than does exposing them to the risk of that experience without adequate preparation.
How would you define squatting though? It's a really tough issue to legislate.
This seems pretty neat. Two questions:

- why "sudo make"? Wouldn't it be cleaner to separate the compilation part and the installation part, and only run the second one as root (and if you want to install system-wide)?

- what's the license of this code?

By the way, you might want to steal ideas from Taskwarrior, which is very similar (but without the git part).
Because these are OS-dependent bugs for certain browsers and should get fixed soon by the browser makers. :P