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"Think about it: is there any other 30-year-old technology still present in current computers? 300 baud modems? 500 ns memory? Daisy wheel printers?"

IBM Model M keyboards.
I dunno http://www.chubbybrain.com/investors/jack-michael-arrington/...
Finance, particularly in Manhattan, and technology in Silicon Valley. Also, independent consultants frequently make far more money than employees.
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You should definitely add that as an answer on SO. The current answers are not very useful.
I continue to believe that these screening processes are simply theatre and do little to actually improve security of passengers.

For example, recently in the news (see http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Latest-News-Wires/2011/0707/TSA... ) the FBI and TSA have admitted that current security procedures are incapable of detecting surgically implanted explosives.

While this scenario is unlikely, the point is that a determined enemy will find a way to strike. If anything, there are numerous ways in which the current procedures are ineffective against various attacks such as

1. Suicide bomb in the security line
2. RPG attack from outside the airport grounds
3. Plastic weapons in carry-ons.

A few months back I accidentally flew home with a box cutter I had been using at a client site I was visiting. Adam Savage talked about accidentally taking 12" foam-cutting razor blades in his laptop bag.

And with tight security, wouldn't terrorists simply look to less-protected areas for attacks, such as trains or highways? The fact that attacks have not been made on those insecure areas indicates that the threat level to U.S. citizens on U.S. soil is incredibly low.
Slightly offtopic perhaps, but would IPv6 + multicast use substantially lower the cost for ISPs and Content Providers ?

By that same token, wouldn't that be a reason to push IPv6 more into the market place as everybody wins in the end ?
How hard would it be to add gesture support? double tap here, swipe left there, etc.

Are accessibility labels the only way to reference views?
>Is there some theorem that proves a certain portion of issued debt must be risky? It seems unlikely to me.

No, but there is a theorem -- or call it an axiom -- that the amount of debt issued is equal to the amount of debt owed... okay, not a theorem, it depends on people being honest. Now the thing that's hard to believe is that we went from a situation in which the vast majority of debtors were unreliable to the current situation where a significant proportion are considered reliable, and did all of this without any really significant or obvious cultural change, and during a period in which bankruptcy was just as common as before... basically, the "mathematically impossible" thing is that there is a lot more debt being considered reliable but there aren't any more reliable debtors.

Now, you could contest the latter: are there more reliable debtors today? It's not impossible, but I don't see very many, beyond the US Treasury.
Some items to keep in mind:

1. War on Terror and TARP are large portion of the current USA deficit, probably 80% or higher.

2. Over-issuance of AAA ratings will come back to bite as it has to be rolled-over at some point.

3. TARP spending direct result of not controlling the security class known as derivatives ...precedent last time we had to assert Federal control to correct market excesses in securities as 1929-1930 with the SEC act. IN other words we could force security exchanges to outlaw derivatives to bring order/stability back but anyone receiving bank lobby money will not broach that subject.
My point is that there is a difference. The local government is a nice centralized place where the ISP can go to lobby for subsidies. Of course, it's the tax payers' money, but individual tax payers do not directly decide where it goes. Some shady person who years ago went door to door campaigning and has been running unopposed is now in charge of who gets the subsidies.

Trust me, I understand how taxes work. I also have seen how, despite great opposition from the people, the bill that basically guarantees Time Warner Cable a monopoly in NC was passes through all the hoops and not a single politician stepped up and said "WTF is this?"
Interestingly, the Mosuo have a different model of the family than most of the rest of humans. In Mosuo culture, men take care of their nieces and nephews, not their sons and daughters. (I had to look this up on Wikipedia to verify it, but I guess it was true based on your description of their sexual relationships - such an arrangement is not stable otherwise.)

So, two points. One, this kind of culture is the exception for humans. I think there are a handful of other cultures that operate this way, but it's still the exception. When an overwhelmingly large percentage of a species behaves in a particular way, we tend to attribute that to instinct rather than random chance - even though there are exceptional cases. I think it's also valid to ask why this kind of culture is not the dominant culture. It's possible that these cultures get out-competed by cultures where men are usually responsible for their own children.

Second, the author did not claim that women don't like sex or have no sex drive. Not enjoying sex was not a part of his argument. His argument was that, in aggregate, men have a stronger sex drive. That claim is consistent with Masuo women having up to 50 partners in their life.
I'm not sure what residential costs these days, but I have Comcast Business 12/2 for $60/mo. I managed to get the installation fee waived when I set up the service a couple years ago. I also negotiated away the contract; well, I had to sign a 2-year contract, but got them to drop the cancellation fee. A contract with no termination penalty isn't a particularly big deal (and I've already had the service for 2 years, anyway). They even moved the service to my new apartment when I moved for no cost.
Shaw is smaller than Rogers or Bell. If they can get away with it, you can bet that Rogers and Bell will be chasing quickly behind.

Stephen "Friend to Big Businesses and Media Conglomerates" Harper won't bat an eyelid about how bad this is for consumers and competition.
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Re-read my comment. You seem to labor under the impression that I don't know how taxes work. That is not the case. I was simply pointing out that there is a difference between who provides the funds and who decides where they go.
If only we could see the fucking points.
> Consider, for a moment, that a woman may not want to be a mother

Then she is not likely to get the same respect as a woman who does want to be a mother. Respect for women who want to be mothers, and not respecting women who do not want to be mothers, is something that naturally evolves in a culture that values its population. This is because women who have genes and/or memes that cause them to have more children will spread those genes and/or memes more widely than women who have fewer children because they had a genes and/or memes that caused them to not want to be a mother or not have so many children. This would be reflected in the culture in that women who want to be mothers would be respected more than women who did not want to be mothers. The same thing can be said for men being fathers.

> or more realistically, that's not all she wants to be

I never said anything about women being _only_ mothers. The best mothers to raise the next generation are those who, first of all of course have children, but then after that, have an education, are able to dream and aspire of other things, and pursue those opportunities.

> Many Asian cultures are notoriously sexist.

You say this as if being sexist is a bad thing. Men and women are different, and this is reflected in the fact that every culture has different social roles for men and women. There is nothing wrong with being sexist, it simply arises from the fact that men and women are biologically different. The problem happens when women are judged by what men are supposed to do, or when men are judged by what women are supposed to do.

> Saying a culture cannot survive with misery is something you invented.

No, it simply stands to reason. You cannot subjugate the females in society, generation after generation, and expect it to survive. The psychological effects would be passed down to the next generation, and the fabric of society which raises the next generation, would unravel. Just look at the effects on children who grow up in abusive households. Now extrapolate this to an entire society. The results would be catastrophic.

> Often the coping techniques include (surprise!) investing all her energy into making her children accomplish by proxy (speaking of asian cultures, sound familiar?) what she could not.

All parents, mothers and fathers, want their children to accomplish what they could not. This is not limited to mothers. Fathers will also use it as a "coping technique". Say a father wanted to go to the city and get an education so he could have a bigger house and more luxuries for his family, but was unable to do so in his life. Would he not encourage his children to pursue that? Of course. This has nothing to do with the issue at hand, namely the subjugation of women.
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It's useful for lambda functions that recursively call themselves, you don't need these in practice because you wouldn't use a lambda. You would use a named function, therefore, they are almost purely theoretical aspect of Lambda Calculus. I can't think of any programming language that is purely lambda calculus.
http://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/WhyOfY.pdf
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Sure you can, every software patent grants ownership of an idea regardless of whether it is implemented, or even an invention.
I'm on the opposite side of the coin. I'd love to get a job outside the US, where I live, but I've got no idea how to handle visa issues. How did you handle them?

My other barrier is language. I imagine I could work in England/Ireland, or even Australia, but are there countries where an English-speaker could find work?
so, is he still going to cover competitors of 'his' startups?
There is also friend's playlists, which I find very useful to discover stuff.
Anecdote in support of Google Maps:
I was going from South San Francisco, to the Marin County Fair on July 3rd, at 5:00 PM. this is normally about a 45 minute trip at this time of day on a sunday, even with a bit of traffic. Google Maps called it as 1 Hour 40 Minutes with traffic, the in-car GPS with traffic updates called it as an hour. We got there in 1 Hour 35 minutes.

I've always had a great experience with the Traffic Data in google maps - particularly in the Bay Area. Hope we get it back soon, it's worth paying for in my experience.
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Orman - lightweight Java Object Relational Mapper for Android
this framework is really small (150 kb) and allows everyone to code database-consuming Android & Java applications without writing SQL.
It utilizes the same pipe insofar as it uses the same cable HFC plant/infrastructure to deliver the signal to your home. On the wire however typically VoD services on set tops do not use the same DOCSIS channels as cable modems delivering IP video via Netflix, Hulu, etc. Cable VoD typically is just a block of regular video channels. Your set top requests a program and one of those video channels is allocated for this program. It's a bit old fashioned but it works. It is however possible to do this over DOCSIS which starts to blur the lines.
> I often hesitate to write or reply when the risk of offending is so high.

Why do you care?

Belay that.

Stop worrying about it, or at least stop talking about it.

It's a big world. There will always be plenty of people who don't like whatever you say so that's simply not worth worrying about.
I love the idea of the book being on Github (pull requests seem particularly suited).

Are you going to have easily-downloadable drafts of the book though? or will I have to compile it?
And now, governments! http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/07/15/the-horrify...

Fancy.
Perhaps it's simple economics at work, with a physical foundation - men make many low risk investments whereas women make a handful of extremely high risk ones (bearing a child is physically very costly). Thus, men will be more inclined to approach and, therefore, lower their market value by increasing supply, while women will be more inclined to shoot down offers, since they are in great demand. I think that the society you're talking about would either have to be one where men have mutated into childbearing creatures or one where women have mutated to have very short and early pregnancies. An alternative might be a society where men take the brunt of the work of raising kids, though this is unlikely because women are more socially inclined due to their neurochemistry and, therefore, better at providing the emotional support a child needs, not to mention that they need to breast feed and physically recover after delivery which makes them less able to actively find food and shelter.
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The worst part is, not only are you right on the money, but you're top #4 are not everyone's top 4, and this is only the tip of the iceberg.

For ME, I want 2 things, and have been BEGGING Google for them for a year now.

1) Let me reply to comments so I can SUPPORT my customers.

2) More game categories. If there were more categories my apps in Sports would not be LOSING to chess and penguin games.
There is plenty of room for premium ISPs (such as bethere) as long as they aren't locked out by the cost of running cables. The pipe might be dumb but latency, bandwidth caps, traffic shaping, filtering and blocking/censoring all contribute to quality. I'm totally happy to pay an extra $10 a month for a solid connection. I suspect gamers would be a big market for bethere if they had any advertising at all.
Here's another good one:

http://olympiads.win.tue.nl/imo/books.html

After edit: It would be a kindness for a curator here to correct the spelling error in the submission title, for ease of searching HN.
Aren't most corporate bonds insured by a third party?
Ask HN: programming and children - where do you find the time to code?
I now have kids and am finding it very hard to get any time outside of working hours to program. It's actually getting hard to remember when I ever would have had time.

If you are a programmer with kids who writes code at home, can you please say what times of day/week do you write code, and for about how many hours a week.
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"Having spent over 8 years doing drug R&D I can tell you that it is most certainly not the other way around. The specific kind of chemistry you need to develop a drug (a discipline known as medicinal chemistry) is exclusively practiced inside pharmaceutical companies."

You still have to know basic organic and inorganic chemistry, and math and statistics. All fields to which the pharmaceutical industry contributes absolutely nothing.

"Without a compound, all e basic bio in the world is useless."

But many of the compounds pharmaceutical companies use are based directly and indirectly on breakthroughs in basic research. And that doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of the debt the pharmaceutical industry owes to the fundamental understanding of the human body (and that of animals) that came from basic research.

"By your logic though, aren't all technology companies subsidized by the federal government?"

Absolutely. There's a huge debt corporations the world over owe to the fruits of research funded almost exclusively by the government.
I live in Pasadena, CA, in the middle of LA county, one of the most populous in the USA and I have the following choices for maximal bandwidth:

AT&T DSL at 6Mbps/1.5Mbps for $40/mo
Charter Cable at 60Mbps/?Mbps for $100/mo

I think both plans have caps, though I've never hit them. Charter wouldn't tell me their upload speeds and demanded I give them my SSN so I went with ATT.

The United States does not care about its economic future. It cares about keeping the next quarter's profits up for the corrupt telecom cartel that's turned bribing local governments into a science.
Yes, you are right that I was looking at gold vs. fiat money without considering gold-backed paper money. I was in a biased frame of mind because the GGP was saying that with gold, there is no corresponding liability. With paper money you have such a corresponding liability, whether gold-backed or not.

About the US tax system, which I don't know too well: what about exchange of foreign currencies? Are they subject to capital gains or some other form of tax? Does the capital gains tax actually apply if you use gold for payment, and not just if you sell the gold in exchange for US$?
Don't forget costs such as network infrastructure, staff, etc etc.

To take an anology from the pharmaceuticals industy, the second GB costs one cent, the first one is a fair bit more expensive.
A fair point.

There is a population of bond investments, the risk to the principle in those investments is scored by a rating agency on a scale from D to AAA [1]. The market prices bonds using a combination of risk (as reported by a rating agency) and desired return. (Return is the independent variable). Economic theory says that the quantity of a good demanded influences the quantity supplied such that prices rise until there are no more buyers who will pay more and no more sellers who will offer for less. This relationship between risk and return manifests itself as a spectrum of bond offerings from those with low risk (AAA) and low return (< 2%) to those with high risk (D, aka 'junk bonds') and a high return (> 9%). [2]

It was with this understanding that I used the term 'mathematically impossible' when I was thinking 'the chances that there more AAA bonds in the population of all bond offerings than all the sub-AAA rated bonds put together, is astronomically slim.' For example, California's general obligation bonds are only rated at "A+" (up from BBB but still far from AAA). [3]

It could be legitimate, but were that the case the return on non-AAA bonds would be news because that would be the only way people would buy them. Since I'm not seeing offers for C and D grade bonds with 25 and 30% rates of return (and for some reason those folks seek me out and cold call me) I believe the simpler explanation which is that some portion of the bonds that are rated AAA don't deserve that rating (i.e. they are riskier than they purport to be).

And that, combined with some of the structural ways in which capital is managed in the world, makes for a much more explosive combination than we might otherwise be expecting.

[1] http://www.investopedia.com/articles/03/102203.asp#axzz1SD85...

[2] "Investors have been snapping up the new non-investment-grade bonds, having grown frustrated with stocks and with the meager yields on safer government and high-grade corporate bonds." http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870396000457542...

[3] http://www.treasurer.ca.gov/ratings/history.asp
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Yes, but which agency determines the rate of inflation? :)
Whenever I see one of those signs, I always think "in ten seconds, security will occur". They're absurd.
A link bait title. Google took down their traffic estimates, stating that they were not as accurate as they could be. From that, the Atlantic accuses Google of lying all these years.
> In my previous post, I introduced a dubious evolutionary explanation for an otherwise very real phenomenon: procrastination, in my experience, is not a character flaw, but instead evidence that you don’t have a believable plan for succeeding at what you’re trying to do. In this post, as promised, I want to apply this evolutionary perspective to help better understand, and therefore better combat, the deep variety of this common issue.

Instead of fumbling with folk intuitions and deeply dodgy evolutionary psychology (hard for even the experts to not embarrass themselves doing), why not look at what the psychologists have actually found?

http://lesswrong.com/lw/3w3/how_to_beat_procrastination/ covers the literature. (You will notice that the equation includes 'expectancy' as only one of the related variables. This is a simplified form; the full equation with the details can be found in all the linked PDFs. http://lesswrong.com/tag/procrastination/ also has a lot of interesting reading which are much better than this guy.)

And heck, while I'm at it, the overview of research on how to be happy: http://lesswrong.com/lw/4su/how_to_be_happy/
Second the shout out to Glenn Gordon, he's great and put Win7Phone on the (road)map for us.
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Spotify should lose a point for having no web based player. Installing the Spotify client on a friend's computer can be kind of intrusive.

All of them should lose a point for having not having an integrated music locker to fill in the holes where they don't have licenses to certain tracks.
It looks like they tried to patent Twitter. I'm pretty sure that's existed for longer than this has been in development.

Good luck with that.
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Spotify's discovery is better than a 4. Since a playlist can be represented by a URL, sites have emerged to share playlists, which is actually awesome, one of those living in the future moments. Even better, these can be dynamic, like a top 40 list, and also curated by everyone.

That said, Spotify could certainly do much more in this area (a lot of their energies have been focused on getting the US launch, it seems).
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I really don't think there's much you can do. Sure, you can chase these fools all over the net, but (i'm sure you realize) it's inconsequential to move to another host faster than you can slap them with copyright infringement each time.

There are a ton of underhanded things you could try to do (like creating honeypot content that they'll scrape and hurt themselves with or you can drop their links all over other link farms hurting their position on search engines that care). But I think you're time is better spent elsewhere and wait for Google to handle it appropriately. Your friend is probably only losing revenue because their site can still be found on search engines. So getting them delisted will be your most productive steps.

I'm empathize.
The narrative is that Wikileaks acted as a co-conspirator in the theft of classified information.

It is legal in the US to republish illegally obtained information, so long as the publisher was not party to the crime in any way. The quoted snippet undermines claims that Julian Assanage was party to the crime.

Who has made such claims? Lamo. His claims and evidence form the motivation and basis of the Justice Department's investigation. According to Assange's lawyers, a grand jury was convened. If true, it clearly would benefit the prosecution to only enter as evidence the portions of the chat logs that best supported its case. If Wired published the entire logs, this wouldn't be possible.

I would take the release of the logs as indication that the justice department has abandoned that portion of the investigation, possibly after being denied by the grand jury.