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Held in Malaysia, 'Shell Eco-Marathon Asia-2011' race in the world schools, colleges and institutions participated in the students. Competition in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur held that the vehicles were taken, which gives the minimum fuel mileage khapatamam more convenient for you and the environment simultaneously.The eco car is here taken by different countries.
A major portion of the reason why I can still handle support is that I made significant tech & process investments to minimize it. I only have to write a handful (5 ~ 7) emails a week for BCC most weeks. (And if I was more aggressive about templated responses -- like ironically I used to be -- that would be 2 emails a week.)

I get the feeling that some part of your business is a semi-manual process. Semi-manual processes aren't wrong, per se, but there are many more opportunities for things to go wrong manually than there are for them to go wrong with automated systems. As you find where the pain points are, automate where required.

For example, you might find yourself getting a lot of emails asking "What is the status of my order?" That's a great opportunity to make a) an automatically updated Order Status Page, heavily promoted in your "Thanks for your money" email and interface and b) an automated "Jane Smith's order is taking longer than we would like" email (which does not have to go to you -- you can put systems and processes for failure recovery in the event of first freelancer flakeout) and c) an automated "Jane Smith's order is now really freaking late and the CEO owes her an apology" email, which should probably go to you.
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Great thoughts from a Co-Founder and focused entrepreneur.
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>They cannot agree on who should bear the cost of today’s crisis: should it be creditors (through a write-down), debtors (through austerity) or the Germans (through transfers to the south)?

In theory it should, of course, be the creditors. You buy an asset (govt bonds), you're implicitly and knowingly shouldering a risk of default. The institutions that bought these assets should have known what they were buying. Caveat Emptor.

Of course in practice you need to ask what the wider implications of default are. Greece _should_ be allowed to default. Absurd austerity budgets are penalising the average Greek whilst minimising the bottom line impact to (arguably wealthy and powerful) European banks. It's no wonder they're pissed. The short-sharp shock of a Greek default will be over in no time. Rolling debt and refinancing terms etc etc is likely to make things worse in the long term.

But of course Italy is different, given the size of the economy. The impact of a default is likely to be far, far wider than a write-down to the creditors. But to be honest I think this worry over contagion is being over-blown. Markets often over-react. It only takes a single hedge-fund these days to move a market - even a big one like Italy debt. It's probably just Bluecrest or Moore selling the market :)
Don't blame these guys at all. I'm just starting out in the web design business and I'm learning that it's quite a demoralizing set. There's little motivation to do well when you essentially bend to the will of your clients. Some are good, but most are not. The result? You lose faith in your work and your trade. Glad to hear another company turned on the light and is working toward doing their own thing. Here's hoping they're successful.
Debt is a mechanism for moving risk around - risk-averse parties (the people taking the loan) selling risk to risk-seeking parties (the lender). You're buying money now and paying interest, providing return, against which there's a chance it doesn't get paid back.

As such, there's actually not much of a difference between debt, insurance, and synthetic derivatives such as credit default swaps. (Modern debt and insurance practice both originate from the shipping industry.)

Of course, if you believe the world's a better place without corporate finance, you're entitled to think so, but we'll have to disagree.
16,000+ to Sue Apple Over iPhone Privacy in South Korea
You want to actually understand mathematics, here's what to do. Reading any theory, any theory at all. Look at the author. Do a wikipedia search. If the article starts with what a great philosopher they are, burn the article, wash your hands in holy water and beg for forgiveness.

Their articles and books do not actually have a basis for their consistency except "LGTM", they're less than worthless, and can easily convince you that idiocies are real if you're not careful. And if you're careful you'll find a massive unproven leap in logic in the first sentence of the first page and you'll be unable to continue reading.

Avoid philosophers like the plague. Including Russell, including Principia mathematica. Rip them to shreds if you find them in a bookstore.

You'll be doing the world a big favor.
I see the sibling says "Indian" could be considered wrong.

However, again, with you post why is it wrong to say their ethnicity? Incidentally I was plugging for American as being an indicator of ethnicity; there's also a subset issue so for "sleazy American diner" read "sleazy Greek bar" (a bar in Greece, though it could be a bar run by a Greek I guess it doesn't seem to matter).
Similar concept but much more expensive than Graze - http://www.graze.com/
Only exacerbated because the ECB is not a central bank in the traditional sense. Traditionally, the central bank (or a related institution) would just print up money to make up for the shortfall. The logic of modern politics leads inevitably to the printing press.

Now, the only way the Germans would have agreed to an ECB would have been a bank at least as strong (and printing-averse) as the Bundesbank. So the so-called 'stability pact' was signed in order to placate them (max 3% of GDP deficits and max 60% debt to GDP ratio, working toward zero deficits at some point).

What happened was the Euro states continued or increased their spending, producing deficits even during the great boom years right before the collapse. Today, the Stability Pact is a dead letter and members (the PIIGS in particular) are trapped without an ability to print themselves out of trouble. Of course, the ECB has been issuing a lot of new money, but just to rescue the major banks, the governments are on their own.

This isn't to say that it's a good idea to print oneself out of debt, but governments find it the easiest thing to do. The crisis would not exist if expenses could have been scaled down as easily as they have been increased. It's better in the end to have a strong currency and balanced budgets, but balanced without low expenditures, not high taxes.
Hmm, hmm - is Turing really most famous for breaking Enigma?
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(3:25:41 PM) bradass87: god that pacman thing is starting to get annoying

(3:26:14 PM) bradass87: enjoyed it at first, but now everytime i open a new browser window… whoo-whoo-whoo-whoo-whoo
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Our main clinic is situated in the picturesque Chew Valley 15 minutes south of Bristol and has on-site parking. Another benefit of our location is that traffic is very light, so the journey to us should be, like our treatments, trouble-free.
Market this to offices and small kitchens. It's a hassle-free way for whoever stocks the kitchens to add variety to the snacks.
But you don't know it's 5 minutes of Googling until you do it. Before you start, it's an unbounded task.
10 Essential things to do to make Google Plus Marketing Efficient
Google has come up in straight forward competition with Facebook by rolling out its Google+; however, only the technically savvier people and those who love to adopt things earlier are going to use it first and most others will still continue using Facebook.
As far as I can tell it's more of a political statement than a goal to somehow deliver a better OS. RS has never been all that happy with Linux being the poster child for free software, especially since the ideological goals of Linux are not the same for the FSF. Witness the fact that Linux is GPL2 not GPL3 and isn't going to GPL3.

At the end of the day it provides an OS to the FSF which they can control, and which isn't Linux. Even if it was in all ways equal to Linux in performance, and features (which seems doubtful) it's unlikely that it would deploy to any great extent.

Just like ReactOS is pretty much "pointless" (given that Windows costs basically nothing), Hurd is practically pointless because it competes with Linux purely on ideological grounds, and is arguably an inferior product. It simply doesn't have enough differentiating it at this point for anyone to really care.

On the other hand, maybe they'll finish it before I die, and maybe it'll contain some ground-breaking improvement, and we'll all be eating humble pie. Anything is possible. In the meantime if they want to carry on working on it, then good for them. Isn't that what open-source is all about?
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Things I Learned From Asking My Customers
I had no idea Abuse used Lisp, that's kind of cool! I played that rather a lot for a few months in high school.

Anyone else interested, the source is apparently also public domain and available here http://abuse.zoy.org/wiki/download
Taking on Big Telecom: A Trip to the CRTC's UBB Hearings
>We don't know if Turing-equivalent formalisms are the Ultimate Representation of Everything, but they seem to be by far the best Representation of Everything anyone has found so far.

Well, sure... and Wolfram's 2-state-3-symbol means that an incredibly tiny machine with no memory at all is basically equivalent to any computer we've ever designed. However, that doesn't provide us any insight into how thinking works, or how to write programs, or anything really. It's a mathematical curiosity. In reality, Turing machines themselves are a terrible representation of algorithms, since despite being able to represent anything, anyone who tries to think of writing code in terms of developing simple rules for writing numbers on a strip is going to lose their mind.

Aside from the obvious problem (AIXI is undecidable), there's no real reason to believe that it represents a useful way to analyze the problem of intelligence. For one thing, no progress has really been made on the Hutter prize since its inception -- prediction by partial matching continues to win, and it was developed in the '80s.
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Your website comes up as the 4th results for "slang dictionary". Where was it before panda?
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People who make arguments against debt are ignoring a great deal of historical information. A person, or a nation, can clearly spend money on stupid things, but that doesn't mean that debt is bad. Many businesses take on debt to grow, or at least they seek a credit line to cushion themselves against variations in income.

The argument for debt goes like this: in the future "we" will be wealthier, so why don't we borrow against our future income to make the investments that will ensure that, in fact, in the future we will be wealthier.

"We" can refer to a person, business, or nation.

The careful and strategic use of debt has been used to build great empires. A quote:

http://www.ukpublicspending.co.uk/debt_brief.php

"Chart 2 tells, in stark detail, the story of the British Empire. It was built on the National Debt. Throughout the 18th century the National Debt grew and grew, from nothing at the end of the 17th century to about 60 percent of GDP by the end of the War of Spanish Succession in 1715."

To win World War II, the USA drove up debt to 100% of GDP, a level much higher than what it faces today.

To finance business, an interesting difference has developed between the English speaking nations (I mean those who inherit their legal codes from English Common Law) and those nations of continental Europe. In the English speaking nations, it became common, by the 1800s, to finance growth by offering equity for sale at public auction. The continental nations developed along different lines -- banks played a larger role. In Germany, most firms operate with higher levels of debt that what would seem normal in English speaking nations.

To get an understanding of the importance of debt, and its history, I'd suggest you read Fernand Braudel:

http://www.amazon.com/Wheels-Commerce-Civilization-Capitalis...

As he points out, debt and civilization tend to go hand in hand. Debt was illegal in many European nations during the Dark Ages. Nations in the Mideast and India all had flourishing markets in debt, and flourishing trade, while Europe was sunk in poverty. When Europe revived and began to expand again, it helped itself along with the revival of credit, and credit markets. By the time the 1600s came around, Amsterdam was able to offer the world the full range of modern financial instruments: put and short and forward contracts, options of every kind (save for the exotic derivatives of recent vintage).

There is no civilization without debt, no advanced commerce without debt, no growth without debt. The wheels of commerce are greased with credit.
Lesson learned: the public can (and must) stop big telecom putting Canada in a digital ghetto.
If @WalterGR above is correct, then changes to your site will only help when panda is rerun between one bot visit and the next (ie it's a batch process not a constantly evolved ranking).

If that's true then an awful lot of sites I have heard about may have been wasting time SEO'ing for nothing. (most obvious is serverfault)

Does anyone know if it really is an infrequent labelling run or an algoithm change and or it's run frequency?

Edit: reference to waltergr added correctly
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But whats the point of it downloading the robots.txt file if it isn't going to honor it?
What do you mean by that? Is the "life pulse" an animation where the logo "beating" like a heart?
> I remain positive on China.

I cannot help but wonder about China... I am convinced they are extremely clever in toying our Western system of capitalism and number games one way or another. The only example coming to mind right now is the artificial surge in car sales in China and the government is behind a lot of it, buying and storing cars in huge parking facilities. And the refusal of publishing economic statistics or just blatantly making them up.

And they are just as incredibly clever and diplomatic in political affairs; the rhetoric used in their more recent foreign affairs are nothing but jaw dropping and display an unprecedented self-understanding an pride that is bordering smugness. They do not even try to hide or acknowledge violations of human rights; they simply wipe it off with "none of your frakking business" kind of answers. They are showing very clearly: we bow to no one.

For me as a European, their last display of power here in Europe felt like a slap in my face when they offered to "help" in the current financial crisis in Greece and the rest of the EU when I saw how little their ongoing violations of human rights mattered all of a sudden.

Please note I am not bashing Chinese people but wondering about Chinese politics and their regime and how the west, generally so proud of their "humanity" and "human rights", bends over back- and sideways now that China is becoming an influential world power.
Sure, but the vast majority of people still tend to underestimate how much they could get. And you can get a pretty darn good estimate from a person's background and skills.
Peter Krumins' e-book "Awk One-Liners Explained"
From a purely accounting perspective, debt and money are just two sides of the same coin. Every financial asset you own, whether it is paper money or a number in a bank account, is somebody else's liability.

With this in mind, it is clear that blanket statements like "debts are a bad thing" are useless. Bad with respect to what?

For example, when citizens save some amount of their income in government bonds to have some buffer to protect them against future individual troubles, then can you honestly say that this debt is a bad thing?

The problem of the Eurozone is that there is no fiscally sovereign government which can safely (and in a politically legitimised fashion) carry an unlimited amount of debt.
Agreed. There's also the fundamental problem that directly sliced PSDs create a terrible experience for the user; you can't build smart, responsive web pages that way.

PSDs are good for specs, but not directly converting into the actual end project.
Who knows, maybe Greece is about to get as much money as they can from the EU in order to default after? What would happen in this case?
What I would love to see is a major (Hollywood) motion picture about WWII cryptanalysis, Enigma, etc. To my knowledge every aspect of WWII has been depicted except this (Pacific theater, Normandy, Concentration camps, Navajo codetalkers, and so on).

In fact, just finally make Cryptonomicon into a movie and I'd be happy.
This gets to be particularly annoying if you, for instance, check multiple folders.
Of course you can just hold back to quit the app, but that would be an obvious solution, and put designers like this guy out of a job.

As for "no satisfactory solution".. the first thing that comes to mind is having the notification take you to the inbox, but then open the message itself, thereby building the "stack" properly.
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A friend of mine and I are thinking about creating a new game community site. We have a specific market and want to have a free, ad supported version of the site. My partner is reluctant to proceed until he sees numbers around expected revenue from ads. We both realize these numbers are not necessarily accurate, but he wants a rough, even really rough estimate.

Specifically the site is focused on the financial/stock space.

I've looked around on Google, but can't find any real number. Can you help?

Thanks,
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London, UK based.

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Info in my profile.
Nobody at google designed this. By the way if you get inverted text then simply type it in correctly.

It's the integrals that are hard to do.
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While the demand for most moderen currency is based around Taxes and Debt you can also link them to a wide range of real or vertual goods. AKA gold in an MMO or Mooncakes in china. (http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/09/21/a-...)

Edit: Bit coin is an interesting experement with the idea that simply because something is finite it has value based around the idea that at some point people might want it. Even the most simplistic analysis suggests the market will quickly become prone to bubbles but what's intresting is how it will recover after a major crash.

PS: I don't know why people ignore the link between Taxes and Money but try paying your taxes in gold bullion and see how far you get.
It's not that unlikely, we have Darwin on the back of the £10
http://www.csuchico.edu/~curbanowicz/Images/DarwinTenPoundNo...

They'd probably do a special coin for 1 year though, the notes don't change very often
Why isn't MB Sales' contact info on that page? They seem to be the ones most directly connected to the situation.
'Grid Zero' Data Center to Generate its Own Power
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It's not as obvious as it sounds. If it is, then this will be an easy question to answer:

What will technology be like in 2030?
I have a side project doing exactly this. My wife and I use it as our home phone, I've also replaced the phone system at my day job with it. Contact me through my HN profile if you want to try it
Paypal Trying to Ride the Bitcoin Wave?
>Surely a clean-sheet design started _now_ would be more interesting and perhaps even useful than a 21-year-old microkernel.

Just curious, are there any such OS in development?
Euhm ... sorry to doubt you here, but it does seem like you're flat-out wrong. Second-order peano arithmetic contains all the axioms you'd need for Godel's proof ...

And frankly, though not 100% proved (yet?), it seems to me very clear that any numbering and arithmetic system that contains any form of infinity is doomed to be incomplete.

So the only useful arithmetical fields that escape Godel are Zn.
in the media arts and "creative coding" world a couple of the frameworks are OpenFrameworks and Cinder, both of which sort of do provide a set of higher level abstractions, but you can always just do the C++ with them as well.
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Exactly, we've had airplanes for a century but working orthnocopters are still something of a black art. Like so many things in engineering, it is easier, and better, to not pay naturally occurring phenomenon undue attention. We are capable of engineering better.
I'm interested in Vietnam stories since I live there, but where are the sources, or at least some kind of references to who is writing this information, and how this information was obtained?
"Your example is a good one, but as others point out, the computer has been designed logically. Biology hasn't been."

I'll do a little play on words here. Are you saying that biology isn't logical? Does it defy the laws of the universe, physics, and the axioms in math? Certainly not. I think what you are saying is that it isn't the same as a silicon chip and follows different rules. We just don't know enough about biology to peel away the layers, but there are definitely layers. There has to be at least a one-to-one mapping between the genome and a live being, but I would bet that the layers are far more complicated.

I read a study a while back which monitors the different areas developed inside a mouse's brain. The study concluded that a certain part of the brain gets more developed as the mouse tries to run threw a maze vs a mouse that does nothing at all. I gather that the study is trying to point out which area of the brain is responsible for memory, and perhaps certain type of memory.

I fail to see how this study could tell us something meaningful regarding our ability to take information from our senses and store it into our memory. How could we understand more about how this process works? Are we that far away from understanding the inner workings of the brain that we need to do studies like this? If so, then I tend to believe that we are far from the singularity.

"My larger point is that lots of biological science is a collection of edge cases. We know so little about the systems we're studying and have such crude tools to investigate them, that we get blindsided by things sitting in plain sight all the time."

I understand. From my previous example, I would probably come up with edge cases too if I was trying to look at binary code for the first time and trying to figure out how a complex computer system works. Perhaps I would poke the system and monitor which part of the file ended up with more 1's and 0's.
I changed the picture to something else, just to remove the Pocky from now on. "No Pocky" was the number one feedback I got from US subscribers.

I love A/B testing but I wonder if I have enough conversions to really test yet.

I would really like to do more guest blogging. Done it twice so far and it is my favorite way of reaching out to people. Bloggers get interesting content for free and I get exposure. For the readers, if done properly, it can be actual interesting content.
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