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I want to emphasize that I AM Jewish. I even grew up in a religious household. If you're too sensitive to something like the above comment, then you must really hate shows like "Curb Your Enthusiasm".
Those generalizations where bound to come back and bite me...

I agree with your point and allow me to ensure you, there is no vehement anti-intellectualism in my thoughts. On the contrary, I very much believe in Scientific advancements.

The correct statement should have been:

Fewer life changing technologies can be attributed to Scientists than to for-profit companies. This is due to the higher budgets and bigger number of people working in companies, compared to staff employed by Universities. Furthermore companies are bound to create something people are willing to pay for. Universities don't have this kind of "restrictions" and can do work on a more abstract level, which may not translate into anything tangible for years to come.
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It may be your ethical belief that all patents are bad, but we know it isn't Google's. They have hundreds of patents, a number of which list one of your co-founders as inventors.

So sure, I guess it's nice that in this instance your company's strategy lines up with your ethical beliefs.
Working full time at a startup and doing part time contract work to help cover the bills.

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You say "Banks, and the Federal Reserve, create new money". That is factually untrue: only the Federal Reserve can legally create new money in the US. Since you mentioned it by name, you are definitely talking about the US, but the same state holds in virtually all developed countries as well: one designated "central bank" entity creates money, the others don't.

Per your main point, yes, the central bank creates money, but it doesn't "give" it to anyone. Seriously, you describe it as if there's a "printing party" at the FR, and only the rich get invited to grab booty bags stuffed with trillions of freshly minted dollars.

The truth, of course, is that the FR (and secondary banks) can only lend that money. They lend it for a variety of people and reasons. Not too long ago, they lent it to too many people. Not because their kind heart, but because it's a business: they lend it out hoping to get it back with interest.

Who do they lend it out to? Well, to some of the people here, for starters. Because what you failed to consider is that if I'm already at the top 0.1%, the best thing for me is to keep the situation static: not printing any new money. Because you're talking about the top 0.1% dollar earners and holders. Inflation dilutes their assets and earnings just like everybody else's, and in absolute values, they lose more.

Lending is (generally) an instrument of economic growth, a way to fund innovation and investment in production of new products and services. Guess what, if nobody can get loans, new businesses and startups won't get funding either.
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I agree with Gruber's position here, actually, but it's true that Daring Fireball is like Gruber's little utopia where the following things are true:

1.) Apple products are always awesome.

2.) Democrats are always right, and here's yet another Paul Krugman article.

3.) The Yankees rule.
Why not write a python(subset) interpreter in scheme?

The point is once you scan,tokenize and parse you get an AST. You already got a language that works on AST. I don't think python's AST is gonna differ a lot from scheme's.
Rents on capital have the possibility of loss, whereas income does not.
Regarding those who will only bring home 15k per month post retirement:

"And, for those folks who made enough to accumulate this much wealth during their working years, the reduction in income and lifestyle during retirement can be stressful."

This is where I started laughing out loud! What a profound lack of perspective.
My brain works about 80 hours a week, but my fingers work about 30.
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Oh, couldn't agree more. Different countries have different issues--my largely uninformed take on Argentina is that its biggest hurdles to development are shady bureaucracy and corruption. In the US I'd identify it as the domination of labor by capital.

In my perfect world, power would be distributed diffusely, so that no person or institution would be able to effectively coerce another.
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It's up to the author to specify. For most wikipedia text, you need to link back to the original article or a copy of the article or include a list of the major authors.

On the other hand, StackExchange is more onerous - they require a link to SX, a link to each author, each author's name, links to each author's profile, and a text blurb indicating that the content is from SO. Oh, and no "nofollow" links, or JS tricks - they want the google juice.

You also need to ensure that derivative work is also CC, if there is a -SA clause (which I think is the case for both wikipedia and SX.

It should all be there in the TOS page.

If they author/site doesn't say, just link back to them, and include a short blurb (i.e. "by <username> at <website>". Really, that's likely to be all they want. If they cared about the legalities, they probably include them in the TOS. Or email them, asking for clarification.
Haha, I was so confused. I thought Red Hat Linux was dropping Gnome3 in favor of XFCE as the default GUI shell. A few minutes later reading through the whole G+ thread it became apparent that Linus, as an individual, has decided to use XFCE.

Well, good for him I guess? But how is that news?
Google is essentially the bitch of the patent world right now, simply because they're a younger company and a land claim occurred.

I think the real problem with Google is they're using open source technology. This makes yout a lot more susceptible to patent lawsuits.

Back when I used to control patent budgets one of our rules was that things we patented had to be discoverable. That is, if someone infringed, but it was hard to prove, it wasn't worth spending the money on a patent. Just keep it a trade secret. With Android everything is available by just looking at the source code repository. With iOS, WebOS, WP, and RIM, you have to do a fair bit more sleuthing to see if they're actually infringing.
Drawbacks also...
http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=363&year=2...
Here's how banks counterfeit money. You deposit $100. The bank loans out $80 of your money to someone else. They put that money back in the bank. The bank now has $100 - all your money. But your checking account says $100, and the loanee's checking account says $80, for a total of $180. The bank has now effectively created--that is, counterfeited--$80 in new money. They gave this new money to themselves, and then loaned it out. Since their reserves are still over 20% (or whatever the present reserve requirement is), they keep doing this until 80% of the money is money they have counterfeited and loaned out.

And the Fed does give money to banks. They gave loans at 0% interest to Goldman Sachs who then buys government debt with it and earns interest >0%. That is the same as giving them the new money. And that is only one way, but there are others. Another way is by buying government debt from banks using freshly printed money at prices that are necessarily above what the market value would be if there wasn't an institution like the Fed that can print new money any time it wants to buy stuff.
Sweet UI. Useful and directional app for sure.

Wanted to give you a heads^ that there was some lagging during homepage load and during icon (file) zip: 'noun_project_705.svg' downloading. I'm on MacBook Pro OS X Version 10.6.8 using Chrome (and the apps I am controlling in other Chrome tabs are cruising). Maybe there's some versioning-optimization fixes you could look into - or maybe it's me. I'm running at full wiFi connectivity (and AirPort bars) at the Sandbox Suites near Union. So I thought I'd at least drop you my observation as to see if I could help. Overall though - sleek work, I find comfort when controlling your app.
I guess I am not the target audience either, but gnome2 remains my favorite desktop environment and once that is dropped from distros I will go another route, perhaps xfce but it does indeed have many shortcomings.
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For those of you responding skeptically to Lionhearted's question, I'm in the business of helping these people exit the United States. At any given point I have four or five of these cases going.

They go everywhere.

Their money goes with them.
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solution to Etags is to block all third-party requests by default, and let the user selectively allow for each site they use.

Working on a plugin to do that now:

http://github.com/nikcub/parley

(a bit inactive only because I haven't committed to gh since initial commit, but I will be in the next few days)

the last-modified header can also be used to track - it accepts anything. I described it in a comment on the last thread:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2825564
Agreed.

I took Sussman's course in '87 with a $30 used copy of SICP which still sits on my shelf, surviving many other books that have long since faded into obsolescence.

From the preface: "Our design of this introductory computer-science subject reflects two major concerns. First, we want to establish the idea that a computer language is not just a way of getting a computer to perform operations but rather that it is a novel formal medium for expressing ideas about methodology. Second, we believe that the essential material to be addressed by a subject at this level is not the syntax of particular programming-language constructs, nor clever algorithms for computing particular functions efficiently, not even the mathematical analysis of algorithms and the foundations of computing, but rather the techniques used to control the intellectual complexity of large software systems."

Classic.
They actually have a post about that on their blog:

http://blog.thenounproject.com/post/7310229014/how-to-proper...

"When using a CC Attribution work created by us, please attribute it to The Noun Project and include a link whenever possible." (the post goes into more detail for CC-BY in general as well)
I predict the next Hacker News posting on Linus will be titled something like "Linus wipes his ass". Oh wait, we've already had that one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2372096

Seriously though, who cares? Let's see postings from Linus about why he designed the Linux kernel the way he did or why git's command line interface is so damn unintuitive (this coming from a hardcore git fan before you downvote me). But posting submissions for every silly opinion he has reduces us to preteen groupies following every move of the latest teenage heartthrob.
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>> even then you will be light years behind what a modern IDE can do with a modern language

Could you point me to one? Especially interested in high-performance ones.
I'm learning RoR and finding it confusing. Any advice?
I've been learning Ruby on Rails for the past few weeks and, while I have found it to be a fun experience, there are a few aspects to it that still confuse me. Thus, I haven't really got the hang of it yet. I'm plan to stick with it, but I wanted to see if anyone had advice on how I can make it the best experience possible.

The problem I've been having is getting used to the many shortcuts Rails offers. These shortcuts do a lot of things automatically in the background and minimize the code we have to write. While they probably work great for RoR pros, they are terribly confusing when it comes to learning the framework.

I've been working out of the book Ruby on Rails Tutorial: Learn Rails by Example. It includes a lot of shortcuts such as resources :resource in routes.rb, model_path(@model) instead of model_path(@model.id), and many other shortcuts in the form_for() helper method. These shortcuts could easily be interchanged with manual implementations that make more sense at a glance, so there isn't necessarily a problem. However, these shortcuts are referenced in books and online and are what beginners are being exposed to. For a lot of the shortcuts, I have no idea how to implement them manually (which would be nice for flexibility).

It's overwhelming the amount of things that can be done automatically for you when it comes to Rails, which is what most books teach. They give me the impression that I am limited to what I can do in Rails. This is not true, but right now I do not have the knowledge to manually do a lot of the things that I have been taught to do using shortcuts.

Has anyone had a similar experience when learning RoR? Are there any good online references or books that avoid the shortcuts (besides the documentation)?

P.S. I am still not fully confident about how things are named in Rails. I'll create a resource with a name I've chosen, and then Rails will automatically generate views, routes, paths, and url's based off that. I sometimes have to guess and take a 'leap of faith' when deciding what names to reference as I was not the one who created them.
Brad Smith of Microsoft posted this on Twitter: "Google says we bought Novell patents to keep them from Google. Really? We asked them to bid jointly with us. They said no."

I think this is just more of Google's double-standards. I think they use issues like this to drum up support from the techie crowds, just like when they talk about openness in spite of bundling Adobe Flash in Chrome or withholding Android source. They know software patents are a big issue on sites like this, and so portraying themselves as the underdog victim is very convenient and beneficial for them.

Literally the only thing Google supporters have in response is to say that they haven't seen Google sue anybody yet, and so therefore Google never will and their motives are benign. I guess if you're willing to put all your trust into gigantic advertising corporations, that feels like a valid viewpoint to take, but not for me.
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Banks do create money using the fractional reserve system. The majority of money in the economy was created by banks other than the Federal Reserve. This is a simple fact. They also create money through loans, mainly mortgages. They loan out money they don't actually have, which is the same as issuing money. Since this behaviour carries systemic risk, they are protected by the FDIC -- the taxpayers.
I'm not a lawyer, and you should ask your lawyer this. This is why experienced startup lawyers are valuable to startups. They know what is normal and what is not, and can protect you. If you don't have a startup lawyer, you should get one ASAP. Email me (details in my profile) if you need a referral.

Participating preferred happens in about 35% of deals, but generally this is not a good one for the entrepreneur. http://www.quora.com/How-common-are-participating-preferred-...

These terms are best avoided if you have other options.
Or possibly, he was only able to lay his hands on very small amounts. Given time, he would have gotten a lot more material.
When I really want to be productive 20-40. When I really need to get something done which requires too much stupid human time, 50-60.
"counterfeiting... stealing... scams..."

"For some reason this subject is very polarized."

Baffling!
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You can argue about what constitutes "giving money" vs. loaning money, but in certain cases there has been very little difference. Take the "loans" made available to the top .1% via TALF. Matt Taibbi describes the non-recourse loans handed out the wealthy and well-connected in this piece: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-real-housewive... .
Microsoft: We offered Google a joint bid; they said no.
We don't have the Forbes 4 million to view. But for every Zuckerberg on that list there are more than a few members of that 0.1% from members companies on that list.

I am not doubting that the financial industry influence is quite concentrated compared to others, but I am not convinced he's totally proven his case. Maybe the firm he represents has an outsized proportion of financial people as their clients.
... except unlike with counterfeiting, when all is said and done (all debts paid and all bank balances withdrawn), the total amount of US dollars in this closed system you describe will still be $100. You are ignoring the balance sheet of the second person (the one the bank lent $80 to) and only looking at that of the bank and the initial depositor.

Edit: Wow really, someone downvoted this?
If you're unable to identify with those people, then you lack perspective as well.

Having perspective includes the perspectives of the top 1% as well as the perspectives as the bottom 99%.
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Ouch. That's pretty bad. Do you know if anything captured the change (Google cache, Internet Archive, etc.)?
I highly recommend reading the source. Download the source, and read through the implementations, especially around routing. For most open source, not just Rails, this is often your best bet. I rarely use any open source software out-of-box without digging around the source.

This can be confusing with Ruby because it can be tough to figure out where methods are, due to module loading. I usually load the whole Rails source in Textmate and then use something like the Grep In Project plugin so that it's easier to search around for specific methods.

You'll never get the detail you really want out of just reading documentation.
I'd look at hn_decay's comment about Gruber's response to the Amazon "buy button removal". That's getting pretty close to willful in my book (especially since he made the change without noting it).
Might need a little more context. How much will it cost? What is the deliverable, exactly? Also, might want to make a form that requires more information. For instance, matching someone to a lawyer will likely depend on what state they're in.
As much as I favor low taxation and hate class warfare attacks on the wealthy, I think we ought to tax "freshly printed money" at a much higher rate, or figure out a more equitable way to create money... if we have to create money. Our financial system (the one created and regulated by the U.S. Federal Government) is so corrupt, as evident by TARP and the lack of lending and recovery. The only way its gonna change is if the dollar stops acting as the world's reserve currency, i.e. collapses. Only then do I think we have a chance of replacing it with something better. Don't hold your breath. The rest of the world is just as corrupt and financially unhealthy, so the dollar will remain superior.

Edit: Oh come on, why the downvote?
Complaining about huge bids that are more than what these bogus patents are worth is pretty hypocritical if you yourself bid over $3 billion for them.

I think Google is whining because they didn't win, and they know communities like this are anti-patent and will automatically side with them if they portray it a certain way. It's hypocritical to complain about the patent system and that competitors won patents you also wanted and were bidding on.
He contaminated his own cooking area.

Surely that is his problem?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stubbins_Ffirth

It is unreasonable people who improve the world.
I dispute that. Mechanical engineering isn't physics and neither is electrical engineering. Chemical engineering isn't chemistry (it is, in fact, more thermo- and fluid-dynamics). So, in the same way, software engineering isn't computer science. At best, it has a relationship analogous to that between applied mathematics and pure math.
It's really not that hard.

If author does not specify the details, just add a line saying something like: "Icon (photo, music, whatever) credit: John Doe, www.example.com" to your about page.

If you want to help the author a bit more, especially on the web, link to the specific page and provide a description, e.g.: "[Yellow Monkey Icon] (links to the icon page), (c)/by John Doe, used under a Creative Commons Attribution license". This helps with SEO.

If you're making a derivative work, say so.

At least that's what I suggest for my CC-BY works.
Frank Lewis, a cryptanalyst, did cryptic crosswords for _The Nation_ magazine for over 60 years. He died last year:

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Here are the rules for his cryptics:

http://www.thenation.com/crossword

For instance,

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In the print edition of the magazine, the advice at the bottom of the puzzle used to be:

"If you are unsure why 'lures' are 'ground rules', send for ours at (address of the magazine)." So clever.
When there are better things to do, there are better things to do. When it's not broke, don't fix it. Spolsky's arguments about why Netscape 6 was a bad idea applies very easily to enterprise web apps where code bases have no application outside of that particular organization, and so it's even harder to modify things.

edit: There's something in many corporations called the hurdle rate. All projects have to provide a financial return that is above the hurdle rate. Updating web apps to work on newer browsers does not easily compute to surpassing the hurdle rate because you did nothing to add new functionality/productivity. So it's very hard to get funding for this kind of work in many organizations.
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