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To me it wasn't obvious, but with yankring after you hit p you can paste from older registers with ^p. Yankring then replaces "0 with "1. Another ^p replaces "1 with "2.

So by repeatedly hitting ^p after a paste you can cycle back quite a ways. Way easier than ":reg, now where did that go?"
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I remember reading that Guy Steele was specifically hired to the Java project for this reason. Wikipedia corroborates this: "In 1994, Steele joined Sun Microsystems and was invited by Bill Joy to become a member of the Java team after the language had been designed, since he had a track record of writing good specifications for existing languages."

He also documented ECMAScript 1, which I've found to be pleasurably precise.
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Well, i think a key difference is that the Works Progress Administration directly employed people (as far as my understanding goes).

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

The difference in what Cuban is suggesting is that he's just asking why the government can't loan directly to businesses to hire.
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Ok, that makes a lot of sense. It's not a situation that applies to me, but I can certainly see the appeal. Best of luck (assuming you're Brain Scates).
Some people would argue that's a good thing: that a government that does nothing is less harmful than a government that does too much.
I'm going to vote twice:

1) ECMAScript, for being excrutiatingly detailed. Guy Steele did a wonderful job shoehorning an unambiguous specification around a loopy language.
2) PostgreSQL. While not particularly mathematical, Postgres docs do a good job of "covering all the bases"... potential "gotchas" and incompatibilities are always documented, and I never find myself wondering what a particular feature does.
Where do you guys get your traffic data from? Is it mostly from people using google maps mobile?
I disagree that the Republicans and Tea Party can be tied together in the same / - but also that their sole method for fixing the economy is lowering taxes.

Regardless, the answer isn't jobs, but transitioning people from being skilled in trades that no longer matter, and becoming skilled in modern trades, such as programming, design, etc.
Completely flawed. Objections in the first 2 minutes:

1) Companies don't really need cash, currently.

2) This is easily gamed. (Hire people for the minimum amount of time, fire again)

3) It excludes major sources of employment - the majority of gross job gains comes from companies with less than 50 employes.

4) Jobs worth creating require qualifications. People are not interchangeable cogs, you would need to create jobs that actually fit unemployed people.
It's quite possible to be both anti-patent and anti-ripoff.

The question is whether and to what degree the government and courts should be involved, and the inability to draw bright lines provides a strong argument against.

The legal system is making "I know it when I see it" decisions. I think that should be avoided whenever possible.
Why not just adopt something like the Fair Tax where business would pay significantly less taxes. Wouldn't that be just as good, if not better than doling out money to companies who "promise" to hire?
Ho hum. The free TeleNav app built in to Sprint cell phones has done optimal traffic routing automatically for years. And the TeleNav speech synthesis is far superior, at least on my Samsung Epic. I really have trouble understanding what the Google Maps app is saying during turn-by-turn directions.
I'm no stormfronter. I grew up progressive, went to progressive schools, I've volunteered in inner city neighborhoods mentoring kids and fixing up houses. I live in a neighborhood that's mostly middle class black, I play pick up football with kids from the projects, and I even have the cliched black roommate.

I studied the issue of urban decay because I spent a lot of time living near and walking through these neighborhoods. I read dozens of books and articles to try and figure out what happened. The interpretation above is the best I can do.

If you find stormfront repugnant (as I do), then don't put yourself in a position where the stormfronters are on the side of truth and you are on the side of falsehood. Otherwise you will be giving good people, who would otherwise be reasonable progressives, incentive to ally themselves with the stormfronter crowd. Recognizing the role of blacks in the destruction of Detroit's white neighbhorhoods should be viewed the same way as viewing the role of whites in the 1906 destruction of Atlanta's black neighborhoods. You can recognize and speak the truth about 1906 Atlanta without being racist against whites, and you can speak the truth about Detroit without being racist against blacks.
Right, but that's why I'd say it is a modern take on it. It actually makes the program more like an opportunistic specialized VC/investment bank combo.
Probably primarily for developers. A $100/mo investment to get more out of your developers (who cost at least $30k, and usually $100k+) isn't a problem. If you're looking at much cheaper office staff, you can presumably pay less to make them more productive since hiring more of them is cheaper (measured in Aerons).
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How so? Game design is not inherently more creative than e.g. developing algorithms.
This would put a large amount of money in the hands of a small group of people. Money that isn't theirs, yet they get to decide where it goes. If the payout justifies it, corporations will hire lobbyists or set up backroom deals. There will be a huge influx in demand for essentially free money, meaning the paperwork to go through will be enormous. Shell Corporations that meet the requirements will sign up in addition to their actual corporation. And by setting minimum requirements (Especially 10yrs, 100workers), you end up targeting corporations who already have money in the bank. It's the uprising corporations that spend their revenue on expansion, that take out loans to rent a bigger office.
This already happens: if you're a corporation promising to create jobs, you can negotiate with government for tax breaks. I believe Twitter negotiated with San Francisco city government to get their payroll tax breaks by threatening to leave the city. Datacenter construction tends to get property tax breaks from local government. If you're talking about locating a car factory in a country, much bigger incentives are to be had.

Twitter: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/04/twitter-g...

Datacenters: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9217259/Apple_Google_...

Ford Tax Breaks: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/24/fords-to-invest-135...
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But it's not impossible to be powerful without turning your immediate work into money. You might be able to help others make/turn their work into money, which makes me go off on a tangent in my head about an algorithm that could calculate how much power one truly had based on n degrees of separation out from their work.
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That's answered in the article. (The processes which produce similar chemicals are themselves blocked by some viruses.)
Perhaps I'm just overly cynical, but I'm under the impression that the stimulus funds have been primarily used to stimulate the politically well-connected rather than truly stimulate the economy as a whole.
If you don't involve the legal system, there is _no_ provision against rip-offs. So yes, you can be anti-patent and anti-ripoff, but it's a rather incoherent world view. (Unless you assume humans are innately good and can be persuaded to do the right thing without external force. In that case, I wish you luck, but I'm in too cynical a mood to follow that argument)
Ask HN: Why don't you respond to emails?
Being an entrepreneur, over the past few years I've sent out hundreds if not thousands of emails to businesses, clients, etc. Especially when launching a new business and you begin to reach out to people, the response that you get back is usually pretty terrible.

Now that I am on the other side of the spectrum and have been in business for over 3 years and get 25-50 emails a day, I still always respond to people, even though it may take a few days. I get all types of emails, business opportunities, support requests, pitches, etc. and I still respond, even with a polite 'Sorry, but I'm not interested at this time'. I personally think it is just rude to ignore people if it is a legitimate e-mail and not just pure spam.

My question to HN is, why don't you personally respond to your emails (if you don't)? Do you feel that it is rude to not respond to people who are waiting (and hoping) to hear back from you?
Some part of me wants to believe that it is a weed out on the other side - 'if you value your time so low as to fill out these forms, we know we can pay you jackshit and get away with it'.
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As far as I understand it, Keynes's broad point was that even the straw man of creating jobs just to create jobs is better than the alternative of rampant unemployment (where people rely on charity and public works, and still don't contribute to GDP).

That said Keynes's primary point was that governments should invest and spend money wisely to do stuff the private sector can't or won't do.

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You and I can agree that we'd love to live in a world where people pursue employment due to interest and/or a drive to make the world/economy better. That's not the world we live in, and I don't know how we get there from here.

Lastly, markets are manipulable and are manipulated, and governments aren't the only actors doing so.
I'm sure the author is right to some extent about the rise of Twitter and Facebook being responsible for the decline in social bookmarking, but I think it has a lot to do with the fact that good curation is almost always better than a system that is controlled by upvoters, linkers or tweeters.

"Just watch, Web 3.0 will be something called Good Editing." Drew Curtis of Fark
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It's unclear whether it's possible to reach a breakeven point.
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This made me catch my breath even in the midst of all these S11 launches. :D
Oh yes, if your car is stalled on train tracks while a train is coming, it's much better to do nothing than something.

[Edit: lest someone thinks i'm being needlessly flippant; The US has to do something about the federal debt. That is not in question. Democrats and Republicans all agree on this. There are external actors who will act and events that will take place if the US does not deal with it's debt (for instance, a downgrade by 2+ rating agencies). So there is no question about whether we must act or not. We must act. It is merely whether we will try to cut our way to prosperity (ha), or whether we will try to actually balance our books while trying to preserve as much of our society as possible.]
I see a whole lot of conclusory statements in this article. Why should I take your word for a single one of them?
How very droll of you. Maintaining foreclosed properties requires workers to take photographs of the property and secure the building, among other things; especially if the house has been broken into.

By the time we get to a property in a high-crime area, the copper is often long gone. Broken glass isn't uncommon. The amount of destruction done to some of these houses is impressive. There are holes in walls and even holes in the floor. Toilets ripped out, shattered, and left to one side.

I'm left there asking myself: Why go to all of this effort to destroy these things? What destructive impulse must some people have? It's one thing to argue about it in an Internet forum, it's something else to find it in many houses over the course of months.
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Thanks for the reply. My big concern is that A/B testing is so limited in scope. I know I'd get more sign ups if I have a sign up wall, but what am I trading for that? Do 50%+ less people know about my site now? Is that worth the sign ups?

My gut instinct is that sign up walls suck, but then you see some people who seem to really believe in them. Just not sure how to measure the medium-term consequences or even really think about the topic in a coherent way.
For me, most of my "lack of response" issues come from thinking I will respond and then forgetting.

If I'm not careful about making notes/reminders to go back and respond to people it's very easy to just forget.

I would suspect that this is the reason for a lot of people, which is why a follow up email isn't being pushy. At least not the first time or two.
Facepalm.

I normally love Mark Cubans blog, but this is a terrible idea. If a company cant afford to keep employees it shouldn't hire them. This would be almost as bad as the bailouts were.

This would send inflation skyrocketing.

What happens to all of those small companies that don't have the connections or legal know-how to get the government money? They go out of business because they would not be able to afford the new inflated cost of hiring.

What happens to the people who can barely scrape a living out of their current wage when the inflation this would cause sends food prices sky rocketing?
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Right, because we're lousy at deliberately creating solutions to complex problems - there's always unintended consequences, which often cause problems worse than the ones being solved.

The real way to solve complex societal problems is through many small-scale experiments, not a single top-down proposal imposed by a central authority. Tim Hartford's TED talk on this is well worth watching:

http://www.ted.com/talks/tim_harford.html
How about 10,000 X-Prizes, each with a 10M or so prize. That seems much more sensible. Everyone who wanted to compete for a given prize could register with a transparent prediction market, which would give investors an easy way to get to know the different people competing in each category.
Sushi is $100 an hour? Where do you go for Sushi? I've been several times to an _excellent_ Sushi bar, in Los Angeles, and the worst damage I ever did was $75. And that was really trying for it. (Sidenote: gold flakes on Sushi don't add in any way to the taste, but they sure look shiny ;)
Actually, i'm happy to hear you say that.

Let's fix it and demand accountability. I want a government that functions, and even if you are of a different political persuasion, I would hazard to guess that you probably do too.

Let's make politicians act in ways that are accountable.
Thank you jswinghammer. This statement right here summarizes the whole problem with the OP:

"The only jobs that are sustainable are the jobs that produce something that other people actually want."

This is exactly it. You can not stimulate an economy simply by pushing up production on the supply side.

Mark Cuban's idea seems appealing on the surface, but he makes a serious assumption. He implicitly assumes a positive net benefit after you give these companies money and they create jobs with this money.

Look, if you transfer money from the government to the companies to the people then that is just a transfer payment. Moving money around like that does not create wealth within a country, and that is what we need right now. We need to spend money on things that generate positive net present value, and we need to curtail spending money on things that do not meet this criteria.

In order for Mark Cuban's idea to work, all of these companies must be employing the additional labor towards activities that are economically profitable. Here's a quick thought exercise. What is the likelihood of a company being engaged in economically profitable activities given that it is taking advantage of this program? (It is reasonable to assume that a company with a healthy balance sheet and a healthy income would not want to deal with government bureaucracy willingly.)

Also, as a side note, the following quote from the blog post is a bit inaccurate:

"(Stunningly, bailouts excluded)."

That the bank bailouts were repaid so handily owes very little to the bailouts themselves. Thanks to extraordinary measures taken by the Federal Reserve, the banks were able to borrow money at an interest rate of virtually nothing and then use this money to purchase U.S. bonds - effectively lending it back to the U.S. government. In addition to this, the Federal Reserve also took the unusual step of dramatically expanding its balance sheet (removing toxic liabilities from the banks themselves). That was the real bailout, and it was much larger than the pithy amounts that you saw reported by the administration.

To get a sense of the scale and size of the real bailout, please take a look at this graph:

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/07/fed-balance-she...

Edit: Also, I forgot to mention one more thing. The current negative rates on U.S. debt would almost certainly change if we began to issue substantially more of it. As Europe is rapidly learning, the debt market is far from a static environment.
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Yeah, Allen also co-opts the phrase “mind like water” from Karate to mean what you refer to as meditation here.
How do you manage the differentiation without the less special classes having some resentment? There are some costs that they'd likely understand (person who spends all day in email and Word objectively does not need as good of a computer as a developer), but how do you tell someone that they're not worthy of the same desk/chair that a developer is? What happens if there's a spare developer chair that they start sitting in? Do you ask for it back when you hire a new dev?

I'm not saying it's impossible, especially as the company and grows and there may be less direct contact between the departments, but I definitely see some issues that could arise.
My problem may come from having the OCD of the inbox, or the need to keep it at zero at all times. I feel that most people just have thousands and thousands of emails in their inbox and there is no organization aspect to it so they truly just forget to respond. For me, I'll know I haven't responded if your email is sitting in my inbox :).
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What he is proposing was already tried by the Michigan Economic Development Corporation.

Politicians from both parties loved photo ops where some entrepreneur was creating jobs, especially in a distressed area in exchange for state money. Even if all the promised jobs never got created.

Then it got to the point where a con man showed up who never intended to create any jobs.

http://record-eagle.com/opinion/x908934006/Editorial-MEDC-ou...
For an individual yes. But when a politician talks about "jobs", what they really mean is "government revenue from income tax", and those governments that are highly dependent on income tax revenues view that as priority.
Question from someone who is not an expert in crafting CSS: Is normalize.css something that needs to be actively maintained as newer (versions?) browsers come up or older browser have some changes ?

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I'd take it a bit further, and say that foodies are much more likely to constantly look for new things
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Here's another wild thought.

Do nothing.

Let the bankers steal from the middle class. Let federal reserve steal more money from its citizen. Let the government accumulate more debt. Let the jobs go overseas. Let inflation run rampant. Let people go deeper and deeper into housing/student debt. Let small businesses die.

In fact, encourage it.

Why? because the current system/society, as it stand, is dying body that cannot be healed. It is too old. Too lazy. Too morally corrupt. Too broke.

Because common citizens will wake up one morning. They will be out of a job. They will be losing their house. They will be in massive debt. And they will not be able to afford even the most basic food/gas.

Then they will be truly angry. Not angry as in chatting about it online. Angry as in massive protests in the capitals. Angry as in shutting down major websites. Angry as in rioting. Angry as in burning down houses. Angry as in everywhere.

Only then will there truly be changes.
I don't mean to come off wrong, but did you read the actual manual? Most HM chairs have a nice procedure to adjust them.
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Basically half the article is stating that generically cutting corporate taxes doesn't actually create jobs.
This idea will never work, but on top of that his "rules for entry" are totally silly. Just take a glancing look at this data and you can see that his criteria should be inverted http://www.census.gov/econ/smallbus.html

There are ~6M firms in the USA but only ~90K with revenues of 100M+ so his pool is very small to start with. Firms with 100+ employees count for 1.8 percent of employment and capture 65% of total payroll and something like 2/3 of total revenues. I think ANY company that is pulling in 100M in revenue has probably got things figured out already. The vast majority of employers in this country are small firms so why not try to help small guys turn into bigger guys.

So I think if anything, there should be more investment in firms with less than 100 employees, less than 100m in revenue and less than 10 years old.
Now I'm curious what your top 10 looks like. With BK and Braid in the top maybe it's just an affinity with anything containing jigsaw puzzle pieces? =P
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I'd agree with you if it were a case of literally taking the source code from someone else's creative algorithm and copying it. So in the same way people find it offensive to copy someone else's fish shooting concept it would be offensive to straight copy the RSA algorithm and claim it as your own.

But it seems like 99% of software patent issues are about two people sitting down to solve the same common problem and independently writing their own algorithms that achieve a similar solution.

A case of people simultaneously converging on the optimum solution to a problem and implementing that solution themselves seems like a complete non-issue and what progress looks like to me but that's what most the current fuss seems to be about.
The overlap of cash-rich companies and companies older than 10 years old is pretty slim.

For someone like Microsoft its cheaper to to issue debt in the United States (hey, AAA rating is hard to come by nowadays http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-low-bond-yields-thi... ) than transfer the cash from Ireland to the US.