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But how much do you trust it?

Coming from the east coast I trust the forecast less than just looking out the window. It's just too inaccurate.

When you look out the window and see that the US is still the healthiest big developed economy out there, what do you do? Do you trust your own eyes or the ratings agency?
If you're upset with the patent reform legislation don't blame the politicians -- they don't know anything about patents, the only thing they really know is what lobbyists are in favor of or against. And in this case you can bet the patent reform legislation is supported by both the tech and pharma industries. In fact if you even look at our small corner of the universe many VCs really want to invest in companies that have intellectual property that can be protected, so in a sense our entire industry is really the problem and you shouldn't expect Washington to change anything.
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Wow.. why am I getting downvoted on this?
To be fair, I think the sum of Turntable.fm, between the voting, the avatars in a virtual club with headbobbing, 5 DJs, DJ points, etc is a lot more complex than the fairly obvious "remember what you entered last time so you don't have to enter it again" one click buy button.
Cars are not real wealth, they are negative wealth since they cost money, but don't make money.

Wealth is owning things that can make money, not things that are money or that were bought with money.
From the faq http://kicksend.com/faq

Who owns the files I send?
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we just deliver them to the people you specify.

but from the terms http://kicksend.com/terms

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One problem with your desktop app is that it is not allowing me to login. I am using the same password that i successfully logged into your website with and nothing...
Congrats on taking the leap and I look forward to seeing what you end up working on.
If that weather forecast said it was going to be sunny and warm, you'd be pretty pissed to encounter hailstorms and hurricanes when you arrived at the beach. Similarly, you might not trust it so much when the weatherman was bleating about thunderstorms while all you can see are high clouds and blue sky.
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This is a brilliant idea. Absolutely brilliant.

My biggest reservation about buying LEDs now isn't the price; it's that the lights that will be available next year will be twice as good, and I can't stand the thought of discarding an entire bulb in order to upgrade. It makes no sense to me that the actual LED is inseparable from its quarter-pound aluminium and plastic shroud. A lightbulb should allow you to swap out some small component that includes the LED die and perhaps the driver.
I don't know if you've experienced this, but it is one of the most irritating things in the world to see something you've put hours of thought into on every facet of the design copied almost verbatim, doubtless with very little more thought put into it.

One of the few things that keeps this kind of thing in check is the risk of being publicly shamed and the associated reputation hit. So that's why this is here.
Another similar and very interesting technology is the "separation kernel" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_kernel). There's actually a lot of cool stuff you can do with virtualization now, even on a system-dedicated mode.
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Please shoot an e-mail to brendan[at]kicksend[dot]com and I'll take a look at the issue.
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This woman almost certainly attacked the system the same way a statistician from MIT did attack another series of tickets, earlier this year: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/01/ff_lottery/all/1

I say: well played, she deserves to keep the money. That will teach the makers of the lottery tickets to be more careful.
Hmm, I don't see any way in my Linode account settings to disable these emails, and I never received any! That is disconcerting. :(
We have a lot of great ideas brewing around pulling your photos from other services. Stay tuned!
If users start complaining about the performance of a site, and memory leaks are the cause, web developers will start fixing memory leaks. It's easy for them to initially say, "it's the browser's fault," but eventually, someone is going to start poking around in the site itself if they get enough complaints.

By the way, I'm not sure what architecture other browsers use, but Chrome already has a separate process for each tab. Under the wrench icon in the far right, if you go to Tools -> Task Manager, you can see the memory used by each tab.
Maybe true, but most of the things you'd look at outdoors are greenish or brownish. Maybe the colors of the things people look at indoors are whiter or bluer?
Could this halt the ongoing initial public offering wave that has been building in the tech industry for several months? What does this mean for Internet companies such as Zynga and CafePress that are currently in the IPO pipeline?

I doubt it means much. At worst, it means a few months of delay while the current crisis blows over. In 1998, people were wondering whether the Asian currency crisis would halt the (then roaring) dot-com boom. Yes, there was a damper on the IPO market for a few months, but the market came roaring back in the latter half of 1998 and kept going strong right through 2000.
Thanks for the offer. I think having a quality editor critiquing your work is key to improving your writing ability.
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Methinks this is why Apple does so well.

Other companies get sidetracked by confusing distributors with customers, loading crapware on machines, building on "free" operating systems (as if that will really save money), focusing on lowest costs instead of robust purchases, taking users for granted, providing sub-par user interfaces & experiences, etc.

While they certainly make mistakes, Apple focuses on doing things RIGHT, end-to-end.

Cutting corners and doing stupid sh!t may seem like a good idea at the time, but success still comes down to doing things RIGHT - be it now, later, or paying the consequences for not doing it at all.
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I guess a solution to MNG files has finally come around.
You're overstating that -- I smell a troll. Greece did not default.

In http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/8653634/G... I see Greece being described as having defaulted. Perhaps it is not publicly being called a default, but for all intents and purposes it is one.
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Nobody say the B word....
You can steal a credit card, but it'd be more difficult to steal an active Facebook profile and keep it for any period of time. Fake Facebook profiles aren't easy to build up, and you'd have to be really malicious to go through the trouble. It would eliminate the "just for fun" aspect that many of these perverted abusers would enjoy.
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MCE's challenge (at the time) was the cable networks death grip on the signal. It took years for CableCARD to surface, and even then it was limited in its deployment geographically and provider wise. If that had been solved much quicker I bet we would have seen a larger MCE ecosystem form. Nowadays the world is moving on to online streaming which presents other challenges. Looking at Boxee's solution shows how hard it is to get it to work as smooth as possible. Apple is besting it by brokering deals with content providers, perhaps something Microsoft should have pursued earlier. It's tough when you've heard the internal vision of what it could have been and seen what is has become. There was so much not brought to the public that would have made MCE a staple in the home theatre.
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Maybe it's you and large monitors. On my laptop, I run everything maximized, and Alt+Tab is my best friend. My biggest gripe about OSX is that it's not built for this -- I literally need to define a separate space for every application I use, just so I don't have a horrible jumble of windows. And unfortunately still can't Alt+Tab between windows of the same app... :(
you should add some screenshots/testimonials to your media site... IMO
>We all know the weather forecast isn't absolutely 100% accurate

forecasters who forecast "sunny" paid handsomely, while forecasters who forecast "fog" aren't paid at all - what would be accuracy of a given forecast for London from these forecasters?
Perhaps nothing, but there's always room for another. It's execution that matters, right?

I've tried Kicksend and dig it. Though my problem at the moment is determining whether to use Dropbox, Cloud, or Kicksend. I used to send music with it, but now that I use Spotify, that's no longer necessary.
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I am having a negative emotional response to this post and I don't know why. Is it because the author is a writer, and saying I should learn to write?

"You know what your problem is? You aren't like me."
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I'm not sure how big a difference it really makes, but you can tweak the "perceived" render speed in FF by changing how long it waits between starting to get data and rendering the partial page. Go to "about:config" and add a new integer called "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" to something lower than the default of 250 (milliseconds).
Take everything Stephen Moore says with a giant grain of salt. He has some, er, very hackish tendencies, especially when veering away from research and trying to give a pretty finish to right wing policies on the WSJ op-ed page.

it's a spending-more-than-we-have-revenue problem

Which can be fixed either by increasing revenue or decreasing spending.

Raising taxes increases revenue. Pair Clinton-era tax rates with some very modest reforms to Social Security and some much more significant ones to Medicare, and we'd honestly be sitting pretty well.

And even if we did nothing, even now the biggest economic issue by far is jobs, not projected deficits in 2040.

Edited: upvoted you, because I can't conceive of why others should have downvoted you...
You're using a rather odd definition of "wealth" there. Cars are wealth because they are useful... and indeed can be used to make money.
I think what the grandfather post meant was that Jonathan's card is meant to be scanned from a cell phone. If things like this are restricted to people with a cell phone (or a facebook account, or an iphone app...), the system selects for beneficiaries who are already above a certain level of need.
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English Lit Majors: Learn to scale.

Or, "you know what your problem is, Mr Writer? you aren't like me".

Shit, maybe, instead of everyone learning everybody else's skills, we could work together.
nice work guys. As a regular host and guest I can see how these are going to help a lot.
If your conspiracy theory were true, then why would S&P be rating the US Treasury at anything other than AAA?
I had a similar idea - searching for your classmates' criminal records. Couple it with facebook, etc., etc.

What stopped me was exactly what the site pointed out - everything is extremely fragmented, and of course there's no API. I didn't want to run a project where every day I'd have to check and make certain that none of the sites changed their markup, or URL structure, or anything else.
Wait -- no one is trying to win an argument. I must not be communicating my point well, so I apologize.

If you meet someone who is quick on the uptake, who learns quickly; and contrast them with someone a bit slow; what are you to call that quality of them if not intelligence?

I would call that "quick uptake" and "a bit slow." That's it. Einstein learned to talk at 5. So he was stupid? This is a poor way to define intelligence.

When Dr. Kay says IQ, he also means this "innate cleverness." And my response is that if two people lift weights, one has to work at it more than the other, but both can lift the same weight, which one is stronger? Neither. They're equally strong. Mental acuity is very much like physical strength: it is what you make it. So, I say, it makes no sense to define a predisposition to mental acuity, since that is impossible to define, is easily misunderstood and doesn't reflect the end reality. I'm not switching terms on this: it's a useless, and potentially harmful, distinction.

And I still think that if you use the words as Kay meant them, you would not disagree with him.

I think that knowledge is a basis for intelligence but not as important as Dr. Kay asserts. For me, knowledge, in-and-of-itself is only the vertices upon which to build the graph of true understanding. How that graph is built is fascinating and I think deserves more examination, which is why we can't leave it a single term called "outlook," in my opinion. But that's just my opinion; I'm not trying to win points or arguments.

Further, Dr. Kay's goal was not to give a lecture on intelligence, but to get the audience to think harder about what they value. Which is incredibly important and is just one of the reasons he's a hero of mine.
You do realize that cash is not a true physical asset, right? You can hold it in your hand, but it has no intrinsic value. The only value it holds that that which others assign to it, not unlike a share of stock.
Honest question -- why?

The only time I have more than 2-3 tabs open is when I open a bunch of articles at the same time (like on HN), to read through one-by-one, closing them as I go along.

How do you keep track of all those tabs? Why not just use bookmarks, open what you're interested in, and then close it?

I'm sincerely interested in this from a UI point of view...

And if your interest is speed in visualization, if the answer isn't a special list of sites that browsers might pre-render in the background, so your favorite sites always "loaded" instantly?
Unresponsive script crashed my browser. :\
I'll take fear/hunger/confusion/passion/gutwork over "job stability" anytime!
don't make money

A lot of people live farther than walking distance away from work.
Actually, the article does praise "design choices."

The article has a long, subdivided section with the heading "What Works" and no corresponding analysis of any flaws or problems with the game's design. It is full of only praise and not criticism.

Whether or not something works is orthogonal to whether or not it sells.
You would think so. You would properly say "em pirates won't pay for content, no way they would pay for online services". The existence of bittorrent would seem to indicate this.

Let me introduce you to hotfile.com, megashare.com, duckload.com, fileserve.com, filesonic.com.

All of these people makes money of pirates by charging for downloads. They can do this because it is convenient and easy for people to download through them.

So yes, you can make money selling to pirates.
ahh. thanks for bringing that to our attention, we'll get that taken care of shortly - you own your files.
Does the claim make sense in newer processors which when halted switch to a low-power C-state? Waking them up can consume a lot of time (order of milliseconds).
Here's another feature an LED light bulb offers: high-bandwidth data transfer.

http://www.ted.com/talks/harald_haas_wireless_data_from_ever...
I'm saddened that these have to exist. We need to be pushing for better broadband penetration.
Hilarious that this site has advice about text readability
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Isn't Technical Writing a required course for most CS/E curriculum anyways? I know UF requires it. Although knowing it and applying it takes practice and time.
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There is definitely place for more cooking help! Especially with more expertise and being more down to earth. The OP was a good show but there is a lot to be improved. For example the chocolate ice cream recipe was focused on not having sugar, but they substitute dates which contain a lot of sugar. Now that might make the ice cream taste better but that's not what they optimized for, so an actual recipe optimized for taste would probably taste better. And your wife, being a chef, will come up with a tastier pizza sauce than tomato paste + herbs :)

So I hope you will still execute your plans.
the ratings agencies are approved by federal regulators and are protected from real competition.

I'm confused. Surely if I decided to set up my own bond rating agency nobody could stop me?
I wonder what are they going to do with it! Perhaps building datacenters of their own - it's not cheap to store everything in S3 after all.
If BS is a problem, the subject probably isn't interesting. If page minimum lengths become requirements, expect lots of filler when students have said everything that needs to be said in less than the required page length. (If it's a maximum, expect highly dense paragraphs that, while containing lots of information, lose their ease of communication and the endeavor of better communication has been lost.) When weekly or daily writing becomes the norm, expect quality to go down since there are many more important things and the papers will be rushed. Nevertheless, Strunk & White + Practice = Success. Getting people to pump out their first million words, which will inevitably be crap, should be a goal of the educational system.

Clarity should rule above everything else, correct grammar included. This encompasses the "What's the point?" question, since if there is no point, the paper may be grammatically perfect but shouldn't be clear.
CORRECTION: My cost is $20,000 in the piece. Please re-read the piece. In it I state:

-- four months of f/t training with a $200k teacher.
-- 20 students per for months, so 80 students a year / $200k
-- i added 20% for admin so it's $240k / 80 students
-- add $1-2k per student for space
-- four months onsite at $1k a month = 4k per student

that's around $10k per person

i say later in the piece double it.... so $20k a student.

now, not every student is ready for this type of training. but where does a boot camp like this exist?
While the Voice Connect is great for hosts, as a frequent AirBnB guest I don't really want to feel like I am being interviewed when book I place to stay.
>If your conspiracy theory were true, then why would S&P be rating the US Treasury at anything other than AAA?

do you really think that the US Treasury buys the rating like mortgage bond junk issuers?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bond_credit_rating#Criticism

"Starting in the early 1970s, the "Big Three" ratings agencies (S&P, Moody's, and Fitch) began to receive payment for their work by the securities issuers for whom they issue those ratings, which has led to charges that these ratings agencies can no longer always be impartial when issuing ratings for those securities issuers."
Oops. I sort-of guessed at what the example was about, and did not read it.

However, if you find four bytes 'asdf' in the input, you still have to check whether a combining mark follows the 'f'. For this example, that is simple, but I guess things get hairy for many regexes found in real life, such as ones containing even a single period.
Your definition of wealth is broken. A car is wealth. It may be a depreciating asset, but it is still wealth. It has value in its materials. It has value in its construction. It has value in its utility. A car most certainly can make money.

Wealth consists of all things that have value. Shares in a company are wealth. Dollars in your pocket are wealth. A house is wealth. A coal mine is wealth.
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It's not really surprising. PG has said many times that they invest in people not ideas. I gather they also discuss ideas with founders and try and put them onto something other than what they applied with if it sucked.

From YC's perspective investing in several startups doing the same (or very similar) things increases the chance that at least one of them might get somewhere with it.
Awesome screencast! Made me sign up to hackernews just to comment on it...
this is the type of article I enjoy seeing on HN.
The data is pretty big (there are a lot of farmers' markets).
You can't make your CPU execute instructions faster, you can make it execute fewer of them though.
Well, presumably, there are just as many players who want to acquire the stock, so while it's a good indicator of unusual market activity, it's not a doomsayer per se.
Why would I "kick send"? Wouldn't I press send, or touch send, or maybe kick to send, or send a kick (violent)... is kicksend supposed to be a new verb? I can't get past the name.

It sounds like a mispronounced "quicksand", a meaningless mash of two words. Neither the noun+verb nor the verb+verb interpretations are grammatically sensible, and the verb+noun meaning just doesn't feel right.
Yeah. You're the guy who reposted that Reinvigorated Programmer article again a week or so back, right? Something like, "Old Post, What's changed?"

Just a friendly reminder, you may have forgotten, here's the profile blurb you have up right now:

> I'm tired of the repetition, [...] old material being recycled,

> as I write this, Lockhart's Lament has been posted again.

EDIT: formatting error
A business model based around people who have difficulty agreeing to pay more than eight bucks a month for something is probably not a hugely profitable proposition. And as Patrick said, people who "could not give a shit about copyright" by definition will not have any qualms about flat-out stealing your product if they get half a chance. Such a high-risk market tends to drive prices up, which will just drive copyright infringers to try harder to steal your product.

And it's not really relevant, but since it's probably the part you're getting downvoted for, I figure I should explain: Your objection to "a wee bit" seems really weird. It's not particularly region-specific anymore — my mom from Mississippi uses it — and even if it were, it's not hard to grasp the meaning. I can't think of any good reason to avoid it.
RE: dismay, I was thinking of a previous article I saw here on HN:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2644364

although it seems that was a bit over-sensationalized. I agree that at least reasonable SL developers will fall into your two buckets.
This is an admirable hack of SO's intended use. It would be great if there was a site that actually afforded this particular use case. Wikis are too open-ended. Perhaps something in the middle.