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Perhaps one of the best ideas I've ever seen in action. A much better "browsing" (in the shopping sense of browsing) experience than just flipping through a list of items on your phone.

The best part is that it gets delivered to your home. So you can literally shop while waiting for the next train, and there's a good chance the groceries will arrive not too long after you get home.
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The economy has become much more dependent on service jobs. We're not very good at increasing the productivity of services jobs yet. How do you increase the productivity of a psychologist, artist, or even a server at a fancy restaurant?
And yet:

"More recently, it lost $146.5 million in the first quarter of 2011."

Something doesn't compute. Yes, I understand that there are some massive costs associated with customer acquisition in this space, and that there is a business model in there somewhere. But the rush to IPO before these things are sorted out is suspicious. But who are we kidding?
Although the world population has more than doubled from the middle of the twentieth century, technology has doubled many times more, and continues to at a much faster rate than our rate of consumption and reproduction. This exponential increase means that is only a matter of time until the efficiency of technology overtakes the amount of jobs that a society needs to produce more than it needs.

Technology will net kill jobs someday if it isn't already. It remains to be seen whether that is happening now, or if this unemployment is just the symptom of a country that has borrowed too much.
They showed them pushing a Tesla into a garage as if it couldn't be driven, that's misleading. The 55 mile range figure was never justified even at track levels of abuse.

They make fun of other vehicles practicality, but with the Hummer and F150 it's different. Their impracticality and large size are part of their brand and well known by their target market.

Exacerbating minor issues with the Tesla to make it look unusable was mean and unnecessary especially considering the company was new. This alone would have been one thing, but when adding fabricated facts along with it and then doing a similar thing for the other electric vehicle that came out it looks like a pattern of bashing on EVs.

>some idealistic bullshit green-freaks want to see

That isn't necessary, if they just stuck with the truth it would have been good on its own.
He's a bit of a partisan, but in this case I think Krugman's analysis is basically correct, that real questions of debt sustainability aren't +/- $4trillion in the next 10 years, but longer-term insufficiently funded liabilities in healthcare and pensions:

Krugman is a Democrat partisan, but complaining about unfunded liabilities in healthcare and pensions is exactly what the Republicans are doing too. If Krugman and the Republicans agree that it's a big problem then... damn, it must be a big problem.
I would whine if a teacher's mistake sent me from a D to an F if a D would let me "pass".
Haven't seen mentioned yet that .html files and legacy tools have an extremely lax historical attitude towards whitespace. People of a certain age came to the web understanding that a space is the same as a tab is the same as a line feed, as far as browsers are concerned.

The (increasingly common) practice on minifying is just one offspring of that history, which is, to the main point, not shared with Python.
According to the CBO last week's budget agreement cuts $2.1-2.4T in spending [1]. S&P's guidance was that we cut $4T. So either the CBO is off as well, or this typical Washington budgetary spin.

[1] http://cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=12357
Except that most drivers can't afford two cars so they can get around on their non-average days. What is the percentage of people that never drive more than 40 miles/day in the US?
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Or, to continue the Cubanist line of reckoning, because it is so difficult to start a company without reading on someone's patent.
Even Vista had 200 million users after two years. If Microsoft make the same mistakes as Vista (which is unlikely) and it fizzles, Windows sales figures remain mind-blowingly huge.

Why haven't Windows 7-only applications caught on? A major reason is consumer expectations coupled with only a marginal effort required for backwards compatibility for a big increase in market. .NET was a technical back-end change that isn't user-facing, so it competes with legacy code-bases and existing experience.

If Microsoft's new framework fails, it'll be for different reasons.
If the point is valid, why are they falsifying data?

It sounds a lot like they couldn't find a trip where the range would be inadequate, so they pretended the range was inadequate.
Agreed. The real mistake made by all the rating agencies was in not downgrading the US years ago. And I say that as an American citizen who wants to be patriotic, but is just disgusted by the unrestrained spending in Washington.

If the rating agencies had all had the courage to rock the boat and drop us a point a couple years ago, I think that the sound of money going away might have woken up even our political leaders to do something to stop it.
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Its money taken out of circulation that could have otherwise been spend on consumption. Buying IBM stock in my IRA doesn't do much for the economy compared to taking the same funds and buying an IPAD or 100 happy meals.
I take your mercurialhub and give you a hghub instead. Ooops, it's actually shorter than hghub.

github sounds cooler though, I take that. You can actually pronounce it.
Digging through the thread, it seems like the workaround is to disable sleep, and shutdown when you're done using it.
Well this is a difference between an A and a B. Or rather it's the difference between an AAA and an AA+, because grade inflation in the credit rating world is even worse than grade inflation in academia.

But there's a logical flaw here. Even if there was an error in the initial calculation, that doesn't mean that the end result should be different. You can show me that you actually got 81% rather than 80% if you like, but that's still a B.
That's a stupid question to ask. More appropriate would be: who on earth thinks that omitting semi-colons makes anything better?
Since the U.S. bonds are all denominated in the same money that it controls, and the federal government has huge assets and potential revenue streams, I'd put a risk of default quite low; low enough to get an AAA, anyway.

The federal government pretty much can't default unless it actively chooses to, given the huge number of options for servicing debt at its disposal (cutting spending elsewhere, raising taxes, printing money, selling land). So it's almost entirely a political question of how high you think the chances are that the government will choose to default rather than use one of the other options. I would rate that pretty low. But it's not really an actuarial question either way; it's a guess about policy.
Exactly. Also, no customs & border enforcement against trademark / copyright / whatever infringement. Louis Vitton didn't pay IP tax ? They don't get to stop knock offs from being imported.

Align value with cost - that's the way to properly allocate resources.
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So, assuming that such a system was adopted worldwide, you would have to pay a tax in every country of the world if you wanted your IP to be enforceable in all territories? Because if that's the case, owning IP will be so prohibitively expensive that only large corporations will be able to afford it. I'm not sure if that would be a good thing.
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No, what's happening here is that that you don't actually understand the threat model for encryption code running in Javascript fed by a server, and you're getting more and more frustrated by the fact that I'm not handholding you through it.

Reasoning about security systems (click my name to see that I do that for a living) is frustrating. To see what's happening in this case, steel yourself for a headache, sit down, and think hard through all the different things that attackers can potentially influence. Then ask yourself, "what could an attacker accomplish by manipulating that thing?".
If memory serves, IBM's PL1 used to insert missing punctuation that it (the compiler) felt was missing. This wasn't particularly well thought out and often caused problems that were very difficult to debug. I used to think of it as 'doing me a favor that I hadn't asked for' and grew to hate both the feature and the language (the language for other reasons). In the years since then I've tried to be consistent in avoiding any such feature. I find it much easier to go ahead and use what ever the language needs. If I use semi-colons, then I don't have to guess there after...
I continue to be amazed at how much credibility we seem to give this (and other) rating agency after they rated subprime-backed derivatives as safe, rated AIG & Lehman as safe. Is our collective short-term memory non-existent?
Given their track record, that's perhaps giving them more credit than I think they deserve.
but they are again refusing to face facts in front of them..its not unfunded health care liabilities..its UNFUNDED LIABILITIES in FED Budget that means anytime a law is passed without the means to pay for it..for example going to war in Iraq, etc without raising taxes to pay for it..

Another example taking over the Ed Loans from the private sector and than not raising some type of tax to pay for it.

It should be that in order to pass a bill in Congress that a pair of bills one to enact the law and one to pay for it. That is the budget reform that we need.
Would you recommend avoiding ZAMM altogether for now?

Thanks for the link, it'd be rude not to buy a used copy at that price!
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It's not the "math" of the crypto that concerns me; it's the actual integrity of the code performing it. So for instance, if you're trying to do RSA operations in JS, how do you know that none of the bindings in the current Javascript runtime have been exposed to attacker-controllable content? How do you know nothing in the runtime was fed by cached content read over straight HTTP? Or from an HTTPS server that has a DOM corruption flaw?
They don't see publicly debating for a month about defaulting on a loan for the first time and coming close to being within a day of doing it as anything that could possibly shake investor confidence? Isn't the AAA rating for ultra rock solid, and that dragged on public debate gives off the impression of anything but ultra rock solidness.
Entertainment, it is just entertainment.

No really, what difference does it make who they judge is relevant or not? Just see that as the same as comments from sport commenters who obviously don't play. Its fun and caters to the need people have to talk about it but it has little informative value. Its not an advisory service. If your business depends on the information you get through these channels, be very afraid or start building some expertise yourself.
I got into the habit of using ;s to avoid having "my feelings hurt" by JSLint:

Problem at line 1 character 10: Expected ';' and instead saw '(end)'.
that would be really cool. that part of the skill sets is rather needed to actually get something to work. great job.
Why would it be ludicrous? At the cost of $11 for an 8Gb flash drive, they could easily build in compressed coordinate logging for a whole lot of journeys for that money, and have them copied off with the diagnostic logs at every service, and fed back to HQ.

All they have to do is say it's for to offer a better product, for roadside rescue and aggregated into a non-personal store after 30 days, and it would probably be fine.
You point is doubly valid when you consider that the code might be run through Closure or Uglify, and all the truly extraneous semicolons will be removed. At that point, load speed is maximized, and the code is unreadable, semicolons or otherwise.

Since JS source "feels" more C-like than Python-like to me, I think the semicolons are a good idea.
I think that the essence of Groupon's value comes down to whether you believe that the $100 cost to acquire can in fact be consistently converted into the $300 at a rate that beats customer attrition, inflation, and interest rates.

Many of the stories in the media seem to indicate that businesses are getting burned by Groupon and that indicates that attrition is going to be a problem. Only Groupon themselves have a real idea of how large an impact this is having and how it will affect their business.

Early investors are cashing out pre-IPO which seems to indicate that insiders might have information that outsiders do not.

If I were a betting man I would bet that the insiders know that customer retention is an issue and the uncertainty is causing them to lock in more modest profits now instead of rolling the dice with everything post-IPO.
My preferred solution is this:

1. Every year, the US Government figures out how much money it wants to spend.

2. Then, it figures out what the (flat) tax rate would need to be in order to rustle up that much money.

3. Then, it sets the tax rate and sends everyone a bill.

You could do this a year in advance just to make sure everybody knew how much they'd be getting taxed. But the important thing is that everybody in the country needs to see the immediate hip-pocket consequences when the government spends more money.

Still doesn't help with things like SS and Medicare, though, which cost a little bit of money in the year they're passed and vast sums of money several decades into the future.
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Edit: A few facts about why I’m happy to use it:

1) Dancer is well-documented and uses an easy syntax. You can get going pretty fast.

2) Dancer is a light-weight framework – you can make many choices by yourself (file/folder layout, templating, the way you want to implement controllers, …). It comes with reasonable defaults, though.

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And where would JavaScript not handle them in a way people don't expect them to be handled?

Comparing Python's handling of semicolons with JavaScript's ASI, you get the following:

-- End of statements

Python and JavaScript: Ends with either a new line or a semicolon.

-- Line joining

Python: whitespace strict, so lines must be either explicitly joined through the `\' escape character, or put inside a parenthesized expression, which ignores whitespace.

JavaScript: non-whitespace strict, so lines don't need to be explicitly joined. Statements may be continued by starting the following line with a continuation token (one of: `[ ( + - /')

-- Exceptions

Python: Parenthesized expressions use a different parser state (ie.: whitespace strict vs non-whitespace strict)

JavaScript: restricted production grammar usually have optional expressions following them, and since they are a valid statement on their own, the statement will be ended with a new line. So, the related information must start in the same line.

Restricted productions are: return, break and continue; Post-fix and prefix operators are included as restricted productions for readability's sake.

I fail to see how that's difficult to remember, or how that's insanely more complex than Python's rules...
You're right that for the times you need long distance you'd have to have some other vehicle. I don't know if a cheap second car is practical for this or renting something for a long trip. I also don't suspect that it would be needed once or twice a month. I would think it would be much less than that, but I don't have any real data to back up that suspicion.

However rather than saying something like this, they exaggerate the situation and act as if you are unable to drive the EV anywhere without unwittingly running out of fuel. That in conjunction with the similar unwarranted bashing they did on Tesla makes people think they have something against EVs.

There are legitimate criticisms they could make, it isn't necessary to fabricate stories or lie about what the cars can do.
Read ZAMM if you like, but just treat it as a novel rather than as a serious work of philosophy.
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If one watches a few more episodes of the show, it would become obvious that the Prius fuel consumption test was a joke, like everything else in the show. Come on, we can do better than expecting a fair review of a hybrid car from a guy who comes up with increasingly witty descriptions of his erections caused by the power and speed of various sports cars.

Edit: it probably didn't come across like it, but I think that the show is hilarious and it is one of the very few reasons to own a TV. But a car review show (as in, the source of information on the automotive industry) it is not, and is not meant to be.
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We seem to be in agreement then..

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Peter Schiff (1) points out that the downgrade reflects S&P's doubt that the US will pay its debts without devaluing its currency. Does any reasonable person believe that?

1- http://www.youtube.com/user/SchiffReport#p/a/u/0/SgNLTb58K_Y
But that is exactly why they downgraded us. Given everything you listed, we still were within days of default, thanks to how paralyzed the political process has become in Washington.
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This blog is nothing but link bait. The article has no substance, but manages to include "DEF CON" 13 times in 250 words.

Wish I could down vote.
I would bet it's less, especially for people who live in small countries or in cities.
Please, Obi Wan, save us from the gold standard discussions, you are our only hope.
I'd love if some of the downvoters could explain 1) why I'm wrong or 2) what an alternative would look like?
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If you can't find anything (or anything "good"), maybe you could start something? Then advertise it here to try to jump start it? (I suggest it because this is an hour old an so far you have one suggestion with the description "Not very active". I will be happy if other members make me look foolish and direct you to something awesome or several somethings awesome.)

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If any of those things can be used to affect the crypto part, then they could be also used to affect the web application itself, in the first place. I'm only looking for the level of integrity, that I can get from launching the web application over HTTPS anyway.
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I like Top Gear when they are funny, not when they're malicious, both episodes (Tesla then, and Leaf now) seems to have malicious intent against electric cars.
There's no way I'd give an electric car to Top Gear to test unless I loaded it up with stuff like that first. :-)
Which just goes to show the worthlessness of paying attention to prognosticators who put their mouth where their money isn't.
i think there are still tons of candidates who go to interviews but dont know how to code.(http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/02/why-cant-programmer...)
As a fresh CS graduate, I feel like many of my classmates couldn't actually code, this would definitely help the companies to screen out people.

Math is crucial for your startup and I hear that, but not all of the companies need intensive math.

I do agree that those questions wouldn't sufficiently test real-world problem solving skills. But i guess companies could still do interviews after people passed the questions on the website.
Exactly. You can't run around threatening not to pay your bills and then be surprised when you are seen as less credit-worthy than before.

A credit rating is a measure of whether or not you will pay your bills. It's not a measure of your ability to pay those bills.
They ran out of neck holder things for the badges so a lot of people aren't wearing them. As a result, they're not really looking for badges. My friend went around (saturday) and he was able to get in even though he didn't pay.
Your student loan bill is a bad example. In this case the Gov't was already subsidizing these loans and being charged enough by the banks servicing them for those banks to also turn a profit on that line of business.

By bringing it in-house, the governement doesn't increase their liabilities, and now they don't have to pad the profit margins of loan servicers.

But anyways, generally, what you're talking about is call "paygo" rules. They've been instituted before as house rules (and commonly ignored), you're advocating for them being codified into law. Not a bad idea I don't think, but i haven't given it a lot of thought.
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There is a middle ground for people like James Gleick and Neal Stephenson who are scholars (in the sense that they study a field intelligently and more deeply than an average layman) but do not push the field forward.

Great students can become great teachers without being great doers.
The claim about S&P changing their justification does not ring true. Their press release on Friday specifically mentioned the recent brinkmanship as a core concern.
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Yikes, I'd hate to be in the accounting department at S&P the next few years. Can you say, "random IRS audit". Crazy to see the feds calling out a company like this in a blog post. Crazy times.