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It's easier for people to control their government at the local level, than at the national level. For instance, the city of Cambridge a year or so ago removed all the DHS cameras that were put up after 9/11. That wouldn't happen if they were controlled at the national level. Look at gay marriage or marijuana, only a problem at the national level - let the states do what they want; it's less of a chance of one group going in and ruining it for everyone. Sure, it's probably not optimal there will be some laggards, and perhaps even backward progress. But overall, the system will be more stable and allow the most amount of freedom for those who want it - being able to vote with your feet is much better than voting in an election.
It's as if wealth is zero-sum, and Mr. Buffet believes he and his ilk have taken some of it from the rest of the population. But he's not going to go without his generous slice of the pie if his friends aren't forced to go without theirs. But he and some of his friends are voluntarily giving their pie to worthwhile causes... as we speak! no force necessary!

I would pay higher taxes to keep it that way.

The sad reality is that the government is going to have to raise revenue somehow, and if that's the case, I'd prefer to raise it on those with a lot of passive income, who are less likely to move their assets out of the country. How you achieve that objective is beyond me.
Well, if he's pissed off at Intuit, then Mint might not be the best choice for him - it's also run by Intuit.
Hong Kong is small country which makes it faster / cheaper to adopt new technologies compared to adopting it in 50 states where some states are magnitude bigger than Hong Kong.
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Ask HN: Going to be in Silicon Valley for a week - any must-attend events?
I'll be in Silicon Valley from Aug. 21-27, and wondering if there are any must-attend or good-to-attend breakfast, lunch, or evening networking events in the area. Trying to pack my days while I'm there.
This is just a list of random tweets, I think.
I watched the video and it was quite interesting. He says pretty explicitly that he thinks network effect businesses are in the most important ways the opposite of a Lean Startup(TM). Definitely helped me think about the topic in a clearer way. Thanks for the link.
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You probably should have known better. Mac support for Quicken and Quickbooks have always been terrible. Here is their official word on the subject:

http://quicken.intuit.com/support/articles/getting-started/upgrading-and-conversion/8207.html

If you want to experiment, here's a link to the pre-release of Quickbooks 2011

http://web.me.com/quickbooksmac/2011/pre-rel.html

I wish there were real alternatives but there's really nothing on the market which does the job as well as qb/quicken
Right. It's all of our money, because we all share the same society. Sorry, "it's mine, all mine" doesn't cut it outside an Ayn Rand fantasy novel or a Ron Paul forum.
Stop fabricating numbers. The US National debt is about $14.5 trillion, not anywhere close to 54 trillion.

Btw, the Bush tax cuts — costing $1.8 trillion from 2002 to 2009 — are a big reason we got into this deep hole.

Buffet: I would note that a net of nearly 40 million jobs were added between 1980 and 2000. You know what’s happened since then: lower tax rates and far lower job creation.
Yes. Gates Foundation works on various philanthropic causes, notably global health issues.
If Warren feels so guilty, then he should write a check to the US Treasury for his entire net worth.
"tend to get ahead", "trend seems obvious", "fly in the face..." -- I've witnessed a lot of "intelligent" people in my life, and a lot of people on the other end of the spectrum. Intelligent or not, I would suggest that people who "tend to get ahead" are those that ENJOY and are HAPPY with life. I would go so far as to say that IQ doesn't play a part in this outcome - and may make it more difficult to achieve. It's all about the unit of measurement, which I believe is consistent with the article's intent.
Because as soon as a new player wants to connect a town with fiber (or the town decides to lay fiber on it's own) suddenly the big telcos are very interested in also laying fiber in that town, ruining any chance of profitability. There are even cases of telcos suing towns that tried to lay their own fiber.[0]

I know this is an unpopular view in the United States, so please do not downvote me for stating my opinion, but I believe that phone/internet service should not have been privatized in the first place.

0: http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2008/09/telco-to-town-wer...
Ha, is that a VT100 terminal?

With all the women shown in mainframe/miniframe ads, you think more women would have gone into programming back then. However I guess there aren't too many women in autorepair today despite all the car tool calendars, ahem.
If you keep blinking continuously you don't lose sight of the yellow dots. But this is so strange!
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It's interesting, because Visicalc was originally dominant. And then Lotus 1-2-3 was dominant. And now Excel is. Each could read the format of the previous one, but improved features/performance. The switchover appears to be related to platform changing, to IBM-PC, to GUIs. Which is how it usually goes. One would expect an Excel-slayer to emerge from a platform that replaces Windows - such as the web or the iPad (or some new GPU/many-core architecture that gives us speed equivalent to extrapolated clock rate increases if they hadn't stopped at 3GHz about 10 years ago), if it somehow invades the enterprise. i.e. a Windows-slayer.

http://dssresources.com/history/sshistory.html --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spreadsheet#History
Without a banking system? The idea is to have a banking system that works and follows the law and doesn't require trillions in handouts to stay solvent, not no banking system.
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That's not what their pricing page tells us. It's actually very expensive.
The mention about the Psion PDA is spot on. I also used to do a lot of writing with those in the 90s. Relatively small device, almost laptop-quality keyboard, and battery life of several days with AAs that you could buy anywhere.

I haven't seen devices like that in last ten years or so. Undistracted, small, great text input.

Back then I'd connect the Psion with infrared to my cell phone to FTP stuff to our processing system that would eventually convert the document format on the device to HTML and post it online.
It's pointless: for them their belief trumps facts.
Buffet who should know better: correlation doesn't imply causation
That remark is a bit facetious.
Given how much of everything moves based on short-term credit, it is unlikely anybody would have been able to step in before the economy imploded. The credit crunch was not about being able to get funds to build a new building, it was about being able to get funds to ensure the shipment of raw parts was sent (taken recursively through the entire supply chain all the way to your local retail outlet).

If that had seized, it would have been far worse than the bailouts.

Unfortunately, there should have been at least civil penalties (and probably criminal pentalies) associated with building and hiding enough toxic assets to tank the banking system. The real travesty was not the bailout, it was that there were no negative consequences (relatively speaking) to the people who caused it (which is a tough question to answer, but not enough effort was made, IMO).
It's not geared towards business owners (invoicing, vendors, cutting checks, double entry book keeping, reconciling, etc)

Mint hits that sweet spot with single individuals, maybe married couples, with multiple accounts who want to get an overview and bottom line.
If Buffet finds it so wrong that he pays so little tax, I am sure the IRS wouldn't mind if he paid more.

Personally I would adjust Social Security to the expected life time (and re-adjust it every year); get out of Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya; half the army (you got nukes, you don't need that big an Army to defend yourself) and stop the war on drugs.
The entire US financial system is based on credit and liquidity. Clearly something had to be done. Do I agree that the bailout was the best way to do that? No. But a timely bad plan was better than an untimely good one.

By the way, the argument that nothing needed to be done is opposed to practically every economics departments' opinion in the country. Maybe you know more about economics than we all guessed, but I think it's time you show a PhD instead of arm-chairing here.
RIP, legendary programming textbook author Daniel McCracken.
That's probably a fair general characterization of what is going on, but the core part is that our perceptual systems respond primarily to change - if things in our field of vision are not changing, they produce less of a "signal" in our brains. It's not our perceptual system that is switching modes as much as it is the world changing between active and static.

In the MIB case, most of the field of view is constantly changing, providing a lot of signal, but the yellow dots are low signal, and so our brains happily fill in the static dots with the in-motion background around it. Moving your eyes, blinking, or moving your head around all introduce enough visual change to re-set the full visual field, which is why the yellow dots reappear.

Through top-down attentional control, you can have some influence over whether/which dots disappear - in effect, you are turning up the signal gain on particular receptors in the visual field around the target dots.

You can also see why this affects people with monocular vision just as well - a lot of this perceptual processing happens at a very low level, well before binocular cues get integrated.
"Buffet is talking about "Taxable Income" meaning a small business or family farm would have to be making 1 Million in profits for it's owners before they would actually be effected by such an increase in rates."

I understand perfectly... go ahead, put the cutoff at 1Mil and you're going to lose politically.

"Consumption tax would likely put an undue burden on the poor"

I don't care... I'm mocking the idea of "shared sacrifice"... the poor pay almost no taxes.
I think that will be pretty much.
But less code are useful.
As a small business bookkeeper, I agree that new blood could really improve things.

I think it could be web-based though, as long as security took top priority.
Have to say something. Using statistics to quantify a change in IQ based SES is similar to using statistics to show that an algae bloom is due to increased sunlight only. The drop in IQ has more to do with limiting educational opportunities and community supports for struggling families. Yes, our government has let us down in many ways but it is a generational problem of trying to give the people what they need to survive and be successful without the people really understanding what it truly is, to be successful. Mass media promotes an idea of success that is NOT successful in terms of true human success and the average Joe buys into such fallacies. It should never be a handout but a hand up to a better life, short term, look for solutions, educate, change, move on. If that is not possible for a "family" to do this, it needs to be discovered specifically why, not just surface appearances of what may truly be stopping appropriate growth and development of the human being. It is never one thing only, there is always a system involved and the system is broken somewhere along the way preventing it from working entirely successfully. Who said it takes a VIllage? It really does, a whole village of people concentrated on the development of each individual within that village to ultimate success and success does not equal money or power unless it is a means to an end for change and a better future for all.
1. topnotch prenatal care for all
2. topnotch education and services from birth, identifying potential problems in development right from the start and providing supports to prevent issues
3. Proper diet and nutrition education and availability, across the board
4. Fewer identifiers of low SES on a daily basis for growing children to prevent the stigma from pushing them into poor decision making.
5. A village for every child

It is all out there, you have to fight for it sometimes and sometimes you are treated with suspicion just because you want to fight for it, but in the end, it will always be worth it, for posterity's sake.
btw, When Berkshire acquired Gen Re (a massive reissurer), they closed down its derivatives book. It cost Berkshire hundreds of millions and took years, but they closed that book because they couldn't understand these derivatives.

The ones that Buffet has invested in are way more straightforward, don't pose any systemic risk, and have very different collateral requirements than the toxic stuff.
I thought the same so looked for the original article on Google Scholar. From Fehr and Gachter, "Altruistic Punishment in Humans":

... groups with four members played the following public
goods game. Each member received an endowment of 20 money
units (MUs) and each one could contribute between 0 and 20 MUs to a group project. Subjects could keep the money that they did not contribute to the project. For every MU invested in the project, each of the four group members, that is, also those who invested little or nothing, earned 0.4 MUs. Thus, the investor's return from investing one additional MU in the project was 0.4 MUs, whereas the group
return was 1.6 MUs.

Your return on an investment of 1U is 0.4U, so it's always best for you personally to keep a unit. But the group return is 1.6U so the group as a whole is enriched for every unit invested.
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Had you checked the first google result for United States debt, you would have found where the confusion is coming from: the national debt is 14.5 trillion, and the total debt is 54 trillion (Source: http://www.usdebtclock.org/). I'm guessing "total debt" according to the debt clock includes things like state governments and private citizens, although Wikipedia claims that the 14.5 trillion figure is total debt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_public_debt).
"How on earth does consumption tax have anything to do with "shared sacrifice"? "

I'm mocking the idea of "shared sacrifice"... the poor pay little taxes, if they're not giving anything up then they're not sacrificing anything.
Even at the current tax rates, Buffet properly pays more than you do. And he certainly pay more than those who are on the various forms of government relief.
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If you really believe that campaign contributions are constitutionally-protected speech, then outright political bribery should be legalized.

Anonymizing campaign contributions wouldn't have an effect on political speech and it wouldn't have an effect on who you gave money to. (You'd still be free to say who you contributed to. You'd also be free to lie about who you donated to.) It would only change the way the money was handled, with the ultimate effect of removing the quid pro quo from donations.
People talk as if shareholders in companies like AIG and Citi escape scot free. Citi is down 93% and AIG is down 98%.

The point was that you didn't have a domino effect that took down the whole world economy (no industry that is bigger than a corner store can function without a banking system). Throwing out the baby with the bathwater just so you can punish some people is counterproductive.
I totally agree. But that wasn't the choice that people were faced with in 2008.
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Scalzi's article about "Being Poor" is definitely not a description of poverty in the United States.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1713461
Hi Yesh, thank you for your comment, it raises some very good points and concerns I've been having lately.

The target market is pretty much small to medium retailers who are looking for an affordable POS solution.

I love the idea of having hot keys on the webapp though, it would really make the whole processing faster.
Seriously? It's not about me. It's about that book. For my remarks, you will have to look at them and not at me.

I nailed them on their description that the simplex algorithm was like Gaussian elimination for systems of linear inequalities.

No, The simplex algorithm is selecting elementary row operations to improve the value of the objective function.

Gaussian elimination also uses elementary row operations, but that is about the end of the direct connection. In particular, how Gaussian elimination selects elementary row operations is quite different from how simplex selects them.

For more detail, I explained the role of artificial variables where we just 'glue on' an identity matrix. So, since we just glue on an identity matrix, we never, directly in simplex, go through anything like Gaussian elimination to GET an identity matrix. Yes, at times, for numerical reasons, one should 'reinvert' the basis in simplex, and here Gaussian elimination, etc., might be used, but such 'reinversion' is not really simplex.

The authors mentioned Gaussian elimination when they should have mentioned elementary row operations. Next, what is special about simplex is improving the objective function, not working with linear inequalities. Indeed, simplex doesn't work with linear inequalities; instead, we just use 'slack' and 'surplus' variables to get a system of linear equalities (with non-negative variables) before simplex even gets the problem.

The authors were being sloppy. I called them out on it. It was appropriate that I do so.

If you believe that my remarks about simplex are in error, then by all means make your claims.

But the issue is not me; it's the book.
Warren is omitting very crucial information and knowingly deceiving most people. He's pretending he doesn't pay very many taxes, but he does, he just pays different taxes. In this article he mentions capital gains, income, and payroll taxes but does not mention corporate income taxes. Corporate income taxes are taxes on the owners of corporations. I don't know exactly how much he paid, but some quick math I'd guess he alone paid 1.6 billion last year in corporate income taxes. (Berkshire paid 5.6 billion, Warren's worth 53 billion, Berkshire 178 billion, giving Warren 29% ownership, if you have better numbers feel free to share). So he mentions 6 million dollars in taxes but omits 1.6 billion from the discussion.
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http://www.snpedia.com/index.php/Caffeine
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Hmm, long laundry list, and somewhat valid.

Yet he is the only one who amongst the super rich in America who is talking about raising taxes. He is doing this specifically because of the positive impact it would have on finances for the country, despite the fact that this would have a disproportionate/fair share effect on his tax payments.
No. This thread is a font of misinformation. The Federal Reserve lent $16 trillion in total transactions at the primary credit interest rate to banks over years worth of time. This number is clearly cited to provoke populist rage but is completely ridiculous when analyzed intellectually.

Look, consider this analogous situation. You're having trouble meeting your short term debts but had a solid line of income so you come to me and say, "I need $10 for lunch today but I can pay you from my paycheck at the of the day." I know you have a job and confirm your paycheck so I say, "OK. I'll lend you the money." So Monday comes and goes and you pay me back. Now, times are tough so you have to do this for a full 2 weeks before you can get back on your feet. During this time I lent you $10 on Monday, got payed back on Monday, $10 on Tuesday, etc. At the end of the two weeks would it be accurate to say I lent out $100? No, because I only really lent out $10 at a time. In fact, I really just lent out the same $10 ten times.

This is exactly the same situation. The $16 trillion is in total amount of money lent but it doesn't actually reflect any amount of money lent at any given time.
It's not a made-up number.

US debt to bondholders is around $14.5 trillion.

The US also promised Medicare and Social Security payments to retirees that are underfunded by $59 trillion:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-05-28-federal-b...

The numbers will vary here according to longevity and interest rates, but the bill is huge, and it will have to be paid with tax money.
A family of 4 starts paying tax at around $27,000. They're already paying 6.2% in Social Security and 1.45% in Medicare. (This is also matched by the employer.) That's $2,066.

I want to know how many dollars they should pay in taxes. So, we've said social security and medicare is $2,066. How much should a family of 4 making $27,000 be taxed?
Show HN: New way to search for used cars (my weekend project)
Each dot on the chart is a car.

Horizontal scale = mileage.

Vertical scale = price.

The size of a dot = year (newer = larger), plus I colored 2007 .. 2011 in different colors to find "fresh" cars quicker.

This is just some sample data from the last 24 hours, relatively cheap cars under $32,000 within 500 mile radius of NYC.
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