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Particularly if this is not a static situation we should take advantage of it until until an equilibrium is met (no we should not over leverage, that's a terrible idea).

The point is that we have an opportunity to do responsible investing. I am sympathetic to the argument that the US government is incapable of doing responsible investing. So who is, and how can we get them to act on the US government's behalf so that we all benefit?
Ask HN: feedback on our startup project
Hi everyone, I’d love to get some feedback on our startup idea, we just launched it for limited preview.

For many of us it’s hard to find good and fresh content on the web, especially for something that’s new and upcoming. This is a common problem with many popularity based recommendation websites such as Digg, StumbleUpon, or Youtube. The problem stems from the fact that they rank content in a single global bucket, where it’s hard for new comers to compete with established ones.

We came up with the idea to allow viral web content to spread like real viruses, by real people across real locations.

Benefit number one is that by associating content with locations, each point on earth has its own virtual bucket, in which we only expose content that is spread to, or created at the location. With this breakdown, new content has a better chance to be noticed.
Then because users on our system picks (Facebook “like”) and facilitates the movement of content across locations, we create a crowd-sourced filtering system like the natural selection process. So you can trust what reached your location is good.

With these, we hope to bring excellent content to consumers, and at the same time democratize content promotion.

Our blog has more details in case you are interested: http://blog.infactio.us.

Our question is, would you give it a try? Does our app (infactio.us) live up to its promise?
Your feedback would be really valuable for a young startup!

Thanks HN community!

Loyd
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But at the same time kind of a big win. I spend a nontrivial amount of time on picking my food on waiter.com. We also have 2 offices that people switch between, and people order to the wrong office all the time. That would be a little problematic for ZeroCater too (we'd have to be able to give them a sense of how many people will be where on a given day, and a sense of where the people with diet restrictions are going to be), but it's a little more flexible.
I think that the general argument goes that something like "the economy" is something so immensely complex that any effort to manage it top-down down is likely to fail, regardless of how brilliant, talented, or well-meaning such efforts would be.

As analogy (imperfect though it may be), it's like trying to fix a bug in a program that consists of trillions of lines of code, except that you don't have access to the source code or a debugger. Instead, you have just a few high-level variables you can adjust (which may or may not be useful).

In summary, the issue is that there are some problems that have a scale and complexity for which a top-down approach is really beyond human comprehension.
Almost 6 months. ;)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2272448
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> Medicare Part D managed to spend a boatload of money while providing an absurdly small amount of care, most of it going straight to drug companies.

As I said, we agree that it's bad. You've yet to establish that the Dem's proposal, which was more expensive, was better.

> And, the stimulus isn't contributing to that deficit, hence the comment about it being "hilariously orthogonal".

You're the only one talking about the stimulus. I've pointed out that the post-stimulus deficit is >$1T, while the pre-Obama deficit was $460 and the last Repub Congress deficit was $160B, both with the bush tax cuts and more war spending and the recession hadn't kicked in then.

The "out years" projections assume no recession.
well yes, fukime wasn't so good

edit: I'm affliated with Fukime
> The government is literally awash in cheap credit

TODAY. However, do you really think that interest rates will remain low until that money is paid off?
a[5] == 5[a]
Is it better to pay someone else or do it yourself?
This assumes that the downsides of labor (monotony, debilitating or fatal injury (particularly in the case of much-touted "shovel-ready" projects)) don't count. If the end product of the artificial jobs minus those downsides provides less individual and social utility than simply paying the worker a stipend, we should go with the stipend and forget the work.
Over at http://halftoneapp.com we use speak@halftoneapp.com
> A WPA-type program to improve transportation, energy and communications infrastructure.

We tried that and can't do it today. Instead, we piss away large amounts of money and don't build infrastructure.

Policy recommendations should account for reality, not "if we do this right".
They don't know how to use SSH. Then you say they should learn. Then I say they aren't interested in learning. Then you say these people shouldn't be uploading files. Then we'll have to respectfully agree to disagree regarding how things do work and how they should work.
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Charles Gasparino has a similar idea. US companies have about $1 trillion parked overseas that will be taxed at 35% if transferred back to their US operations. His idea is to let them transfer the money tax free, on the condition that they use 25% of the funds to hire workers. and grow US operations. that may sound like corporate welfare, but the truth is that those companies are not going to bring that money back anyway.
There would be changes, sure, but they'd be done through the "criminal outrage of the mob, led by leaders who [would be] either unscrupulous, deluded, or both." What changes are you hoping for? Are you hoping for a Star Trek-esque future of no money and people working, if they want, for the betterment of themselves and humanity? I don't think the technology is there, but I'm told we could feed and house the whole human population several times over if we made that a goal. What definitely is not there is the culture and society. I have no confidence that an outraged mob of US citizens would effect anything much better than the current system, but perhaps I'm just too pessimistic and haven't seen enough opposing evidence.

Of course, I am very tempted to see 'what happens' if we just let everything continue on the path of destruction. Follow your suggestions, vote for a Trump/Palin/Bachmann trio of president/v.p./secretary of state (not necessarily respectively), etc.
Startup Quote: Mike Hudack, Co-founder, blip.tv
When something really shitty happens we try not to take it personally, figuring that tomorrow is another day.

- Mike Hudack (@mhudack)

http://startupquote.com/post/8766099467
They should start by trying to design a Starwisp:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starwisp
Kind of how I remember the name Shwowp for how horrible it is, but have to Google "tara hunts startup" to find Buyosphere.
I'm with you..

"The committees would then look at the submissions, starting with the ones that promised the most jobs at the least cost."

Yoiks. Investment by government committee. Way to allocate all the wrong money in the wrong place
in bash you can use $_ to access the last argument of the previous command. It lets you do things like this:

$ pwd
/home/foo
$ mkdir -p bar/baz/qux && cd $_
$ pwd
/home/foo/bar/baz/qux
Read the post. It's specifically about why it worked for him on the iPad.

"I’ve had laptops and cellular internet connectivity for 7 years, but I never would have done something like this before. Why?"

He then goes on to list the reasons which basically boil down to the strong ecosystem the iPad has (ease of searching, finding, buying, etc.).
Taxes have been repeatedly cut and we still have 9% unemployment for years, what is your solution? More tax cuts? What if those cuts don't work? Tell unemployed people to stop being lazy? Do you think it's possible that even completely free markets could settle for years into an undesirable equilibrium?
Great idea. Liars and thieves would kill it. They kill all the ideas that can work, until liars and thieves are under control nothing will change.
> Hey asshole, what if I want to reply?

> What’s that? You don’t want crazies emailing you? You’re worried about spam?

Based on these lines, it seems like you're misunderstanding what "noreply@" means... They're not saying it's against the "rules" to reply, they're just saying nobody is monitoring the mailbox so it would be a waste of your time to do so. It's almost a courtesy, really...
I wonder if it's close enough to warrant a copyright suit. I know Zynga's been sued a few times for cloning other successful games and then using their mounds of cash to out-market the original creators, and I believe they settled with at least one of them.
Seen the demo video, and I'm a little skeptical about content spread having to depend on real-life location. I like the current global bucket model, because it guarantees best content (even if it hides other potentially good submissions).

virus originated from Redmond, WA?
I'm going to guess you are or used to be a Product Manager at Msoft.
It makes sense. VCs stick a finger in the wind and then go where they think the profits are blowing. The truth is that if someone invented a slam dunk Clean Energy solution that was better than what we have, financially sans subsidies, they would get the funding they need regardless of how much capital it required.
Yeah! There's some truth to the idea of winter. But for the people who are doing it just for the sake of doing it, winter doesn't matter.

Make good things. Money will follow no matter what the season is.
I dunno, I like the name, and I think a double-meaning is a bit of a stretch... Next you're going to tell me you think a restaurant site named "Eating Out" means something else...
Google and Instapaper killed Delicious for me.

I used to bookmark anything interesting. 3 years ago my bookmarks menu wouldn't fit on the screen at once, and that was just the category folders. Later someone showed me Delicious, and I stated migrating my bookmarks there. But search engines have gotten so good, I don't even bookmark pages anymore.

Why bother tagging when searching's faster? I only have to vaguely remember what the page was about and I'm there (or somewhere better).
Former Amazon employee, my comments do not necessarily reflects the views of my (former) employer, yadi yada.

Amazon's fulfillment infrastructure is the best in the world, bar none, full stop. It is so far ahead of every other online retailer that it's pretty sobering to think about.

Amazon can get items to you faster, more reliably, more cheaply than just about anyone else, by a pretty ridiculously wide margin. There is a tremendous amount of extremely non-trivial know-how within Amazon that permits them to operate like this. Even if you had access to all the money in the world you'd still have a hard time cloning Amazon's infrastructure... and at this stage, even if you had the know-how, the amount of money required is not within the realm of a startup's reach.

Compared with Groupon, whose uniqueness is entirely public knowledge, who have no capital infrastructure that is hard to clone. Who have no trade-secret business processes that give them a leg up over the competition. You can do exactly what Groupon does with a trivial amount of cash and know-how (and people do, see the ridiculous number of Groupon clones).

Amazon's acquired land is defensible, Groupon's is... really not.
Yep, I get the top down argument, but what i want to know is what does work, and why can't our government enable that?

Government is a massive bureaucracy, no doubt, but then so are large companies. And large companies can partner with smaller organizations, or buy them and use their knowledge and expertise to make money.

Look at what Disney did with Pixar.
I think I am going to avoid my student loans for a little longer. I would love to work for a small startup but I feel my EE degree would be useless, and too be honest I don't even know how to see out such employment. As my graduation date brings the time when my loans will start accruing interest closer I feel like my only option is to go to grad school or take an entry level engineering position at a large firm.

I don't see how I can fit startup employment or even creation into the path I chose 4 years ago. If only I could talk to myself 4 years ago.
I think the bigger news here is that Gizmodo is not being charged at all. It was fairly clear from the behavior of the individual who fenced the phone that he suspected that he was breaking the law so it is no surprise that the prosecution came to the same conclusion.
A while ago, reddit had a blog post[1] about how such rankings seemed to have no connection to their internal numbers.

[1]http://blog.reddit.com/2010/07/experts-misunderestimate-our-...
Perl's numeric equivalence operator is ==, while its string equality operator is eq. Perl's operators are monomorphic that way.
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Can someone explain to me why people keep referring to "Real-Time" chat? I've seen it multiple times and don't understand why... How is this in anyway different from just... chat. Is this some sort of buzzword bingo?
In the most important case it was sets.
There was a collision detection routine that took up too much time because checking membership for vectors is not constant time. The sets/vectors were very small though, low double digits, but once you do stuff 30 times per second for a couple a hundred objects it can get slow. (only on the iPhone though, in the simulator everything was good)

For the general world representation I used a static grid, as the object size was very homogenous, so a quad tree would have been overkill.
You missed the point. The article is arguing that companies should put a monitored mailbox as the default reply-to, and not use unmonitored mailboxes, as they are missing out on valuable feedback and interactions.
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I really like this idea. It's sort of like a decentralized and transparent DARPA, only it can extend beyond defense. The contests could be a mix between incremental efficiency improvements as well as "pie in the sky" ideas. If coupled with a strong mentoring program per contestant, you could also target STEM education.
Couldn't agree with this more. A big part of putting a service out there is getting in touch with your users and potential users.

If a user wants to engage/communicate with you, then you should be making it as easy as possible (Generally true, but particularly for an early-stage startup). The noreply seems brain-dead in this light.
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We were bit this one ... supposedly http://colo4.com is a really good colo ... but then it happened. Nearly 12 hour downtime. Search twitter for #colo4 for the backlash.

Any good VPS recommendations? (aside from AWS)
(seems to be working in Chrome and FF)
From Paid to Freemium on Mac App Store, how?
The New Food Chain: Investing in Food Startups
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You beat me too it.

I setup clients up with help@example.com when permitting. Turn those noreplies upsidedown ;)
I think for things where feedback is warranted, sure.
But for automated email sending, alerts, notifications, things which may have very high bounce rates, using a real mailbox is basically spamming yourself or your support team.

I tend to use 'automated@' or 'a.robot@' though, to reflect that it was sent on behave of a process.
While we're mentioning tools that break the "prog | xargs .." pattern, I've found ack to be pretty useful. ( http://betterthangrep.com/ )
But the day ZeroCater misunderstands a dietary restriction, or just shows up with something I can't stand, there would be a big problem.

I intentionally order only things I know I'll like and can eat so I don't go through the day hungry and pissed off. The model of "tell us when you don't like something" might eventually approach something semi-reliable, but in the mean time there's going to be a lot of wasted food and low blood sugar.
From a flow perspective, lots of companies use automation tools/sorting for incoming e-mails. It's really easy to get inundated in e-mail spam, and it's hard to set up filtering on a very general e-mail with lots of possible "Reply" origins.
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Unfortunately, lots of people have vacation responders or autoresponders saying you have to click on a URL to get delivered...
Your reply-to address doesn't have to be the same as the envelope-from on the message, so intentional replies can go to a different address than SMTP bounces. You don't have to spam yourself.
I completely agree, I have been a "subscriber" for months and I am borderline considering it just another piece of spam. But the real point here is how bad it is for so many businesses. I am not saying it is not great for some as well, I just have heard too many stories of groupon trying to hard sell small companies that don't fully realize the impact these "deals" can have. That is just a business model that scares me!
The Fed is betting that that will be the case with their announcement today that they will be keeping interest rates low.

So, er, yes, sounds like that might be a reasonable assumption?
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I think that it has some real possibilities especially in keeping local items relevant. Where the previous poster's argument comes to play though is in content that has no specific geographic tie but rather a conceptual tie (e.g. Linux) etc. However if that is not the type of content you want then maybe it is not a big deal.

I would suggest having someone edit your About page though to clean up some grammatical issues.
But you won't know whether feedback is warranted. You don't get to decide - the user does.

As an example, yesterday I got an e-mail where a template variable hadn't been expanded. noreply means they don't get to find out. It's worth my time replying to an e-mail. It's not worth finding a contact form and filling it out.
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The no-reply email is like sending your error logs to /dev/null

THAT BEING SAID

I used to be responsible for 600 active websites, and when we switched to using a help-desk system for auto-sent emails we broke things and had to go back to no-reply.

Lesson learned for us: it's worse to give the appearance of attention if you don't have the means to deliver on that promise.
I'm not entirely convinced that the problem you're solving is a serious one, but I still think that your results could be fun and the locality aspect might well result in neat things bubbling up that's particularly relevant to a specific audience (I'm thinking the NASCAR crowd in middle America, or anarchists in Oregon). I am interested to see how it works out, and would participate.
Bonds/Notes/Bills issued by the Treasury have fixed rates - so yes, the interest rates will stay that low until the money is paid off.

The point that others have brought up is that if the US Government borrows an incredibly large amount of money and pushes up the Debt/GDP ratio, future, additional borrowing will become more expensive. But if today's borrowing is used efficiently, it should drive up GDP and reduce some of the need for future borrowing.
in perl

"==" returns true if the left argument is numerically equal to the right argument.

"eq" returns true if the left argument is stringwise equal to the right argument.

see 'perldoc perlop' under the heading "Equality Operators"
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Most autoresponders send highly predictable responses that can be reliably filtered on.
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>> it's worse to give the appearance of attention if you don't have the means to deliver on that promise.

Good call actually. In which case I think better to go with something like what Wufoo does, I believe theirs is something like "friendlyrobot" and if you reply to it, it sends you a friendly message explaining that nobody checks that mailbox, but there is a support desk they can contact. FTW.
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The process Mark Cuban describes already goes on all the time at the state level. States routinely give giant tax breaks and other financial goodies to companies that promise to build a plant, create jobs, or otherwise invest in the state economy.

The problem right now is that this system is generally highly political, unfair, and non-transparent. Cuban implicitly identifies this problem with his idea that the decision-makers should have not made political contributions for five years.

Additionally, states routinely fail to put an enforcement mechanism in place, and they're shocked, just shocked, when they discover they've been fleeced.
That's true, but nothing's perfect. Once so far I have misread a (somewhat-confusing) menu item and ordered meat by mistake.

But that's probably a little rarer than a failure of ZeroCater's model to satisfy every person, and I came away from my Waiter.com error primarily blaming myself, whereas since ZeroCater claims they can satisfy everyone without having you explicitly choose, it's really their fault when they fail at that
I don't understand why this has become a trendy pet peeve to have now, at least 5 years after email ceased to be a relevant form of communication. If you care about email, you've already lost.

Overuse of automated out-of-office respondes does far more damage to the medium.
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Really, down voting a post that tries to explain the Geocentric School of Astronomy. Trying to suppress a view point are we?