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Storing the mailer isn't a big problem. When I buy a new bulb, I'll get a new mailer. I toss the first round. I don't disagree with you on the energy cost though.
I haven't read the paper, but here's one example I've seen. Assume for the moment that the universe is closed, complete (there is nothing but our universe), and deterministic under the hood. Obviously, nobody in the universe has free will, right? Because it's all closed and all outcomes are predetermined.

But maybe that's not a useful definition of free will. The conventional, fuzzy definition of free will has an omniscient narrator in it; "I do not have free will if the omniscient narrator knows in advance everything I will do" is a reasonable expansion of the conventional idea. But in my hypothesized universe, there is no omniscient narrator. There are only various entities with various degrees of computational power, with a varying but rather quantifiable amount of information that any entity can obtain about any other.

Suppose it can be demonstrated that it is computationally infeasible for any entity due to being too complex to ever predict the actions of any human-sized (or greater) other entity, even if granted all the remaining resources in the universe to compute the actions. Or suppose it is demonstrated to be quite easy. Either way, that would be an interesting philosophical contribution, no?

(I'm just sketching the idea here. I'm not trying to defend it or attack it. Oh, and one of the foundations of philosophy is that there is never One True Definition; all loaded terms in this post are ultimately ill-defined, and I've avoided the distraction of even beginning to nail them down on purpose.)
Same here. I actually have to renew my policy by September 1, so I was hoping this would be a fun experiment!
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I wonder if there's any observed correlation between earliness of launch (per pg's advice) and likelihood of future success?
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I don't know how tight the community but could the residents organize to protect the areas? A little like what the Egyptians were doing? Blocking roads and letting only residents pass?
True Names, broken though the model is, are the fad of the hour because Google is hell-bent on them. And since it is the fondest wish of many funded startups to be bought by Google, nobody is going to get fired for doing exactly what Google is doing at any given moment.
At a very basic level, I don't understand the stock market. A private company can raise capital through an IPO. But what are the investors really buying? The company might pay a dividend, but many don't. Investors can purportedly elect the board of directors, but in reality, few investors have any influence. So what (liquid) investment have the shareholders bought that is actually appreciating in value?
Why are they emailing developers out of the blue to "claim" their profile?

Please don't base your service off of crawling sites and emailing people who don't ask for either.
That would also apply to software engineers. What physical laws do they apply?
Actually, as a (just as absurd) heuristic I think the world would be much better off if we killed, say, the 1% richest people every year. We'd lose some people up there with genuine net contribution to mankind, but for the most part we'd get rid of thieves and thugs. The problem with mankind is not lack of good and brilliant folks, but excess of white collar thieves and thugs.

Not that I would propose this seriously. Just seems to me less absurd than what you suggested, which is not saying much at all.
Seems to me that this would be a huge opportunity for some well co-ordinated use of social media by the MET: many people have seen looters return to their home with their swag and would probably be delighted to report it anonymously - along with all photos taken by people of the actual looting. The refugees seem to have no clear contact number let alone website to go to on their smartphones. These people surely are motivated to inform on the rioters and quite probably have useful knowledge.

And finally, phone location records - even without call history and text messages - could be data-mined to give leads on the rioters - when they go home to sleep pick them up with the loot, and you have an easier case than two weeks later with it all squirrelled away.
Practices of an Agile Developer is just the right amount of discussion of methodology, project management, and technical practices.. you know, before you get back to just writing code. :)
Sorting by date is a breakthrough for normal people. I've been developing and advocating it for years. The big photo sharing sites make you sort manually into albums because that's what professionals and photography enthusiasts want. Photo sharing for the rest of us is just getting started.

I'm eager to see more about the algorithmic clustering, but the site's overloaded now.
I think the concern about whether or not candidates have seen this, or any, programming question before is missing the point. Think about what we want in the ideal candidate -- we want them to come up with a good (elegant, efficient) solution to the problem, and implement it. We (judging by all the other responses) expect them to do that because they've had a solid CS education (formal or informal) as well as significant experience.

But people with that background will give good answers, even if they haven't seen _this specific problem_, because they have seen lots of problems like it and recognize the pattern. And even in that case, we evaluate them based on how well they can implement the pattern they saw, not just on whether they recognized the correct algorithm. So what if they've seen this problem already? Coding it up efficiently and elegantly in an interview context is still non-trivial, and you can still push them to discuss edge cases and performance tradeoffs.

The person who really has _never_ seen anything like this in his life, and still can give a good answer, I have yet to meet.
Currently, our recommendation engine is the only publicly available product. We're building a platform similar to what Leaky portrays, but it's still in development. Displaying truly accurate and actionable rates is not a simple task.
Wow, I can't believe this got modded down.

You wrote, "the Republicans want a small government." Do you believe that the attributes of a "small government" include endless wars, redition, torture, warantless wiretapping, racial profiling, police brutality, merger of church and state, etc.?
This kind of silly tribalism is the exact reason that nobody can get anything done. You're now saying ignore the votes, pay attention to how they talk about the votes? A bunch of points about actual actions, and you're so invested in being a Republican that you change the subject to how they talked about the actions?

Are you sure you're not being played for a sucker?

Yes, Democrats were more offended by the gross inefficiency of Medicare Part D than by the general idea of Medicare as a program. They voted against Part D. Republicans voted for it.

Having a projected deficit next year is hilariously orthogonal to the undisputed fact that stimulus spending ends this year.

And the point about Democrats questioning Bush's legitimacy is a great one. Here's someone who actually was arguably illegitimate for his first term, and what did Democratic officeholders and commentators do? Fall over themselves to disassociate themselves from the crazy hippies, and proclaim that we as a country need to move forward. There was no Democratic tea party, and frankly if the Republican tea party is honest about their concern with deficits, where were they prior to January 2009?
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I'd just say it here, once and for all - YC startups suck
Because I have no accidents/tickets for over a decade and pay only $300 for a year, but since they raise my rate every six months by 10% "just for the heck of it" - I'd like to see what everyone else quotes me.

A soft quote would be just fine for me and probably many others.
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"Fuzzy concepts that defy precise definition" are part of everyone's daily work so its better to learn how to deal with them.

In a normal job, you won't use your skills only for writing official documents but also for writing numerous mails, info-files and participating in chats and online discussions during the day. How well these are written will have a huge impact on the receivers ability to figure out what you are after. More then often the things discussed are not scientific facts.
The product that cover hound is offering at this moment (as far as I can tell) is practically without use. It just gave me links or phone numbers for 4 companies that sell car insurance in my state. I can get similar results by searching for "Ohio car insurance" and clicking the ads that come up.

What appears to be their full featured future product looks EXTREMELY interesting. It appears that coverhound will almost work like an automated insurance agent, for example, give them your info once, and they'll check rates for you on a regular and recurring basis. THAT product seems extremely valuable to me and would be doing the world a great favor.
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I'm assuming that he doesn't really mean "creating capital..." for exactly the reasons that you give. But, there was a day that Wall Street was in the business of capital formation - pulling together relatively small bits of capital from large numbers of investors to apply that capital to projects that would certainly be beyond the reach of normal (i.e. not government) investors. This is a valid business - one which sadly is a smaller and smaller part of what Wall Street does.
For every hooligan on the street, there are 10 friends and family at home, but shrugging their shoulders at the violence because they have no stake in society. "Let them burn it down, why should I care?"

The hooligans can be rounded up. What are you going to do with the much larger number of otherwise law-abiding citizens who can't be bothered to hold up the law in their own neighborhoods?
Potential for conflict of interests?

Aside: Let's not forget Leo LaPorte calling Arrington an *hole live on his program for getting "the disclaimers out of the way" when Leo was reviewing a handset and insinuating that Leo's review would be influenced as a result of him getting a review unit.
Simple solution. Penny a share transfer tax for all trades. Corresponding amounts on bonds and other instruments. Watch the amazing reduction in volume and volatility. Then watch the return to focus on value trading.

Like that idea? Next, open up public companies books. Not in the formal but phony SEC/GAAP way. No, I mean realtime journal entries. I will do the accounting myself. You can too. Link the trading tax to how often the company updates its numbers. Want more liquidity for your stock? Give more information.

Still on board? Ok, now if a company releases forecasts, they must release the model they used to generate the forecast. Yes, the code. Doesn't matter how simple or complex. Bullshit forecasts will be self-evident. Data for better ones will be more available.

Now all those things would make finance productive again by putting the focus back on capital allocation and moving it away from trading, speculation and lies. Make regulators focus on enforcing real transparency, since they don't know how to regulate behavior. This takes away the upside from the regulator/industry revolving door. It would be a great world for analysts and investors.

In olden days (1980) all this would have been technically infeasible. Now we have the computing power to handle it.
It depends on how unique the copied is and how similar the copier is.

From a decision about magazine covers: "None of the individual elements [...] ordinary lines, typefaces, and colors — qualifies for copyright protection. But the distinctive arrangement and layout of those elements is entitled to protection as a graphic work."

http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=3745368693852483...
I don't know if it's $3 but surely much lower than the current valuation. If you measure web sites value in terms of engagement and times spent there LinkedIn falls short.

BTW, I believe that engagement is an interesting measure to add to the equation. Facebook, Google and Twitter are on top.
Last time that this was asked (with an answer from pg): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1181897
this looks sort of like treetabs with a nicer GUI. I suppose that's what I really have been wanting.
Strictly speaking, investors buy a part of a company, buy contributing to it's equity. If company is expected to grow without putting on too much debt, its equity will grow too and a fixed part of it (if we forget about dilution for a moment) is expected to appreciate as well.
> The only thing that can create capital is producing more than you consume and saving the difference

Here are a few ways to create capital without producing anything:

1) Buy wholesale, sell retail

2) Buy in area A, sell for more in area B.

3) Buy all of product X, create a monopoly, sell at whatever price you want

4) Buy product X, hold until price goes up (or manipulate the price), sell

5) Steal
I have to agree 100%.

There’s a huge difference between honest helpful critique and semi-bullying criticism which is often a feeble attempt of someone to make people feel better about how little they have risked and achieved in their lives - and if not it’s usually just a simple pissing competition.

‘Shredding’ someone’s work is usually as helpful as breaking someone’s window and trashing their home to show they are at risk of being burgled.

Point out the weaknesses like you would point out to your own offspring because a new business is like a child - it’s vulnerable and needs some protection and love at first. In time it will be able to stand up for itself.

'Shredding' a startup when it’s little is like bullying a kid when it’s young to show them how vicious the world is.

Sorry for the very mixed metaphors :-)
It is getting increasingly difficult to just invest in companies you believe in.

This is a key point, and he doesn't justify it at all. Are value investors negatively affected by someone making a penny when the value investor makes a $1000 trade? Or are they positively affected by liquidity? He is either unaware that it's a controversy with plenty of history, or he prefers to gloss over it. He seems bothered by the fact that there's a lot going on besides simple value investing, as if any other activity must be detrimental to the operation of the market. He seems to be implying that the other activities on Wall Street are preventing stock values from reflecting investors' rational estimates of the value of the underlying businesses. Seems to be, I can't be entirely sure. If that's his point, he needs to muster some evidence, because plenty of people claim the opposite.

Individual investors and the funds that just invest in stocks and bonds are not going to crash the market.

Individual investors are very much among those who panic and sell when the market goes down, or who establish stop-loss orders with their brokers that cause market losses to irrationally cascade. Plenty of individual investors are eager to turn into gold bugs at the faintest whiff of a downturn. If amateur investors or stock analysts are better at value investing than "traders", they should eat the traders' lunch when the market panics. If it's the other way around, then the traders aren't the ones crashing the market.
To be more precise, stock price growth. I think in most cases it is better to do dividends and move away from stock price based compensation.
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He doesn't mean be nice to them even if they have a shitty project. He means don't let the onslaught of launches actually partially sour your perception - use your un-saturated viewpoint that is then cognizant of the bias saturation imbues - to determine your true opinion of their service.

Which - if still bad then - should be correctly harsh and honest.
Why does each episode have its own subscribe links? It makes it seem like you would need to subscribe to each own separately to hear them all.
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I think by immigrant communities he was also including immigrants children (1st 2nd generation or more). I've seen this used as to visible minorities in many places around the world. Including country that are mostly immigrants like Canada (where I'm from).

What has been reported is that it's youth from poor neighborhoods. Considering the population composition of those neighborhoods, I'm going to guess that it's probable the groups are composed of a majority of people from those immigrant communities. It still doesn't mean it's a immigrant riot. I bet poor non-immigrant (as in their family always been there) are also participating.
Am I the only one that thinks "I don't want to type my personal details into leaky!"

What a bizzare name choice. Looks like a good product though, but isn't this sort of thing fairly old? Or is it just new for car insurance? These sort of price comparison websites have been the staple of UK Prime Time TV advertising for the last 3 years.
This. In particular, I'm concerned by the little switchmode power supply on a non-user-servicable board potted into the depths of the bulb.

If that 5c capacitor dies, a $40 bulb gets scrapped even if everything else is still good. Hopefully Phillips have designed around that, but 20 years is a long time and they have little incentive to do so.

I suppose a proper, universal, standard for low-voltage DC in houses (ala 12v Halogen downlighting only universal, something like PoE) is probably too much to hope for.
Most/all people who call themselves software engineers are not engineers. I'm not convinced that software engineering itself is actually a field of engineering, for that very reason. At most universities, software engineering is just a weak-sauce mashup of basic engineering classes, computer engineering, and compsci. I don't believe there is any agreement about the basic principles of software construction.

Just because people call themselves software engineers and schools teach it as a discrete program, doesn't make them true engineers. There are plenty of schools that offer 'financial engineering' programs. IMO, programmers have a lot more in common with traditional artisan trades than engineering. They call themselves 'software engineers' because skilled technical workers prefer to associate with their cultural equals in an established white-collar profession than blue-collar craftsmen.
Except that you don't know what the "soft" quote is. Why does it have to be for your particular case? I'd imagine a decade of no tickets and no accidents is pretty rare.
If a company is not paying dividends, it is (hopefully) reinvesting in itself and growing. Theoretically, all growing companies will reach one of the following points:

1) It will stop growing, and begin paying out dividends

2) It will be acquired

3) It will fold

So, ownership of stocks that do not pay dividends is speculative- eventually, it will either fold or net you money. This is not liquid, of course- stock trading is the liquidation of this speculation, if that makes sense, in the same way that you hold a bond in anticipation of future returns, but you could sell the bond for more immediate gains.

(As I understand it, the reason why a growing company will, in theory, eventually pay out dividends rather than just keeping wads of cash is because once the return of reinvestment tapers off, major shareholders will band together to force the company to pay out dividends)
Forty years ago Harvard Professor Edward Banfield wrote a chapter in his book about the riots of the 1960's. From what I can tell, almost everything he wrote applies to these current riots in London.

The primary reason that people riot is that rioting is fun. It gives an immense surge of adrenaline and other hormones, it gives the thrill of chaos and action, of the power of mindless destruction. In order for a riot to occur there must be some sort of event that acts as a Schelling point or catalyst. This Schelling point might be a real grievance, or a contrived one. It might be some innocuous event, like a sports victory. News of the riot spreads via the news channels of the day - tv, internet, twitter, etc - and the riot snowballs. The final necessary ingredient is weakness on the part of the police. If the police are outnumbered, and only allowed to manually arrest with handcuffs, then the rioters will go wild, and even more rioters will join as they realize they suffer no consequence for their actions. If the police start beating the hell out of people, or even using live rounds, the riot ends fast.

Banfield's book is online. The section on riots starts on page 211:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/49096486/Edward-C-Banfield-The-Unh...
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The fact that most companies don't pay a dividend is really a tax hack. Before 1980, most companies did pay dividends.

When the tax rate on capital gains (now 20%) dropped far below that for dividends (30%+), companies realized they could spend the same amount of money buying back shares. This should drive up the share price by the same amount as an issued dividend (do the math). The difference is that investors can sell shares and only pay 20% instead of 30%+.
AirBnB's fundamental flaw is that the potential costs (in the form of monetary losses) of renting out a home to a stranger far exceed the economic benefits that can ever be realized, particularly for hosts who are violating local laws and/or are violating the terms of a lease by subletting properties they don't own. These "features" do nothing to address this.

Voice Connect? Professional scammers are usually very persuasive if not downright charming. The ability to speak to a prospective guest will not deter experienced criminals.

Video Connect? These are for hosts only, but even if they were for prospective guests too, a professional con would have little problem putting together a convincing video.

References? These, obviously, are subject to gaming, but notwithstanding that, I doubt very much that a significant number of hosts are going to turn down an otherwise solid-looking guest who is "new" to AirBnB and doesn't have any references.

24/7 Hotline? If your AirBnB experience turns into a nightmare, you're probably better off making sure your first call is to your attorney.
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I think that for the sake of backwards compatability with the linguistic upbringing of most English speakers, we should use "men" to refer to both human genders.

If this means that male gendered individuals will have to be pluralized as "males" and never "men", then that's something we should live with.
Being a private investor, I agree a lot with what Cuban is saying.

Strangely enough Australia, which Cuban suggests he's been investing in, has a few investor friendly (or trader unfriendly) regulations built in.

1. Hold a stock for over a year and capital gains tax is halved.

2. Tax (franking) credits are given out when dividends are paid. This stops double-taxing and encourages companies to pay dividends and investors to demand them.

3. You must hold a stock for 45 days to take advantage of the franking credits if you accumulate more than $5k worth.
One famous application of dynamic programming is finding shortest paths in directed acyclic graphs. Maybe should credit E. Dijkstra. As I recall, that is not regarded as the most efficient such algorithm, but I haven't considered that problem for years.