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this, again, is not my personal opinion, but what I've read from political scientists.

I question your use of the term "political scientist". I think you actually mean "political pundits", writers of op-ed pieces, etc. To say that someone schooled in the science of political interactions is taking a stand as to whether something is "left" or "right" really strains my credulity. The thing is, the definition of those terms -- as this thread itself demonstrates -- is a fuzzy concept that changes over time, place, and individual speaker, and doesn't have a scientific definition. Moreover, any scientist could tell you that the left-right spectrum itself is a hideously handicapped model of political values. In other words, you're never going to find a paper in political science making claims that "the political left believes that...".

Now, if you believe that those folks acting as foils against the American Right -- to wit, Pres. Obama and the Democratic Party -- are not themselves representative of the Left, can you answer two questions for me?

1. What are the ideas of "real" members of the Left that Obama and the other Democrats are failing to represent?

2. Since Obama and the Democrats clearly are in opposition to the American Right, what are those ideas that they (the DEMs) are fighting for in opposition to the Right?

Then, how and why do those two sets differ?
I really did consider that since the other posts by the author sound considerably more sane, but he's incredibly good at deadpan if so.
Sure - will reply to this thread later on with one. Will change my SSID at home to match as well for real comparison.
Comment thread pagination is not reducing the number of items visible on pages (eg, /newest, /ask, /news), it's splitting up comments onto multiple pages. Completely different things.
Here (Netherlands) it's also not that bad, there's often a few sections on the menu: meat, fish, vegetarian. If you're lucky, they're of similar size. Supermarkets have a reasonable selection of meat substitutes, though I prefer to use cheese, mushrooms or nuts (and meat ;))

It does vary even more, now that you mention it: I remember San Jose in Costa Rica having many different vegan (not vegetarian) option.
Groupon not selling to Google was the dumbest thing I've ever seen a company do.

Ever.
Groupon=Bubble
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There are frameworks for Java that doesn't require you to compile / package / deploy for each change. One example of this is http://www.playframework.org/
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Thanks for that clarification - as someone whose code is doubly unshareable, like healsdata I'm a bit sensitive to claims of screening by github.
Maybe, rather use something like this: s/</&lt;/g ?
No worries:

We exclude those costs because, unlike our other marketing expenses, they are an up-front investment to acquire new subscribers that we expect to end when this period of rapid expansion in our subscriber base concludes

See? Once they acquire all of their subscribers, they will never have to acquire subscribers again. Then they can just rake in the dough.
You don't need to worry about the versioning for a document that you never update. You can just blast the logfiles into the database and not worry about conflicts. Similarly, database compaction is really the biggest concern when you're updating documents, not just dumping new ones into the database. I would expect a very linear growth for a logging app.
While I agree that integrated and invisible is the way to go, the popularity of iMessage will be limited by how many people actually have iPhones. While I know of a lot of people with them, it's certainly not the majority of people I know.

Whereas with Facebook, just about everyone has an account.

The killer feature really is group messaging on-the-go with all of your friends, regardless of their phone. As it stands right now, I have a feeling Facebook are the only ones really going for this.
Very common, link purchasing is a widely-used 'white hat' SEO practice.
Agree. I was speaking in the context of funding available to startups. On the one hand people seem to think there's way too much VC money readily available. On the other hand, this money has to come from the financial sector and it can't if it's a recession.
I disagree. I've had jobs where I can't think because the building is too hot, even though the work was interesting, etc.

Neither of these lines are binary either. I've been on projects which were kinda, but not really interesting, etc.

Lastly, your health makes that a much bigger deal. Your back starts hurting, you want a solution, which may entail a job change.
Work a bit, gain a bunch of experience (pay off that student debt and save some money) and then decide if you want to go to grad school still.
So, does that make Google offering to buy Groupon also one of the dumbest things you've ever seen a company do?
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I get offers at least once a month. I'm wondering if it's in some newbie SEO/marketing PDF that's been passed around the community.

My favorite is when they offer me $50 for a link on my blog for the lifetime of my site. That's right, not annually, for life. A couple of times I made a counter offer of $100/year and I got a pissed off response in the form of me trying to "rip them off".
The only argument that matters to me:

10 kilograms of feed will generate just 1kg of beef, 3kg of pork, and 5kg of chicken. It generates 9kg of locusts.

And that is why we should be eating insects, end of story.
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It's still speculation.. Just ask those who used to own MSFT.
That's almost exactly what I'm not interested in. There are some very interesting people with account who post very infrequently, but their comments, in the context of who they are, is very interesting indeed.
$200 annually? Sounds like a ripoff to me. Depending on how popular you are, the deal they'd be getting on CPC is insane!
Then you have to feed your easy to remember pass phrase into an algorithm that requires capitalization, numbers, but no punctuation and a maximum length of 8 characters.
More than providing any defense or justification for the use of PHP, this article greatly bolsters the opinion that PHP is for noobs.
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Even more dramatic, a number of genetic studies suggest that hominids faced near extinction more than once eg http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=early-human... estimates a total population of around 50k.
Even in some parts of the Java world, that problem doesn't exist anymore.

The Play framework uses its own copy of the Eclipse compiler to compile everything on the fly while it is running in development mode...so as you as you save your changes, you can reload your browser and see them immediately.
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sashimi does have the upside of still being fish, which westerners are used to.
Aeron chairs are outdated. Big ergonomic advances have been made since it's inception. On major drawback is that an Aeron needs to be properly fitted (comes in different sizes) and adjusted. And even then it still won't work for some people.

There are better chairs out there these days (including Miller's own Embody mentioned in the article). And most of them are a bit cheaper too.
This appears to only support group chat.

What about one on one chat, like facebook? So that you can have personal conversations with other users of the site?
...humans are most reliably motivated by self interest, the key to good care at good prices is to align economic incentives.

Is it really 'the key'? Why? You are making exactly the implicit cultural assumption I'm referring to. In a social context, self interest does not equate simply to economic interest. Incentivizing people economically is not the only way to motivate them, nor is it the most effective way. It only serves as a least common denominator, something to use when there are otherwise no shared values between the parties. Economics alone represents a floor, not a ceiling, and is certainly not a sound foundation on which to build a healthy society.
If you're referring to me, that came as quite the surprise. If not, I'll reply anyway:

I didn't manage to read the entire article (it's 17 pages), but I'll comment on the parts I did manage to read. First of all, I've never heard of anyone in Greece making 70k, as the article says. 40k is considered a really high salary, although I think that might be 55k before taxes (I'm not sure about the calculation). At any rate, the median is much, much lower, as most of my friends get around 1k a month, which is about enough for one person to live on. We're hardly a rich country.

About the 13th and 14th salaries, those are Easter/Christmas bonuses, and are (used to be) given to everyone, including people who make 800-1000 Euros/month. I've never heard of them being an accounting trick, but I can't be sure.

Generally, the stereotype Greeks have for themselves is one of the enterprising, law-defying Greek who will try to get by doing the minimum amount of work possible. It's true in many areas, e.g. the public sector, where services are dysfunctional and only open to the public for 4-5 hours a day. A Greek joke has three children (French, English and Greek) comparing their mass transit times, saying "my father gets off work at 4 and he's home at 4:30", "my father is home at 4:15", and the Greek kid says "mine's a civil servant, he gets off work at 4 and he's home at 2".

To make matters worse, civil servants can't be fired, this was a measure instituted years ago to avoid politicians hiring and firing their people every four years to get votes, I don't think this has changed since then.

The problem with Greece is that societal values are pretty much "every man for himself", which is why we're having so much trouble with everything public. There's no regard for public spaces, no regard for a well-run society, even politicians are only trying to embezzle as much as they can while doing the minimum amount of work to get reelected.

It's odd, this systemic laziness is both contrasting and complementing the fact that most of my friends today are either out of work and desperately looking for anything, or working 10-12 hour days for 700-800 euros a month, no paid overtime, and no security. You wouldn't call people who work this hard "lazy", of course, but the moment someone could get a job in the public sector, they'd work much less, simply because that is the norm there. There's no incentive for anyone to work hard, and there's no penalty for not working hard in the public sector.

Given these (dis)incentives and the mindset in the workplace, I think that anyone would do the same. It's clear that we need public services to be more meritocratic, but that doesn't align with the politicians' incentives.

Sorry about the stream-of-consciousness post, but most of the things came to me as I wrote them. I'll be happy to answer any questions anyone has.
I get several emails like this everyday. All of them go straight to trash.

This is called link trading for SEO. Google is strictly against this practice.
Another advantage they don't mention: revolights should be easier to secure than bracket-mounted lights. Just pass a cable through the wheels, like you probably already do.

Not so excited about the external battery though. But they're apparently working on something that would power the lights via wheel rotation.
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There is a lot to be said as well for the increase in water quality.

Lots of people used to have a minor or severe case of lead poisoning. In addition to looking a bit like retardation, it also happens to cause poor impulse control, making complex tasks considerably harder.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/06/the-crime-of-lead-...
Check it against what? A pwned digest?
I took it to mean comment and thread pagination was turned on and or increased and therefore fewer items were shown on each page.
I'd call it astroturfing, personally.
Watching a live game on it now, interface seems pretty nice. Quality is bad for me, most likely since I have to tunnel through a US server to avoid the geo-location ban, so I can't really comment on how the picture would be for you.

But you can get a 7 day free trial, so no harm to try it out and see how you like it.
Youtube, please let me know the country availability of a given video.
It's relative. Google has piles of money and the means of making more; if they make a mistake in spending their pocket change, it's no biggie. But Groupon has piles of debts, and their runway is getting shorter.
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One goes be dumb and moves on, the other goes dumb and dies.
An external keyboard, monitor and mouse. In which way does the ergonomics differ from a fixed workstation?
What I don't understand is that Google Offers has essentially mimicked the same type of "deals" that Groupon is offering ... usually NYC restaurants I've never heard of, or activities I'm not interested in. Today's offer is "$15 for a tour of the Ground Zero Museum Workshop (up to a $25 value)". So I unsubscribed.

I feel like Google had/has a tremendous opportunity to do what Groupon does, but do it with offers that their users will find valuable. Instead they're just trying to recreate the same cut-rate nail salon discounts and arguably exploitive 9/11 museum "deal".
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This was originally posted 2 weeks ago before their name change from Taazr to Proxino. For original discussions on the site: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2833945
Yeah, I think if we were used to having various animals whole on the table (even if we didn't eat certain parts) it would be easier to face a cricket on your plate.

I remember when I was little, I enjoyed fish- but my family once visited a fairly authentic Chinese restaurant, and ordered fish which came with the head and tail attached... I had such a hard time eating any with those empty eye-sockets staring at me.
The site is a simple tech blog which doesn't get much traffic at all. The particular page they wanted to use is about a card game I created, and ranks well for the phrase "idiot card game" but pretty much nothing else.

I would have taken 200$ for an actual ad on that page, but pretending that I like something personally for money is not something I want to do.
It's because the Fed pumped money into the banks and it made its way to the VCs. If there is no QE3, the well will run dry.
What most of these commenters seem to completely miss is that if a site is not obvious to a user in 2-6 seconds, it will not work and you will lose users. You cannot expect people to hover here and there nor read FAQs to understand the concepts.

I have nothing against HipMunk, but it does lack a clear value proposition when you land there.
Everyone is mentioning Python, but also check C# and .NET Fx and ASP.NET MVC.

For example: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/w4hkze5k.aspx

or

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.object.member...

You get the syntax (including VB, C++, and F# where availalbe), remarks, examples, version information, platforms, comments, and related content.
Or we could just go the "Machiavellian manipulation of HN readers by lying like a rug."

Meh, either way. I don't do SBUX. I can make my own caffeination much cheaper.
The quality on the iphone images looks fake. Why would they be using poorly rendered hardware, rather than sticking photoshopped screen images on real hardware (like they do on the rest of their product pages).
We use ZeroCater at our SF office. It really does make choosing what to get a lot easier.
I don't know whether this is real or not but I do like the shape of the phone they show.
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Of course living things don't want to die. But if you decide that all living things including plants deserve to not be eaten or harvested, your menu becomes incredibly short.

I mean, you are not left with absolutely nothing to eat, but all you've got that I can think of is dairy, fruit and nuts. You could technically eat grains, but harvesting enough grain without killing the plant is difficult.
You technically can compile ASP pages on the fly in production but it's bad practice, just like making changes directly to production is bad practice. The whole blog post is pretty much a great write up of how not to manage a website.
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Not sure how the marketing geniuses over at Hubspot missed this one... or did they know what they were doing?
Unless you're rooted the updates are checked with the public key to make sure they are signed with the correct private key. Unless Google lost their set of private keys it wouldn't be possible to modify the update.

It's entirely possible there are other exploits but a modified update.zip is not a likely vector.
That is NOT a result of the language. It is trivial in any language to combine both code and markup. However people using other languages generally work to avoid that.

That said, there is a long-standing tension between keeping logic out of templates, and giving templates more flexibility. Different frameworks take different positions on how to draw the line. PHP can be seen as an extreme position towards giving templates as much power as possible.
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This is pretty simplistic thinking. For all you know Groupon wanted the deal badly, Google walked away from the deal, and both parties agreed to go with the story that Groupon walked away so that it wouldn't kill their prospects of an IPO.
I'm surprised so few people are familiar with the "land grab", it seems to me that's what they are attempting. In the early days Amazon was spending something like $20 on average per customer acquired and was losing money hand over fist. That's not to say I think Groupon will be the next Amazon: This is a risky strategy. But it can pay off massively if you cement yourself as the only big player in an emerging market.
> PHP is exactly like C. Either you like both or you don’t like either, there is no claim you can make about PHP that can’t be made about C as well, and vice versa.

This is absolutely satire. I don't think anyone can troll much harder than "PHP is exactly like C".
I think the quote is implying that it is easier for tyrants to come to power and then to retain that power when the population is dumber.
Considering how PHP doesn't have anything like Twisted (and this is just one example out of many) ; no, it doesn't count.

Also, I never used a popular Python library for which I haven't found good resources.

My favorite Python library, called NLTK, which has no equivalent in PHP or Ruby or any other platform for that matter, comes with a freaking book that's available for free.
You can. If you click on a username, there is a link to "Chat" which creates a one-on-one chat with them.
Interestingly enough, the wiki for Engineering uses the following:

Engineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of people.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering)

By using art, it would indicate that process is not necessarily needed for something to be classified as engineering. The fact that software engineers do use mathematical concepts (similar to how a civil, mechanical, or chemical engineer does) to build systems would make it an engineering discipline.

Disclaimer: I am a software engineer and I don't look at myself as any more or less of an engineer as any others.
I'm left wondering why you can still find the word "ACSOI" in the document -- it's right there in the "We don't measure ourselves in conventional ways." section of the letter to investors.

They do seem to have removed the metric from other places...but is it really that hard to do a search through the document before filing with the SEC? The mind boggles.
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And this is a perfect example of why capitalization is important! It's not WhoreTweetedMe but WhoRetweetedMe. Personally, I can't look at their website's url without seeing the word "whore". It's just like experts-exchange.com, they had to put an hyphen in it because expertsexchange could be interpreted differently.
I agree with jmilloy, actually; regardless of whether or not that usage is correct, given that poems frequently flout grammar "rules" I don't think using a poem as evidence of a particular rule is a strong argument.
Why did I click on this? I completely lost my appetite when reading this and some of the comments.
Well, it's plausible, right? The users they have will stick around, and if they stop spending so much on customer acquisition they might be able to reduce their cut and make a profit, meaning even better deals. It could happen.

Or does this not pass the sniff test for some reason I'm missing?
As far as I understand you have more surcharges to fear from European authorities than from Amazon.

Signed - unhappy person living in Norway, where the government is enforcing VAT (which is 25%) on all digital services bought abroad, including ebooks and Apple Store apps. Which is especially lame given that actual books are exempt from VAT (I love actual books, but why the unequal treatment?)
> what's keeping Detroit from turning it's warehouses into startups? Imagine SOMA on a city scale.

What's missing is the things start-up employee type of people are looking for in a city: density, diversity, transit, food, Asian girls...
LOL... Domain Name Fail :)
The higher education bubble has popped
When PG is talking about the strength of the team, he's not just talking about programming. He's talking about business skills, technical skills, personality, the whole package. Technology is only one small part of what makes a company successful.
A few weeks ago, feeling adventurous, a few coworkers and I journeyed to midtown New York to try the grasshopper tacos at a Mexican restaurant.

When mine arrived, I fearfully picked up a grasshopper and brought it to my tongue...

...and had to restrain myself from gobbling the rest up by the fistful.

In less than a second, my opinion of grasshoppers had gone from "creepy" to "tasty." I expect most others won't be much harder to convince.
We went through the terms and deleted the following:

DELETED: "We also have the right to invest in any business on the same terms as are offered to Investors, or on better terms if we are able to negotiate them with Entrepreneurs, and we have no obligation to make those investment opportunities available to anyone else."

It was dumb. We also made a few other changes. Let us know if you have any other feedback http://angel.co/terms

We've taken small allocations in a few investments on the site but we've had to talk our way into the deal like every other investor in the world.

The terms are still not perfect nor will they ever be. I would like to rewrite and simplify them one day but that might be wishful thinking.

Thanks to our counsel for the quick fixes. And thanks for the bug report.