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I was responding to this claim: But if teachers are already on the brink of poverty, that won't work to reduce poverty.

The fact that teachers may receive average pay for below average work does not put them at the "brink of poverty".

As for finding the insiders, follow the money. Teachers and old people are some of the biggest recipients of government money.

http://usgovernmentspending.com/piechart_2009_US_total
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Also to build up credibility as a developer. My concern as a student is that there isn't a huge community of other open source developers around - so by working on these projects, I'm missing out on the chance to build something with a fellow student, work on my own startup, etc. (consider that substantial programming takes a lot of time)

And tech meetups are great, but it seems a waste of these few years to be going to them instead of meeting the people around college.

So I don't know. You tell me?
But you can just look at the pictures to tell them apart. Oh, that one's tiny and made of aluminum, that one's bigger and made of plastic, and that one's bigger and made of aluminum. I didn't have to click through meaningless pages of non-differentiating differentiations to see those options, they were right there on the page.
You didn't answer the vast majority of my questions, even though they were pretty straightforward. If you want people to deposit money into your account, then they should have faith that you actually exist and that you will hold up your end of the transaction. This, in financial parlance, is known as counter-party risk. Will the counter-party to my transaction actually be able to guarantee their side of the deal? Who are you? So far, you are a 17 year old Singaporean, who registered a business in Delaware, when you were 16? How is that possible? Right now, to me there is a severe degree of counter party risk.

If you stole everyone's money (not saying you will), and then I complained to the FBI, they would look at me and say "Are you stupid? You deposited money into someone's bank account 10,000 miles away, and you actually expected the money back?"

"A few dozen people have deposited thousands and thousands of dollars." And yet you have enough money to offer 5:1 margin? If there are 50 people, if all accounts are of roughly equal size, then it takes just 10 people to max out their margin and the entire Bitcoinica has run out of money!!! But assuming a normal distribution of account sizes, and assuming that the ones who deposited the most are the most aggressive, then you would need much less than 10 to max out before you ran out of money.

There are better ways to set up this company so that you can protect yourself and your customers. Even more surprisingly, you offer no protections to YOURSELF. This is a huge red flag. Why would you not be afraid of suffering consequences if bitcoinica melts down or if there is a huge fraud?

From what I gather, you are asking people to deposit money directly into your account (another huge red flag). You are supposed to be held accountable, if there is fraud or if there is a catastrophic loss to bitcoinica, but you're not protecting yourself, at all. The only way is by remaining highly anonymous, and by living in a foreign country that could be outside the reaches of US law.

If you cared about protecting your customers, you would set up a system of segregated accounts, so that one customer can't destroy people's accounts.

I think bitcoinica is a fantastic piece of coding, it's slick and seems to work nicely. But in order to protect yourself, I would return everyone's money and just allow simulated trading. Even as a simulated trading account, bitcoinica is still a fantastic accomplishment.

Then, once you have created a way to protect yourself and protect customers financially, by using things like segregated accounts, and by going through proper channels, etc, then it might be okay to start accepting real money.
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If I put animated confetti on my myspace page, I'm laughed at. Tumblr does it and it's a 'voice'. Hrmm...
I'm assuming they build a new db per branch on the ci server and auto run migrations on them. pretty typical
When looking at quintiles through time, remember that you aren't tracking people through time. That's because people move through the quintiles over time (how much, I don't know, but the groups are not static).

In other words, it could show simply a greater variance in income within individual lifetimes rather than a greater variance in income between people.

For instance, if people spend more time at school, but their incomes a few years after graduation are much higher, that would appear as a quintile disparity because they spent years in the bottom quintile (college and just after graduation), and then jumped into one of the top quintiles.

Similarly, as skills become more important, then (whether you go to college or not), you'll spend more time at low pay before your skill level matures, and then your income will rise rapidly.

Also, income is not wealth. Upper-middle class and rich people often spend a lot of time in the bottom quintile (unless they are so rich that they have a lot of passive income).

I'm not saying there isn't a problem. I don't have the data. But that particular measure is quite deceptive in my opinion.
"Try this on your notebook: write a sentence, go and change the 3rd word in it."

No worries, I use vim regardless of OS or hardware.
What about readers digest? Aren't they condensations of books? :)
Fact: It isn't necessary for a majority to want something for it to make the top slot on HN.
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Don't be ridiculous. The entire spec is to be open source. This is nothing like Internet Explorer. If Internet Explorer played this nice when it wanted to innovate (AJAX) from the beginning it would probably still be relevant. Is Mozilla the only corporation allowed to create new web features now?

This backwards compatible approach isn't exactly Google's idea and it's a good one. Having a backwards compatible, faster, and more sane web language is going to improve developing the open web. Why should anyone be scared?
If you considered them it's even worse - by keeping the language simple you've made it more unintuitive and less readable for the programmer. IMHO the primary beneficiaries of Go are the compiler writers, not the programmers having to read and write source code.

Your example is not the same, this is just a C-style single method. The whole point of my example was using Go's own sample source code to showcase the hacks needed around structs to get around the deficiencies in not having classes. The resulting struct method signatures are ugly, verbose and unintuitive - it's not nearly as readable and wrist friendly as grouping them in a single class definition.

In following this pattern the defer keyword is a magic method that doesn't visually demonstrate its behaviour - compare that with C#'s using statement which does.
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One doesn't have to be a rocket scientist to see that technology does in fact replace jobs. Just 50 years ago, it required a team of 25 to 35 men with sledgehammer & shovel and a grader pulled by horses to create a country road or driveway -- and it took an entire week to complete the job. Today, that same task can be done in just a day or two by ONE individual with a bulldozer. One can spout lots of meaningless catch-phrases and convoluted explanations to attempt to prove otherwise, but it doesn't change the fact that innovation deletes jobs. Just think about it for a moment... If a bulldozer did not significantly reduce the time & cost of producing a road, then the bulldozer would have never been invented. There would have been no incentive for using one.
That's the 2010 Macbook Air, which did indeed have a brutally slow Core 2 Duo. It would be more useful to look at the mid-2011 model, which has a processor three generations newer (due to some sort of tedious dispute between Intel and NVidia, there were never embedded NVidia chipsets for Nehalem, so Apple waited until Intel GPUs got good enough, in Sandy Bridge; they never made a Nehalem Air).
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The term of art for responses like this is "jazz hands".

Sorry. Security isn't "everybody's job". You've chosen to advertise a financial application. Security is your job. In a very real sense: sucks to be you.
>1. Stealing Scripts" - This is just not a film business problem. People steal ideas everywhere, all the time. Stealing ideas is easy, creating a good product is hard.

It sounds as if you're trying to justify this approach as well as the others listed. We all know this but the reason it happens is because the writer needs a studio to finance the film. This the most reprehensible of all those listed because it punishes creativity.
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You were confusing the top income tax rate with the effective tax rate. When the top income tax was 91% (from 1951-1964), the capital gain tax was 25%. So the effective tax rate paid by the rich was always the same, infact the rich pay more in tax today at the current top 35% rate than when it was 91%!
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many backend voip products sold in the US have to have the ability to do "lawful interception" as required under CALEA:

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Communication...
And Japanese don't seem to even have a word for that until they "borrowed" it.
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I have yet to hear anyone say that Apple place at the top will be permanent, apart from you. I do have a problem with people setting up straw men to argue with.
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Yeah, but I think that's what makes it a bait-and-switch. It's a Gawker-type article that was retitled with a more appealing-to-HN branding.
We chose it simply because it was just an area that I'm oddly fascinated by. Our main channel for new customers these days is word-of-mouth referrals.

As far as the biggest lessons, they're all in the slide deck. :)
While Apple probably didn't help Intel design the Core 2 Duo (they only had serious in-house processor design stuff recently, and it's ARM-oriented), it's quite possible they exerted pressure on them to make such a thing. The Core Duo and Core 2 Duo were a _major_ turnaround for Intel; they essentially abandoned the gigahertz at whatever price doctrine they'd been pursuing since the P4.

The Core Duo, in particular, was essentially _only_ found in Macs; it had very limited deployment elsewhere. It fits very well with the circumstances of the Intel switchover; Apple couldn't have used the P4M for its laptops (far too power-hungry vs the G4), or the PM (barely faster than the G4 at all, used somewhat more power).
Oh yes, this is tremendously fun! I worked on i18n/g11n/l10n for Y! World Cup and other games

Compare:
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It's a tremendous amount of work, and you have to identify translatable phrases AND contexts, not just strings and words. Websites that plan on catering to multiple languages and regions should incorporate i18n from the beginning, not an afterthought, which would require going through lots of code with a fine-toothed comb =)
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While this is becoming the case, it's fairly new. Back in the day, it was well-known that buying a first-gen Apple product was extremely risky; note the problems with the original while iBook (the G3 one), the original Macbook Air, and so forth.
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You realize how terribly naive this is, right? This is out of line.

It's not, though maybe it seems that way early in your career I am no longer early in my career. I recently viewed code that is in production today that I wrote in 1966. Most of it had survived. And the hours I invested in writing it swamped any maintenance hours put into it after that.

... put giant whoppers of idiocy into their code on a regular basis. And finding these is where we spend all our time. Perhaps you do; my code comes out better than that. I attribute the difference to having read papers. I am not pretending.
I know right? It's like every time I see a post to daringfireball, I open it, hoping for some interesting reading -- Gruber is actually a very capable writer. And on occasion I do find something enlightening. But the rest of the time it's like a Rick Roll...with the HN collective pointing at me going, "HA! Got you!". And I guess that's gotten under my skin after a while since I can't understand why these Gruber posts are tolerated, even encouraged in some cases, while links to cats dancing or actual rick rolls are discouraged.
I often find 0-based indexing sneaking into other places too.

For example, imagine I want to fake an nm 2d matrix M with an array A, with nm elements

Then with 0-indexing, M[i][j] is stored at A[im+j]. With 1-indexing, M[i][j] is stored at A[(i-1)m+j].
I'd like to see Joel Spolsky's epic article on unicode added to the list: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html

"if [...] you don't know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I'm going to punish you by making you peel onions for 6 months in a submarine. I swear I will."
Not in europe, as far as I can see. It's also particularly difficult if you want a particular model, as they certainly don't always discount the x220, for example.
Well, given Guido's endorsement, I think we need to change how these +1/-1
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Loved this response http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2011-September...
FusionAds, Daring Fireball RSS sponsorhip, RailsCasts, Dribbble, and a variety of other spots. In terms of ROI, we weren't really measuring things in that great of detail. We just used Google Analytics to understand the quality of the traffic.

The rates and returns were all over the board. The only consistent factor was that once Sifter became more well known, the advertising was significantly less effective at generating advertising. So, it's great for finding new traffic and getting the word out, but once that's done, we'd have throw a lot of money at it to see significant results.
Citations, please.

Without knowledge about their churn rates, especially in comparison with their competitors, it is not obvious either way. There are also users who still receive the daily emails because they did not bother to cancel the subscription, but rarely look at them.
There are two way to interpret, "Never Give Up"

1 - Never Give Up on the current project.

2 - Never Give Up on big ideas.

Hang in there and heed PG's advice on #2. It's very small consolation, but you're 20 months smarter and wiser than when you started, and the market is still receptive. Be resilient, and you will land well.
Don't get me wrong, I think the snowboard helmet law whatever is ridiculous too. There was probably a highly publicized story about a kid snowboarding and that's no reason to pass a law. But every law should be considered on its impact. If I told you that thousands of crashes occur a year because people being distracted by their phone, does that still not warrant a law that may stop such behavior?

No offense but I'll take actual data analysis over some kind of Ayn Rand principals every time. The goal is to prevent crashes. I think it's dangerous to just wave things away with "not every human problem deserves a law." Again, Brown was probably right with the helmet, but not always. And in the case of cell phones he wrote "current fines and penalty assessments should be sufficient deterrent" so maybe he isn't using the same libertarian principle.
I wish I could upvote this more. It constantly astounds me that people construct elaborate theories about the decay of morality amongst the elite of America when faced with such a powerful supply/demand argument. It's pretty simple really: the industrialized nations spent tremendous resources over a span of about 7 reducing each other to rubble. At the end of it, they wanted to rebuild, and the only country with industrial capacity remaining was the United States. Furthermore, the process of rebuilding was extremely labor-intensive, involving construction and manufacture of durable commercial and consumer goods in an environment with low automation. To top it all off, when the other nations were finally rebuilt and started to be competitive again, the size of the available labor pool simultaneously started to expand as women entered the workforce. The middle-class American dream was the result of a global labor market anomaly that lasted for several decades, which was long enough to convince everyone that it was the new normal, and the long decline since the late 70s was the result of that anomaly ending.
Apple actually do do this; it's a resolution bump.
Yes. The grandfather's post claimed Apple's CPU engineers were involved, and it is that characterization I object to.

Incidentally, as I own a Thinkpad with a Core Duo CPU (July 2004 T60p, SL8VN), I think it might have been more accurate to emphasize "essentially" rather than "only."
What Apple is doing is textbook strategy, right out of Michael Porter's playbook. If you are an entrepreneur and haven't read "What is Stragegy?" before, stop everything you're doing and go read it right now.

http://hbr.org/product/what-is-strategy/an/96608-PDF-ENG

HINT: if you google to title you'll find a link to the full PDF, though I am not sure of it's legitimacy.
Having style is knowing when confetti is "Voice" versus "Clutter."

Great small companies have more room to have Voice. It is very hard for large companies to have it. Or the larger they get, the more they worry about offending someone. Tumbler can have Voice. So can Tech Crunch. Hard for Wal-mart to have Voice.
There is much much more to programming languages than syntax. If syntax was the main difference between programming languages it would be very easy to write translators from one language to another. Lots of people like their pet language more than JavaScript, so why don't we see tons of compilers like Python->JavaScript, Lua->JavaScript, Ruby->JavaScript etc?

The answer is that syntax is just the tip of the iceberg. Even ignoring major language differences (garbage collection, static vs. dynamic typing, lexical vs dynamic scoping, eager vs. lazy, threads vs. coroutines) there is an incredibly long list of very detailed semantics that you probably don't even realize you're dealing with when you move from one language to another. For example:

- in a complex inheritance hierarchy, which method is selected for a.b?
- how much precision do numeric types have?
- what happens when numeric types overflow?
- what order are arguments evaluated in?
- what happens if fewer arguments are passed than were declared?
- are keyword arguments supported?
- are default arguments supported?
- when are default arguments evaluated?
- are simple types like integer and string classes?
- can they be subclassed?
- can they be monkey-patched?
- will types be implicitly converted? (ie 1 + "2")?
- does 0 evaluate to true or false? what about "0"?
- are function arguments passed by value or by reference?
- are values hashed by their identity or by their logical value?
- what hooks can you define to customize the behavior of your object?

Nothing in this list is about syntax. Syntax is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to what makes languages different.
That's exactly why the title shouldn't have been changed. It's the same shit, but disguised so that it won't be (correctly) flagged.
Japanese companies like Sony or Toshiba have the same problem. Adding insult to injury, Sony's website is completely unusable--it has Flash, and when I click on the flashblock to allow it, nothing seems to happen.

Maybe it's just computer companies? Toyota's website seemed easy enough to use, but then again it was nearly as easy to choose and configure a Ford.
I wholeheartedly disagree. Slickness of the film is important, I.e. editing, sound quality, etc., but thisis but one dimension. When I sit on a Friday evening browsing page after page of crap movies on Netflix, this dimensiona is less important than the actual content and originality. I can't believe that film school students, armed with a decent camera (not a camcorder) and audio equipment cannot produce watcahble and interesting content. Well-known examples do exist, most recently Paranormal Activity.

Your arguments (it's hard, costs millions) were labeled to some other industries, that are now trickling down to DIYers, e.g. 3D print, self publishing. You can now rent a professional studio to record your own CD and some groups have done so.

However all solutions about creation are moot if the created content has no way of reaching the buyers. I still think this is the main problem. Putting your movie on YouTube is not a viable solution.
> Apple pundits seem to think that Apple's (undeniable) advantages are going to be permanent, just because they get a great deal on Flash memory or tied up the world's whole supply of 9.7" touch screens. It's a pretty ridiculous position.

I wouldn't say _permanent_, but there are many companies who could make a transition to the same approach, but haven't yet. Dell, for instance, could scrap 90% of its models, and it's highly unlikely anyone would even _notice_. Presumably, they have some pressing internal reason (not necessarily a sensible one, but something they can't get around) not to do so; it's not like it's any great secret that a simple product line is cheaper to manager.
Are you making this claim regarding the overall human population, or just the parts of the first world you are familiar with?
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Camera pricing is a small fraction of the cost. For example I was on a set today where we had a cheap RED camera (~$18k) and it was among the cheapest pieces of equipment we had on the set. Set wasn't even a movie set, but an interview set. Imagine that.
In its earlier days, Facebook had many hidden messages inside its app. See http://mashable.com/2007/09/10/facebook-easter-eggs.

That said--and without having much other context for Fred Wilson's idea of "voice"--having fun with a company's homepage may work for some organizations and not for others.

(And specifically regarding milestones, Facebook has deliberately taken a much humbler public approach. Let's see what happens when they hit a billion users.)
The scale of your examples are dwarfed by the costs of a movie, a low-end one would be, say $10-15M. What restaurant, startup can boast such an upfront investment. Even a CD costs not nearly as much.