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Thanks for sharing! Great article, reminded me of a great speech I read recently that Paul Graham gave in 2005:

http://www.paulgraham.com/opensource.html

The jist is the same as Rushkoff's, and Lanier's conclusion-- that people perform better when they do something they care about enough to do it for free. The paradox with the digital age is that consumers have grown accustomed to not paying for digital goods -- and artists have grown accustomed to settling for any attention they can get, which means marketing gimmicks, and settling for the lowest common denominator far too often for authors of original content. Lanier covers this well, for sure:

http://edge.org/conversation/the-local-global-flip
-u, --set-upstream
For every branch that is up to date or successfully pushed, add upstr
eam (tracking) reference, used by argument-less git-pull(1) and other
commands. For more information, see branch.<name>.merge in git-config
(1).

--man git-push
Today's conversion may be the result of an ad click 2 months ago. Now you can create the funnel that starts at that ad click and see that. The new report looks identical to KISSMetrics' funnels.
I've got most domains with omnis.com now - still have some with godaddy, but I move them over when I can. omnis has been fine for me for the past 2-3 years, haven't had price increases yet, and I get a small discount > 50 domains - my per domain cost is $8.20/year IIRC.
Sigh. Voted down because of a little humor and the fact that I'm not persuaded that Krugman is a accepted authority on economic matters.

Certain circles of people do view him as an authority, but many others do not. There is no consensus as to Krugman's expertise and so relying on his authority (as opposed to his particular argument on a particular issue) is dubious.

Economics is a difficult field in which to find concensus on many issues and so an appeal to authority in this area should automatically raise eyebrows.
You can do polls right here in HN.

http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll
His sites were down for "days". If he had backups he could have restored the sites to a different server.
It might not be "feeling useful" so much as the social stimulation. The days when I work from home and don't talk to anyone at the office are soul-crushingly lonely, sometimes, even if I'm very active over IM.
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Of course, the quote is not referring to any particular person.

The rest of your points are tangential to the quote, but I'll address them anyways.

Claiming lack of funds is not an issue is misguided. The problem with property-taxes-fund-education is that in poor areas, the funds derived from property taxes are much much lower than in a more well off area. These are the areas that require even greater investment to counter the negative culture living in low income areas create. Class sizes, after school activities, sports, tutoring, etc are all factors that effect the outcome of a student; all of which are directly related to available funds.

I could just as easily say those that claim funding isn't the problem with education also have motives they're trying to hide.
Yes, but GoPollGo gives better analytics and is real-time.

=)
For reasons similar to why Heroku is better than EC2.
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Public schools in the USA are paid for by property taxes.

Yes, but the property owners don't get to decide how much they're going to pay. The citizenry at large either votes directly on a school budget referendum, or votes for representatives to decide the same. Either way, the decision on school funding is made by a much broader set of people than the property owners.

Indeed, I own a cabin in upstate New York, but I am not a resident there, and thus am not allowed to vote there. I am entirely at the mercy of others as to how much I much pay for the school taxes there, as I do not have even a whisper of a voice.
It really depends on what you consider a luxury good. For example, some amount of housing is a "necessity", some amount is "nice to have", and some is "luxury", but I doubt people agree on the boundaries. The bar of what people consider a necessity seems to rise with income, so people recategorize what they would've once seen as luxury as non-luxury.

I was recently adding up what it would take to live in a cheap-ish place like Pittsburgh: 1) frugally; and 2) modestly but comfortably; and the numbers are absurdly low if you really stick to necessities. YMMV elsewhere.
So how much are you willing and able to pay for someone to take care of your sick relatives? I don't know about you, but often times there is a huge gap between need and demand caused by affordability. Maybe that's why those men are wandering around doing nothing, getting paid by people who have no need for them, instead of working for those who have a need but no funds to pay them.
Tons of Microsoft Research talks available for streaming and download
Good timing, just got my beta account going this morning.
There’s a really good book on this topic called Creating You & Co.[1] that is all about how it’s not jobs that are important—that’s an overspecialization—but work. And work can be done in any number of ways: automation, out-sourcing, crowd-sourcing, etc. The book is quite old so it only really talks about alternative human-based work delivery but it’s still arguing for a new worldview on work and employment that is well ahead of its time.

I have to remind myself every time I watch the news—particularly those interviews with “experts”—that job losses aren’t quite the gloomy picture they seem to be. And the solution isn’t necessarily to manufacture more positions for people.

1: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Creating-You-Co-Learn-Career/dp/0738...
Healthcare. It's a healthcare problem in education, healthcare costs are going up by 15% a year and that money isn't there. That's why you hear about teacher layoffs while your property taxes go up and think it's bullshit.

And hang out in a ghetto sometime if you want to see what's teaching kids that crime is ok.
i tried to learn git and hg and i found that hg was so much more friendly to work with. when things go wrong in git, cryptic error messages are spawned and i have no idea what to do. when i do things in hg, error messages are actually helpful. even when things don't go wrong, hg constantly gives me helpful advice at the command line. example: after you do hg pull, it tells me that i need to do hg update. why can't git stuff like that?
> Perhaps we need something like an exchange for labor, like a stock exchange meets a temp agency.

I think the problem here is that workers are even less fungible than corporate stocks. The process of separating out the chronically unemployed but capable from the chronically unemployed because of fundamental flaws is quite a job in and of itself.
Yes, but with GoPollGo we can see the poll in real time and by geography - will be interesting to see if people in California have different programming language preferences than people in NYC or France.

Disclosure: I work at GoPollGo.
Why do people line up for things like day-after-Thanksgiving sales? Because they know that the retailer is offering someting they want that will become more expensive later. So yeah, people who want TVs, and who think that TVs are about to become more expensive, will hurry up to get TVs, while those who think that TVs are about to become cheaper will put off their purchases.

In countries that have hyperinflation, you see extreme cases of this: middle-class consumers spend their paychecks as soon as the money is deposited, because they’d rather have anything on hand than cash in the bank.
A better comparison would be between an explanation of the contents of .git and the contents of your actual SVN repo on the server. Since that's what the equivalency is.
I don't think anyone would want to pay for the art I can make. I don't want to pay for anyone else's either. Given how much music piracy there is, and the vast skill disparity between casual amateurs and dedicated professionals, and the near-zero cost of replicating the bits composed by someone better than me or any of my immediate peers, I can't believe the author thinks that trading bits is a possible outcome. Why would I want my dad to educate me when I could watch OpenCourseware? Why would I want my friend's painting when I could get something much better over deviantArt? Why would I bother getting recipes from my mom if I can get them from a 4 star Michelin chef instead?
If you're developing for a CentOS server, I'd say you'll have to do some final testing on a VM in 95% of all cases. Even a CentOS laptop that you use for production (and maybe a little fun) will have some major differences to a server deployment. And that's assuming that you're enough of a glutton for punishment to be running CentOS 5.6 on a laptop.

Even if you're running Ubuntu 10+ on your laptop (a somewhat more sane assumption), you'd want to test your code on something closer to the "metal".

And honestly, (L)AMP (for normal values of P) won't be a problem on OS X. The usual frontend stack doesn't have major differences, maybe apart from a different default versions of the software (which are easy enough to install). Once you get closer to the system-specific stuff (when it get's more unix-y or network-y), then care about the differences. Not exactly the case for most web scripting stuff…
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Your property tax bills are paying for healthcare cost increases.

I'd be willing to bet that there have been layoffs and/or a hiring freeze in your district as well, right? That money isn't going to education, it's going into healthcare costs.
Krugman thinks deflation makes things worse. So if bitcoin ends up making things better, that proves Krugman wrong.
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I think this strengthen's Oracle's case against Google. and it shows willful infringement on the part of Google.

if you consider this admission together with the other evidence against Google, it's pretty damning.

an October 2005 email written by Andy Rubin, Google’s senior VP of mobile, concerning Sun, which held the patents at issue here before being acquired by Oracle.
“If Sun doesn’t want to work with us, we have two options: 1) Abandon our work and adopt MSFT CLR VM and C# language – or – 2) Do Java anyway and defend our decision, perhaps making enemies along the way.”

The second, this email from Google engineer Tim Lindholm (who was previously a senior Java engineer at Sun) to Rubin in August of 2010:
“What we’ve actually been asked to do (by Larry and Sergey) is to investigate what technical alternatives exist to Java for Android and Chrome. We’ve been over a bunch of these, and think they all suck. We conclude that we need to negotiate a license for Java under the terms we need.”

even the Judge agrees.

As Alsup told Oracle’s attorneys moments after reading it in open court, “That’s a pretty good document for you. That ought to be … big for you at the trial.”
Indeed — particularly if Rubin has to explain it on the stand.
“You know what they used to say about Joe Alioto,” Alsup said, referring to the successful antitrust attorney. “In a big case like this, he only needed two documents: He needed a document like this, the one I just read, and the Magna Carta. And he won every case. And you are going to be on the losing end of this document with Andy Rubin on the stand. … If willful infringement is found, there are profound implications for a permanent injunction. So you better think about that.”

http://allthingsd.com/20110727/old-email-may-bite-google-in-...
To answer all your why's: sentimentalism, that's why. Learning or receiving from people you know is often more valuable, imho.
And the other *isms are rife with moralizers and bottom-dwellers. A subset to be sure.
1. Tesla Motors - going after the throat of (harmful) giants

2. Kiva.org - very effective and very practical
Oh, for Christ's sake, does everything have to be the End of History nowadays?
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Why did the horse and buggy go away? Lack of demand, I'd say.
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Lots of people don't view Krugman as a legitimate expert. His opinions are not universally accepted and so I don't think his authority should be assumed.

In any case, if the underlying argument is valid it really doesn't matter who is making it, right? An appeal to authority is really just a shortcut to avoid the full argument but it only works if the full argument (with no appeal to authority) can be made.
The problem is that minimum wage has never overtaken inflation. So in fact the minimum wage has effectively fallen over the last 60 years. Plus, the gains in production due to automation has worked to concentrate wealth at the top. The point is we can't say regulation wouldn't be effective considering trends of income distribution.
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I like the way the disk begins in eye-readable scale and tapers down. But why not continue this even further? At some point, when enough exposition has been done so that the corpus is fairly understandable, you could then introduce the concept of binary encoding. And then after a few short examples and mappings, then continue the rest of the disc in binary form.

One could theoretically take this further by then explaining how we built our primitive computers, some simple math, and continue.

I would love an accompanying Rosetta project that was in just one language, but exposited our understandings of math, physics and computer science so that some civilization that discovered the twin discs could use the first one to learn English (as long as they knew or could decipher at least one of the languages) and the second one to reconstruct our understanding of math, physics and computer science and rebuild a 2000 AD era computer, and finally input to it a tar.gz dump of all of Wikipedia.
> Disclosure: I work at GoPollGo.

And this makes your submission look disingenuous. If you want people to look at your stuff, it's fine, but be direct about your motives.
There might be emergent funnels that you didn't instrument, but appear after seeing an app in the wild. You also sometimes get funnels that emerge off of deep-link referrals that you didn't predict for.

Anyhow: this is super smart, and having been on the side of the table where we were trying to get Omniture to do things like this, I'd much prefer a light and agile product like this than that behemoth.
If I search the article for the word "profit", I get 0 results.

Revenue is all well and good, but what's the profit number? That's a very important, but missing, part of the story.
Healthcare may explain why we can't spend yet more than the more-we've-ever-spent-before we're currently spending, but it can't explain why we spend so much more and seem to be getting less and less.

Really, very few of the problems we're facing can be explained by not spending enough; rather more can be explained by spending too much with no regard for what we get for our money, then letting people say "well, we just need more money to solve that problem".

If only we used an economic system whereby we actually accepted and utilized feedback about how our money was being spent, instead of spending our time demonizing the very idea that one should be permitted to examine the question of what one is getting for one's taxes, and simply being told to shut up and fork more over. Alas.
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I'm not 100% I agree with the grandparent, but how do you know that the income inequality would have been even worse without these regulations?
Exactly. In the bitcoin world, you make more money by not investing the money you have and instead holding onto it in the hopes that you'll be able eventually convert it to a stable currency in the future. That's a disaster. Who, for example, is going lend their precious bitcoins to a risky startup when they can just sit on them and watch them appreciate?
If true, it would have been a major exit for DreamIt.

Assuming DreamIt's stake was diluted to 2%, that'd be $1.6 million from a $~20,000 investment.
The 40 hour work week barely covers their expenses because time is an arbitrary metric being used to derive some sort of implicit value on labor. The unit of measure needs to change.
A thousand times this. For my first year to year and a half of using git, I didn't even know that you could re-write your history. I just started out with a personal repo on my own machine, where I'd init, add, rm, commit, and look at logs. Then I learned how to start working with someone else's repo, which introduced me to cloning, pulling, pushing, fetching, and all that jazz. As the project sizes grew, I realized how useful branches were, so I became more familiar with tracking things upstream, merging, and some more advanced workflows. Finally I started poking around in the git object model, and learning how I can clean up my local history before a push. It was baby steps all the way.

Trying to use rebase the same week or month that you learn git (or version control period), while doable for some, is just crazy for everyone else. You don't jump into riding a bike before you learn to walk.
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Possible, but improbable. Google is not resting on their laurels. And there are already excellent mobile search engines like http://www.doat.com/ - and though it is excellent, it hasn't yet made a difference.
They're getting close to completely solving my problems. I just need "aggregate" or "meta" events.

On Hacker News for example you could do:

"Vote" OR "Submit URL" OR "Comment" = "User Contribution"
Another vote for joker.com. I use them because they are not based in the US, but in Germany, which may result in a smidgeon more sanity when it comes to yanking delegations without court rulings. Maybe.

Also, they are nerds and pgp sign all of their outgoing emails.
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This is spam (yes I flagged it) bascially it's the 21st century version of making money at home by stuffing envelopes with a flyer telling people how to make money at home stuffing envelopes.
That may be true, and I personally agree that property taxes shouldn't fund education in that manner.

However, that doesn't mean that the removal of private property will result in more education or more money for education. Jello's quote implies that the root cause of unemployment and undereducation is partly the system of private property. He is a self-professed anarchist, so I don't know why people are trying to convince me that I'm reading into his quote. He's incorrect about this, but people love "eat the rich" ideals too much to admit it.
Knowing how long a property has been vacant
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It's so important to evaluate whether you need range queries before picking a tech like Riak.

They are coming, though. That's what I hear, at least.
Javascript is on there. You could mention C# in comments and people could upvote if they agree. I had to pick 10 based on my assumptions of what is popular. In retrospect C# might have been more popular than Scala.
There may be something to that, but it's hardly a universal feeling.

I was laid off a few years ago and I took as much time off between jobs as I could afford. I got a bunch of hiking, biking and camping in; read a bunch; and generally had an excellent time. I only felt depressed when my savings started to get low and I knew I'd have to get a job.

Some people connect their self worth to working, and they feel worthless when they're not working. Some people don't, and they don't have that problem.
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I don't know anything about the author, so you're probably right about how he means the quote to be taken.
BitCoin is no more anonymous than your IP address. As soon as your BitCoin address can be tied to your identity, such as by trading through a major exchange, your transactions might as well have your name on them.

Like IP, anonymity can be emulated through routing mechanisms. Basically laundering your packets and coins. Tor, the state of the art in this kind of anonymity, is not without faults. And there isn't really an equivalent to Tor for BitCoins that I know about.

Related, I know BitCoin can be run over Tor, but this is not the same as a Tor for BitCoin. This merely protects against traffic analysis to tie your BitCoin account to your IP address.

Tor for BitCoin might look more like a network of wallets that simulated a perfectly noisy economy. If A wanted to pay B, A's coins would go everywhere to B, C, D, E, F and so on. Over time coins would pass in and out of people's wallets until at some point the right number would stick to B's wallet equal to the number A sent. Hopefully, the ones that stick to B's wallet will be a mix of ones that A actually sent and other coins being anonymized by the network.

There are obvious flaws in this design. But hopefully it helps illustrate why BitCoin isn't anonymous and the difficulty of making it anonymous.
Even Zed Shaw praised this!
I got the email, read through that, visited the page, read through that... Only to find it applies to U.S. customers only. That's 5mins of my life you've wasted for no upside to either of us :(
"Reducing the income gap" is not an inherently good thing. If it is, you should be thrilled with the current economy: incomes for the rich have fallen more on a percentage basis than for the poor and middle class.
Hello, I'm a freelancer. I'll do the job you want for 150% of my former salary, yet at a lower price that my boss sold it to you !

I wonder why everyone is not doing that... I cut the middle men, so that means I get to go to dinner with clients, I get to negotiate prices, I got to be friend with the CEO of the startup that employs me.

I always suspected that the salary of a commercial was a high price for a very comfortable job, and I can confirm it !
keeping over-priced goods at inflated price using whatever means will never work out in the long term. that applies to real-estate too, which (the real-estate industry) seems to have become the driving economic sector in many countries, which I find funny.

edit: and a note on why it's funny, the value of a property never changes, only the price.

From an individual perspective, you can make money trading real-estate just like trading stocks;
from government's perspective, higher GDP is always good; from bank's perspective, as long as property value increases, they will make money from both interest and foreclosures;
but from a society perspective, nothing of value was ever created in the process.
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Actually, FWIW, urban low-income districts typically get more money per pupil than suburban ones. Why and where it goes is a much longer discussion than I have time to get into, but it's basically personnel and specialists.