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I've found the interest rate on outstanding debt to be a tremendous motivation to try and limit the number of frivolous things I buy.

For example, our interest rate is 5.5% and we're not due to pay off our mortgage for 28 years. That means (more or less) that for every dollar I spend, I could have put that on my mortgage and saved 5.5% interest (compounded) over 28 years. Another way of looking at it is that I'm going to be paying 5.5% interest (tax-deductible) on anything I buy instead of putting the money in an extra payment on my mortgage.

Given the terms of my mortgage, that makes an $500 iPad actually cost about $500 now and another $481.06 in interest over the next 28 years. My $2300 MacBook Pro will actually end up costing me $4512.88.

The great thing about this approach is that it doesn't discourage me from buying nice things that are actually worth their value. The MacBook Pro for example produces incredible value, much more than I paid for it.

However, knowing that for every $5 smoothie I buy now, I'll be paying another $4.81 for it in 28 years? I don't buy $5 smoothies 2-3 times a week anymore. Instead I go to Rita's when they're doing $1 kids cones on Monday and I go again on Wednesday for the $1 Italian Ice.

Anyways, I found this so helpful in curbing frivolous spending that I created a small iPhone app to help folks do the calculation on the fly. http://whatll-it-cost.limelightapp.com/ . I'd be happy to give a promo code to anyone who thinks it'll be helpful. (After all, that $0.99 would actually be $1.94 after 28 years at 5.5%. :p)
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It took me a while to get font rendering working the way I wanted in Arch, but it is possible (that's by way of encouragement... don't let this be a showstopper for you; I understand why it's important).

Infinality is great but even it requires some massaging to get it to the state I like (though of course now I have my configs pretty much ready to install off a repo).
If you can't afford one and you are make less than a low threshold above the local poverty limit.

The test looks at assets and income, ignoring liabilities (except for necessary ongoing medical expenses).
No, nor have you broken the law as it is written. The key factor here is that the statement must be made about a matter in which a federal investigative or regulatory agency has authority to pursue legal actions, i.e., in relation to an investigation into violations of federal laws or regulations.

What the discussion on HN ignores (and which the article touches upon but glosses over) is that the lie (about hours) is repeated to a federal agent during an investigation or on court. The repetition is the illegal act.

I am a lawyer...and I would really love it if the armchair laywers on HN would stop spreading FUD.
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Signups may be slow as long as the app is requesting unnecessarily broad OAuth access to signees' Twitter accounts:

"This application will be able to: read Tweets from your timeline; see who you follow, and follow new people; update your profile; post Tweets for you."
imho, the primary problem with the current patent system is that the people who grant patents don't have even a rudimentary understanding of the technologies related to the patents. that is the only explanation for some of the patents that have been granted recently.

this act might improve the system in general, but it won't fix the gross incompetency of the patent office.
Not done yet, but I think pacman 4.0 has signing support. I also hope the recent events will spur continued development here.
There's no minimum severance (at least at the national level), as far as I know. (http://www.dol.gov/dol/topic/wages/severancepay.htm) ... In theory it could be in your contract, but I personally can't recall ever seeing a contract that had such a clause. The standard is "at will" - if you come in to work one day and they don't need you any more, that's it, just the same as you don't really have to give two weeks notice when you leave (but most people do for the sake of the relationship.)
I'm not sure that's entirely accurate. Many games will not allow you to play (at all, even "offline") if updates (to the game, not the console's firmware) are available. I think Civ:Rev will only force you to update if you want to play "online", but I'm pretty sure Little Big Planet won't even load if updates to the game are available.

Other games require you to be online to simply install.

Some newer Blu-Ray discs require updates to the PS3's firmware. You cannot update the firmware without accepting the EULA.

You lose enormous functionality by not accepting the EULA.

With every one of these insane EULA updates, I'm thinking more and more about using one of the custom firmwares.
One thing is for certain - their anti-consumer stance ensures I won't ever buy another Sony product!
I'm not sure if something like that exists, but I've used http://deviceanywhere.com in the past for Windows Mobile testing. This was before the iPhone, they're still around and have iPhone support, so it may be helpful.

Once I got everything configured, it was pretty sweet. It wasn't hard to setup either.

The one thing is, from what I recall, they were a bit expensive. But they have free trials.

I also found this article that could be useful:

http://www.softwarequalityconnection.com/2011/03/testing-app...

There's a bunch of options for testing without buying a bunch of iOS devices. They also have more DeviceAnywhere-type services listed as well.

I hope this helps.
Actually, what if there is a hell only because so many people believe so and we go to hell because they believe/hope so? Would they stop believing so other people could enjoy a more peaceful afterlife?
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I have a very similar setup, although zenburn styled:

https://github.com/bo0ts/dotconfig
a couple possibilities there:

1) if the first one performs well, people are probably ignoring the second for being a dupe.

2) a source website's reputation, page load times, amount and type of advertising, and site design all factor into the popularity of a submission.

3) luck is a factor. just because something does better this friday night, doesn't mean that every friday night is a good time to submit. the first couple upvotes are crucial, and that's only one or two people - easily within any error margin.

4) maybe i'm totally wrong. this isn't a scientific analysis, just my general perceptions, and i've only actively been reading HN for a couple months.
Market cap of $18, assets on balance sheet of $15 bn... some portion of that value may be breakup / liquidation value. In theory, a company is worth the greater of its future earnings (hence P/E) or it's liquidation value. (This assumes they're rational enough to break it up if that value is greater.)

So in theory, Yahoo's earnings could go to zero, and it would still be worth $15bn because you could liquidate the assets... and the P/E would rise towards infinity.
Thanks very much, I'll put those things right and have another crack at seeding it with users in a little bit.

Appreciate the advice, and really cool of you to help people out like this -- if I can ever return a favor just ask ^^
For the record Arch is one of the only distributions with sensible multiilib support. Most of the bigger ones require purity and force you to install a chroot if you want to run 32-bit applications. Fedora is multilib by default but it sucks because it always installs 32 and 64 bit versions of everything by default instead of reasoning that you'd be OK to use 64-bit most of the time by default.
Does anyone have insight into why this approach is being adopted after so many years without change? You'd think if we were going to change anything, we'd at least make it harder for patent trolls to sit on filings without actually having built what they've "invented".

Edit: the more I read about the changes, the more it sounds like it benefits large organizations with the resources to file vs. startups busy building new things.
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If there's anything I've learned in my software career, is that problems can be fixed. It sounds like this problem can, or already has been fixed. NodeJS is a wonderful platform to work with, nonetheless.
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re pt 1:

Do you think some URLs are more valuable (better domain/more descriptive/etc)? Or was it just luck?
> measurably worse, like cigarettes and satellite TV.

Just curious, do you have a source for the satellite tv claim? Why satellite, not cable?
>But to imagine that that self-aware technology will be anything but symbiotic with us is truly crazy.

Have you any argument to back up such a strong position?

>Of course the world will become dominated by self-aware technology; it already is, after all.

I'm not aware of any technological artifact that meets a reasonable definition of 'self-aware' - could you provide an example?

Why is it 'truly crazy' to imagine self aware technology could pose a threat to us? I don't think we've built any self-aware technology, and I suspect that if such technology is possible, its still a way off in the future.
But if we did, I think we'd have to be extremely careful with it, and be very cautious of unintended consequences.

Its not unusual for people to consider the potential of such technology to be a threat.
A commonly cited essay is Bill Joys wired article: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy_pr.html

In the other direction, if you look at these guys, who are extremely optimistic about AI, they say one of their main research areas is on ensuring any such AI would be 'friendly': http://singinst.org/research/researchareas

I disagree with this 'ITS's assessment of the risks, as described in the Nature article. I completely disagree with their methods, obviously.

But I think that if self-aware technology was on the horizon, concerns about it potentially being a threat would be legitimate.

Asserting that it couldn't possibly be anything but symbiotic, without offering any evidence or argument to back that position up, is also crazy.
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Thanks. I will check Heroku. The problem is that when you need to scale is really expensive
Possible, but the painful disappointments have all been the reverse. Good on paper, but the paper is, to be generous, "embellished."
for other spanish speakers, this group is called Individualidades Tendiendo a lo Salvaje and a google search gives plenty of hits for more info http://www.google.cl/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&...

(they don't seem to have a site; the statement is repeated on various anarchist blogs, but from dates and credits one of these may be the original http://liberaciontotal.lahaine.org/?p=1622 http://culmine.noblogs.org/post/2011/04/27/paquete-explosivo...)
Basically they take a risk when they do that, but they can only hold you for 72 hours (at least here in Toronto). There are avenues that you can take to get back at them for that though, such as class action lawsuits.

A Hispanic former coworker of mine was wrongfully arrested then beaten with phone books by some thugs at the Toronto police. He got lucky, it was a case of mistaken identity and even though they found a small amount of weed on him they let him go completely and he was given a card with a cops phone number on it. He has had to use it 3 times since.

He's an apprentice tradesman and lives in a poor area of Toronto so when I told him to sue, he said "Sue? For what? Damages? I've been beaten up worse before by the people they're trying to catch. I live in a bad neighborhood and the officer who gave me his car and I have an understanding now."

Pretty messed up. When you don't look or sound like the people that know these little loopholes in the system you get to deal with what I consider to be a couple steps up from a mob. Some of them are awesome, for example cops have helped me get out of a snow bank before and didn't write me up for a driving infraction. Some of them are generally nice and will smile at you on the street or laugh with you as they give you a ticket, but they have power and some of them, especially those that have to deal with messed up shit in the ghettos abuse it.
12/31/1969 - alrighty then, someone has a time machine.

Other than that, I agree api is still lacking, I am sure it will improve over time.
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> I'm not sure that's entirely accurate. Many games will not allow you to play (at all, even "offline") if updates (to the game, not the console's firmware) are available. I think Civ:Rev will only force you to update if you want to play "online", but I'm pretty sure Little Big Planet won't even load if updates to the game are available.

No that is not true. I downloaded little big planet and for a month I didn't have internet and was able to play without having updated it. If the game requires an update it's not mandatory. It only makes you update if you go online but you don't have to do that.

Problem is lots of people who don't have a PS3 and don't know the facts keep propogating anti-sony spin simply because they don't like certain practices of Sony the conglomerate. But it does no one a favor to keep up ad-hominem attacks on Sony.
What rude and demanding bug reports.
If only there was a way to know that it was the brother before you posted.
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I agree that downvotes shouldn't be used to indicate disagreement. The article satisfied my intellectual curiosity about a small aspect of a system that I find fascinating; that is why I submitted it. It's purpose was not to relay legal advice or make a political statement. However now that I see more than a few people think it's not Hacker News-worthy, I'll consider my future submissions more carefully.
A big part of it (I think) is the student loan debt. 80,000 is huge, and can lead to just giving up and spiraling(I already owe 80k, what's another 2?)

The car loan is really low, 10k is just about as cheap as you can get a new car for, and you'll never get a loan for a used car (so if you don't have 2-5k in savings to buy it used...you're SOL) Biking/walking is only really feasible in certain cities.

And if you really want to know why young people are being given credit cards...it's because they don't make money! No, really. Not a conspiracy, but without a steady income they can only make the minimum payments for a while, which gives the card issuers more money than someone who has a job. Plus, they get to charge higher interest on it.
I haven't needed TC for news in years; they have nothing exclusive save their dotcom 1999 attitudes.
Perhaps, but at the same time it's a free service and they aren't obligated to perpetually provide the exact same service to you for the initial $2xx you paid.
1) Better submission title (it was a pointer to a project I created, so I got to choose the title) 2) better submission time.
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If I'm not mistaken the first to file requirement during the 70s would have meant no PC industry as the Eniac patents would have survived and IBM could have killed the entire homebrew scene.

So how does prior art work now? I mean, does the prior art need have been patented to invalidate a new patent?
It would be more correct to say that V8 has a 1G memory limit. But node.js actually gives you these nice things called Buffers which, according to the node.js manual, are "similar to an array of integers but corresponds to a raw memory allocation outside the V8 heap" (see http://nodejs.org/api/buffers.html).

Buffers are used all over the place in node, which should mitigate the degree to which this is actually a problem. Even if this bug report stays a wontfix, it won't affect my decision to use node because of Buffer support.
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No big surprise there. Metro UI is basically equivalent to tablet apps. It's as if Apple were to make iOS apps work under Mac OS X like they do on the iPad (which they surely will in the near future). So, like Apple, these tablet and kinda-desktop apps will require a 30% fee to Microsoft.
Interesting strategies. I notice non-buffer seek isn't working. You guys might want to take a look at pseudostreaming plugin for flowplayer http://h264.code-shop.com/trac.
Author makes some good points but comes to an incorrect conclusion. It is very important to live within your means (income + some delta > expenses). I don't think anyone would disagree with that statement. There is some debate how big that delta should but that isn't the root of the issue.

But then concluding being frutal will provide opportunities is false. All frugality enables is the ability for one to take advantage of opportunities that someone that is in a lesser financial situation could not.
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Here's a currently-working video; I'm not sure if it's the same one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYaEh9h5aM0 .

There's a Wikipedia article about the crash, with a bunch of news links: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/2011_Reno_Air...

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That's not necessarily true. I mean, there's no accounting for taste, but the reality is that they were an effective hype machine for startups in a less-connected era, but that ended about the time they started figuring out they could pull a Walter Winchell on the industry and got drunk on their own power. They have been absolutely useless since the Scamville brouhaha, but by my measure their downhill slide and loss of focus started no later than here:

http://techcrunch.com/2008/04/23/amateur-hour-over-at-twitte...
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This looks interesting. We just made the decision to start developing our games exclusively with Node, just in the past few days actually. Are there any cool apps out that that you know of using NowJS?
> Assuming 2080 hours/year of workable time, ...

I've had recruiters try to sell me on this figure for salary calculations, or even worse, use 2085.7 (=365 * 5/7 * 8). That only works if you don't want a vacation.

I use 2,000 hrs/yr both to factor in some vacation time and also to make the math easier to do in my head.
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I seemed to remember reading somewhere that Microsoft weren't going to take a cut, as an anti Apple move. Guess I was mistaken or they incorrectly wrote this.

Makes sense. Although Metro apps are HTML5 right? So is this not like the Chrome Web Store?
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I'm fairly certain those are the same people we're always talking about being unable to solve fizzbuzz.
Here is a clear version of the youtube video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybgd0EfxWCI
I seemed to remember reading somewhere that Microsoft weren't going to take a cut,

No cut of legacy apps I believe.

Although Metro apps are HTML5 right?

Some are. Can also be managed code or native.
I had the same issue, you might want to consider adding another top level menu item 'about' with a summary of what nowjs is and a quick overview of the how and why.
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I don't think you can blame Bartz for culture lost since the "early days". She wasn't even there for three full years. I don't think Carol really hurt the culture much during her tenure. If anything I think she improved it, at least in terms of focus.

To answer your question, though, I started three years ago and some months ago. I came in just a bit before the Microsoft deal fell through.
Here's the whole video (it happens about 39 minutes in.) Please note it's somewhat disturbing:

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But it's also partly to do with the kinds of businesses that the HN crowd are setting up.

If your business is a plain old-style cash-flow business, rather than having a fast-growth trajectory, it does much sense to optimize for the cents, since they turn into dollars because of the repetition.

When first-mover advantage is important, don't let the small stuff get in the way of getting your product out ASAP.
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Metro apps can be HTML5 and JS, or C#, VB, and C++ with XAML. But the HTML5 apps are not just web pages. The JavaScript interacts with the new Windows API just like any other supported language can. It has access to system devices like storage, microphones, cameras, etc. They're just regular apps, but with some security limitations.
I believe that would be a good case for driving the normal speed until you get to a well lit area. If you want, get out your phone and inform the police of your intent.

I would never pull over on a "dark, out of the way road".
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So is this implying that there will not be side loading of Metro Apps under Win8? If so then this is a big deal. If not ... not really surprising.
I've never worked at a place involved in the Linux community.

That'd probably be nice. :)
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