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I have a habit of overestimating the capabilities of modern technology, but I really don't understand why more of the underlying processes of our civilization aren't automated (e.g. food production, food transportation, food preparation, human transportation).

Maybe the problem is history. Maybe, if we were given the chance to start over and plan a brand new city from the ground up, we could eliminate a lot of unnecessary elements that currently occupy a lot of our time and energy.

Would it be possible -- with our current technology -- to build a giant, self-sustaining field of photovoltaic modules? Thousands of automated machines and robots could maintain and repair this system. Massive amounts of free power could effectively fuel a developing city.

And if our basic needs were taken care of, we could each start to focus on what matters to us, instead of what merely ensures our survival. I think it's about time for us humans, collectively, to move past worrying about having enough money for food and a place to live.
They didn't expect to fail, at least not so quickly (but then again, I'm not much of a conspiracy theorist)

It's certainly possible Fishman will decline to take some or all of the compensation, like one of the other failed institution's CEO (can't remember which now)
Awesome. I'd love to see one of these guys pull through. I'm in one of my heavy research phases right now and there's always this cat-and-mouse information tracking problem of trying to trace an idea back to its source and track its derivations through the clunky interfaces that online journals use now. (Especially, say, if you're not members of all or any of them.)

Similarly, I asked exactly the question The Economist nails of a friend of mine in academia last week (who does a lot of peer review) -- how do ideas spread at a reasonable pace through academic circles given that it often takes a year or more for a paper to be published? The answer was, "Everybody knows everybody. They talk." Which naturally is frustrating looking from the outside in and working on theoretically intensive problems from a non-academic setting.
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What is consensus on health care? I can't be the only person worried about getting some weird disease in a country far far away.

Also language issues?
profits? hot chicks?
Wall Street's made billions in profits over the last decade on mortgages and mortgage-based securities. Now that the possibility of a loss arises, the same firms are screaming for a lifeline from the taxpayer (actually, it's more like they want to trade boats - our good one for theirs with the hole in it).

Let 'em all die, the bunch of crooks, liars and charlatans. They can all join Enron in financial Hell.
I would recommend putting the word out via your friends/extended social network followed by Craigslist. Especially in the Valley it doesn't seem like it should be hard to get mediocre contractors for a reasonable rate (this is what you want, right?).
Now they just need to figure out how to make money.
I talked with a very well traveled friend and he says some of the health care in some South American countries is even better than the US. I can't remember the country off the top of my head, but it may have been Panama.

As for language, it doesn't take too long to learn the basics for survival. Plus, lots of the best countries for this have good expatriate communities.
I think the business card lockpicking set is more fun:

http://www.ohgizmo.com/2006/09/18/lock-pickin-business-card/
I think you're overestimating technology. Robotics is still incredibly primitive. There is ongoing work in automated driving ( see DARPA's grand challenge and Willow Garage) and automated cooks ( see Anybots), but all of these efforts are in the very early stages.

Even with car companies, I think I read somewhere that Toyota uses much less robotics than GM, and that's a reason why Toyota is more successful. GM bought to much into the robotics, over invested, and it ended up costing more and hurting quality. As for solar, it's still very expensive in terms of resources to build panels.
Supposedly eliminate poverty worldwide:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=315521
>They have made a lot of money convincing people that their product is magical, and they don't want to lose out on that.

Couldn't agree more. Oracle currently has this going for them:

http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/A-Software-Problem,-A-Market...

(to quote One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, "it's true even if it didn't happen").
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I want to quickly look up the city/state/country of a visitor by their IP. Anyone know of a good dataset I could download to do this locally on my server?
Should be retitled "Giddy Journalist Fascinated by Evening With the Wealthy".

Did no one tell him about the E in the punch?
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Why don't they wait 5 months? They'll be able to buy back twice as much stock then.
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Facebook ads on the Stanford network maybe?
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...oh wait...
So what? The whole thing seemed like a waste of time. There's a million people out there who can shit ideas on a list of possible areas- the only thing that matters is actual execution.
unless you've got ninja-like skills and can write an appropriate filter to see just the data you're interested in, the signal-to-noise ratio in Wireshark can be overwhelming.

Nina-like skills? I would consider that just basic competence with the tool.
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They seem to have peaked around 200k in traffic last month.

My company is in a similar space as bankaholic, but overall I think we are growing to have much better content. It's hard to believe $15 million went for what is essentially a blog.

Full disclosure: I'm a partner in http://www.mybanktracker.com/ Check it out if you have a sec. We haven't fully launched, but when we do I'll post a 'Checkout my startup' post to yc.
Neat, but way bigger than <http://www.conceptlab.com/fly/>;
How eliminating the reserve ratio in 1995 set up both the stock and housing bubbles
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McCain, Obama clash in first debate
Surprised? No, becuse the surge is working.
I'm not convinced that we can solve the worlds big problems like poverty just by spending money.

I don't claim to have the answers.. but I think it will take a lot more than money to solve these problems. That's assuming they can even be solved at all.
Ask HN - Ratio of user response to unique users per day.
Question for webapp owners.

What is your email from users to ratio of unique users per day?

I've gotten about 6% on mine, wondering if that is similar to others.

To break it down a little more, roughly 50% asking for fixes or features, and 50% just saying thanks because they like the service.

User feedback is nice motivation, and started some interesting conversations for me.
Thanks! Surprisingly the unknown rate I am getting is real high(40%), but this is a decent solution for now. HN saves me so much time.
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not really surprised. Its not really a popular service...sure its the great thing since sliced bread for the techie crowd, but for the other 299 million Americans its "twitter who?"
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I remember a quote from Donald Trump which said "If you don't tell people about your success, They will never know".
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Worth pointing out: He's not a journalist

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliezer_Yudkowsky
On how users can watch any Amazon movie for free instead of renting it:

"Amazon starts to stream the entire movie during the free preview -- even though it pauses the video on the Web browser after the first two minutes -- so that users can start watching the rest of the video right away once they pay... However, even if a user doesn't pay, the stream still sends the movie to the video catching software, but not the browser."
I'd do what I've always wanted to do:
-Buy old houses and fix them up and put them back on the market
-Buy a few bars and small restaurants to manage
-Write short stories and maybe a novel with the hopes of getting them published
-Once famous, go back to my alma mater and teach a class on something I think I'm good at

Of course, I plan on doing this anyway. Some of it might have to wait, the market being what it may, but you have to stay optimistic.
What ever you would do is what you should do.
Today was the day when I realised Twitter had truly "made it" as the BBC News website was using it as part of their live text commentary of the debate. You struggle to get much more mainstream than that in the UK.
merb http://merbivore.com is exactly the kind of full-stack framework ruby needs. Paired with datamapper http://datamapper.org it is a clean room rewrite of what rails could have been. I'm not knocking rails. It is what it is, but the rails code base has its problems and is not written for performance or enterprise security from the beginning. Merb is the best thing I've seen in the Ruby world that fixes this.

http://shellshadow.com switched from rails to merb earlier this year and I couldn't be happier with this decision.
This data doesn't surprise me whatsoever. I'm an undergrad and these numbers are close to what I'd predict for my university. I don't know a single person with a landline. Everyone I know owns a laptop and has it registered on the university network. I'm incredibly surprised whenever I meet someone and find that they don't have a facebook profile. The only difference is that I don't know as many people with an iPhone/iPod touch, but I suspect that's because most people in my class (c/o 2009) have cell phones and older generation iPods and don't feel the need to replace them.
Wow, I never knew about this. Is that hard for someone who does not know Lisp and Arc to install it?
I think it was on some 37 Signals thread that a reader pointed out that aphorisms always seemed to come in opposing pairs. "Many hands make light work"; "Too many chefs spoil the broth". That sort of thing. Yet each seemed to speak the truth.

Much of what can be found on "start up" blogs are business aphorisms; they have an air of pithy truth, but are often lacking in any real backing or substance. With some moderate effort, equally compelling yet opposing pearls of insight can be constructed. Show people either one and most would be nodding their heads in agreement.

Any topic of interest is complex, and there are many seemingly contradictory observations you can make that are true in some way but are not the whole story. There's a tendency, though, for readers to latch onto the things they most want to be true and ignore the rest, regardless of no actual backing evidence being provided.
What's your take on Ramaze?
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I haven't used ramaze seriously enough to give an opinion on the quality of this work. I like the modularity and ORM and Template and HTTP server agnostic approach, which is similar to merb.

One of key benefits of merb over the many other lightweight and more modular ruby frameworks is it has the necessary critical developer mass and funding behind it from Engine Yard http://engineyard.com
You cannot separate the argument from the objective reality the argument claims to describe.

Regarding the wild swings in the estimates of remaining oil, the largest discrepancy comes from the fact that oil in different places requires different amount of toil to extract it. At a certain point, this is too much to pay for all but a few applications (where energy density is needed most, or where the stored hydrocarbons can be used for other purposes).

Already the oil infrastructure is some of the most complicated and costly equipment in the world. We don't know where that economic break even point will be, but we do realize that one must exist. This, among other things, is driving futures. Each new type of oil requires a new type of capital investment. The involved parties are making gambles on future technology. Further influencing this is the fact that it's polluting enough to, potentially, influence much of the world away from it, thereby reducing the attractiveness of such bets.
Alt-energy contrarians very often make the same argument: "We'll never be able to supply all power needs from renewables.

ESR said the opposite.

The industrial base load is the life blood of technological civilization; without it, we’d have a hideous global population crash, and then revert to pre-1750 conditions in which the economy is almost entirely subsistence farming and life is nasty, brutish, and short.

Hence, we could easily supply all of our power needs from renewables -- if we didn't mind getting medieval.

http://pages.nyu.edu/~mg1828/color/gimp.jpg
Regarding the wild swings in the estimates of remaining oil

What wild swings? Over the last 150 years, they have gone in only one direction -- up.

it's polluting enough

Please be specific. Are you talking about smog? CO2?

to, potentially, influence much of the world away from it

Why would that happen now, instead of at any time during the last 150 years? Let's see what Google Images says:

http://images.google.com/images?q=world%20oil%20consumption%...

People and countries seem to like oil. They keep buying more and more of it. Why would they suddenly stop?
> Again, you don't realize what the bailout will mean to the companies - they will be gone! Kaput. The US will own them. They just won't renege on obligations is all.

Good. This is how capitalism works. Right? You take risks and when you loose you pay the price. If it works out you rich. Banks have been going kaput since beginning of time, big deal. It is like with forest fire. It kills old and weak trees, so new forest can grow on it. Let the banks with bad, sometimes even illegal practices fail, so the new ones that will replace them won't take such a risky bets and give loans to people who can't repay them. What is wrong with that? Capitalism has 2 parts - boom and bust.

Why Wall St, is SOOOO capitalistic in boom times and SOOOO socialistic in bust times? Give them some of their own medicine. They made their decision they should pay for them, not a taxpayer. Let the market clean up the mess from the system!

> BTW: Why do you exclude the gov from the market? These days the fed owns all sorts of things, maybe they'll make a profit.

Oh yeah sure! Let's nationalize our insurance industry, our financial industry, our automotive industry and so on. Is how America was built?

> Look, again, I'm not saying that the bailout is a good idea. I'm saying your stated objections to it were poor and based on "it's not fair" rather than analyzing what the effects on the economy might be.

The effects on the economy would be great. Sure, there would be a period of deep recession, but this is better than popping up inflation. This will not make a single of these banks solvent. We will pay inflation tax for it and at the end of the day, we still have "toxic" assets in books. In government books instead of - so called private - banks - but the issue will be still there.
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Could not agree more. Wall St. is soooo capitalistic in boom times. And when the bust comes they all cry for socialism. I would pack all these guys and send to Cuba or North Korea. They want socialism? Give it to them!
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America is the greatest democracy since Greece.
There is a lot of nay sayers rigth now, as there always is in hard times:
These guys used to have placards on their backs and fronts saying it is the end of the world, now the internet has given them a wider voice.
We should rejoce in this fact and to be honest I love it and read all of these blogs every day. This is freedom of the press and democracy at its finest.
I work at a finance company that went burst (Bear Stearns) so what some people lost some jobs, some rich people lost alot of money.
Come on I was also in the DOT com burst.
Look be smart, the start looking for the next bubble and getting on board as you should be.

Just listen to what these gobshites are saying: it is the end of america, it is the end of the super power.
I have heard this crap quite a few times over the last while, gimmie a break.
Listen stop being part of the problem:
1. Start looking for a profit in this.
2. Start looking at how America can change to be better from this.
3. The crinimals that currently run the country should be held accountable if they actually manage to rob the taxpayer of this 700B.
4. The fed should be nationalized.

America is the greatest country in the world,
I truly, truly believe this all we need is a bit of leadershio to guide us out of this crises.
The unfortunate thing right now is that both parties have tried to politicise this crises.

FUCK them all no matter what happens tomorrow we will still be american and we will be stronger better and harder.

Stop listening to the fags and start working on solutions to the problem.

That is what america is about, somewhere we lost a bit of this, it is time for some new ideas some hard work and some real leadership.

Believe me the problems we are facing are big but if we work togehter as a nation we will dispatch this problem in a quater, turn this nation around regain our pride and show the world why America is the only super power.

Ernan
I can sort of agree.

I got in early on O'Reilly's Safari bookshelf. For work, it's great. It's like a privatized library of great technical material. But reading it can be a little bit of a pain since it's on on the computer screen. The kindle display is too small for most technical material (diagrams and code listings are impossible). I got a Sony reader and found it to be great for novels. However, recent developments with 8.5x11 inch e-ink displays would be great for what I need for work. Even better if it could have a few pages.

For college textbooks it can be different. I wonder if they might become obsolete sooner or later anyways.
[An] economic break even point ... must exist. This, among other things, is driving futures.

Regarding oil-futures:

http://www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net/Financial_Tsunami/Oil_...

The oil price today, unlike twenty years ago, is determined behind closed doors in the trading rooms of giant financial institutions like Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank or UBS. The key exchange in the game is the London ICE Futures Exchange (formerly the International Petroleum Exchange). ICE Futures is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Atlanta Georgia International Commodities Exchange. ICE in Atlanta was founded in part by Goldman Sachs which also happens to run the world’s most widely used commodity price index, the GSCI, which is over-weighted to oil prices.

As I noted in my earlier article, (‘Perhaps 60% of today’s oil price is pure speculation’), ICE was focus of a recent congressional investigation. It was named both in the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations' June 27, 2006, Staff Report and in the House Committee on Energy & Commerce's hearing in December 2007 which looked into unregulated trading in energy futures. Both studies concluded that energy prices' climb to $128 and perhaps beyond is driven by billions of dollars' worth of oil and natural gas futures contracts being placed on the ICE. Through a convenient regulation exception granted by the Bush Administration in January 2006, the ICE Futures trading of US energy futures is not regulated by the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, even though the ICE Futures US oil contracts are traded in ICE affiliates in the USA. And at Enron’s request, the CFTC exempted the Over-the-Counter oil futures trades in 2000.

So it is no surprise to see in a May 6 report from Reuters that Goldman Sachs announces oil could in fact be on the verge of another "super spike," possibly taking oil as high as $200 a barrel within the next six to 24 months.

.

Yes, an economic breakeven point for oil exploitation exists. And it continuously moves higher, because oil-exploitation technology continuously improves. The current extraction price of $5/bbl (http://www.google.com/search?q=oil+cost+%22%245+per+barrel%2...) is not dangerously close to the $200/bbl, or $500/bbl, or $1,000/bbl that the market might accept -- is it? Speaking of what the market might accept, that, too, continuously moves higher, because technology continuously improves the efficiency of end-use. As gas-powered devices become more-efficient, the world's practical oil supply grows. More on how this process works can be found here:

http://www.juliansimon.com/writings/Ultimate_Resource
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