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Does it need to be a social change where renting is on equal social footing to home ownership? (I know it varies place to place, but in some places people say "rent money is dead money" - of course so is bank interest ;).
OK so how long will this all take to go to shit (one way or another), I am impatient.
Is it just me who thinks that the way stock markets process trades is hugely inefficient? From a technical perspective, this seems like a trivial problem - what am I missing?

The cynic in me says it's because the people benefiting from the flaws and inefficiencies are the only ones who have the power to change things... is that really the case?
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Flash coming to the iPhone... Maybe, someday, in some form
Assuming you go this route, and save 50% of your income (no easy feat...), you have to work your regular job for a day for each day you want to work full-time on your startup.

So, if you work for 2 years, saving like crazy, you've got living expenses for 2 more years. There are plenty of business that are still not profitable after 2 years. Growth just takes time.
You're insured for 100k for each bank's accounts. If you can spread it around, do so.
'Well it works for ME' apologism detected.
"And that's nothing but grim news for the myriad feature-oriented Web startups that were founded mainly to be acquired by Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo. If the Web giants stop buying, a lot of Web 2.0 fruit will die on the vine."

Maybe now startups will actually have a business model that involves becoming profitable rather than simply hoping to get bought by Google.
The scrolling bug should be fixed now, and I think the auto-complete bug should also be fixed.

I turned off box shadows in safari, so that might speed things up a bit. There's still a lot of room left for javascript optimizations after I get it working decently in most browsers.
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That's because of the web's ever-popping foam of bubbles, to quote Ted Nelson. The web's main feature is a lack of permanency, because people either unpublish, have to pay for hosting which becomes economically unviable, or host for 'free' until the free host gets bought out and deleted.
Huh? And the banks haven't been secretive about their bad debts already?

Of course they have been. That's the core of the problem. Did you even read my post before replying?
I think you completely misunderstood what I was saying. Please re-read =)
I've been watching these to get a grasp of lisp, and think they're great - not least because of the amazingly cool retro-look and haircuts of the audience.
Unrelated: I am amazed that this page is now #1 on that Google search you linked to. Less than an hour, post to index? That's fast.
Hang on, same result for me. You mean there's a 404 to the search query, not the resulting link. Odd!
Hi siong,
Your site looks nice :)

I'm going to be working on a developer sandbox once I fix most of the major bugs. This should let people write python code in their browser and have it run on the server. The API is very simple: around 5 minute learning curve once I have the documentation in good shape.

If you're interested in collaborating, check out the project page:
http://code.google.com/p/pycmds/
Actually, we got here through the WRONG regulation... The whole area is thoroughly regulated (probably largely by well-meaning people).

There's a very good read on the the regulation that got us here: http://myslu.stlawu.edu/~shorwitz/open_letter.htm
Yes, there really does. Home ownership is the conventional wisdom, and its what got me to buy a house two years ago, and I really wished I hadn't (and I've been wishing that about a year after I bought out the house). Fortunately, the market I am in never really got too much of the housing bubble so unless everything goes to complete shit I'll be ok.
I can understand why most software licenses would do that. But for web startups? or even a website in this case eventbrite, yahoo.
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The stack traces are intentional. Since it's an open source project, I figured I would make debugging as easy as possible.

As for the DOM injection, I will look into that after I have fixed the major bugs.
Help me with some market research for my startup
http://tinyurl.com/4n7ql8

I'm doing some market research for a potential startup. Could you please spare me 5 seconds and answer this?

Thanks.

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In grad school, we were specifically told not to get too many A's and to focus on publications. If some industrious type got mostly (or all) A's the next question from their committee was: Why aren't you working on publishing?

C's though were failing. Still, you had to try really hard to fail. The B's were inflated.

The difference is probably domains - a Ph.D. in cognitive neuroscience doesn't prepare you for much else than doing science. There, judgment for a tenure-track job begins and ends with publications. And no one will want to see grades and no CV ever includes them.
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What part of it would be useful?
They might be using code that has that restriction - thus they're need the restriction in their own service.
If only the banks had read this letter (c. 1997)
> Or, would you explain the principle argument against it, aside of the standards bit?

Flash is a proprietary runtime. That means Adobe has to support whatever platform you're running at the moment.

Flash support for linux has only recently become somewhat decent. And that's IA32 - if you're running a 64-bit OS on your 64-bit processor, you have to use the IA32 compatibility libraries to run flash. If, for whatever reason, you decide to go with NetBSD/SPARC64 - you don't have flash.

You do, of course, have all the open web technologies because you simply recompile them for your platform.

Flash is proprietary and tying yourself to that runtime will restrict not only your choices, but also the direction the web takes.

The exact same holds true for Silverlight.

I left out standards and their long-term development, because you specifically requested it, but that's also a major factor.
Searching for "financial bailout" brings up links on the Russian bailout question years ago. Everything old is new again!
"... I didn't appreciate the magnitude of what they did until trying out your suggestion ..."

Try "Al-Qaeda".

The index is pegged at ~= 9mth prior to 911. I know it's of questionable taste but it's an interesting exercise to see what public information google indexed. Or try http://www.google.com/search2001/search?hl=en&q=pixar+Wa...
All the claims from both sides about "receiving money from" X corporation are rather misleading, since those numbers include employees. What, do you expect the candidates not to accept money from people just because they work for a given corporation?

If I worked for Fannie Mae and gave a hundred dollars to McCain, does that somehow affect what McCain thinks of Fannie Mae? I don't think so.
I often heard interesting stories at college about flunk-outs. Rather than consulting for Arthur Andersen or being a PM at Microsoft, they did interesting things sooner. Like starting a cool company. Or driving a taxi. You could say it removes the band-limiter from your career possibilities.
iPhone?

http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q=iphone&hl=en&#...
These videos and book are certainly way to get some grasp at LISP, but not especially good way, because what is presented as LISP there is Scheme and it is presented in way that I would call too theoretic and oriented towards pedagogical purposes. And intention of SICP is to teach basics of CS, not LISP or Scheme, Scheme is used only as programming language serving this purpose. And for this purpose it is one of best materials that I've seen. But because of this programming style presented here is significantly different from what is useful for practical purposes. So it will help you as programmer in general, but not as LISP programmer.

If you want to learn Common Lisp and especially to use it effectively I would recommend CL-oriented book, for example Practical Common Lisp by Peter Seibel.

But still I'm recommending SICP (at least watch the videos) to anyone who indends to be real programmer.
Interesting if true, given Google's strict GPA requirements.
Well, not more than McCain's campaign manager receiving $15k/month from Freddie since 2005 and ending last month.
For those of you who have seen Startup.com:

http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q=govWorks

also, http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q=webvan and http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q=kozmo
That was actually true back in the early 1990s, when the Windows-Android comparison was valid.
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The link has those amounts broken out by individual and by PAC, so you can read it and make up your own mind. I was pointing out that Norvig was being biased in not presenting both sides on what is after all a hot button topic.
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No -- but not because the developer didn't contribute to an open source project.

Communication skills are important in development, especially when you're working on a team and for someone else. The cover letter / intro email is the first test in the hiring process. Even if English is not your first language, you should be able to effectively introduce yourself, your skill set, your experience, and your interest in the position -- plus answer any other questions in the job posting.

This candidate failed the very first test. The "delete" key -- or, if the hiring manager is super nice, the "no thanks, good luck" reply -- should have been used immediately.
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This reminds me of a quote from Calvin and Hobbes:

"You know how Einstein got bad grades as a kid? Well, mine are even worse!"
Biased. On the list of supposedly conservative people who don't like Palin it has Andrew Sullivan. He abandoned the war bloggers years ago and went kinda lefty.
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What is the alternative? AFAICT, Flash has no real competition.
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So what the heck are we supposed to do with this?

I can say something like "Heck yes! This is a good article" I would supposed that would generate very little discussion.

Or I could say, "Gee. I disagree with a lot of these points. I think the author oversteps in many instances." and immediately were arguing politics again.

So this is an article that I think is a worthless waste of time on this site. It exists only so that like-minded people can upvote it.

POS posting.
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"Middle ground" is just not a great way of looking at things. It's nice to be able to put things on a scale of

Jesus was a nice guy--->The bible contains divine guidance--->The Bible is infallible

That's fine for practical reasons (eg politics). But those are essentially different beliefs. They're not on a scale in the same way that Christianity, Buddhism or Zoroastrianism are not on a scale.
Computer Science is no different in terms of criteria for a tenure-track position. Well, publications is only half of it, grant money is the other half, but I imagine that's true for your field as well.

The CS departments I've been a part of don't expect students to publish much - if anything - until after most of their course work is done. That's usually about two years.
As a non-religious person, let me offer:

I give Jesus the credence I would somebody I met at a bar --->I admire his teachings and do the best I can to emulate him-->I treat all the information I can gather about him to be divinely inspired

What something is, that's dogma and inflexible. How I treat it is human nature, and infinitely scalable.

As a personal note, I think I'm somewhere between 1 and 2.
There is a lot of pressure, I remember it when I was younger. Now I have my own home outright, so I feel like I am not really allowed to state an opinion, otherwise its "do as I say not as I do" etc... so I should just shut up. I don't really know what is best. But debt sucks, mostly, but can work for you.
Isn't it the common wisdom that China will become more belligerent as that shortage intensifies?
Thanks for clearing that up for me, Wil. (And welcome to HN, though I am new here, also.)

Do I understand correctly that the 1.5 drivetrain tends to get hot at high speeds and is automatically throttled to prevent overheating (thermal throttled, like some CPU's) and that that is the reason that though the car can indeed reach 120 or more MPH, it cannot sustain it for very long?
Consider two points (which many will dispute):

1- Many Intellectuals & academics in the states are atheist. Maybe even most.

2- Atheists are unlikely to become politically powerful in the US.

These two would lead you to assume that you will come across cases of politically motivated faith.
The amount of bad advice in this area is astounding. By far one of the best pieces of advice I've ever been given (and of course, summarily ignored) was to do the math on home ownership vs renting and putting the difference into another investment vehicle.

Played right it 1) can make you more money, although that's tough to quantify right now with everything going to hell 2) make you more flexible, since you're not on the hook for a major life change if you want to change your investment vehicle and 3) diversifies you and provides more security -- your investment is not coupled to where you sleep at night.

Same deal here. Bought in 2005 with the intent to live in the house for a few years and move to a different part of the country. Dreamed about a home run, hoped to break even, didn't expect the worst financial crisis since the great depression. Fine time to be holding the bag. :)
Some differences in how the Google index and IA crawls handled redirects and canonicalization may make it a little harder to click-through to the archives Wikipedia pages, but they're available. Try:

http://web.archive.org/web/2001/www.wikipedia.com/wiki.cgi?W...

...or...

http://web.archive.org/web/2001*/http:/www.wikipedia.com/wik...

...or to see pages beginning 'J'...

http://web.archive.org/web/2001*/http:/www.wikipedia.com/wik...

[FYI: I work at the Internet Archive.]
No, no, no, no, no. Bad upvoters!

Seriously. This is a politics piece. Worse, this is a partisan politics piece. Worser, this is a partisan politics piece masquerading as a FAQ.
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i get the same thing. going to try reseting safari and using it there. maybe something is conflicting??
These podcasts from NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross are also quite illuminating:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9468642...

"Perplexed by the U.S. economy? You're not alone. Law professor Michael Greenberger joins Fresh Air to explain the sub-prime mortgage crisis, credit defaults, the shaky future of other types of loans and what we can expect from the U.S. financial markets"
How do you write a Unix Hater's Handbook that isn't going to "date" itself? How does your reservoir of ideas run so dry that a review of a 14 year old book is your best one?
Saw this the other day. Pretty ridiculous. So many companies just sue instead of partnering and trying to reap the benefits. Of course there are certain situations where you need to protect your trademark/yourself. To me this isn't one of them obviously. Big companies have everything they could want: smart hackers, some traction, and a better product... yet they just go and sue.
Wouldn't you want an economist for this and not a law professor? It's like having a dentist do a special on heart disease.
What part of Canada are you in?

In Montreal, many companies routinely ask if a developer has open source projects, or code samples.

If a company doesn't do this they are hiring based on resume and interview only, rather than seeing actual code.
I'd be interested to see the analysis or references to this analysis, if anybody has any links.

I'd be even more interested to see how GPA correlates with people actually getting an interview and getting a position there.

It wasn't too long ago that Google required you to have above a 3.8 GPA to be a serious candidate. I can accept that there isn't too much difference between people in the 3.8~4.0 GPA range, but I'd expect that there would be a significant difference between someone getting a 3.8 and a 3.3 from the same school.
Uncovering the pressures that drive this self-sacrifice could shed light on the evolution of altruism, Kaspari added.

Well, I don't think "altruism" within an ant colony has much to do with altruism in other species. Worker ants have no way of passing on their genes, they're just programmed to do whatever it takes to preserve the copies of those same genes within the reproducing members of the colony.

Altruism in animals with their own individual reproductive potential is a much more interesting problem.
I'm going to do a FAQ on how political posters on HN are actually blathering idiots.

It's nothing opinionated, mind you. I'll just review each political post, point out what little was accomplished, show how dissenting views were downvoted, and then make my humble conclusion from the available evidence, citing lots of authorities along the way. Of course my questions will be leading, and if you look at them closely you can see somebody trying to make an argument, but pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!

It's a FAQ, not an argument. Not an opinion piece. You see, if you use the word FAQ, that magically makes it something special.
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$20k? charity?

I have projects with 20-100 LOC up on github, for my own convenience. It costs me nothing to make these public if I can't sell them - that's not charity.
I thought there was "NotHackerNews" et. al. for a reason.
All you really need is an RTMP client for Safari so that it can play flash video and all the complaints would be moot.

Hm...that's a pretty good idea, actually. I wonder how hard it would be.
"the ability for a Flash application to appear consistent across platforms"

If you read the blog article linked above (I am the author) you will see that Flash doesn't even have a native multi-touch framework, thereby making that "consistent across platforms" promise hollow on the iPhone and other similar devices to come. I think you'll find useful pointers in that article as to why Apple can't and won't just let Flash ruin iPhone's user experience coherency, both strategically and tactically.
For the most part this is really general advice. Hard times might provide the motivation to follow it.

It has a few instances of 'recession advice' but nothing dramatic. I'd like to see articles actually specific to recession (ie: probably wouldn't work as well otherwise) advice. Business stuff like recession specific marketing, hiring, financing, etc. . & personal finance stuff like how to take advantage of real estate markets, money markets, etc.

Some things change in a recession (eg higher rent/buy ratios). It'd be nice to see them addressed.
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Agreed. I've watched this series on and off for a few years now and it's always worthwhile.
Maybe Reuters is trying to be noble by getting courts to declare EULAs unenforceable.

But probably not.
all I'm going to say is aside from presentation there's very little difference between Obama and Mccain (both support the bailout, the Bush doctrine, FISA, - need I go on?).

I'm going to have to agree with PG on this one: http://www.paulgraham.com/charisma.html
I should write a Greasemonkey script that switches politics links to... I dunno, blog postings about wrapping bacon around things which one would not normally wrap bacon around.

Greasemonkey can do that, right?
I don't buy clothes online, so not much help, but good luck anyway.
Some other fun ones:

Your search - "sarah palin" - did not match any documents.
Makes me anxious that she is a vice presidential contender.

Top result for "iraq war" is a historical note on the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988).

Top result for "myspace" is an online storage portal (a whopping free 50MB).

"LCD" refers to a webcomic, not an LCD display.

Top result for "china" is a web page whose title is "New Page 1".

And of course ycombinator is nowhere to be heard of. :)
In fact, I think the opposite is true - Flash will appear 'consistent across platforms', as there is no way to use multi-touch and Flash on your computer screen today either. How this affects coherency on the iPhone is up for debate, but regardless I don't think Flash's lack of multi-touch should restrict me from using stormpulse from my iPhone.
Indeed. I'd never heard this "Wall Street vs Main Street" meme until a few days ago, and suddenly it's everywhere.
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For people seeking an informed and academic perspective, you may find this PDF on Liquidation Cycles during the Great Depression to be of interest: http://econ161.berkeley.edu/pdf_files/Liquidation_Cycles.pdf
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Yes.

I'll even be glad to write the RegEx for you -- that's something I don't normally volunteer to do.

It'd be like that old George Carlin skit, where he says we should replace the word "kill" with the word "fuck" -- Changes everything. Picture an old Western. The bad guys are all standing around the sheriff, who is tied up. "We're not just going to fuck you sheriff. We're going to fuck you slow....."

You could substitute "Election" with "bacon". "2008" with "Weasel-like", and maybe FAQ with "Nosehair"

"Peter Norvig Bacon Weasel-like Nosehair"

(Apologies for the profanity. Kinda hard to do Carlin without it)
As someone looking to hire people like this, I whole-heartedly agree. The one thing - make sure that you write for both the technical and the suit audiences.

It's my job to find resources and present them to the technical team, who make the final decisions. But they decide from what I present to them. If you can't speak suit, you can't get to the techs, who make the hiring call. (But the check has my signature on it, so make sure that you're nice to both of us.)
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"Nobel", "Economics" and "Scientist"

When was the last time any of those words were used to describe a great business leader? Someone like Jack Welch, etc (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Welch). Maybe the Google founders... but I rarely hear them described as great from a business sense.

As for counter examples from McCain... it wasn't hard to find:

http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/News/PressReleases/c9068...

300 economists, including multiple Nobel winners, that agree with McCain on his "Jobs for America" plan.
Indeed, it might one day be cool to identify yourself as a PC.