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From the article:

Let me say that again. A Democratic win could give them the right to appoint the King of the Financial World and let that person spend whatever they want, up to 700 Billion dollars. Have you heard anything scarier in your adult life ?

I can say one thing scarier:

A Republican win could give them the right to appoint the King of the Financial World and let that person spend whatever they want, up to 700 Billion dollars.

With Palin, we've seen how well John McCain picks people for vital positions. I'd take a gamble with Obama before letting McCain pick the person distributing $700 billion. But, I think I'd rather it all be done a bit more sanely and a bit more responsibly.
Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=314294
I consider them innovative, just mildly innovative, in terms of the affect their technologies are having on the macro economy. I think their value is grossly overestimated. If Facebook disappeared tomorrow, I'd get over it (the downsides may even be outweighed by the time I no longer waste on the site). If Google disappeared tomorrow, it would seriously suck.
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If you run HN with "showdead" you'll see the cruft that gets killed. This stuff actually really represents a real danger to every online community.

Point is, there are real people who edit HN, and these people use karma score as a major determining factor when deciding whether or not to mark as dead.

This is aside from the typical flame or personal insult... that anyone can and will do, even those with high karma scores. ;-)
Spoken like a true YC alum. ;-)
How does posting the source to vote counting software help anything? The real issue isn't that people want some source that's capable of counting votes accurately. The problem is that the machines aren't necessarily counting all the votes; having some open source software laying around somewhere doesn't guarantee that the machines themselves are running audited and trusted code. How can anything other than a physical, tamper-resistant audit trail help make vote tallies trustworthy?
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seriously, so many companies are using green screen interfaces that change via using f3,f4,etc.! Quote that i always use and i dont know who to attribute:

Enterprise 1.0 utilized decision making my one person, the CIO/CTO. Enterprise 2.0 is adopted by the users and the personnel inside the organization.
I initially used godaddy in 2003, and have watched the quality of their services spiral downward at an alarming rate. I no longer use them, as their services are so incredibly bad that they add negative value to any project that involves them. It is amazing, I never thought a company could be THAT BAD.

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Too many people confuse faith with the idea of absolute belief. It's one thing to be faithful to a set of teachings and it's another to believe a particular set of statements to be literally true.

I understand the wish to be diplomatic & uninflammatory. After all, a lot of wars have started over these kinds of things but.. I think that statement doesn't make much sense. I think that making that statement is confusing religion with scripture. If you take Christians as an example, many do not believe various elements (eg Adam & Eve) to be literally true. OK. I understand.

But all that means they are essentially reading a different text. One is reading a history & rule book. The other is reading a book which contains high level principles in the form of stories, some of which may be based on real events. There are lots of variations.

What they have in common is that both are receiving information from a divine, supernatural (unless you do semantic cartwheels) source. Both believe this information to be definitively true. To me (an atheist) the distinctions seem less significant then the commonalities. The religious have a source of information that I do not have.

The words faith, belief, god, religion etc. are very hard to generalise. But the idea behind them is often simply information
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Yeah, I liked the story (I'm a words guy) but was surprised people on here did, since most are anti-"words for words sake."
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how can this not be cost effective? You could write an open source voting script in 5 minutes. Why does it take them 4 years to approve a 10-20 line piece of code?
I was hoping for an insight into some cool algorithm they use, instead I get a piece of puffery.
In (^\w+) the ^ is not a negation of the expression as it would be in [^\w+]. It simply denotes 'begins with.'
And again... how many Freddy/Fanny consultants and lobbyists does Senator McCain have on his campaign staff? (Hint: start with his campaign manager and work down).
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How far out of the American norm would Palin's beliefs be?

I understand there is a constant debate about teaching evolution in the States. Presumably this is backed up with a substantial minority. Certainly it is not Bizarre enough to exclude her from gaining traction in a mainstream party (Governor, VP). If a Salafist became a VP in Iraq (a formerly relatively secular country), we would take that of evidence of a move towards more conservative religion.

Maybe that's a bad example because at the moment, a Salafist politician in the middle east probably has more immediate political consequences. But all the same, I couldn't imagine a Scientologist VP of the US.

I am genuinely asking here. Is the fact that Palin is an acceptable politician a hint that the beliefs are 'mainstream' or does it just mean that religion is really a non0issue in US politics.
I think that statement doesn't make much sense.

I think it does.

It makes the distinction between making an attempt to reconcile a set of moral and spiritual concepts with our scientific knowledge of the world, and rejecting scientific thought in favor of literal interpretation of a scripture.

If you think of it as a Venn diagram, religious belief and scientific knowledge are, for the most part, disjoint, but overlap (which usually means "conflict") in certain areas. The distinction is between people who, in that area of conflict, tend to give precedence to either belief or science.
One point not mentioned in the article. The subgroup of the House that was most in favor of the bill were those with the least conflict of interest between their personal political future, and the good of the country as they perceived it: the Representatives who were not running for reelection.

They were overwhelmingly in favor.

What does that say about the state of our democracy
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to add a bit more specificity to this answer, the ^ matches the start of a string or line.
Easier said than done. Like building your own currency or financial system, it is easy to create a toy and very difficult to scale this out where you have to deal with trust issues, counter-party risk, and transactional overhead. Free software is easy, free hardware and bandwidth is not.
In a lot of ways this is an indictment of "social engineering." But I'd argue there are other factors at work here since "easing the requirements" is the equivalent of holding the door open...the lenders are the ones that walked through...
RMS is influential and has done many things, but this article was about influential on the web.
>"That's just a fact, and I'm not in a mood to give you documenting links"

I would be interested in a link elaborating on your view. The facts I'll take your word on;)

It sounds sensible to me & I am having trouble making sense of all this. It seems plasuible because

-a- The US as a whole consistently borrow to spend. You need to run into a wall sometime. I'm not sure what the wall should look like.

-b- I am aware of the credit stuff you're referring to. It's unwillingness to lend, not inability to that is crunching. Loans were defaulted on.
It is equally impossible to deny the fact that it is much harder to get a user to download and install software than it is to offer the same features and services via the browser. Unless you are interacting with the user/OS/hardware in a way that cannot be duplicated via the browser a web-based solution will always have a larger audience than a resident application.
Although it may not have made much sense to you, you seem to have captured the gist of what I tried to say. Even athiests can appreciate the Beatitudes.
or choose to pay someone to do that admin work for you. There is always a cost: your time, your money, or your freedom. Your choice.
People fear what they don't understand. Also, most politicians are of an older generation that doesn't embrace computers as easily as the tech crowd.

I would also think when things are done the same way for so long, it's hard to change - look at how certain people are handling the new facebook layout. Now magnify that to an election system to people who don't easily embrace technology.

They will have to spend money on reeducating the people, testing the system, and a host of other ideas that only politicians can think of.

I'm just playing devil's advocate here. I'm all for it and hope it gets to the East Coast soon.
I think "bash for the web" is a cool idea. I think it might make more sense to see this as a firefox plugin, though.

One reason we see these things as hosted apps is because authors are excited about users doing a lot of the work for them and submitting commands. (I know, I've worked on something like this).

Mostly, I think the core language and interface are more important than the libraries, and these will run better client side (unless you connection sucks). The core has to be robust because only real nerds will use it anyway, and they won't use it if it won't save them much time.

So, make the core more important, run it locally, make the user submitted libraries easily downloadable/syncable, and always assume the core language is more imporant that library usage (so optimize keystokes for core operations).

my 2 cents.
Not sure why you got downmodded. google Richard Stallman.
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Fair enough, also a good definition :)
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I was at a workshop a couple of years ago where an attendee happened to be (I found out later) one of the pick-up artists from this book. Thinking about him still gives me the creeps.
As I said, I have no clue on how Redhat's paid support compares to Sun's, although I know they hire lots of developers working on things throughout the entire stack, so I'm assuming that if you paid enough they'd set one of their developers on your problem. I'm not qualified to judge how helpful they are though.

Interestingly, I seem to have the entire opposite experience with unpaid support. If I asked nicely, I quickly got help about where to dig into the software and what to look for when fixing stuff. The programmers on the projects were quick to respond with requests for more information and suggested fixes, and often the problem was solved within a day or so. All I did was poke them on IRC.

No support contracts at all.
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The government threatened lenders who were being too conservative, interpreting it as discrimination.
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Favorite quote:

>The change in policy also comes at the same time that HUD is investigating allegations of racial discrimination in the automated underwriting systems used by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to determine the credit-worthiness of credit applicants. [emphasis added]
This is a Substitute Bill. All of the language of the uniformed services, volunteer firefighters etc was replaced completely with the economic bailout language. It's done commonly in the house to expedite legislation because they still have to follow complex rules of parliamentary procedure.
absolutely. I think there are tons of opportunities for saas offerings targeted at small biz (the kind that use QuickBooks, not Oracle; that do $6M in revenue, not $6B). For them, user experience will go a long way.
I think that the better statement is 'volatility creates opportunities.'

For example, depressed real estate markets can create high demand for rentals. You might be able to make money each month on a mortgaged property (a real novelty in Australia for example). And if rental demand is high, prices will probably eventually recover.

The issue is that a recession by definition means most people are worse off.
I also think that few "devout" atheists think that Barack Obama is a looney because he's a practicing Christian

I suspect this is because they think he isn't really a believer, just paying the religious homage which is an entry-level criterion for any US presidential aspirant. I remember thinking this about Bill Clinton years ago (and still find it hard to believe that he's a genuine Baptist or whatever he claimed to be). Obama's a little harder to read, but I suppose for most atheists it's easy to resolve the question by thinking he probably doesn't mean it.
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So, ""What kind of bailout do we want?" can be rephrased as
"Your place or my place?"
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I grew up in a community not unlike Palin's home town. In my youth I spent a lot of time traveling to other similar towns.

Her beliefs and attitudes are very similar to the mainstream in the rural communities I am familiar with. I will go out on a limb and say that there are quite a few people in rural Montana, the Dakotas, Wyoming, Minnesota, and Idaho who would be Palin supporters.

I'm not sure if this can be extended to 'mainstream' in the rest of America, because more people live in big cities and suburbs, which are much different than the rural areas. Even rural areas in other parts of the country seem wildly different. Rural New Mexico, "the South" and Oregon all seemed very different from each other and from anything that I experienced growing up. I'm not sure how Palin would fare in those places.
Take any large group of people, and a large fraction of those people will not care enough to understand natural selection, the role of chance in nature, or the implications of genetics. They may maintain piecemeal understanding of facets of these issues --- for instance, noticing that their children share their eye color, and that there's a non-supernatural reason for that --- but they're going to lack the big picture. The big picture isn't their problem. They have better things to deal with. This is just specialization of labor.

To that significant portion of the population, the word "evolution" is just a buzzword, and a political football.

Most of the people who have a problem with the teaching of evolution don't really have a problem with evolution per se; they have a stake in a culture war that our media and our politicians are stoking up to serve their own interests.

I don't think this has anything whatsoever to do with religion. If I had to guess --- just totally off the top of my head --- the people who really commit themselves to believing in the literal truth of the Bible are probably far more "reasonable" in arguments than the Colorado Springs megachurch set is.

Either way: rejecting evolution is far outside the mainstream.
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Bleh accidentally upvoted you instead of downvoted, but this is blatantly false. If money were a zero sum game, then how do we have growth and inflation? The money supply grows, ideally at the same pace the economy grows. Businesses create wealth, and as transactions that transfer wealth grow in number, we need more money to facilitate those transfers of wealth.

The money itself is only as good as the wealth it can purchase, and as that wealth steadily grows, we need more money to carry out the transactions. So it is by no means a zero sum game.
To be honest it's too slow to be of any use. It just feels clunky. I would use it if it were fast, but having to wait for the javascript to catchup is pointless. The autocomplete doesn't help when it pops up after I have paused for a second. If I type "you" very fast and hit tab, it won't always autosuggest in time. To make things worse, you are going to be directly competing against Ubiquity.

Another big annoyance is how dumbed down it makes a terminal. If I want to do a youtube search i feel like I should be able to simply write "youtube blue man group". I don't want to have to add in "search for" or add in square brackets around my query.

The main problem is that I can see that it's there. I use a terminal to avoid having to interact with an interface. I agree with Google's Chrome philosophy, that they don't want you to notice the browser at all. Spend your time figuring out how to make it faster and easier and then you've got something you can show off. I would be worried about Ubiquity though as a browser plugin can work so much faster than javascript.
Oh, I highly enjoy driving, I just don't enjoy having another pedal to mash and fiddling around with a stick while in traffic. I live in Los Angeles. You ride the 405 freeway during rush hour in a manual.

Regardless, I still wouldn't buy a manual. I drive my brother's old turbo Z and my dad's manual pickup sometimes. I've driven a friend's manual Porsche Cayman S on the tracks too. Clutches just aren't fun.

An added bonus is the speed of SMG transmissions today. My 335i's "steptronic" transmission has a clutch-lock for that real direct connection to the engine feel, plus it shifts in 100ms; which I don't think any human could actually do. The perfect throttle blipping makes it extremely smooth. Further, the fun of using paddle shifters is a huge thrill as a FIA F1 fan! :D
Mainstream Christians don't reject the most basic findings of science; plenty of mainstream Christians believe in evolution, the big bang, and quantum mechanics.

Is that really so? I think the majority of Christians aren't familiar enough with any of those things to really know if they believe them.

As far as Palin is concerned, after hearing the kinds of bullshit answers she's been giving I've come to think she is a typical ignorant american hypocrite at her core and it would not surprise me if she knew less about specific Christian teachings then she knows about scientific ones.
"If they fail, the government will have to step up and bail them out the way it stepped up and bailed out the thrift industry." There are so many prescient quotes in this article.
Look up Ubiquity.
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It's a factually true statement, folks. Check the vote counts, and you'll see that it went down along party lines, with Republicans in the majority of the 'no' votes. In fact, over 67% of House Republicans voted against the bill.

The White House lobbied heavily for the measure, and the Republicans in the House shot it down. That's interesting.
One alternative: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAK_members_bank

Basically: money lent is less or equal to money deposited; no interest (only fees). Interest including fees is ~2.5%, and will "never" change.
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Can anyone explain to me why the Republican's went against Bush on this one?

I've been reading and racking my brain and it doesn't make sense to me.
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I was a big fan of lighttpd in 2006. It saved us from Apache (in our case replacing Apache + mod_php with lighttpd + php via fastcgi) at a time when we had an acute need to scale up on a limited set of hardware.

But in the last two and a half years, I've lost that positive feeling. Development has slowed dramatically -- point releases are infrequent, version 1.5 seems mired in rewrite after rewrite, bugs with detailed reports go untouched in trac. We had to restart our lighttpds every few days due to memory leaks. More minor issues like true graceful restarts and better proxy features were pushed off to 1.5.

We've since moved critical frontend serving and proxying to nginx, and after almost a year, it's been a dream. nginx has not failed once in billions of requests. We've pushed dozens of configuration changes, served big files, little files, proxying, keepalives, misbehaving clients, SSL, everything. Nginx just keeps on going. No memory leaks, no spurious logging, no complaints. I have literally restarted it once on our production servers, and that's because I'm an idiot and typed "restart" instead of "reload". I was sad. I thought we might get a year of uptime or more on the nginx master processes.

My only complaint about nginx is that the development process itself is less transparent than many open source projects. There are active English and Russian mailing lists, and Igor is stunningly responsive but I wish that there was an open issue tracker, source tree, etc. But that's a minor complaint against an otherwise fantastic piece of software.
Agree with you. Interesting to see what a little self-confidence thus even if you don't feel great inside.
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Try it; it doesn't seem to actually do this. The regex isn't in multi-line mode anyway, and the ^ is not at the front of the regex.
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What I find interesting is how many people independently arrived upon this "put logic in markup" approach to building customizable web applications.

Allaire had a fair amount of success with this with ColdFusion.
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Is this a true choice? I am choosing convenience, if I need freedom later I can pay the price and get it.

For example, I am developing on the closed Google App Engine. If what I'm doing becomes successful and I hit limitations of the platform, I can reimplement the whole thing on an open source stack. But I don't want to pay that cost up front.

Edit: Thanks for clarifying what Stallman offers.
I am sure we will be seeing less of this, as the world of high finance falls on hard times.
very cool. An interesting method for flattening trees.
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