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Yes, it is true that we are all much better off than we were 200 years ago. This is due to both economic and technical progress. For instance, I can light and heat my house economically.

However, the 90th percentile might be even better off today if there was more equality - we could more efficiently share the fruits of our technical progress.

PG makes an effective argument that such equality would reduce the benefit and thus the motivation to innovate and create the present level of comfort / economic success : http://www.paulgraham.com/inequality.html

Overall, equality is a complex beast. I think that we need some level of inequality to ensure that there is sufficient motivation to succeed. We also need to do our best to help those who 'fall behind'
Any links to example pages? They offer little-to-no info about what the pages actually look like. Why would I use this instead of GitHub?
You can use kickstarter for that, or angel.co
The benefit is that if you did it with an encrypted USB that you keep with a lawyer, every time you make a new account or change your username or password, you would have to get the USB back, re-write the txt file, then give it back. Whereas here, it may be easier to update your information in this fashion
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i'd love to be notified when my message will be shown, as well as receive a photograph of the message on the board.

sounds unreal
I think the best solution in this space would be to implement this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamirs_Secret_Sharing

Then you could nominate some family members, friends, significant other, such that some minimum number of them were required to collaborate to decrypt the files.
I posted a video related to this a while back... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVUokjAlREs
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I guess side-projects may not always have a coding element to it, or maybe someone wants to showcase the end-product without necessarily showing the source code.
Yes, to all of those.

I've been using MacVim for ages, but after trying out Sublime Text 2 for a few days, installing a couple of plugins (a pep8 & pylint checker, and a git one), and learning most of the shortcuts I need, I'm completely hooked.

The minimap is just the icing on the cake.

Now if only I could find a Bazaar plugin...
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a fascinating thing about amazon is that they move inventory so quickly that they collect money from customers before they have to pay their suppliers—they have a cash float† they can actually sell products for a loss and still make money—especially if there is growth. it's like a ponzi scheme that actually works.

that said, maybe it will be amazon's bing, but bing buys microsoft insurance that may be much less costly to them than the risk of a google owned future.

my take with the fire is that amazon wants people to move from physical goods to electronic goods—they know that not everyone who owns a fire will consume their goods, but they also know that the more accessible the means to consume those goods, the more business for their core business—the one that makes them money, even if just for 20 days.

† http://www.usablemarkets.com/2009/06/18/amazons-float/
In my recent research into nutrition, there is good evidence that saturated fat isn't the enemy.

The science for nutrition in humans is very difficult to pin down - there are just too many external variables, and the human body does a fantastic job in working with whatever it gets as a fuel in the short term that masks a lot of what is bad.

Personally, I'm convinced there's something that rings true in the Paleo movement, and I'm trying that out now to see how it works for me.
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Do you use the Internet? GPS? Do you drive on roads? Do you buy goods from companies that utilize those roads and infrastructure? Do you benefit from protection by police and fire departments? Do you live in a building up to a certain safety code? Do you drink water? Do you deposit money in FDIC insured banks? Do you work for or own a company that benefits from any of these things?
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"Node is easy for one guy to setup a working website. Isn't that a good thing?"

Maybe. Maybe not.

Many people on this forum have had to rescue or rewrite systems that were built in Access. Access is easy for one guy to set up a database. Isn't that a good thing? Sometimes yes, sometimes no.

Ditto for Excel nightmares.

That said, a prime distinction between Excel/Access and something like Node (and I'd throw Rails in there too, given all the "it's so easy" love it got a few years ago) is open (and open source) and it's easier for the community to work around the issues that come up, release new versions quickly, and fix the bad parts faster than with closed solutions like Excel/Access.

But... just because something is easier to use doesn't mean it's the best tool for all use cases - really nothing is best for all use cases. :)

Haven't done much with Node beyond Hello World stuff - tried to install and use zombie, but couldn't get it to work.
Which Mac-centric 5by5 podcast are you talking about? If it's "The Talk Show" keep in mind that John Gruber used to work for Bare Bones Software (the makers of BBEdit), so take his recommendation with a grain of salt.

I'll repeat myself from other comments here on HN. Sublime Text 2 is amazing and worth every penny of the $59 it costs.
I would argue that developers will tend to have a "this is too much Bad, lets rewrite it" perspective.

It is good to temper our desire to write it our way with the realization that software that is hairy is often because of hairy business requirements. A steady application of clean code boyscouting is really the only solution to a large system with unknown but inevitably complex business rules.

Edit: But, sometimes, it is better to rewrite it. Usually this is by rewriting subcomponents or "rewriting" software by create a new stack for a new feature that'll phase out old software.
Wow, I'd never looked at this before but there's some interesting stuff popping up in there. I think people believe Pastebin is more private than it actually is because in the 30 seconds I scanned through, I saw a Data Dump on a small E-commerce website and some other interesting stuff...
Stumbled on an error when going to /r of my url:

Warning: file_get_contents() [function.file-get-contents]: Filename cannot be empty in /var/www/hackerhub/index.php on line 129
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I don't understand the headline, the Python code in the article is not so terrible considering the input.
Note, though: when you refund the charge, the fees you paid aren't refunded to you.

This was the one downside of Stripe for me, vs. PayPal (though it's pretty minor -- I only have a handful of refunds a year... but I offer them all the time, and I've always liked feeling free to do that).
tl;dr: You can make a go of it.

I've done really well for myself with 2 1/3 years of a degree (in Chinese!) I started off dropping out of Chicago for money reasons, and lucked into a sysadmin/programming job with the University. I was able to move laterally until I found something that fit me better than my original gig; I stuck it out for a few years until the private sector started returning my calls.

I am largely self-taught, which has its advantages and the obvious disadvantages, particularly as how I am the sort of learner who needs the social aspects of classroom interaction to really pick stuff up fast. But I discovered that taking jobs with people who are much smarter than you, and then taking the time to help them with shit work, is almost as good a learning environment as a classroom.

I've bounced around a lot; but not since the first couple of jobs has anybody asked about my incomplete degree. It's a results orientated business; I know that there are jobs that I won't be able to get -- and, to be honest, that I wouldn't be good at -- because of my lack of a formal CS education; but the jobs that I get, I work hard, learn new stuff, and get shit done.

But I've worked on really cool stuff, learnt a lot about digital video, started a company, and now am comfortably employed in a position where I can use the social and technical skills that I've developed to really make a difference.

EDIT: One important thing you need to figure out is how you learn best. Some people clone a github project and just learn Lambda Prolog by reading source; some peruse books; I've meet some wizardly hackers who seem to know every possible thing already. As I said above, I need to talk about stuff to really get it to stick, but that's me. Know how you learn and put yourself in a position to maximize your opportunity to learn, because everybody is dumber and less knowledgable than someone else.
Saturated fat makes you fat? Tell that to this guy:
http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com/
Indeed, it's a shame that he chose to review 11.04 nearly a week before 11.10 will be released.
The documentation isn't terrible, but it is certainly lacking. After it escapes beta I imagine things will progress in the documentation department.
The number of people who will buy a Kindle Fire instead of an iPad is a lot smaller than the number who will buy one instead of a Kindle, or instead of nothing.
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Somos una oportunidad de ganar un dinero extra cada mes sin tener que invertir un solo centavo, que será mayor en la medida en que nosotros podamos gestionar más anuncios, y tú invites a más personas a ser parte de tu Red.
When you say "...are supposed to be paid using earnings...", are you referring to a legal requirement? If so, this could be stopped by someone with a legal challenge.

If you just mean traditionally, well, if this is a more efficient way to meet the various goals of all parties to the transaction, I'm with founders/investors/innovation, moreso than tradition.

Also, money is fungible. What if AirBnb has earnings from elsewhere that could pay the dividend, meeting the early shareholders' desire for a interim diversifying return? But, that would then leave less capital for expansion. However, new investors are happy investing money that replaces (and then some) the cost of the dividend to support expansion costs.

There'd then be no essential violation of the way you think things are 'supposed to be': just think of earnings paying dividends, and then new investment adding all required expansion capital. Everybody who's a party to the transaction is happy, in a tax/legally-efficient manner, and no one's rights are trampled.

(As I've mentioned elsewhere, I think the main fairness issue would be if anyone who had the legal right to become dividend-eligible, for example by vested option-exercise, wasn't given that chance. But that's an internal fine detail we don't know about this still-in-progress private company financing.)
They can do this because Silk is effectively a
rewriting proxy.

Technically they can, but it is probably illegal. And Google may not come after individuals that are using ad-blockers, or after shitty motels that are doing this, but you can bet your ass they'll sue Amazon and probably win too.

And it isn't only Google that Amazon should worry about in such a case -- if I'm a webmaster and the ads for which I'm getting paid for are going to get replaced by Amazon, I would be pretty pissed and I would probably block all Silk-related requests.

Customers may stick with Silk anyway because
the pages will load more quickly

I somehow really doubt that Silk will translate in a faster user experience. Of course, marketing does wonders.
I didn't say that preventing domain sales was an ideal that was possible to enforce.
I really wish I could remember the specific example. We used camelCase for filenames on that project, and there were two distinct names (like "bookcase" and "bookCase") that did not sound alike, yet were the same letters. The sort of thing that meant something very different if you moved the space.

I prefer case-sensitive filesystems because the separation between works is semantically meaningful in English.
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Why is it so difficult to find anyone willing to host a torrent tracker, especially in the US? I understand that public trackers can be used to enable piracy (a la PirateBay), but that doesn't explain why private trackers wouldn't be allowed. Besides, should someone start blatantly infringing on others' copyrights, the host would be well within their right to shut them down. So, why do some many adopt blanket "no tracker" policies?
Even better, use KeePass (and sync/backup into the cloud like Dropbox, etc) and have an open source solution that is safe and encrypted from end to end, without trusting a company to not be stupid.

Then, just leave your master password(s) for the encrypted database in your will, or safely amongst your personal belongings.
For those of you who wonder if this is a good idea or whether or not it will improve the general health of the population.

Don't worry about it, the Danish government has promised not to increase the tax rates (in fact it was one of the cornerstones of their campaign so they couldn't abandon it) since then they have looked in all sorts of places and for all sorts of excuses for how to increase revenue without actually raising taxes.

In other words this is just an excuse for more revenue, nobody (not even the government) expect this to actually improve the health of the average dane (which is about as bad as the health of the average American twenty years ago). Add to it that we have single payer public health care here and it should make it clear why they try to get away with this stupidity.

The entire thing is even more stupid because the government who created this tax lost the recent election but the parties who won haven't cancelled the law (despite the fact that they could increase the tax rates without breaking any of the promises they made during the election).
I don't know if there's a way to play it real-time. I was trying to install sox from homebrew, but it can't grab its libogg dependency, downloads.xiph.org isn't working right now, seemingly.

However, you can do this:

$ ./soundprog > temp.au

hit CTRL-C (Hit it fast! You don't need it to run very long, and it will write to the resulting file very very quickly! Consider modifying the code to have a limit on the for loop.)

Then open the resulting .au file in Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/). It'll play fine.

Not as simple just writing to a sound device, but it works.
Depends on what you want to be. An artist or craftsman needs a good apprenticeship, or perhaps to build a good portfolio, and can easily blow away academic credentials.

But an engineer should have the chops one gets from doing the academic obstacle course.

Good luck.
The Facebook app on the TouchPad is not all that it is cracked up to be. For one, you can't associate it with an account if that account has SSL turned on, and the second is that it doesn't let me get at the content I want to see quickly and easily.

I stopped using Facebook on my Touchpad almost as soon as I had started using it. I wonder how it has changed now that FB started their whole new ticker shenanigans.
You use a lot of expensive words, zealotry, religion and so on. I'd suggest a bit more moderation lest you come across as a zealot yourself.
No. Saturated fat tax makes the government purses slightly heavier.

This has nothing to do with health.
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I'm not a businessman, but as I understand it English is pretty well established as the international language of business.
I, for one, am astonished at quality and release frequency Jon Skinner (the author of Sublime Text 2) has been able to achieve. Perhaps he has help, but that doesn't appear to be the case. He has made steady, incremental, and visible progress that keeps giving people reasons to buy his product.

Here's to hoping he figures out how to make the configuration a little easier for non-programmer types to deal with.
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I switched to gnome 3 and enjoy it so far on my ubuntu. I also like kde4.6....tried other desktops with pleasure too.

... good to see how bold choices created a diversified spectrum of of linux desktop.
Not anymore. The top options IMO are Gnome 3 (which is similar to Unity in that it's a fairly audacious step away from classic desktops; and still more polished than Unity in my experience) and XFCE, which does a great job of providing a more classic feel without giving up the customizability of Gnome 2.
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As an online student, I've read many topics on various websites asking this same question. Most of the time the consensus is that most employers won't care where you graduated from as long as you can show them proof of your programming ability. Whether this is in the form of a portfolio or the result of acing a programming interview depends on the employer/interviewer.

An exception to this rule that I happen to know a little about is the government sector. If you want to work for the government, sometimes the particular position will require a degree, sometimes it won't. The good news is that for almost all government jobs, they don't care where you get your degree from as long as it is accredited by an institution recognized by the department of education.

While the government doesn't care about the particular type of accreditation, you should. There are two types of accreditation that matter in the United States, regional and national. While it might be counter intuitive, national accreditation is not the most prestigious. If you want to ensure that your degree will be accepted by pretty much any employer on the planet, you should get a regionally accredited degree. National accreditation is becoming more accepted, but unfortunately some employers look at national accreditation as "inferior." This attitude is even more prevalent in the education system itself, as most universities will not accept transfer credit from a school that is not regionally accredited.

My advice to you would be to find a regionally accredited, school with a good curriculum. There are many online schools so you should be able to find one that meets your requirements. Because you have obtained multiple degrees, and because you have a good amount of experience, you could probably even find an online school that will accept you directly into a master's program.

Disclaimer: I personally don't have a problem with nationally accredited schools. There are "diploma mills" that are regionally accredited so its ridiculous to claim that regional accreditation is better. There are also some nationally accredited schools that get a bad reputation even thought they can be just as good if not better than a regionally accredited school.

I went to an online school that was nationally accredited for about a semester, the classes were challenging and I felt that I worked hard for my grades. When I wanted to change my major, I couldn't find a regionally accredited school that would accept the credit.
This sounds dumb to someone dropping out of school, but if you don't finish undergrad, you can't go to grad school.

Can you get a tech job without a degree? Yes

Can you advance without it? Yes

Will there be non-tech folks that skated through easy majors that look at you askance without it? Yes

But something to consider.... Undergrads are cattle in Most schools. They pay the bolls that keep schools going, but aren't what the professors care about. In grad school I learned and enjoyed the coursework 10x over undergrad. But you need that undergrad paper first. If you can't afford undergrad, do it at a public school.
> As a developer, Unity's handling of multiple terminal windows is extraordinarily ham-fisted. Say you have a web browser and three terminal windows

I hesitate to defend Unity, but why would you open multiple terminal windows? gnome-terminal supports tabs natively, and tmux offers an even better multiplexing solution that works with any terminal emulator.

> I'm unfortunately committed at this point

I assume you mean you're committed to Oneric, but you can stay on Oneric without sticking with Unity. Gnome 3 and XFCE are both viable options that feel a lot more finished than Unity.
Personally I'd restrict "super" status to a lot less than 20% or 30% of the population

Exactly. 50% of the population may identify as 'speaking' two or more languages, but I seriously doubt more than 20% of them are fluent in two or more languages. There is an enormous difference between functional and fluent.
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used her father's address to enroll her two daughters in a better public school outside of their neighborhood. After spending nine days behind bars charged with grand theft, the single mother was convicted of two felony counts

Slightly insane, eh, what?

I can think of a few people roaming around foot-loose and fancy-free, and even pocketing scores of millions of dollars, who should be doing that.
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Why not debian? You get both the stable release supported for years to come and lots of packages. In my experience most of the needed apps are in the repository and don't need hunting down on third-party sites like with centos/rhel. On top of that you don't get silly things like ancient kernel with hundreds of patches which makes it incompatible with almost anything you need to compile as a module (depends on your hardware of course)
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eh, if you live in a different neighborhood, (and you probably do, if you really earn 10x as much) you certainly are getting a vastly different level of police protection.

I mean, sure, that's mostly local money, and it's a small portion of what you are paying in taxes, but people who live in good areas have a vastly different relationship with law enforcement than people who live in bad areas, and really, should be charged quite a lot more for that law enforcement, as they are getting vastly better service.

(granted, law enforcement, and the federal oversight of law enforcement is a small amount of our taxation; but it is the most obvious place where the rich get vastly more out of the system than the poor.)
About 200 to 300 barrel of oil. Or about 20 - depending on who you ask.

Basically how far down and across the manufacturing chain do you count the energy. Most places use the second number since it's direct energy for that car. I prefer the first since it also includes things like overhead for the sales team, the engineering, building the manufacturing plant and everything else it takes to actually make a car.
Where can I get information about setting/configuring Sublime ? I would like to try it out but only if I can figure out how to set it up the "right" way. For MacVim I just read one of the numerous blog posts on setting up vundle and reading a few other people's .vimrc files.
Can you give some brief examples of what you might do differently? Particularly, how would you solve the problem with fewer lines of code and/or complexity?