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1. Increase taxes on the rich.

2. ???

3. Better wealth distribution.

I have yet to see a good explanation for what happens in step 2. Raising
taxes on the rich is the easy part. How exactly does that money get redistributed?
Are we supposed to suddenly trust the federal government to spend its money wisely? What will they spend it on and why?

The papers you cite talk about wealth distribution as if it's obvious how it is
going to happen. I'm not so sure that's the case and if the results of the recent stimulus spending in the US are any guide we need to think of some new ideas before
considering this course of action.
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I think the bigger news for hackers is that they are announcing Shopify Fund - http://shopify.com/fund. They're calling developers to build apps for Shopify platform and want to compensate between 5K-10K. Definitely a great idea to get that initial funding if you've an app idea around eCommerce platform.
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This quote:

“Biology is more complex than astronomy or physics or chemistry,”
says John Wikswo, a Vanderbilt professor who worked on ABE.

Caught my eye. Unfortunately, it also put me off reading the article. Isn't biology an application of physics and chemistry? What else is there? Sorry if I'm sounding hopelessly naïve ...
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2075066/what-are-good-php...
gsetttings list-recursively > gsettings-all.txt

The reverse action is left as an exercise to the reader. Or wait..

for line in $(cat gsettings-all.txt); do gsettings set $line; done

PS. Ubuntu can be blamed for Unity, which is just another shell (maybe not the last) but that settings stuff is way beyond their influence.
This summer I really enjoyed reading the joelonsoftware archives. The last update was mid-September, but the previous posts kept me busy for quite some time.
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I see your point, and it is why I tend to like operator overloading in languages.

However, Python is a general purpose language, and scientific computing is a single domain. It is used in many different domains. Consider that there are many changes that individual communities would like, and if Python granted all of those requests, the language would be a mess. That's the challenge in designing a general purpose programming language.
I'm not talking about a reader browsing some books and picking one based on the publisher's mark. I never really do that myself either. The "validation" I'm referring to is much more subtle: the mere fact that a book is in print and in a major bookstore--i.e. it has been picked up by a publisher--IS that validation. Because anyone can now publish themselves to the Amazon book store, that implicit validation will now become explicit as readers who start picking up indie authors realize they need someone to sort through the dreck for them.

And again, I'm not just talking about a bad book--because you can get those from major publishers too--I'm talking about a certain standard of quality. Even bad books are usually typo-free, reasonably typeset, and so on. With self-published authors flooding the market, there will soon be (or already is!) a new bottom-rung of bad quality that previously didn't exist, because it was a publisher's job to weed out or fix such books.

Up until today, all of us have unknowingly and implicitly been relying on the publisher's validation when buying 95% of books at a store, because without that validation they wouldn't BE in the store. That's what I'm talking about.
this stuff never seems to be highly upvoted on HN anymore, and if it gets to +30 there's only a few comments, i speculate because new-school HNers don't understand or care. so i track them myself.

best two advanced swegr blogs ever:

http://prog21.dadgum.com/ -- swegr, fp theory
http://www.johndcook.com/blog/ -- swegr, fp theory

other advanced swegr blogs. we're not talking atwood and joel, here, that stuff is for college kids.

http://blog.tmorris.net/ -- swegr, fp/tactics
http://james-iry.blogspot.com/ -- fp/tactics
http://playingwithpointers.com/ -- philosophy, fp/tactics

life

http://www.jasonshen.com/ -- "Art of Ass Kicking" (life)
http://www.sebastianmarshall.com/ -- "Strategy, Philosophy, Self-Discipline, Science. Victory." (life)
http://dilbert.com/blog -- politics & life

fwiw, after having digested much of this material, I've moved on to reading all the interesting whitepapers I can find, mostly via my social networks. That's the really advanced stuff. I've been meaning to collect them and summarize many to post to HN. nag me.
Seriously, your idea requires an awful lot of "holy grail" technologies.

Generating natural gas with 80% efficiency would solve tonnes of problems (if the price was right). If you could do that, you could get rid of 50% [totally made-up statistic] our existing power infrastructure - a good deal of our existing stuff is only there to "smooth out" demand. It would also make wind power a lot more practical.

If a ship could simply power itself, that would be a massive boon. Shipping companies would pay a lot for a ship that doesn't need to use fuel. And shipping doesn't always need to be timely - so storage isn't an issue.

If any part of your idea was economic, it would already be widely deployed. The main issue will be cost.
I think "the inelegance of Matlab" is MUCH overstated. It has some weirdnesses, some of which are fixed in Octave (it's gnu cousin). But some apparent bad choices (anything to do with cell arrays, especially) are really quite powerful when you get to know them.

(If you ask me, R/SPLUS is the inelegant language, especially when doing serious matrix -- yuck! But it's trendy....)

Matlab is a lot like SQL -- people love to hate on it because it isn't perfect and they know it really well (because it is ubiquitous and pragmatic).
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After 15 years of Java and a proponent of Java APIs I'm no longer sure this standard APIs are a good idea.

1. Most of them are leaky abstractions

2. If you use them, you should nevertheless shield yourself from them (See Uncle Bob), so you abstract over an abstraction

3. Because of 1, you need to rewrite your app to the semantic of each implementation of the abstraction (Portlet API, Java Content API JCR).

Case in point: You can use Derby for development and MySQL for production and you will get into trouble as although you use JDBC, the SQL over the wire has different syntax. And using ORM doesn't help you either (JPA), it has the same problems just one meta-level up.
Any company being sold to another company requires due diligence, especially on the legal side of matters. Equifax may have done their part in ensuring that the business they are acquiring is all good and the ownership / stakes in the company are all relevant (literally means as well that they ensured no other claimants would suddenly come up after the acquisition).

I believe the focus of your case (should it materialize) would be to your previous business partner. If you say and rightfully claim that there's a documented agreement (filed during the company incorporation) that you own 20% of the company, then there's a pretty good chance you may be able to get what is rightfully yours. Take note that you should be clear whether that 20-80 agreement you made before pertains to the ownership of the company, and not on particular income with which the company would be generating.

Good luck on your case and may you get what is rightfully and legally yours, so to speak.
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Don't feel bad. My work-supplied 3G still has 6 months left on contract. No iOS updates and crazy slow speed.
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Great update Marco! Did you work with a (graphic/interaction) designer on this update or did you do it all and maybe threw in some stock icons along the way?
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No, not China, that's recent history. We sell our electronics, software, and services to the world. That's competition.

Go to a bar and tell a few people you don't know "Frankly, fuck you" and see if they get annoyed with you.

You're conflating lots of of only slightly related things. I don't remember any economists saying that taking an ARM was a good idea.

I agree that the current state of the govt. is more than a little messed up and outrage is overdue, but you're doing the cause a disservice by talking about the wrong things and generally sounding like a conspiracy theorist. Public-only campaign financing is a good thing to talk about. Talking about how crash testing for cars is used to keep the good guys down is going to get you ridiculed by the opposition, and whatever movement you're associated with will be ridiculed by association.
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>People who had to use linux for a school project, people who just stumbled on an evangelist at some point, and blindly obeyed the "Install linux, it's better, you will see !!" stuff. Or just people who were a little bit curious.

Also, wives and aged parents of Linux techies.
This is pretty neat, but I have a few issues with it.

* In the bundle editor, that's not C, that's C++

* There's no "new from template" for C++

* The Open project dialog could be clearer

* When I type "main()" I end up with "main())"

Still, looks promising, and I'll definitely keep tabs on this.
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Well, the big problem to solve with SciPy is the fact that there is more, respectively, of C, C++, and Fortran in the SciPy codebase than Python (http://www.ohloh.net/p/scipy). Part of why Python has succeeded in scientific computing is integration of legacy codebases (via f2py or C extensions or...). There are probably man-years of work involved in devising a solution-- which by the time it's complete may be basically irrelevant or, worse, fragment the community. I personally think that going down this rabbit hole (porting 10 years of scientific Python libraries to PyPy) would amount to an exercise in vanity rather than producing the kinds of revolutionary changes to array-oriented computing that need to happen soon to deal with the large-scale data processing challenges of the present and future. Having recently used GPUs to speed up statistical inference algorithms by a factor of 50 or more, I am not that motivated by a JIT beating C in some cases (as Travis wrote: "C speed is the wrong target"). Many in the SciPy community are convinced that NumPy will not provide the computational foundation that we need going forward, and they are going to step up and start building the next generation NumPy (or whatever it's going to be called). We'd rather have more of the smartest computer scientists in the Python community focused on this problem (building more sophisticated data processing pipelines for use in Python) than on speeding up the Python code that by my estimation doesn't matter that much.
"readers who start picking up indie authors realize they need someone to sort through the dreck for them."

Right, but you don't need a publisher to do that. Algorithms are great at it.
This is great, looking forward to installing it. However looking at the screenshots I can't help but wonder if something other than an ellipsis would be better for indicating footnotes, especially now the voice dictation in iOS has commandeered it.
The last place for you might be the first place for someone else.

DC has humid summers, frigid winters, insane traffic, crime and prostitution, and a host of other things that are wrong with it... but it's still a place that many people want to go. There are national monuments, museums, cultural diversity, great food, great music, and it is the political center of the nation (world?).

I can't speak for Detroit, as I haven't been there, but that's also why I'm not discounting it.

I've found in my life that discounting things superficially has kept me from enjoying life as much as I could have. When I make it an effort to be more open-minded, I find it usually pays off.

All that aside, how in the world is "San Fran" outdated? What are its more modern counterparts?
It's also easy to step back until something good comes of it, focus on just the good, and ignore the bad.

Take your cell phone example. Cell phones are allowing the government to track the location of all it's citizens. Without a warrant in some cases. If somebody would have predicted that back when cellphones were introduced, people would have laughed them out of town. It was a ludicrous and paranoid idea. Yet here we are. We sit around watching videos, liking Facebook comments, and checking in at various events, all while a critical part of our anonymity has been destroyed.

I'm not saying it's all bad. I'm saying there is a mix. If you ask me, I'd rather not have cell phones and have a more private life. No amount of slick packaging and voice control interfaces is going to make up for what I've lost. But we don't have to choose, of course. We can have our cake and eat it too.

What's happened is that technology is staying leaps and bounds ahead of politics. It's like we're having to re-engineer the social contract every couple of decades or so. And the yahoos we have in power around the world are much more interested in their petty political games than this seismic shift that's occurring under them (which, in all honesty, they probably don't understand and probably couldn't deal with anyway). So the system gets more and more out of whack.

Just wanted to balance what you were saying. This isn't a story of technology always making things better even though we sometimes doubt. It's a story of technology making things more complicated and making the individual more powerful in some ways and that having effects that we poorly understand.
Well said - I think all of these startups have clients, customers, investors, mentors "in Detroit" as well.
Imagine that Timmy and Jimmy are selling lemonade on the street outside of their parents´ houses. Timmy and Jimmy are both selling three to four cups of lemonade every day. Every few days they increase the amount of sugar in their lemonade and put up signs that they now are selling a new type of lemonade.

This usually brings in lots of new people, but some are starting to get confused as both Timmy and Jimmy are selling so many different brands of lemonade.

Now Lisa moves into the block. She spends some time in her garage trying different lemonade flavors until she finds one she really likes herself. Then she goes out on the street to sell the lemonade.

People really like Lisa's lemonade. Its taste is distinctly different from Timmy's and Jimmy's. People start telling their friends about Lisa's lemonade! Soon people from the other block are starting to take the two minute bicycle ride just to get Lisa's lemonade!

When Lisa after a few weeks introduces a slightly refined version of her new lemonade she sells as much lemonade in an afternoon as Timmy and Jimmy together sell in a month!

After a while Timmy and Jimmy get angry. One night Timmy sneaks over and steals some of Lisa's lemonade. He moves his stand right next to Lisa's and even put up a sign saying "Lisa's lemonade" on his stand. The next day he shows up wearing Lisa's clothes.

Some of the customers get confused and accidentally but Timmy's lemonade instead of Lisa's.

Lisa goes home and cries to mommy. The parents get together and decide to ban Timmy from selling lemonade out on the street.

How's that for context?
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As someone that grew up a few hours from Toronto, I'd be confident in saying that the GTA is in the common vernacular for most folks in Southern Ontario. I agree that those outside of that area (in Canada at least) wouldn't, since from outside it looks like it's all Toronto.
> If the company had their paperwork in order, the OP should have maybe 5%

Vesting usually happens over 4 years, so quitting after 1 year means 20%/4 = 5%. After accounting for dilution due to investors, other stock grants and employees grants, I doubt it can be bigger than 1-2%.
I guess calculus is just an application of addition and subtraction, which I understand so calculus can't be that hard.

Just kidding. But biology is the study of elementary particles forming networks (molecules etc) of billions of elements in cascading structured systems. Much harder than physics, in the sense of understanding any particular system.
It's great to see a one man show like Instapaper doing so well. His space is becoming more crowded yet Marco's focus and drive means Instapaper keeps delivering more and more value. The changes in 4.0 look great.

Kudos Marco. You're an inspiration to solo founders (and anyone) looking to start something online. P.s. check out Marco's show with Dan Benjamin, Build and Analyze. I've been listening while I walk to work. It's interesting and insightful.
I'd be very surprised if the iPhone 5 was released anytime before next July. More likely is that it'll be a fall release again.
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I'd take a good book over this any day.
Guess the launch of Android 4.0 in two days will show us where we're going.

It basically decides the future for 3 major products:
Smartphones
Tablets
Google TV (this could be a LARGE market if they find the right partners)

Add to that the fact that big G will probably try to push Google+ even further with this new generation and this makes the event more important than any previous Google Keynote.
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I read a lot of books on my Kindle, and I've even gone down the route of publishing a few self-published books.

You are absolutely right when it comes to self-published books, they are not as polished as the professionally published ones. It can be jarring to read a book and have a million grammatical and spelling errors.

However, you have to realize that my investment in self-published books is significantly lower. They are usually much cheaper, they are updated (I think) more frequently, and they get the job done.

Frankly, I like having both options around!
All very encouraging, good comments, but I disagree.

Its easy to 'code', harder to design, debug, structure, deconstruct, architect.

So sure, code away, make that webpage or service. But you know who's creating the ecosystem you're 'coding' in? Somebody that started as a kid, dedicated their life to computers and software, lives and breathes multiprocess automata or whatever.

So everybody is right, sure, and there's lots of money to be made in coding so don't be afraid to jump right in. But like athletics or physics or whatever, either be a savant or study all your life, but don't fool yourself.
>crazy slow speed

What is wrong with the iphone 3G?
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I'm not being superficial, I'm talking about things that count for me. It sounds like a dreadful place, given what I enjoy in terms of climate/geography. You're correct that I would not enjoy DC's climate much either, but being the capitol gives it certain privileges that Detroit does not enjoy in terms of a destination and place to do certain kinds of business.

And I don't think you can dispute the fact that Detroit's "brand" is quite tarnished, no matter how much you click the down arrow.

> All that aside, how in the world is "San Fran" outdated? What are its more modern counterparts?

It makes you sound like someone from far, far out of town. People there call it "the city", which is sort of egotistical in its own way. I would just say "San Francisco".
It sounds like Iconfactory did the icons.

Source: https://twitter.com/#!/qiansh/status/125938836562919424 (vetted by @Gedeon & @Iconfactory)
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Zappa is my own personal cure for technical disfunction at the moment. Well that sounds real bad, but I've been doing this job for years and it's only these little affairs over the years that keep me coming home; "Assembler", "C", "C++", "Ruby", "Python", how I remember their sweet names, but sooner or later they all start to look like their mother and have to go.
Even if the iPhone 4S would've been a worse phone than iPhone 4, they would've still sold at least a million units in first weekend. I think everyone knows that.

But this sales boost will confirm to Apple that it's ok for them to just release the same phone for 2 years with some spec upgrades in the 2nd year.
Change perspective: You get the faster iPhone 4 with all its kinks worked out. And the next time you upgrade you get the faster iPhone 5 with all its kinks worked out.

It doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things.
I searched for "hacker news", and got "You are part of a lost generation".
I lol'd :)
Except there is scarcely a difference between the accent of someone living in Michigan or Ohio or New York and someone living in Ontario - the accents are certainly much closer together than US vs. UK, for example. I just think the speech recognition needs more work.
Understanding the underlying processes doesn't mean that you understand everything that is possible with them on a higher level (both the low-level and high-level processes).

If you want to compare it with computer programming, understanding of the base instruction set of a CPU doesn't mean that you instantly understand all possible programs and computations that can be performed on it.
I thought the same and starting trying out Window Managers. Until after a few installations/deinstallations I started getting conflicts and wasted a full weekend just getting back to a working system. Now I simply live with whatever my distros put on my desktops unless it got real stopper-bugs that prevent me from working. I guess the positive side is that I learn some new WM now regularly (a little more often this year than I'd hoped for maybe).
It makes more sense to me that the delay was down to iOS 5/iCloud and the surrounding infrastructure.

20 million iOS 5 users in 2 days is a very quick ramp up.
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Lets compare HNs reaction over them two.

Steve Jobs: Two days full frontpage of crying and "I remember him like this like that" and "wish I could have had the time to suck his penis"

Dennis m Ritchie: One post, most comments discussing relation of news to Steve Jobs.

Great going HN.

Totally agree.
That's a great question. I suppose they split it up into separate requests since downloading all of the dependencies at the same time might end up being slow and returning a lot of data, especially for something like Rails with a lot of dependencies. Or maybe separate requests was fast enough and a good trade off between speed/data and number of requests.
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