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Well, there's behavioral economics. That would remain by definition, since it is the study of how people actually behave, i.e. it does not start from the assumption of a rational actor.

Another part that would remain is the purely descriptive, e.g. the study of how the monetary system actually works.

Finally, it's not so much that the notion of a "rational actor" is entirely flawed, it's just that it's taken much too seriously.
I have been monitoring this for a few weeks. No luck thus far (as of 10/24). Seth Godin has been a pretty big champion, though, and I think that helped really get the word out there.
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Also, it's not a zero sum game. We don't have to denigrate anyone to recognize the skills of someone else.

Revering Jobs for what he did, does not in any way diminish the contributions of Woz or Dennis Ritchie or dozens of others.
This discussion about the value and use of bike lanes keeps amazing me. It seems many people hold a negative view without having good arguments, almost religiously.

Living in the Netherlands, the benefits of separate bike lanes (to point of a separate transit system) are so incredibly obvious. It's not some cultural particularity, it's because cycling has been made easy, nice (most of the time) and safe here. (see http://hembrow.blogspot.com/)

People who don't accept the rationality of the whole thing, probably have difficulty imagining a city with a cycling network. And when you show them the Dutch system, they have problems imagining the change it requires to get there.
That is why Copenhaganize is a good campaign, because it shows the change is possible
Thanks for commenting, because I can't understand the downvotes. I still don't see where I "publicly talk about my own family" in a "disgusting" way, but if that's how my comment comes across, it sure looks bad.

For all it's worth, I love my kids. Of course. And I would throw myself under a bus for any of them. Of course. And I almost have, twice (under my motorbike, which is not a bus, but weights over 400 pounds).

My point is: who doesn't love his kids??!? (And who cares?)

- - -

Edit: this may bring more downvotes, but it's worth it if it helps me understand myself.

I profoundly disliked Jeff's post. I should have said so instead of trying to be funny about it, but then I would have had to explain. Well, I have to explain anyway. So there.

If parenting should teach you anything, it's that your kids are not you. They are not part of you, either. They're them; they're persons. Jeff says so near the end, but I'm afraid he doesn't understand what it means.

Contrary to what most people apparently believe, praising your own kids in public, or your love for them, isn't helping them. It's helping you. It's using them to project a better image of you. It objectifies them: in fact, it's a kind of abuse.
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I think Yahoo leads in botched acquisitions.
Notifying users when their profile is viewed is crazy for anything other than a dating site, where these notifications simulate the real life mating ritual of coyly expressing interest in someone. I'm not a huge privacy freak, but I don't want anyone on any other network to know I've viewed their profile unless I take a specific action or opt in.

Likewise, encouraging "random friends" would degrade the value of LinkedIn's network. Part of its current value is that your "connections" presumably have a real link (work history or friendship) with all of their "connections" and can potentially make a worthwhile recommendation or introduction. This goes away if randomness is introduced.

Dating sites are barely social networks - they exist to facilitate quick one-on-one interactions - so social networks should copy their features with extreme caution.
Assuming people are "rational actors" is a horrible idea when you're talking about individuals confronting a challenge once, but not a horrible one when you have communities of people who can all experiment and learn from each other's successes and failures.

There's also the special case of, well, capitalists where the actors in a market are mostly those people who have demonstrated that they can act in what an economist would call a rational manner, or else they would have lost their money.

A lot of economics is models built on this idea, but a lot is also empirical work looking at how people behave in aggregate in practice. Sometimes you get chances to test models built on rational actor models against reality and they do pretty well. For instance, theory says that if you outlaw speculation the price will swing around a lot more than in commodities that are speculated in. Luckily for lawmakers, the growers of onions managed to get together to lobby the government to ban speculation in onions. The law was passed, and now if you look at the cost of buying onions in bulk it swings around a lot more than other vegetables.[1] Sometimes speculators mess up and cause price swings themselves, but they tend to even out the swings caused by demand shocks more than they do that.

I guess I'd say, in the end, to only worry about those theories that have been around long enough to be tested and which pretty much the entire economics profession agrees on.[1] Really, you ought to be doing that for any field of human inquiry where you aren't directly involved, since most new surprising findings turn out to wrong.[2]

[1]http://money.cnn.com/2008/06/27/news/economy/The_onion_conun...
[2]http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2009/02/news-flash-economists...
[3]http://lesswrong.com/lw/ow/the_beauty_of_settled_science/

EDIT: Also, there's a lot of economics, even from way back when, that is predicated on people being irrational. Like, loss aversion[4] leads to sticky wages leads to the price level having real effects on the economy.

[4]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_aversion
"I would have preferred a redesign without the optical drive but that's a minor complaint."

Thankfully there are ways you can install an extra HD drive bay in your MBP replacing the optical drive.

But most people believe that the big redesign next year will not only include Ivy Bridge and a new form factor but also the removal of the optical drive.
Remember to add the cost of admin time to that though. Outsourcing like that is not going to be free and easy especially at smaller scales.

And most manufacturing operations are geared for bulk. Going this way you would lose the uniqueness of each item, which is sort of the whole point.

And with scares over the recent years with lead in paint and so forth, I'd be careful going to China for kids toys. Definitely don't go with the cheapest, and definitely have some strong QA provisions in your contract.
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Automotive producers in general have pretty high standard of the source code creation and maintenance. However - the set of guidelines that govern the code - MISRA (Motor Industry Software Reliability Association), while better than nothing, are pretty poor. Most of MISRA rules look like they were designed to be easily checked by automated tools - not to check for real defects. That situation may have been acceptable 15 years ago, but modern static and dynamic analysis tools are capable of much more than that.
I had a 15" 4x3 1600x1200 CRT screen that was perfectly sharp in 1997. And on my desktop I still have an 15" 1280x1024 LCD one from 2004; I think that in 2005, I wasn't able to get a 15" one anymore, and had to get a 17". And these days, even 17" ones with 1024 or 1080 lines are not that popular.

My friend had a Sony laptop with 1900x1440 14" display, which was a little pricey for me at the time, so I didn't get it. But it was definitely not the only one available. These resolutions are even less common today.

Or, in the words of kids today, WTF?
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very nice, simple and sleek design. I really like it.

the only downside i see which i noticed other people mentioning as well is when i search for let's say "Coldplay" the first 2-3 songs are the same which would require me to play next. it's a lot simpler than the Youtube playlist so once you add the playlist functionality and some algorithm to get rid of duplicates it'll be a very useful service.

How are you planning to monetize this? or are you doing this just as a hobby?
I think you meant to say it flies in the face of Keynes ideas.
In fact, one of the inspirations of the use of the word "hacker" was that they broke the rules.

This could just be "engineer news", but it is "hacker news" because PG is celebrating those who took unconventional approaches.

That's what a hack is.

The problem is, when a site becomes mainstream popular it brings in a lot of people outside of its core demographic. In this case, there are a lot of people who are not engineers who think that engineering is cool, and want to think that they are elite.

And when someone is a poser, they know they don't measure up, so they try and define who the "legit" ones are.

You see this posturing among teenagers a lot. (maybe a lot of Hacker News visitors are just out of their teens?)
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Your understanding is built by folklore spun by people with an agenda, not reality.

When Steve Wozniak is your co-founder, its not very hard to decide to just leave the engineering up to him and focus on the other aspects of the business.

But that doesn't mean he lacked practical knowledge. He certainly has garnered a lot of patents over the years for his inventions, many of which are technological.
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I think by "free," Cassidy means "libre," in that adding bike lanes decreases the number of available parking spaces. If that's the case, Storbeck improperly challenged the basis of Cassidy's cost-benefit scrutiny. The value (intrinsic and extrinsic) of bike lanes isn't in question; rather, Storbeck seems to take exception to the fact that these bike lanes are being constructed and rarely used. On the other hand, for anyone who has driven in NYC, parking is always difficult, no matter where you are. Whenever I drive around, I just accept the fact that I will be paying $30 per hour for a garage.

Yes, switching over to bicycle transportation is an outstanding idea. However, the change has to be, in a manner of speaking, bootstrapped. There's absolutely no justification for an increase in bike lanes when they're currently underutilized, as Cassidy argues.
If this works out for him, it would be cool to see him champion other peoples' life-threatening needs as shamelessly as he's doing his own.
>Useful beats pretty.

That wasn't my argument even though I made no argument and said it was a matter of opinion. What is useful to you does not mean it's useful for everyone or even most people.

>Look at Wikipedia.

Wikipedia is well designed as is Google search. In my opinion, Gmail is not a place where I want to look at emails constantly.

> These anti-engineers, pro-pretty design rants on HN are becoming really annoying.

What made you think I was ranting or 'anti-engineer' in my post? Everybody has their job, engineers as well as designers.
This is great. Filling the void left by EveryDNS.net. Is the name a homage to EveryDNS?
“A few years ago, we noticed the numbers really jump,” said John Mogulescu, the senior university dean for CUNY.

Thank you "No Child Left Behind"?
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I've seen that kind of nomenclature only on sites like Monster or Salary.com and I've always felt similar as your comment: where do these come from? How come I was never told about it? How come my positions were never classified like this?

Overall, for me, it falls under these semi-established things that you're supposed to learn somehow. Some people know what it is and will make sure that their jobs are classified a certain way. Of course, since I don't know, I'm biased, but I feel that employers and employees that use them are probably not good cultural matches for me.
Which of these talks are likely to be about something new and interesting that we haven't read here before?

In other words, it's fun to listen to Clay Christensen, but I've read his book, so it's a bit of a rehash. Edit: the later portions have some new things, but still, for me, listening to long talks is not a productive use of my time when I could read them. The actual benefit of a conference like this is being there and meeting people, and chatting about what's been presented.
Monster engine is of a similar vein, but they take kids' monster drawings instead: http://themonsterengine.com/
I guess I cared a little about my own survival before, but now I really want to survive to be able to be there for my kid...

Exactly how I feel.

Nicely written, although I have to say I don't find having a baby quite as horrible as most other parents seem to find it. Exhausting at times, yes, but nothing that gets me angry.

Wait, it'll come!
The article says that ChromeOS is based on Ubuntu but I am pretty certain that it is based on Gentoo (or at least uses Gentoo tools to build). Does anyone know for sure?
Sure, it may be focused on saving him, but that doesn't mean that what he's doing isn't good for other people too. Getting potential donors (especially in an under-represented group) to sign up for the bone marrow registry is a all around good thing, who cares if they're doing it because Amit got them to? They might end up being able to save someone else's life.
Good IDE's will help you find code duplication.
I know that Facebook uses the contact lists of your friends to suggests users to you [1], but I'm 99% sure Peter Norvig doesn't have my email address in his contact list, and that none of my Facebook friends are linked to him.
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Who is Amit Gupta? That question doesn't seem to be answered on the site and the name isn't familiar to me.
Wow, I thought programs for critical systems went through stringent testing. Was this bug not fixed earlier because they figured that the probability of it being responsible for a fatal error was low ?
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He is using his name to get signups to the general national marrow donor program registry. It is possible to get tested just for Amit, but the default is that you get tested for a match to anybody who needs it.
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So I've recently launched http://thewp.co, which has been my current project for a few months, and I've finally got it launched. I've assembled a few developers, and got a site launched, and this is the result :-).

Would love to know your thoughts / feedback.
He founded http://photojojo.com/
Could you elaborate on some of what he got wrong? I found that the big problems with the book were errors of omission, with the book only talking about the ways that economic consensus supports government non-intervention, but ignoring the places where mainstream economic thought says that the government can safely be doing more. It always annoys me here in the US when Republicans act like they are the party blessed by economists, when most economists vote Democrat.
Amit Gupta started Jelly (http://workatjelly.com/), the coworking space, and founded Photojojo (http://photojojo.com/). I don't know him personally, (friend of a friend), but he is a really nice guy.
In my experience of conferences it's very difficult to predict the good talks.

Don't miss patio11 at 9am on Tuesday though. Last year was, 'hello ladies'.
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So I've recently launched http://thewp.co, which has been my current project for a few months, and I've finally got it launched. I've assembled a few developers, and got a site launched, and this is the result :-).

Would love to know your thoughts / feedback.

Edit: If anyone from HackerNews needs WordPress work, or simply front-end html/css/js, mention that you're coming from here and I'll give you a nice discount.
Amit is (among other things that bring people joy) the creator of PhotoJoJo and an incredibly nice man. I have only been in contact with him twice, briefly, and both left me happier than before.
I'm not sure what part of my comment you're addressing. The only real point I made was that his plight was shameless. I understand if saying that makes people upset, but it doesn't make it less true.
Glad you like it. After having duplicates brought up several times over the weekend I think I'm going to make that my next task to tackle.

As far as monetizing, well... I have no clue. I started this app for practice and so I'd have something to show when I went for my first job interview, having just graduated. I messed around with adding a "Buy This Song" link that would send you to the Amazon MP3; however, I removed it because it was just more clutter I wasn't interested in, specially seeing it wasnt getting used as I thought it would. I'm open for any suggestions if ya have any :)
I guess you're responding to the fact that I put "work" in quotes, but your comment comes off as unnecessarily snarky. My comment was brief, but I wasn't trying to denigrate Jobs achievements. I used the word "understanding" because I try not to speak categorically about people I don't know and events I didn't witness. Yes, Steve Jobs built a frequency counter when he was 12. But here's how Al Alcorn describes the 19 year old Jobs:

"I figured, this guy's gotta be cheap, man. He really doesn't have much skills at all," Alcorn remembers. "So I figured I'd hire him."

"Jobs never did a lick of engineering in his life. He had me snowed," Alcorn later recalled. "It took years before I figured out that he was getting Woz to 'come in the back door' and do all the work while he got the credit."

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/37762/
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So assume you have an iPhone 4S. Siri, the new voice activated assistant, can do all kinds of cool stuff, but it's sandboxed to the Apple-created uses. There is currently no public API... sort of.

Siri can send SMS messages, and SMS looks remarkably like a messaging queue. Given that, you have a basic messaging queue hook within Siri. So if your receiving endpoint happens to be an application, rather than another mobile phone, you need only to parse the input and take action.

This will not reach widespread adoption, however. The integration is too loose, IMO.
GC is a tricky problem. Even when you have a system that performs GC in the background (like Java has been doing for almost 10 years) you still are susceptible to your heap becoming fragmented and run the risk of requiring a full GC to compact the heap.

Alexey Ragozin's blog is great if you're interested in the murky details of generational GC: http://aragozin.blogspot.com/2011/06/understanding-gc-pauses...
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They should put some sort of manual override switch.
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similar here - had a 2008 white mbp. got a 15" refurb this summer that was a early 2011 revamp - came with the bumped up gfx chip (which is now standard) and also came with 8gig, even though the store site said 4gig. :)

Would like to get an SSD but don't really want to spring for a 512 gig one, and 256 ones aren't quite enough space for me.
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for starters i would keep it ad free. but once it picks up momentum and you are getting a lot of visitors, i would maybe incorporate a video advertisement in between songs. so maybe after 5 songs it would display a video/audio advertisement of some sort etc.
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Is any textbook or mainstream economist any different?

Hazlitt is responding to other people's economic claims and refuting them with his own reasoning from an Austrian perspective. Chances are the reader already believes a lot of the errors pointed out by Hazlitt in the book so Hazlitt doesn't really need to get lip service to ideas that politicians and mainstream economists promote without a second thought about it.
Don't expect a dramatic difference from Netflix in this area- just look at their Canadian offering. They don't bring the rights with them across the border, sadly.
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I am not entirely sure but no one has ever called it "Goldman's" in my limited experience.
Yep. I never click on website profiles when I know that the person can see the visits. The good thing about LinkedIn is you can turn that off, but even then, I notice it adds the person to the suggested users list after a month or so (I wonder if it adds me to their suggested list?).

There's lots of reasons why I don't want people to know. Like for example, a friend works at company x, so every so often I look at other employee profiles at company x to see if he joined LinkedIn (and is therefore in their connections).

Just harmless stuff like that, which might look sinister to someone who doesn't know the context.
Windows 8 will run on different devices, so your statement is not correct. I rate it 6/10.
It's definitely on the list, thanks for the feedback!
He has a copy of his company's and his own personal management document, Principles, on his hedge fund's site. It's a really good and interesting read.

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I tried it, but still wished it was denser, so switched back almost immediately! Clearly, others have sent similar feedback. Perhaps a "Preview (Dens<b>er</b>)" will come out!
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I only just started using LinkedIn. One of the major problems I've always had with the service was the fact that it would notify you that someone from some area had viewed your profile. This is a major intrusion into the seclusion of my visitors' browsing activities for several reasons, but most of all because you have no control over what might be inferred by this view.

I think this is an alarming trend on social networking sites. As saturdaysaint already pointed out, this is okay for dating web sites, because the point of them is to encourage pairings between members. Social networks, like facebook, and professional networks, like LinkedIn, have grown to the point where they are virtual address books containing more than just information about your contacts, but up to date information about the activities and interests that they choose to disclose.

Product management teams need to tread carefully when introducing features that go against the grain of real-life interaction. To me, page view notifications are the virtual equivalent of a little voice alerting you whenever someone has mentioned your name in conversation. Absent of context, what could you rationally infer from this notification? Context is key, and without delivering that, the notice is at best worthless and at worst dangerous.