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Articles I used read about B&O products were always rated as mediocre by audiophiles. Basically looks good but sound was nothing special.

This article is way to long and seems to contain nothing of note, other than history of B&O.
> You can publish unedited, dubiously archived, difficult-to-cite, poorly advertised articles without anonymous peer review for the cost of hosting, right now.

That would be arXiv, would it not?
He's not morally wrong, I'm saying the nature of what he's doing is shameless. Clearly this is an important issue to him, but he's vastly overestimating his importance to everyone else. That's fine. I'm just calling it like I see it.
I didn't down-vote you because I think I get what you're saying (even if I don't agree), but your first comment initially reads like:
a) you're suggesting you'd throw your kids under a bus, and
b) you only love your first.
Actual paper at author's web site: http://www.helsinki.fi/~aannila/arto/light.pdf. I have to say that a brief perusal sets off my crank alarms, although the author does appear to be a real physicist. ... Oh. On googling a bit more, I find that the author has also claimed a proof that P != NP [EDITED to add: available at http://arxiv.org/abs/0906.1084]. The signs aren't looking good.
Have jailbroken iOS device and use Twitter?
>(If parking is available for 30 USD, then it appears that parking is not actually difficult in NYC. It is expensive, not difficult.)

That's the key takeaway. When property is at a premium, parking is also at a premium, by necessity. As someone who lives in a city, I like cheap parking as much as anybody else. But cheap parking is just city-subsidized parking.
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There's nothing that causes drivers to seethe with anger like losing whole seconds of their lives to happy people cruising along on bicycles.
the traffic value of being on techcrunch has really been going downhill...they are putting out so many stories, you only get a few hours of exposure, before you end up on page 2.

the real value of course is in other things...but still, high traffic numbers didn't hurt
Sure, this is not bidi in the very beginning, and later it can get messy.
While the assumption of rational actors is a problem in Macroeconomics, I wouldn't go so far as to sat that it's a huge problem. Almost certainly the larger problems of Macroeconomics are problems of endogeneity. Problems associated with assuming rational actors are relegated to the definition of Macroeconomic models. Very little work in economics is done by defining models, but rather by analyzing data in the context of these models.

Problems of endogeneity [1] occur for many different reasons, but are present (to some extent) in nearly every empirical macroeconomic study. They arise whenever there is a circular dependency among the parameters you're trying to measure (economic growth is dependent on education is dependent on economic growth). While we do have statistical
tools to help control for endogeneity biases, like instrumental variable regressions [2], we often don't have enough data points (we can only measure economic growth accurately for 100 some countries for 60 some years).

All of this wouldn't be a problem if Macroeconomists could run controlled experiments, but this isn't really possible for fairly obvious reasons (Good luck convincing a country or three that they need to change how they run their country to validate some economic model).

So sure, Macroeconomic models may be somewhat invalid because of assumptions of rational actors, but I'd argue that Macroeconomists have looked the other way, not because there wasn't anything better (as you've said, behavioral economics is making a lot of advances) but because there were larger issues that need to be addressed.

The Microeconomists and game theorists can work out the rational actor problems.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endogeneity_(economics)

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_variable
How much did he raise again? He says he didn't get meetings until after the August vacation period. And announced the funding October 13th. Does it really only take 6 weeks to put together a multi-million (?) dollar round?
He's not morally wrong, I'm saying the nature of what he's doing is shameless. Clearly this is an important issue to him, but he's vastly overestimating his importance to everyone else. If every person with a need had a poster plastered around the city with their name on it, every city would be covered from sidewalk to rooftop. I'm just calling it like I see it.
And those annoyed drivers then complain about the creation of dedicated lanes that would get cyclists out of the flow of car traffic...
In Cassidy's article, he refers to cars as "four-wheel friends." Perhaps he isn't considering this very rationally at all; I don't think I've heard that kind of touchy-feely attachment to their vehicle of choice from even the most hippie-ish pro-cycling movements.

Not a strong argument against Cassidy's article, I admit (he's a journalist, his writing style needs to be engaging), but hilarious anyways.
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Could we all just agree to disagree and leave it at that...?
The brakes should be strong enough to stop the car even if you can't get the car out of gear. It takes longer to stop of course, and you might need to replace your brakes afterwards but it should stop.
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Life and Death.

At what point do you admit to yourself you love your life and want to continue to live?

At that point, that's when shamelessness and modesty are thrown on the window and you do what you can to try to survive.
Not sure what resolution independence has to do with available screen resolutions. Apple already offer multiple resolutions (mine's the 15" with 1680x1050).
If whatever you are doing works out for you, it would be cool to see the point you are trying to make by commenting on other peoples' life-threatening needs shamelessly.

I did not say that you are cynical. I just said you are shameless.
Upvoting because, as a parent of one (well, two in a few weeks), I find it very hypocritical when people really don't want to admit that that 49% is a INCREDIBLY HUGE PAIN IN THE A$$.

Apart from being exceptional time-sinks, children can be infuriating "just because". It's not that you have to explain everything (that's expected), it's that you have to do it 15 times, and you know they got it after the very first one but still refuse to do what necessary "just because" -- because they want to see your reaction, or because they want to exercise their power on you, or because they don't really want to go see Grandpa Smelly, or because they feel kinda lazy, or because there's a lovely shiny thing somewhere, or because... by the end of the argument, they probably can't even remember.

And obviously they'll try to crush your laptop under the heaviest object, or crawl on you when you're typing The-Most-Important-Email-Ever, and by the time they're 10 they'r probably going to send porn links to your entire addressbook just because it's funny. Etc etc etc.

Obviously I love my daughter and I'll love her brother, but if it was for my brain alone, that 51-49 split would be more like a 10-90 no-contest one-party landslide.
I'm speaking about this particular post and not her body of "writing" in general. Rest assured, I don't share negative opinions very often on HN, but when I do it's well supported by FACTS and not flippancy, as you suggest.

Small Stuff: Her syntax is poor, repetitive and shows very little organization or proofreading. Case in point, these are her words: <<"You are likely to not move fast enough and therefore run out of money. A startup at the very beginning is about time and money. You need to get time in order to be able to do the company, but if you take too much time, you will run out of money.">> Note: that is just terrible. Sorry.

Big Stuff: She makes exaggerated leaps of logic, as if there are missing paragraphs, and her mix of facts and disjointed statements make for some terrible contradictions, some of which are insulting to the reader, such as (again, her words):
A) <<"...the vast majority of women do not want to run startups.">>
B) <<"...women care more about their personal life than men do.">>
C) <<"... women are likely to bring diversity [of opinion] to a male founding team, and that’s not what founding teams need.">>

She basically broke the article into several disjointed sections, trying to paste it all together with random facts showing "false causality" (look it up) and the end result is very sloppy.

This article is a good example of how not to write. Ever. It's painful to read. I stick by my original, unfortunately ironic, comment.
Almost all of the work is done by academics.

The reviewers are unpaid academics.

The editors are academics, and paid very, very little.

Essentially, all the journals do is print them (which is pointless these days) and maintain the website (which is something that could easily be done by libraries).

In fact, most universities provide open access repositories for all of the papers of their academics, so the journal websites could be reduced to a submission site, and links to the finalised papers with very little injection of money.
The distinction is that it's private parking for $30 USD per hour. Municipal parking is provided by the taxpayers, just as the bike lanes are. They're switching out municipal parking for bike lanes when the bike lanes are underutilized.
Does your health IT solution reduce wait time or lessen the impact?
I think that "I have had interest expressed by many people in the past to help out" shows some social proof and "when it comes to really getting down to it and doing real work, that interest dissipates very rapidly" is further evidence that most people can't do this sort of thing.

I think that at some point, you either find someone from the interested group who is able to do this sort of thing, or you come to terms with not getting a partner. I'm not sure what other route there is - maybe someone posted one.
People dislike PHP because it's very easy to pick up bad habits and create poor code in PHP.

Adopting proper OO and MVC patterns from a well-made PHP framework will help OP become a much better programmer as apposed to a guy that can google php-scripts.

Also, the php frameworks above are certainly a lot less magicky than a framework like Rails which, for what it's worth, yes I agree is not the best way to learn ruby.

@OP I recommended you learn through a framework for good reason. Becoming a better php programmer means following good coding standars/patterns. People dislike php because its very easy to write bad code - I don't want you to write bad code.
Not only is that an ethical nightmare, complications arising at the connection site are actually quite probable and removing the ability to disconnect as needed would be a disaster.
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The main issue is that they publish so much. 8 stories in the past hour. I had to remove TC from my feed reader for this very reason. Even those who still follow it via feed, are mostly skimming the headlines at this point.

What they are offering, traffic wise, is literally 15 minutes of fame.
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>"One example: the post, chock full of information on Microsoft's latest patent score, included a chart that also detailed Apple's and Oracle's separate lawsuits against Google's Android, which seems to all but confirm Google's assertions all of this Android litigation is all part of a coordinated effort."

One could argue that it speaks more to Google's well entrenched attitude toward IP.

Suspicion regarding Android is somewhat justified given Google's history of using other people's content to sell advertising (e.g. displaying copyrighted material without license as part of image search) or their opt-out approach to copyright protection of books as they scan them and place them online.

Given that there is little evidence of a clean room reverse engineering approach by Google when it comes to Android, it is unsurprising that big players suspect patent infringement - and each of the claims is at least plausible.
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Your need to have an opinion on this is actually pretty offensive.

The guy wants to live. So stop this rather pathetic passive aggression.
Because anything beyond 1440 is uncomfortable for large numbers of people. 1680 is sort of ok but would suck as a default.
Enough for TechCrunch to showcase the investments of those that are/used to be affiliated with it without full disclosure.
Watch out though. Lots of people lie about being eagle scouts, and you can't verify it without having their troop # and contacting BSA headquarters.
UK Universities see 40% fall in "soft subject" applications.
On YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPUsuY8JZJI
Parking is easy in NYC, from my limited experience, as long as you have a fat wallet. It's extremely difficult if you're trying to be cheap, but that's only to be expected.
I still have about 680 karma to burn through.
> how many people need to start from 2+2

The basic math sections in the book are quite fast. The intent was not so much to teach/drill/annoy the reader with the high school stuff, but to have a self-contained book, instead of saying "complete the square which you should know from high school".

> you think a student could pass the Calculus using only your 60 pages of Calculus as a reference?

Honestly, yes. But my belief is unimportant here -- I have to test things out with real students and real exams.

> 1st grade to 12th grade

A student no, but an adult who doesn't remember that stuff yes.
Most vehicle repair codes (inspection requirements, etc) are state's rights, though with the advent of OBD-2, many emissions inspections programs have fallen into line. "Plug in the scanner; if it reports 'ready' and no MIL codes, it passes." I won't even bother to enumerate the number of ways that can be gamed. There is a federal emissions certification program, but again, that's only enforced via state inspections, which are a source of income for the independent garages (meaning that there's incentive to interpret the rules loosely to protect the revenue stream). If you need a car to pass, you can find a station that will pass you based on a recent color photograph and a small amount of cash.

In terms of chassis repair or mods, it's pretty much a free-for-all. Lifted trucks are regulated in some states, but most other modifications are owner and mechanic discretion. I'm completely changing the geometry of my '66 convertible's front suspension, converting to disk brakes all around and changing to a dual-circuit master cylinder. The number of other people who will be required to check my work prior to it being to legal to drive on the public highways: zero. (And IMO, that's as it should be, but I have a pretty strong libertarian streak.) It will have to pass the state safety inspection, but unless I have a light out, there's no realistic chance that the car will fail the safety inspection and they sure won't notice that the suspension and brakes have been completely re-engineered.
Maybe they'd have fewer problems if they you know, actually released stuff?
I think he meant the feeling you get is different: the first time, it's all wonderful and unexpected and This Baby Will Be President. By the time Jr-Jr comes along, expectations will be more... subdued.
All those things would happen way less if there were dedicated bike lanes. And you should speak up when someone on a bike is creating a dangerous situation. I don't get why you would not.
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The point is that parking is something which can be provided privately, and which should, in theory (I know that, especially in economics, this doesn't necessarily mean in practice), cost approximately the same. Bike lanes, on the other hand, cannot be provided privately.
No more than it's a blow to me when the movie I paid $10 in theaters for winds up in Redbox for $1. If your enjoyment of a device is predicated on its features not being available to others, you're in for a world of disappointment.
I agree - productxapp.com is probably best second choice after productx.com for an app name/domain combo, especially consumer apps. And make _sure_ that an existing productx.com service and domain are so different from yours in focus, there is no confusion for consumers who type productx.com by mistake, they know to keep looking for you. Also check US trademark and existing apps to make sure you can trademark it, else if you are successful you may find folks trying to clone variations of your name, or worse claiming your app name on different (android / windows mobile /...) app store if you just start with Apple, for example.
I found "Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith to be an excellent book. He explains things very well. You can tell he has done extensive analyses to back up his conclusions. Free on Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3300). I actually listened to the recording on librivox.org (read by Stephen Escalera):

http://librivox.org/the-wealth-of-nations-book-1-by-adam-smi...
http://librivox.org/the-wealth-of-nations-book-2-and-3/
http://librivox.org/the-wealth-of-nations-book-4-by-adam-smi...
http://librivox.org/the-wealth-of-nations-book-5-by-adam-smi...
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We are on Hacker News.... Indeed, Ada is named for Ada Lovelace, but Alice is named in honor of Lewis Carroll. We like math.
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I'm well aware of the technical distinction between "libre" and "available." I should have said that Cassidy's belief is more in line with "libre," rather than gratuitous. A viable argument could be made that decreasing parking spaces infringes on an individual's liberty by pushing them more into private parking. It's admittedly weak, but it's something to consider.

As for your support of the network effect, it's not the government's position, by executive decree, to encourage change. They are representatives of the people, and to that end should cater to the majority, with the judiciary acting in its role to protect the rights of the minority.

Considering your bus example, I admittedly have no understanding on how bus routes (or for that matter, bike routes) work. Certainly there's empirical research suggesting that the route would be used, but the trade off is that adding a new bus route does not result in taking away something else (aside from resources, but resource allocation is entirely different).
Partner with an established greeting card company to sell greeting cards that double as gifts: consumer pays $20 for the greeting card, the recipient child draws on the card then drops it in the mailbox, gets their stuffed toy sent back in the mail.
edit: can't fix the unfinished mess below on my phone, sorry.

When our kid was still sucking his mother's milk we went on 5 days trip in Dali, Yunnan, rented a 4*4, went to cheap backpackers hotels, no problem at all. The only diff was to wake up earlier than we would without him. And for the interruptions, why do you allow them? When my dad was working at home, we wouldn't enter his place without a reason.

I think the big issue is all about a kind if culpabilization
For reference sake, the day BEFORE the most recent techcrunch article referenced, we had 11,975 unique visitors, ~5k of which were from HackerNews.

Given the traffic growth in HN and dilution in TC, for certain products, like Samurai (http://samurai.feefighters.com) targetted towards a developer audience, HackerNews is the new TechCrunch (for traffic). Some might say the new Slashdot, but more business-y.
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Agreed, when I first got my MBP at 1680x1050 I found it extremely tiring on my eyes when I used it for periods of time (as little as 30 minutes). I guess I've gotten used to it though.
It impresses me just how much combined effort is being put towards boycoting transparency, just on the grounds that the powers that be are embaressed by their ugly operations.
I'd be interested in Wikileaks providing a rundown on what they spend their money on.

Every cent might be in the direct pursuit of free information but I worry that isn't the case.
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Now imagine a timeline with all pundit & haters quotes, contrasted with Apple stock prices.
We all die, sorry to say. How you conduct yourself in the face of that fact is all that matters. But thanks for your opinion.
RE: Congratulations. My wife is a musician, and back in the day,when record labels mattered, many musicians would focus almost entirely on getting the record deal. That was the thing, to get the deal. Sure, there would be stories about artist X or Y who's album had been shelved by the label or the signed artist losing of control over who would be the producer etc. but primarily it was considered a sign that you had made it, you were legit. You just didn't really consider the loss of control that went along with the 'deal'.
I think the same is true with funding. Yes, you are making an exchange - money for equity. However, you are also signaling that you are legit, to outsiders and to yourself. Of course, there is a cost to everything, and if entrepreneurs are not treating the funding as a sub-goal, but rather as the goal,then you wind up with organizations that are optimized to get funding rather building customers/long term profits.
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well, maybe.

[paywall'ed access to information] means people die, IF the said information would still be discoverable under an open access system.

closed journals fill an important purpose in the ecosystem -- they provide friction[1] through cost, peer review and filter. it raises the bar for publication. it also means that without this aggregation and filtering mechanism, we wouldn't be able to find the important needles in the haystack, and that means people die.

go figure.

[1] seth godin on friction http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/05/friction-sav...

(i'm an engineer, i'm speculating)
Those were the times... I remember when a desk cracked under pressure from the monitor... ;)
Sorry if you mistook my post for me taking a side. I wasn't. I was just pointing out a peculiarity I noticed in the article. I'm actually for increased bike routes, as that will decrease the number of people injured in bicycle v. motor vehicle collisions. This is my personal view, though.

However, there's a massive distinction that we have to realize: garages are privately-owned, whereas parking is municipally-regulated. The city is switching out public parking for public bicycle paths, and I don't necessarily know if this a net positive economically.
Because a lot of people confuse off-topic with i-don't-agree.
I think it is good they split out: "WikiLeaks and Julian Assange Defence Fund"

As while I think many people want to support Wikileaks, they don't want to support his personal legal case, be it politically motivated or not.
Yup, by opposing bike lanes they avoid associating themselves with the bikers that annoy them, even though bike lanes would remove the cause of the annoyance. That's primate political dynamics for you.
those are some really surprisingly low numbers.. (at least to me) i always thought them to be at least in hundred thousands.. not couple thousand..