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econ in one lesson comprising 6 slides:

1. people are animals and are part of the animal kingdom.

2. animals have basic resource needs.

3. e.g. people need food, water, shelter, safety and the company of other people.

4. the struggle to meet those basic needs in the face of competition from other animals, e.g. other people, is called economics. this is the "one true economics". it is not simply an idea in the mind of man. it is a physical reality observed throughout the animal world.

5. once people's basic resource needs have been met, they attempt to "explain" the one true economics, often in more complex terms, despite the absolute clarity of the one true economics. this is also called "economics" and is subdivided into many different ideas and ways of thinking.

6. if people's resource needs are not met as in slide 5., they cannot reach the thinking referred to in slide 5. they will only ever know and understand the one true economics.
"So many great things on the web cost less than a single cup of Starbucks. Yet, I myself am so hesitant to pay for them."

It's the same thing where if you add up all the things you are supposed to do each day that only take 5 - 10 minutes, you end up with like three hours worth of stuff. Flossing, meditating, abs, showering, etc.
I always like reading about how people did things back when dinosaurs ruled the data center. Do you know of any web pages that detail this sort of thing?
you said: I like to believe that western governments are out to serve their citizens and protect their freedoms, but I cannot explain how that fits with what these banks are doing and how the governments just let it happen...

well, the problem that bankers find with Wikileaks is probably that its not censored enough for them,

look for example what Wikileaks says about the Rothschilds banking family, informing us that the family is trillionaires , while referring to totally credible sources.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rothschild_family

While The Independent describes "an even older tradition - the ability of the family to sustain their secretive fortune, which industry insiders count not in billions but in trillions, and keep it within the family. Secrecy has been a hallmark of the Rothschilds from the outset."[56]
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ScrumPig - Lightweight Personal Scrum tool.
See ffmpeg's libavcodec.
> Best HN username goes to you.

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> It just kind of hurts me a little bit to see a great product come short in design.

I do have to wonder what the design would look like were a "pro designer" to get their hands on it. I think SubStizzy did a pretty admirable job, but man design is hard. I know I'm pretty terrible at it anyway.
A couple of months ago, I started riding extremely rule-abiding, only making an exception for hook turns when I don't feel safe doing a normal left turn, mostly so I could feel morally superior to those who don't and feel better about myself. (It's great thinking I obey stop signs more than 90% of motorists I see!) Although it definitely helps that my ride is a rather casual 12 minute affair (and uphill, so all the stops give me a breather), after a couple of months it became rather second nature and honestly not a big deal. I also found that Toronto pedestrians smile at you when you give them way :).

Agreed about the lack of yield signs in North America though. Problematically, it normalizes rolling stops, making it harder to distinguish intersections where a stop is actually necessary.
He left a legacy that touched my intellectual life.

In that he will live on.
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I'm one of the 800k.

Essentially, I figured out that it was costing me $16/movie I watched, and that was before the price hike. So I cut it out, and given that I was watching on average, a movie every 2 months, I haven't noticed the difference. (and what's more, that's an average, and there was much more activity in a couple of bursts early one.)

Their big error for me was reminding me of the relationship between the monthly billing and how much I got out of it.

FWIW, this is the second time I've cancelled netflix. They'll probably get a third chance, if I ever feel like watching movies again.
Groupon is a classic example: they have over 1,600 salespeople in the company. This number represents 75% of the total Groupon staff (http://www.centernetworks.com/groupon-roundup) I don't think they are particularly innovative. Low barriers of entry. It's just about how fast you can scale and yet it made it to the IPO stage. Few startups ever get to see that. Thus (with all do respect) I disagree with Jobs that a tech startup run by a salesman is doomed (although some might argue groupon is not really considered "techy"). I think a startup needs a good mix of a hacker, a hustler and a designer. Jobs was all 3 and that's what made Apple work.
In my opinion, in order for this to gain any traction, a UI update could go a long way.

If you need any design pointers/UI, I would be happy to help.
Yes, we are aware and we can't wait to upgrade, we will probably do it at our next scheduled downtime :)
It's probably not critical, but is there no way to see this without having to create a facebook account?
Awesome. Really looking forward to it.

PA Hacker House is awesome!
Hacker House
354 Poe St
Palo Alto, California

Sunday, October 30 · 2:00pm - 5:00pm
A DNS service with any type of free tier of service does not work. They have been tried dozens of times before (including by me), and never work out over the long term.

Your number one problem will be abuse. 50% of your user base will be the hacker/hobbyist types you expect, the other 50% will be people who can't get DNS service elsewhere (MLM/Ponzi schemes, child porn, jihadist forums and propaganda sites). These types of sites will generate tons of inbound complaints which you need to deal with, as well as massive DDoS attacks which you will need to sink to avoid service disruptions (think $100k+ in hardware plus bandwidth costs).

If you are crazy enough to move forward, you should reach out to dnsbl.org, its a shared database of domains to deny service to.
I am without words, rest in peace.
I'm not excusing poor behavior -- but that there is a significant statistical advantage to automobile drivers -- and that this should be taken into consideration. With great power comes great responsibility.
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Warts and all: http://ww.com/ascheme.c.txt

It's not quite finished (and it's patterned after scheme rather than lisp, but that's close enough) but it runs the towers of Hanoi sucessfully. Lots of stuff still missing, tail call optimization, gc and a whole bunch of other must haves. There are likely lots of bugs too and things that don't work the way they should such as the '.

My understanding of the language is still patchy enough that it probably doesn't work in the way you expect it if you are a schemer.

One of these days I hope to do a proper job of finishing it (too much stuff to do) and do a write-up on it.

Writing this helped me tremendously in understanding the lisp family of languages.

Don't laugh too hard at the definition of >
Could this be used to correct my posture? I can just imagine my screen telling me to "sit up straight!" every time I slumped just like my father used to.
Qwikster would have resulted in Netflix paying more credit card fees (two credit card charges a month instead of one); there is a fixed fee for every transaction. It made no sense to try and get out of movie studio bargaining by paying credit card companies a bigger cut--if it worked for existing streaming catalog deals, it would be temporary at best.

What is going to really hit Netflix hard is the entire Starz library disappearing from Instant.
I agree. I find most of my own mistakes are from a sense of urgency, and find I work better when I put intentional effort into laying things out ahead of time. The psychological factors would be interesting to know, I agree.

Would say more, but got to roll out some changes to our production environment and need to be focused on it so I don't do something wrong. :)
Earlier Ritchie and now McCarthy.
"The old order changeth, yielding place to new."

I wonder who the "new" will be ?
Yes! The fn key is so annoying there. I didn't mention it because it seems like that's the standard now, so wrong...
Thanks a lot! I just sent you a message, I would be very interested to get additional info on this project.
Here's another interesting use of the issue tracker by Paul Irish (of the jQuery Standards Team): https://github.com/paulirish/lazyweb-requests/issues
Pre-IPO Jive Software To List On Nasdaq As JIVE; Sequoia, Kleiner Invest $40M
Sorry, did't realize FB makes you sign in to see an event.

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Time: Sunday, October 30 · 2:00pm - 5:00pm
Location: Hacker House
354 Poe St
Palo Alto, California

Startup School is just around the corner and that means hundreds of hackers from around the world are descending on Palo Alto.

Due to overwhelming demand (mostly our own), the hackers will be throwing hacker house party v4: BBQ edition.

- We'll have hamburgers, hot dogs, and beer. 'Nuff said.

- we hope you will be there (seriously, you're just going to code all day/eat ramen noodles otherwise)

- yes, you can bring friends and booze (both of these are encouraged, obviously)
Renders fonts horrendously like I haven't seen in 5+ years. Is this produced on Linux with FreeType? Looks like you don't have TrueType hinting enabled.

My first attempt didn't produce anything the first two minutes I waited. I assume it timed out. You may want to look into providing some kind of feedback if the queue is long, for example, so that I can adjust my expectations accordingly. (Although realistically, I'd never bother to use something that didn't produce an image within 5 seconds.)
I guess I shouldn't be that surprised to see the extent to which companies literally copy/paste their EULA's. Perhaps the silver lining is that one instance of this contract language being rendered illegal would presumably set a precedent that invalidates all duplicated instances of it.
There exist a couple of studies that show the costs of administration of a bicycle registration program is more than the revenue collected when you make the registration cost reasonable. (Sorry, haven't got links right now.) That's before you get into defining exactly which bicycles have to be registered, and figuring out how to enforce it.
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There are more clean, consistent and interesting models of programming besides the C and Lisp models.

The Ml/Haskell family of languages. Logic languages (though these are somewhat subsumed by the former). Dependent-type languages.
Like Tivo, Netflix defined a market and then proceeded to be crowded out of it by the content producers and distributors until there was nothing left for them. I'd be worried about any company with a similar business plan.
By their own estimates, 800,000 subscribers was only the start of the bleeding. If you read the article, it says they forecast losing up to 1.5 million streaming customers and up to 2.7 million DVD subscribers in the next quarter.
Here lies a Lisper /
Uninterned from this mortal package /
Yet not gc'd /
While we retain pointers to his memory
updated to include the actual numbers. Didn't realize they were cut off in prior.
It is really incredible how the things are going for Netflix. Three/four months ago I was discussing with my father about shares he wanted to buy. He was losing some money on RIMM and I suggested him to buy Netflix, telling him: "Hey dad, they have the control of the streaming offer online and they are heading where the future is...no more DVDs, all streaming".

I was lucky that my father did not follow my advice (otherwise he would have killed me, eheh) and now I see the problem. As a subscriber of their streaming service, it is always very difficult for me to find something interesting in their catalog. I am also a subscriber of Hulu and I use Hulu daily for all my TV shows needs. When I want to watch a movie, Netflix does not offer me anything interesting, Hulu does not have a big catalog and I end up getting DVDs from Red Box.
Plus, an amendment has been adopted that decriminalizes acts against the TOS (though I guess it has not yet passed the full Senate):

http://cdt.org/blogs/joshua-gruenspecht/169senate-tweaks-bil...
Yes, there's going to be. We just haven't announced it yet.
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Uh, isn't that only domestic subscribers? Looks like internationally they gained 510,000 over that period, making it net 300,000 loss.
Cute. The site's down for me, but I found their flickr stream here, plenty more creatures:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/childsown/3465520257/in/photost...

The before and afters are great. I love the ones that were a scribbly mess in the drawing and end up looking nice but still reminscient of what the kid sketched.
Right, but Amazon is in a heavy infrastructure, heavy competition, low margin business. And their margins are small and getting smaller. 2% or so IIRC. They're less poised for explosive growth than Apple. On the other hand, they're here for the long haul.

Apple is spending a lot on infrastructure, but they're in a lower competition, high margin business. 38% margin IIRC. (yes, there's competition. But Amazon's competition is anyone selling anything, and Apple's is anyone who's managed to make a good smartphone.) The market hasn't been expecting Apple to grow for years now based on PE, they've been under 20 since the 2008 crash and growing their earnings like crazy. Their PE at the low point was 11ish, and now it's 14ish, less than the historical SP500 valuation.

For Comparison's sake, last quarter, Apple earned 6.8 billion. Amazon's net sales were 9.9 billion. Pretty soon, I'd expect Apple's profits to be bigger than Amazon's sales.

Something's not rational here. Might be me. Might be the market.
Has he never heard of the Streisand effect? "Please stand by for a demonstration of relevancy."
https://bitbucket.org/pypy/lang-scheme/

I haven't personally worked on it per-se, but I've worked on the compiler, JIT, and GC for the language it's implemented it :)
I jumped in at $86 after hours, with only 100 shares. They just simply got decimated after hours, but it felt pretty overdone, especially with only losing 800k customers. Seems worth it to take a stab.

That being said, the business model is doomed. They don't control the content, so they are essentially a technology company. Their technology is great, I had them for a few months, but unless they own the content they will continue to get gouged by content providers. It's a no-win situation for them.
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The account is existing and not developed in its lowest times Even at its best it benefits the feelings rather than why the feelings is being thought.
> "two accounts with the same IP Address posting comments to HN on the same thread from different accounts is not necessarily malicious"

Of course not. My wife and I both post to HN, and nobody has ever criticized us for it.

It helps that we give full disclosure. If we're both involved in the same thread, whoever came in second will usually say "so there's no confusion, I'm married to [the other of us]".

That seems to be one factor some of your colleagues are missing.

> "It is simply posting from a different account."

The HN community has no problem with those who post from separate accounts for "personal" and "professional" stuff. Anonymous threads asking for legal, moral, or health advice are commonplace. Using your personal account to comment on political stories and your business account to comment on code stories is cool.

But it definitely bothers me when someone uses multiple accounts in the same discussion. pg suggests this is a pattern, not a one-time occurrence. Whether or not it's intended to be malicious or manipulative, posting to the same thread from multiple accounts definitely comes off that way. Similarly, using multiple accounts to circumvent bans so you can give your posts publicity appears sketchy.

Maybe pg, the moderators, or the algorithm made mistakes. There are better ways to respond than making multiple accounts, and there are better ways to "make this water under the bridge" than the path you've chosen in this thread.
I canceled my subscription. Not because of the price increase but the cavalier manner in which the increase was communicated. The presumptuous email re: the increase really pissed me off. It has also made more more careful with communications with our user-base.
It seems like your education only matters up to a certain amount of experience. If someone has been out of school for ten years, I don't give a damn what happened back then.

When all I have to go on is education and a one-year failed startup, I'm going to ask at least a few questions about school. Even then, the startup is more useful.
The next step is to bulk CC all 3,521 of them and ask very politely to delete the offending email.
Why would it be litigated overseas? The TOS explicitly state that they're governed by US law, which (oh my!) is clear that truth is an absolute defense to libel. So IANAL but yes, all they have is a civil claim with no stipulated damages.
Different context. This would be more comparable to an expressway, where you should keep to the right side except for passing.

In my experience on trails (including the lakefront trail in Chicago) people on bikes tend to understand this, runners/joggers are usually pretty good about it, and people going for a walk are god-awful at it. I don't mind people going slow (its frustrating because I'm commuting not recreational riding) but when you have a group of walkers going four wide on one of the only trails in the city designated for bikes (downtown there's a separate walkway for pedestrians closer to the lake) blocking all traffic, and getting upset with you when you try to pass them that's beyond obnoxious.

P.S. this applies on normal sidewalks as well (also escalators, moving walkways, city life in general). Unless your the only one in an area, walk in a straight line and not 4-wide so people going faster can get around you and people going the other direction don't have to stop and wait for you to run into them.

</rant>
"The context for thinness was comparing it to other laptops brought up in this thread (I mentioned the Toshiba Portege a lot). The 13" Macbook Air is ~3 lbs, within 10% of tons of other laptops."

As I mentioned earlier, if a notebook is light but bulky, the build quality probably isn't great.

"On my end, I've been using a 3.3 lbs (10% heavier than Air though 60% thicker) Latitude E4300 since mid-2009 that cost me far less than an Air would then"

You want to compare your 2 year old notebook to a 2 year old MacBook Air? Even though the MacBook Air has become even more affordable since and the E4300 doesn't even exist anymore? Alright. The Latitude E4300 with 64GB SSD cost $2600 [1]. The MacBook Air with 128GB SSD cost $1800 [2].

"I certainly consider it a competitor to the Air. Would you not consider it as such?"

Together with the Sony VAIO Z and the Lenovo X301, those were the only notebooks at that time that came anywhere close to the MacBook Air. That doesn't mean it qualifies as a competitor in 2011. The E4300 weighs 3.3 lbs and is 1.1" thick. The MacBook Air weighs 2.96 lbs and is 0.11-0.68" thick. That means the E4300 has more than twice as much mass; it might be ultra-light but it's definitely not ultra-portable according to today's standards.

[1] http://www.laptopmag.com/review/laptops/dell-latitude-e4300....

[2] http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook-air/stats/macb...
The GoogleWebmasterHelp has some great videos on things you can do to help improve your site rankings. They may be common knowledge to the folks here, but I think they will be an great source of knowledge for non-technical business owners.
I wonder how they chose that element...
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Have you seen anything like Fox News anywhere else?
"this months of fallen giants"

Indeed.
You, in emulation
> If Wikileaks were a terrorist organisation (blowing up buildings and people and whatnot), I'd understand governments to force a ban.

We're pretty sure they're not considered a terrorist organization... right?
I know some other people on the list, and was looking at signing up, but got really annoyed that all the registries seem to demand a third party or multiple third party contact info in order to submit a sample.
Yeah it was my understanding that the 1/3 of the network was theoretically owned by their "virus."
To a degree Apple is a poisoned brand. "Everyone" thinks their products are way more expensive than the alternative. It's a mindset they've had to work to undo.

Even as an Apple fan, I always thought the 8-core Mac Pro was expensive compared to the alternatives, yet the Dell equivalent is about $800 more.
TILs such as forth.

Smalltalk.

What family does APL belong to?
We should declare tomorrow November minus 6th...
And Stanford just confirmed https://twitter.com/#!/stanfordeng/status/128615022044790784
> How? What violent or dangerous actions have they taken?

I'm afraid I can only relate anecdotal observations, but my corner of the Midwest does sadly host an active Neo-Nazi population. A couple of my friends in the city where I live have been violently assaulted and injured by self-professed Neo-Nazis (and strangers) venturing here from rural counties looking for trouble to start.

Likewise, I have a couple times seen Stormfront host threads by individuals who disagreed strongly enough with (usually far-left leaning) political protests in this city to seek identification of the protesters in any photos, names, and where they live. Along with not terribly subtle threats of violent retribution.

I can certainly see recklessness in Wikileak's actions, especially revealing identities of covert agents, thereby endangering them.

I would hope at my least anecdotal observation above of Stormfront's connection to violent criminal behavior makes clear both organizations do indulge in recklessness, albeit in degrees being debated here.
I think you have a valid point -- but my point about asymmetry of risk still stands. Even if cyclists cause more accidents because of this swerving to avoid maneuver, the injury risk to the cyclist in any accident (fatal or otherwise) is still much higher.
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The plan is to support other test styles like jasmine and qunit through npm modules: http://testling.com/docs/#using-npm
What a sad month
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mpeg-2#ISO.2FIEC_13818

There's quite a verbose spec for all of the major codecs people talk about, but sadly it's 10k(? number I heard tossed around). ffmpeg is a great place to look, but checking out some stuff on fft is a good way to get some background knowledge.
Implementing a tiny Lisp is an exercise in learning to be a better programmer by teaching yourself how language implementations work. Creating a patch for someone else's Lisp interpreter is not a reasonable substitute.
https://github.com/gyepisam/perl-lisp

Initially started off as a toy implementation and eventually fleshed out into a pretty nice system, used in a production environment for several years as a DSL in a perl based system.
Is there any way to implement these memorial black bars in a way that doesn't break the mobile HN apps? I assume they're scraping.
They're not mainstream (that I'm aware of), but there are realtime GCs that can guarantee a pause of less that 1ms. Metronome is the one I'm familiar with.
Inconvenience vs peril. One thing is annoying while another is potentially deadly. Different reactions seem justified, don't you think?
Confirmed by Stanford Engineering:
https://twitter.com/#!/stanfordeng/status/128615022044790784

I've changed the attribution on the TechCrunch story by the way, though it still gives this thread a shout out.