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Applying mathematical models to human action is interesting, no doubt, but we are a long way off from anything approaching a hard science when it comes to economics. I'm certainly no economist, but economics in general seems to be more of a sociological problem than a mathematical one. I'm happy that there are two sides to the coin. I've delved into Keynes's General Theory a bit, and witness on a daily basis how that approach is fouled by the actions of humans.
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On this page there is a video (a parody of MasterCard commercials) that serves as a rough list of what they spend their money on.

http://shop.wikileaks.org/donate
Well some things I can think of are: friendly user interface, simple API and complete REST API compatible with many programming platforms, lower TTL values, instant updates, and several advanced features we plan to release soon.
No, I was simply offering a potential explanation for why things happen.

Also, I see no need to respond to your hyperboles. I mean, "criminal negligence"? C'mon.
Pretty remarkable how accurate those predictions were --some were off, but the hit rate was pretty good. Man[kind] will see around the world... That English would establish its own grammar rather then try to foist Latin on it (such that one could not end a sentence with a preposition because it ran against Latin grammar but was natural in English). The rise of UPS and home delivery of goods...

Good stuff.
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> this abuse of the system should be prevented via a minimum wage law. That would cut into the employers profits, but there's nothing wrong with that.

Hazlitt uses the whole book to drive home the most important lesson about economics, and that is: One must consider not just what is seen, but also unseen.

Let's apply this to the case for minimum wage for hotel workers. Sure, the minimum wage helps hotel workers. Sure, hotels will still pay for cleaning services. That is all seen. That is the naive analysis. What is unseen? What is the unseen result of a higher-than-market hotel-cleaning wage?

Workers who would best be employed in other tasks will now be employed cleaning hotels. Other goods and services that are more valued won't be produced because the people who would produce them are busy cleaning hotels.

In general, the low-productivity employment sector will be made less efficient, because of lack of price information. For example, suppose the minimum wage is $7/hr, and the market wage for hotel cleaning is $5/hr while the market wage for cooking is $6/hr. A worker who could do either should, in a free market, choose cooking, because it is more valued (hence the higher wage). But a minimum wage hides this information. So if the worker chooses cleaning, the economy will be $1/hour poorer than it would otherwise have been.

Also, the sector of the economy that employs large number of low-wage workers will become comparatively less efficient because of the high-than-market wage costs. This will encourage capital to flow out of this sector and into other sectors. The unseen effect of the minimum wage is a missing low-wage industry.

This was made very obvious when the US Congress raised the minimum wage on the small pacific island of American Samoa. The result was that major employer on the island left the island and instead built a more mechanized plant in the state of Georgia. A lot of low-tech, low-wage jobs in American Samoa disappeared and were replaced by a lot fewer, higher-wage jobs in Georgia. This was the direct and visible effect, but over time, the unseen effect is the same: industries and jobs that won't exist because the minimum wage makes them illegal.
As a cyclist and a driver, I agree that there are far too many jerks who think it's fine to run red lights if it saves them a little pedaling...

but the ones that really get me are people in dark clothing after dark with no lights or helmet pedaling up the sidewalk on the left side of the street behind a row of parked cars and out across an intersection at 15mph... who, when faced with a near-accident, rant about how they had the "right of way".

Even if you're right, the right of way doesn't matter when you're dead, buddy.
You are probably dead on in terms of what it takes to get a programming job at a giant defense contractor (those F500's being Lockheed, ITT, and shudder SAIC).

Let me just say, because this is a neutral comment: look, you have nothing to lose by putting "Education" on your resume. It's not like I'm not going to take you seriously because you stuck your CMU GPA on your resume. So if you're worried about getting past every possible hiring manager, you should include it.
with a paid account the information is a lot more detailed and definitely identifies specific people.
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HN killed her business (if only temporarily):

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Also, if you get posted on TechCrunch, Slashdot, etc. you're likely to get written up on tens to hundreds of sites that just copy their content and likely to inspire many more sites (especially international) to write up reviews of your product.

After being posted, if you search for your product name you are likely to see lots of results. (People will pay for this.)
I might have polluted the poll, but I didn't see it being US-only so I voted (less than 50k, "low" cost of living though some things are ridiculously expensive, it's not apples to apples).

My gross pay is more than twice my take-home pay (and my paycheck is monthly, not biweekly), I know Europeans face the same (and on top of that, I pay 22% sales tax on everything and 60% to 100% import tax).
Before jumping in quick judgement you guys should be aware that giving away such information will simply generate a lot of attack vectors by those who want to take down wikileaks.

I'm not even saying I agree or disagree with wikileaks itself, but heck, considering the amount of pressure they get from everywhere, giving away information about how they spend their money would be plain stupid and would take them down in a eyeblink. Just two cents.
Even though I never give references until an offer has been agreed to, I generally will not give my current manager for various reasons -- first it is just way too awkward.
That’s what the HiDPI mode suggests, though. If Apple wants to keep the size of UI elements constant (and I’m guessing they don’t want to make them larger) they have to quadruple the resolution. Anything less and they give the user less space to work with.

This has not much to do with eyesight. UI elements would stay exactly the same size. That’s the point. It would be like the change from the iPhone 3GS to the iPhone 4.
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Great. I take back my comment.
"To be clear, I am an empiricist and believe that the study of systems can only come about through careful experimentation, modeling, and formal mathematics. Mathematics, in my opinion, is the only objective measure by which we can analyse systems and trends."

I think we have to be a little careful about approaching economics as a problem to be solved. Logic, math, and empiricism have their limits (even if they are the best tools we have).

For one thing, empiricism relies on being able to control the variables. But that's hard to do, because others can always refute the results by introducing other variables and factors.

And (as you point out) the possibilities explode so quickly that it's very difficult to reason purely based on logic from base principles. And there are humans involved, which makes it even more difficult (if not impossible).

I'm not criticizing logic and empiricism as tools. But I think they can very easily give a false confidence in the answers you get. You have to realize how small a piece of the problem space your logic actually covers; and how difficult it is to distill real world events into a nice clean, unbiased data set.
I wonder about this. I had an SSD on my macbook pro for about a year, before taking it out and putting in my desktop. The only noticeable difference, in my opinion, was boot time and applications start up a bit faster. Normal daily work (I'm a programmer) was not affected much. I got the biggest improvement from maxing out ram at 8GB.

I wonder though if this was merely an artifact of Snow Leopard not optimizing for SSDs. On my Windows 7 box it's amazing how much faster an SSD is.
"you guys should be aware that giving away such information will simply generate a lot of attack vectors by those who want to take down wikileaks"

Same as governments, then.
I guess HN doesn't have much experience dealing with trolls. Copy-pasta replies, repetitiveness, lack of rational argument and the _need_ to be contra-norm all point that way. Please, let's stop feeding this and letting it take up half the comment space on this.
Looks good, although the previous mentioned point of your revenuestream is a big questionmark, I'd rather pay 1USD/domain or whatever to know it will stick around.

I tried looking at your ns-servers for the screenshot-example(100armstrong.biz) but that seemed fake.
Your own domain are using:

answer: entrydns.net 3600 NS ns3.serveriai.lt
answer: entrydns.net 3600 NS ns4.serveriai.lt
answer: entrydns.net 3600 NS ns1.serveriai.lt
answer: entrydns.net 3600 NS ns2.serveriai.lt

Checking what serveriai.lt is makes me wonder how stable that can be. Not beeing from .lt its hard to know if thats a thrustworthy provider.
I would suggest you put a few examples ns-records for the domains that will be hosted by you, and perhaps an action plan for failures at any of those, or a nameserver upstream.
A good addition might also be to show how geographically distributed your ns-servers are, and perhaps give users a few options so they can make sure theres always a nsserver within the same country or continent as most of the users.

Your upcoming feature-list looks really interesting and something that could be well suited as a paid-for-option.

Good luck!

Edit: got some more ideas after posting
Not many people have a need for several hours of your time which will literally save their life. Just saying, everyone has needs, but the number of people with needs this urgent is very low (tens of thousands in the US, maybe?).

In any case, take a look at the marrow match site that Amit links; it requires people who send in swabs to commit to donating to any patient that matches, not just Amit. This is probably going to help a lot of people besides just him.
Exactly, thank you. I was not talking about the children themselves but about the experience.
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If you're multitasking, Windows 7 is noticeably less sluggish with 4GB compared to 2. If you're only using one app at a time, it doesn't really make a difference.
People that only produce $96 of value a week would probably have been unemployed anyway; because theres no shortage of labour at the bottom end of the market companies would have been able to hire better staff at $96 per hour before the minimum wage, who would be worth retaining at $106 per hour.

The correlation between wages and employee productivity is pretty loose.
^ strawman
Is not yet documented, but yes, our REST api supports all operations on zones and records and is ActiveResource-compatible

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveResource/Base.html
Is this a remote proxy to a local database? API-oriented development may be a flexible model, but how does this yield acceptable performance?
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Currently, you can buy a private filter for any monitor and you can see what is in the monitor only if you are in front of it.
I think they should develop their own devices with the applications to sale them.
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Hello Folks,

I may get the license to stream a TV channel online in real time. I need to build a website to sell subscriptions to this streaming service and I was wondering if you have any streaming platform to recommend me.

I am looking for a video streaming solution ready to go, with hosting and everything. Something like a "build a Hulu on your own" stuff :-)

Any idea?

Thanks a lot!
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My Macbook Pro should be powerful enough to run the Siri software. But Apple doesn't let me use it because they only put it on a particular, expensive, smartphone.

Your comparison isn't valid.
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good point, there is now a few resources listed in the comments section
Wow, I can honestly say that as a father I cannot relate to you at all.

I've got two boys, 4 and 2. As you said the first one is pretty good, but the second one is a terror. If I lose it on him and yell with all my might at his misdeeds he will just sit there and laugh - he thinks it's funny. He can be - and is - exhausting to just be around, let alone parent.

But I love him to death. He's a reflection of certain sides of me. He is WONDERFUL. And yes, if I had to give my life for him I'd do it in a heartbeat.

Kids, at the end of the day, are just a reflection of their parents, both good and bad. Sure they can be unique in their own right, but how they handle stress, their gut reactions, their deepest feelings, their expression of opinion - all very similar to the parent.
You might or might not be correct, but it's quite difficult to get your point across with that kind of a tone. Talking in favor of someone suffering from leukemia doesn't automatically grant you rights to spew personal insults at someone.
> I don't really subscribe to this whole "kids are wonderful" cliché.

Failed parent. Since kids can only be as wonderful as you (parent) mold and let them to be. (at least in the early years)
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The highest step is 42%, but overall you pay much less. On the first 8k you pay nothing for instance, then you pay some 20% on the next 20k or so, and so on. The last step is 42% for everything above 200k or so.
Absolutely, and thank you. Although I don’t think it has anything to do with my point, I personally have extremely mixed feelings about Castro and about the choices Mandela made before his prison years.
> employer would hire someone that only produces $96 worth of value per week for $106 per week?

The argument is a little more complex than that. No business will operate at an outright loss. But the minimum wage can cut into a business's profits. A hotel likely won't go bankrupt and shut down if it payed its workers a higher than market rate. And it still needs to pay for cleaners. But a higher-than-market cleaning rate will skew the market from the optimal. For example, a higher cleaning wage would make robot cleaners comparatively more attractive to a hotel. Investing in a robot might not make sense if wages were at market, but if they are raised too much, then it might be worth it to pay for an expensive robot that can replace a large portion of the cleaning staff.

In general, the minimum wage encourages capital investment. If people are expensive, then you should try to replace them with machines.
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Hi guys,

The Startup Dream will be my next blog/community/project. I ran a 99design contest, and I was wondering if I could enlist your help to pick a logo. I realize none of these are award winning (you get what you pay for), but I hope we can find a decent one.

I will detail my experience with 99designs when the site goes up within the next few weeks.

Thanks,

Antonio.

EDIT: Here is the design brief to learn more about the project: https://99designs.com/logo-design/contests/logo-startup-drea...

EDIT 2: Illuminating and hilarious comments so far. I can always count on this community.
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I quickly setup an account to see how many name servers you are offering. There only appear to be two primary name servers that are within the same netblock. Both IPs appear to be announced by the same ASN from the same location.

So your clients are one medium level denial of service attack away from a complete outage.

Doing your own IP anycast requires some heavy investments but sometimes you can work with providers that have multiple locations to setup anycast in their IP block.

Denial of service attacks are something you just deal with when you offer low cost or free services like these. You are going to have a lot of unsavory types register and start hosting sites from your name servers; and even after you terminate the record your name server still has to deal with responding with NXDOMAIN.
It is not an error, it is just a manifestation of the same point consequential to a different situation. In the US, the subsidized wage-dumping just turns into 100% subsidy with 0 work.

Minimum wage laws in effect outlaw functional poverty. We hear much of shady businesses who hire those who work under-the-table for less than minimum wage, and in the next breath decry high above-the-table unemployment. The work is there, the laborers are there, but alas it is illegal to pay what some jobs are worth.

Another consequence, little noted, is that minimum wage laws in effect create a "mundane labor" based currency. Instead of fixing a dollar to a weight of gold, or floating the currency outright, the value of a dollar is fixed to ~8.3 minutes of menial work. A gallon of gas thus costs about a half-hour of work ... and regardless of what minimum wage is, supply-and-demand realities mean that a gallon of gas[1] will _always_ cost about a half-hour of menial work; raise the minimum wage by fiat, and the price at the pump will rise to match. Sub-minimum-wage living becomes legally unviable precisely because low-end prices rise to match the absence of legal sub-minimum-wage incomes - at which point the government becomes obligated to confiscate and redistribute wealth to rescue those who are drowned by the consequences of minimum-wage laws.

[1] - assuming oil itself is in consistent supply and consistent demand.
They shouldn't. Everyone seems to be ignoring that, so you get my upvote.

We should be aware that wikileaks actions are indeed crimes. That said, some cables put it crystal clear, some politicians are really corrupt and are using their privileged position to their own advantage.

Do the goals justify the means?
It turns out, lots of people have this very same "little thing" to get off their chest. Every discussion of urban cycling goes off on this particular tangent. It's tiresome.

If you talk to people who cycle in cities, you'll find a lot of anger and rage at drivers also. These people may be eccentric, but their opinion seems based on facts as well. So consider the other side.

As a further catalyst, I challenge you, as a driver, to start looking at other drivers (including perhaps yourself) and noting the violations, especially speed limit violations.

For instance, it's a fact that on my way up to work, every driver (including me) is breaking the speed limit (65 in a 60). Almost without exception, every day. On a street near where I live, it's very common to see people driving 40 in a 35 (not including me).

Where's the outrage at these drivers?
Oconnore,

Being afraid of something like this is absolutely rational. Losing something that helps to keep you alive is scary, even when you're told that there's absolutely no risk to your personal health in doing so. But don't let fear hold you back. That sounds super high and mighty, but I understand your fear more than most.

I am terrified of giving blood. Terrified. The thought of having my blood drained out gives me goosebumps. Writing about it is giving me goosebumps. That being said, I donate blood platelets every month or two. The process takes 2 f'n hours, and God forbid I look at the blood leaving my system (because I will pass out). The trick for me is not looking.

Keep in mind that donating anything is a good thing, and they will never take anything that will hurt your body's ability to recover. Try it out. If you can stand it, at least you overcame your fear and tried it. If you can stand it, or think you can, find a trick to make it more manageable.

And last bit, I too have never donated marrow before. If you're willing to try, I will try it as well. Any other first timers are welcome to jump on the bandwagon with me. Thanks for sharing Oconnore.
You could try Ubuntu 10.04LTS, depending on your taste (habits) I think Windows XP will do just fine on your 1GB PC.
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As I understand it, this will also help other people. Since the more people who join the registry or donate to it, the higher the chance that some other patient will find a match. If it takes some people plastering the web, so be it. In fact everyone, not just South Asians, should can use this opportunity to get on the registry.
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Might turn to be false info, or not.
I am under 25 and usually apathetic to the occasional grammatical error, but using literally no capitalization really turned me off and I did not finish reading what he had to say.
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For those of you who have a hard time getting up after long hours, I've learned that though alarms that cause me to panic do successfully wake me up, majority of the time I snooze it and go back to sleep or because it interrupted my REM, I end up having a groggy day. I suggest one of those gradual alarms that build up, really great results in how I feel throughout the day regardless of sleep hours.

Also from personal experience, sleeping more than 9 hours really can have adverse effects to your day short term as well as your body long term.
This is the point of resolution independence. Increasing resolution only shrinks graphical elements if the operating system isn't smart enough to render them using more pixels. With good resolution independence moving a higher resolution screen will make everything look sharper (higher pixel density) but not significantly smaller (same physical size).

Compare the screen on the iPhone 4 to the iPhone 3G. Graphical elements are the same size on both but the iPhone 4 has twice the resolution.
I rarely complain about someones english, but that link is very hard to read.

"Key point of generational GC is what it does need to collect entire heap each time, but just portion of it (e.g. young space)."

"This principle is based on hypnotize that most object “die young”, i.e. majority of objects are becoming garbage shortly after being allocated."
A quick clarification in response to the downvoting. I have no disrespect for Jeff or anyone else's choice to have kids. I have brothers and sisters who went down that road and I'm happy for them.

But Jeff threw around condescending terms like "roughly mapped" and "tentative cartography" to describe the worldview of people who don't have kids. That's where I begged to differ.

All I'm saying is live your life and love it regardless of the path you go down. But please don't talk down to people who choose not to follow you there.