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I think as Hilaire Belloc pointed out (in "The Servile State"), the Industrial Revolution (and Capitalism) happened because private landlords were kicking peasants off their land, and thus creating a class of people who couldn't afford goods and were desperate for the work that the factories could offer.

I love handcrafted goods. I purchase them when I can. I know smiths who make things by hand.

The problem with factories in China is that if China loans our economy money and then becomes the low-cost supplier, all we end up doing is eventually destroying both economies.

I will never be a Marxist. It seems to me that trying to solve the issues which come from corporations being too powerful by concentrating that power still further in the state is a bad idea. The only way it can work is if workers individually are in control of the means of production, not through the national government. A few quasi-Marxists got this point (Wilhelm Reich, for example), but usually it's the domain of third way folks like Belloc who favor free markets and small businesses.

I'd point out also that if we weren't so productive, maybe the government wouldn't eat up 30% of our GDP.....
If it's not supposed to "be IRC" perhaps they shouldn't include the word IRC 12 times in the article, their website shouldn't have an "IRC Help" page and instructions to "set up your IRC client" and your "IRC settings", the front page shouldn't say "Hosted IRC" in huge bold letters and a "Sign up for your IRC server" link at the bottom. Might make people think it was IRC. But that's just my opinion.
The real solution is to either disintermediate the banks or eat away at their profits. LendingClub, Covestor, SecondMarket, Simple, Square, WePay, and Mint come to mind.
Apple sees rise in iPhone 4S audio bug reports
Your post got me thinking: what other things can one learn that give ridiculously good return on time invested? Not just technologies, but anything. Here's an incomplete list:

* Graph flow: a lot of interesting problems can be solved efficiently by converting them to graph flow problems.

* Basic microeconomics: the world looks different once you understand it, and it's not that hard to learn. A cheap enlightenment boost!

* Monoid-cached trees. Guy Steele explains better than I could. Video and slides:

http://vimeo.com/6624203

http://labs.oracle.com/projects/plrg/Publications/ICFPAugust...

Any others? I'm sure I haven't done more than scratch the surface.
Yyyyes...? What is your point?

Edit: To clarify (since someone downvoted me), you are making a true statement, but I don't see how it is in conflict with anything I'm saying, or what other point it supports.
I once had a paranoid schizophrenic friend that suggested such things were happening to him. I think it's a bad move when what were previously paranoid delusions start manifesting themselves as accepted realities.
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This post would make a lot stronger case if it didn't use an eye-bleeding, small gray font.
I'll take you on that bet for $100. (And a timeline of 5 years.)
Yes yes. The existence of that silliness is kind of my point. There's nothing "wrong" with Linux audio from a technical/feature standpoint. But the aesthetics are a frothing mess. It's not a clean design.

The /dev/audio device on SunOS 4.1 was a clean design (albeit one that solved a much simpler problem). That sanity wasn't preserved in the march to modernity, and it sucks.
CloudFlare now includes SSL with every paid plan
Is avoiding regulation as simple as changing what you call yourself?
A really good read, with good justification for his opinions. I wonder what he thinks about the new auto keyword in C++?
It depends on how you define Capitalist.

If you mean free market, yes.

If you mean a system aimed at dividing those who own and run businesses from those who are merely employees, then no.

In other words, it fits some definitions of Capitalist, but it does not include the Capital/Labor divide which is usually a hallmark of Capitalism.
You're correct - it's a totally new and custom IRC server (for good and bad). We built it as a minimum viable product are continually adding features - both standard IRC features and custom features for our customers.

Thanks for reporting these specific issues. We'll work on getting them fixed.
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This is not an HN specific problem, it's endemic to all political discussion today.

Everything has become so polarized it's almost impossible to have a discussion that crosses any sort of substantive divide.

Even the slightest hint of apostasy indicates the speaker to be an obviously evil individual who completely and utterly opposes every rational or moral concept and indeed fact that all our right-thinking intellectual cohorts believe.

Want to do something about giant banks fucking up our country? Sorry, you're a socialist loser who still lives in your mother's basement, your point is invalid, discussion over.

Concerned that the process of science is becoming corrupted in climatology due to group-think? Sorry, you're a global warming denialist (which is as bad as if not probably worse than a holocaust denier, sorry to say), your point is invalid, discussion over.

Etc.

Yeah, it's more than a little disheartening.
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"You don't get to pick the language other people speak. "

And yet that's exactly what you've done, when you've decided the meaning of another person's speech.

You say that "it has a meaning and a connotation", but both the connotation and meaning depend on context and speaker (and also, as you've noted, on listener). It's simplistic to think that the only meaning of words is your interpretation. In a presentation, speaker and audience may interpret what the speaker said in different ways.

And your notion that "all of us English-speakers have agreed upon is laughable" - I would challenge you to visit a culture outside your own. Hell, just watch The Wire to see how wrong this idea is.

I'm not sure whether you noticed that "I'll interpret the words the way I want to" directly contradicts "You don't get to pick the language other people speak".

I wouldn't say that profanity shouldn't exist, merely that "fuck" in its modern usage is not profane. If you disagree, I'd challenge you to find a profane translation of "get your fucking attitude out of my language". It conveys aggression, but it's hardly profane.
Yeah I think this gets at a core problem of some curse words - the problem with words like "fuck" is that in the mind of the speaker, when agitated or lazy or both, the word often seems like a useful substitute almost anyplace in a sentence, and the word-search algorithm ends happily at that node very easily out of habit. To the listener, it's just noise and usually makes the speaker seem like an idiot.
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"""these concept videos don't look far enough forward."""

If you look at any 'visions of the future' from the last 150 years, their visions retrospectively look silly and naive. From a forward looking perspective, though, would a true vision of the future make sense to a person seeing it? Maybe a clunky 'TV + rotary telephone' 60's vision of videophones would be more understandable/realistic/visionary than the sight of an iphone with a forward facing camera...?

Incremental steps...there's no point in looking too far forward or you wont get anywhere.
I thought that this sounded neat until I read the part about bridging "SOA, REST, Pub/Sub and other middleware architectures". And realize that IBM is doing nothing more than creating a new buzzword and marketing it with a bunch of (probably out-of-touch) prognostications that the web is going to need ten years in the future.

I hope this turns out well, but I don't plan on holding my breath.
I read each post by Gruber (and he writes a lot), but I can't help but feel like the guy is stuck in some world where Apple is still fighting "the man" and trying to free us, and yet in reality Apple has become the man. I don't mean to speak negatively against Gruber because he is a great blogger, but the reality distortion field hits that man hard.

To discuss this particular story, the idea that Android just steals from the best competitor - that's probably true. I don't see why that is a negative though. Imagine if only Xerox had mice, or only Opera had tabs. Companies should be stealing the best ideas from their competitors, and then coming up with new ideas to one-up them. Apple isn't afraid of this, they stole plenty of ideas in iOS5, and they executed them well. Notifications from Android, lock screen from the jailbreak community (specifically LockInfo), and iMessage from Blackberry. I don't think there's anything wrong with this idea-copying, it makes the product better and that's good for consumers.
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Another set of excellent free OS lecture notes here: http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Classes/537/Fall2011/

The lectures themselves are not xv6 specific, although the projects are xv6 based.
This raises the very interesting question, in my mind:

What is to be the proper center of the economy, the individual human or social equivalent (say, household unit)? Or the machine or social equivalent (corporation, institution, government)?

Personally, I'd rather live in a place where humans and social equivalents were the center rather than where we were at best pieces of a social machine. So maybe there is something to the social superiority of supporting small businesses as much as we humanly can.
Swearing should be a strength of your vocabulary and not a weakness. Occasionally it can be used to great effect, but hopefully is not relied on in general conversation.
The frequentist way you're doing probability in that comment is not valid since the success or failure of one particular startup is not a repeatable experiment. The only valid interpretations are (1) the frequentist probability across a group of startups and (2) the degree of belief, or bayesian probability of a single startup's success. In this framework it is entirely reasonable to assign a 10% probability of success to one particular startup. I agree that if you knew beforehand that you're in the small group of people whose success rate exceeds your standard for reliability, then for that person a startup would be a reliable way to get rich. The problem is, of course: how do you know which group you're in?
Or the US could simply re-regulate financial institutions the way it did during the period from the 1930s through the 1990s.
i'm not into deal sites, but here's some general feedback:

* page seems cluttered with a ton of boxes, maybe you could tweak the signup box to not waste as much space

* "Discuss this deal" box is really just a link it seems, i'd put it in the main section somewhere near the Buy button OR expand the box with recent comments about this deal

* i'd move up the "Your Savings" blurb higher up the page... the $/% savings are more important to me (as a user) than ability to share the deal or how much time is remaining

* header needs more work: combo box sometimes defaults to "No Selection" and the nav links don't stand out enough. took me a while before i wanted to read the text.. furthermore the font there doesn't match the rest of the page
Technically, they could be using pre-compression schemes / filters which modify the source to be more compressible by standard encoders. However, if that was the case, both files should appear to be encoded with the same settings to be a fair comparison.
It'd also be fairly hard to convey haptic interaction.

More fundamentally, it seems to me like there's no point in showing us something, even if it's achievable, if we have no frame of reference for understanding it, or believing that it's possible. 'Visions' aren't really visions if we can't imagine it happening. Seeing Avatar didn't make me go "wow...one day", seeing this video does.
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Israel might be a good place to trial this.
It's fairly small so fewer 100mi trips, most commutes are relatively short.

They have more strategic reasons than most countries to minimize their dependence on oil.

You generally don't need lots of waste heat from the engine for 6months of the year.
Are license plates and city stickers a violation of personal property rights?
The info page says that xv6 was released in Fall 2006. What's new?
I would like to see an Inside YC companies video show. Something similar to ThisWeekIn, but the interviewer actually goes and meet the companies. An inside look.
I hate to burst your bubble, but "custom magic algorithms" actually exist. I was involved with a contract that accomplished the same end as mentioned in the article - compressed video data, playable within standard video players. The company wasn't achieving the same level of compression that this article is claiming, but they did manage to reduce video size while maintaining quality.
After reading books like "The Servile State" by Hilaire Belloc and "Birth as an American Rite of Passage" by Robbie Davis-Floyd, I think there should always be praise for this sort of thing.

Our culture has become extremely centered on mechanics, whether social mechanics and processes of businesses or automation of manufacturing, and to make humans again the center of society will take a lot of effort, but I believe it is a worthy task.
For reasons I don't understand entirely, Japanese pull saws never experienced the massive decline in quality all Stanley products (and those of their competitors) experienced after WWII. As a result even inexpensive pull saws tend to be at least mediocre and sometimes quite good. The best are (as far as I can tell) still reckoned to be the hand made variety, which coexist peacefully with their modern, stamped, cousins. For this reason they nearly displaced the western saw in North America.

The definitive history of the decline and rise in tool manufacturing has yet to be written, but I certainly think the widespread adoption of modern stick framing practices in conjunction with portable power tools has led directly to a sharp decline in the skill of a modern carpenter. The looks I get when I sharpen a chisel acceptably are really surprising to me, and my grandfather worked as a finish carpenter after WWII and considered these skills important. For some reason hand skills in professional carpenters never seems to have experienced this sharp decline in Japan.
pg answered a question similar to this a couple weeks ago during Startup School. In general, his answer was that there have been some applicants that have slipped through over the years. He went on to say that since there's now a number of similar organizations like YC, a lot of the good ones that YC passes on end up getting picked up by other funds. YC is able to use that as a metric to measure their own processes and modify them over time.
Scope and variable in Python. Yes you need it.
Taleb is an excellent writer and not (as someone here has stated) someone completely delusional. He, in fact, worked in the financial industry for many years and I thoroughly enjoyed reading his book "The Black Swan"[1] about how we've basically all been duped by large banks that expose us to risk and keep the profits for themselves.

[1]http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/imbeciles.htm
Others have explained why this is not equivalent to low-tech tailing, so I won't repeat them.

Instead, what precisely do you find so onerous about requiring a warrant for GPS surveillance? And would you support private citizens using these devices to the same extent?

Anyway, I don't think anyone's reasonably arguing for banning this technology. Requiring a warrant is still going to allow law enforcement to to do a better job with fewer resources; I truly don't see why it would be such a big hassle.
Redis is just a good piece of software. I don't see any reason why a web programmer couldn't benefit from spending time to learn it.

I simply don't think a remotely complex web application can do without it these days.
In order to understand why bankers get such massive bonuses it would probably be good to read this first:

Michael Lewis - Liar's Poker

http://www.amazon.com/Liars-Poker-Michael-Lewis/dp/039333869...
College graduates, school type?
Personally, I'm more offended by unnecessary (and arguably wrong) use of the reflexive pronoun than I am of the word fuck.
Sure, but it could be a sign of poor taste.

Not for the supposed vulgarity, but for the lack of use of more interesting words.

It's like the rampant over-use of the word "awesome". Fine word, nothing wrong with using it, but using it as the adjective for everything indicates a lack of critical thinking skills.
Here's a shameless plug for a friend of mine. Of course he is more interested in art than functionality, but I am commissioning at least one piece from him:

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"Social superiors"? Man. There's just so much wrong with that...
Something is not right... Hacker News and Epic Fail ? I think people are confusing HN and Reddit...
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> Whether you like to admit it or not, swearing is and will be taken as a sign of disrespect or superiority.

This is a simplistic analysis. Swearing is a device of language that can be used well or misused. Most of the time we can do better, yes, but swearing does have a place that is neither disrespectful or superior [1]. What would John McClane, one of the greatest movie characters of all time [2], be without that classic line?

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ7z5CUsrbk

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McClane#Reception
No /me implemented. :(
I feel like I have just undergone a major epiphany. And just after the epiphany, I realized that pretty much the exact same content is hiding as one of those relatively insignificant background world-building details baked into Neal Stephenson's _Anathem_.

And in the non-fiction realm, Wii-mote and Kinect devices. We've totally got the beginnings of tactile, full-body interface technology that's just as reconfigurable and programmable as pictures under glass.
This is certainly true. Fuck is not a bad word, and is a word I use with abandon. But it can't be the go-to largely because of its versatility. Overuse makes it less flavorful.

(I have had the privilege of working with some artists whose medium was profanity, and have been accused of it on occasion.)
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Budweiser and Millers are canned swill. Microbrews are not :-)
Let your services bot announce the user and url, perhaps?
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I'd like one too... Please :) ?? My twitter username is @jgnatch
Actually, mass-produced chef's knives seem to be underrated; the stamped knife you can buy from Victorinox is, if you aren't way more fussy than the typical cook, likely to outperform a handcrafted aggressively-sharpened 440 high-carbon blade. Finer materials and carefully sharpened edges require a higher amount of care.

There's a legitimate joy to take in using competently hand-crafted chef's knife, particularly if you can have it made to a specification.

But a lot of the "best" knives sold really are status symbols (like the "best" of everything sold). Real pro kitchens don't always reach for the "best" stuff, since pro kitchens abuse their kit. Bourdain's sous talked about treating his Global knives as disposable.
A partially deregulated market is not a free market. Also, if you read anything about the SEC you'll know that they don't enforce the current regulation so any point about extra regulations helping anything is largely moot.

Also, regarding the 'regulated market' look at the massive frauds that took place at Fannie and Freddy which are essentially arms of the gov't. Look at how the Social Security System is administered if any corporate pension plan was run the same way they'd be thrown in jail (if the SEC cared to enforce the law).

Look at the pressure on those institutions to create subprime loans under the federal housing laws. Look at the Fed Reserve chief talking about how great ARM loans were. Regulators, market participants, law makers all conspired to create a toxic environment that was not stable in the long term.

Yes, a lot of damage could be avoided if the gov't, regulators and market participants weren't going around telling everyone that they had guaranteed investments.

To think that after passage of GLB we had a free market is incredibly naive.
Try 30 years ago.
It would make more sense (to me) that they focused on fixing some of the many bugs filed in the bug tracker. Just saying, but then Chrome is my browser of choice anyway...
NickServ and "IRC services" in general are shoehorned extensions to IRC. Most clients support them in some automated fashion now, but there's no guarantee, and usage differs depending on "IRC services" package.

At any rate, my original comment came off a bit the wrong way. I'm not trying to say that IRC isn't a workable solution for this kind of group chat system, as it clearly is. I just don't see why using IRC over Jabber (which seems more technically suited to this domain) is a selling point, especially in a marketplace crowded with group chat solutions.
As an ex-pat, my impression is streaky bacon == American bacon, but America has no analogous product to English back bacon.

It drives me nuts. I haven't had a decent bacon sandwich in years :(
Why single out Microsoft? Isn't everyone working on these problems now?
In addition to what tptacek said, I would say that since the data was collected without a warrant, you could defend against it. My understanding is that the tracking data is used to get a warrant to get real evidence which then becomes the basis of the case. The tracking data is not itself the entire basis for the case.
You miss the point. It's possible to make huge returns on risky investments and get paid huge bonuses for several years until the investment fails. The the worst that happens is that you don't collect your bonus that year.
That was great-Thanks for the share. If you're not trying to make institutional change, you're doing it wrong. He nailed it.
I was the first investor in Simple. I can't speak for all the investors, but for me this was an investment in making the world a better place.

When Josh proposed the idea to me I asked a few people about their experiences with their banks. One of my friends told me how she had accidentally double-booked an airline ticket. This overdrew her account and--since she uses her debit card for everything--she started incurring overdraft fees on everything she purchased. She ran up several hundred dollars of overdraft fees before she even realized she was overdrafted. When she called Bank of America to explain, she was given the runaround. They eventually refunded half the fees (their standard offer) but refused to refund the rest without her jumping through hoops.

My friend is a single mom with two kids and a full-time job. She did not have time to constantly monitor her bank, nor the time to jump through the bank's hoops. Paying the fees caused her significant hardship.

The big banks in this country make their living by preying on those least able to protect themselves. They are evil. Again, I can't speak for the other investors, but I am not interested in selling out to a big bank. Success for me is either beating the other banks or forcing them to compete on Simple's terms: by treating their customers like people.
Which ATMs charge $300 in fees per transaction?
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I think this might have an off-by-one error in the case you've corrected.
I'm not sure I remember how to write this in C, the correction might be:
--dst = --src;
OR
(--dst) = (--src);

edit: I have the dereferences in there, but I don't know how to correctly format it so they show up.
How do you format the comment to have code show up?