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The point was, it is a bit late to preserve old buildings in Sweden... :-)

Re Boston/LA -- that is not relevant for Sweden either, since the biggest city is quite small (ca a million people), so there is space to be used, if it was handled well. (It isn't, but that is another story.)
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That's more of a reflection of liquidity than of creditworthiness though.
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Denmark, Latvia, and Lithuania are sort of partway in the Euro: they joined ERM II, which guarantees a fixed exchange rate to the Euro. So while they retain separate currencies, those currencies are just alternate units for the Euro, at a fixed conversion, unless they break the peg, and how they rise/fall against other currencies like the dollar or yen is 100% determined by how the Euro moves. Though admittedly it'd be easier to break the peg than to unwind full Euro membership, so the exit strategy is clearer.

I believe Sweden and the UK are the only two non-recent EU members with fully independent, floating currencies.
You should probably also try KDE. I've personally had bad experiences with Kubuntu, but the Fedora KDE spin and OpenSUSE have been very nice.
I think it would be nicer if the folders were grouped together (at the top).
Yes, so here technique really matters. You want a photo that looks professional. So, my article was written with a fine art perspective, but you aren't making fine art, you're making a brochure.

This is where you need to learn about lighting. What you want, to keep it simple, is nice, even light.

Here's some tips that will near guaranteed get you a decent photo, even if you leave your camera in full auto:

1. Get a tripod

2. DO NOT use a flash

3. Learn what 3 point lighting is

4. Light your food mostly evenly, don't have a dramatic difference between key and fill (maybe 1/2 stop - 1 stop at most). Soften the light as much as possible. If you need lights, cheaply, you can probably get away with home depot work lights bounced off walls. Be sure to adjust your camera's color balance.

5. Look at other food photos, copy other people's layouts as closely as possible, don't get creative

6. Learn how to use curves in photoshop, and try to get one point in the photo pure black, another pure white. At the very least use auto-adjust. DO NOT OVERDO IT with curves.

7. Focus

All of those rules can be broken once you know what you're doing, but you don't know anything yet. These instructions will hopefully get you a fairly generic looking commercial food photo. If you practice, you can get 90% of what you need with this. These photos won't be amazing, but they'll be OK. That's a basic starting point for taking these photos.

What that doesn't cover is all the weird ways they cook food for food photos, a lot of the time what they photograph isn't edible, and has been cooked specially to look good on camera.
And why is there no such terror group (and how do you know)? How much did it cost to create that killer virus in a lab - did it cost trillions, so that only rich governments could afford to do so?

I don't understand why terrorists shouldn't be capable of doing such a thing.

Maybe the rationale is that they wouldn't be able to set up sterile lab environments, because we all know that terrorists live in dirty third world countries without hygiene?
Well, in my opinion it is rambling. You say there is one big problem, but then your 'problem' isn't clearly a problem.

You list all the reasons you fork code, and I'm not sure why you did that. If it's to support your assertion that "all forks being equal" is a problem, that is even more rambling, because you give 4 examples of things which are of no importance to anyone but you. And this is already partly below the fold! So, if by rambling I mean "Lengthy and confused or inconsequential", I'm justified.

To correct this, you must establish immediately after you claim that 'all forks being equal' is a problem that there exists at least 2 classes of forks that should not be treated equally. You should give an actual example, so that it is clear that this is not just a hypothetical problem that doesn't happen in practice.
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Forks are almost to easy to create. Forks get created
constantly and go no where.

...

I would love if GitHub supported a model where if I
forked a repo at a version and made no changes, it
treated it like a private repo. It shouldn’t be visible
to anyone except me (unless someone hits the url
directly) until I push my first commit that is different
than the upstream. At that point it should flip to
public. This would clean up some of the fork soup we see
on pages.

My misgivings with the "root repo" aspect of this post aside, this suggestion is great; I'd really love to see this picked up by the GitHub guys.

(As mentioned in one of the post's comments, some popular projects have a lot of empty forks, which makes viewing one of their Network screens an absolute nightmare to browse when looking for active forks.)
The troubles that we are seeing now ARE caused by the Euro.

It tried to combine strong exporting nations like Germany with weaker tourist nations like Greece. Were the Deutschemark a separate currency, it would be stronger than the current Euro (and likewise, the drachma would be weaker than the Euro). Germany benefited greatly from this (net exporters benefit from a weaker currency -- see China) and Greece and other nations were hurt.

If you want to see a pure example, check out what happened with Nintendo. Thanks to the relative strengthening of the yen, they posted a loss: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15473961

Overspending is intrinsically not problematic if the currencies are separate. The governments of overspending nations would just print more money, devaluing their currencies in the process.
The toy example is a microcosm of the important issue. The important issue is the use of monads in functional programming.

How is a discussion not productive just because it's not framed in the most formal language possible?
Not that I have a solution to this problem, but who does the filtering once you remove the job offer as a prerequisite? I can't conceive of a situation where the people that get put in charge of that process are actually qualified.
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Why should I consider it desirable that the white house listen to those who like to talk the most, rather than assuming that my views are represented by my representatives elected in an organized process?

Overly participatory democracy leads to government of the busy bodies, the people with too much time on their hands and too enthusiastic about government power to solve problems.

For every worthwhile public uproar like SOPA, there hundreds of little groups out there trying to get the government to listen to incredibly stupid demands.
I don't see what lead you to believe this:

> looked like someone who really wanted an Accord (a very nice car, I had one for 10+ years), got too big for their britches, didn't understand his-or-her situation,

Are accord owners supposed to liter their cars with garbage? Or is it that Ferrari owners aren't supposed to ride with babies? Or what? I'm completely confused as to your reasoning.

Also, as the owner of a fairly pricey car I've always said that these cars are built to drive, and are a thrill to do so in. If simply lock it away in a garage, and avoid using it in your real life--then what's the point?
Exactly. Branches do this already (they hide if they can be fast-forwarded). If you can fast-forward merge a fork into the local one, it should be hidden when I viewing the network page, just like local branches.

The network graph they render already does this to some extent.
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I don't know if this article says a whole lot other than the reference to Pinterest being popular among lots of people deeply interested in art, fashion, cooking, and homemaking instead of just people interested in tech news (using the phrase "housewife in the Midwest", which doesn't seem very accurate anyway; from what I can tell by roaming around Pinterest over the past few months, probably most of the women using it work outside their homes and/or have no children [even though they may plan to eventually]).

Pinterest has a really good simple "what does this do" explanation - you collect and share pretty pictures! Everyone who likes the idea of making their homes more beautiful and their outfits nicer is liable to find that idea appealing. And it's "selfishly social", which is important for retaining users; it's useful to use just by yourself, and then even better with other people.

Another important part of Pinterest is that it's both very flattering to each user and intensely aspirational - when you use it, you get the feeling of "Look at what great taste I have! I want to make cakes as lovely as these, I want to live in a house as wonderful as this one, I want to have a wedding this beautiful; maybe someday I will, thanks to these ideas cataloged on my Pinterest boards." (But I actually get frustrated with the aspirational prettiness of most Pinterest pins; I like messy homemade things, strange things, things from normal people along with things from professionals. I wish more people pinned photos of their own work, imperfect and homemade and genuine, not just of other people's work. That would add something even more fun to browsing other people's pins.)
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Even in urban traffic, a porsche is a far more exciting ride than a run-of-the-mill car.
Do these conjectures point to a qualitative difference in the human species, as compared to other animals? i.e. syntax-based vs. pattern-based processing

Can we equate it as the ability to conceptualize a Turing machine? This would be the same as the ability to follow arbitrarily complex instructions, given enough time and memory.
Considering Greece has been in default for about half of its modern existence (since the early-mid 19th century) and still has been able to lend - I think the danger of not being able to lend is nil.

Also note that most of the contracts is not between states but between citizens, banks and other companies.

As for wars - forcing sovereign nations to pay debts in currencies they cannot pay is also a way to get wars. The post WWI war reparations and how they paved the way for Hitler[] is a good example of this.

[] Godwin, but I do think the example is relevant.
Look at the Network activity. It shows you the level and dates of commits of all the forked repositories.
Yes, but that overspending was enabled by the Euro. When the peripheral countries (Italy, Spain, Greece, etc) entered the Euro, their cost of borrowing fell dramatically and people/governments responded to those incentives and borrowed, creating a false boom.

One of the key planks of economics is that people respond to incentives, so is it really suprising that when incentivized to borrow (whether it's southern european governments, or low income earners with sub prime mortgages), people borrow?
What a needlessly posturing rant. Who cares if some nerds buy expensive cameras and take pictures of babies and flowers? How is this different from guitars, or pastel sets, or any other art form where gear is required? As long as they're getting something out of it, mind your own damn business. It's not like every techie with the scratch to buy a DSLR is talentless.

As in all creative endeavors, it's a lot easier to talk shit than to bring it.
One thing is work visas; another is college visas.

I remember being told (as a European) in the equivalent of high school(?) that if I wanted to go to an American college, I would have to start preparations a year and a half in advance - mainly due to the time spent on processing visas.

I would have loved nothing better than to go to an American college, but, at least at the time, that made it neigh-impossible to apply for an American college, when studying at a national university or, hell, another university in Europe or Britain seemed so much easier.

I don't know what other people's experiences are, and it may be a cultural thing; maybe the process is otherwise facilitated in, say, India and China.

EDIT: FWIW, this was after 9/11. Just to account for whatever that may have changed.
The problem is that most Americans are the descendents of the people that arrived, displaced the native population, took their land and exploited it's natural resources.

So naturally they are wary of people coming along and doing the same to them.

This doesn't really apply to Canada.
The article says he christian. Now there's a stunner.
I often fork repos to remind myself that I want to contribute to it, but then don't find the time to get started on it. I can imagine there being more people doing that.
Here are a few questions I wish yosefk.com would address:

1. Why do small companies exist? This is vice versa to his question, "Why do large firms exist?" -- if large companies have the advantage in eliminating transaction costs, small companies should be eliminated in favor of medium and large companies. (I'm taking into account Coase's "decreasing returns to the entrepreneur function.")

2. Is it possible small companies are more efficient at solving some problems -- and large companies others? For example, a large company should be better at, oh, say, contracting with the Department of Transportation for major freeway construction projects. I guess what I'm saying is: there may be an "endgame" where small companies dominate large companies (or the other way around) -- but in the here and now there's plenty of room for both. Evidenced by the fact that both types are still around, with no apparent trend eliminating either.

3. Are there any good reasons stated in the article or the Coase theorem that _don't_ involve intellectual property, for big companies to exist? (I can think of a few, but I want to hear what others have to say.) Intellectual property is so polarizing, and I'd prefer to think about Coase Theorem in different terms than it's phrased by yosefk.com.

I actually think the Coase Theorem does have the ability to predict economic outcomes, but remember that econ isn't usually about perfect predictions anyway. Econ is usually about identifying a better way to eliminate inefficiencies -- a knob to tweak, or a strategy, etc.
'our' jobs?

Suppose you are in california and Caltech hires a new Yorker as a postdoc instead of you - is that any better/worse than them hiring a Canadian/Brit or German?

Suppose they hired an American who had done their graduate work at oxford - is that better than hiring a Brit who had done their phd at Caltech?
The general public will be limited to typing homework problems into wolfram alpha...
I find this rant completely unconvincing. My experience compels a very different interpretation. Learning from the pros helps, but in the past 10 years the gap between amateurs and pros has shrunk so dramatically, and quality camera gear has become so much more affordable, that thousands of people worldwide have hacked their way to surpass the skill of most pros. And yes, having a 64-point tracking focus and metering system and a 16MP 3200 ISO low-noise sensor behind a stabilized f/2.8 telephoto lens really does make up for a big gap in skill - so much so that hacking the rest of the way is quite a bit more conceivable than before.
Why do people keep using these rinky-dink trashy eye-bleed, GoDaddy-esque websites to register and host their businesses? I'll never understand.

edit: I recommend Gandi.net. They support (most of) the more obscure TLDs and their tag line is "no bullshit".
So if there are sufficient amendments to the EU treaties, Sweden is bound to join?
Why doesn't the US move to a points-based system like the UK and Canada? This seems like a simple and sensible solution to a complex problem that ensures that the people who immigrate are in some sense "useful" to the country.

I also don't understand why the green card backlog isn't being handled efficiently. Surely, if somebody is paying, say more than 20k in income taxes every year for, say 5 years in a row, there is reason to believe their contribution to the country is a net positive. Why not just give them citizenship and be done with it?

As an outsider, I feel like the US is the opposite of an "agile" government. It seems like there is a lot bickering and fear-mongering at every level and important decisions are being made based on populism and emotional appeals rather than rational decision making. I'm not sure if this is really the case because my news sources are the likes of Reddit and the so-called "liberal media", but unfortunately this is perception I get.
In every other country there is a central government who have a department of immigration who accept applications from outsiders and judge them on their experience, qualifications, education etc.

You should try having a functional and effective national government - just a thought?
For every worthwhile public uproar like SOPA, there hundreds of little groups out there trying to get the government to listen to incredibly stupid demands.

From the RIAA and MPAA's points of view, it is a very necessary bill, and every little group thinks their bill is very urgent. So, there are thousand of opposition groups who think the proposer's bill as being very bad or unnecessary.

Then you got politicians elected by the constituent to do what they wanted to do, and damn everyone else. It's the reason why congress sucks, but our representative rocks.

We hate all politicians but I voted for that politician because he brought us jobs.

Isn't that the reason why our government continue to do nothing and everything in the worst possible way?

Indeed, it seems strange that the legislative branch make laws that take away our freedom and judges, despite being appointed by congress, protect our freedom.
This is really awesome, but I think it would be even better if a program could be written such to flag sentences without a third party judge. Using the stylistic tendencies of lying, for example, in rhetoric. This might not be possible or plausible, but if it could be written, I think it would be at least equal to this technology.
"not many jobs"? in a town of 3400 people, the new datacenter is expected to create 50 direct jobs and 150 contracting/maintenance positions. if we say the workforce comprises half the population, that means 10% of the jobs in town will be datacenter related. that sounds pretty good to me.

apple isn't going to magically turn your town from podunk, nowhere into some big metropolis.
I've just written an article (waiting for publication) lamenting the same thing from almost the exact opposite angle: Lots of jobs, no money.

Here in Scotland, the government has just given £10.6m in 'support' to Amazon to encourage them to open a distribution centre (actually they already had two, but anyway...) The Scottish government is trumpeting this as a recognition of Scotland's "highly skilled workforce". Actually it's 750 jobs (gov't estimate) mostly on 1% above the legal minimum wage, with no real prospects.

And to cap it all, Amazon don't even pay tax in the UK. All their sales go through a Luxembourg company. So it seems ridiculous that the taxpayer is subsidising the operations of a highly profitable, tax-avoiding company. Effectively we're buying jobs.

Meanwhile, Borders is bankrupt (loss of 1,200 jobs), and other booksellers (Waterstones paid £2m in corporation tax last year) are struggling.

Relating it back to this post - highly skilled work requires less people. Low skilled work requires less people AND pays less money. But it's progress, and I fear it's simply an economic reality. I don't know what the solution is.

Note: I don't want to litter this post with climbdowns, moderations etc. I'm not disparaging Amazon jobs, and 750 people working instead of unemployed is good. But we can't win in a race to the lowest paid unskilled labour. And Amazon's labour can't even be offshored anyway, so who are we bidding against?
Right but what if this compiler could JIT elisp to the Guile VM? It would use Guile but still be elisp compatible. Am I wrong?
Technique may be hackable, but you'd be mistaken to think that's all there is to aesthetic works.
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I can't save money, really I can't.

Time I can probably manage a little of, but then I use HN for relaxation when I'm tired so it's not really productive time that I'm using up. The project is nothing without capital and a workshop; just dead.

Sure there's other things to do but then I'm giving up on the project and that would be falling to the point you attacked that to do X [this project] I need Y and Z.
Spotify is opt-in while Grooveshark is opt-out.

Both Spotify and Grooveshark pay royalties to labels that they have a license agreement with. But if you don't want your stuff on a streaming service, users will upload it to Grooveshark anyway.

This is also the reason why there is so much cool stuff on Grooveshark that is not on Spotify. Forgotten albums, bootlegs, remixes and mainstream music from certain bands. Grooveshark will also never show you a "this song is not available in your region" message.
I used it because it was by far the cheapest domain reg that had built in Trustee services. I pay them $8 or so and then I can register a domain anywhere in the world. In my case, .it is limited to Italian residents.
I didn't consider it rambling. Honestly, I feel it's a matter of taste rather than a flaw and I happen to disagree with you. I can't tell you you're right but I also can't say you're wrong. I think Bitabucket and GitHub just have different perspectives on it. GitHub and I seem to agree on the forking issue but that's a coincidence.

You did try to talk it out and give some concrete examples. I've seen big whine-athons before and your post does not qualify as that as far as I'm concerned.

I think there's the possibility that project owners may start to delete forks and create entirely new repos when the bit rot issue starts to affect the repo they originally forked from. This has it's own set of problems and I might be a little too optimistic but I happen to think there's a chance we'll take matters into our own hands on that issue. Also, I would venture to guess that abandoned projects probably weren't so great to begin with and maybe the bitrot issue won't affect them as much? Like node.js isn't likely to go away and if it or a popular project like it is abandoned the authors would probably announce it and add it to the readme and so everyone will know to start looking at forks over the original.

Anyway, the HN community obviously thought this was important or good enough to be on the front page so you must have done something right. I'm sure if you were really rambling you'd just be lost in the "new" section. I don't always agree with what gets on the front page and I didn't agree with this being there at first either but now I'm starting to come around.
Oh noes; Matt Cuts is going to think BHW is just spammers - siiigh
When you respond to a sentence using the words "generally", "tend to", or "usually" with one using the words "not all" or relatives, you are effectively conceding the point. Correlation cannot be denied with a mere counterexample.
There's obviously nothing wrong with taking pictures of a lemon, but to criticize Norvig for writing a great tutorial on available light photography, illustrated with great portraits of a superb subject, then to have almost nothing of comparable worth, seems like putting yourself on very shaky ground.

I'll make no claims on my own account, but if you're going to put yourself out there, you should expect to be called.

Obviously, I've been hammered by collective opinion, so the YC crowd obviously digs your Starbucks container in the park or whatever. Good luck to you!