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Sure:

1. Explain the economic powerhouses of Germany and Japan in the context of your 'wasn't bombed so more prosperous' theory.

2. Explain the White European Christian dominance of the US in the 'no culture' theory of the US.

3. Explain why if everyone coming to America is an entrepreneur and entrepreneurship is hereditary why there's so many poor people in the US compared to rich people. Did they breed it out of themselves or something?

4. Explain why Britain became the most prosperous and richest empire in the world even though apparently from founding to the early 1900s the U.S. was far and away ahead of the world in recognizing and rewarding entrepreneurship, which is exactly the period that Britain, not the US, rose to be the dominant economic power in the world. Hint, you've got your history wrong.

Remember you accused the original commentator that he 'couldn't be more wrong' without a single shred of evidence just generalisations of an idealized 'American Dream'. It's nationalism dude, sorry.
People may be using it wrong. My browser cache clears every exit (likely for most people at HN). I had a new session going so it didn't detect where i went because there was no history. When i went on facebook and tried it again, facebook showed up. So the attack does work in some cases.

The one good thing that could come out of this is that websites with the gianto bar of "follow me/like me" icons could be different sized based on if you detect that the user has went to certain social media site.
Thanks! I'm getting it from the library. It reminds me of The Atlantic's "What Makes a Great Teacher" (http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/01/what-mak...). Actual teachers seem to be ceaselessly re-learning what others already know.
Kindle is dangerously close to having too many models. Customers are becoming confused. I was at a Best Buy and I overheard a couple looking at a Kindle. This Best Buy seemed to only have the Special Offers models. The couple was asking for the ad-free version, and the employee wasn't giving them a sure answer. He thought that after you buy the Special Offers version it would ask you if you wanted to remove them for the addition $30. I'm a super nerd and even I don't know if that is true (I suspect not).

There are a couple of problems here: Amazon is allowing retailers to carry part of the line. Radio Shack has even fewer choices (mine didn't have the Touch at all). But worse, they have too many choices, and the retailers aren't able to (or are failing at) educate their employees on the devices. That couple I saw is going to be pissed if they take the device home and aren't able to remove the ads.

On the flip side, it encourages people to just buy from Amazon.com where you know what you're getting.
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I will be in Palo Alto next week for a job interview and will have an entire day for myself. Where should I go and what should I do? I've been all over Europe, Australia and S-E Asia, but it's my first visit to the US. Thanks!
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Europe is not the same as America, that's correct. But if you actually look at innovation, there has been more than a few aquisition of Swedish companies. Just counting "Swedish" companies there's MySQL, Skype, C3 technologies, Marratech, Tradera and a lot of others.
To be fair, the idea has never been to maintain two code bases, but to re-run the 2to3 when building/installing.

In practice, I find this quite pain to deal with (2to3 is slow, hard to use when you need to support python 2.3 or 2.4, etc...), and much easier to just do the 2/3 compatible source codebase. Various projects use the same approach, but this is a tradeoff that will depend on a per-project basis.
It pays plenty of rent. It tells us to expect all the usual randomness results about Wall Street, traders, hedge fund managers, etc. It tells us to expect something that looks like a random distribution like a Poisson in most terms of business success. It tells us to expect plenty of leaders to flame out simply because they got where they were through random rolls of the dice and for once their dice came up snake eyes.
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That's an important question, but a different one. Surely we could preserve the collected works of Steig Larsson or J.K. Rowling without asking every reader on Earth to buy and retain a physical copy.

(If nothing else, if in three hundred years the works of Steig Larsson are somehow lost, our descendents can just have the archaeologists dig down a few feet, where they will discover a stratum consisting of nothing but remaindered Steig Larsson paperbacks.)

More seriously: It's likely that books will continue to have print runs, but the question is the size of those print runs. You can preserve a novel by having twenty librarians in twenty countries run off twenty printed copies and stash each of them in a storage vault. But that market won't support a physical infrastructure of printed-book sellers.
Score 320, with CIQ active and running on Infuse4g on Rogers Wireless. I guess, I shouldn't be surprised considering it's Rogers.

Is there a detailed list of what CIQ transmits ?
Funny thing is, I'm a night owl myself. But I was tired of using all my more productive time for my employer, and all my tired nights for myself ;)
Maybe you just have a really fast internet connection?
This comment thread is the first thing I've ever seen that actually made me want to use a social networking site. I might sign up for a G+ account based on this.
What are the rules for this type of subscription based gameplay? If you add a feature and I use for it one month, does the feature disappear unless I pay again next month? Are all of these types of features service based, so that I'm getting more out of it each month?
Definitely not paying taxes.
For an entire day: wander around San Francisco. For an afternoon: hike Windy Hill.
It's a double-edged sword. On the one hand you have a strong possibility of being lost in the shuffle (unless you have VC funding). On the other hand, there are a lot more eyeballs that could find you.

My own personal experience is that getting in early is huge. I was in the Chrome Web Store before it officially launched and always got a lot of traffic despite barely working on the app and it being designed for Chromebooks (used a feature only available on Chromebooks) and almost no one owning those. My second app in the store got much less traffic. I had similar experience on Android (perhaps it's a Google problem). I'm trying to get into the Windows 8 market early for the same reason.
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If this is based on actual info taken from :visited selectors

Nope, that security hole was patched already. https://blog.mozilla.com/security/2010/03/31/plugging-the-cs...
Pretty high. Just a quick back of the envelope reveals the following.

http://www.metrocandy.com/MM-PEANUT-FUN-SIZE-BAGS

23.6 pieces/pound * 6.3 pounds = 144.9 individual bags

55000/144.9 = 380 re-orders

380*25 = $9500 (cost of year supply of M&M's)

55000 - 9500 = $45,500 (total profit)

This obviously assumes 100% sell through and that he just stocks those lower margin items for people that will not buy the M&M's. You could probably knock a few grand off the 45K number and get pretty close. The trouble is, that is not that much money in NYC. Thus, he may still be living in the hood, but at least he is controlling his own destiny :)
You might find this discussion useful (both the linked article, and the many replies): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1757521

Depends on what you want to see. Silicon Valley itself isn't actually all that exciting as a tourist imo; lots of interesting stuff goes on there, but mostly inside nondescript office parks. But the Computer History Museum is cool. San Francisco is a fairly interesting city, but much of its interestingness isn't specifically "silicon valley", though it does have considerable tech. There's also lots of nature-stuff nearby if you're into that.
Tracks walks the D train in $300 kicks, and takes home around $55,000 a year, in cash.

Usually "takes home" indicates net income.
If you don't want to head up to San Francisco, check out Stanford, hop on the train to Mountain View and check out Google's Campus.
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I used to sing on the subway with a friend - we made about $200 between us for singing until our voices started to fail (6 hours). This lasted the summer between high school and college. We could have made 36,000 yearly without tax each if we were desperate.
OTOH the U.S. has a much more diverse, wideranging population and geography than countries ahead of it in those measures (that I think) you're thinking of. Regions that would be different countries in Europe or Asia are all states unified under a federal system, which has its upsides and downsides.
Is this legal on the NYC subway? On the DC metro, eating is forbidden and enforced. I remember a story from years back about a little girl being led away in handcuffs for eating a few french fries. Hopefully this story won't get him into too much trouble.

And hopefully it won't spawn too many copycats either. The last thing this guy (not too mention the other riders) need is for the number of people peddling sugar to multiply.
""" On the DC metro, eating is forbidden and enforced. """

It cannot be both forbidden and enforced, can it?

OK, I'm being pedantic.
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I wonder if he A/B tests with pretzels on the weekends.
There is a song that uses the concept of Tetris, and the folk tune used in the game, in order to tell the "complete history in the soviet union". Besides being "meta", it's also clever and kinda catchy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWTFG3J1CP8
I think this was on the front page not too long ago: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-o...

When an org gets to a certain size, it tends to self-organize into a dysfunctional hierarchy...
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No, but I am 100% sure he a/b tests trains, times, and pitches constantly.
An example of creative juices flowing in the wrong department of a gaming company.
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I hope he is paying taxes on that money. He just made a public statement of earned income.
Actually, no. While the money will give you the confidence to get what you want, you'll find that it was the confidence, not the money, that did it. "The Game" by Neil Strauss gives an engineer-friendly algorithm, and is a fascinating read overall.
Computers are physical products, so of course there will be stores to sell them. You can't sell a computer that is not physical, unlike a book which can be an e-book. There is no reason to have book stores and they will be replaced with businesses that make more profit.
a family member of mine supports himself playing cello in the subway about 3 hours a day five days a week.
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Eating isn't illegal on the NY subway, though unlicensed selling is (but that's enforced sporadically).
This reminds me about a bit of news about how Amazon's automatic "look inside!" images on their books led to a few amusing results.

And you can always count on the British press to be entertaining.
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Exactly.

The value creator does not necessarily become wealthy without forceful leverage.

You can quote economists till you are blue in the face but it doesn't change that in reality money is taken, not earned.
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The only thing that literary criticism ever inspired me to criticize was literary criticism. Perhaps it was simply taught badly, but I received an excellent primary education - if the better schools around can't teach this stuff then I question how many students learn any critical thinking skills from it.

I learned a lot more about critical thinking from history classes. Those obviously have to be taught well, too. The standard regurgitate-some-dates won't impart any critical thinking either. But I think history as a subject is richer soil to grow these skills from, and isn't mixed up with the teaching of both writing and literature at the same time.
Yeah, Io never got to a (nice/good enough) v1.0 that people could do more than just play around with it. Secondarily, its radical dynamism makes it slow in those shootout benchmarks.
On the other hand the HTML markup is not that minimalistic at all. A bit of CSS would've gone a long way in lightening it up.
Short answer: Silicon Valley is about doing, not about seeing. Given that it's your first time in the US, enjoy San Francisco instead.
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Yes. My comments are not theoretical.
Hint: if you develop primarily in Objective C and find the iPhone app market too crowded, make an iPad app.
This is a fantastic piece of work, and I should point out that the film is potentially even better than the song, which is itself brilliant. I imagine the people who put it together have gone on to extremely successful careers if they didn't have them already, winning for it as they did multiple international awards.
Aha, salt consumed. I didn't connect it with the other comment above. I've deleted some of my other comments, we might as well make people do their own research on this.

Regardless, good luck with the new gig.
Re: C -- I agree. It's the only widespread language that really matters for this.

Re: Assembly -- I disagree. With the increasing popularity of heterogenous multi-processor systems (cpu + specialized processors like GPUs, etc.) learning languages that are more constrained to the hardware is still valuable/important.

Also, note that building specialized code generators (be they stand along or embedded DSLs) to the assembly language can give you a nice payoff.
those aren't really the first boards; they're selling off the assembled results of the test run (assuming no problems with them)
> He eventually stops at level 29 because at that point the blocks fall to the bottom faster than the fastest human reaction times.

As I remember, it's not a human limitation; the blocks fall to the bottom faster than the NES game checks for controller input. Even playing the game frame-by-frame on an emulator, you can't move the tetronimo from the center to the edges of the screen in time. It takes up to 5 clicks of the d-pad left or right, so you need at least 10 frames of time for the 5 on-off cycles.

Newer Tetris games deliberately work around this limitation. When the dropping tetronimo collides with something, you're always given at least a half-second to continue moving and rotating the piece before it locks into place. http://tetris.wikia.com/wiki/Infinity

That's one of many surprisingly detailed rules regarding movement and rotation that newer Tetris games always follow, to create a consistent game and experience across multiple platforms and versions. See http://tetris.wikia.com/wiki/Tetris_Guideline
For curiosity: Which city?
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Is $55k enough to actually live in NYC?
installing unzip is not that hard i guess. CHeers to Sramana for getting this out :-)
There are a number of other homoiconic languages floating about so I think that's much less an issue other than the fact that "lisp" is the poster child.

Alas, CL is an old, bloated nightmare. :-( :-)

I think the new poster child for "Lisp" is Clojure.

Also, for learning programming, I'm still a big fan of Scheme.
Try to setup another interview... In the city.

A commute from sf to palo alto isn't horrendous if you live in the southern parts of the city. But try to find an opportunity in the city. Unless apartment complex living in th valley appeals to you...
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"Delivery services have been using routing software for years" - yes, but not on a real-time basis. Solving real-time resource allocation vs routing a driver on pre-scheduled deliveries (like UPS) is a different problem with more complexities.

E-courier in the UK (http://www.ecourier.co.uk/) is one example of such a tool implemented at scale - they've demonstrated lower cost and compete successfully on lower pricing. And, guess what one of their founders just left to do? Basically created the UK version of Amazon Prime+ (http://www.shutl.co.uk/), leveraging the E-courier delivery service for efficiency..

Often the way to alter the market is to lower cost below a threshold where new utility can be provisioned to customers.
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The annoying thing is not how much money he makes but how much he annoys people. IMO, it's basically the same thing as short changing people and pocketing that money. A few cents or a few seconds of time is not going to make or break someone but it's still a net drain. Just because your not robbing houses or kidnapping people does not mean it's ok.
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Hate to say it but it sort of aggravated me that at the end of the video he says "This what y'all buyin me, $300 sneakers. I stay fly from head to toe."

When I think about it, it shouldn't, he's just a businessman making money and spending it as he wants, but for some reason it was irksome... maybe because some people buy over pity and it isn't quite legal what he's doing
Yeah, it's a different philosophy taken to an extreme. :-)

That said, from a practical standpoint, Factor is excellent.

In fact, I'm surprised that more of the recent language implementations haven't used Factor as their backend rather than e.g. llvm.
Take the Caltrain (huge ass train compared to Europe) to SF. Enjoy the city, it has a really nice architecture I think. Great mix between older, newer and a lot of colors :-)
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Agreed here. Also, if you have time, swing by the Hacker Dojo in Mountain View. Here's a quick video tour: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYt-E0BVSCc
Just because something has a low odds of happening doesn't mean the main attributing factor was luck. Skill, intelligence, and determination play a far more important role.

If everything was mainly luck based why don't China and India have most the world's richest people? They have by far more tickets in "rich lottery" than the rest of the world.
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Awesome stuff - a time-lapse video would complete this as a work of art.
Ask HN: What interesting non-intuitive things do you know?
You know what's interesting?

Stuff that's not intuitive. Stuff that would seem so wrong on a quick glance that it never gets explored.

These are goldmines for exploring. I bet you know some stuff like that. Care to share it with us?
Selling shit on the subway is illegal. The reason this man is capable of making a profit is because he has almost no competition. It has nothing to do with entrepreneurship, being a good salesman, having a good idea, or really anything positive other than the giving spirit of some New Yorkers. He's milking a system in which he exists illegally and if it were actually legal to sell shit on the subway, the subway would be significantly less tolerable and he wouldn't be able to come close to making a good living.
Falling down is only useful if you know you've fallen down. It is challenging for a teacher to do that when parents yell at you for giving their kid a bad grade. Of course, that's a whole different topic
The prolog-ish syntax is to Erlang as parentheses are to Lisp -- a humungous barrier to entry for a lot of developers.

I think Erlang's legacy is the fact that it's exposing those other features that you mention to a wide audience of language aficionados that they are spreading (gaining legitimacy/traction) within other languages / libraries.
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If you are rude or demanding you will be treated accordingly, and this post has a very demanding tone. Maybe I'm cold but I don't think being disabled is a pass to treat other people in a condescending or rude manner. It sounds like a frustrating ordeal and I am sympathetic but can't help but think the other side of this story may be different.

You only need a credit check if you are getting a phone on a contract. Perhaps the carrier you want a contract with has some policy about credit checks or driver's licenses. Did you try going through the carrier directly?

It sounds like you've given up or are at least very soured at this point (I don't blame you) but it might be worth cooling down and trying again via the carrier. Here in Canada you can get a credit check done with an existing credit card number and your SIN (social insurance #). Politely suggesting, to Apple or a carrier, that a credit card and SSN should be enough for a credit check could be worth a shot.
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Yes, it all depends what part of the city you want to live in. There are many good areas in all the boroughs outside Manhattan. In Manhattan he could split a two bedroom for about $1500/mo each, though I doubt he would want to considering how much he could save by living further away from the yuppies.

In the end he hustles, probably pays no taxes and is earning the equivalent of a single person making $85K/yr.
I'd go see the Computer History Museum. It's pretty amazing
Half day to explore Palo Alto then up to San Francisco before your flight out of SFO.
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Another big benefit to working remotely is you usually don't get pulled into other projects. You are generally left alone to work on you assigned project.
I don't eat candy, because I plan on keeping my teeth as long as possible. I admire this guy's entrepreneurship and hustle, though.
On the contrary, the nyc subways are filled with these dudes "Selling candy for a basketball team" or "Trying to make some money to stay out of trouble." (Actual quotes)
The competition may be slim, but there are at least a hundred people selling candy on the subway everyday.
It works quite well for reading books sequentially, even technical books. One problem I had is that their fixed width font is not the most readable in the world. For jumping back and forth, the experience is not great, but not completely intolerable either.

The DX (and I think also the other Kindles by now) reads pdfs natively, no need for a conversion service.
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What does he play? If he supports himself playing classical repertoire then I am extremely impressed.
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I really hope this article doesn't create a gold rush where the subway will become inundated with people trying to make a quick buck...almost like Silicon Valley :)