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High taxes are not a Fidesz invention. It was always like this since 1989. In fact it was Fidesz who won the elections by lying they will reduce burdens. Of course, the did the opposite. They increased them, and completley destroyed the whole economy. Now we have the VAT world record: 27%. All three rating agencies downgraded us to junk, the Forint is done. It's a huge problem for millions of people who have depts in CHF or Euros. They are basically screwed, big time. I wouldn't be surpised, if it was our PM and friends shorted the Forint.

As for paying the taxes? Some people do have to. You may go to jail if you're in the way of people who have good political connections.
Very good reading, thank you. We did launh an update to focus in only SF bay areas for now but will still need work to securing users.
The graphic for "Quality Signals by Identity" shows two bars for 61% and 51% with the same length.
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First thought: No way...

Second thought: No shit... the statistics are from HSN. Men don't use HSN.
Very nice... how long have you been working on it?

I'm actually in the process of building an open source backend for a robust form builder as a package for the fuelPHP framework. Not sure if you have any interest in collaborating, but I was planning on building a similar js frontend for it, including mirrored client/server side validation and custom callbacks but with backbone.js ...

Shoot me an email if you're interested at all.
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You see, they DON'T govern every business. That's the issue. They govern only the decent, good businesses. This die, the corrupt ones (that are NOT governed by any regulations, nor taxes, nada) survive.
A "nuclear-proof" datacenter? Not a bad idea; I would have thought the army could have used it for this..
There was also an existing CSS implementation of ligatures:

font-variant-ligatures: [ common-ligatures | additional-ligatures | historical-ligatures | normal | inherit ];

See http://marc.baffl.co.uk/browser_bugs/css-ligatures.html for a working example. Webkit seems to ignore it; Gecko has an incomplete implementation (common-ligatures works).
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They're standardized, so they are part of the language.

"Language" has slightly different meanings in different contexts. Perhaps he's talking about something in a theoretic context, as opposed to practice? Smalltalk has no special syntax for allocation (creating new objects) either.
And because Ruby devs think it is so great, they try to make it more Scala-like, right?

Or what am I missing?
> these were even less Unix-like than Windows was

Heck, compare MS-DOS to NT-derived Windows. You only get directories beginning in MS-DOS 2.0 and you never get something comparable to fork().
Note that the "Quality Signals by Identity"-graph is broken. 61% != 51% (well, at least not on a %-scale).
*...if we went to the other extreme of having everything free everywhere for everyone."

My interest in this is wondering about areas where people innovate but rarely expect any sort of copy protection.

Few people are going to invest the budget of a Hollywood movie into a hair style. Is this because they know there is no practical way to stop people from copying hair styles?

Suppose the was never any way to copy protect [films|recordings|whatever]. How would this change things? Is (or was) the difficulty of copying things an aberration, a quirk of a relatively brief period of technology? Should we tell the MPAA and RIAA, hey, you guys just happen to have lucked out for a few decades?

If someone invested several million dollars in a hair style, and then tried to get laws to prevent people from copying it because copying breaks their business model they'd be mocked for basing a business model on an untenable condition. At what point do we do the same for people creating digital goods?
Thanks for the support! Well look into the YouTube videos and Adwords budget but it could be difficult to gain traction with many other similar advertisers our there(higher cpc and smaller budget to compete with), but I totally get what you're saying. I'll brainstorm some ideas, thanks!
I find it interesting that technical arguments will be heard but there will be no debate about liberty and the 1st amendment.
Actually not. In the current W3C draft (http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-css3-fonts-20111004/#font-featu...) the syntax for font features is as such:

font-feature-settings: "kern" 1;

Actual implementations are currently CSS extensions as the functionality is not yet in a published spec.
Mozilla's CSS extension uses the syntax:

-moz-font-feature-settings: "kern=1";

Microsoft's CSS extension however uses the same syntax as the current W3C draft, expect with the standard browser specific prefix used before a feature makes it into the official spec.

-ms-font-feature-settings: "kern" 1;

Whether this syntax is ideal or not is still, imho, contestable. Either way it isn't Mozilla's parameter-esque style (which I agree stands very much in opposition to the usual CSS syntax style), and as long as the syntax in the draft reaches finalization, said parameter-esque syntax should go away for good.
Ugh. I did a favour for someone by added some very basic FB integration to his site. I've had to go back 2 or 3 times to fix it and he now thinks I'm pretty incompetent as a result.
Look, what's mine is mine. It should not be legal to steal it.
Simple Github-like project on Scala & Lift
There is an interesting discussion of this in the Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. As people age well past a hundred, they can no longer remember most of their lives, and their cognitive function becomes progressively worse.
The issue at hand isn't businesses being sabotaged, but rather , nobody wants the world to go back to ironcurtains being drawn and government has the monopoly on truth.
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Even worse, hedge fund managers somehow get their income classified as "capital gains" and only pay the 15% rate on their earned income, even though they never had any cash equity at risk. It is a massive subsidy to the industry and it is grossly unfair to other taxpaying Americans.

I have similar sweat equity in my tech company, and have to pay income tax rates and payroll taxes on my earnings.
That was not the question. It is trivial to do that in Scala for the use case mentioned.

The problem is adding it as an "instance" method to a collection and expecting that it is usable by something not being a collection at all.
"Simply drag the following link to your browser’s bookmarks bar:"

I can't. I'm on FF 8.0, and the link doesn't seem to be a normal link, so dragging it ends up as a selection.

Indeed, it's not a normal link:

<a id="theLink" title="AlreadyHN">AlreadyHN</a>
If you put your constraints in the database schema, then you check for errors on insert/update/etc., like you said, with try-catch.

If you put your constraints in the application code, you usually have some validation layer that the data passes through before sending it to the DB.

It's common to have validation live both in the DB and in the app code. The constraints in the app code are for catching and displaying errors up front and display them to the user (e.g. on a form), while the DB constraints are used as a last line of defense to ensure data integrity.
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Warren Buffet made a bet that a market index (S&P500) would outperform hedge funds. So far, he seems to be winning the bet.

http://longbets.org/362/

As the hedge fund market grows by 10x, its all but certain returns will decline. The economy isn't a zero sum game but when investment funds grow faster than investment opportunities, logic dictates that median performance will fall and there will be more absolute losers.

Furthermore, picking a hedge fund manager becomes an exercise in futility as the number of managers increase. The pension fund administrator can pick the 1 in 10 stocks he believes will return 15% per annum or he can pick the 1 in 20 hedge fund managers he believes will return 15% per annum. (The numbers here are made up but I hope you see my point).

Either way, the pension fund administrator will need to research on where to park money, but I'd argue the variables to predict future performance are much more transparent with stocks than with hedge funds. All the administrator has done is transformed the problem of picking a winning stock, to picking a winning hedge fund. The only difference being the hedge fund is guaranteed to take a cut of your money.
Thanks for the comments, guys. I really appreciate it.

Obviously, the clothing would have to look cool. I don't have enough money to create LED clothing, but that's a great idea, too. :)
What's the split between author/"publisher"? I know Safari does more than ORA books now, but don't you need a relationship with a real publisher to post books there? I'm talking about replacing the publisher altogether.
It's interesting to me that the people who rant about hedge funds ignore that participation in them is entirely voluntary and even restricted to the wealthy few.
Very good post.
One point with which i cannot agree is "In fact, it is impossible to insert a new method that behaves like a normal collection method. "

Please see http://ideone.com/ePUHG
An excerpt:
import MyEnhancements._
println("qwe".quickSort)
println(Array(2,0).quickSort)
println(Seq(2,0).quickSort)
It's a funny redesign indeed: basic things that used to be simple (such as bulk editing tags) are not there anymore, and even basic stuff (editing tags of ONE bookmark) take a long time, since they require a full page reload.
The biggest source of hedge fund money are pensions. I'm quite certain the workers didn't volunteer to put their money into hedge funds.
There is a problem with this analysis - the 449 figure is capital paid out, not gains. The worst funds have their capital withdrawn at the fastest rates; investors in the best funds tend to keep their capital put.

By Lack's metric, which ignores un-realised gains, Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, which hasn't paid a dividend but pays salaries to its "managers" is a ruddy failure of an investment institution.

It should also be noted that not all cash taken by the fund manager as compensation goes straight into the mamagers' pockets - there are staff, Bloomberg terminals, and office space to be paid for. At smaller funds, the 2% asset fee can sometimes barely cover that.

The FT author likens hedge fund statistics to a "statistical minefield". Rather helps if you don't lay the mine you blow up.
I don't understand what the article is talking about. Hedge funds traditionally take 20% of the profits from their investments. They also pocket 2% of the money that investors put into the fund (and 2% of it again when they withdraw), but I don't see why this would be classed as 'investment gains.' It's just more money they've been given to manage.
Giant images have more power to do striking layouts than CSS does. The advantage of CSS is that it will probably look good in every browser, while a giant image is a particular size and doesn't scale.

Images can have greater.... imagery? Can't think of a good word for it right now.
Right, that's exactly my point. I'm not criticizing Windows for being Windows but just pointing out why working with it is so frustrating. You restated part of my point very well when you said Windows is an anomaly because it's the last non-Unix OS standing. As for it being a very 21st century view, well, yeah it is. I'm talking about how things are done now. The platforms of the 90's are pointless to even consider as no one is using them anymore. You could get really technical and point out some enthusiasts using BeOS and some other 90's OSes but for the most part they're dead.
I think that the source of the problem is that Scala is simply not an opinionated language. You can go functional, you can go OO; you can go immutable, you can go with locks etc. And because it tries to do everything it falls on its face, but worse than that - its users don't really know HOW you're supposed to use it.
I always like to contrast Scala with Clojure and Erlang. Both are very opinionated: they have a philosophy of tackling problems, not just a set of tools, and that's why they are so elegant and beautiful (well, at least Clojure is. Erlang is showing its age at times).
Even languages more similar to Scala like Groovy or Kotlin are more opinionated and more focused (and thus more elegant and simpler) than Scala. They are trying to be a more modern Java, a blue-collar OO language with some modern fun. But it seems like Scala is trying to push not only tools but concepts, only it hasn't decided which concepts are best so it's pushing all of them at the same time. The result is not only frustration but harmful education as to the best way go forward.
This is not my experience.

I don't give a dime about higher-kinded types, type bounds, type views, type constraints, CanBuildFrom ... and I'm happily using the language.
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I agree. This is why I'll be dressed more like a businessman than a nerd, like the last time: https://plus.google.com/113164038788726940319/posts/ab9eFgmo...
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With open source software (which mostly uses open standards) you do not "buy" anything. Instead you adapt particular open source product (be it training, integration with other company's software, etc).

To do training most likely you need local training company. To do integration, I agree after certain project size it might be possible to outsource it to another country. But even then - you most likely end up outsourcing to India, not to USA. Which again - lower total price.
I always just bookmark the comments, or a link to a particularly valuable comment, instead of the actual page for the same reasons.

I have a separate folder for the actual pages that I link with their corresponding HN bookmarks using Firefox's tagging feature. It makes it easy to find and load up both pages.
It's nice that they suggest Firefox though. For me it's a refreshing change from demos that force me to use Chrome merely because they use User-Agent sniffing or only -webkit- prefix.
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I've been pleased with the folks at engineadvocacy.org and I'm hoping this can be a long-term solution. They're non-partisan and solely focused on lobbying on behalf of the tech entrepreneur, plain and simple.
Indeed the shelves use the same mounting holes as the table top so they can be mounted in any order at any height.
Yeah, it can only support those fractions that are included in the specification and the font itself, like 1/2, 3/4, 5/8. It's a typographic special case.
Are you sure about that? Isn't that mutual funds?
Ignore the downvotes :) thanks! I hope this is part of the reason why they've invited me back to DC.
And when there was some noise a couple years ago about changing that tax loophole the idea was immediately squashed by congress and it died a quiet death. Almost as if congress does Wall Street's bidding to the detriment of the overall national interest. Almost.
> I think git is not easy to use, and the proof of that is that at least once a month there is a "how to use git" tutorial on the front-page of HN.

The command line is hard to learn, and there is no real way to learn it besides... well, learning it by heart, quirks and all. A bit like learning a foreign language. After a while, you don't notice it any more and you realize how powerful and pleasant git really is.

Here is an article that captures these thoughts fairly well:

http://beust.com/weblog/2010/04/06/git-for-the-nervous-devel...
But gold isn't the only store of value. You could have used silver or copper. And, the value of gold fluctuates wildly in response to fears of future inflation. This creates a lot of noise. Finally, you should know that most economists consider the CPI to overstate inflation due to substitution bias:
http://www.frbsf.org/econrsrch/wklyltr/el97-16.html
That was a really confusing article. The title doesn't seem to reflect the content. I read it twice and I'm still not sure what the author is trying to say. Android is going to become increasingly difficult to develop for because of fragmentation and some bad decisions by Google?
I uploaded a lecture my father gave at the University of Waterloo. He is a very successful serial entrepreneur who has started dozens of companies. Even though the video quality isn't the best, I thought HN might be interested in his very unique ability to 'invent at will'.
I posted a more complete thought as an independent comment, but essentially, by focussing on redemptions Lack'a analysis ignores un-realised gains. By this logic, Berkshire Hathaway has paid out less in dividends (zero) than accumulates compensation to its staff (since we are noting all cash receive by the fund as manager compensation, research and office space be damned).
> This isn't a plea to treat all potential presidents with kid gloves, it's a plea to make sure that pranks against public figures of all kinds are squashed once they become known

You're still missing the point. It should not be up to the search engine to do that: just let the search engine reflect what the web thinks.
Now I don't use twitter's API, so I have no clue as to their conventions, but when I saw, in the documentation you qouted, the phrase the "equivalent of", I read this as the "raw data we used to produce" , and not the "exact string you see."

Clearly I should have read it the other way - but I bet a lot of people will read it like I did.
Both "more opinionated" languages are considerably slower than Scala, so sometimes it is necessary to fall back to "ugly, imperative" code and those languages make sure you will hate that experience.

The difference imho is that Scala doesn't punish you for trying to be fast where necessary.

Apart from that I would really like to where Groovy or Kotlin are "more elegant or simpler". I would have probably looked into the specification but something like that doesn't even exist for Groovy. From my last journey into Groovy I learned that this language is substantially underdocumented and buggy as hell. I prefer not touching it anymore.
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This looks like the best makerbot yet, maybe I really should be getting into the 3D printing scene!
The keyboard is ~6 inches above my waistline, which feels perfect to me. The screens are the same distance from my head whether I'm standing or sitting.

I keep a barstool by the desk for any periods when I am tired, although interestingly enough, I find that I sit when I'm learning, and stand when I'm producing (I'm a web dev). So exhaustion isn't the primary dictator of whether I'm standing or sitting.
Titanium desktop has the feel of being abandoned - even if not officially the case. For anything non-trivial, you're entering a world of hurt.
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Select Ontario as your province and look under the "News & Learning 2" package. Fox News is there. He's a big Bill O'Reilly fan!
You write "you guys" as if the public has not benefited from the music and film industries over the years.
I still have not found a single comment showing "how easy it is in other languages". Do you have a link?
"In academic research and in entrepreneurship, you need to multiply your effectiveness as a programmer, and since you (probably) won't be working with an entrenched code base, you are free to use whatever language best suits the task at hand."

What about libraries and code-bases available to the programmer? Legacy code might not be a concern, but what about having to reinvent wheels?
You shouldn’t have to reverse-engineer a service to compensate for documentation gaps.
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I don't think there is a direct correlation between letter case and old-style vs lining numerals. Most examples of early hand written numerals seem to be variable height, but regardless I'm more concerned with actual type, not hand lettering.
I have such a hard time understand investing on this scale. Who the heck are these investors that continue to put money in these funds? Are there really that many wealthy people/organizations that are duped into the fallacy of hedge fund returns?

This also reminds me of the idiots who paid into the Groupon investment just so they could pay off the original investors (who happen to be largely the Groupon CEO): http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-30/groupon-has-raised-...

When a market is littered with this much "loss" doesn't it eventually adjust?
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This also reminds me of the idiots who paid into the Groupon investment just so they could pay off the original investors (who happen to be largely the Groupon CEO): http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-30/groupon-has-raised-....

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater%20fool%20theory .
Would you consider open-sourcing the preparation of your address? You'd still retain full control of what you actually say (how would anyone stop you?) but you could potentially have a lot of very sharp researchers/designers/copywriters (hilariously enough, I suspect pure programming skills would be the least useful here) going over every inch of it and providing statistics, infographics, drawings, suggestions, etc. Between HN and /r/SOPA, it could very well be helpful.
I've had more luck with the QtWebKit Bridge: http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7-snapshot/qtwebkit-bridge.html than other options (primarily Titanium).

It's a bit more complicated and requires you to get familiar with Qt's paradigms for things like resource management (I'm still struggling with how to access files outside a qrc), but it offers infinitely more flexibility by exposing the entirety of Qt (and C++) to you as needed.

For example, I wanted to write a frameless app with edge snapping. The two problems I ran across were:

- First, when expanding a window the mouse would leave the web widget and so Titanium would stop sending mouse events (as it should). To fix that I had to wrap my content and center it in a larger transparent <body> and then account for that in the movement code. Ugly, but do able.

- And then, edge snapping on the other hand is impossible. Titanium doesn't handle multiple monitors very well. In-order to get the dimensions of a desktop you've dragged into you have to drop it first and even then it's relative to the upper left corner of the primary display.

I realize these are very specific issues but they're trivial in Qt (I handle resizing and dragging in Qt so mouse position is no longer an issue, and QDesktop is extremely straightforward).

Furthermore, not every library is available in Javascript so it can be useful to fall back to C++. I'm still using mustache.js for templating but I won't be using Strophe.js for my jabber library, I can instead use quicker C++ power library (I'd like to use libpurple but that's a whole other mess itself).

See Also:

There's a few decent Dev Days videos about it: http://developer.qt.nokia.com/videos#c-87

For completeness the one I've watch primarily is:
http://developer.qt.nokia.com/videos/watch/hybrid_developmen...

And also there's a growing number of usable examples like http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7-snapshot/webkit-imageanalyzer.ht...
So co.uk sites are a go. Please explain what gives US the right to do that? Especially without due process.
What drives you to care about "a giant set of package dependencies"? I mean, my / is on on a 100GB SSD and I've never really found a reason to give shits about what dependencies I've got installed.

Like tomjen3 said to the sibling comment, be anal about something that matters.