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...(neo-)classical economic theory has some flaws, in that it assumes prices will track supply/demand balance and maximize market participants' utility...

No, classical economic theory doesn't assume this. It derives this as a conclusion under some specific assumptions: demand and supply are elastic, many non-colluding buyers and sellers, good information and low transaction costs. The conclusion of classical economic theory is that under the circumstances I described above, prices will stabilize near a price P satisfying supply(P)=demand(P), where "near" is bounded by the size of transaction costs.

The paper under discussion is also classical economic theory, it just makes different assumptions: it assumes perfectly inelastic demand (i.e., users have no choice but to buy) and poor information/high transaction costs (buyers can only switch sellers infrequently and can't switch arbitrarily). It also assumes that sellers only copy the pricing strategies of others, and never come up with their own (e.g., no aggressive price competition).

It's not a "flaw" in classical economic theory, it's just applying classical economic theory to a new circumstance. It seems like it might be a good model for certain markets - mandatory insurance for example (auto collision insurance or health insurance in MA), display both demand inelasticity (you are legally obligated to buy) and comparison is difficult.
> making it in america would only add $65 to the production cost of a single phone

This is false. Making it in America would remove $65 (if that was indeed the figure, which is very doubtful) from the profit of the device. The price wouldn't change. Product pricing has nothing to do with the cost to make it, but is instead whatever the market will bear.
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So you would expect to be totally within your rights if you would register windows-tools.com/net, ipod-library.com/net and use these sites to damage the reputation of the mentioned product?
How about you just charge $5 more and pay the Chinese workers more, get them some better working conditions and stop them working 14 hour days...
I can't agree enough. And the longer we take to address all if these problems, the harsher the backlash is going to be. I'm so disgruntled with copyright I almost think 10 years is too long.
I think there's a bit of confusion about what we're talking about when we say "sex." I'm not talking about the conscious desire to have sex. When I talk about sex, I'm talking about sexual selection which is the competition between members of the same species for sexual partners over many generations.

I'm not talking about the conscious motives of individual artists. Their conscious motives for creating art may be to "assert [their] existence," as you say.

I would argue that all of our physical and mental traits have arisen from the process of natural and sexual selection. If you accept that, you can also accept that over the generations, we have evolved the ability to be artistic, in many different ways. An individual who has inherited the ability to create good art, and does so, may not (and probably is not) creating art with the conscious goal of using it to attract sexual partners. However, if individuals of the opposite sex do find this ability (or side effects of this ability) attractive, they will be more likely to mate with the artistic individual, perpetuating the artistic genes. This is how I see art coming about because of sexual selection.
I think Herb Sutter talked a fair bit about this at the Build and C++ and Beyond conferences last year.

The gist of it (IIRC) is that while managed code may be better for developer productivity, C++ continues to win when it comes to performance/size. Microsoft's trying to take a "best of both worlds" approach: promoting C++11 as a first-class language on Windows (WinRT), and making interop between managed and C++ code easier (C++/CX, formerly C++/CLI, formerly Managed C++).
I am going to be a little naughty and quote my good friend who I had this very conversation over email with about two years ago

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ME:

It just dumbfounds me that, with card in hand they cant make this shit work. I had the same problem with microsoft and fallout3 extensions, after I went through microsofts increadibly evil market place for games thing, bought myself some credits (why can't I just use money guys) and downloaded the extensions, I had to jerry rig them to work with fallout3 because that version I downloaded with steam, and MS has a clause in their terms about versions of fallout downloaded from competing software devlivery systems.

In fact steam is the only on of these fucking things I have ever used that just works (in fact it works a bit too well its nearly as dangerous to my wallet as amazons one click)

Hint guys, If you cant make it like steam, or amazons one click, just pack up shop and go home, the more hoops I jump through, just to appease your circle jacking business people and "Information architects" the more likly I am to just pirate the software.

My Friend:

> > It just dumbfounds me that, with card in hand they cant make this shit work.
I feel your pain.

But you're expecting it to work because you see it as a transaction,
you buy it, they give it to you. They on the other hand are living in
crazy bugfuck dying-media-company world (it's Sony), where it's
actually an opportunity for you to STEAL FROM THEM. And so people who
a) don't know how software works and b) aren't operating with a full
deck to start with dictate how the process gets built. They add this
and demand that in this big committee (all the more efficient because
it's actually a tree of committees), and some poor schmoe programmer
implements it the way he's told.

The real surprise is that they manage to sell /anything/.
Do you even know when the 19th century was? How can he be the most influential Economist of the 19th century if was only born in 1912?
No, because in those cases, the seller is also unable to adjust the price.

The model might apply, but only very slowly. A single tick of the model would be equal to the duration of a contract (i.e., instead of updating prices multiple times per day, as the authors propose, prices would be updated every 1-2 years).
Well put. I would say that things have changed since even an year ago. Nowadays, if you are building a MVP and plan on a closed beta launch - expect moaning & groaning about your unpolished UI. People just expect well-designed experiences from day 1.
Ask HN: work/sleep/continued productivity tips for new hacker dad
My wife and I are expecting a baby in a few weeks (our first, so it'll be a whole new world) and, while I'm planning on - and looking forward to - taking a couple of weeks out when s/he's born, I'm looking ahead to ways to remain as productive as possible after that, given the broken nights/early rises etc.

Some extra info: I am keen to share as much of the baby care as I can. I'm a contracting developer, plus am chipping away at on-the-side startup. I want to keep my current earning levels as they are. I usually work from home, in a dedicated office, but go on-site to clients once a week. I do drink coffee :o) I run, and will try to keep that up once a week at least.

What have other hacker dads/mums done to get through this initial phase? All tips very welcome.

Cheers!
Steve
I'm an Iranian developer living in the UK , I heard he was arrested because of developing Iranian porn website.
I'm not sure about it , but this is what I heard in the news while I was In Iran.
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You seem to be stuck on the idea that there's some sort of legally-enforceable trademark at issue, but you've provided no evidence of it. To even begin to claim a trademark, you must assert it, and I see no evidence of anyone asserting such a trademark. To actually enforce it in court, registration is required in the US and I'm sure at least some other countries.

You also have interpreted his statements as saying he will seek to harm the reputation of Scala, but his statements only imply that if you assume the worst about people. In other words, you're projecting.
+1, I'm glad to hear that the rest of science is doing better than us!

Mathematics grants are relatively small, on the order of $20-60k a year. But senior mathematicians (of which Gowers is most certainly one) typically have larger grants. In mathematics, $1-3k (the publishing fee for PLoS) seems like a rather high barrier -- but I hope the coming years prove me wrong here!
Oh man, I would have missed it, if not for HN! :)

I'm definitely going to the protest.
If the good costs more to make than the buyer is willing to pay then there is no price because there is no sale, so clearly price depends on cost. Functions can have more than one input.
If you read the study, you'd realize the flaw doesn't permeate all markets.

It permeates markets with perfectly inelastic demand (all consumers are obligated to buy), where the sellers all use a particular pricing strategy, and where sellers have considerably better information than buyers (i.e., when K=1, ~60% of price updates must be seller price updates before cartel behavior begins).
...?

What part is false? Production cost != Price. It's like you made the assumption it does, then argued against the assumption?
What might be the best way to disrupt an industry? I believe it is to provide competitors which beat out the other competition because they are so much better. He isn't talking about greed, he's talking about business sense... Or do you want to go attack their websites or something silly like that?

Also why is calling artists a 'package' disrupting? I agree they are people. But when I want to listen to Led Zeppelin, I don't think about how I want to listen to the musical contributions of Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Bonham, and John Paul Jones during their career together. No, I experience them as the musical whole. I think that's all he means.
One of the things that looks interesting to me is the aggregation function. I currently have multiple email accounts and I have to have 3 (or more) browser tabs open to deal with them all. It would be very handy to be able to go to one place and get all of my mail.

One downside I can see with this is making sure that I'm responding to the correct message from the correct email address. Mixing up work and home accounts would not be good.
great wall of text! you have a weblog or so? interested in the intersection of technology and cultural stuff as well... i'm based in toronto, btw. quite often in nyc. cheers.
Part 1 Zeno's Paradox
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd6MWUl9Rmc (7:40)

Part 2 Galileo's Paradox
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuteFNWGoDE (7:08)

Part 3 Hilbert Hotel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRn_GNcglKo (8:52)

Part 4 Infinitely Many Primes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0SItpVQeqI (8.28)

Part 5 The Smallest Infinity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SISmZiNxq_Q (9:34)

Part 6 Different Infinities
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz2L7t3fp6E (8:53)

Part 7 Refuting Zeno's Paradox
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcCYshlgCZY (9:06)
I suspect you were being downvoted because you don't understand what REST is. I don't mean this as an insult, most people that talk about REST haven't actually read Roy Fielding's dissertation. It's a good read; I highly recommend it.

If you do give it a read, you'll find that his paper isn't about "shoehorning into HTTP". Actually, the title is pretty clear: _Architectural Styles and
the Design of Network-based Software Architectures_. After doing a great job of classifying different types of problems and possible solutions to these problems, Dr. Fielding describes REST as a solution to a particular kind of problem. To quote (from his blog):

> REST is intended for long-lived network-based applications that span multiple organizations. If you don’t see a need for the constraints, then don’t use them.

It's fine if you don't want to use REST, but it's obvious from your comment that you don't understand what REST is or when you might use it.
I believe it is you missing the point. They're his keys. If I quit the company I'm working for, they can't just take all all my keys because at some point they gave me some.

This is no different than my old neighbor, Mr. Taylor. He used to let us use the pool in his backyard until one of the kids pooped in it. He stopped letting those kids come to the pool.

It's his pool, and it's his choice who can and can't use it. In this case, David Pollack has just decided nobody can use the pool, and he's put a fence around it.

You're just pissed you can't use the pool for free anymore.
hmmm, interesting. What kind of commitments do you have to make?
I'm Polish myself and I'm not sure I can fully agree with your optimism as there have been a few cases under the current administration in which controversial laws managed to pass thanks to the government's ability to "properly" depict their target groups (the football stadium ban is one example). You might be right that it might not be effective in this case. Still, my point was that there are many lawful ways to bring the media's attention to the problem. In the case of SOPA, shutting down Wikipedia and other sites for one day was a great example. It not only had a major impact on many people's lives but actually was an argument in itself (What would a post-SOPA world look like?). What point does killing a bunch of .gov websites prove?
> Any evolutionary system without appropriate mutation leads to a "monopoly" for the dominant.

That sentence doesn't make any sense to me. There is no evolution without mutation.

Our best bet solution is currently regulation. Not great, but it works.

Some have very good arguments that it doesn't work, since the regulators are a lever that is most easily pushed by the powerful: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture

Also "monopolies" don't always have to be in the disinterest of the consumer. If there really is a single company that produces the best product, why punish it? The definition of "product" alone is difficult enough - does Apple have a monopoly on computers? on iPads?
The difference is that one of my functional test/criteria is precisely that I want to support the company making it, so it couldn't possibly pass such a test. I don't buy things that are made with slave labor or child labor, that doesn't mean I am 'unfairly' discriminating against people that use slave or child labor :)

I think if companies want to engage in this sort of behavior they should put in the job adverts "Googlers need not apply" or something to that end. At least be forthright with your plans to 'no hire' simply because they may be employed with one of these multitude of companies that you made some secret pact with.

Going beyond that and reporting back to their present employers that they may be looking around is somewhat reprehensible and a breach of confidence and etiquette. People may be 'looking around' for a multitude of reasons, eventually if they plan on leaving their current employ they will need to have that conversation with their employer, but to 'poison the well' by immediately calling their employer if their resume crosses your desk just lacks in common decency and indicates you work in an environment I would never want to be part of, so come to think of it maybe you have done us all a favor :)
I'd love to see some statistics showing revenue from copyrighted works vs. age. I'm betting the vast majority of revenue (and especially revenue which actually accrues to the original creator) is made in the first 3-5 years, after which continuing copyright protection is a net drain on society.

As the internet continues to accelerate our culture, that time is only going to grow shorter. Longer copyright terms may have made sense in the past when distribution was hard, but today's world moves much faster, and the law needs to catch up.
Then maybe you should actually read the text.

Apart from that, registering multiple common scala-* domains and then making them point to his blog instead of something actually related to the topic is pretty much the definition of domain grabbing.

Sure, he can do it and figure out if he gets away with it. But in my opinion it is just ethically and morally wrong to register domains which with popular names which are expected to be used by Scala-related projects and keep them to punish the whole community for something a single person did.
Understood. Nonetheless, I draw a distinction between "resourcefulness" and willingness to break the law, in this situation and others.
As an Australian I don't (and wouldn't expect others to) take it as a specific reference to the penal colony days, but to our British colonial heritage generally, and the modern accusation of the US of colonialism, including of Australia.
(Edit: I thought those rejections were genuine. Nevertheless, my point stands. Kudos to the author for the vivid illustration of this infuriating bias.)

> Structured programming is a nice academic exercise, which works well for small examples, but I doubt that any real-world program will ever be written in such a style.

This is not the first time I recall hearing this fallacious argument. If something works better than the "standard" approach for toy examples, the correct answer is to investigate, especially if you can't explain how the new approach would break down when actually used in the "real world".

Sure, an intuition that it wouldn't work is evidence against the new approach, but (i) this intuition may be motivated by the refusal to change habits, and (ii) toy examples that work is a stronger evidence in favour of the new approach anyway. Not definite, just stronger than intuition.
“Such ridiculous, destructive bills should never even pass committee review,” Mr. Arment wrote. The real problem, he added, is “the MPAA’s buying power in Congress,”

The real problem is that money has buying power in Congress. Money shouldn't buy votes. I don't know what the solution is but I'm fairly sure that's the problem.
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I'm pleased to say I despise Hollywood movies and give these studios no money whatsoever. If only the public developed good sense and taste.
Does anyone want to ask any questions about what we are going to do?
I thought that cartel implies that sellers collude to artificially raise prices and limit competition. If this is the natural result of a free market, it seems that it is therefore not a cartel, just that given competitor price information, when the seller reacts first the low-priced sellers are likely to raise their prices (get more profit when the buyers come) rather than the high-priced sellers lowering their prices (gain customers from other sellers) which happens when buyers react first.

It is an interesting observation/model but calling it a cartel is a little bit over the top. The good/service reaches its market price regardless of whether it gets there from lower or higher prices.
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> "And ponies. We want ponies. We don't have to get all this stuff. We merely have to tie them up fighting it, and re-center the 'compromise' position"

I bet the MPAA et al have used this tactic to their own advantage thus far. I'm aware of this concept from negotiation tactics and it's made me think of the current situation in a completely different way. Thanks Joel.
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That's not always the case, scenes of Slumdog millionaire (in the streets) were filmed purely with DSLR, same for the subway scenes of Black Swan. Not a feature film but the entire season 6 finale of House was exclusively shot on a 5D mkII, and a couple of small BBC series have been.

I appreciate that of course 'proper' digital cinema cameras are better, but this shows that DSLRs are very much competent, and they are only going to get better.
Just saying... I remember the time in 90s when Polish coal miners didn't get guarantees from the Government regarding their pension plans. Well, they basically went to Warsaw and started riots. Real riots. As far as I remember they literally kidnapped member of the Administration or two. They destroyed a few government building in Warsaw. They terrorized and paralyzed the Government.

Next thing you know, the Government agreed to each and every one of the protesters requests. As I said: I love Poland Man.
As I see it, the point of the attack is to get media attention. This way you get public attention. And thus you raise awareness - and the number of participants in incoming protests.

So yeah, I'm actually really happy these takedowns took place, as long as it generates a lot of buzz in the media.
I never used his pool.

I just think that his behavior is intended to maximize the potential damage to everyone, he is well aware of that and does it on purpose, because someone hurt his feelings.

In my opinion there are other, more constructive options available.
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This website is translated version of a website which is related to the Iranian government.
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fa&tl...

It is written here that he was a developer and an author of the largest Iranian pornographic websites. (I cannot believe it because according to Persian Wikipedia , he studied in the best University of Technology in Iran called Sharif University which means that he could get fund from any University in the world to continue his studies and that was what he did , He traveled to Canada to study in the Victoria university but when he heard that his father is sick he went back to Iran to see his father but the Iranian Cyber arrested him)
His wife claimed that he just developed a software which he didn't know about where it was about to used. And as usual that a developer put his name in a file inside the software package he wrote his name in a file without the knowledge of where its going to be used.

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fa&tl...
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Yes - the middle class is getting smaller because more people are reaching the top.

http://www.nationalreview.com/agenda/288306/guest-post-scott...
It depends I suppose. If your employer has absolutely no idea that you aren't happy, then I would say there is a communication breakdown going on. If your employees are 'testing the water' so to speak, and you are treating them fairly and paying them fairly then they will discover that in looking at other options, no harm, no foul. If you are treating them poorly, paying them poorly, etc.. they will also discover that, but then again they should discover that.

I think this situation of employees looking around could really only upset people who desire the kind of blind company loyalty that simply doesn't exist anymore, for multiple reasons including a lack of loyalty/dedication from the employer.

Double standards implies treating two people in identical situations differently. This is not the case here as employees and employers aren't in identical situations, there is a definite information/power asymmetry in play.

Also, on one hand, there is a collusion between two parties. For an employee 'looking around' there is no collusion. Now if that same employee secretly tried to get his co-workers to quit and leave the employer high and dry at some vital point (or really any point), then they would be acting like just as big of douchebags as the kind of people that make these sort of agreements. But I haven't heard that is happening. I have basically heard companies say 'ohhh it is hard to retain super talented people because others are always trying to lure them away', yep, that sounds accurate. The solution isn't 'I know, let's all agree to NOT take each others good employees' but rather 'how can we stem attrition by understanding why these talented people are leaving and taking steps to fix the problem?' Then again I suppose making shady agreements over the phone is a lot simpler.