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A monopoly does not kill competition, it disuades it. Nobody competes with the monopoly because the incentives are not great enough to do so. The same incentives for success do not disappear because a monopoly emerges. The monopoly must still sell their item to a free market that's free to refuse their goods on moral or pragmatic grounds. A monopoly means solely that they are not challenged by a competitor and can therefore sell their product beholden only to demand, and not supply. Again, this is a _good_ thing.

The demand of the consumers that products be offered at the price they want, as opposed to the company's, is again plain and simple _greed_.

Let's not be coy about it. Consumers want more for less and they seek to use the government and the tyranny of the masses to force corporations, the private property of others, to give it to them. Again, this conduct is reprehensible and any government that encourages it will only be hurting itself and its citizens.

Let me repeat that, a monopoly is not some magical power to force one's will upon the people. In a free market, a monopoly remains subject to the demand of the market and cannot and will not succeed by offering a product nobody wants. Success is not anti-competitive, far from it! Success is the greatest incentive for competition that has ever existed.

You're forcing your desires onto a free market that is clearly making its own choice. You're proclaiming to know more about what's best for people than they do. Leave the free market alone, empower and grant the people their free will, educate, and if you want to change the world, do so by competing and earning it, not by undermining others' rights to satisfy your own ideology.
I didn't say that, I was just pointing out that when you get to the point of a monopoly it's very hard to get back. Worse still the big company then starts lobbying to make sure it stays a monopoly, America's phone networks are a good example of that.

Also the other big problem with monopolies is that they squeeze their supplier dry as they're the only game in town. So here in the UK the supermarkets are squeezing the farmers' margins to the extreme as if they take their business elsewhere that farmer's out of business. Who else can he sell the millions of tonnes he has in the ground to?

Further problems are caused by the big guys doing stuff like pumping water into chicken breast to make it look plump and increase the weight, increased revenues, customers think they're getting more for their money based solely on price/weight.

I also lament the death of bakeries, for example bread from supermarkets is horrible. Donuts suck. We used to have Chelsea Buns where I grew up, the dross they sell in supermarkets is roughly a tenth of the 'tastiness', it's just crap. But all the bakers are out of business because who wants to visit ten stores and pay more when you can visit one?

Over here in the UK they used to restrict how close a supermarket could be built to a town centre in order to curb their growth. I think they've relaxed that now as they've definitely got closer than they used to be. That's one example of how they used laws to try and give the smaller guys an advantage.

Another example is they have restricted the opening hours, but the supermarkets are now opening convenience stores, in my city centre alone there are 6 Tescos within 5 minutes walking distance of each other.

How to stop it? Should we stop it? I don't have any answers unfortunately. If I did I'd probably have a Nobel prize.

EDIT: The part of me that wants it to stop is that it's all so homogenous, all the stores are laid out exactly the same, they've all got the same 6 ready meals, the same 6 meat items, the same 6 larger brands, the same 6 cakes, the same 12 brands of crisps, the same 15 chocolate bars. Where's the local produce? Where's the seasonal produce? What if I don't want a pepporoni pizza, I want a chicken one? Is life really supposed to be that fucking boring? I rarely swear here, but I feel it, really feel worried for our collective soul.
This tree is about 30 minutes from my house, I have been there many time and many generations of my family have been there. I was planning on taking my son there soon. I was very sad to hear about this, the Senator has been a historic part of Old Florida.
At this price I'd consider the ebook by Mark Cuban (who is a billionaire), selling at $2.50 on amazon.

Sahil, I support a lot of your stuff and I'm a fan, but I'm not paying $5 for something that I'm not sure is good. I definitely would support the done ebook at the end (although it might take a while).
honestly, I have no clue what the boundaries are between disciplines and what lies under the umbrella of "computer science", but I recall many open problems related to distributed systems.

Although now that I think of it, those may also have been (re)phrased in terms of computational complexity.
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Yes, to an extent. I think the focus on what the ivies do or don't do distorts our view (the majority of US undergraduates attend community colleges, for example) of what truly is broken in higher ed. I've commented before on it here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3309894
> The question is why don't you ever hear about some huge Chinese or Russian website being hacked?

Well, I have, occasionally, heard about such things, but personally, I don't live in China or Russia, I don't speak Chinese or Russian, I don't really know any Russians, the only ethnic Chinese I know are either Silicon Valley residents or employees of a Taiwan-based company I work for as an engineer (and at least two of them are also US citizens and spent the vast majority of their careers in Silicon Valley!), and at the end of the day, I just don't really care what goes on with Chinese and Russian websites. I'd venture a guess that I'm not unusual in that regard amongst Americans or, for that matter, most other non-Russian and non-Chinese people in the world.

I'd also note that laws and business culture in both places may well be even less conversant to public revelation of security breaches than in the English-speaking world.

Thus, I would find it very odd if a western news agency spent much time reporting on the security of Chinese and Russian websites.
>Again, the video is plain dishonest. It compares the free Gmail with the paid 365. Why do we need to assume Microsoft's Hotmail banners are not based on page content?

It was just a news article that a lot of people found interesting, it wasn't really commenting on the merits of the video itself. A lot of people thought it was newsworthy so it was upvoted.

But some overly sensitive folks seem to have the idea that it must be buried from more people seeing it, even if there was interest.

>ome on... Excellent and Florian Mueller in the same sentence? The only thing I never saw with his name is a criticism of Microsoft. I have to wonder why...

And there is never anything postive from Groklaw about Microsoft, I wonder why....

Also, do you realize that flagging articles like that can cause the account to be hell banned unjustly just for thinking such news might be interesting and submitting something that's obviously not spam or otherwise bannable content?
Does Visual Studio run on Linux or OS X?

I'm asking because IntelliJ IDEA and Java do and I'm not leaving my POSIX toolchain for Visual Studio, no matter how awesome it is.

If you want a "continuous stack" there's nothing better than Java. And yet many developers still hate it, while many love the extremely limited iOS platform, which goes to show that this trait is not so important as one might think.
This is exactly right. I completely detest knee-jerk reactions and blanket statements that crop up instead of some good old fashioned critical thinking.

I went to a school, a good school, that was predominantly asian in my department. If admissions are racial for no other reason than to diversify the student body, this is a reasonable approach on its own - though I'm sure there are plenty of other more old-fashioned legitimately fashioned arguments.

So you had good grades but didn't get in because you are asian? Tough shit - a lot goes into creating a desirable incoming class than grades and standardized test scores.
I think a lot of other editors (even in Visual Studio, Netbeans, Eclipse) have emacs keybindings though, so the situation is much better for an emacs user. It is much easier to implement due to modelessness of emacs.
This is exactly what makes it exciting for me. Microsoft is trying a fairly innovative thing here -- it's risky and perhaps too idealistic, but if they can pull it off so it works well, it'll be hard to beat.
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Downvotes are locked out after several days.

I've noticed that replies appear to out lock after a longer time based on the chaos which sometimes appears on the "Ask" page when I've gone to a 1200 day old story.
Perhaps some kind of cyber-warfare non-proliferation treaty akin to START. Nation states agree to not launch APTs against eachother, and pledge to prosecute any of their citizens that launch such attacks independently.
I'm betting this has to do with color correction.

http://www.gballard.net/psd/go_live_page_profile/embeddedJPE...
Oops! Indeed

(7 << 1) + 1 # => 15
Agreed.

Note "some of the activities could be innocent" ... really? ... "and must be examined by law enforcement" ... ok then ... "to determine whether there is a basis to investigate".

Sure smells like an end run on "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause..."

Here the "could be innocent" implies default of not being innocent, and the law enforcement gets involved before determination of basis to investigate.

It's "If you've got nothing to hide, why are you hiding it?" in flyer form.
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You have to put a javascript on your registration page and then you see all your new signups in a realtime dashboard with added social context, like the screenshot on the home page. You also get email alerts whenever someone who is really influential signs up.

There is also the option of calling a REST api to send us new signups.
The privacy link (http://sitecrawl.net/privacy) is giving me a 404 error.
They're both part of the same story: that individual investors are bad at this, and professional managers aren't any good at it either.

Fair point though, that was definitely a conceptual leap of some distance there between the two.

The skill vs. luck argument is actually better investigated by looking at a separate data set: that of the persistence of performance over time for the same manager. We'll do a story about that sometime in the future.
I'm curious to see how IE10 preview scores in this test, anyone have it handy?
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It doesn't, no. MonoDevelop is an attempt to make something that will, but it's... iffy.

I suspect there isn't any easy solution to this one- same as there's no easy way to make OS X/iOS apps without running OS X yourself.
Though sometimes downvotes are used to express disagreement, downvotes should be considered editorial feedback - either you didn't make your point clearly, or your comment is considered likely to derail the discussion.

Use the "edit" and "delete" links, respectively if you are concerned about the karma score of a particular comment.

It is bad form on HN to complain about downvotes.
Not solely on family income (but I'd suggest that if 100K is nothing in Manhattan one might be better served by looking a bit farther afield, Brooklyn perhaps...), but as it currently stands low income students receive no advantage at many elite institutions.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/25/business/economy/25leonhar...
What's to stop people from putting whatever they want on the checkbox? For example, a white person can put Asian without having to prove it, right?
I see absolutely no difference at all. I'm using OS X 10.6, Chrome 16.0.912.77, and Firefox 10.0.
You're correct. Precision is important. It would have been more accurate to say "...100% academic merit..."

The material point is the same though, I really can see where the hypothetical snowboarder might have something to offer the Ivy community even if there are others more qualified academically. But again...I can't attach a number of points to that. I don't know what that number would be.

To the issue...I do think there should be more taken into account than just academics. I just can't think of a way to take those things into account AND be fair.
> They are not controversial posts at all, and most of them are just friendly advice. Has anyone else had this happen to them?

If you think that this is dick behavior, why do you care?
It's not opt in. We add context to a user based on public information about him available online. Being able to opt in is an interesting idea.
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does not work on mac, but this guy has a script:

http://phildawson.tumblr.com/post/484798267/ssh-copy-id-in-m...
Since in Ruby false and nil are the only "falsish" values and everything else is true, their values has been chosen to make a boolean test as efficient as possible. See: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/trunk/include/ruby/ruby.h#...
> 100 top violin players in the same class, no matter how impressive their individual applications are. Instead, they want a complete and balanced orchestra, for example.

I agree that SAT scores shouldn't be the only factor, I disagree though if you are saying race can and should be factor. Where it's legal and appropriate to discriminate on say what instrument you play it is illegal (and most would agree immoral) to discriminate on race. Proving racial discrimination may be tricky in this case though.
Ask HN: How do you pick your domain name?
i started working on a SaaS project a few weeks back and finished the MVP 2 weeks ago. however i can't put it out yet because every domain name that i can think of which related to the business somehow, is taken! so this is postponing my launch.

have you guys had the same issue before? do you just give up and pick any random available domain?! How important is it for your domain name to be related to the service you are offering?
Good for you. For me this was a real problem :(

This is why I use ErgoEmacs :)
OK, that explains the thinking of someone who admits they don't like Microsoft much.

That doesn't explain the scale of the flagging.
vector and gesture. This demo is a use case of our SDK.
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Maybe AWS is a Google competitor?
I don't believe any such static host would necessarily improve your performance over your own host or s3.

Cloudfront is surprisingly inexpensive, especially for smaller web applications and websites: http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/

You probably have only a few MBs of static content, cloudfront can be configured to have a cloudfront URL that just fetches from http://yournormalwebsite.com. No S3 bucket involved, no uploading content. Just change your static content URLs to be http://cloudfrontURL/static content.

Even with tens of thousands of visitors a month, you'll owe... < $5.

Or as suggested elsewhere here, just use cloudflare, which is $0.
How do you tell who is influential? How can you map email addresses to Twitter accounts, or other social media accounts? Most influential people don't really share it to the public.

Anyway, I know this site was just put up to garner demand, and you probably haven't implemented anything. If this really works, I'd be willing to pay say $30/month for it.
It's not a craftsmen's discussion. A craftsman picks the tools they feel the most comfortable with to get the job done.

Sure, craftsmen like to discuss their tools, but as an open exchange about their experiences in order to learn from it, or maybe even simply out of professional curiosity.

The whole "my stack is better than your stack", and the "PHP sucks" thing that is commonplace on HN, proggit and other forums is not a craftsmen's discussion. It's a juvenile playground pissing contest that has nothing to do with craftsmanship.

By the way, anybody who thinks that real crafsmen typically use the "best" tools available has never seen neither an artist nor a plumber at work.
Firstly, Ubuntu Alternate CD has an excellent installer, it's not text-based as in you have to type in commands, or compile anything, it's just like the Windows XP installer, except for all the sideloading of drivers. You can set up an encrypted LVM, or whatever partitioning scheme you like, the default settings also seemed very sensible so you don't even have to touch anything. Secondly, regular Ubuntu installer offers to encrypt your home dir.
The point is that I know Google parses the contents of my emails for keywords and then transfers that data around its ad systems (at the least). And hence presents an extra way for things to go horribly wrong.

I also know Hotmail (by it's own admission) does not do this.

Aside from running emails through a spamfilter, I'd rather not have my email provider gather intel on me via the contents of my emails.
Most probably they will add that once they get the initial feedback.
I'm curious as to how it defines identity. If handled through email or domain, I'm sure many influencers have non-public spam-catcher gmails; if done by name alone, there will be false positives due to matching names or pranks.

If I met the threshold for an influential person, this would probably make me more than a little uncomfortable, and I'd start signing up to services with fake info.
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For what it's worth, these are based on the TI Locosto chipset which also integrates GSM/GPRS. We'll see if the released development platform includes enough TI blobs to actually use the radio (I suspect it won't, but I can always be pleasantly surprised).

Locosto has a 104Mhz ARM7, no MMU, and I think in the configuration on the Peek has 4MB of RAM and 16MB of flash. In the Peek email/Twitter client configuration, it runs TI's embedded RTOS (Nucleus) with Peek-internal code (called, fittingly, PeekUX) on top.

http://elinux.org/Peek is the best source for data on the hardware, and http://www.geekypeek.com/ is the blog of one of the engineers on the project - if you go back a year or two there are a few interesting tidbits about the device.

(edited: 8MB of flash -> 16MB of flash per the eLinux Wiki)
I actually found it pretty easy to understand, but it wasn't clear that it was the Klout score. I half thought you mined a ton of celeb emails and were checking them against what I send.

This is awesome though! Great idea! I'm already up and using it!
Why don't you first make a success out of gumroad before telling us about how you made a great success out of gumroad?
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I would say just because one culture is more inclined to sports and social activities doesn't mean it is racist to use these things as a discriminating factors. I don't think it's possible to argue that a selection criteria is racist unless the color of your skin is the sole discriminator.
There will not be an ext5. ext4 was only created as a stop-gap. BRTFS is the future 'blessed' filesystem.
I would agree with you, but they're trying to preserve the dying model's functions in the new model, which doesn't operate like that.

I completely agree with you, that doing something like you mentioned makes sense, but it doesn't excuse them from trying to censor the internet, buy congress and be an online bully that gets to take down entire sites for actions their users have done.
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What about if they made merit not just where you are, but rather how much you have achieved?
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This is a cool idea, Sahil, and I'd love for more entrepreneurs to publish their experiences and thoughts transparently during the process of building their companies (as opposed to retroactively writing it with perfect hindsight).

If others do this, setting up a live chat with potential readers in a Google Hangout-style way where you can talk about what you have done live with potential readers would be valuable. Also an obvious idea is allowing an explanatory video to be posted, but that may also clutter Gumroad.
Agreed.

College is a place where students learn far more things than can be learned in classes or even books.

In terms of teaching students to live in the real world, the value of racial and economic diversity in the student population of a college is often underrated.

EDIT: Given both downvotes and upvotes, I guess what I have said is controversial. For the record I am south-asian myself .
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>the act of pinning things feels similar to hitting the buy now button.

Female perspective: that's not quite true. If you want to buy something for now, you'll buy it. It's more like a keeping a scrapbook of things you like to buy one day, when money and space is not an issue. Like for when you buy a house, or get an end-of-year bonus or gift ideas to remember for later.
I suggest looking into studies of radiation effects upon computer systems. They do a lot of bit-flipping. I was privy to results from a confidential study once, and as one might expect, enough bit flips cause big problems (the study went into more details than that, of course).
= will also indent any selection you have automagically. gg=G will do your whole document, and V[selection]= will give you a selection range to indent. < and > are nice as well for indenting specific amounts in the left or right direction.
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Really cool, but unfortunately USPS won't let me create a shipping label from outside the US.
I think WP8/W8 integration is rather overblown, but the difference in approaches seems to be that Apple and Google are scaling up phone OSes to a tablet OS, whereas MS seems to be scaling down a desktop OS to a tablet, while simultaneously taking the UI paradigm of their phone OS and scaling it up to tablet/desktop.

This means you can dock your Win 8 x86 tablet with a keyboard/mouse and be using the power of full Windows. You can write code for the tablet and debug it from the very same tablet using Visual Studio. You can't really do that with iPads and Android tablets which are relegated to being consumption devices only.
Java has its merits.

Close integration with the OS is not one of them.

Standard graphics libraries which meet contemporary expectations is also unfortunately missing.

There's nothing wrong with Java as a development environment, but the cost of "getting Java on the phone" is at best comparable to support for Windows (and at worst you're dealing with Oracle).
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Vimcasts is also a nice series of video tutorials, and the author's accent is lovely to listen to.

http://vimcasts.org
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Well, I hope to see it in the space elevator sooner rather than later.