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"Products such as Google Checkout, a Web payment service, and Google TV Ads, which sells television advertising time, haven't generated significant revenue".

If Google dropped every product that doesn't return them significant revenue, they'd be back to just good old-fashioned Google.com.
Ditto.

It plays well with JRuby + Warbler, sits on Rack for pre- and post-processing goodness when needed (without having to intertwingle with stuff in the app proper), and basically gets out of your way. I don't feel like I have to learn assorted ill-documented mini-DSLs in order to just write a Ruby app that sits on the Web.

#ramaze on freenode rocks, too.

It's the most Ruby-ish of Ruby Web tools I've used.
I've no first hand knowledge of Europe, but given what I know of human nature, I'm pretty distrustful of someone describing a place the size of a continent as intellectual... still, it does make me kinda wish it were true! But I mean, honestly...
Is it me, or is that just a splog? They took the actual post from:

http://redeye.firstround.com/2007/03/the_first_penny.html

then watermarked the images with their URL. Why would you post that here?
In the era when paddy_m grew up (i.e., 1940-2000)? Almost certainly.

Incidentally, if families truly needed their children's paychecks, wouldn't child labor laws merely consign them to starvation?

In reality, child labor laws merely mitigate a small problem: depraved parents forcing their children to work for personal gain. (This is small in the sense that not too many such parents exist.) But unless paddy_m's parents fall into this category, child labor laws are irrelevant to him.
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Assorted post-rock in Amarok, lately liking My Education and Lymbyc Systym.
I feel bad for you because you've been programmed to be so radically inconsistent. You act like evolution was made up just to weaken the theistic position, but it wasn't. The model of evolution emerged from a host of speciation models that existed, ranging from "God made it that way 500 years ago" to complex and absurdly complex secular models involving generative forces.

History is full of examples where a model emerged from lots of separate data and turned out to be correct. Another great example is Atoms. For a long time, people thought that an atomic model of matter wasn't science because you couldn't directly observe such tiny things. Turns out that was wrong. Then along comes quantum mechanics, and now we're on even more bizarre and even thinner ice trying to map out effects which observation actually destroys.

And yet we're making progress, just like we have in Biology. The ONLY difference that is relevant to our discussion between quantum mechanics and evolutionary theory is that your holy text has something to say about one and not the other.

You're deliberately throwing out the evidence because you don't like the conclusion. You're making a special exception for Evolution that no other scientific theory has to make it through just because your religion tells you to.

As soon as Macro-Evolution is empirically observed, then I will accept it as fact.

No you won't. When I was younger I had heated debates that ended with, "As soon as we can see evidence of flagellum evoling I will accept [evolution] as fact." They didn't, and you won't. You will move the goalpost, draw new false dichotomies, and struggle to preserve your world-view.

But for now, it's apparent we agree that it's simply a matter of where we're assigning our faith

Quite the opposite. You have decided to have faith, and I reject that notion. Evolution is a useful model for biology, nothing more. If we can provide a better model with excellent evidence involving invisible winged greyhounds, I think that'd be way more entertaining.

You've admitted your position is based in faith, and that's why all the logic, evidence, and reason that I can muster cannot unseat your position. Logic, evidence and reason can only act on rational people, and your faith is–at its core–inherently irrational.
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I believe you're correct. That's what "flag" is for.
your comment reminded me of __python__
Beta, and not r-squared? A beta of one would imply that Google's revenue (or profit?) increase exactly as much as the GDP. An r-squared of one would imply that Google's revenue changes in proportion to GDP changes.

But he probably knows this better than I do, so presumably I'm missing something.
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When my brother broke his arm, he had a local doctor in the hospital put a cast on it, and then saw it off.

I do hope you're referring to the cast.
No idea how I missed that.
Great story, this is how magic is created. Few mates getting together and want to create something. It's not the idea that count, its the motivation!!
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Well, the goal of this site is not to grow large, it is to be useful (as per PG).

Digg and reddit are companies before all else; their goal is to grow as large as possible.

Artima hasn't "gone digg", I don't see why this site has to.
I don't see why I who commented on a valuable takeaway from the post should be downmodded for this and your comment is upmodded. Yours is the one irrelevant to the post.

PG, please add a official Don'ts in formatting. It is nothing but natural to quote elsewhere on the web.
Thanks! I'll test it soon. I'm still syncing my phone with a new computer.
Yeah was just leaving the comment for moderator so they'd know why.
Just an extra data point for you, but I would find some sort of chronological history of 37signals, the development process behind each product, the whole way things have come together, with useful tips and insights interspersed, an absolute must buy.

As much as I like the general advice, I think a slightly more narrative piece would be an excellent read.
I agree with that statement.

The question now is "what is the solution for corruption?"

Human nature is selfish, which leads someone with power and authority to abuse it for their own personal gain. The solution lies in providing the most reward to people with the authority when they make the "ethical" decision.

*I quote "ethical" because it's never as simple as A is ethical, B is not. I use ethical as meaning not corrupt - which also needs a better definition.
I went back and read the star rating code again after reading this. I didn't get it the first time because I'm not familiar with Python and am a beginner, but when I realized what she did my brain hurt.

However, I can't say I haven't said embarrassingly stupid things from time to time...OK, at least not since treating ADD, but still...nobody's perfect. I would also like to point out that there is merit in the approach she took, in that she just got it done instead of hesitating and thinking over what the optimal solution would be. A good example of iterating on a functional original.
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"Here are my goals. How can we achieve them?" is a great way to start a dialogue with a potential designer without 'coaching' them or designing-by-proxy.
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Nice! Lots of stuff on there I listen to.

I have a growing appreciation for Yongfook... I'm using his Sweetcron script (which is brilliantly executed), his other projects are also really well done. It's just him and it amazes me that he has time to pump out his own music.

Speaking of which, if you haven't heard this artist yet... you'd probably really like him. He was well known as a designer (iso50.com) and self-produced his own music, equally talented.

http://tychomusic.com
While the angular momentum of wheels and tires does make a pretty large contribution to overall vehicle inertia, the fact that the wheel is rotating won't influence the specific issue of unsprung mass one way or another.
Every once in a while I sense what true panic would be like when I look around my local WalMart and ask myself "what would happen if all of those credit cards suddenly stopped working?"

I'm more afraid of this than even the darkest jihad plot from the most extreme nutjob in the middle east. I'm not much for the TEOTWAWKI doomsday scenarios, but if all of the credit cards stopped working? damn! that'd be tense.
Metallica's new album is actually pretty good - awesome music - though it seems that James's voice is starting to lag a bit behind the rest of the band - shame really - their first legitimate shred album in years.

btw - I've seen this post on HN a few times now - always fun to read - has anyone made a web app for this yet?
he should check with alexa first because for Plurk things seems to go very good:

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/plurk.com
The overly conversational tone doesn't seem to do this guy justice.
-- History is full of examples where a model emerged from lots of separate data and turned out to be correct.

History is also full of even more examples of models that have turned out to be incorrect. Historical examples of validity have no bearing on the independent validity of Macro-Evolution. And you're trying to lecture me on basic logic and rationality?

-- You're deliberately throwing out the evidence because you don't like the conclusion.

Right, and you do the exact same thing when you take evidence that indicates complex functioning systems have a designer and simply throw it out the window in favor of your own model. This argument goes nowhere on both sides.

-- You will move the goalpost

No, I won't move the goalpost, because the goalpost is clearly defined as the empirical observability of Macro-Evolution, in the same way that heliocentricity was proven by its empirical observability. There is nothing farther you can go than empirically observing a fully new type of life come from one another. Again, stop trying to extrapolate your historical experiences with others into an independent case. I will be firmly convinced once I see a creature (a fish?) evolve into a cat or some other creature.

-- You have decided to have faith, and I reject that notion.

Tell me then, how do you bridge the gap of believing that something exists when in fact it cannot be empirically observed? However you may label it, the belief in anything that cannot be empirically observed is never fully grounded in rationality, but an intuitive feeling that it is the truth.
The problem with wheel motors has historically been unsprung mass (the mass of the portion of the car that moves with the wheel, rather than with the chassis -- typically the tire, wheel, brakes, suspension upright, and half of the driveshafts, springs, dampers and suspension arms).

The problem with unsprung mass is that it lowers the amount of available friction (for cornering, acceleration or braking) on bumpy roads. What happens is that the inertia of the unsprung mass as it's cresting a bump partially or completely offsets the downward force of the weight of the car, and the tire no longer has any normal force with which to create friction.

A good active suspension can help by measuring the force of the tire on the road and attempting to keep it roughly constant (by actively shoving around the suspension). But historically active suspensions have been energy hogs, soaking up something like a liter of fuel per hundred kilometers. It's possible that newer power electronics and an attempt to actually focus on energy efficiency could reduce that, but it's likely to be expensive and complicated in any case.
its mainly a fluff piece without actually talking about what he's working on
I've only noticed this happening when I have JavaScript turned off.
Why was this article written in the voice of a drunk frat boy? She bled out. She bled out! Like, totally!
Don't they know that porn picks trends? Surely Ning doesn't want to go the way of betamax and HD DVD.
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You've hit upon a good point. Personally, I think it needs to be left up to individual conscience. Why? In times past, you'd say something to someone and that would be the end of it. Sure, maybe it'd be repeated as hearsay, but people don't put such stock in that and you can deny it. Now, we're all going around with histories following us. If that's the case, we'll all become lame. None of us want certain crap out there. Maybe we shouldn't have said it, but if you take a hard stance on that, it just means people will be lame. They'll be hesitant to post, they won't be at all controversial, etc.

HN people generally have a good attitude and post cool stuff. It's a great community. I'd rather people retain the right to deny a bit of what they've posted than loose some of the awesome posts. Plus, maybe the delete function stops stuff from becoming flame wars with people deleting rather than continually fighting. I don't know.
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At the time, though, the U.S. was still in a depression, and I doubt that either founder expected a war that would be great for their business.

This is why my favorite Goethe quote is: "Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace and power in it."
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Honorable if you're in the US.
It's a pun. Editors do it all the time.

...

Anyway, I've never had any luck with google. Yahoo charges me 0.10 dollars for certain keywords, while google wants 0.50. Sorry. Not worth it. It's probably just a quirk, but as far as I'm concerned, google doesn't exist in the ad sphere.
Yeah. I was writing a blog post and the upbeat tempo helps me move right along.
"But this is a strange thing to have settled on: It is the lenders' responsibility to make sure that their customers can afford repayment. "

I don't think it's strange at all. The lender is the one that assumes the risk that it may not get the money back. Thus, it's up to the lender to do whatever verification it deems necessary (and legal).
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I definitely though Tumblr admin vulnerability would have made the list.
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I think the main problem for female science entrepreneurs is they're in the tiny sliver of the Venn diagram where Entrepreneurial women (a minority, but perhaps larger than the amount of male entrepreneurs) and women in science (a minority no matter how you slice it) meet. There are many self-employed women working as fashion designers, restauranteurs, Innkeepers, real-estate agents, and Yoga instructors. There are likewise millions (or at least hundreds of thousands) of women in the sciences and in engineering, but yaw, they're a minority. Finally, some of these entrepreneurial engineer women are attractive. But now you're getting into a minority among a minority among a minority, and it is unlikely any of these women would be noteworthy if compared to the richest entrepreneurs (Rockefeller, Vanderbilt), the most prominent scientists (Feynman, Newton), or the most beautiful people. For someone who is also a woman [1] to be notable in all three fields would be astronomically unlikely even if these fields were not somewhat incompatible [2]. If a woman is fairly good at all three fields, that's amazing, but it shouldn't come as a surprise that she is neither very attractive compared the most beautiful women or very talented compared to the best programmers.

[1] Notable women are presumably twice as scarce of notable people or either gender.

[2] One can only do so much with one's life, especially if one aims at being the best at something.
We can always sub-categorize:

American adults?
or
Adults who take credit when offered to them without thinking about consequences

I think his point was whether this category of people should be labeled as adults because they don't perceive or that they ignore the risk of not being able to repay, which leads to hardship for not just them but other innocent people.
As a (~$10,000+ in sales) Checkout user, it isn't surprising to me that it isn't generating significant revenue: you're giving me a 100% discount on it to encourage me to increase my (drumroll please) AdWords spend.

Which makes business sense, granted, since AdWords remains a license for Google to print money. But if it is the only product your company can bring itself to charge for, of course it is going to be the only thing that generates revenues!
How about timeless mistakes:

1. No search (this site) or crappy search (reddit)

2. Unreadably small text

3. Ecommerce sites that don't make prices clear ("call a sales representative and give us all your contact information we can then spam you with")

...

More: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9605.html
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Reality is frequentist. You are small, consequently you can't do better than being a Bayesian. And you'll still be wrong.

Bummer.
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I don't see a redeem link anywhere.
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Even though we had tremendous success self-publishing Getting Real, we decided that this time we wanted to write a best seller.

Is preemptively saying "I'm going to write a best seller" ambitious, or arrogant?

I think it's far more viable to say "We want to appeal to a larger audience and make a deeper impact" than saying "we want a book that's going to fly off the shelves", given the perception many people already have about a company that runs around touting their own experiences as the golden standard for how web startups 'should' be run.

It'll probably be a good book, but I feel as if this will be recycled information haphazardly put together and marketed excessively.

In any case: Good luck breaching the wall of physical publications of business advice.
I was basing my comment on the scenario where privating schooling was "hyper-competitive", for example if it replaced public schools. So that would make a few assumptions:

1) Advertising could be done on a wider scale and more targeted (not just one class) making it more profitable

2) Once a well established system and relationships are made with advertisers they would make much more money per ad

3) In order for the school to remain competitive, they would need more resources to provide a better service, giving them an incentive to maximize revenue.

Based on that scenario it doesn't seem that unreasonable.
Google still isn't doing paper - quite a niche.
Maybe all paper printed should be funded by ads - eg FedEx/Kinko's paper with a nice add watermark.

It's kind of like ads on toilet paper - best read before use.
:hugs: right back at you! :D
well, I'm in the bay area if you have any suggestions!
When in Mumbai, you send your driver to the DMV to get you a drivers license, along with the standard bribe for the inspector.

This would not happen if the cost of putting a bad driver on the road was so high that the society would fight to prevent it. That would be the case if the legal costs, repair costs and above all medical costs of an accident were enormous. Like it is in the US.

But no, in India the government will bail you out if you get in a road accident. They do that by providing free healthcare, maintaining low fines, leaving glaring legal loopholes for your convenience and in most cases keeping motor mechanics in a low income tax exempt category, so you can fix your vehicle for dirt-cheap.

Hence you don’t care if a terrible driver is permitted to drive. Neither does society at large.

Strong economies are driven by the duality of strong incentives and costly penalties. Weak ones are undone by cultural and economical ecosystems built solely for saving each other’s ass.
Ditto on Air. Others: Radiohead, Tea Party, Wheezer, Andreas Scholl, Yo-yo Ma, Cesaria Evora, Coldplay, Miles Davis (especially Kind of Blue), Bossa Nova (Antônio Carlos Jobim), etc. Very eclectic.
today:

the seeds - cant seem to make you mine

hermits hermits - ms brown you have a lovely daughter

joanna newsome - ys

beach boys - pet sounds

panda bear - person pitch

bach - bradenburg concerto 1-4 (trevor pinnock ftw)

sam cooke - live at the harlem square

wire - pink flag

aretha franklin - i never loved a man ...

mark sultan - the sultanic verses (best album name)

the field - from here we go sublime

(it was a long, long day)

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Ask HN: ruby tools/frameworks for testing windows GUI apps?
Have you used one or any recommendations?
.. reading this after spending 2 days in emerg system fixing.

Only way this worked at all:

1. Unit tests

2. (Heavy) Load testing

3. Version control, and knowing how to use it effectively.

What I wanted:

1. Observability of what's going on in the system

If you have to attach a debugger or profiler, just to get a stack trace or know the pressure on the GC, you're not in a good place.
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I think that meme may have reached it's expiration date.

It has been true that new forms of media are first taken up by adult entertainment, but usually mass and late adopters drive the porn out, or at least make it less than significant in terms of usage volume.
It might be a overly broad, but I don't think its entirely untrue.

Your mileage will vary of course - Spaniards and Brits are very different.
And the most irritating part about this is you mention ID. The most ironic part of ID is that it's not inconsistent with evolution. Evolution is just the mechanism. It's well within human capacity to design evolving systems, so why couldn't an omniscient God do the same? And indeed, wouldn't this vastly simplify the process?

I personally don't wish to add any power to the whole ID "debate". But the point you raise is one that I have often thought about myself. It's only that certain groups need to hold to the bible as the "inerrant word of God" (the earth is ~5000 years old, dinosaurs did not exist and obviously fossils were planted by God to test our faith, Adam was created first and then Eve from his rib bone etc.) that makes them fail to realise exactly this: Evolution could fit into their world view (slightly adjusted) as the mechanism put in place by their "intelligent designer".