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As I said, I usually buy what's on sale (it really is a good way to keep up variety). When chicken breast is on sale it's usually pretty good, in the $2-3.50/lb range which is about half off. Whole chicken is almost always economical. That said, there are a lot of other cuts of meat (pork chops, roasts, etc). After the holidays you'll be able to pick up turkey and ham really cheap. I got a ham last year and threw a party, it was ridiculously cheap and delicious. It's all about being flexible, if you're alright with going with the flow you can get away with spending much less than you'd think.

It's a fun challenge for me and I've come up with some fun recipes as a result. That said, I do splurge where it counts--good quality olive oil, parmesan, fresh herbs, etc. At the end of the day I'm in it for a tasty meal, not a cheap meal.
I hope that most of us already realize this.
that comment was meant for @ram1024 - "i don't even take my real life as seriously as they take their virtual lives...
sadly", i got down modded.
My other projects.
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Is that 600 megs or 600 gigs?

Because 600 megs is ~60 photos for me...
Not starving in the street: AKA full time job.
Would I be using Mac OS X if it were as popular as Windows?

...
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Yes.

First, there's a signalling problem. Users buy Vonage, it's terrible. Why should they believe anything the incumbent ISP says about VOIP, unless the ISP fesses up to meddling with their traffic?

Secondly, how will they identify VOIP traffic ? If such practices become pervasive, folks just won't use plaintext SIP/RTP anymore.
Reading Hacker News

though i use it for taking breaks...
What are you on? I ask because in another post you say "real estate" will lose 50%, if that is true, then you have a severe price drop in a non liquid asset, also if the recession is as severe as you say it will be, then people will not be spending any money on goods which will drive the price of most goods down resulting in a period of immense deflation, which can be equally damaging.

I don't have an advanced degree in econ like you may, so I don't really get what you are saying but you seem to be "amused" by being overly negative. you are making Roubini sound like a shiny happy person.
Because we do not have any planets as huge as Formalhaut a, b and c in our solar system...
Thanks, yes that helped. Mostly what I thought already, just wasn't sure.
What do you mean with silent errors? Like float representation?

I find matplotlib to very easy to use and creates beautiful plots but I haven't tried Matlab so can't compare obv.
Wow, awesomest thing I have seen in a while! This video just made me really, really like Crichton. A successful person is never truly great without humility. Thank you for submitting.
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Unfortunately internet writers are mostly paid with ads. I see Forbes, however, was wise enough to include an ad on the print version.
vote one on this.
I use LeechBlock too, but It doesn't work perfectly in firefox+ubuntu, if I close the browser it loose all the previous setting. I have to import it again.

kind bit pain, but it works for me
Oxer's electronics obsession - sparked by a technician who lived in a bungalow at the back of his childhood house when he was five - has actually turned him into a trophy husband.

"She [Ann] actually finds it quite entertaining and whenever I've done something new and guests come over she's the first person to go around demonstrating it," he said.

One of Oxer's next projects is to modify the bathroom scales with a Bluetooth-enabled mini computer that reports weight measurements to the house computer. The data would be logged in a spreadsheet, allowing graphs to be generated showing progress over time.

He then found his fancy electronic locks ripped out, the keys in the standard locks changed and a curious, smashed bathroom scale in the front yard left as the only hint to what transpired.
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Actually, from your own analysis of other bear markets, the best thing to do is to dump everything you can into the markets, a la Buffet. (Wonder if this is exactly what he's thinking?)

DJIA will rebound at some point to around 12k, then back down to 5k

Clearly then, the best course of action is to invest, then get the heck out right as the market seems to have recovered well...
nice one .. almost got me ;)
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Public: its OK, everything is being taken care of, you can now get back to your reality TV shows.
Horribly inefficient is still better than presenting porn in unrelated searches while safe mode is on.
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Finding good documentation on PyXPCOM.
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I think what you've got here has a lot of potential; let me echo some things and maybe make some other suggestions.

First, I think it is a great idea decomposing stock variance. Really, I do want to know what moved my stock. However, it's not really clear what your chart is telling me. I see market and I see the stock price and I see that they are different but I don't know why they are different. What I'd imagined was suppose you start with the return on the value weighted Wilshire 5000 possibly adjusted by empirical beta. Presumably there will be some residual price movement, some of that is coming from sector changes. It would make sense to see the sector effect as a different color tacked on to the market effect. Then you add news effects and then the leftover would be unknown or some such. Perhaps on news days you assume all the residual movement is due to news and then carry forward that price difference through the non-news periods.

As you've got it I assumed your chart was just comparing the stock return with the return on the S&P until I read the comments here. You're news history and the associated price change is awesome, in academic finance there is a long tradition of doing event studies (e.g. what is the effect on a stock price to an announcement of a seasoned equity offering?). If I understand what you're doing you've essentially done an event study of every possible event for all stocks throughout time. That's pretty cool. In fact, if you used academic standard methods calculating your expected returns you might even have a dataset that research universities would be interested in buying from you.

One possible thing traders might like that you might be able to pull off. Suppose I'm worried a stock is going to get hit with an "identify theft" leak. If you put a little text processing on your news titles you could determine the average effect that kind of announcement will have on the average and maybe for a stock in particular. So lets imagine "identity theft" has an average negative return of six percent. Then I check identity theft with American Standard and I get 0.1 percent because the negative identity theft returns are linked with banking and retail sector returns and not really with the market.

I'm a little worried that your design is too cutesy. I would expect websites that do lots of statistics to have more hard corners. I understand you want the site to look accessible but you want it to appear intelligent and accessible. There's got to be a compromise in between somewhere.
Does the classical model really work though?

I took 'classical model' to mean basically use what's out there. Adsense or something similar or starting their own ad program that works similarly to adsense or using an ad program similar to what NYT or many other big news networks use & giving it generous screespace. Something like this:
http://www.nytimes.whsites.net/mediakit/ . I assume that NYT supplement whatever pageviews they cannot sell directly with adsense. Basically by classical model, I understood 'go with what the world is currently offering'.

Has anyone tried measuring this?

Yes people have measured this. You can be sure that media sites (newspapers & such) do. They probably have the optimal configurations.

It is possible to get some more clicks (even purposeful ones), by making them bigger & noisier. Up to a point.
I'm mocking up every page in HTML right now. My cofounder and I are scouring over all the details, trying to make absolutely gorgeous pages. (I know every person who makes an HTML thinks this, but I truly think that the few pages we've finalized are superb.)

Next semester, I'm in an advanced PHP course - enough to really firm up the things I'm working on. I'll probably have a prototype made winter break, so I'll be able to fix up the beta and stabilize it as part of that class, and have a working model in time to apply for YCombinator this summer.

I'm working with other PHP projects so I can get confident enough in PHP to make my site. The code for it is really simple: one of the things that makes me certain about my idea is that it's an incredibly basic one that hasn't been used in the way I'll be using it. I'm not too worried about it getting complex, so I'll know exactly when I'm ready to dash it out. But HTML first.
The US administration had the best of intentions: as stated, to improve the home ownership rate of blacks and hispanics. You can find GWB making speeches about this in 2003. They also failed to regulate the markets where the bad debts were being sold with good credit ratings. Incompetant yes, immoral no.

The banks intentionally obscured the value of the bad debts to other investors. And greedy people were encouraged to get second and third homes when they didn't need to by greedy real estate agents. That was immoral.
Someone moderated you to zero. I think you make a fair point: poor people's debt is exactly what sub prime mortgage boom was about.
For me it's about having the apps I want to use, good cut and paste, and better updating tools.

I use Ubuntu because it's good. Not because it's obscure.
heh. i doubt if folks even notice fake new york times.
The first thing I noticed is the bad grammar. It never impresses me to see a website that fails to get the spelling and grammar correct. As you're using it here, the word "identify" should be "identifies":

>>> For every stock we create an index that measures market and sector influence and identify the news that make the difference. <<<

But I think you're trying to say too much in that sentence anyways. A simpler and better statement that's easier to understand and probably has greater impact might be this:

>>> We measure market influences for every stock in America, and we identify the news that makes a difference. <<<

If you use this new wording you can pay me $1000 ... :)

Aside from this change, I like the grab-and-pull interface that works like google maps, but I'm not into investing so I don't know if real investors will find any value here.
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If you're married you can probably guess who moved your socks since it's almost always the same person ... :)
Sorry for assuming you were unreasonable. Rough morning.
Roubini says L-shaped, Japan-style recession is unlikely. I'm breaking out the champagne.
my comfort comes in the fact that probably 80% of the predictions made about this recession has been off, from " fanny and freddy are fine" to numerous other statements
"What do you suppose the living wage is for Beverly Hills, CA? News flash: not everyone can afford to live everywhere."

Yet everywhere you go, there's a demand for people who clean up your trash, fix your meals, sweep your streets and teach your children. These people have to live somewhere, too.
Also, a foreign language takes a lot of time and effort to even just become functional in it.

I'll second that. I see a new westerners come here to Taiwan every year, many with grandiose goals of "mastering" Chinese. So far, it has broken every one of them, including myself. After six years, I can muddle my way through the Apple Daily and converse at a native-like level about topics I'm very familiar with, but all my illusions of becoming "literate" or "speaking flawlessly" died long ago.

Even now my Chinese isn't sufficient to get me a job without the benefit of having my English skills as well. Learning Chinese has been great on a personal level, but in terms of career, it was one of the most expensive decisions I've ever made.
Just work on the product!

It's way too easy to spend time on things that aren't core to your business.

Don't worry about where to open a bank account, where to incorporate, etc. This can all be fixed later on, and won't prevent you from making something people want.
There's also Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope (Windows only):
http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/Home.aspx
The two biggest time-sucks for YC alumni seem to be talking to investors and dealing with visa problems.
I've used this before to change the colors and it works well: http://ciaranwal.sh/2007/11/01/customising-colours-in-leopar...
The numbers for San Francisco seem about right to me. I'm fairly frugal, and I'm in line with their numbers for a single adult in the city.
With two adults it's usually a male and a female who engage in activities that create a new life, and there's a cost for that new life even before it is born.

Or are they thinking that two people will dislike each other enough to shoot or stab or beat on each other thus increasing the medical costs?

The site may be imperfect but at least it tries to offer some comparative info. I've never seen another site that does the same ... not in such an easy to understand format anyways.
You are right - I thought the article is useless and the discussion is also useless as there is nothing to discuss but techcrunch/news.yc going downhill etc etc.

As there was nothing to dilute I posted the "No" comment just to see what will happen with it. Reflexive voting happened, but not too much (for the quality of the story and discussion).
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An interesting thing about YC is that it saves time spent securing funding at the early seed stage: a week on the application and a week preparing for the interview, with a definite yes or no by a certain date.

Can you see later stage investors (100k, 500k, etc) doing the same thing?
Online advertising changes. Product ads are headed towards blending with recommendation engines (this is what the whole "targeting" is about), branding ads can stay where they are or (more likely) go in the directions of "your friends like X".
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Scientists observe reality and change the theory when the experimetns contradict it.

Religious people don't observe reality, they have already decided and when evidence suggests they are wrong they just don't take them into account(or worse, kills whoever suggested it).
So no, science and religion are not by any means equal or comparable.

And how do you judge limited in scope of understanding? Compared to what? Do you know fo another world where they figured out how their universe worked much quicker and that universe was as complex as ours?
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To many people on HN, "fifty cents" for an apple is not that expensive, neither is $2.50 for some milk...I know I easily spend that on a bottle or two of Bawls or 50x that on a new toy for my laptop, or even 100x that on a single nice anniversary dinner at craftsteak in vegas with my significant other while we were in town for defcon (so, hotel and all was even more money). However, 50 cents for an apple earning a minimum wage paycheck working multiple jobs with your spouse to provide for your children while trying to pay the rent and bills is not an insignificant amount of money.

I still remember the congressional food stamp challenge from a year or two ago where everyone who attempted to live on food stamps for a single week made a real point of saying that while it was simple to buy junk food and things like peanut butter, fresh fruits and vegetables, among other "healthy" items to eat, were nearly impossible to buy. Plus even just buying the cheaper junk food, they found that they didn't have the energy they had and always wanted more food...but of course, they wouldn't be able to keep up with the challenge. (http://foodstampchallenge.typepad.com/)

So no, fresh fruit and veggies can be pretty expensive and unaffordable.
In a nutshell "we moved our product in a direction that is largely useless. Please help us."
odd, I didn't expct to be moderated up there. Is someone else working on something involving PyXPCOM? Wanna chat?
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Just once I would love a site like this to consider the possibility that people actually live outside the US.

It would have been interesting to see those results... sigh.
Which resources are those, exactly?
Not by pushing paper around. If you make something concrete, yes. If some creates a brilliant new patent or technique, yes. But purely paper financial maneuvers like CDO's and short selling etc. do not create real value in the aggregate.
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... same reason I use Windows. It's got the apps that I want to use. I could care less about the operating system as long as it's not running on a Mac.
Same with Chicago. --I don't know where they expect you to live for $337/month. And somehow they're trying to claim that Raleigh, NC is more expensive at $384 - not a chance.
I don't know about English acquisition, but your timeline is way off for Chinese language acquisition, even for younger children brought to China. An aggressive timeline for adults in-country would be about 2 years to conversational fluency, and less for younger kids. This is more or less the pace you see for the faster Korean learners who come to China.

I'm happy you've had a good experience in Australia. You should remember that the barriers to learning English and Chinese are fundamentally different. English requires mastery of about 100 phenomes before reading and writing skills reinforce each other and learning accelerates: the language gets more difficult as you get better. In contrast, the difficulty curve for Chinese is steep when you start but gets much easier as you improve.

Working hard is important, but equally important is giving yourself the tools to maximize learning. Someone struggling to get through Dream of the Red Chamber with a traditional dictionary is at a huge disadvantage to someone using the proper tools and resources. Learning a language is like engineering in the sense that one should use the best tools for the job, and then put in the time needed to execute.
I don't know if english is not your first language, but "you" in the context you are complaining about here does not mean YOU it means "ANYONE".
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I used to use Ingres, back in the day, and it had some fantastic technology. It's too bad their marketing folks weren't as effective as Oracle's...
Ubuntu might be already as popular as Mac OS X, and we just not aware of this.
I personally, passed over my macbook after three months and grabbed ThinkPad with Ubuntu.

Not sure what it means but look at: http://www.google.com/trends?q=Ubuntu%2C+Mac+OS+X%2C+Windows...
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Unless you're certain about the UI elements, doing a hard design may be a bad move. I personally get better mileage from building the core architecture/functionality first, and working on the rest, ideally with public feedback on both after a certain stage. I've made significant changes in usability in the past as a result of this. If you end up hard-coding stuff before it gets scrutinized in the forge of actual use, you'll have a harder time making changes down the road.

YMMV. It helps if you use a framework or something else that can get you started. Just remember that customizing a framework isn't your core competency.
Great read :-) Hooray for another Perl fan as well as for the simplicity and power of BerkeleyDB/other similar dbs. Have you look at Tokyo Cabinet / Tokyo Tyrant ( http://tokyocabinet.sourceforge.net/index.html )

Also, what is the URL of the project/site/start-up you're scaling. I am interested very much in seeing the seeds of this effort.
If you're interested in more analysis of 'talent', read this: http://money.cnn.com/2008/10/21/magazines/fortune/talent_col...

"Why talent is overrated

It is mid-1978, and we are inside the giant Procter & Gamble headquarters in Cincinnati, looking into a cubicle shared by a pair of 22-year-old men, fresh out of college. Their assignment is to sell Duncan Hines brownie mix, but they spend a lot of their time just rewriting memos. They are clearly smart - one has just graduated from Harvard, the other from Dartmouth - but that doesn't distinguish them from a slew of other new hires at P&G.

What does distinguish them from many of the young go-getters the company takes on each year is that neither man is particularly filled with ambition. Neither has any kind of career plan. Every afternoon they play waste-bin basketball with wadded-up memos. One of them later recalls, "We were voted the two guys probably least likely to succeed."

These two young men are of interest to us now for only one reason: They are Jeffrey Immelt and Steven Ballmer, who before age 50 would become CEOs of two of the world's most valuable corporations, General Electric (GE, Fortune 500) and Microsoft (MSFT, Fortune 500). "
Except, rather than deflating the vanity and pretentiousness, Valleywag on net inflated it, directing even more incestuous attention to superficialities and private lives.

I wish Denton luck in his other titles. I hope Boutin, the one byline most consistently puckish rather than nasty, continues to find other outlets. But overall I'm glad Valleywag is folding; it leaked an unhealthy amount of sewage into the intertubes.
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How is that working out for you? (Both the startup and the Ph.D.?) I'm considering both.
...And J2EE is incredibly painful already.
The kind of "buzz" that creates growth for tech companies is "gee whiz, check out this young/new/innovative/life-changing/giant-killing company/technology." Not cynical mockery.

And the culture of vapid celebrity that sells magazines/TV/movies doesn't sell tech. Even the Facebook/MySpace masses could hardly care less about gossip of those companies' founders and executives. At best, such gossip is industry 'inside baseball'... and so it should be judged for accuracy and relevance, not snark and salaciousness.
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I see, it was really the non-smokers making bad decisions - they should have all stayed at home.