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I have a dream. I want to pay the Government of the United Kingdom for a TV License, and the right to stream all their stuff using iPlayer. I would also like to stream BBC One through Four and BBC News conveniently. You can have GBP 144.50 per year from me. If only you will let me do this.
Love the use and customizations of the Twitter Bootstrap, pud.
That's roughly what I'm doing now (i.e. DOM mutation events). It just isn't using jQuery.
Actually, you did. The RFS was to teach people about investing, not stock picking. You've got an axe to grind and you're lying about what other people have said in order to grind your axe. The idea that passive investors beat active investors is nonsense. You cannot prove it, nor does your reference even address the issue. It is a claim wholly unsupported, and if you will think about it objectively, you'll find you cannot prove it without getting all investor to give up their entire trading history, and then evaluating them over the course of that history. Nobody has access to that information so they publish spurious nonsense in order to talk people into investing in their funds.

Your statements about the fees charged by mutual funds is inaccurate. %2 is appropriate, and in some cases it is %2.50 or %2.75. Which, according to your own link, means that over some period of time %90 of the money goes into fees.

You have heard a little bit about investing and think you know what you're talking about, but you're repeating the propaganda of people who were trying to sell you something.

I suggest that if you will go out and educate yourself, you will find that these people were trying to rip you off. In fact, your statements in this thread are proof positive that the RFS was right-- so many people are completely ignorant of investing-- even what investing "is". (you keep calling it "stock picking" as if that phrase was relevant.)

But I know you won't, I know you're emotionally invested in this ideology, because it likely dovetails with your political ideology (liberal, right? think people should be forced to invest in social security, which will never return even %1 of the money they give up, because its "dangerous" to let them invest that money themselves, right? If you're not a liberal, at least this shows the motivation for people spreading the idea that stocks are complicated and that teaching people about investment is dangerous.)

But, at the end of the day, having so many people completely giving up on investing simply means there's less competition for the outstanding deals out there, and the market is even more inefficient, which leaves me with more opportunities to profit.

So, for that, I thank you.

I've learned that, you cannot talk to people about investing-- for many of them it is like a religion. So you are free to have the last word. If people are foolish enough to believe you, then its their responsibility, not mine. I've proven you wrong, that you won't accept it is on you, not me. So, go to town.
No, no. What I find troubling is our belief that the internet will progress in the way it "should" (based on our beliefs) rather than the way it absolutely will (based on a way of increasingly replacing higher friction interactions/services with ones of lower friction in an effort to make a crap-ton of whatever arbitrarily agreed upon currency we're all using at that point).

I cringe at the thought of anything being decided by the masses, with their existing track record of music, movies, food, art, social mores, etc. I just think we need to realize that at some point the internet will outgrow the terrarium we've created for it, and at that point it won't be ours anymore. And in the grand scheme of things, that's probably a good thing.

But if your entire belief system is predicated around the idea that you'll be able to keep it inside that terrarium forever, I'm going to be really hesitant to put much weight in your thoughts on technology.
Morality changes with time. The laws have been changed to reflect. The UK government is saying that they can't pardon something that at the time was a crime and was prosecuted properly. I don't see that as immoral even if I find the past law immoral.

The are many things considered morally wrong by enough people to make them illegal. Assisted Suicide is an example. If it ever becomes legal, should everyone who was arrested and convicted under the current laws be pardoned? many people today would find that immoral.

Edit:
Some in other threads have a raised another good point, what about things that are now considered crimes? Should we retroactively prosecute these people?
"Flaw" seems strong. If you have a small enough and strong enough team, the approach makes a lot of sense to me. I wonder how big the original Storm team was.
Great read, I have a question:

I would very much love to find out what kind of techniques you folks used to ensure some degree of quality (or sanity) in the "make it possible" phase.

I'm basically wondering if you used anything like CI / TDD / Code coverage or any other quality ensuring techniques at such an early stage. One might argue that it's counter-productive, since you're going to likely rip-out most of that code anyway during the "make it pretty" phase. Others will state that keeping high code quality throughout even prototyping will make you waste a lot less time on debugging and therefore make you overall on the long run.

To me it feels like it'd have to be a very delicate balancing act.
That is interesting to me. I've developed an iOS game that uses precises touch/swipe gestures to control movement. In iOS 3.2 Apple changed the infrastructure for touch events such that there is a huge (100ms) lag for a swipe event. This made my game perform terribly in certain situations. I filed a bug with Apple and even spoke to an Apple engineer. I was told that the lag is there for system level gesture recognition and there is nothing to fix.
Furthermore, if it were, then you'd just be replacing one offense (copyright infringement) with another (distribution of obscene materials).

Not sure whether that's a net benefit - it may depend on the specific circumstances, but it's not exactly what I'd call Plan A as a lawyer.
A quick Google search reveals that pud created Fandalism in 2006 as a site for "uploading and sharing your tunes":

http://hemiolesque.blogspot.com/2006/10/fandalism-youtube-fo...

Now it's an "invite-only directory of good musicians".

Would love to hear your story how you took your time to launch Fandalism :)
I kind of disagree. When Obama became President, I was ecstatic: I know of no other society where an obvious minority was elected by a majority to the highest office in the land. Meritocracy is alive.

What I've noticed since then is that people are a lot "freer" with the most hideous comments, because hey racism is dead anyway. Not just on the Internet but in casual off-handed comments to me as well.

Paradoxically, Obama's election seems to have brought out the worst in our society in a way.
>without exclusion based on whether such work is "useful"

The term "useful Arts" has a specific meaning (see, e.g.,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_arts); likewise, the term "Science", as used in the Copyright Clause, refers not only to what we would call "science" today, but also includes, e.g., literature and the fine arts.
What's a good solution then? Have code reviews where the newer developers have to get their changes approved by older developers?
Can we please get a link to the actual thread, rather than an article in the Daily Fail reporting on it without even linking to it?
Where I find Moneyball (and a lot of A/B testing) falls down is in the complexity around the player (or mechanism).

Teams often contain players whose value is off-pitch or subtle: leaders, morale-boosters, supporters.

The system that Moneyball demonstrates would struggle to find the a manager that would uses a Moneyball-type system. Where are the stats for the team-picker?

While I'm definitely not saying that there is magic in sports (nor any successful website that ignores A/B testing) I am saying that sometimes a talented spotter (or a talented designer) can produce a fit that a spreadsheet cannot.

(yet.)
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No the judge doesn't. The more likely situation is that the constitutional goals of copyright are not an exhaustive list or precondition of properties of a work to be copyrightable. The article says 'early Circuit ruling', meaning at a) it's 'only' a circuit ruling, and b) that it might have been from a long time ago. What is 'useful art'? Are they going to argue that some horror movies aren't copyrightable? Or Justin Bieber songs? This argument is a stretch, I can't see it going far.
Just because you are unable to be disciplined, does not mean you should project it onto everyone else. You may have jumped in and done stupid things- that's not uncommon- but deciding to give up afterwards, and then claiming that nobody else is capable of being rational-- is an error. You went so far as to say the idea of teaching people about investing was "dangerous".

That's quite a bit of overcompensation on your part!
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Several things:

"I only write if I feel like it and on a subject I feel like writing about"

No argument there. The world doesn't need more 500 word articles someone got paid $3 to write. Playing to one's strengths is fairly straightforward, and work that's driven by passion tends to be of much higher quality.

"Yet psychologists and behavioural economists (these charlatans) seem to think that it is a disease that needs to be remedied and cured."

Procrastination has certainly hurt me more than it has ever helped. Perhaps I disagree with the author's implied argument that "nonaction" is the same thing or is similar to procrastination. Procrastination for me is something that makes it harder to do things I know ought to be done. "The doctor who refrains from operating on a back" made a choice and went off to do something else; procrastination would've been the doctor lazying around hours before the operating rather than preparing, or something to that effect (I'm not a doctor).

Anyway, just my take on it.
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Oh right I forgot this part:

I'm attempting to build a Geo-location based app right now from my list.

I clean out ideas at the start of every month, dumped a couple on the first.

List is 7 ideas right now.
I understand that FB Connect is a turn off for many people (myself included most of the time).

But requiring Facebook makes certain viral features (like sharing with your friends, posting to your wall etc) much more frictionless.

I think there are 3 ways a site can become popular. 1) Through viral channels. 2) Through word-of-mouth. 3) Through marketing/pr.

I'm going for all three. #1 is a lot easier if you require FB Connect.
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I've been using the Strong Lifts 5x5 app for a few weeks and have felt that the need to fiddle with it after each set is a drawback. This looks like it solves that problem and adds charting. Very cool. I'll check it out.
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What about sweeteners like Zylitol and Stevia? The women in my family consume them exclusively.

Frankly, the signal to noise ratio is so bad whenever I try to look up these things that I've grown immune to the discourse. Every few months, there's also a new blog post explaining why coffee and vitamin supplements are bad for you, then suddenly they're good for you again. One day, coffee is the average American's greatest source of antioxidants. The next day, laxative effects of coffee shed free water and nutrients for a net loss.

Since artificial sweeteners in their cup of morning tea probably isn't the straw that broke the camel's back of obesity in those studies, I think it's safe to say that we should just focus on a healthy diet and quit looking for ways to find a surrogate for raw willpower.
Specialists [..] predict they will find “the only giant super-clean water system on the planet.” The pristine water will be “twice cleaner than double-distilled water,” they believe.

Can anyone shed light on this claim? I understand why it would be clear of pollution, waste, germs, etc. but is there any particular reason it would not contain salts, minerals, etc?
I'm a willing guinea pig and would love to explore this topic more. Maybe we should start a meetup group in San Francisco? Anyone else interested?

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An ex-HNer commented a while back, while leaving the community, that the primary deterrent was the culture change to where discussion was not valued. He stated that the primary draw to "Old HN" were not the articles themselves, but rather the long-tailed intellectual discourses that happened in the comments.

I often see comment threads die out on HN far too quickly, and the parties lose interest often. Any change that would promote more critical insight and stimulating conversations gets a profound thumbs up from me.
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In 2006 I had a different site at the same domain.

The old Fandalism ("YouTube for music") was basically exactly what SoundCloud is today.

Except that people starting uploading a lot of copyrighted pirated stuff that I didn't want to deal with (hosting was expensive back then). So I shut it down.

Fandalism today is a completely different site (though I suppose related), but with the same domain. I launched this beta 12 days ago or so.
From a legal layman's perspective, this should be wrong. For simplicity, let's consider a work of porn that has absolutely no "artistic value" whatsoever (judging this will not be objective, but let us assume we can do it). I unequivocally believe that you should be able to copyright this work, because it's your creation.

The main point here is not whether a work has artistic value but if it has any value at all (if not, nobody cares anyway). You should not be able to say: "You work is not artistic so I'm gonna copy it and torrent it".
> Not sure if there are non routeable physical addresses.

Santa Claus, North Pole, Snow Street 1

Sherlock Holmes, London, 221B Baker Street (is a small museum afaik)
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you can skip a track by double clicking the microphone button. Center button if you have the three button microphone.
> Cancer happens in 44% of men.

First, that's still a minority. Second, for the overwhelming majority of that 44%, you can easily categorize it as age related.

> Wisdom teeth happen in over 90% of people

The routine removal of wisdom teeth is unnecessary. It is only a necessity in a very small minority of people.

> Age-related farsightedness occurs in EVERYONE (it's caused by continual growth of the lens).

Uhmm, age related by definition. You do remember what we started to talk about originally, right?

> If you even read the blurb of the red queen book

No need to read a blurb when you read the book itself.

> it's "contraversial" aka "usually strung together by a popsci writer"

Do you frequently judge books without reading them? Oh well.
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(i'm not sure if HN etiquette allows me to say "thank you." but i'm worried i'd appear ungrateful if i didn't reply. so - thank you! i am grateful and i hope your musician friends enjoy it.)
You're kidding, right? If you have good design/art chops, business sense and the desire to make a difference, there are plenty of "startup-dreaming programmers" out there who would literally fight to death in an bloody arena to have you as a cofounder.
I believe their license includes the right to use terrestrial stations to fill in. They are under a conditional waiver not use a satellite at all. They are certainly using spectrum in a way not foreseen, but that is different from forbidden.

The bottom line is that the US has suspiciously high wireless data costs and a duopoly controlling the market. It's either make more players, effectively regulate the existing players, or allow the overpriced drag on consumers to persist.

There are only a quarter million airplanes in the US. Retrofit all of their navigation aids systems and free up a couple hundred MHz of bandwidth and you'd still pay for it with one year's savings from the mobile internet consumers. (And probably have better navigation in the planes.)
If someone were to claim that it has no value whatsoever, then that would be immediately rebutted by the act of copying it or tormenting it and sharing it with others. Every person who downloads it shows that it has some value- at the very least, to satisfy the curiosity that caused them to download it in the first place, if they were to then immediately discard it.
America is a big place. There are 300,000,000 people in here. Some places are worse than others (NJ, for example).
So it would only target cardio machines, correct? I haven't included any support for cardio machines yet, mostly because I didn't think a voice interface could improve the process of logging a cardio workout. One thing is that the type of cardio that you're doing would have to be provided some other way -- I think it'd be nearly impossible to extract the type of machine that you're using from a photo, although picking out the workout details from a photo of the display should be possible.
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Supply and demand. You're paying that for "Whitney" because three episodes is worth more to you than a month's subscription to Netflix.

For some, a flat-rate cable TV subscription is cost effective. For others (me), Netflix + iTunes is a lot less - and yes that includes impulsive $5 rentals; some of us just don't watch that much TV and don't demand the latest high-profile network shows when we do (BTW: what's "Whitney"?).
Wow. Just 12 days ago?

How did you get people to engage with the site?

Tried looking for inspiration at your Fandalism blog (http://blog.fandalism.com/) but it seems to be password protected now.

Looking forward to learning more from you, pud!
It's a mistake to try to anticipate use cases you don't actually have or else you'll end up overengineering your solution.

I wish more people would think like this before sabotaging their perfectly good APIs with noise. I'm a huge fan of the Pareto principle in that regard. First and foremost, expose the 20% that allows me to be 80% effective. The rest can be figured out as we go, but at least, what you'll teach me today, I'll learn fast and will know well.
Twitter Boostrap was a godsend for me. My design skills are relatively weak but Boostrap really helps make the site's design passable.
So a technologist should always go with the flow? Accept the inevitable? If Western society is in desperate need of anyone, it's not someone who can see where we're headed (we have plenty of those), but someone who's not willing to accept the inevitable (if it is indeed so). We need more rebels!

Though I must confess my ignorance here as I have no clue whatsoever as to who this Winer person is, or who's Scoble for that matter, so I'm not quite sure who it is that I'm defending, but I guess I'm defending the principle.
Thanks so much Ben!
This is a big deal to HN types, but not necessarily to all other demographics on the internet. If he could guesstimate that a large majority of his users were active FB users, the single log-in option may be worth the trade-off
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I usually check my git commit messages very carefully for this reason. But again, I usually restrict myself to nothing much worse than "urmom".
Voila: https://github.com/verekia/initializr#readme
Each new value is written to the journal. Later, when the journal is compacted, the value will be written to an SSTable. Each subsequent compaction involving that value causes the value to be written (copied) yet again. So over time, a 100-byte value will consume k * 100 bytes of disk write bandwidth (and (k-1) * 100 bytes of read bandwidth).

In principle, k can be arbitrarily large (over a sufficiently long time span). The actual value depends on many factors. For instance, if your write rate is high in comparison with the amount of memory available for the memtable, then you will have more compactions. If data has a short half-life, then it will not survive to participate in as many compactions.
Totally-- so the big challenges ahead for Greatist are twofold:

First, we're faced with scaling media for traffic & growth. How do we resurface old content? How do we look/work less like a blog and more like, say, the NYT? How do we build out a network of contributors w/ open-ended flexibility for the future? This is much like the challenge faced by the HuffPost, Babble, & others at one point.

Second, we'll next tackle building both products + tools plus an ecommerce platform. We're already developing a self-tracking tool for fitness, health, and happiness goals. We've considered different ways to bring together people who want to be active with people who organize & lead health and fitness activities. We've thought about the challenge of putting people interested in having more guidance in their personal health with online, certified coaches. And we've gone through the background of building an ecommerce site from the ground up. There are so many opportunities in this space-- and particularly ones that can be done in a high-quality way that fits with our brand and with our content... and that's a big part of why we're looking for a Technical Leader to tackle what they're most excited about, what they think has the most potential, and what they know they can build (or figure out how to build) best.
The 'danger' of teaching people to invest is that the people who generally teach have some sort of ulterior motive that isn't about people's economic welfare, and that generally skews the discussion.

For example, sell-side analysts push trading ideas that the banks don't want to hold, research analysts push ideas that favor their respective funds and clients, and then you have blubbering idiots like Dick Bove (he is particularly memorable for calling citi undervalued when it was $300 [30 before the reverse split] and for calling BAC overvalued when it dipped below 5 recently) showing their faces on CNBC. Stewart had a brilliant segment (~ 9 minutes) walking through the disservice that CNBC performs, wish I had a link.

Most people's exposure to investing involves contributing to a 401K, and lots of people lost boatloads of money when the markets crashed. In fact, lots of people are still suffering losses.

ETA: so I'm 24, and my financial advisor has been pushing for me to put all of my money in the stock market. If I did that, I would have missed out on the great bond rally last year.
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Except Codeacademy you are learning a skill which can be used to create.

Stock picking is essentially staking your money on something which you have no control over. I'm not against people learning about it. But yeah tons of better things to learn about, don't think it would take off. Seems like something to cover this would need to be more like an ongoing game and a lot less like code academy lessons.

Why do stock analysts, market experts etc even exist when they can hardly predicate things better than the average investor? Because there is a demand for them.
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whoa, didn't know that. thanks for the info.