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"1. In the spirit of Rand, I suggest you don’t pay for it, but download it here.."

That's pretty much all you need to know about how much this fellow understands about "the spirit of Rand".

"Like all philosophies, Objectivism is absorbed second-hand by people who have never read it."

And it's rejected by lefties in precisely the same way. Usually under the helpful guidance of an undergrad prof. :-)
Not dropping the hourly rate for existing reserved instances leaves me feeling very short-changed.
Wonga is a rather poor example. They charge interest rates > 4000%. At that APR you can hand out loans to fourth graders and still make bank.

edit: first attempt at finding a payday lender with cheaper rates was a success: 600% http://www.paydayone.com/texas-loan-cost-and-terms.aspx
Cultural note:

Several huge industries have been closed down in the last quarter of the 20th century. Governments were adamant that subsidies absolutely were not available to those industries. Many people have lived in relative poverty for years, in areas with very high rates of unemployment.

And then the banks went into meltdown, because of greedy irresponsible sometimes criminal behaviour; and these were the same banks that were talking about the importance of pure market forces and no government intervention; and these banks were propped up at vast expense to the UK taxpayer; at a time when many well loved public services are being cut; and those same greedy bankers (despite being in position when their banks lost billions and needed support from tax-payers) are taking huge bonuses.
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yes

I was rather hoping this blog post would turn up on proggit and, instead of hate-clicking, there'd be a discussion about rediscovering proggit's past.

I've tried to think of solutions before too:
http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/15581427232/self-...

Being pro-content anti-community is not so popular over on proggit ;)
> There's just a corresponding draw of energy from the environment that is also producing photons.

It is only possible to do that if the photons are sent somewhere that is colder than the device.

> You're saying that a small fast moving body can't impart energy to a large slow moving body.

No, I'm saying it can't impart all of its energy, and the more energy the other body has the less energy it can impart. i.e. it's exactly Carnot efficiency.

Perhaps what you don't realize is that Carnot efficiency doesn't represent lost energy. It represents heat energy than can not be converted to another form, and remains in the source.
In their defense, ARM11 is a 10 year old chip. I don't think they want to support such an old legacy. Does Windows 7 support Pentium 2?

Still, I'm hoping Raspberry Pi moves to Cortex A7 as soon as it's available, which is based on the ARMv7 architecture, and Canonical might support it then.
Nothing specific, apart for the sites you know. I have no experience on those sites but I've heard of people that have found good professionists there (of course they wont charge you 5$/hour but maybe 50$/hour).

NB I could probably add also anyfu.com for highlevel experts (in the 200$/hour range) but it has not launched yet (it's done by Justin Vincent and Jason Roberts of TechZing podcast fame)
Is there such a thing as a "position" that scales out world-wide?

Just as every individual is unique in its skills, experience, available resources and location, so is each country. Surely China's cheap workforce cannot be replicated in Europe or the U.S. and China's biggest problem will be their own middle-class which gets richer, so you can clearly see that a cheap workforce is not sustainable in a growing economy.

Can the world replicate Silicon Valley or Hollywood? Maybe, maybe not, but surely a lot of effort is required and there are also cultural issues that makes this hard. Failure is accepted as a sign of progress in Silicon Valley, but in Japan it's unacceptable.

The way to grow is to rely on your core strengths and make your weaknesses obsolete. So for example if companies move to China for cheap labor, then pay engineers to build better robots, a strategy which in the long run can yield better and more efficient factories.
Yes, good point - I'm guessing many people would access HN from both home and work, to name just one scenario.
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> it's a rubber stamp, she can't refuse to sign an act

Funny - in Australia and New Zealand we have Governors General to represent the Queen, and they're also given the final say on whether a law is passed. In New Zealand the people I've talked to have considered it purely ceremonial, but in Australia 1975 that viewpoint was refuted when the governor general dissolved the parliament.

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Great idea. I think I can make it but won't be able to support the program much. Would you reckon English as the primary language or German?

Also, it's a good idea to have someone like Nils (kojote - www.silberkind.de/+) on board because he has extensive knowledge about the organization of such events. He is active in the PHPUG, organizer of the Barcamp Muc, GTUG Muc, ... probably the best known geek from Munich.
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Yes, there will be inter-modulations from higher frequencies. There are also from the audible spectrum but if the amp is linear enough they will be low.
what's with the increasingly histrionic posts here? one small computer will not "save" a particular country any more than one hack of github will destroy software development as we know it.

did "raspberry pi might increase interest in software development slightly, although it's hard to see why this should be restricted to the uk since it's available internationally" not sound catchy enough?
To enjoy Reddit (nowadays) you have to select specific sub-reddits you are interested in. It can be very interesting and nice then.
Might be a nice idea to run it through the folks over at http://www.meetup.com/MunichBeta/.
So what was the technical problem that caused the ship date to be pushed into late February?
Looks well put together. A few comments:

1. I suggest adding they keyboard shortcuts/other instructions to http://madebycabin.com/work/linkhunter

2. I suggest making the "Linkhunter" item in the context menu opened by right-clicking link to http://madebycabin.com/work/linkhunter instead of http://madebycabin.com/

3. Ctrl+j (for me) opens Chrome's Downloads page. Since you use a capital "j" in describing the shortcuts, I tried ctrl+shift+j, but that opens the console in developer tools. How can I use the keyboard shortcuts?

4. Autocompletion of tags when adding a bookmark would be a very good feature to add (IMO).
As an amateur, beginner programmer, I'm curious why you don't use something like Jekyll+S3 rather than tumblr. The dude that pulls my espresso shots uses tumblr...
On what data are these assumptions based? Don't see any reference.

So for me he uses numbers to support his conclusions but I can't check them.
A friend of mine had his account marked dead for some reason. He had no idea and his comments and submissions were effectively blackholed for weeks. He eventually stopped participating much in HN because of the lack of interaction.

Once I noticed, I emailed PG and he fixed it some hours later. Not a terribly scalable solution, but it got the job done.
Market rates are not what people "should" be paid. It's what they are paid.
read the last paragraph.
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Kids who do have their own laptops available are going to be gently hampered by choice-paralysis. What programming language do they learn[1]? Where do they start? What do they need to get to start?

They're also going to be gently hampered by having various incompatibilities - the programming environment will cause some stuff to not compile and while that's a great learning experience it's not what you want someone to be faced with on their first "Hello World" example. Note that all those home computers that people started on, typing listings from magazines, did not have those problems.

And advanced learners are going to be gently impeded by the OS not letting them get access to the hardware. I made a simple DA converter out of resistors soldered to a D25, which I used with NO$GB emulator. Building that DA was useful for me, and seeing the data lines on the D25 made the concept a lot more real. I guess this is possible under Linux or OSX or Windows but it's harder than just selecting addresses and sending data to them.

[1] My answer to those questions is to just use "Learn Python the Hard Way"; perhaps having a version tailored for young people and the Raspberry PI. Once they've worked their way through that they have the confidence to start choosing editors etc.
They are based on my Google analytics account.

I am not going to share it with you ;)

Feel free to disbelieve my data or my conclusions.
Have you seen this? It actually identifies the role of the "clueless" in organisations quite well:

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-o...
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A lot of us discovered reddit when Paul Graham mentioned it in an essay.

It was pretty cool in the beginning, but then it started tending towards Ron Paul, and various political stories rather than stuff that was actually interesting. And thus, HN...
I think Canonical suffers from NIH syndrome. They've displayed that tendency in the past. And they're on their way with their own ARM stack with the Boot-from-Android thing announced and I assume a few other things in the pipeline, so Raspberry Pi is competition they probably would prefer to do without.
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Wow, sounds great! Unfortunately I'll be at droidcon.de in Berlin, so all dates won't work for me :(
Well it gets tricky here. The Queen is Supreme Governor of the Church of England, and the head of state of the UK (the Queen/King) has to take an oath to defend & uphold it (i.e. no catholics allowed to be monarch), though they are changing that.

There is also a Church of Ireland (which was disestablished as the offical religion of Ireland (which was in the UK) in 1870ish), and Church in Wales. Scotland has sorta it's own church (think it's a slight different variant) which it has a right to exist due to the Act of Union of 170x.

So it's all a bit complicated and depending on how you define "UK" and "UKwide"
#5 is still a bad rule. It eliminates anyone who currently has a job. That leaves you with people who don't have a job (for whatever reason) or are working as a freelancer.

Freelancers really don't want to work at a company, and in my experience, it doesn't work out. I'm thinking of one person in particular who was an amazing coder, got along great with everyone, and all that... But he wasn't happy there. He quit before his 3 months review came.

Last time I interviewed, 1 of the companies asked me to write a sample app that was useless, but would show I knew what I was doing. I had 48 hours to do it. So yeah, I lost a weekend (well, 16 hours of it) but they were able to know I was capable without a lot of craziness. I actually ended up taking a job somewhere else before my interview with them, though. I had found a better paying job at another company that didn't do any of that stuff. It was just a 1-on-1 interview and discussion of my past work. I'm still here a year later.
The same technique for dividing by 9 in base 10, also works for dividing by 255 in base 256, so you can quickly calculate N % 255 by adding the bytes of N together.

Useful for algorithms like this: http://stackoverflow.com/q/295579/12048
Official announcement: http://android-developers.blogspot.in/2012/03/android-apps-b...
HNSeach anouncement: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2619736 (341 points by pg 275 days ago, 127 comments)
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It's nice to get confirmation! I did once get a lot of comment upvotes lambasting the poor quality of comments on the science reddit, but frankly I think the sheer size of the reddit community will make it very, very hard to return to how it was. The culture that seems to be pushed by a subset of (mostly non-technical) reddit users is largely incompatible with the culture that I (and I assume others) are looking for in a social news site.

There are of course some areas of reddit which maintain a largely engaged user base willing to make in depth and interesting comments, but they tend to be rare, hard to find and often suffer from the mainstream reddit culture being dragged in by more casual visitors.

Perhaps we have to simply resign ourselves to a migration between social news platforms every few years.
Its a good question.

Despite wishing they'd hire people to add features http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/18002362007/tumbl... (note the comment there from someone using Google Pages + Jekyll), I'm generally happy enough not to invest time nor money in self-hosting or paid hosting.
Personally, I will never use reddit, no matter the subreddits, or whatever. Usenet and IRC are new again; killfiles and /ignore are powerful, and user-focused.
Could this be rephrased as, "Why is linode so damn expensive?" I don't know the answer to that question. Maybe Hurricane Electric is both unreliable and expensive.
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Right. So the only way to make Peers resilient to network partitions is to install a middleman between them and the DB/Transactor. One whose responsibility is to ensure this Peer's app always has durable access to everything it's ever going to need to be able to read for its queries, and always has durable access to some local write log that doesn't exist in the current implementation.

Thus my question is: is introducing such a middleman in the system going to denaturate Datomic?
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I'd say rm -f may be the exception - technically you could run a chmod +w before but you'll end up at the same place
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Or that there is nor a free market in operation in these places/industries.

And hence assuming that a free market is more efficient, that you can make more money by trying to make the market more free-er (i.e. hire based on merit, not class, etc.).
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Something tells me Amazon understands price elasticity pretty well.
Money is sloshing around, and nobody wants to earn 2% on long term junk government paper.

That's the most concise expression of this thing I've ever seen!

I'd normally say the start-up bubble would continue until the next economic melt down dries up the funding, but the funding levels driving the start-up bubble are so low, it's hard to see what will slow it down short of government regulations (they're working on that).

So, arc you thinking the Bay Area is in something like a perpetual bubble? Sort of like Helium starting to move and "roil" weirdly near absolute zero, once things have cooled enough to let quantum effects come into play?
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There are loads of countries that squander money on military and things like that, while people starve, or the infastructure falls apart.
I am so psyched for this! Unity is an amazing platform, and their support of the community is quite remarkable.
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From the article:

> The speedy Cheetah robot can lope along at a brisk 18mph, making it a record breaker when it comes to robots

I was slightly shocked to read that. Is that really the fastest legged robot? (I couldn't see any references in the article.) Obviously it doesn't apply to wheeled robots.
Reference counting is generally quite a bit slower overall than stop-the-world garbage collection.

I guess you meant latency, where reference counting generally has better latency than incremental garbage collection.
I think the members of the Church of Scotland would object rather strongly to being described as a "slight different variant":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Scotland

NB Although I've always been an atheist, I grew up in a small community in the North of Scotland dominated by the Kirk and it's more zealous offshoots. If you've seen Lars von Triers "Breaking the Waves" then you'll get the idea.... :-)
If she was not already disproven before, then she was in 2008, when even Greenspan was speachless confronting the magnitude of the disaster that the ultra-market-liberal ideology had caused.
It's fair to mention that maintenance of your infrastructure on AWS is far from negligible. This is not unique for private clouds.

Especially given certain unpredictability in instance and EBS performance.
Wonga is a great example of a company taking advantage of people who are too desperate to have a choice and feel that their local loan-shark is too inexpensive for them.

The banks are not scared, they're just currently unwilling to plumb the moral depths that Wonga is.
Agreed, that market exists. My point is, why discuss the subtle difference between 16/44 vs 24/192 when there are far more audible and damaging practices going on in the music industry. For example, aggressive compression and brick limiting which adds distortion to achieve maximum loudness ('loudness wars').
We can't all be rich, there aren't enough resources. We can all be moderately well off IMO (but we have to address population with vigour) and the rich dont want to stop being privileged.
I think the first two are fine being dead. They've been around a while and should know the HN posting guidelines. Just trolling through their comments, it's clear they didn't. If you really want them back, you could upvote a couple of their comments or tell them they are hellbanned I guess.

The last guy... eh, I can kind of see your point as it's a new account. His mistake was making a subjective comment before he had enough karma to withstand the downvotes. Should that be a fatal mistake according to HN's law of natural selection? I would argue yes, as I think one should prove their value to the community before making those types of comments, but I can see why some would find it distasteful.
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HN commenting is a bit of a tightrope. I suspect most people are unaware of how straying just a little off the path of acceptability (if I may employ a mixed metaphor) will get you slow-banned/fully hell-banned.

I think this contributes to the tendency for HN commenters to all ape a similar, rather stuffy and perhaps even pompous commenting style - middlebrow content with spray-on erudition.

I have endeavored to reproduce the house style in this comment.

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Families, girlfriends (or boyfriends), skiing trips... It'd be really hard to squeeze in.

And if it is on a worknight I will still be wearing a suit and look like a total douche ;).
Never mind. I read 192kbps instead of 192kHz.
24 bit might have some advantages but 192kHz not.
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Can you please define what exploitative means? Is there a split of profit between labor and capital that is universally accepted as such?
Minor nitpick

> The FLAC file is also smaller than the WAV, and so a random corruption would be less likely because there's less data that could be affected.

At the same time, if you flip a bit on a WAV file, you may hear a "pop" sound. On a FLAC file, the whole encoding block may be inaudible (or worse).
I'm curious to see about the language as well. I'm visiting MUC next week (out from the bay area) and I wouldn't mind meeting some HNfolk, but I don't think my 5.2-word Deutsche vocabulary will cut it.
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All I can say is wow. Not from the ordeal in the article, but that anyone can not know who Network Solutions is and that "anybody but Network Solutions" is how GoDaddy became so big.

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Will do. Let's first see which date "wins", then I'll mail announcements to this and 2-3 other sites as well.
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Meh. Would love to join but these three days are no-go as I will be travelling on the 12th, returning the 15th. Next time!
That's pretty obvious. But please try to understand it before assuming there is no problem.

bdfh42 asked you to explain it as you see it. I think they are trying to understand it.