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The case of the man giving a job to maid is definitely worth more to the economy than the man who sticks it all under the mattress.

Why? If the man sticks money under the mattress, he reduces inflation (slightly) and increases the buying power of the rest of the world. In practical terms, a person who was a marginal purchaser of maid services is now able to have a clean home.

I.e. for simplicity suppose there were 1000 people willing to buy maid service for $25k, 1 person willing to buy at $24,999 (the marginal purchaser) and 1000 maids. If the man becomes a miser, the price of maid service drops to $24,999 and the marginal purchaser has a clean home.

Saying it's a bad measure of individual wealth, while true, is completely beside the point. It was never meant to measure that.

Tell that to whoever wrote the article. You and I seem to be in complete agreement.
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agree.. technically the velocity should be constant and more or less is.. but the story estimates still establish the building blocks for this.. a story seems to need tasks and task estimates to make the overall story estimate more accurate. Tasks help to break up activities. alternative is to groom the story of course, then you're left with a larger list of stories to manage however, and taking care of that in turn eats into our PM team's velocity :)
The board was aware of the deal, voted in favor of it, and many of the board members benefitted immensely through their stakes in Instagram. But now Zuckerberg claims that it was solely his decision? It looks Facebook is working to distance the conflicted parties from this situation.
Why is obsessive and 501 the only options? Anyone else feel in the middle?

Judging people's work by the hours they keep, or how they choose to spend the rest of their time seems immature and shallow. 40 hours per week is plenty to fulfill job responsibilities (and more), advance passion, grow technical skill, and love what you do. The pace may be a bit slower than 60-80 hours a week, but I find 40-50 more sustainable.

Working longer hours does not equal more done, more passion, or more skill.
Don't get me wrong, I like the idea a lot, and I firmly believe web technology should be introduced to academia. It is just I don't see how you differentiate yourself from other service. For instance, the frontpage of PubUp seems strikingly similar to the "papers" page at Mendeley.

I'm completely open to an alternative service (or even a complementary one). So... I guess what I'm trying to say: Give me, one of your intended customers, a compelling use scenario or value-add proposition that might compel me to switch.
Etsy is a form of "micro-work" but it's never been particularly good financially for people who sell stuff on Etsy. I wonder what they can do for connecting sellers to each other to pool supply costs and identify each seller's likely consumers.
A job is a job, no matter what your passion is - and someone who will patiently and carefully slog through for 40 hours a week regardless of their passions is worth more to my team than somebody who'll give 80 hours a week to their one passion and zero hours to anything different.

That's awfully defeatist.

Why does it matter to someone who is passionate that you don't value him on your team? The end state is simple: he will not be on your team and it will not matter what you think. So what's the value of having (and writing about) this blanket opinion?
I understand that it's expensive, but from my point of view it seems like upgrading is going to happen sooner or later, and I just don't see that many advantages in waiting for later.
I think you can definitely resubmit, but pick your time wisely, there are many HN discussions on this.
One problem for indie game developers on WP7 is that Microsoft pushes Xbox Live titles in front of everything else in the 'games' tab of the Marketplace app (the equivalent of the iOS 'App Store' app). I'm no expert but it appears that getting XBL status isn't trivial or guaranteed.

The situation is made worse, in my opinion, because of the Metro design aesthetic; after all that whitespace there is room for only 3 app icons in the 'games' tab on my Lumia 710. If you drill down via games->genres, there is room for 5.5 app icons. And the first two tabs in games->genres are 'Xbox live' (all XBL titles) and 'top' (again, all XBL titles).
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Are older blogs being regurgitated? In the past days I've read articles that I'm sure are 90+% similar to ones I've read one or two years ago.

I'm on my phone currently so I can't really be bothered to find links to support my case. Mostly curious whether others have got the same feeling.
> "I do not think I would hire anyone in Spain if I was a business."

I know I wouldn't hire anyone in Spain if I were a business, because there's no demand in Spain. If my sales aren't growing, there is simply no need, full stop.

Businesses hire employees when they need them to make more money. If it is possible to serve their customers and their growth without more employees, they'd have no need to hire any employees, regardless of taxes, regulations, employment policies, etc.

As long as it is possible to make more profit with another employee, they will hire another employee.

So unless regulations/taxes/laws haven't become trivially broken -- where it's impossible to make money as a business with employees -- employment policy is simply not something that's going to impact the decision.
Typically more traditional, capital intensive companies use customer financing for a portion of their startup capital.

For instance, suppose I invent a new type of transformer with some benefit or the other. I approach the power companies with my prototype and explain that I need capital to produce it, so if they pre-order, I'll offer them discounts and other benefits.

This helps me approaching the banks and investors too, if I can get firm orders out of the power companies, because it demonstrates a market interest in my product.

What kickstarter has done is made it possible for this sort of arrangement to work with the public, pre-buying new consumer goods.

But to answer your question, what the customer gets is 1) a product that they want, which otherwise wouldn't be available, 2) in exchange for their risk that the product won't be delivered, they get various incentives, typically discounts.
This is a very poor web site and there's not a lot of compatibility. Too bad.
Agreed. As a soon to be college grad in CS, I've resigned myself to the spiky world theory and the fact that I'm going to spend the rest of my life in the tech hubs of SF, NYC, and maybe Boston. It's good to see someone is able to hack from an island.
My congrats to Avi. I still remember working with him at UBC's IT department. He's an amazingly bright guy.
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Oh wow, I used to tinker with this back in high school. Unfortunately, I could never convince my friends to join in, and I eventually lost interest. I'm impressed that it's still around.
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I don't think I made the argument that being functionally disabled is meaningless, but straw men live in all discussions at some point.

My argument is that above average and even extraordinary intelligence have no correlation to money making. Smart people live in poverty all the time. To say that expectations of earned income should be adjusted for IQ is meaningless in that context because the adjustment would be zero. Making money doesn't derive from general intelligence, but from how it is applied and luck. There are many smart technical people on this message board who are clearly lucky that the world is in the middle of a massive expansion of technically complicated economic areas like apps and programming in general. It allows them to achieve wealth that otherwise is not a predetermined given.

When I refer to IQ testing I refer to the concept of a universalized IQ test that can, without cultural bias, give an objective measure of intelligence.
The equation is Y=C+I+G.

In the first case he has 175 of investments (I) and 25 of consume (C).

In the second case he has 200 of investments.

If some of the downvoters can please explain in those terms where I am wrong, it would be nice. Please, show me where the +25 come from in the 1st case.
Somewhat unrelated — I'm not sure why 'request an invite' bounces me to an OAuth page. Perhaps it needs to be clearer what's going on when I enter my email.
>In the 90s, tho', everyone looked to the future.

And yet, here in the UK, Oasis and the Britpop movement were bringing back 1960s style and music.
OOP was able to become dominant because it came with some clearly defined "killer apps", the likes of which I have yet to see materialize from the FP world. I mean, Smalltalk shows up in Byte and says "look, here is an entire system for graphically interacting with a computer, creating music, simulations, animations, drawing programs, documents, and more. It is so easy that school children can use it. We have managed to accomplish all of this in a few hundred thousand lines of our language called Smalltalk, which incidentally also contains the implementation of all the dev tools and the standard library. How large would this be in the language you are currently using (probably COBOL, Pascal, C or something similar)?"

I get that FP has some very good characteristics, and I have tried to add a bit more "functional-ity" to my code over the years, but at the same time I get an overwhelming urge to say "put up or shut up" every time I am confronted with an article talking about how terrible OO and the programmers who work in it are, and how those working in FP are in some sort of enlightened programming utopia.

Convince me by showing me some examples of programs so good that I can't possibly ignore them, the way OOP did. Convince me by becoming the foundation of almost every program I am currently running on my computer right now, the way OOP did.

Don't convince me by writing article after article showing how insanely elegant your implementation of a mathematical function (My head will literally explode if I see another Fibonacci example) is, and how brain damaged what I am currently using must be. Numerical code comprises probably 0.1% of any computer system I am currently using. Show me instead how easy you just made to it interact with my computer, to write the type of programs that I am currently using and, for bonus points, to write the types of programs that I didn't even think were possible.
It can be very low, depending on which impressions you're buying. Not all impressions are equal, and more importantly, some impressions are worth more to some advertisers than others. The more finely-targeted your ads are, the higher your CPM will be. Note that "targeting" can mean serving ads to a narrow audience segment on a large network, or it can mean running indiscriminate ads on a small site with a very specific audience, or anywhere in between. "Windows Phone 7 users" is a very specific audience, but I don't think it's an incredibly valuable one compared to the broader segment of "mobile gamers," so they won't get great $CPM unless advertisers can segment their users.
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I wonder after 3 years of work on something like this how do you protect and/or insure it from fire or mischief as only one example? Security wise seems to be an issue making something like this so public (although I can certainly understand why you would want to show what you have built.)
Ah, that is certainly helpful. I didn't realize that.
Really enjoyed reading this, great stuff. Even better Chris spent some time at Snevets :)
Interesting. There are of course several people who doubt the actual recusal of the board from the deal, but when you look at this from a pure Facebook perspective, and not a board member perspective, it does make immense sense to purchase Instagram.

Instagram is pretty much the perfect way to take pictures and share them, so FB picking them up for $1b is actually akin to Google's purchase of YouTube. The notion that Zuckerberg did not consult the board is very logical as well - he knows the scrutiny they are all under, and such a critical deal getting substantively tainted by conflicts of interest would cause many issues in the long run.

The drum beat of "Instagram scam" posts and commentary about the conflicts of interest would be far worse if the deal were known well ahead of time. Zuckerberg is no fool and I'd expect him to be truthful in saying that the board had no knowledge - it is to their direct advantage to do so.
Some serious attention to detail. Most people would have just used Helvetica, a closely related decedent of Akzidenz-Grotesk, and called it a day.
In order to make a decent living creating things, three requirements have to be met:

1) The product has to be valuable enough to a reasonably large number of people

2) You have to be reasonably good at what you do (this isn't a given at all)

3) Very likely, you have to be reasonably good at marketing (and, if we're really serious about the "doing what you love" thing, love marketing)

Even if you really love doing something creative, without the above, you better love it more than eating if you're going to try doing it for a living.
Thanks, I really appreciate the personal insight. I may take a wait-and-see approach with this one now.
I can't get it to work, it just sits at the loading screen for me. Using Firefox on Vista.
Richard Branson from 2006: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HicaK7NTHQI

Edit: I also remember the pinball game "Revenge from Mars" from 1999. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA7Cgzk-y1U
Please, don't just downvote. Do tell me where the +25 are coming from in the first case instead. It would something more productive to do.
A better tagline than "Hacker News for researchers" might be "Crowdsourced Faculty 1000". Either way, I wish you luck, as getting a critical mass of engaged users in this area is a very difficult task.

So many people do read and review papers, but then those reviews are just kept in a private file somewhere (or just in their brains) and hardly anyone sees them. So much great insight into published science is lost to the public this way. Lately I've been trying to blog about papers I read and then share my blog posts with http://www.researchblogging.org/, but even that isn't a very common thing to do.

If your site could become a hub for this type of discussion, it would be wonderful. Do you support (or plan on supporting) a researchblogging-like trackback system, in addition to comments? That might help you gain publicity too, if popular science bloggers link to your website when they discuss a paper.
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"Not only that, but the default assumption for those on my team is that they, too, will be working from anywhere in the world."

I'm curious if this team has already been formed or if he will be looking for developers. This sounds like an amazing opportunity.
This is a good article marred by, I think, a poor story angle. FAST sounds like a terrible idea, but not because it's Orwellian.

Homeland Security is not primarily a law enforcement agency. Here are it's departments; departments with a principle law enforcement focus are starred:

Immigration Services
(+) ICE
(+) Customs
(+) TSA
Coast Guard
(+) Secret Service
FEMA
Homeland Security Advisory
National Infrastructure Advisory
Homeland Security Science/Technology
Critical Infrastructure Partnership Advisory
Interagency Coordinating Council on Emergency Preparedness
Task Force on New Americans
Domestic Nuclear Detection Office
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center
National Protection and Programs Directorate
(+) Federal Protective Service
National Communications System
Directorate for Science and Technology
Directorate for Management
Offices of Policy; Immigration Statistics; Health Affairs
Offices of Intelligence and Analysis; Operations Coordination
Office of the Secretary
National Cyber Security Center

(Yes, DHS is a monster, everyone knows that; we should definitely slay it).

People who have worked on the intrusion detection problem in computer systems are well familiar with the Base Rate Fallacy (what this article appears to be talking about when it mentions the "false positive fallacy"). To anyone who has actually monitored a deployed IDS, the base rate problem is a killer. Most of the events generated by systems like this are mathematically certain to be bogus.

So it's great to see an Atlantic article trying to tackle the numeracy issue here: DHS policymakers looking for research funding are bragging about a terrorist detection system with a 70% accuracy rate, and 70% sounds great when you leave out the base rate of terrorism.

On the other hand: of the LEO functions of DHS, most of them fall into one of two categories:

* Departments that already have total discretion to ignore civil liberties, like Customs: it's hard to imagine any new program making Customs more intrusive, because Customs operates under the border search rule (since at least 1976, Customs can set up any search program it wants to protect the integrity of the US border).

* Departments that operate under administrative search regimes, like TSA, where "behavioral monitoring" is if anything less Orwellian than the systems already in place.

DHS research projects do not automatically imply that local and state police will be deploying "behavioral" technology to "pre-crime" people. Again the theme: when you argue against something, you need to be both right and correct. "Pre-crime" is an inaccurate framing device.
It might have been the best decision for Iceland, but it's not all roses:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/04/13/150586792/should-i...
If you scroll down, you should see a bunch of info about how Prismatic works and why you are signing up w/ Twitter...and some testimonials from the community.
Fuel is at present an insignificant cost of launching a rocket.

Of course, you could also say that the rocket itself has far more embodied energy than it carries in fuel.
As a Gen Xer growing up in the 80s, I remember drowning in Baby Boomer nostalgia for the 60s counterculture, classic rock, cutesy retro advertising, old TV shows on Nick at Nite, Frank Capra movies, and so on. The culture was immersed in it.

Then, starting in the 90s, our generation started to do the same thing, looking back nostalgically at childhood favorites like the Muppet Show, Gilligan's Island, and the Brady Bunch.

So I would say that this sort of nostalgia has a staple of modern life for at least several generations.
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Oh please. You could fill a very large book with the stories of people who went to jail because, despite huge amounts of wealth, they did something insiderish for a few dollars more.
I don't know what to think of this article. It reads as if it was written by someone who may have heard of Tupac but definitely wasn't a fan. I can't say that a fan of hip hop music would consider Kurupt to just be the answer of a trivia question. If you are a hip hop fan Tupac's death is more along the lines of Bob Marley, not Elvis. People chose sides during that stupid time in hip hop but mostly everyone who was a real fan in that era respect both Biggies and Tupacs music now that all of the smoke has cleared.

While I agree that after death, Tupac image has been "manipulated", but it is the fans doing it more than anyone else. They remember their version of 2Pac and casually dismiss his life contradictions. 2Pac made a lot stupid decisions but also had moments of genius. He was the image of youth rebelliousness but too often crossed the cavern of casual disregard of others. That is a thin line and at times he walked it poorly. And now that I am ten years older than when he died I can see why. At 25 years old you do a lot of dumb shit.

I think a lot of fans reacted as they did to that hologram because 2Pac has never really had a proper public memorial. Biggie had the big MTV awards spectacle with Puff, a gospel chorus, and Sting. He had big budget movies made of his life, tribute albums and a whole host of other tributes. Basically a lot of chances for his fan to mourn his passing while also celebrating his life. 2Pac has had a couple of tribute albums and a few really low budget documentaries. Nowhere near even especially considering how even they were in stature in both the hip hop and the music community as a whole.

Even though I was aware of the tech behind the "hologram" and hated a lot of what 2Pac became towards the end of his life I was still amped up and moved by the show. I wouldn't want to see it again because then I would feel his image really was being exploited. But as a DJ and fan of hip hop for about 29 years, I was glad to see it.
It has not been. I'm not starting myself until mid-June, and I do expect to be doing a bunch of hiring.
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The status update, for reference: https://twitter.com/#!/svenningsen/status/144111724923076608
I had the same sense of deja vu, I've seen exactly this some years ago. (Though I seem to remember "tmp" being contested as either the second worst or third worst variable.)
He talks about Mars quite publicly already and various of SPaceX's corporate videos contain CGI dragon capsules landing on mars.

Also he's not 'sticking with near space for now' to avoid being called crazy as you imply, he's sticking to near-space now because you have to get that capability working and reliable so you can build on it for going further afield. It's not a smoke screen, it's all quite consistent with a road-map to mars.
Oh, I'm not arguing for classic Keynesianism here. Its good that governments keep their levels of expenditure more or less constant through cyclical fluctuations in their revenue, but only because firing and rehiring people is inefficient. Far better, I would say, would be to use monetary stimulus since that doesn't leave the government with a mountain of debt. There's always the danger of inflation if you apply too much, but that's equally true with fiscal stimulus.

I generally agree with this:
http://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/re-target...

EDIT: Of course, the EU monetary authority doesn't have a dual mandate like the Fed, and it seems to be run according to the needs of northern rather than southern Europe anyways. A lot of economists who were saying that the Euro was doomed are saying "I told you so" now. I don't see this crisis ending without either more fiscal integration or the dissolution of the Euro, and I think the later is more likely.
I would write something like:

void someFunction( void* pvMyStruct ) {
myStruct_s* myStruct = pvMyStruct;
You were probably not the first with this idea: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatooine#Moisture_farms

I'm surprised this article has been on HN for 10 hours already without any Star Wars references.
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So per my simple understanding of GDP, the GDP will remain the same. The next flaw in your example, is that if this person is in $25K/year deficit, marrying the maid will solve his problem.
There may be minority protections and veto rights on things like acquisitions, company-sale and other substantive decisions.

Edit: FB's probably in league of it's own though (as someone else mentioned, the S-1 filings would likely have the kind of info I'm referring to)
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