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Pretty much this. It's only quite recently that many of our business apps are even officially supported on Windows 7, and even then it will involve upgrades and changes to things that are otherwise working.

If you don't need to be on the cutting edge then there's a benefit to being a little behind the times and letting others iron out the bugs first.
Just curious, what kind of emails do you get?

> It's hard to tell which email is important, and it's hard to tell which important emails haven't been dealt with.

Does it mean that you get way more unimportant emails than important ones? Can't you just filter them away to tags/trash?
The AWS documentation does a good job explaining the setup. As for multiple ELB's mapping to the same instances, I don't know if this is actually documented, it is just kinda known. It use to require configuration via API/CLI, but appears that the web console now even lets you do it.

http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/ElasticLoadBalancing/lates...
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Yes but its hard to get optimal specialy when you want to have everything reusable. Even then there is much money to be safed with a good process.

The cost of the fuel is not that big a deal.
But for $1B, couldn't facebook just reimplement Instagram's interface and forcefeed it to facebook users? It's not like it needs the Instagram network, right?
I obviously don't know your background, but a statement like this: "If one were truly amazed by science, nothing would be in ones way to becoming a scientist" expresses the kind of sureness in the motivational power of joy and wonder that one I mostly hear from non-scientists (or non-literary people: replace "science" with "literature" and you'll get something similar).

The ones I know who are actually grad students or professors tend to take a much more pragmatic view.

I wrote this in another thread: "'Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.' -- Albert Einstein" -- from Philip Greenspun's Women In Science: http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science .
You're right but I don't think it's a matter of money. It's convenience. Microsoft seems to be going out of their way to keep users of their older products in the dark ages. The other major OS players (Apple and Linux distros) seem to be able to upgrade users of their older products when it comes to things like SNI. I mean, unless I'm seriously misinformed it shouldn't be a big deal to offer users of XP support for SNI and generally allow them to access upgrades that are in the same kind of class (for lack of a better word) as SNI. That kind of upgrade is very different than giving users the kind of OS upgrades that bring better performance or new UI's, various little wizards to help them connect to wifi, etc. The latter type of upgrade is why an average user upgrades a system, not because of under-the-hood stuff like SNI so giving it to them when they're still such a large portion of MS users isn't going to discourage them from upgrading to Win7 or whatever new thing they come out with.

I've been able to upgrade my Mac for about four years now from Leopard to Snow Leopard to Lion without a hitch. If I were using XP I'd probably have to buy new hardware with every upgrade and that's what's stopping people. It's not the money but the inconvenience that stops people. If their XP is doing the bare minimum of what they need it for then they're not going to upgrade to Win7 even if they know about the new ways it makes their life more convenient and how much prettier it is. They don't want to transfer their old important files from one drive to another. That's scary for the average person no matter how easy Microsoft advertises it to be.

It feels like Microsoft makes decisions with a heavier focus on marketing than real technical improvements, innovations, or user experience. I mean they make a good product (it's not my cup of tea but I'm not a bigot about it) but they're still operating like they have no competition and it's really screwing with people like us who are trying to move things forward.
I appreciated reading about Avi's thought process in deciding what he wanted to do next.

I'm in a similar place (minus the successful exit) and it's hard to figure out what is _worth_ working on. I'm contracting now, and it pays well and gives a lot of freedom to travel and just generally not work, but the projects are not exactly world-improving.
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I will look into brad delong's blog later when I have time, but I did factcheck some of shadowstats numbers four years ago for work, and they were right on the money.

E.g., the modern definition of unemployment is indeed very different from the definition of 40 years ago, which would yield something like 20%-25% today (compared to 12% or so today). And yet, everyone assumes it is the same statistic. Same with inflation.

Personally, my 3 biggest expenses (rent, food, energy, in that order) have been going up at almost 10%/year over the last 3-4 years. I don't see a reason to doubt the shadowstats CPI metric.

You're welcome to trust BLS data. Just be aware that you can't trust them when they are published [ http://www.zerohedge.com/article/visualizing-propaganda-erro... ] and given that 90% of the values are revised to be worse within a month, their methodology cannot be considered statistically sound.

edit: added "almost" to 10%. Just checked, and rent was "only" 8%/year.
"Windows 7 Home Premium" is about $100, but if you want professional you must pay significantly more. "Windows 7 Professional" is $149. "Windows 7 Ultimate" is $199.

You can get OEM copies for less from places like NewEgg if you buy hardware, but never as low as the big OEMs pay.

When a decent computer was over $2,000 the cost of Windows + DOS was around $85-100. Now the same computer costs about $500 and Windows is as much as $199.
If we did it every five years then it would have cost twice as much over the last decade, and we'd have ended up stuck with Vista for five years :->
I would very much like a free-for-all to be listed in the app store at all, but then give people the ability to create "curated streams" that users can subscribe-to/filter-with. That way, no bizarre censorship or arbitrary in-or-out decisions, but users could, if they wanted, only ever have to look at the store owner's "best of breed" channel.
Can they be subsidized by government? E.G. is one of these cheaper to set up in remote places (assuming that the cost numbers are correct and don't change downward) than the cost of:

"efficient desalinization" + building pipelines + building pumping stations + maintenence on infrastructure

for 30 years?
Not a great title.

Integration > Application > Understanding > Information when it comes to learning.

We can get all the information we want, and trivial things are easier to understand, but taking what we know and integrating it to our process is a crucial process.
Oh, mostly around the turn of the century with rail, oil, and steel trusts.

Just for clarity, i'm not claiming anything like is happening now.
When the other board members bring charges ... Which they might or might not, depending on the true financial picture of FB.

I am certain I would take offence at 1bn being spent on my behalf without prior consultation. Its actually a criminal offence and possibly could construe false accounting. Do you know what those words mean? Spending money demands a paper trail and minuted meeting notes. Or used to.

If you can now spend that amount without due ovetsight its no wonder we're financially shafted.

He's not the Emporor. Bitch.
Not qualifying as a "Hacker News" for Research / Sci

1) Specific topics -- HN is a general " what matters to startup kids " ( yes hard science is thicker )

2) You're wanting a better way to publish papers? Are you trying to get additional funding for this research?

3) HN has become a default bc its a sorting method for VC to dole out cash. Is the NSF reading?

I think you're in the right mindset but tell me what you're trying to do here.
When you try to outlaw inference, yes. I'm glad the US doesn't have this crap. (Yet.)
I'm pretty sure somewhere on the SpaceX web site they say that the fuel cost is actually a small fraction of the total cost. That's why reusable vehicles (which they want to do) even make sense.

It would be more informative to say the real price is mass, since it's the fact that you have to accelerate the mass of fuel you will use at time t up to that point that gives rise to the tragically inefficient log term in the rocket equation.
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> It's a cliche, but it was 911 that turned the world from a certain to an uncertain place. Now people are hankering for simpler times.

I have to call you out on this. What the heck are you talking about?
You can't talk about sensible naming without also talking about scope.

When a variable is only in scope for five lines, it's perfectly reasonable to give it a really short name.
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Show HN: My first iPhone app - Family Matters (using Parse)
The app is a simple Form builder for collaborative private group tasks.
It includes some sample Templates useful for a family.
For e.g., Shopping List, Family Radar, Travel Journal, Football Scorecard, Weight Tracker, etc.

The user can create such Forms or customize existing ones with the Builder.

My idea was rejected by YC last year, but I went ahead a built it anyway.
Let me know your thoughts.

Check the website at http://ellarum.com
AppStore link: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/family-matters-from-ellarum/id514754911?mt=8

I have made the app free (otherwise $1.99) for a day to let everybody review it.
It was completely unstyled, validation was unclear, and if I filled something in wrong, it wiped my form data.
Only Amazon has any assurance of making money. Incredible. What do you people plan on reading when the content providers go out of business? Each other's blogs? Have fun with that.
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Saw Roger give this epic presentation when I was working at Yelp. Extremely insightful - can't believe I didn't see it in a search here at HN.

Here's a video of the presentation as well. Highly recommended, Roger is an animated dude: http://bit.ly/w0qpeh
This is a great post by Chris Fralic from First Round Capital on the subject: http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/04/the-art-of-the-introduction...
"like Etsy sellers, who are empowered by the internet to run their businesses from anywhere, I’ll be working remotely, with only occasional trips to Etsy’s New York office. Not only that, but the default assumption for those on my team is that they, too, will be working from anywhere in the world."

The bad news is that this attitude isn't very common yet among employers. The good news is that it is getting better all the time. I live in far away (wrt SF) Bangalore and just turned down a remote job offer from a great startup in SF. (nothing wrong with the job, I just didn't have the time).
$conn = mysql_connect(...);
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I think these are by far the three most common name conventions, at least for beginners in PHP.
I couldn't disagree more.

I find that the aversion to side effects even when working in imperative languages is one of the most useful things I've learned from functional programming.

It is true that, at one level of abstraction, we write programs for their side effects. However, it is also true that having the right side effects is extremely important - so important that a program with the wrong side effects can easily be worse than no program at all. From that perspective, a focus on minimizing, containing and controlling side effects is very valuable. And an aversion to side effects is a good way to sharpen your focus on that.
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Just a thought that popped into my head. Assuming that the product issued in the end is going to be the same for everybody. And assume that the highest contributor that gets to put in the feedback generally improves the software. This creates a free loading problem for those who contributed less (myself included) for the same product. Even if it's a positive externality for the general backers, I wonder if there is a way for Kickstarter to properly compensate for such externality.
Its not really. We're still figuring things out, nowhere near their traffic, but similar eCPM. (Android/AdMob)

http://imgur.com/9pT9V

Comparatively we get $5-10 eCPMs from AdSense on websites.
> There are no cost overruns in government contracts. Just changes in scope. You don't find out what they really need until you really get into talking with them.

Umm, there are tons of cost overruns in government contracts (and in non-government contracts). Consider the James Webb Space Telescope for example. Or the F-35. Or about any software project. It's very hard to predict costs of new inventions.
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Late-morning to early afternoon, I'm reading? Fuck it, we'll do it live! :)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3858936
"Apple hardware is EXACTLY the same and is cheaper" is simply not true. Spec-wise, perhaps, but not in terms of build quality, and especially not in terms of support. Lenovo is arguably better than others, but it's not comparable. A MacBook Air is made out of solid metal, not plastic, for instance. HP makes some metal cases but they are always priced at a premium.

My main notebook I bought in early 2008 and I've upgraded the OS several times. Most people with Apple equipment hang on to their systems significantly longer. They're not treated as disposable like a $600 netbook might be.

The reason I'd want Windows is not always because of a new machine, but to run it in VMWare or BootCamp. Paying $100+ for this privilege seems crazy in this age.
It's not as easy as that. As people above me has already said , there are a lot of young people hopping over to Germany, some know the language, some not. In my circle of friends, most of us think that the best (or maybe the only) opportunities for us are outside Spain, and this is an extended opinion between the youth people here.

But there is a problem. Many of the young people unemployed come from the construction. People who stopped studying when they finished the ESO (secondary education, from 12 to 16 years old) or even before that, and consequently they don't have any specific formation (and very few know german language). In this situation, they can't migrate to another country, there is no job for them here neither in Germany.

Of course, this is causing a problem on the long term. High-qualified people is migrating. Low-qualified people is staying. Spain can't keep a sustainable economy with this situation. This crisis would not had affected Spain so much if the Real Estate boom had been stopped early and the inversions in education had been increased significantly, and with this panorama the country won't be able to correct the situation, and we will be vulnerable to another crisis like this one.
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And oddly enough, they probably would have gotten at least closer to right than to wrong.

I love discussions like this though, because it tells me the 'why' and 'how' somebody else got to their decision. I am not well-versed on typography. While I believe I have fairly high standards for font selection, I honestly couldn't tell you whether or not one font should be preferred over a similar font.

Articles like this help to at least enlighten folks like myself into knowing the criteria. In much the same way that a person who has little experience with cars might not know to ask about miles per gallon, safety ratings, etc., this kind of information lets people know that there's more to care about than 'leather vs cloth interior'.
I moved from Spain to the Netherlands with almost 0 change. Working on IT helps, of course, but it's still pretty easy. Jump on a plane, register on the city council, there you go.
It's even worse than that:

I render a service to yummyfajitas for $10M; say, sending a text message "you rock!"
yummyfajitas renders similar service to me for $10M; say, sending a text message "you sock!" back.

GDP = $20M+$0.20 (cost of text messages). Net change to economy: 0

You can (and indeed, countries do) inflate GDP for various reasons, such as GDP/debt requirements.
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Actually paying the private economy the money you already owe them isn't exactly stimulative. I mean, one would hope the private economy already assumes the bonds it has coming due are going to be paid.

Unless you're implying that investors worried that Spain my default before they personally get paid will pump money into Spain's private economy the moment their personal stake is clear. But panicky investors seem like the last people who would throw money into an economy with dodgy prospects.

And in general, the private economy has shown no real desire to do anything with its money other than hand it to stable governments or sit on it, despite very little return in either case.

So even as bonds mature, the money is not going into the private market at appreciable rates. And, in cases like Spain's, it also isn't likely to be handed directly back to the Spanish government keeping rates low.

It's going to either demand higher rates, sustaining the problematic higher rates, or run screaming for safer harbor.

In short, if investors had any intention of spending their money in Spain's private economy, there'd be no crisis. They would already be doing so, GDP prospects wouldn't be so awful and Spain's ability to meet its obligations wouldn't be in such doubt.
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In 1981, Rolling Stone famously slapped a photo of Jim Morrison on its cover to go with the headline: "He's Hot, He's Sexy and He's Dead."

Digital recreations of the dead have been with us for awhile. And art of this nature has been around for much of human history. I wonder how different this will be from the Renaissance technology of painting? Perhaps the difference will be that, with the help of computer technology, such recreations will be able to pass the Turing Test, at first in limited contexts, then more generally.

I think digital Tupac fell into an Uncanny Valley of a different sort. His appearance was almost flawless, but the context was still unsettling to many of the audience. I wonder how long it will be before we have the first "Digital Resurrection" cult?

How about a novel where a terminally ill iconic business leader and entrepreneur, instead of faking his death, fakes his continued life? Everyone just assumes that he's never seen mingling with the public because he's gotten Howard Hughes eccentric in his infirmity. By the time humanoid robots are ready for him to "meet" people and shake hands, his age and frailty make it easier for the technology to pull off the performance.
Yeah I hear you. We use Pivotal for a few projects and my top two complaints are the same as yours, although they've made some improvements in the last few months. OTOH there are things that bother me about the Trello UI as well.

Thanks for replying!
When discussing data-portability of social networks, Facebook's data download feature is sometimes brought up.

I periodically use this feature, to see if it has improved any since it's initial disappointing release. As of a few weeks ago, it has not.

A true data download from Facebook would consist of:
a machine-readable form of every action I've taken on Facebook (likes, friend requests sent/received, photos I added tags to, photos uploaded, status updates, messages sent/received, comments made, etc.) along with timestamps and at least URIs pointing to the objects referenced (photos, people, etc.) if not a copy of my view of those objects.

(I understand why Facebook might claim they shouldnt give me, for example, dates that other people de-friend me, since that isn't accessible info. However, I do think that copies of statuses I commented on and can still see isn't unreasonable)

What we have now is:
A static HTML dump of your profile page, photo page, and messages that is massively incomplete. Since the switch to timeline, fewer actions I have taken in the past seem to qualify for inclusion on my page ("moxiemk1 commented on friend's photo" used to feature more often in my profile than it does now). Since the revamped messages/chat integration, the messages dump (which always eventually cut off at some point in the past) is even smaller, and harder to read.

I would indeed like to have copies of the data I've created, and would like to emphasize that Facebook's "effort" to do so is complete BS.
To be fair, everyone with cancer dies of it, the rich just generally get to try a few more (mostly unsuccessful) treatment options and extend life a bit (at quite the cost to them).

My sister has cancer, hardly counts as rich, yet she got the chemo she needed. The bills are huge, but so far we have been able to pay them. I'm not closing the door to anything different from what we have, just saying that it's probably not as bad as you might think it is.
put political correctness aside, the socialist party in spain has nationalized 6 million migrants with no job qualification and now 60% of the youth in spain is unemployed.

Am I asking the wrong question?
OK, I think I see what you're saying. In other words, if a patent troll someone buys out Twitter, they will have to renegotiate their terms with the inventor before they can start shaking people down. I guess that's at least some reassurance.
Anyone have insight into how the tool that shows variables as it passed through functions would work in an extensible "port over the language of your choice" way? Is this reliant on stack tracing/debug tools or more rudimentary methods?