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Except the popular response to modern day taxation is for people to say that they wish they could pay more taxes instead of getting hassled.

Complicated tax law is the banal result of decades of special interest lobbying to carve out giveaways for favored parties and the finance-industrial complex.
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And you'd probably be less productive than someone who found the time to relax and recharge their energy.
The background behind the box that goes across the page and contains "Find awesome games to play on your browser or phone" has some sort of animation that causes ugly flicker on my laptop (Dell, Linux, Chrome, LCD with LED backlighting). I think it's related to the cloud animation.
This might be true for some, but there are plenty of reasons why someone may be completely satisfied with their work while also wanting to program extensively in their free time.

Anecdotally, I find that I program the most in my freetime when I am feeling the most fulfilled at work, which would seem to be the opposite of what you describe. That said, rather than just use myself as an example, I can think of other scenarios where individuals may like to program a lot outside of work:

Some pople enjoy entrepreneurship but also desire and/or require the stability and benefits of working for someone else. In that case, they may use their free time to build products of their own.

Some people enjoy much different levels of "hacking" than what you could find at a single work place. They may be someone who is primarily interested in the work they do, so they are eager to put in 40 hours doing it. But then when they get home, they might like to do something entirely different. Maybe they make mobile productivity apps in Objective-C, but in their free time they like to hack up algorithms for AI opponents for board games in Lisp.

Still others may be in a position at work that while they do program, they also thoroughly enjoy the responsibilities for and time they must dedicate to managing teams or training individuals. Those things, rewarding as they may be, mean that there are just not enough hours in a single work day for the individual to get their fill of programming, so they do it in their free time as well.

And some may just like the social aspect of being active open source contributors. They may program really innovative and cool stuff at work, but the choose to do some more mundane open source stuff in their free time because they like collaborating and contributing back to projects that have helped them get to the point where they are today.
Capitalist competition is inherently wasteful - advertising, lawsuits etc. - but overall it allocates resources more efficiently than any alternative that's been tried.
After reading this story, I was curious how much Google News had personalized my homepage after several years of using it as my primary outlet. Somewhat surprisingly, there wasn't any I could find other than things I had told it to do: more "Science" stories, no "Entertainment", a couple custom news alerts, no Huffington Post or Fox News.

The actual stories under each category were identical, other than a few were linked to different sources.
It's some kind of Core Wars clone, right?
I suppose the same way citizens in other countries with 'authoritarian regimes' circumvent snooping - go with an outside country provider who wants to protect your civil liberties.
Ah, and there's the rub. All it takes is a nod from the inventor, and the patents can be used offensively. If I'm a troll and putting together a portfolio to go after a "big fish", I probably already have the resources to offer the inventor a sizeable cut or up front payment sufficient to acquire that consent.
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How would they lose income? The most efficient tax collection would eliminate fraud and audits and eliminate underreporting, far more of an issue than poor and middle class people claiming deductions.
Thanks for the heads up, I'll see if I can fix that
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Very much agreed. In fact, I pity someone who works a job so distasteful/uninteresting to them that they need to go on a rant like this manifesto. There's something to be said for leaving work projects at work, I get that. But every day I get inspired and amazed by the stuff people are doing in the world of software. I like programing, I like computers. Maybe I haven't seen Game of Thrones or spent much time in bars over the last 5 years, but I don't see why that's reason to pity me. If you don't love what you do, do something else.

Software is complex. Complex enough that, for most, if you're not passionate enough about it that it creeps into your hobbies and your reading, you probably won't be much good at it. The manifesto seems to acknowledge this, while at the same time implying that they want to be well paid and get lots of time off. In any other industry I am familiar with, these are the perks of being the best.

Perhaps I'm taking it a big far, but to me, the most exciting software projects are closer to art than any other sort of work. I'm not familiar with many artists who view their works as "just a job", and would be surprised if many compelling works were created by people with that kind of mentality. I think it really reaches out to any kind of skilled work, I wouldn't want to be diagnosed by 501 doctor, bring my car to a 501 mechanic or drive my car over a bridge designed by a 501 engineer.

EDIT: removed ending nastyish statement.
What happens when you keep spending more than you have? Your economy contracts. Can you inflate it with easy currency? Sure thing -- up unto a point.

This Keynesian conversation is going to be very interesting to watch over the next few years. Lots of countries trying different things. I imagine no matter how it turns out, there will be quite a bit of spin, though. But still, it's better to have examples than just listen to theory, even if the examples are murky.

From what I hear, more QE is coming from the ECB. That might have a generally good effect on many economies. Or it might just be fun to blow through for a few months. We'll see.
Macys Wants To Blow Up Silos & Bring ECommerce In-store
While Windows 7 is great and all and I love it compared to XP, what does it actually give you to justify the price?

Pretty much sod all.

That's why users haven't forked out money. If it comes free with the new computers, fine. I reckon we'll be seeing it for another couple of years.

But don't blame the users, blame the utter lack of progress by MS.
Why are they costing more money than they bring in? Is it support? Is it usage? Is it overhead?
Finding an idea will involve talking to people who could be your customers.

It's like finding your lost car keys: you'll never find them by sitting down at your desk and writing a list of places where you'd like the keys to be.
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The article goes off the rails pretty early: What matters for a nation is its GDP. That's a country's equivalent of personal income.

GDP is not income, it's a sum of flows. The classic illustrative example is a man marrying his maid:

Unmarried: Man earns $200k/year, pays his maid $25k/year. GDP = $225k.

Married: Man earns $200k/year, pays his wife $0. GDP = $200k.

In both cases, the ability of this pair of humans to service debt and purchase goods and services remains the same. Both couples are equally wealthy, you've just tweaked an accounting identity.
‘Forget the Valley, Berlin Needs to Find its Own DNA’ | Silicon Allee
Functional programming's smugness problem
Okay, so it looks like they're very focused on storage in the client's browser - I assume that's what they mean by terminal equipment. They don't explicitly mention etag and I would bet that they can't enforce use of etags or last modified time stamps as they're really just a resource identifier. So, if local storage is out of the question, you could store the information server side.
I love this post of yours.

90% of the Kickstarter projects I back because I like increasing the amount of awesome in the universe (which also explains my involvement with the Awesome Foundation - awesomefoundation.org). Only 10% of them are because I want to "buy" the product. I generally expect that I'll actually get nothing when I contribute to a Kickstarter.

I simply want to reward others for having initiative, drive and interesting ideas and abilities.
It's not clear why you would trust a private corporayion either. Government is made of people, and reflects the society it exists in. By your logic, you should be in favor of self-provided health care. (Maybe you are. Maybe that is the best way. )
>Today, starting such a service would entail navigating a number of new tollbooths and gatekeepers.

One of them being Google.
If its part of the license agreement, they would have no choice (clearly, IANAL).
Pebble e-Paper Watch has raised over $4.1M
It's a random audit. It is good security practice. Amazon and Google test their systems too, it's because they are good, not because they are bad.
Great point. In addition to exploiting the law of averages, Kickstarter diffuses risk. It's easy to see that 100,000 people risking $20 (a $2M round!) is a lot easier pill to swallow, and thus easier to forget, on an individual basis. Contrast this with a small group of VCs risking $250k - $500k each.

It may have an interesting side-effect though. The salient hypothesis would be that the level of scrutiny applied to a $20-$30 risk is far lower than what would be applied when investing hundreds of thousands of dollars. By consequence, I would expect that Kickstarter would naturally fund more flops than a traditional VC model.
Very vanilla. I think that's a good thing. I like it.
Yes, the chunk of memory is managed by node, but each Buffer instance is linked with a slice of the heap through `v8::Object->SetIndexedPropertiesToExternalArrayData()`, the same way a JS `Uint8Array` would.

Here's the relevant link: https://github.com/joyent/node/blob/master/src/node_buffer.c....
The more I think of pebble and all the interest, the more feel that one of the bigger companies making smartphones might acquire them :)
"Requested Range not satisfiable," perhaps? I don't quite get it, either.
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If you do programming because it pays better then, you are going to be just another guy who never amounts to anything in this world.

I know a few of these people. You're right, they've never amounted to anything... except

- Good and loving parents

- Competitive sportsmen

- Inspiring teachers (in the best sense, outside of schools)

- Good and helpful friends

- World-renowned experts in obscure fields

- Effective local politicians

Just to name a few people I know personally. And while they might never be known as awesome programmers, they do pretty well and their colleagues still look to them for leadership, because they know their domain expertise well.

It's about priorities, you know?
Search engine: You'd be paying for traffic. Google does it. Bing does it. You'd have to do is. P.S. Good luck with that one, you're going to need it.

Online store: You'd be paying for adwords, probably.
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Nope. Look again. Almost nothing was transmitted to carriers. The big scare was the on-phone log. It was only Sprint and a handful of HTC devices.
TL;DR Something went wrong with this article's numbers and they may have used a very bad phone for testing. ("iPhone" appears early in the article, but that isn't the phone tested, it was an unnamed Android phone.)

Simply loading the mobile version of Wikipedia over a 3G connection consumed just over 1 per cent of the phone's battery, while browsing to apple.com, which does not have a mobile version, used 1.4 per cent.

That says, from a full charge, I can load 100 Wikipedia pages before exhausting the phone, or about 70 apple.com loads.

In the interest of science I just loaded apple.com 70 times on an iPhone 4 and the battery indicator is still showing a full battery. The phone is working hard, I can feel it getting warm under the A4 processor, but I don't expect to charge today.

The iPhone 4 battery is 1420mAh at 3.7V, we'll call that 18,000 joules.

Later the article says wikipedia took 35 joules, and also that wikipedia takes 15 joules to load.[1] Those would imply 500 and 1200 wikipedia loads per battery charge. (Assuming their test phone had a similar battery to my phone.)

I recommend ignoring this article until you see one with both consistent numbers, and a comparison of energy used for rendering and energy used for screen lighting and idling. Is render energy even relevant in real use? Can't tell from this.

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[1] It is possible this article is the work of an Electric Monk.
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Actually case 2 probably pays less taxes and is therefore better off.

In countries where tax evasion is high enough, the standard of living can be fairly high while the government is failing see Italy and Greece.
I don't understand this manifesto business. Everyone wants, and can get, something different out of a career in software development.

Why do the "501 developers" care that some people would rather program late into the night than go out with people. Likewise, why should anyone care that the they would like to have enough free time to engage in other hobbies.

If I want my job to define who I am, who are you to tell me that it's "wrong"? If you want the free time to do other things, go for it, but don't assume that the lifestyle you want would make everyone happy.
Work can't satisfy everything. I enjoy making useless things, sometimes! I enjoy owning a project entirely. I enjoy helping friends. It's okay those itches aren't scratched by work, because work pays me.
Yeah, people always quote the unemployment rate but don't seem to get that there are a LOT of people working and collecting "paro" as unemployment insurance is called here. That said, if you are out of work and not working illegally, life is hard.

As for property prices, banks aren't lending either. What I see is that people aren't buying or selling; they are moving into old family homes (la casa del campo) and moving in together or back with their parents.

The real pain is how bad the situation is and how shameless the politicians are.
Any insight on how you prioritize cards? Do you keep the process as simple as "I think A is more important than B, but less important than C." or do you use some sort of scoring mechanism?
The big problem I see with the "501 manifesto" is that it assumes there is just one thing called "programming".

The kind of programming that was fun for me when I was young is completely different than the kind of programming that employers pay for today.

Why do you think people are spending their free time on Github? They miss programming for fun so much they'll do it for free.
I don't think there is anything wrong with an email provider asking me for my cell number to send me text messages, how else would they send them?

In addition, a cell phone number is NOT required to create a Google account. Sure they ask (and gender is apparently required, I just made an account), but if you leave it blank, they won't complain.
This is a better use of wind power than generating electricity for the grid. Since the wind doesn't always blow, use wind power for systems where it's easy to store the product. Storing water is easy. Storing electricity is not.
Games programming is probably a bad example because many people follow their passion for gaming into an industry that does not allow many to contribute creatively. If you are hired to make the game engine or tools, few are going to care that you have unique ideas about the actual content of the game. I believe it would be difficult to cope with that in the long term and that people would ultimately "give up" or "get out".

I am interested in the indie game programmers being unhappy. That seems almost paradoxical, unless they were just unsuccessful. I cannot imagine Notch having a stronger passion that making video games.
Because the expectations jobs have come in large part form the cultural expectations prevalent within the field. And your job's expectations can make you either unhappy or unemployed.
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And now there is a government employee who is correspondingly worse off...
You've gotten an error because what you've requested is beyond the available range. (My time is my time, not yours.) Although I think a 413 would make more sense—the request is larger than the server is willing to process.
HN, what's bothering you? 
We're a community of builders. But we are also busy individuals with lots of problems (that need a simple or complex solution).

So HN, what's bothering you? What do you want to get solved for you? For what product/service would you pay if it existed today?
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What I have liked about the strict deadlines is that a community can form around the course. If you have a large group of people taking a course at roughly the same pace, the forums etc. (IMO) are a much more useful resource.

Udacity have an interesting solution to this. The first run of CS101 and CS373 had strict, weekly deadlines. They are now being re-offered on a self-paced basis.
One reason road construction crews have so many people standing around is that the work is very hard. You have one guy digging in a hole in the summer sun for, say, 20 minutes. Then they pull him out and he downs some Gatorade and the next guy goes in. You really can't push much harder than that without pushing your luck with heat stroke.
I think Twitter they should go one step further and form a pool of companies which bring in all their patents and:
1) If you join, you are not allowed to bring any other patent lawsuits against other companies.
2) If you get sued, you are able to attack the sueing company with all the patents in the pool.

Or even add:
If you are licencing a patent to another company, the licencing is void if that company attacks another company.
One of the things I'm beginning to suspect is that the metrics are rigged. That is, most economic discussions are based on terms that aren't meaningful in any practical way. I see a lot of economists poking at the metrics with their pencils and talking theory while waving their arms around wildly.

But I am simply an observer. I love watching smart people argue about stuff, so economics fascinates me. One thing is for sure, there is a ton of diverging opinions about the Euro and the sovereign debt crisis.
> The Falcon 9 launch vehicle was developed from a blank sheet to first launch in four and half years for just over $300 million. The Falcon 9 is an EELV class vehicle that generates roughly one million pounds of thrust (four times the maximum thrust of a Boeing 747) and carries more payload to orbit than a Delta IV Medium.

> The Dragon spacecraft was developed from a blank sheet to the first demonstration flight in just over four years for about $300 million. Last year, SpaceX became the first private company, in partnership with NASA, to successfully orbit and recover a spacecraft. The spacecraft and the Falcon 9 rocket that carried it were designed, manufactured and launched by American workers for an American company. The Falcon 9/Dragon system, with the addition of a launch escape system, seats and upgraded life support, can carry seven astronauts to orbit, more than double the capacity of the Russian Soyuz, but at less than a third of the price per seat.

Well now, look at these gems! If you still need a reason to get into this company, just read the first sentence of either quote.
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70% accuracy is pretty weak. I can predict whether a given passenger will attempt to commit a terrorist act with greater than 99.99% accuracy. Here is my code:

boolean isTerrorist(Passenger p) {
return false;
}
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Why?
I can't see it. By the time I hit page 5 I see that the items are about a month old.

It's fine if this is a glitch however if this is part of a human filter or otherwise, I would clearly classify this as a bug.
The article's title tells me that the author doesn't understand what's going on. "Why austerity is destroying Europe." How about the reality of the situation -- overspending and borrowing have destroyed europe.

Iceland seems to have fixed the problem the correct way: default.

Greece just did the equivalent of a credit card balance transfer while converting the loan to a secured transaction. In the name of "saving" the banks of Europe, Greece has been financially raped. Spain is next.

Oh, and Japan and the United States aren't too far behind.
Something's wrong with the narrative. The author writes, "Going through my search history, I could trace the emergence of stories to the day I read about the Bustamante murder." .

But she didn't use 'search' to get to that article; she just clicked on it on the homepage. So it wouldn't be there in the search history.
No. You get to be Leonardo Da Vinci though, who was a painter, a sculptor, an inventor, a thinker and a ladies man.
Ask PG/HN Mods: Can someone please help me unblock our RSS reader?
We made an RSS reader which is now being blocked by news.ycombinator.com (we get 'no data received'). We were parsing the RSS feed every 15 minutes. Is there anything we can do? I've stopped it from hitting HN for the past 24 hours, but it still appears blocked.
I don't think that proves what you think it proves. You're missing what he would do with that $25k if he marries his maid. Maybe he would spend it on something else. Maybe he saves it and the bank loans it to someone else. In either case, it does matter what happens, because it gives us a clue into the velocity of money.

GDP measures the value of all the stuff and services we produce. Which shows how much income we earned. So, you're wrong.
In Chicago, they tried a non-interactive version of Ceefax (renamed "Keyfax"). It ran on an independent UHF station (WFLD-32, now Fox) late at night after normal programming had ended. Wow, remember that? Stations actually signed off for the night.

The longer story is that the Sun-Times and Honeywell tried to launch Ceefax here, but the british-designed decoders would need a few years to get approved by Underwriters Labs, so the static service ran ahead of the launch. When Keyfax actually launched, it flopped. It was also shitcanned by Rupert Murdoch, who had bought the Sun-Times in the 80s and was quoted as saying "I do not believe that tomorrow's newspaper will be delivered on a TV screen".

Anyway, here's some nostalgia and a capture of the Keyfax system. It was kind of boring after a while:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8fvC6mdAK8
Ha, we had the same thought!
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Why do you expect investors to be stupid?

The article we're commenting on is an investor excited that software patents will stop holding up profits.
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I suspect that OOP had a similar problem at one time.