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I agree this is the problem. In economics it is called "adverse selection" and is particularly problematic for insurance.
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Newer drivers, for one. Also, it's a lot easier to mess with Arch's internals than Ubuntu's.
"You have 200 years of common history as a single country..."

That's actually not true...even remotely. California and Texas for example have been part of at least three different countries. Texas for example has had six different national owners, including a stint as an independent country. Alaska wasn't a state in the U.S. till 1959!

Something like half of the land territory of the U.S. was added in the 20th century. And territories like Virginia have around 400 years of history, only half of which is with the U.S.

Oklahoma (a non-European word) held out till 1907 and has at least 25 Native tongues and presently is home to 39 recognized nations protected by treaty!
I'd substitute the word "entitlement" with "expectation". And it's not hard to see why they'd have it. I'm 29, and I can clearly remember getting the message from every corner of society that more education = higher income/earning potential. From every teacher, guidance counselor, and regular adult in my life the message was the same. College education means financial security.
don't forget increased risk of dying. driving is the most dangerous activity most people do daily.
I typically use the client-side variations approach but didn't in this instance because the two pages were created separately and were pretty different in terms of css and it was just easier to keep them separate.

Moving forward, I'll do the extra work to make VWO swap content on the same page and adjust the css appropriately.

Segmenting traffic after the test is something I wish VWO would allow me to do but that is currently a limitation of their system.
I usually robots.txt any big text variations anyway. A short delay in indexing isn't going to do any major harm and that way you get the right version cached.
When it's pointed toward someone's real wife, in a sincere thread about something important - well, sex worker jokes aren't funny in that situation. Particularly given the guy isn't a friend of yours, nor is the wife.

Suggestion: never try that anywhere but a web forum.
If the purchase price of these tickets were 350,000, and if the typical purchaser was in his 30's at the time of purchase, that gives an annuity of almost $2000 a month, assuming an average lifespan of 70's and a 6% interest (yeah, that may be a tad bit high on the interest assumed, but remember this was the 80's). So in effect, these passengers are paying 2G a month for their high end "bus pass". And if they travel once a week, that is $500 per ticket. I really don't think AA is losing much money here.

Edit: This also explains why these tickets didn't sell recently at $3 million a piece -- for that money, again assuming a 40 year annuity but a 3% interest rate, you can buy a $1200 ticket twice a week.
Even more "mind shivering" than this one was a linked article about Boltzman brains (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain) which I had never heard of before.
>but maybe I should write up a more detailed blog post about it?

Yes you should write more about this. It's fascinating.

And to answer your previous question about whether the college would get a percentage of your farm income, I would have to say yes.

The option of limiting their stake to a particular profession would introduce too many loopholes.

For instance I could get a math degree, and sign something giving them a share of all future earnings as a mathematician--then work as a programmer instead. That being said I'm sure there could be some sort of maximum.

Student loans already work somewhat similarly. There is an option to pay off loans based on a percentage of your total income, so you are in effect paying x percent of your income for y number of years.
Static vs dynamic typing, OO vs procedural, stateful vs functional/pure etc all have intrinsic strengths and weaknesses. You can only compensate for so much in implementation. Python will always be a bad language for writing kernels, for example.
If you want to go for big numbers, check out the Ackermann function. It quickly makes 10^10^26 hard to distinguish from nothing =)
> I wish we had it 5+ years ago when it mattered.

You know... Some people still use spinning metal. Also, my notebook is also my main work machine and it only fits one 2.5" device inside it (albeit I'm tempted to experiment with running the OS off an SD card, if not for speed (which is unlikely) for battery life. I don't care if Emacs comes up in 2 seconds instead of four.

Even with SSDs, by keeping the files in contiguous blocks (I would assume this program may even purposely not do it - as it would make sense to interleave blocks of files that are opened simultaneously during the boot process in the order the blocks - not the files - are called in) you may get some extra mileage out of your storage - you'd have a simpler structure for each file - instead of a list of blocks (or extents) you'd have the whole thing in a single extent.
There is a resource bounded version of Kolmogorov complexity. It might even be a more useful measure for certain things. For example, a simple enumeration can prove any arithmetical statement that can be proved, but it can take time exponential in the size of the solution. With some resource weightings you might get a better idea of how hard the problem is in actual practice.
That limitation is not exactly biological. I'm pretty sure that alien mind (or artificial mind) would have pretty similar limitation. It could be "10 entities" instead of "5 entities", but the number of simultaneous entities in "processing model" would not be much higher.

The real reason for such limitation is that number of possible connections between objects is growing very quickly.

For example, 2 entities connect with each other by 1 connection.

3 entities connect by 3 connections.

4 entities connect by (4 * (4-1)) / 2 = 6 connections

5 entities -- 10 connections.

7 entities -- 21 connections.

10 entities -- 45 connections (4.5 times higher than for 5 entities).

Number of possible connections between entities defines complexity of the model.
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That's very true, but you can't use a mirror to grasp an object.
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My wife does Avon with reasonable success. For her time she probably earns about minimum wage but she enjoys it because of all the walking.

That said, I don't think it's a good choice for the OP simply because of all the travel and sorting boxes, etc, involved.
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For all screenshots, scale it in even proportions to reduce aliasing. The resumes shown in the previews all look blurry.
I'd go to the interview wearing this:

http://www.clutchtees.com/I-m-Pretty-Gangster-Myself-Shirt.h...
By one different than your own? Not being snarky, and I'll assume your original question was asked in good faith. However, logical arguments, no matter how well crafted, tend not change people's minds about moral issues.

If you don't care, then you don't care. And there's probably nothing that can be said in this thread that will change your position on the matter.
> Last, and possibly most important, is the misconception about how easy it is to launch a profitable mobile app to millions of users. Zynga now hosts about 80% of their games on their private cloud (the zCloud). This infrastructure separates Zynga from a group of 15 hackers who want to make the next Angry Birds.

Sorry, I don't buy it. You don't need to host your own infrastructure to schlep virtual cows around. Zynga probably saves some money in self-hosting but that isn't going to make or break a title.
The population density map is misleading in this context.

In the southwest there are vast stretches where nobody lives, dropping population density in a distorted way.

In the southeast, there are vast stretches of lightly-populated land.

These are not at all the same thing in this context.
What's really spooky is thinking about the things which we would have been able to observe if we had been around much earlier. Perhaps seeming constants have changed over the history of the universe, or other universes which drifted away from us along now-imperceptible dimensions. (I'm guessing you saw the same Brian Greene TED talk I did.)
"It takes nothing to produce a hot game. You merely need somebody with a computer, a good idea, and the ability to make a game. Making a game is not rocket science. Making matters worse for Zynga is that it does not and never will control the distribution channels."

Yes, that's why everyone with a CS degree has made millions of dollars. This is offensive to everyone that makes games.
That's why advertising exists though. I'm sure McDonalds would be very happy if you ate there every day. That guy from Subway did and now hes a company spokesman. So I don't believe its about manipulation - because thats an essential part of taking people's money for any business.
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> Seriously... there is /nothing wrong/ with a site choosing to A/B test people by returning different results from the server, and yet Google insists that doing so is somehow harmful and that it would be better to wait entire extra round-trips to do client-side testing using JavaScript, a process that in the end is not only a worse experience for the user and a more complex and less secure mechanism for the developer but has /the exact same fundamental behavior that Google claims is evil/.

Halfway through your rant, you clearly demonstrate that you did not bother to adequately understand the linked article before ranting about Google, throwing words around like "evil" and "despicable" without even knowing what you are ranting about, like so very many well-intentioned but woefully ignorant commenters in today's technorati.

FTA, emphasis mine:

> [The split-page approach used] is sort of a hybrid of Client-side and Server-side variations. Here’s how it works. Let’s say you want to test your landing page at yourdomain.com/landinag-page. You would create additional pages and using javascript, the visitor would be redirected to one of the pages.

You seem to have completely misunderstood what the author was saying. Naturally, since you are both misinformed and critical of Google, that makes you the most highly upvoted comment on today's Google Hacker News thread!
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Looks good; works great!
Amazon Prime is not about books or Kindles, but everything else you would ever want to buy in all areas of your personal and professional life. That is why Bezos dangles all of these carrots in order to get you to become a Prime member. Bezos clearly knows that he is doing.
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Yeap, that was the price. It's called technical debt and sometimes it makes sense to have it.

Dirty code not always has to be refactored. Most of dirty code just dies together with useless functionality (wrong guess on business side).
It looks like AA is using the retail price of these flights when calculating how much money these customers are costing them, instead of the actual cost.

What's the actual cost in terms of fuel, service, and occupied seating?

The only way using the retail price makes sense is for fully booked flights, and since first class is rarely full, AA's numbers look extremely inflated.
I think, like me, you're from the UK? Most HN readers are American and different cultures usually have different senses of humor and taboos.

Doing sex phone work is a bit "ooh, naughty" here but as a topic for general conversation is far less offensive than in the US. We even get light hearted documentaries about sex phone operators on TV (http://steverogerson.suite101.com/my-phone-sex-secrets-chann...) featuring students and grannies who've decided to give it a crack to earn a few quid, but when set amongst US norms your suggestion is barely better than suggesting she walk the streets.

tl;dr - When in Rome..
Also, your local Safeway has to eat a lot more money stocking products that never get sold than Amazon does.
It kills me that everything is "5 stars", "10/10", "#1" these days. When everything is special, nothing is special, right?

I like how you identify the designer/developer as a role in and of itself; embracing the tension instead of picking a side. I've never heard it phrased quite like that before, but I think it makes a lot of sense.
Yes, to this day.
There's a big difference between an Alabama Democrat and a Massachusetts Democrat. You certainly could not always count on them to vote the same way.
War-driving is no longer about laptops in cars.

A couple of years ago I spoke at a New Zealand hacker con (http://2010.kiwicon.org/the-con/talks/#e41) about "Wardriving in the age of Arduino".

My final demo was an Arduino-based War-walking rig that easily fit into a stylish Trilby hat and logged SSIDs with GPS locations as you walked.

You could then easily display the result on a map with indications of the WEP/WPA/etc security in use.

Is that dapper gentleman out for an afternoon constitutional or casing your network?

(Besides, by now, most (possibly rooted) smart phones can probably do all that's required anyway.)
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> I also hate "This" as a usage for, well, anything.

For a second there I thought I was trying to parse some javascript.
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>By "newspaper are the same" I meant that you have national newspaper that one can find everywhere.

Actually there are about 5. But 3 are really local metropolitan papers that happen to cover cities that are of interest to the rest of the country (New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post).

But to give you an idea of perspective, USA Today, which circulates nationally, only moves about 1.8 million copies a day (in a country of over 300 million people). Local papers are far more important to most people and circulate many more copies than any of the national papers touch.

>By "same political parties", I mean that you know which is rep and which is dem. Which one will support your current president and which won't.

At the local level this isn't always true. Local politics in the U.S. can be tremendously parochial and can often not map well to national platforms. For example, in my area the local Republicans have been more focused on raising tax revenues to fund mass transit expansion than the Democrats -- almost the exact opposite of the National parties' focus. And I'm not talking about State level. County and District politics are local...or in cities districts or wards. It can be maddening to try and explain local or national political behavior by using one to explain the other.
I think forrestthewoods is pointing out that making games, even social games, is hard.

Sure it's possible for one person to develop a successful social game. But how many of those people can develop two successful social games? 5? 10+? The only name that comes to my mind is Zynga.
To be fair, I do feel that the people who've suggested I make a choice are looking out for my best interests. I would consider each of these people to be a friend (including my former boss). But I do think you're right that people like to classify things and put them in boxes. I don't fall into either box and that may cause dissonance for some.
I wonder if that's what this is though: Ubuntu LTS having modified the FF build they run to use SPDY by default (given the LTS is supposed to be out for 5 years now, they may have chosen to jump the gun on that feature), and the SPDY support in the bundled FF isn't complete?
Does she have a good grasp of written English? (I'm not pulling your leg. Many people struggle to type readable, grammatically correct sentences.)

People have already mentioned SEO, but there's a broader demand for 'article writers' and even people who can write summaries of Web pages, produce ledes for online news services, do proof reading of text, etc.
It's a parody of religious right wing magical thinking, so it's not supposed to make sense.
Awesome story. Reminded me of this one from Derrick Sivers:

"In 1996, I had a little record label, so I got a UPC barcode account, so I could put unique UPC barcodes on my CDs. I had to pay $750 to the Universal Code Council to get a company account, but that meant I was allowed to create 100,000 products under my account. Musician friends asked how, so I showed them how, but also said they could use one of my product IDs.

At first, I did this for free, as a favor, until friends started sending strangers my way. Because it took a little work to generate the number, create their EPS/TIFF graphic barcode, and keep track of their unique IDs forever, I charged $20.

Over the next 12 years, this made me almost $2 million."

http://sivers.org/sharing
Yep, we take all that into consideration as well as task dependencies, not_until dates, force_dates, and sequential scheduling. As well as collaborative lists.
Thanks for the feedback. We don't have the ability to do what you mention above yet but we are thinking about it.
I guess I don't understand the difference.
That is a really great point!
I was really only appalled by the specific application of audio feedback used in the demo. And as such I blatantly discarded the whole idea of feedback systems. But when I think about it, that area is huge.
I really want one of those sensor plates with an arduino interface!
Acting as a liaison between teams -- and even between members of the same team -- is something I find myself doing often. Unfortunately, as @idan pointed out, these kinds of things often go unnoticed by management; and even if they are noticed, they're hard to quantify.
I'll see your Ackermann function, and raise you TREE(3).

Plus one.
this is pretty cool. needs more people contributing though imo
Only about 80% of Americans speak English as their mother tongue. And I can tell you pretty readily that even if 16% of the remainder speak "English" the level varies wildly.
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Fair point. Though we'd be talking moving from a place with a median age of, well, roughly median age. Greatest mortality is in infancy, again in the teens / early 20s (mostly males from violence/accidents), then gradually increases past 40 due to general mortality (disease, illness, cancer, etc.).

I'm not sure that the delta from, say, 40-ish median to the slightly older skew of a retirement-centric Florida community would be great.
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Meanwhile my neighbours and I have to catch a bus that is always late, often doesn't arrive and leaks when it rains.

The only difference between you and said wealthy individuals is that they are richer than 99% of everyone who has ever walked the earth, while you are only richer than about 95%. I'm sure that after a few moments' contemplation of this fact, you will conclude that corporate ethics and business integrity are important values to uphold, even when dealing with "rich" customers.
Yes, but for any company with multiple major initiatives the smarter thing to do is to decentralize the decision making and let the individuals handle it at the initiative level. Otherwise you end up with heavy middle management that becomes hindrance and liability for the most part.
Where are you located? My startup is looking for customer service reps.
I drew a number of genetic short straws, but apparently not one limiting IQ too badly.
Seems like quite a few developers are starting to adopt this idea, which I think is great! There's already a jailbreak version that was done a few days ago (http://www.idownloadblog.com/2012/05/04/swipeselection/)

I've been in contact with Daniel Hooper, who originally came up with the idea and made the video posted other day, and he says he's happy to see people adopt it in their apps. I think Daniel deserves a great deal of credit for putting this idea out there in the open instead of patenting it like some large companies might be tempted to do.

I've been implementing this functionality in my own word processor, UX Write, and will have it included in the first version when its released in the next few weeks. I've posted some details on my own implementation at http://www.uxproductivity.com/blog/2012/05/05/text-selection...

I noticed that in this video they have a separate button above the keyboard for triggering selection, instead of using the shift key like in Daniel's demo. I ran into some conflicts with the shift key between my own gesture recognition and the built-in keyboard logic, as I suspect the developer of SlideWriter did too. The separate button looks like a good solution.
Completely true. My argument isn't to avoid the one thing you are truly passionate about. It's to understand the realistic results of that pursuit. If I hadn't gotten married while still in school I probably would have gotten the double major and perhaps gone to graduate school in mathematics. But my priorities shifted. I found choosing a close runner up in order to better my family life to be superior. Just as I would probably pass up on a promotion that would require me to travel 30% of the time. For me my family is a passion. For other people, having a nice house and nice toys is a passion. As you said, it's all about optimizing rival objectives. For me that optimization between my interests and having a family is software development. That is purely from my perspective, but it's a choice I have made and there are consequences of that choice, both seen and unforeseen.

And that's the point. Once we make a choice, we must accept the consequences. The article indicates there was some sort of agreement between life and students that says "If you study hard and get an advanced degree you won't have financial troubles." Since that wasn't the case, the world seems unfair. There is no such agreement. I'm not raining on the parade of students studying things that interest them. I feel strongly that their studies are beneficial and they become better people and better members of society because of them. But they were never promised financial success and not having it is not a breach of contract in any way shape or form. That's why this article rubs this crowd the wrong way.
> a cute trick
allow me to disagree about the cuteness of that. there are ways to distinguish a module from an executable file. For example, 'main' could be a special function (like in C).

> you just list it as a parameter
yes, that's what I wanted to say. the fact is, in other languages I don't have to list it as a parameter and I don't have to get used to it. Personally, I find it annoying (but I could live with it, like everyone else).

> how does wrapping C functions with C names help me
forgive my forward reference, but I will argue that "you're not the target audience" for this language. I found that PHP works best if you're coming from a C background and you treat it as a C-based scripting language (and this is kind of what PHP claims to be). I've always suspected that people coming from other backgrounds are the ones who will dislike PHP the most (and it doesn't surprise me), but I also don't know why they seem so vocal about it. I, for one, don't post negative comments about Ruby/Python (unless I'm comparing PHP with them) because I acknowledge that other people with, say, LISP backgrounds will find those more intuitive and will make efficient use of the them.

Anyways, cheers.
Being this is HN, I like to think this more a calculus joke =D