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Why did you go for a pistol? If you expect things to go really bad then surely a hunting rifle would be more useful, and perhaps a shotgun for personal defense.
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Is human fat somehow more potent than regular bio-diesel? He couldn't have saved that much money...bio-diesel is by definition cheap...and the dude is a plastic surgeon...not like he is hurting for $$$.
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I don't know why this framework doesn't get more attention. Good on them for finally releasing the 1.2 version.
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I used to think that app was a waste. I even made negative comments about it on HN. But I was heading to Christmas dinner with my girlfriend's family and figured I'd buy an app to help me entertain the kids. That fart program was perfect. It made everyone laugh.
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"For China, too, this crisis has been a time of reckoning. Americans are buying fewer Chinese DVD players and microwave ovens. Trade is collapsing, and thousands of workers are losing their jobs. Chinese leaders are terrified of social unrest."

That is the worry on the Chinese side.
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a 6.5x decrease

That would be negative 5.5 times, or 5.5 times below zero.
This sounds similar to the advice I've always heard: continue exercising if your symptoms are above your neck.
U-235 has about 6 orders of magnitude on gasoline.
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There are problems pretty much inherent in types of organisations. These are a consequence of the forces creating them, growing them & making them thrive.

Businesses as a complex are great at some things & problematic at some things. The defining characteristics are the drive to make money, responsibility towards shareholders, legal obligations etc. The ones that survived, had others modelled on them where those that made money, those that got big, etc. Pg & others talk about vestiges piling up, but that assumes traits being useful at some point. Businesses that go bankrupt, stay small, get sued to pieces... do not have much of a lasting impact. Positive social impacts is only a surviving trait inasmuch as it aids the others.

Governments & government organisations have other issues. A big part of what makes them survive is looking good to electorates/media etc. They're not as scrutinising as shareholders, but they know when a neighbouring country has better roads, lower taxes, or if things have been getting worse.

Charities have issues to do with the fact that 'survival,' growth & such are mostly to do with fund raising ability. Proficiency in whatever they're stated purpose may be helpful for fund raising. But it is not in itself a guarantee of success. At first glance you might think, businesses may make brilliant products & go out of business. But that misses the point a little.

A charity's job could be to help relieve rural poverty in remote P&G. OK, where do we go from here? Well, raise money & run poverty relief programs in P&G. Done. Of the 10 charities, which did a better job?

Similar working out who created the best portable music player, best sneakers, best film. You can argue that 'Alexandra Leaving' is far superior to 'Oops I did it Again'. You could argue the contrary. Not much fun arguing who made more money.

If your goal is make money, we have a clear winner. We can't tell who relieved more poverty per dollar. We can tell who raised more money. We can tell how (on what) they spent it, but we can't tell how well they spent it.

Governents are charged with the opposite. 'Educate Youth'. That is the goal. But since they have responsibility for the entire job, you can gauge their success. You can tell how educated the country is. Better then 20 years ago? Worse? Charities don't even have that. All they have is spending.

I'm sure there are many cases where charities could break through from the constraints of the conditions on their grants, donor public & thrive. But there is also a danger of charities overspending on fund raising or hitting all sorts of tragedies of the commons in spending over chasing an existing amount of money. It's really hard to tell.

So we shoot from the hip. What can you do?
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Perhaps a good idea in theory but this is just some window dressing on top of Google Custom Search. Not so visually appealing - especially with all the Adsense taking up so much space above the results.
I understand the concept behind index funds -- I loved Bogle's books on the subject -- but I wonder if it still makes sense, at least in the USA. Caveat: I know just enough economics to be dangerously uninformed. ;)

The all-market index fund is an expression of faith in "the system". I am a bit concerned that markets in the US just aren't what they used to be in Bogle's heyday. I look at the housing crisis and I see entire industries based on large-scale dishonesty or incompetence, with no serious oversight from Congress or the press.

Everyone assumes that the USA is a big machine for creating value, because it always has been. But is there really any evidence for this in the past 10 years? At this point, we've wiped out most of the gains since 2000. If you disregard the various bubbles, did anything really get done?

Bogle himself warned that American capitalism, since the late 80s or so, has been abandoning its old principles of rewarding risk-taking and investment. The American economy is now dominated by an elite managerial class, rewarding itself regardless of performance or economic sanity. Bogle called this "managers' capitalism". Economist George Akerlof bluntly calls it "a form of looting".

Vanguard has foreign and industry-specific index funds to address weirdos like me, but in a sense that's the sort of stock-picking that the index fund was designed to avoid. I still feel confused by it all.
Notice the pic on that page closely...
Look for the weight specs. its mentioned as "x.xx lbx" ??
Again, look for the battery specs: "Upto x-hour battery" ??

Makes me laugh as to why Sony would make such an ad. Is it fake?

And on the SonyStyle page, I wasn't able to find the P-series link??
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I second yoga. It is the only exercise that I know of that is built around the back and posture. It does wonders for people who sit at desks all day. I have only done it occasionally over the past several years, but it has helped every time.

The other important exercise is walking. As imperfectly designed as our bodies are for bipedal locomotion, walking turns out to be one of the best exercises for them. For example, the disks in our backs don't have blood vessels bathing them in oxygen. One of the only ways to oxygenate them well is to walk (due to the back and forth motion).

A healthy spine, back muscles, etc. will go a long way to making your 8+ hour stints in a chair bearable. Think of it as the penance that our body demands for our hacking.
One of the few articles that get to the bottom of the problem.
The economic meltdown version of Godwin's law clearly seems to be when someone suggests buying gold and weapons. Often even with the requisite response: why a gun instead of a pistol?

For an account (previously on HN a few times) from someone in Argentina who really went through total currency meltdown:

http://www.frugalsquirrels.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ub...
There are different grades of advice. Some is free, some costs 24.95 per month, some costs 6000 per year, some costs much, much more.

Now, Jim Cramer is famous because he is very shrill in his catastrophic opinions, but they are all playing the same game. One laughable spectacle is the expensive annual Forbes cruise in which wealthy people pay (I forget how much) to get stock tips, which are later relayed to the magazine's readers. This is nothing more than half-assed front running.

Rest assured, however, that ALL FREE PREDICTIONS are merely stage two of a front running scam.
"China is kicking our ass right now because they can work harder, faster, and cheaper." - Michael Arrington at LeWeb 08
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This is just rent-seeking behavior by the state. China has all sorts of these tests. The private market doesn't pay any attention to them.
Germany, but we don't have a German currency anymore. It is all Euro, and while I don't know enough details, I have heard that the way the Euro is constructed is not exactly bulletproof.

Inflation seems pretty likely to me, giving governments across the world are busy dishing out sweet deals to struggling industries. And governments get their money by printing it (if all else fails). Also Iceland comes to mind.

Of course I hope that nothing really bad will happen, but the truth is, I have no idea how severe the current crisis is. A lot of people are worried about hyperinflation, for example, but what are the odds? 1%? 0,001%, 10%?

Also, even without the crisis I think it has always been a good idea to diversify one's assets.
I haven't bought gold last year for the same reasons, but now I am sorry that I don't have any. The thing is, I wouldn't buy it so much as an investment, but rather as a kind of insurance. So ideally I would never have to sell it, and pass it on to my children instead. It would still be annoying if it would lose it's value (as it probably would occasionally), but I don't know any good alternatives.
Yeah, I agree that the thread doesn't constitute very strong evidence for that conclusion, but both of us ended up concluding that after the thread.

Your thought experiment is very interesting. It would indeed be very straightforward to invent a language that relied on absolute pitch; modems use such languages, after all. It would be straightforward for humans to use languages which, in this way, would be very difficult to learn as adults.

So I wonder why there aren't any languages like that? As far as I know, all tone languages use relative pitch rather than absolute pitch. Vocal range isn't an adequate answer, since you could transpose the pitches into the octave or two that a particular speaker could cover comfortably.
I'll download and play with it the moment I don't have to register to do so...
interesting stuff on perfect pitch wrt chinese: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2006/04/21/segme...
I am starting to wonder if "don't trust economists who run a column" would be a useful rule of thumb. Yes I know he won the nobel price, but so far his columns left me unimpressed.
PG wrote an article a while back called "The Power of the Marginal" http://www.paulgraham.com/marginal.html the effect of the current crisis will create a multitude of people with marginal time whether because they'll be between jobs or because the jobs they have will be changed to part-time jobs to save costs, and the things we do with free time are nothing short of spectacular.
How special you feel using a product is part of what makes it good. Where "special" can mean a lot of things. Don Norman covers this very well in Emotional Design.
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India has been the hub of ITES sector for more than 2 decades. Most of the American companies and many of the European companies consider India as one of their reliable IT partners. A number of companies have their offshore center here in India to cut back on the development costs as they can get highly experienced IT staff at a very low price. Most young people today are attracted towards the career relating to IT sector. On the other hand, there is another major trend that is becoming popular in India, which is to work as independent IT consultants, freelance data entry operators, freelance writers and other forms of online jobs. It helps many including housewives, disabled people retired people, people who are still looking for a stable job to make some money to support themselves.
I really think you are simplifying things too much. Yes, 30 million farmers might be able to feed themselves. But there would be no doctors, because they would be busy working their fields. A waitress enables a doctor to exist by freeing him from cooking and shopping for food.

Producing a car does NOT create value if nobody wants or needs that car. It might even create negative value, because it might be costly to have it removed and brought to the junkyard.

That a waitress doesn't need training is rather irrelevant. What has been created is a) a place for the waitress to work (building a restaurant takes time and money) and b) her work produces doctors and other things - even cars, if the car manufacturers go to dine in the waitress' restaurant.

It is true that other services/industries could not exist without food production. But that does not imply that those other industries are worthless. In some cases, food production could not exist without the other industries/services, either (sick farmers can not produce food, they need doctors and cars to work their fields).
looks interesting. I like the way it promotes good coding practices and your idea of relative routes is cool.
Don't know about including routing info in controllers though. I wasn't able to tell what the benefit of doing it this way is over having a routes config file. Seems that the routes would get hard to manage in a large app (even with the route browser tool).

+1 for not having to register to DL
Very helpful, as I always get a cold when I start to exercise again, and end up giving it away.

Also, colds being a phenomenally successful disease, I wonder if not impairing the mobility of its victims is part of the reason? http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/paul_ewald_asks_can_we_do... [video]
Allocating money (or time or work hours) is a necessary step in creating anything. I don't think the hard nosed approach to estimating value is very useful. You could say that only the actual workers producing something physical create value, but at the end of the day, all people in the chain contributed to it.

Consider a scenario where you have two alternatives: you could ship shit from one pile to another for 5 hours, or you could spend 5 hours brewing beer. Suppose the worker has no idea whatsoever as to which activity is more benefitial, so the finance guy decides whether 5 hours will be spent on moving shit around, or brewing beer. Suppose the value of beer is much greater than moving shit - I think at the end of the day the finance guy will have contributed to bringing the beer into existence.

I know that there is this school of economics that tries to define value by the amount of (physical) work that went into it, but it really doesn't make much sense. You don't create value simply by doing something physical - it has to be useful, too. So I think the usefulness of the end result is a much better estimator of value.
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It appears to be the third not the second great depression for Ukraine. According to the world fact book they had a 40% GDP decline in the nineties. I suspect it's mostly commodities related this time.
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I first try to understand the problem. If the problem is going to take more than a few minutes to solve, I try to google about it, and if I found nothing, I put my brain into it. I do this because 98% of the times is a problem about libraries or programs maintained by someone else.
I find this a bit scary (in a cyberpunk way)...
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> bio hackers are about bringing the hacking spirit to biology, which right now is very capital intensive.

That's what I thought was noteworthy about it. My wife works in that field, and it's night and day from ours. You have to have millions of dollars to do anything at all, it seems.
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Optimistically, 100% of us are eventually replaceable by someone (or something) as capable (or more capable) and cheaper.

It leads to more unemployment, but the step from unemployment to poverty is wrong. As efficiency rises, poverty should diminish, or in other words, society's monetary support (basic income) for its people should rise in relation to GDP. It's hard to see a futuristic society (where most tasks are completed by machines) functioning otherwise.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guaranteed_minimum_income
It will be great to see some comparison with popular frameworks - Cakephp, Zend, CodeIgniter, etc.

Please put some demo and allow downloading without the registration.
#4 for example isn't so much of a prediction as a statement of what is happening now.
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The article is a bit fluffy, you can find some more details at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Difference_map_algorithm
I've been looking for something like this but didn't find one. btw I only started scraping like 2 days ago :) so it's not yet a week's worth of data.

fyi: there's also http://news.ycombinator.com/lists which shows the top stories in 2 weeks
I don't know anyone who actually gives just to feel good. Feeling good is a by-product of giving, but only because you've done something worthwhile (or so you believe).

That people bitch about CEO compensation doesn't mean they don't want to improve the world. They bitch because they want to improve the world, and they believe that high CEO compensation (as they perceive it) is a modern evil that stands in the way of improvement.
Pretty useful.

It would be nice to be able to see the top stories over any arbitrary time period as well. I imagine an interface with a draggable timeline to specify the period (something similar to what google finance uses, perhaps) could be even better.
First off, I love ACM as an organization (not to say I get along with all of the members of our chapter). I volunteer time every year at our conference. And I like education, sort of.

But it's bad enough that drop out rates are >50% for engineers in the US. You think you're going to figure out how to teach it to younger students if you can't even understand why half of everyone loses interest in higher education?

I have a hint: don't take Vannevar Bush so damn seriously. Yes, math + science + analysis == good. Especially when most of our CS and engineering programs were designed during the Cold War. But we also got rid of our practice and drawing coursework.

I'm not buying the iPhone because it's the "best engineered device." Somewhere along the lines, our engineers forgot what the hell art, design, and usability was. It's one of those things you don't want to take to the extreme. People wonder why the CS jobs go to India, it's because CS is not difficult. Creativity and innovation is, I don't see many companies outsourcing that (ok I realize I just made a really vague generalization, but if you look into my comment history, I do go into more detail).

I will say that it's extremely rare to find the guy who can not only code, but design too. I have only met a few in my life, and they're always the most respected people at a company who are incidentally the most desirable to all the others.
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thanks, i'm planning to add that too. you can also try this (to see more recent links):
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This information was available over the past 8 years since China has been member of the WTO.

Why did it take until now for NYT to bother reporting the "full story"?

I have been in Shanghai those 8 years. I have lived this story. The only ones America has to blame are themselves. China has its own set of problems. They didn't setup a global conspiracy to achieve their current position. China simply took advantage of horrifically bad U.S. management and took care of their own country. U.S. business and government leadership were always the front runners in "enabling" this relationship. If you want to start a mob frenzy, do it on Wall Street.
Good work. Needs an RSS feed.
Have a link for this? But lightweight threading isn't all that Erlang brings to the table. It comes with an entire library designed to create extremely fault tolerant, live-upgradable, extremely concurrent systems.

Getting lightweight threading of the same speed or faster is good, but it's less than 1/3 of the equation.
Okay, it seems that what I'm trying to explain is difficult for you to understand. Let me change this a bit.

Imagine you are made president of a 3rd world country which has not yet industrialized. You are now tasked with making this country actually rich. Where would you put the government money in?

If you say you would equally create service and manufacturing industries, then your country would collapse quickly. The correct thing to do is to create goods that can be exported, or that have some use within the country itself. The other industries always develop themselves, because they are a sort of grease for the core industries.

Allocation of time and money is not done by bankers. It's done by managers and owners, the bankers just approve or disapprove loans.
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