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What is so special about the ticketstumbler search box?
It doesn't seem to have auto-fill. is that what you are looking for?
Some banks didn't want to take the government's money but were basically forced to.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/blog/2008/oct/15/banking
Well done. I learned something about myself and I can't wait to share this with others.
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You won't get trolled when you are small...and when you are a target, you'll be able to afford to pay them off.

But if you want to take a proactive approach, you can try contacting them, and asking them to let you license the stuff. It'll probably cost you some money, but probably not as much as you think.
Don't understand your first sentence totally. You do admit that collectivists have controlled the Presidency and House and Senate for the last 8 years, yes? Bush, in particular, is no anti-collectivist. Some people get confused by labels, e.g., Republican, so I just want to make sure.

Asset bubbles always happen. They probably always will happen. Now that the bubble is bursting, the collectivist mismanagement over the last several years is making us extra vulnerable. Even more horribly, the current and coming response is dooming the recovery to a much longer period than if the economy were allowed to reach equilibrium on its own.
I'm looking to put a wrapper around the actual search box.
> but it's silly to claim that they're "unprofitable" without acknowledging that they could be if that was their goal (or refuting that point).

But you do the exact opposite. You are claiming that they could be profitable but you don't back it up. I'm not saying you are wrong, just that you haven't flushed out your point at all.

I too could say that General Motors could be profitable, they'd just have to stop paying pensions, salaries and leases on equipment.

So the question to you is how can Facebook be profitable if they pay out more than they take in?
I think of ideas and their implementation(s) as complexity classes. Your situation is one of the following:

EE: easy idea, easy implementation (Plenty Of Fish)

HE: hard idea, easy implementation (arithmetic coding)

EH: easy idea, hard implementation (eBay)

HH: hard idea, hard implementation (Powerset)
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This thread made me all nostalgic for the early days of DHTML, so I went back and resurrected my old IE4/NN3 Joust Clone:

http://www.jasonkester.com/joust/

For the record, that was 1998, not 1996, so I was off by a couple years in my earlier remark. I've taken the liberty of updating it so that it works in FireFox and Chrome now. (Sadly, sacrificing the document.all and document.Layers action that made it so great!)
God, that's kind of despicable. I'm no Objectivist, but there's a big freaking difference between a work of superstition and one of reason and logic. Whether you agree with Rand's premises, you must have had no exposure to her writing if you don't recognize her brilliance. She's not all right, but she's not wrong about everything either: The government confiscates citizens' money at the point of a gun.
No way! you do not necessarily believe the "brainism," (similarly, racism, or any other types of "-ism", like socialism, etc.) however, I still like to believe in the theory of Darwinism, especially social Darwinism ... Of course, in order to be accepted as a "theory," it needs to have proofs. I am not a scientist, I am just speaking in a layman language.
You mean the rounded box? It's just a div with a background.
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Well, you have to realize that up until Ayn Rand, the only popular absolutism was Marxism. People were pretty excited to have an absolutism that promoted striving for excellence rather than striving for grey sameness.
Is PageRank just good marketing?
I'm curious about what HN readers would suggest for a better approach to college admission.

Maybe I'm biased because I code systems for Japanese universities for a living, but I've always really liked examinations.

We have a system we sell as consultingware to many Japanese colleges, installing the base of what is considered acceptable here, with customizations per request. By default, it provides:

1) No way to even tell if a student is legacy, plays soccer, etc

2) Strict auditing of everything. First text in the design document, in 48 point font: OUR OVERIDING PRIORITY IS TO NOT COMPROMISE THE PUBLIC'S TRUST IN THE OBJECTIVITY OF THE EXAMINATION.

3) Affirmative action? Not supported or encouraged (I won't say impossible, but its pretty close -- you'd have to use manual overrides of examination results after turning off the failsafes preventing you from doing so accidentally, which causes BIG RED ANNOUNCEMENTS to appear to the other people responsible for the system).

4) Some schools have particular needs for X number of Y students. (For example, a school with a historical association with a particular church/temple might need X priests per year). They can accomplish it in one very transparent way: say "We are looking for X priests. Please apply to the I Want To Be A Priest exam if you're interested", and then the top X wants-to-be-priest candidates are accepted. Note that, importantly, this has absolutely no effect on the general applicant pool, and is not an effective way to get out of the general admissions standards (since if you elect that sort of treatment, you WILL be tracked straight into the Becomes A Priest major and you will not really be allowed to change).

5) Transparency for everything. The school starts the year by saying "English Department seeking 12 students. History Department seeking 16...." Then, after the exam is over, all scores are published (anonymized) with aggregate statistics: the English Department filled 12 spots out of 127 applicants having an average score of 187 points. The minimum passing score was 214, and students scoring above 212 were added to the wait list, from which 2 were offered admission.

The stats are also broken down by test load: say you're told to take two subjects out of three, your pick. The University will publish the distributions of scores for every possible combination (3 in this trivial case), letting you know if any combination was harder or easier than others (which they do A LOT of work to avoid, incidentally).

And the icing on the cake of full transparency: the university maintains five to ten years of these stats and prints it right in the bloody admission handbook itself. Because that's how confident we are that the process is not corrupt.

I want American universities to be like that. Heck, fine by me if they want to put a thumb on the admissions scales. Just publish how big the thumb was:

"15 black students admitted with average SATs of..."
Personally I think ruby is fast enough in most cases. I'd vote for lower memory usage though.

But the point is that ocaml brings so much more interesting tings to web application development and deploy than raw speed, though that helps too.
Yes, I think that was intended to be part of the irony.
sometimes I won't click on a link simply because to do so may encourage writing more content of its nature. this is one of those times ;)
He knows that; that's the joke.
Or the physicist who worked as a low-level railroad operator.

I hate that most of the detractors of Atlas Shrugged misread the message. There are things to criticize, but the ones that do get criticized (Ayn Rand is a Nazi, she ignores the common laborer, she dares include a pirate as a character) are the ones that don't really matter regarding the main theme/are entirely wrong.
Greenspan turned his back on Objectivism during the 70s.
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This looks like an awesome game for 20 bucks.
Comic author noted afterward that he hadn't actually read the book, wasn't aware that Rearden had (in the ficton) invented the metal himself, etc.
Ayn Rand thought she had something important to say about society. And I've seen interviews with her on the media, where she's seemingly invited in just to be mocked and called greedy. So frankly, I think she had - and still has - a point.

I think the writer's being over-the-top, but I also think that the bailout is going vastly over-the-top and I think that Obama's plan to continue it isn't helping things at all.
I kind of suspected that but not sure plus most of the HN readers unlikely to know this somewhat obscure piece of information. Hence the comment.
Why aren't they using bittorrent?
Burger King has a damn good viral marketing agency if they can get Hacker News to vote up two submissions about them in two days.
"I hate that most of the detractors of Atlas Shrugged misread the message."

You assume they read it at all.
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To be fair, an import in Python could execute anything, too.
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The paper by authors from Google linked to from the submitted article is quite interesting.
Why am I not surprised? Thanks for mentioning that.
thats it? I feel stupid heh
As others have mentioned, datetime is basically a module that deals with everything related to dates and times. datetime.datetime is a class that deals specifically with date and time combinations. So basically datetime.datetime.now() would return something that contained both the present date and time, while datetime.time deals with time objects.
It's a bad idea. The reason it's a bad idea is because there is no sustainable competitive advantage and you're putting yourself in a position where Flickr could wake up one day and marginalize your entire business. (At which point it would be a race to the bottom margin-wise, until you go under and they have a monopoly on the service.)

It's funny how the people here on HN seem to equate "thing that would be fun to build and use" with "good idea for a profitable business."
Agreed, they're just 4 pages, but they cover a great deal and you can definitely start a decent site after going through the tutorial. At its end, it also points you to more docs that describe specific things such as forms, urls, and caching in great detail.
Looks like great progress since TC50 Akshay! Going to take the app for a spin in more detail tomorrow. I'll send feedback.
"The government confiscates citizens' money at the point of a gun."

Why don't you find a place where you don't have to pay taxes? Would it be as nice to live in as the US?
Our "idea" legal structure (patents, copyrights, etc) is not about ideas at all. Its about commerce. All that matters is implementation in a manner that increases money exchange. Everything is optimized around that, or is supposed to be.

An idea itself is of little value. If it were, the really hard stuff, like math itself, would be patentable.
(Not trying to be rhetoric, but a honest question ever since I encountered Rand's works)

If, as a society, everyone is a "Value Creator", will we still require a government? What would be the job of the government then?

"gives a false sense of moral certainty derived from an elitist denial of social complexity" - what kind of complexity are we talking about here? Is it the reality that not everyone is a "Value Creator" or the reality of difference in the level of Value they create?
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Atlas Shrugged is propaganda masquerading as art. The characters are thin shells used to promote Rand's thinking and in no way reflect reality.

The idea that unbridled self interest leads to the greatest good guided Greenspan's monetary policy and got us into this mess.

There is certainly a lot to be said for enlightened self interest and personal freedom, but the absolutism of objectivism is just as wrong as communism.
study and hard work [lead] to higher IQ as an adult.

How did you come to that conclusion?
Ha. As reality based as any other Facebook valuation.
It could be. I have friends who live in Costa Rica, and, deriving their income from outside CR, need pay no taxes. They talk pretty often about how great it is there. :)
I enjoyed reading the book's case studies of companies where I would otherwise assume that "money is the best motivator": Men's Wearhouse, AES (a power company), NUMMI (a GM factory), etc.
I bet RIM is a tasty target for the Pre.

The inductive charger/stand accessory is really nice, along with the act-like-a-phone and automatic speakerphone functions, this could easily get much love from the business world.

For those who haven't seen it, the video with said functions is: http://www.kyte.tv/ch/147499-fast-company-live/308668-mobile...
Hmm. I tend to think that Rand's philosophy misses some important points, like:

1. Humans hate inequality, esp. those who are on the losing end, but it seems to make everyone unhappier in general. Inequality is useful, but probably needs some managing.

2. Massive wealth generated in modern societies, though it tends to fall into the hands of a few (exponentially so), is generated by having a society/collective. If you have more wealth than you could ever generate with your own two hands, then you're benefitting from society in a major way, regardless of how much society takes back. (Even this is not strictly true--what you can generate with your own two hands depends on education, inventions society has given to you (like language), etc. It's hard to calculate one's debt to society.)
Cultural progress just allowed more people to: a) live longer up to their genetic maximum, b) be smarter up to their genetic maximum.

How did you come to believe that there could be such a thing as a genetic maximum to phenotypic traits?
I don't know.... I'm certain that I absolutely need food and water to survive. That's simple, satisfying, and quite helpful.

One of the many misunderstandings of Rand is that she's supposedly some dogged "absolutist" saying "thou shalt do this, that, and the other", when the truth was that Rand stressed the importance of context in making decisions. One holds principles as absolutes, yes, but principles are only useful if they are applied to reality -- to the particular situation at hand.
There is millions of dollar being made every day with Facebook ads. You can target them very specifically and drive large amounts of traffic cheaply.

No, it is certainly not Adwords. For some offers it doesn't work. For some it works better than search. Just because it's not search does not mean it's not an incredibly valuable marketing channel.

They will never be as profitable as Google because the CTR of the ads is pathetically low (compared to search) and the clicks are much less valuable, but there is massive traffic there. Even if they never develop the killer ad product there is still a big business there.
Actually, I liked all the rooms. Put in some of the messy ones as well. It is hard not to like a perfect room like the ones you have in the pictures.
I'm all for more than money but not for everything except money.
I'm sure their legal team has solid justifications for it. What happens if you can grab it from torrent? There is no agreement between you and Microsoft that you do not own the product or have other rights. The firmly accepted way have a legal agreement is to get an agreement. So no torrent.
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Incidentally, in the category of "I'm not exaggerating, really", here's one of hunreds of pages provided by Tokyo University, who I am using as an example because they're indisputably the #1 university in the country and not because they're a client of ours (which they may or may not be).

http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/stu03/e01_01_j.html

What it tells you:

Last year, for these majors, we had X applicants, Y students pass the exam, and Z students accept the offer of admission to the University. A special examination was offered to graduates of foreign high schools. The number of students taking the special examination is reported in two groups: Japanese/permanent residents of Japan and everybody else. (The numbers are less than one percent of admitted students.) We additionally allowed Q students into this major as a result of the government-sponsored Japan/Korea Engineering Student Exchange (and two other exceptions).

The full exams from last year:

http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/stu03/e01_04_07_j.html

And on the subject of ballsy transparency: "Here's how many students got jobs, how many went into further schooling, and how many have neither jobs nor education prospects as of graduation, broken down by major and industry employed in."

http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/stu04/e09_01_j.html
If you have the easiest to use site, that makes people money off their Flickr purchases, then that's sustainable.

It's not like there is any "sustainable advantage" to Google search - they weren't first to market in the space, and they can be beat - but right now, no one can beat them.

It may be true - this app or Google might not last in "the long run." But what's the long run?

I'd say if you made this Flickr converter and made a few million bucks in a year or two, you'd be happy, even if Yahoo smashed you later.

Throwing around business buzz words like "sustainable competitive advantage" and "race to the bottom," and insulting the community to boot, is no way to argue. Take it from a guy who can program and who has a prestigious business degree - you are talking out of the wrong orifice.
Or you can email us :).

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Does anyone have any experience with dedicated server colocation? I had a novel idea today that I could build a nice 1U quad core server, load VMWware ESX on it, and split the machine into virtual machines. The idea being that I could use one or two myself, and rent or share the others with friends and colleagues. Is this something that is possible, plausible, or has been done before? I've run machines in Rackspace and on my corporate network but I always believed the expense to be too high for an individual. Locally, however, I am getting quotes of $60-$100 per month for colocation of a 1U machine & bandwidth. This sounds a lot more reasonable than I had initially projected.

I'm open to any and all thoughts on this, and look forward to hearing some good stories. :)

As for why I'm looking at a dedicated machine, it'd be for web hosting, game servers, and a small business. A friend of mine has a start up of sorts that could use some more horsepower. They've been renting a shared dedicated account at a web hosting provider. I am almost certain they're paying at least $30-$50 a month and are unable to control the installed packages, let alone the OS level settings.
yeah, its almost all css-based. the submit button is a form image, that is the entire right side of the bubble thing and the interior image. the text box is a text box with no borders inside a div with a background of the left side of the bubble.

one of your more standard css tricks.
It's all there in http://nydus-media.com/ts/css/base.css

It should be noted that I took the lazy man's approach and used <input type="image"/> which means you get those superfluous x and y GET params.
> If, as a society, everyone is a "Value Creator", will we still require a government?

If everyone created value by Rand's standards, were highly rational and reasonable, did not destroy value, and were otherwise law-abiding (or simply moral) citizens, then you might not need government, or at least a very minimal one. We're incredibly far off from such a world, however (assuming it's even possible), so we at least need military protection, law enforcement, adjudication, etc. A great deal of people, even if law-abiding, aren't living up to their potential for a variety of reasons (many having to do with circumstance and not choice), and so other functions of government have been created to deal with that (with varying success). Other functions include dealing with collective action problems, financing academic research, and other things I'm likely forgetting.

> what kind of complexity are we talking about here? Is it the reality that not everyone is a "Value Creator" or the reality of difference in the level of Value they create?

I mean the complexity of why many people aren't the productive juggernauts we would like them to be. I bought into Rand's picture of the world when I was introduced to her books, but over time, through constant checking of assumptions, realized that she was being grossly uncharitable towards the unproductive, content simply to label them as villains (which is why she's able to justify abandoning them). This, incidentally, has the self-reinforcing side effect of motivating aspiring John Galts to work even harder as a way of defining themselves in contrast to such villainy. Contempt for the unproductive is a limitless source of motivating juice. (That was my experience, anyway. Wish I still had access to it!)

Whatever its faults, I feel Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers gives a pretty good idea of the (often unintentional) social processes and historical contingencies that keep people from living up to their potential.

From an article previously linked on HN:

This time, he’s talking about a very serious academic concept, devised by the psychologist James Flynn (“One of my heroes,” Gladwell says, swooning), called the human capitalization rate, or “cap rate,” which, Gladwell explains, “refers to the rate at which a given community capitalizes on the human potential of those in its midst.” In the United States, Gladwell is sad to report, “cap rates are really low” owing to poverty, stupidity, and culture.

http://nymag.com/arts/books/features/52014/index5.html
True. It would be much nicer to have a now method in the datetime module so that we could just do import datetime; now = datetime.now()
You missed "physical qwerty keyboard". That's my reason not to get a storm or an iphone, just can't type as fast without it. Pre's got the 320x480 res and a keyboard, and thus my interest. The webkit browser might push it past blackberry as well. I had a treo doing touch for few years, but the browser was useless. I wonder how the push email works on the Pre.
you mean like in an alternate universe? ;)
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I snatched mine from MSDN two days back. It was actually backed by akamai, I'm not sure why didn't they use the same for non-MSDN subscribers.
I was only able to get two of the sets to play. Every other one sits at 0:00 with the play button clicked. Added it to my Flashblock whitelist, but the flash bar was way below the player, which was weird. The player should be able to pop out or iframe or something so that you can browse while listening. How do I gather and share? You should pre-check the buy links so they could go to Amazon, itunes, Juno, or wherever, based on who has it. Many tracks are hard to find mixes.
But on Pandora I often hear music I never would have otherwise heard. Also, I think that news can be more related to topic over perspective...
Untrue about the last 9 users. Every user can have more than 10 friends.. meaning every user can get a whopper.

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Explains what eBAyISAPI.dll means.

Uses Oracle soon after, not MySQL.

Hit compiler limits (don't we all?)

They keep hacking it without a proper overview.

Descends into gibberish in about 2002.