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This post failed to answer the one question I had while reading it: why did Steve Jobs call him this?
I work for Geekli.st and was honestly surprised to see some of the achievements Andy Grignon was apart of. I honestly feel that is is people like him, not well known, but an important part of creating some of the things we love and use every day. Everyone hears about the big names, but it are the people you don't hear about that make stuff happen.

I also have some invites if anyone is wanting to get into the beta. It will work even if you have signed up and are waiting for beta.

http://geekli.st/chapel/invite/80F1354E49
I'd prefer an email to a flashy banner. I only log into facebook once a month or so, but I'd certainly have shown up there for a vote if I'd heard about this before it was too late.
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Wow $90 workbook? The workbooks made by my course professors cost only $10-20 from the university photocopy shop - which is half as expensive as doing the photocopying yourself. When they're available it comes with homework, lecture notes, etc. It also isn't counted towards the grade...

When they're not available, because the lecturer did not author a workbook, we'd have to buy a $150-$250 textbook. I really hate it when the lecturer of Finance 1 and the lecturer of Finance 2 use different textbooks, even though one of the textbooks already have content of both of the courses. Luckily our library has a section full of textbooks with daily usage time limit of 2 hours. That means they're usually available when I go in to use one for homework - I don't even need to carry it with me...

Which university do you go to?
Outsourcing has not fizzled out - I still see plenty of it ongoing
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One guy's going to learn trumpet. Some instruments need accompanyment more than others. Little drummer boy is a lie! God NEVER responded favorably to my drumming. You might want to try different things, if God's not responding.

God says...
11:24 Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye
pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.

11:25 And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against
any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your
trespasses.

11:26 But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in
heaven forgive your trespasses.

11:27 And they come again to Jerusalem: and as he was walking in the
temple, there come to him the chief priests, and the scribes, and the
elders, 11:28 And say unto him, By what authority doest thou these
things? and who gave thee this authority to do these things? 11:29
And Jesus answered and said unto them, I will also ask of you one
question, and answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do
these things.

----

God's been talking to me for a while and I know a whole bunch of things not to do.

The purpose of life is to know God, love God and obey God. Life is a journey, not a destination. The goal is simply to enjoy God's company.

Hopefully, He will talk to everybody. I don't know. If not, you can follow along when I talk to Him.

This exercise takes maturity. You know how it's sometimes tiresome to talk to kids? God talks at a high grade level.

If He says something, it's frequently like a white lie.

I don't know about the Bible God, but if God told me this

-----

7 “‘This is the Lord’s sign to you that the Lord will do what he has promised: 8 I will make the shadow cast by the sun go back the ten steps it has gone down on the stairway of Ahaz.’” So the sunlight went back the ten steps it had gone down.

-----

I would understand that to mean "When Hell freezes over." :-) It would make me crack-up laughing.

God says...
32:24 And I said unto them, Whosoever hath any gold, let them break it
off. So they gave it me: then I cast it into the fire, and there came
out this calf.

32:25 And when Moses saw that the people were naked; (for Aaron had
made them naked unto their shame among their enemies:) 32:26 Then
Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the LORD's
side? let him come unto me. And all the sons of Levi gathered
themselves together unto him.

32:27 And he said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Put
every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate
throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his
companion, and every man his neighbour.

32:28 And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and
there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.
> Talking to your local high-school-educated baker is not science. We confidently believe a great deal of things that are untrue, and getting it confirmed with science is valuable. In hindsight, it's usually easy to be unsurprised by a scientific result.

He's not talking about science per se, but the insane level of rules and regulations you've got to put up with as a business owner -- especially in California. In other words, my interpretation of the GP's remark is that you can get at least an order of magnitude measurement of the pain-in-the-ass/cost factor, which is likely several orders of magnitude higher than what you think it is if you haven't owned a business that has enough revenue to put you on the radar.

The bias on HN is probably more towards software (where we can all 1099 each other) and not so much towards manufacturing (which is a major compliance pain). When you're dealing with manufacturing, things are different. You're dealing the EDD, FTB, INS and IRS (from an employee compliance standpoint), then you're also dealing with OSHA and the EPA and all their arcane rules and enforcers that hit you with $15k fines if you use dishsoap incorrectly. Then, on top of all of that you're paying a 35% tax rate.

Honestly, I'm surprised manufacturing has lasted as long as it has in the US.

> Given that a balance must be struck, it is possible that the optimal level of taxation would be higher than now. I do not know how to judge it - I have no basis for that. I would like to see the evidence that shows where that balance must lie.

Well, you could read the article :) We have a control group (the US) and the test groups (Germany, China) are far outperforming us.
that's a good question! you can ask directly on his link http://geekli.st/agrignon/micro/16528
Just a minor problem: Chinese robots would cost less than yours, so you end up again building everything in China.
>>"It's easier in Java to rename identifiers than ruby, because my IDE does it for me."

This has got to be the most honest statement in this thread.
Hi, AidName.

Your product seems really interesting, and I almost signed up... Then I noticed that "AidName" isn't a very inspired name.

I don't doubt the quality of your offering - by my advice would be that your own project needs a name (and branding) with more sex.

Just my $0.02. Good luck!
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What you are asking is akin to asking what English is lacking to become a poem. HaXe is a language, not an engine.
I'm impressed by his achievements, too and like the way Geeklist surfaces such people.

But if you want to get into Geeklist better take my invite code, it's WAY better http://geekli.st/stefanhoth/invite/992C6CFAE8
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With this logic, let's not secure any software that you cannot connect to it directly.
The x86 and x64 have interesting hacks in the asm they generate. For example, thread switching is done not by a conditional jump, but by self-modifying code (there's some nops in the main loop, and they get overwritten with a jmp when it's time to preempt). What cool architecture-specific hacks does the ARM version use?
I thing the core point is, Large Java application development seems to be possible/doable only because eclipse is doing 90% of the work for you.

Without eclipse 90% of the Java dev work would come to a grinding halt.

And that says a lot of about Java and its ecosystem. And not to mention its developers.
Rainbow tables are a clever way to implement a time/space trade-off for finding the inverse of a hash value in general by doing a lot of precalculation (see wikipedia, the core nice idea there is explained under "hash chains" in the Rainbow Table page).

Besides, rainbow tables are supposed to be pointless because everyone's supposed to be using salt with their passwords...
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Just move the mouse pointer out of the video area and the progress bar will disappear after a while.
> return manufacturing of smartphones, computers and TVs to U.S. shores

The problem with all that manufacturing being moved overseas is that local jobs are "destroyed". Moving back production for production's sake with the help of robots won't solve this problem. It will only give you a warm cozy patriotic feeling whenever you read "made in $your_country".

Now I think full automation is the future and in the remote future it will liberate humanity from physical labor. But there will be more changes needed than only stuffing factories with robots. We will need an economic system that can cope with a mass of seemingly unemployed/unemployable people.
Okay so, after reading your story, one question feels very unanswered:

You mention writing a book, what is it about?
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The question sounds too close to eugenics for me.
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And while we're at it, let's also destroy all mechanical looms?
I hate to be the one to say 'RTFA' but he specifically mentions in this case that the app already stored the messages offline but then prevented you accessing them with a full-screen 'offline' message. His point was that they actually went out of their way to prevent you access to already stored messages.
I don't think that is fair.

Inheritance tax should be 100%. Why should a person be rich just because their parents were rich? What about the people without rich parents?

How about:

The only taxes are:

1) VAT X%

2) 100% inheritance tax.

3) No capital or dividend tax.

4) A "basic salary" of a fixed X dollars to every individual.

5) Inflation of 1-3% a year via increase in monetary supply. (This is the wealth tax).

1. X depends on how much energy consumed for product/service; this is the carbon tax.

2. If you don't want to give all your money to the government when you die - just donate it to a charity not related to any of your relatives. Your children will not be left with nothing. See 4.

3. Encourages people to work and save for passive income for a better than minimum living conditions, as there will not always be jobs available.

4. The salary should be the bare minimum to live on. This takes care of social welfare. It'll be needed as technology increases and unskilled people have no ability to find jobs.
That was my first question.

My second question was if that wasn't the only thing Steve called him then what on earth was he doing wrong ?
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I don't think that's correct at all. It will help a lot, specifically because it's not a zero sum game of just swapping Chinese based manufactured goods out for robot based goods.

The US would stop sending that capital to China (a huge wealth drain), which is helping build out their economy. The US would gain wealth and capital incentives for further robotic development. The US would gain jobs around robotics in all forms. Profitable manufacturing would need and pay for energy, buildings, transportation, and on and on. Profitable manufacturing would also pay taxes, keeping more teachers etc. employed and bolstering the weak US tax base.

Workers would be needed to create buildings, build roads and transmission lines, repair robots, scrap robots, replace robots, R&D robot tech, provide materials, and so on. It would cultivate a huge ecosystem.
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I have a few web pages that I'm looking to remove, but I don't want to "break the web". I've been trying to see if there are any pages out there in the wild that point in to the pages in question, but have had very little success.

What tools do you guys use to find pages that point to your sites?
Doesn't this look a bit closer to W7P's navigation? I don't remember seeing that kind of interfaces on webOS (may have missed it of course) but having the "next" screen "leak" into the current one is a prevalent pattern of W7P, it's a major feature of "panorama" navigation[0][1] (and more toned down but still present in "pivot" navigation[1], where only the title/top of the screen leaks, but the content part isn't leaked)

[0] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff941104(v=vs.92).as...

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff941098(v=vs.92).as...
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This rudeness is usually just a result of not being able to adequately translate from their native language. In Russian for example, many rude words are not actually rude. But their translation into English are, but many non natives are not aware of this. Do not tolerate, just ignore :-)
YES! E.g. try running emacs on $host and run bbdb; go to some other machine and ssh ~/.bbdb $host:~/.bbdb; then ssh $host emacsclient. Now it's unresponsive until you walk over on your feet to $host and answer the revert-or-not question :(
China hasn't demonstrated an ability to do widespread high quality manufacturing. Countries like Germany run circles around China on that front.

It's just as likely that a nation like Sweden or Germany might dominate building the robots that go in the manufacturing plants, rather than China.
Jobs..? You mean Pablo Picasso, right?
Workers would be needed to create buildings, build roads and transmission lines, repair robots, scrap robots, replace robots, R&D robot tech, provide materials, and so on. It would cultivate a huge ecosystem.

Wouldn't robots eventually move into those fields as well?
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(eval form t) enables lexical scoping for form. http://yoo2080.wordpress.com/2011/12/31/lexical-scoping-and-... is highly recommended reading btw.
As far as I can tell, they're not re-using models from an existing game, just using the game engine as a renderer.
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If Swype was obvious in 2003, why weren't there multiple (or any?) slide-to-type QWERTY keyboards written for PalmOS or early Windows Mobile?

I've owned PDAs since the Palm 5000 in early 1996, and I tried all the alternative keyboards, from Fitaly and Atomik to MessagEase and.. something else like MessagEase. I don't remember anyone even suggesting the idea of a sliding QWERTY keyboard; there were alternate-layout tapping keyboards, and there were star-layout sliding keyboards, and those were the two sides of the debate. No?
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Why would you imagine that? The bug is that what password you provide doesn't matter.
Wasn't the Twitter for iPad app the first to come up with this pattern, in september 2010?
This is great advice. It's infinitely easier to market something that's targeted very specifically, rather than trying to be something for everyone. Start with the "hacker" market and branch out as you grow.

Try a reddit ad, offer a coupon to redditors on their first order. Contact bloggers and journalists that write about startup culture, etc.
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Dude, are you serious? Did you read anything before making that reply?

An outlandish claim regarding EFFECTIVE tax rate was made without any citations. Your snarky link does nothing to resolve the claim. A similar search for "effective corporate tax rate by country" also provides no evidence to defend rprasad's claim. Adventureful dug up quotes with sources fully debunking the claim in question.
Why? The topic isn't time sensitive.
Nope.

I suppose that you're thinking that I would be worried about the harm that my child would do to other people; that I would sympathize sufficiently with a potentially (1-P_fair_percentage) non-existent group of strangers more strongly that I would take into consideration my own future negative feelings about parenting a psychopath.

On the scale that includes 'regard for my personal well-being' and 'my love for my children', the 'concern about others' specified in your scenario is very close to zero.

Although the converse doesn't hold: I'm confident that my children are going to be better than me in infinite ways and manners, and they're going to make the world a better place.
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Ask HN: Simple projects to implement machine learning
I have been working through Tom Mitchell's book on machine learning and I want to supplement the theory with a practical project.

Does anyone have experience with small projects which helped them in a similar situation? The most I have come up with is building a news classifier which will use the feedzilla and NY Times api but if anyone has other good ideas please let me know.

I have reasonable programming experience with python and have access to a linode so I will be using these to implement the project.

Thank you
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Doesn't surprise me.

Ubuntu always ship fucked up, broken, shitty MySQL versions.

Look at the one that is current HEAD on 10.04 LTS. It's got so much broken stuff in it, we had to move everything to a spare windows machine where we could stick a later version on without screwing up the machine (DBs for: team city, jira, crucible).
> It's just as likely that a nation like Sweden or Germany might dominate building the robots that go in the manufacturing plants

I vaguely recall reading that the country that has had the foresight to stay at the top of the chain - making the tools that make the tools that make the goods - is Japan. I can't find a link right now, sorry.
That won't work. Watch the trends in the states regarding "streamlined" sales tax to see the problem (ok, maybe it's "streamlined" for legislators because they don't define tax categories). Also I have done enough sales tax compliance work in other countries to have stories you won't believe.

For example this one is pre-HST in Ontario, CA and so I don't know if it changed when HST was accepted, but before HST, the question of whether provincial sales tax (PST) was applied to a muffin you buy at a coffee shop depended on what else you purchased and some other factors. The rules were as follows:

If the muffin is not individually wrapped and you buy fewer than six then it is taxable if and only if the subtotal of the muffin and any other prepared foods and beverages purchased is greater than $4 Canadian.

On the other hand, if the muffin is individually wrapped, then it is always subject to PST.... unless the customer also purchases another item of prepared food or drink and the subtotal is less than $4 Canadian.

Here's the problem as I see it:

We all have to file income taxes. Only businesses have to file VAT. What this means in political terms is that if you annoy the population enough regarding filing, they will vote out folks in office and vote in people promising to simplify things (see Reagan-era income tax simplification).

On the other VAT and sales tax are only reported by businesses. You still have all the incentives to make policy by controlling tax rates. However most people don't fill out the returns. Moreover big businesses can afford to do whatever they need to in order to fill out the returns, but smaller businesses will struggle. I will say that in my experience very few small brick-and-mortar businesses that do delivery of goods even make any attempt at being compliant with "streamlined" sales tax laws (where typically you have to report per tax jurisdiction goods are delivered to). Consequently it becomes another formal barrier to entry, another regulation that small businesses ignore because they have to, and another one that allows governments to adopt a "show me the man and I'll find you the crime" approach.

Sales taxes tend towards greater complexity than personal income taxes.

Additionally if you mandate that VAT is built into the prices, you create a perfect way of hiding that complexity from the average voter.

Hence I see that as a very, very bad idea.
Right, I'm in a position such as yours every now and then. Now I understand that you meant that you can't possibly know you have to force the images to load because you have not looked at the tab yet.

> Thanks for the snark though.

I appreciate taking it in good nature :)
I'm looking forward to trying ELPA (my .emacs.d is so full of stuff I've not yet gotten around to trying it).

bi-di support is also really nice, I've been copypasting into other programs until now.

Also always nice to get a new org-mode version (though I'm never quite sure whether using org makes me more productive, or whether playing with new org features makes me procrastinate more).

Favourite feature that makes you go O_o : "`nato-region' converts text to NATO phonetic alphabet."
He is also hitting on the course organizer.
sounds great, but i'm afraid that this is the reality:
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I don't like how things have worked out with HBO but they apparently feel that the money they could make selling direct is dwarfed by what they make via channel partners. They are taking steps to try and protect their IP, just not the ones who want them to take. Claiming that this means they don't care about IP at all is, frankly, childish.
Why are people getting so excited about realtime global illumination and code hot-swap? CryEngine 3 already supports both, and has done so for the past year or so.

Realtime global illumination has been possible for the past few years. I believe Crytek was the first studio to make a game engine with support for the same (www6.incrysis.com/Light_Propagation_Volumes.pdf)

And the code hot-swap feature in the freely-available CryEngine 3 SDK isn't just for Lua, there's the CryMono project which adds support for hot-swapping C# scripts.
They're both ridiculous to non-believers. We're just more used to one than the other. I'm sure if Scientology were to be a mainstream thing for a couple of hundreds of years, people would be willing to talk about Hubbard's space DC10s the same way we talk about the virgin birth or the splitting of the sea, with a sort of benign incredulity at what kinds of silly magics people believe in.
I assume you refer to the co-operative thread switching done by the GHC runtime to achieve co-operative multitasking with Haskell's green threads? I thought this was done by trashing all the registers (pushing live regs to stack) in the compiler back end and then swapping the stack pointer in the runtime. Are you sure about the nop's in the main loop?

I, too, would like to know how this works on ARM and other non-x86 platforms. Do they even have this feature supported on ARM? (ie. compile with ghc --threaded and then add RTS parameters as needed when executing)
Excuse the pedantry, but it was Driver Kit in NEXTSTEP.
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