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These are still vulnerable to electronic countermeasures, not to mention plain old missile attacks on their requisite communications infrastructure (satellites presumably).

I imagine if any modern power got into a real fight with the US, the first volley of missiles would be headed for space.
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The US Navy has a massive superiority over every other navy in the world for a good many years. This is just the next step.

The recently release radar information (tracking raindrops) was probably a bit of a warning telling others that their new generation of missiles was not going to work as well as they think. Probably much like NASA showing people underground rivers was designed to tell others hiding ICBMs was a waste.
According to the graph, there were 100 million internet users in 1996, and the same number in 2001.

I find that questionable.
And there's the benefit of hyper cheap labor, it leaves resources available to get the avocado just right.
Seattle coffee meetup - now (11:00)  Stumptown
We have a crew of visiting founders from out of town - want to meet some local HN founders.

Come say hi at Stumptown on Capitol Hill: 616 E Pine St. Be social, we'll buy you a coffee :) See you at 11:00.
But those damn bus workers on stress leave are ruining the country!
Uhm, I might be off, but are you thinking of the X-37B?

The US has had satellite shoot down capability for a while.
TTL is not always honored -- some caching nameservers peg it to a lower limit, and Android has a bug (just recently fixed) that pegs it to 10 minutes: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=7904
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I went through a similar growth curve of being a total beginner to full-time Rails developer.

For tips: there's a lot of power in has_many :through. Watch the relevant Railscasts on has_many through and the Rails docs.

http://guides.rubyonrails.org/association_basics.html#the-ha...

has_many :through handles the minority of complex data relationships, but it gets used a lot and is a great starting place and can probably be helpful immediately in your projects/tasks/comments app
Sweet on my way!
"However, when you include immigrants and their children in the mix, the numbers appear disproportionately low."

Your post doesn't adjust for immigration levels. In particular, income stagnation was not similar at previous periods when immigration was at comparable or higher levels.
Thanks!
Yeah, the earlier Instagram comes back online, the better. And I guess I learned a valuable lesson here; I need a way to directly address users. Btw. Nice user name, I loved the children's TV show when I was young :)
And with that, I understand why the rich are secretive about their wealth. It's ok if you're poor and pissed about the rich, but if you're rich and pissed about the poor, lose all your friends. Collect $200M as you pass Go.
If the american healthcare system is "free market," then I need to retake macro economics. It's such a regulated mess, I don't even know where to begin to point out the flaws in that statement. But, just as an example, I called to get standard billing rates for a specialist a few years ago and they said that patients weren't allowed to receive that information. Free market my arse.
WMD or insurgency has been the only realistic way to militarily oppose the US for a long, long time now. That's nothing new.
The stream, the circles, the IM and the notifications make it a social network modeled after Facebook.

Hangouts are a different service as is YouTube.
SQL For Web Nerds is a terrific resource for learning SQL. http://philip.greenspun.com/sql/

If your data model is built on top of an RDBMS, learning how one works is the best first step to designing good data models!
Also, here's Max Levchin's explanation: "One of Elon's greatest skills is the ability to pass off his vision as a mandate from heaven... He is very much the person who, when someone says it's impossible, shrugs and says, 'I think I can do it."

http://www.inc.com/magazine/20071201/entrepreneur-of-the-yea...
> Actually no, they are file descriptors

That is a distinction without a difference.
Just curious, what are the issues that you have with Chrome that you want to switch back?
so actually Top 10% pays more than 70% of the taxes when we also consider capital gains (because they are the ones who play with the capital)

well, i think we all should be grateful for the %10, we are basically funded by them. Thank you rich folks!
It really demonstrates (imho) the technical lag of companies: During the week people are browsing at work and it looks like many are still shackled to IE. But on the weekend they go home and use what they want, and that is clearly chrome. Kind of amazing to visualize at this granularity what pops out.
> If you loose a server, we can deploy a new server in a matter of minutes and it will rebuild the RAID array from the last backup so we have a warm spare.

Unless you can't actually get a new server provisioned because the now-fragile API (like last night) is under such load from people trying to mitigate their downtime... We use rightscale, and rightscale won't solve this issue. If AWS is being clobbered by people trying to get new boxes up, using a third-party api abstraction service doesn't help.

Also, rightscale themselves were affected last night, throwing invalid alerts about servers being inaccessible when they were actually still operating normally.
> So Chrome is the most used browser and IE is the browser used by the most people. Which is the more profitable status?

It depends.

Are you selling ads by pagehits? Then the former. Are you selling user info by number of users? Then the latter.

(And aside from ads and personal info, browsers don't make money in a direct way.)
Who are these "people" exactly?
So this is what they're letting us know about...imagine what they're working on now.
"Got a bit of the nastiness going there"

Ever seen Idiocracy? Sometimes it's funny, sometimes it's not.

"If your users cannot figure out what you are trying to accomplish then yes, I believe you have failed"

Your standards are idiotic. The phrase "your users" is hopelessly vague. Which users? G+ has millions. Should it pander to each and every one or only the most idiotic of users? What if by making it easier to understand for the lowest common denominator, it makes the intelligent users go away? Your idiotic standards don't address this.

Call me nasty if you want; I am simply citing the facts.
actually with the adversaries the US is currently engaged with the most reasonable defense (from the point of the adversaries) is terrorism.

It's cheap and effective, and arguably no more unfair than bombing civilians that don't stand a fighting chance against a drone controlled by an operator thousand of miles away.

This is the major downside of modern American one-sided warfare.
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I'm sorry. Changed the title to ask hn. More logical?
Ha, and just like in Stats counter's daily stats
http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-ww-daily-20120531-2012062...
You can see that on weekends IE drops off to everyone else's gain. People are still being force to use IE at work, but their choice in many cases is something. Interesting to see.
The great thing about Elon becoming part of the giving pledge is that his wealth could spiral into the kind of numbers we are yet to see individuals accumulate. This guy is taking on gigantic problems and is quickly establishing at the forefront of future tech.

I've always been in awe of Elon and quite simply that doesn't seem like changing any day soon.
TL;DR:

“Yet Apple's iPhone and iPad business remains more lucrative. The Cupertino, California-based company earned $11.6bn (£7.2bn) in the January-March quarter, more than twice as much as Samsung, even though its revenue was about 10% less.”
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It might also be that on weekends there are fewer internet users in general, but with a higher percentage of the more technically aware ones...
Ironically, StatCounter's response commits some statistical fallacies, details here

http://mozakai.blogspot.com/2012/06/statcounter-and-statisti...

I don't know which source of browser market share is more reliable - no one does, really - and StatCounter made some valid points as well in their rebuttal. But to see them misunderstand statistics like that is cause for doubt.
You clearly haven't read any of the articles cited in this thread. Alan Krueger defines middle class as more than $25k/year, but less than $75k/year (at contemporary income levels). Rich is presumably $75k or more. The middle class has shrank because people have moved from $65k to $85k.

This has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the very wealthy.

If you have evidence that people going from $50k to $80k is bad for the economy, go ahead and present it. You haven't yet. All you've presented are vague misconceptions and demonstrated you don't understand the numbers under discussion.
Hey wissler, I've seen you around making inflammatory comments on here and other threads (stuff to do with piracy, etc.) Could you please be more civil? Thank you.
The only consequences I can think of are that the cost for the military is potentially decreased and that advocating war gets easier.

The first one is a maybe. I’m willing to bet that you still need a lot of people to make those things fly, they are also potentially more complicated machines and I’m not sure how the cost of pilots (and replacing them if one is killed) figures into this.

The second one seems significant to me. It seems that drones already make it pretty sure you are nowhere safe if the US don’t like you – even if you are a relatively low priority. Presidents (especially Obama) have become extremely willing to use them for just about anything.
What many of you might not realize;

1. Drones because of no human pilots have longer uptimes and longer in-flight distances. That means that if US carriers are deployed in the Pacific that these drones can cover MiddleEast, Asia and European targets without moving the carriers.

2. Last major bombing actions for stealth bombers were at close to 24 hours flight time round-trip which is not sustainable for human pilots in high amounts of missile launcher encounters. Making it robotic where you can hand it off to teams of pilots per several hour shift alleviates that concern.
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If you guys are around on Tuesday, I'm hosting a Hacker News Seattle meetup too: http://www.meetup.com/HackerNewsSeattleMeetup/events/7034681...
I keep hearing the Iron Man thing, but honestly I'm not sure I see it. I've seen interviews with Musk and he's way less cocky and more down-to-earth than you'd expect with that basis of reference.
I wouldn't imagine it needs to pull very much at all. There are no more dogfights anymore, it's just electronic countermeasures vs electronic detection, jamming and spoofing.
You wouldn't rather we, for instance, mined lifeless asteroids instead of mountains here on Earth?
Does income tax include capital gains in the article?

If you read the article, you'd know that capital gains are included (since cap gains are included on federal income tax returns).

The poor pay a disproportionate amount in regressive taxes such as sales tax. One must look at overall burdens and overall ability to pay.

Yes, the poor consume disproportionately, and pay a disproportionate amount of consumption taxes. All that says is the rich consume far less than they could, and are much less of a drain on society than the poor.
You're just not looking at the problem objectively...

Seriously, though, is there a reason the Objective C blocks wouldn't work in C, just substituting functions for methods?
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Ask HN is usually for specific questions. Your best bet is to build the site, and then do a "Show HN" post. Good luck!
Also, for some reason all the 'ffi' trigraphs are replaced with 'ffl': For example, the second sentence in the first paragraph starts with "The offlce building..."
I went to CMU LTI and they don't have a candidacy exam. As per this link: http://www.cs.uccs.edu/~gsc/phdProgramComparison.htm UTA and UMD don't have one. I checked Univ of Edinburgh and INRIA across the pond and they also don't seem to have one. All this is for the computer science PhD programs only. Things may be different for pure sciences.
Hmm... you're quite right about that. At the minimum, there would have to be a per-page set of "code", which could contain async functions and result in a final callback, and then a separate per-page "template", which could not. And then that would kind of defeat the whole simplicity of the model, so you might as well use a proper framework.

I guess that's why nobody's done it yet. :) Thanks!
That's also the beauty of Rightscale. If you do everything correctly you should be able to provision a new server in another region if need be or even another cloud (ie Rackspace).

Most outages of AWS don't last more than a few hours. The real goal is to make sure your infrastructure can hobble on one leg for those few hours until help arrives and you can cleanup the mess once the outage is over.

When the API goes down it sure isn't fun. Just try to project yourself the best you can. I had no problems with Rightscale last night other than anything trying to reach EC2.
oh really? Ever heard of tactics called terrorism? A pistol is not my weapon of preference when trying to kill a fly.

Generals as usual are fighting the last (cold) war.
Yeah, get all our energy from the power grid and then we'll get to start wars over coal, or natural gas, or thorium, or even sunshine.
That might be part of it, though I think a bigger part is worry about friends/acquaintances interacting with you in a less-than-honest way once they know you're rich.

The asymmetry makes some sense to me, though. A poor person may or may not be justified in where they direct their anger, but I can see why they're unhappy. If you've got a lot of money, it seems strange to be actually angry about wealth distribution. I could see intellectually opposing various kinds of economic policies, but I mean, in the meantime, you still have a pretty good life.
Ask HN: Anyone ever been in a peer group/mastermind group? Why? Did it Help?
I'm thinking of looking into one of these type groups to help me build my business (if you don't know what it is, it's basically like a group of no more than 15 of your peers that support each other to help grow one anothers business).

Has anyone here ever paid for one of these things or know someone that has joined something similar? Was it worth it?
Doubt it. It is the market share of MS Windows, not MSIE, that makes tying a legally questionable practice.
ಠ_ಠ This pattern is everywhere... https://github.com/profh/arbeit-S12/blob/master/app/models/a...
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There's another key here: both those industries were calcified with few innovators, so they had large latent pools of super-talented people that had been previously under-utilized.

By offering a compelling vision, Elon has sucked up much of the top talent in the space industry who had just been waiting for someone to come along with an uber-cool program for them to work on. His vision is so cool, in fact, that they are willing to work for much lower wages than they would make at a big defense contractor.

Similarly with Tesla, there was a large pool of talented engineers who are passionate about electric cars, who had just been waiting for the right company to come along and rescue them from dead-end projects at the big car companies.
I don't think that is really a meaningful comparison. Consider that Gmail's inbox is a effectively a stream of posts. It has contact management, IM, and several different notifications (on the phone, count next to inbox and in title, you can enable popup notifications on your desktop).

No one says that Gmail is modeled after facebook.
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Just because they both operate in the same domain doesn't mean they are the same thing. Vic has maintained that the strategy with G+ is to integrate social features into the Google product line not build another facebook, myspace, orkut, etc.. clone. And he's specifically said many times that the strategy is much larger than simply competing with facebook.

The point is, G+ was never billed as a facebook killer. The OP who stated that is reiterating the media talking points (and pretending these are the words of Google execs). Vic's message has been consistent and concise. Does some G+ features overlap with FB? Sure, but the stated goal was never to build a facebook killer.
The top 10% also earned 60% of all income earned in the U.S. in 2009. Thus, the differential is only 10%. (Source: http://www.irs.gov/taxstats/indtaxstats/article/0,,id=133521..., 2009 statistics).

The poor spend all of their income on necessities: food, rent, utilities, clothing. They effectively do not have income after deducting their necessary expenses; many do not have sufficient income before deducting their necessary expenses.
The wealthy spend comparatively little of their income on necessities; their income is increasingly used on luxuries.
They can afford to do this because of the services provided by the government. The wealthy receive disproportionately more value from the government, yet the only pay 10% more than the rest of us.
It's seems that what the author has against responding publicly is that he cannot control himself when someone posts a bad review. If you can't do that, then do not respond, it's as simply as that. The rest of us, who want to read discussions between users and developers, and see how developers care about the problems would like to see public responses.

In fact, I think the developers could greatly benefit from public responses by doing PR and by explaining that some bugs have already been fixed or that they are going to be fixed in the next version. Or by explaining that some problem is due to user configuration or at least post a workaround publicly in the store.

Don't get me wrong, some ideas from the post are great. Like upvoting and downvoting, somewhat like many other e-commerce sites that have "Was this answer heplful?". But that doesn't mean that having public responses is a bad idea. Maybe he's not good are answering questions, but the rest of the developers would like to do so. So, no, the lack of a feature is not a feature.
he conflates earnings and effort, as if by earning 100 times you were necessarily 100x more productive at some point

No I don't:

"When we talk about "unequal distribution of income," we should also ask, where does that income come from? Who made the wealth it represents? Because to the extent that income varies simply according to how much wealth people create, the distribution may be unequal, but it's hardly unjust."
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Most disappointing title ever.

It's just an unmanned jet.

was expecting something like robotech/macross
I don't know... I think you picked some awfully bad examples.

Updating Java on OSX is trivial (download & run), no idea what problem you ran into with git, OSX has full-screen apps and multiple desktops, and OSX has always had the nicest font support and type rendering of any OS -- Apple has always been at the forefront of that.
I often want to beat the pre-processor with a two-by-four
The bar has been set pretty high by Airbrake.
And also,

If shit really hits the fan, its not a bad idea to make sure you have a OpenVPN tunnel ready on each server.

This will allow to get connectivity between old and new instances if you can't update the security groups due to the API being down.
It says that IE makes up 25% of cellular browsers. I have to seriously doubt that.

1. I don't know anyone who owns any Windows Phone up through Phone 7.
2. I don't know anyone who knows how to use a 3g / 4g hotspot who would be dumb enough to still use IE.
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It's an article about biology, where it's actually understating the behavior, as others have noticed. The subtext that no one has pointed out yet is how provincial biology is. Biologists fervently ignore other fields. I think it's partially because they're not as bright as physicists, chemists, or other scientists, partially because they are poorly trained, and partially because it would be so embarrassing to have their culture contrasted with a healthier one.
Their would be no wealthy without the poor consuming their food, living in their buildings, or paying for the utilities they provide. This is not a "drain" on society; it is on of the vital mechanisms which allows the wealthy to have their wealth in the first place.

On the other hand, yequalsx, your characterization of the poor as a "drain on society" speaks volumes of how little you understand income disparity.
Sorry, if you want to turn this into a flame war, I'm out. I understand that it's difficult to see or admit flaws in a system and an industry that has personally benefitted you, but the flaws remain nonetheless.

In particular, you have not provided evidence for your contention that the middle class has shrunk solely because people have moved "from 65k to 85k", you have shown only that they have not dropped below 25k.

The facts -- income stagnation and wealth inequality -- are in direct opposition to your "the disappearance of the middle class is fine, they're just getting rich" fantasy. People have either gone to exceptionally above 85k, are stagnant, or are dropping towards the lower end.

What they are not doing is just edging into "rich". That's not a supportable claim.

And, ultimately, irrelevant. The problem is income inequality, the shrinking middle class is its symptom. If you have evidence that a society can survive this level of wealth inequality, please present that.
^ This. You'll do it if you care enough or if it's absolutely required. Everyone knows in advance that this kind of shit can and will happen. Also, if people don't plan on hosting in multiple areas/AZs, I wonder why the hell anyone would even consider overpriced cloud technology while you can get practically 5 powerful dedicated servers for the same price, except that it's more performant than a shitty VM on EC2. That said, if you have 5 dedicated servers, why even bother with EC2? It's more expensive in every way. "Pay more as you grow" is actually extremely expensive for what you actually get. Infinite scalability? Please. When people think about scalability, they think about adding a few gigs of ram to their VM with a little more I/O throughput (e.g. migrating from VM1 to VM2) for hundreds of dollars, and it's still shitty VM performance compared to raw metal. Instead, why not spend that money on a few good dedicated boxes with 96-128gb+ ram and a bunch of true (not virtual) CPU cores, then you're done for a while, and for the same price. Hardware is dirt cheap these days.

The only useful/sane use case I can see in Amazon EC2 would be for services like Heroku where they need to automatically be able to manage a truckload of VM's as their rapidly growing infrastructure, unless you want to do it yourself which I imagine is quite a headache unless you work closely with someone like Amazon or Rackspace.
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