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I don't get how people rationalize calling it "owning" a house when they've only paid a few percent of it and they owe the bank the rest, plus interest. Legally they may "own" it, but the bank "owns" it too if they stop paying.

From a pragmatic point of view, the bank owns it, not you, at least not all of it.

Unless you actually bought it.

I wish people would be more clear when talking about strategy if they are talking about BORROWING to buy a house and associated interest payments, or actually buying it outright.

Buying a house with a 30 year mortgage is not really owning a house, couldn't agree more. You might make money off it, you might not, if the market goes down - but if you'er buying it to live there for the next 30 years, adn paying for it for hte next 30 yeras, well, it's not really an asset you can use. might as well pay less, rent, and save up.
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Off topic, but my "ah ha" moment with both Clojure and Lisp was this blog post by John Lawrence Aspden:

http://www.learningclojure.com/2010/09/clojure-faster-than-m...

He managed to get a statement to go as fast the JVM could possibly go, and he did this by getting the code to write code (the code added type castings to every variable, which apparently gave the JVM the info it needed to optimize like crazy). And there is no way to do that without hard-coding, and if you don't know what kind of data you are going to get, then obviously there is no way to hard-code anything. In other words, this kind of stunt can only be done in a language that allows this kind of code-that-writes-code.
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This regression produces a score of 4.3 for a company that scores a perfect "5" in all 4 categories. This is a high score, but it's still closer to "pass, but with close monitor" than to "agree to invest & offer term sheet."

I'd like to see a similar analysis, but with a "fit" variable. The article suggests that fit (especially with regards to mobile vs non-mobile) was a critical factor in the funding decision, but it wasn't included in the analysis.
Wow, that is awesome.

The big change in the past year is that private equity and hedge funds have gotten into buying single family homes, using automation, to rent. The thing which terrifies me is that they are more efficient than random individuals as landlords, so they may all exit the market together. I've also heard that they are much more efficient at setting rents, doing so based on income in an area, vs comparables -- if they can take enough inventory out of the market, that ends up making a lot of sense.
A more accurate description would be that you used available credit at the right time to help create a profitable asset, and it ended up highly profitable with low risk.

(I guess I just have an issue with the concept of "buying a house" and "mortgaging a house" becoming synonymous, when they are two very different things.)
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What about SEO? I've noticed a lot of these sites that are rendered client-side start with very little content in the HTML, doesn't this mean the search engines can't read the content?
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> Because in environments where Java is used "switch language your're using" just isn't such a viable option.

I hope this excludes the education sector. Nobody should ever learn lambdas as being "implementations of a compiler-guessed interface with one non-defaulted method".
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2.95 here, released Jun 2003. That's one lasting piece of software, I can't readily think of any non-system software that is this old and still perfectly usable.
I'm trying to recall the context I heard this in, believe it may have been the radio program To the Best of Our Knowledge. Farmers talking about dealing with Monsanto and their GMO seed. One mentioned that for many farmers, the main concern wasn't so much revenue maximization as cost minimization.

It's struck me for a long time that Free Software offers a bit of both. It minimizes business costs (both direct license expense and licensing-derived limitations on use), while maximizing functional capabilities.

It doesn't entirely surprise me that someone as familiar with the concept as Joey Hess would extend this to his personal life. A $1.5k/year nut buys a hell of a lot of F-U freedom.
It depends on what you want to do. It would make sense that Scala, a language that can naturally encode a type class like structure and jruby, a dynamic language wouldn't mind erasure. For jruby it is self evident why and for scala's case, reified generics make it really hard to do higher kinded stuff.

Haskell is type erased too but it's not commonly noticed due to the nature of the structures commonly used and the strength of the type system. But in an OOP language where inheritance is used significantly, you really do need Reified generics as they make things much easier. I believe Java also made additional compromises to maintain backwards compatibility.
I think so. If a patent is applied for, the method/solution it provides (physically or otherwise) should be reframed and published as the problem to be solved and have the public polled for whether they agree to pay the cost.

For instance, suppose I invent a new battery, but claim that even though it's the same size and weight as a standard 9V battery, it can last for 40 years at full load. The company making the application could suggest a desired length of time for the patent in months. The USPTO then puts the following on their site:

"A patent has been applied for on technology to produce 9V batteries of the standard dimensions and weight as existing batteries, but with a mean lifetime of 40 years. The expected cost to produce one such battery at scale is $1.25. The applicant is asking for 480 months (40 yrs) of protection to exclusively sell and/or license this technology.

Do you agree to these terms?"

Then the public could vote yes or no. Obviously verification of voters of some sort to prevent fraud, etc, would be needed, but the principle is that the company can set an "asking price" to reveal the technology and we could vote on whether we agree to pay. We'd need a sufficient number of votes before a result would be binding, and the company to could decide to reduce their terms to get more votes (not increase).

That's just a possible mechanism, lot's of things to tweak, but I don't think it's impossible or even impractical in reality to do such a thing (or at least something in the spirit).

The grants are useful as well. I think things like the X Prize are a good potential solution to some of the innovation dilemmas we face now with patents. We could target what the problems we most want solved by offering $$$$ to the person/group who comes up with a solution. If the dollars are large enough, then the public could even ask/expect to receive all the rights to exploit the solution should one be found/submitted. And you are right, the dollars allocated to the incentive (grant or prize) would directly reflect the value society places on it (hopefully).
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I agree, although I worded the post in favour of "only" only due to the lack of situations where I've found a DSLR to be a better "moment capture device" than a phone. For most people, a smartphone is all they'll need in most situations.
Blue grass eh? What the hell? I have never heard of such a thing, and I suspect the people who downvoted you hadn't as well.

Also:
>Why are Europeans White? Because none of them are Wong :-) and there not actualy white.

This is not the kind of serious scientific discussion expected here - you're supposed to be making some kind of point. You're not explaining anything by saying "they're not actually white".

Also, sadly, I think people downvoted you because of your grammar - you don't seem to be a native speaker, you're making some odd/un-intellectual mistakes.
for one, the language of Tamil did not even get a passing mention in that article, even though it is a classical language just like Sanskrit, and its influence on ancient India, especially developments in South India.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_language#cite_note-riches...
i found this http://www.vedicsciences.net/articles/sanskrit-nasa.html to be pretty interesting.
Dialect quirk. In the United States "Asian" refers exclusively to East Asian people - Japanese, Chinese, Korean, etc, and does not include Indians, Pakistanis, Russians, or anyone else on the continent.

My understanding is that in British English "Asian" can include Indians and others from around there. I don't know if Russians are included, though.
I still use it as well. And the Android version is nice too.

They have missed some opportunities, sure, but it's not all lost.
I really think this is cool, machine learning has a lot to offer the world and this can improve quality of life for lots of people. However, two things come to mind:

1. http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Parkinsons
Does it really take 5 years for research to go mainstream? Max Little's original research on this was published in 2007. I think if I were able to better diagnose Parkinson's I would want to get it out to the public as soon as possible.

2. Why the need for clinical testing? It's not like it's a drug. Last time I checked a voice recording wasn't something that had too many side effects.
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It's a strange long game to post extended anonymous stories to entice others to compete with you?

Eh I guess I am a sucker to root for teenagers to become millionaires, even if there was luck involved.
I didn't have a single "ah ha" moment, but things became much clearer when I realised that although it was possible to have heterogeneous collections through the use of type-classes, what I nearly always wanted was to create a new data type with a constructor for each behaviour I was interested in encompassing.

The fact that data-types are so cheap, both syntactically and computationally, really frees you up from having to worry about not creating them. I did go too far the other way for a while and created new types for everything. There exists a happy middle ground, but it's hard to define where exactly it lies.
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Hey, sorry to ask this here but I figure there are many FB employees on HN. FB just showed me a disturbing video thumbnail in the "Trending Videos" section. It looks like some bad child porn, but I didn't click to view it.

FB's report abuse section just says to report content using the dropdown, but it doesn't exist for Trending Videos.

Here is a screen shot of my wall or whatever it's called:

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I know you're pg and all, but this comment seems almost content-free without defining "formidable". What does that mean?
I feel the same way about Oakland. It's a few minutes from a major university in Berkeley that cranks out research, technology, and talent. Bryan, if you're ever near the Oakland Tribune Tower, let me buy you coffee or beer.
My Nokia N86 came with The Matrix trilogy (on a propietary, DRM format). I really didn't "get" it (though they did show off the screen nicely).

Other phones came with popular bands.

After reading this article, I understand why they did.
At a meta level, he's saying that Sanskrit has a legitimate claim of Universalism. The linked speech states that "the foundation of India culture is based on the Sanskrit language." If you speak an Indian language that is not descended from Sanskrit, you might disagree with that statement!

India is a very diverse country with many languages and complicated ethnic politics. English would be a convenient national language, but is untenable for obvious historical political reasons. Some people in India feel the same way about Hindi. This person is arguing for Sanskrit as a neutral alternative, but language is political in India. (By contrast, Latin and Ancient Greek aren't things anyone argues about in Europe today.)
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This analysis completely ignores the cost of not finding malfeasors, does it not?
My thoughts are software patents are easily distinguishable from other patents, that the EU has no problem distinguishing them, that in theri very nature they impede progress because in software everything builds on everything else very quickly and that's why there IS rapid progress in software, progress the consumer is the beneficiary of and which also creates a very fertile business climate for companies to create products that turn profits.

The other way, it's all about lawyers and their hourly fees and innovation- and in the end business itself- suffers, except of course for the business of lawyering.

Lawyers are a virus who have injected themselves into an industry and a sphere of human activity they have no place in and was doing astonishingly well both in terms of innovation and economic activity before they showed up/
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> "Rent or buy, you're still out on the street if you stop paying."

Not true at all. Buying means you've committed to a particular lifestyle, city, and income level for a very, very long time. Renting carries none of these commitments and risks.

If I lost my job today I wouldn't be anywhere near screwed - my lifestyle can be downsized a lot in very short order (on the order of 1-2 months to reduce my burn rate by 5x).

This freedom is important to me. Right now I'm in the middle of a relocation - I want to experience a new place, with a different pace and different culture. I wouldn't be able to do this if I had bought property. If I wanted to bootstrap a startup I can easily move into a much, much cheaper place and immediately free up a lot of capital.
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The software patent forces are on the ropes and they are now staging a full on PR campaign to try to stem the tide of professional sentiment against them. It's not going to work, because at heart, software patents are simply a bad idea.
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There is a difference between putting someone under duress and making an offer they can't refuse.

If your wedding ring is not “for sale” for any amount of money, I might still be able to coerce you into “selling” it by putting a gun against your (or your spouse's!) head. But then it wasn't “for sale” in any real sense, because you didn't freely agree to the sale. The same applies to your hostage situation.

However, if you sell your wedding ring for $1,000,000 cash, take it or leave it, then you were willing to sell it, and thus, in my opinion, it was for sale.

Of course there is some grey area (what if you need money to cure a terrible disease?) but that doesn't change the principle: if you'd freely sell something precious for a lot of money, it was for sale. Being offered large amount of money is not, in itself, an extenuating circumstance.
The original vision behind OOP wasn't at odds with functional programming. In fact, it looks more like modern FP than modern OOP, with its FactoryFactories and POJOs and cargo cult bullshit that are more an artifact of a failed attempt to commoditize programming talent (one which hijacked OOP) than anything else.

Pure functional programming is great. Alan Kay would agree. However, the world is stateful. The original inspiration for OOP was the cell, which encapsulates complex physical machinery (state and behavior) behind a simpler chemical or electrical interface. The idea wasn't that complexity is a good thing (it's not) but that, when it becomes inevitable, it needs to be sequestered so that it's only visible to the few who need to fuss with the object's internals, not to the many who need to interact with it at an API level only.

An "object" is a complex entity whose interface is designed for simplicity. An example of this would be a SQL database. Query optimization is complex, but the interface is much simpler. You don't micromanage which indexes it uses and when; you just specify the query you want to run and trust the software to figure it out. In spite of its age, SQL is the most successful DSL ever invented, and for a number of reasons, but it's relative simplicity and flexibility are high among them. An added benefit of the simpler interface is that implementations can be swapped out without rewriting the entire interface.

Where OOP broke horribly was when someone got the (wrong) idea that every program needed to be "object-oriented", and OOP went from a set of tools solving specific problems (e.g. GUIs) very well to a general-purpose programming paradigm, which became worse because it was so poorly understood. It evolved from a stance of "use objects when complexity requires it" to "use objects as the fundamental unit of programming", which is bad because complexity and uncertainty aren't inherently good, but undesirable all else being equal.

Scheme is a better first substrate for programming than Java, because the fundamental building block of programming should be the referentially transparent function. Only when this is reasonably well understood should people be exposed to mutable state.
there are all sorts of ways that could be done/ For example you could contract with a company to provide janitorial services. You could also have a sub-organization that did things like janitorial services.

The areas I would worry about more would be areas where you have direct customer deliverables at stake, and where you need a team of people to ensure this. What happens when people switch teams? How quickly can you get a replacement? The article said that hiring often takes a while....
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Downtown Oakland is awesome. Lot's of good food around especially if you don't mind walking a few blocks to Chinatown and you love Chinese food. BART gets you to Berkeley, San Francisco or further east if you're looking for cheap housing.

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That's the reality of the situation when you boil it down. But technically, a mortgage holder did completely buy his home form its previous owner, and does now own it himself. It's true he paid for it with money borrowed from the bank (and the bank lent it under certain conditions), but it legally his house, not the bank's.
> however property can be a good investment if you make smart choices.

Sure, looking _back_ at any commodity/stock chart and "making smart choice" is easy to do. You were lucky, but we are not out of the deep blue real estate hole just yet and we need weaker unemployment numbers in order to see a solid bump.
I'll admit I'm a bit biased. I have had a brief psychotic episode, committed against my will (based on the article its hard to commit people, but in my case, not being home at 11pm at night but walking in the street in a nearby town -- plus a yes from a person in my family to the police did it right away.) This in the US. So I've seen this from the other side. I felt my family were more concerned in maintaining the appearance they were doing the right thing and to prevent any further disruption than anything else. Nevermind if the patient loses the ability to think or develops side effects like tardive dyskinesia (where you can't control your tounge so it keeps sticking out of your face and drool -- which I experienced for a day, or uncontrollable eye tics), and weight gain which is very common. I was surprised that the psychiatrists don't spend much time with you, its a 10 minute conversation followed by a prescription for daily antipsychotics. Unfortunately, my parents trust in medicine and are very conservative and thorough, so they gave me more antipsychotic than I needed and talked me into taking it for months and getting prescription elsewhere even though the initial doctors were no longer involved. Your every behavior becomes second-guessed, if you become occasionally irritated like normal people, your family thinks you didn't take your medication or you might need help. In fact, at the end of the article, when the father said some loving things towards his son, I wondered to myself whether the father had said those things as part of the act to protect himself from treatment. Its what involuntary commitment does to you.

Btw, now there are antipsychotics that are injected once a month and release slowly.
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Would that downvotes interested me...

To your questions:

OcaML: seems like a hack-ish [S]ML. There's a nice comparison between SML and OcaML here : http://adam.chlipala.net/mlcomp/ . I like SML's syntax, but OcaML made it too easy to be imperative and seemed too hackish. Most of the OcaML I've seen looks like weird C, but written in OcaML because it's F4ST3R.

F# : I run Linux... next!

Scala* : I can't stand it. I use Python for everyday coding and I really don't like the philosophy behind str(), len(), and friends, but it's otherwise straightforward. There's pretty much only 1 [reasonable] way to do things in Python. Scala seems like the evile lovechild of Perl and SML. Classes and "case Classes"? WTF? Type inferencing, but not powerful type inference? If you're going to move to Java++ without going too far toward Haskell, then Gosu or Mirah seem like better compromises. That said, I'm only investigated Scala [not coded in it], so my griefing is likely due to a lack of familiarity.

SML/MLTon: the syntax is 95% good but they should have embraced significant-whitespace wholeheartedly. Do they really need an "end"? But, generally, I really like SML's thinking. In particular, I'm rooting for SML by following Yeti (https://github.com/mth/yeti; but "case" is closed with "esac", really?!) and Roy (http://roy.brianmckenna.org/). Oh and I hate header files. Sooooo 1995...

Clojure: static typing. I want to believe, but the lack of static typing (including Hindley-Mindler type systems) seems like a short-cut. I think the static/dynamic typing argument is a relic of pre-good-static-typing system and I don't think that big, server-side languages should be dynamically and/or weakly typed. That said, Stuart, and his hair, are great.

Felix: interesting, but I see no mention of type inference, so have concerns about the type system. Also, the wiki is broken and that makes me think "dead project".

But, unfortunately, I want mature toolchains, libraries, etc, so, though I wrote a mid-sized web framework in Haskell, I'm one of those who is waiting for a functional language to emerge as the winner. Until then, I'll work in Python and will support Yeti and Roy.

* I've forgotten where I saw it, but Scala also had some bizarre rules around interpreting variables in case statements [or something] involving the case of the argument. I closed the book at that point. Haskell has special notations for special features, not special assumptions for normal features.
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