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Correct. I've used HomeAway for two vacations. Their focus has always been the traditional vacation home owner. 99% of their listings are an aggregate of other perfessionally managed 7-day stay rental homes. Completely different business model, technology, culture, market, etc. HomeAway CEO Brian Sharples has remarked multiple times they see little to no overlap in their customers & listings. See his answer about half way down this 2011 WSJ article: http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2011/10/13/homeaways-ceo...
(That other account has apparently been hell-banned, seemingly due to a downvotes during a political conversation about Kim Jong-il that you were involved in; you should probably stop using that account, as users can only see your posts if they turn on showdead. FWIW, thank you very much for this comment about OneJS, despite the flak you got for it due to the post from your hell-banned account.)
Marketplace for assassination: would it improve politics?
Thanks for the suggestion...can you compare/contrast it to Pelles C?
It's beautiful that way.
Wouldn't penalizing the shareholders actually be a good free-market approach? Since the shareholders are ultimately the owners of the business, at least notionally, the free-market way to incentivize good behavior on the part of the business is to push those incentives onto the shareholders. If shareholders are penalized for bad behavior, they'll be motivated to control their board/executives/employees properly, instituting sufficient procedures and exercising sufficient oversight to avoid getting themselves in hot water.
Eastern Canada has a vanishing tech sector, out here in Vancouver it's perfectly alive and well.

The issue with Vancouver is not software patents, but capital recycling. Most of our tech capital leaves Vancouver instead of staying to be reinvested, this is why mining works so well in Vancouver, there is a huge amount of capital recycling, similar to what you'd see in the bay area in tech. (Oddly enough SF also has a fairly large mining sector)

The big advantages to Canada that I see are SRED funding (70% of your dev salary could be paid by the feds), and CMF funding if you're doing a digital media project (75% of costs covered up to $500K for development, production and operations for a total of $1.5 mm)
Many non-tech friends/family have told me that Victoria BC has a booming tech industry (esp in gaming). Can anyone confirm that for me? I haven't found very much online about it so feel a bit doubtful.

I'm Canadian and moving back to Victoria next month from NY. The current plan is to push hard on a small service business for the airline industry (so I'm not in a hurry to find a new job). Even so, I've been away for over a decade and the place is likely to have changed a lot.

If you are in Victoria, the island, Vancouver, or the sunshine coast, I would love to buy you lunch (or just a coffee) and chat about the lay of the tech landscape in the area. Email's in my profile if you're up for it.
Their (RequireJS's) website claims the following; I would be interested in an argued response/critique.

> CommonJS defines a module format. Unfortunately, it was defined without giving browsers equal footing to other JavaScript environments. Because of that, there are CommonJS spec proposals for Transport formats and an asynchronous require.
Electric cars are barely practical with all the 21st century technology we can muster, and still come with some fairly enormous asterisks. I don't think over a century would have gone by without anybody noticing that the internal combustion engine was a great deal more practical. To the extent the oil industry buried the electric car, it was wasted effort. It would have buried itself.
How do you know it's from a Google search? He doesn't say it is, I don`t see analytics code in his source (just the wordpress stats)... When you "assume" you make an "ass" out of "u" and "me". Who's the ass now?
Well, what Keen points out is that consumption drops because people aren't spending as much. He also points out that the sources of spending are income and credit.

Basically he picks up on Minsky's idea of credit cycles and uses this to explain both the current economic problems and the Great Depression. He also points out that private debt is much greater than public debt.

I don't know if he sees the reduction in credit as a bad thing or just an inevitable thing.

As he points out, the way banks work is that they lend money, create deposits in the process, and look for reserves later.

As for private debt being reduced to zero, wouldn't that require a drop in housing prices by something like 90% so one could just buy a house without a bank loan?
> First, UW is already mostly an elite university

UW had a ~58% admit rate in 2011, MIT's was 9.6%, Harvard's was 6.2%, and Stanford was 7.1%. To say "it's very hard to get in these days without the means to also getting into other elite universities" is patently false.
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Ask HN: Profile Engine links to deleted FB account?
Hey guys,

How many of you know what Profile Engine is? I did a Google search on my name and found that a Facebook account that I deleted many months ago has been index on Profile Engine. They say that I need to claim that account in order to delete it and in doing so, I need to verify myself by sending ID to them. It sounds extremely scammy and I am wondering if there is anyway that I can remove my old profile?

http://profileengine.com/

Thanks!
Holy crap, why is the text so small?
There are lots of services I would like to have. For example, I would love to buy $10 for $5. That doesn't mean someone can provide that to me, long term. The only way for fractional reserve banking to be practiced "safely" is if there is a central bank backstopping it. That introduces a lot of regulation, and still ends up being very expensive for the taxpayers.

What I'm proposing essentially separates "place to securely hold my cash, and provide ATM services" from "place to invest money long term".

Now, I agree that long term interest rates would rise, but it doesn't follow that mortgages would become unaffordable. What's more likely IMO is that houses become a lot cheaper. The main "anchor" to the price of a house is your ability to pay a fixed percentage of your income. Rather than paying 25% of your monthly income on a 30 year mortage at 5%, you'd probably end up paying 25% of your monthly income on a 10 year mortgage at 8%.
Nice site and idea. My only criticism is that if you have a plan called "unlimited" it should be just that. Whilst the difference between unlimited and what you offer in you "unlimited" plan is very small, it would be enough to turn me away from the service. I believe for the small upgrade the "unlimited" plan needs to be unlimited it would be worth it.
When I viewed the site there was only one cam live on the demo. Either all or none dude. There are a lot of services on the net now and the only ones that will survive are those that can achieve the extra %1 of polish.
Great job guys.
Kinda like blockland?

http://blockland.us/
The Everywhereist (a wonderful blogger and Seattle resident) has some good postings. The social thing is named the "Seattle Freeze".

http://www.everywhereist.com/the-seattle-freeze-making-frien...

And a bonus http://www.everywhereist.com/15-things-you-should-know-about...
This is interesting. Also I don't think "prolific" captures sufficiently what the article is about. It's not just prolific-ness. It's being prodigious relative to volume AND quality of work (prolific implies simply volume). Soderbergh might be considered to be prodigious quanti- and qualitatively with regard to the article. Franzen, simply quantitatively.

Conversely I wish I could be prodigious quantitatively. I have a bunch of projects that are basically total crap, just exercises in learning stuff. I'd trade them all for one really awesome, world-changing project. I kind of suck at ideas though.
Study links parasite found in cats to suicide risk in humans
The single biggest thing that's helped me context switch between projects (or return to one) has been keeping a project log.

To me, a project log is to documentation as Twitter is to blogging--it requires little effort but over time provides useful pointers to where you were at the time.

Originally I used a "one way personal wiki" to keep track, like this: http://code.rancidbacon.com/ProjectLogArduinoUSB

But when I lost the server it was on I decided to re-implement it on Google App Engine and make it available to other people, thus was born Labradoc, here's an example project log: http://www.labradoc.com/i/follower/p/project-sms-text-scroll...

It's kinda a "commit log for your day".
Just one more point on re-reading both of these.

The end-result of Chestertonian distributism is an economy of tradesmen and small farmers. In other words, it is an economy of the self-employed. The US still has 20% of the work force that is self-employed and only 1/4 of those are doctors, lawyers, and others offering professional services. Anything which enables others to become self-employed moves us in that direction.

Any distributist approach cultivates the possibility and mentality of self-employment. Whatever form that takes is OK with me, even if that is the paradox of self-employment as a member of a larger firm.
>I am two minds on the subject of nuclear power. But the "ain't so safe" side tends to win out because humans make mistakes.

I'm of two minds about this as well but I came to a different conclusion. In the case of Fukushima and Chernobyl I believe it was reduced to incompetence to save cost. I would hope that others have learned the lesson when dealing with nuclear energy because fossil fuels can be deadlier (generally more casualties) and more expensive.
Jolla promises MeeGo will live on, plans new smartphone to reward the faithful
This isn't a pic of my actual desk (pulled from Google Images) but its the exact same desk I have, minus the drawer (was too lazy to take a pic): http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4118/5221683438_8716ac1be8_z.j...

Been using it for the last 6 years. Works great.
1) Want and Care about the project above all else.

2) Keep your eye on the competition and market needs.

3)(And I cant stress this enough) Stay the f@#k away from my code! - Seriously I bring non-tech people in for just that reason. I need eyes from people who don't understand the tech side.

:)
Well… Javascript does suck. No one in their right mind defends the language.
That quip would also be an argument against error-correcting codes. Whatever I think of PHP I'm not gonna look to Confucius for engineering advice. (Now Laozi on the other hand... :)
I forget who Steven Keen is quoting in this manner but he points out an early opponent of the gold standard said "In the real world, banks loan money, create deposits in the process, and look for the reserves later."

As for your solution, suppose my kid has to go to the ER. I go to the bank to withdraw funds early because of unforeseen circumstances. Does the bank have to give them to me?
So why can Goldman take positions where they stand to profit enormously if their clients lose money?

Because Goldman's clients are grown-ups and allowed to have their own beliefs about the future of the market, as well as their own risk tolerance.

Goldman wasn't obligated to put up a shingle reading "We are losing our appetite for CDOs, and so can't take your money if you think they're still a great investment."
Really? "we erred" ? The most powerful people in the world asked for your permission?
This is a great idea, and I'd love to see some of these crooks who are literally ruining countries get locked up in prison. I bet the economy would recover REAL quick if we started throwing hedge fund managers in prison.
I use ZeroMQ or Go's RPC libraries for internal communication and mostly use nginx as reverse proxy and to serve static files on the edge.
Fun stuff right there. Any particular reason for choice of poem as demo?
Thanks a lot, I'll give them a try.

What tool do people use to write Lisp Web code? Is it GNU Emacs or something else? How compatible are Emacs List and SBCL?
I wouldn't consider this "hacking" or even very impressive. If you deliver enough power to the right antenna with the right carrier frequency you can jam any wireless communication. It's the same concept as "whoever yells the loudest will be heard".
Admit rates for private schools are lower since they generally take from a national pool, and the schools are quite popular (lots of noise applications with no chance of getting in). In comparison, UCB has a 21% admit rate from a large state of California and lots of other research schools in competition (UCSD, UCLA, UCD...). UW is only one of two research state schools in Washington, the other being WSU way across the state. Admission is incredibly convoluted: you chance of getting in from the Seattle area is much lower than Eastern Washington, and out of state students have a higher chance than in state (they pay more tuition). This means there are cases (personally known of) where a student is rejected from UW and is accepted into UCB and Stanford (though they have to pay a lot more tuition accordingly).
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I like it. I have done some things like this in the past, but not in as much detail as yours. Very inspiring!
I'm not assuming anything... "assume" was used in the post I responded to, and asked why. I don't use ObjC myself, though I would say that "add new features" does not imply "reduce verbosity" in any sense that I can see.
Programming Clojure first edition is several years old actually, the one you're thinking of is the 2nd edition.
i don´t even understand what this celery code is used for, and their web page can´t explain it either.
Holy crap, I totally missed the difference in names. I hope this isn't causing adverse publicity to you guys.
I lend short to my savings account, and in return I get 0.05% APY during a time of ~1.4% inflation on consumer goods. That's hardly a deal.
1000memories also has a shoebox app. May cause some confusion.
As far as arguments about ECC, I always enjoyed the parody of a saying attributed to JWZ: 'Someone has a problem and they think, I know, I'll use error-correcting codes! Now they either have 0 or 2 problems.'
Video of spoofing an iPhone's GPS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShRPXkpW1mM

Note that they are able to quite precisely control the spoofed location--there is no hard banking or veering. The phone thinks it's moving smoothly at 40 MPH.

Also note that it is believed that people have already been killed by GPS jamming: http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2012/05/gps-los...
I agree that some of the crooks should be prosecuted and sent to prison (of course the Department of Justice has bigger fish to fry, like adulterer John Edwards), but that would have little or no effect on short-term economic recovery.
This is a nice link. Would be nice if they also included naked objects and MVVM.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-...

It's just a command line argument.
Honestly, no. This is how we work in a combined mainline branch while only using feature branches for relatively rare work that extends beyond a single subsystem and would break other people.

By and large we can keep mainline in a stable and releasable state, which has some advantages in terms of forcing people to take care and keep their code clean as they work.

For stable releases, we just peel off a release branch and stabilize there. The fewer branches we have, the simpler it is to keep track of everything.
One useful thing would be an excise tax for land rentals. This would drive up the cost of renting (but probably not the price, since rentals are competing with purchases) in comparison to owning in terms of both one's own home and productive property (farmland, office space, etc). This means less incentive to be a landlord. Ideally the home should be productive property but all too often it isn't.
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It would depend on what else is in the class - descriptive class constants used by the one static method wouldn't be possible if it was 'just a function'.
Like this: http://d.pr/i/rMy2
The world economy is a house of cards, propped up by ignorance. If the public at large knew how stupid much of this really was, there would be riots.

How many people do you know who /really / understand the world economy? It's the best act of "security through obscurity" combined with "security theatre" ever.
I am very aware of how the process works and how one's chances are based on holistic factors. Regardless, I spent the last year at UW and to say it's an elite school one would need to ignore large swaths of those who attend. I have had the fortune to speak with tens of former and current Stanford attendees while at Google this summer - overwhelmingly their ability to carry on an interesting conversation, make nuanced insights into diverse topics, and otherwise convey the impression that they are learned individuals far exceeds that of your typical UW student. That is not to say that they don't exist - I could say the same for a handful of UW students - merely that their number is far smaller, and that that greatly impacts the culture.

If you want empirical data, a student in the 25th percentile at MIT has a higher SAT score than someone in the 75th at UW. The SAT has been shown to be a fairly reliable indicator of earning potential.

[1] Estimating the Payoff to Attending a More Selective College, Dale & Krueger
> GPS jamming is so much easier than spoofing and results in the same thing.

If that drone is in a homogenous-looking area, say a desert with litte habitation, it wouldn't be hard to slowly get the drone to a different target than desired, possibly having it think another car or house is its target.
Manipulation of the LIBOR would impact all the variable rate mortgages that are indexed to it. In California, home loans with a 0% interest rate for the first year and very low rate for next few years (negatively amortized) were very popular and pushed by Washington Mutual and other banks. But these loan's interest rates were tied to the LIBOR. A lot of foreclosures were do to these types of loans where the payment will increase 10 - 20%. How often does ones income increase 20% in a year or two?

The economist article is not exaggerating IMO.

How these banks are dealt with by our governments will illuminate the extent banks have corrupted our governments.
You'd think this would be enough protection, but it turns out that some browsers (looking at you, IE) actually try to infer the content type from the page content. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms775147(v=vs.85).as... for more info.
the slight irony here being this was something you could do with heroku when they launched in 2007
I went back to Firefox for a bit when Ubiquity was under active development. I've never seen a new drop-in user interface add so much to my productivity...

I've never fully understood why it was shelved.
They do.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/08/01.html

http://skilldrick.co.uk/2010/09/why-javascript-is-awesome/
Not to mention the need to rip up and replace all the road surfaces. At least partially.
While we're sharing our anecdotes, at the suggestion of a coworker I took 5mg melatonin each night for a few months, which worked wonders for actually staying asleep at night. In my experience the important part was taking it at the same time each night to mimick how the brain naturally releases the hormone. I never, for example, used it to sleep during the day after an all-night flight, just to regulate my day/night cycle.
One of the things I keep meaning to read more about is Simonton's equal-odds rule of science: apparently his statistical analyses of scientific output show that scientists do not differ in 'quality' of output but instead quantity of output - the more they do and publish, the more likely they are to hit a home-run.

(This sort of huge randomness seems possible to me - I think every author or creator has the feeling, at some point, that 'X is not my best or most interesting work, why does everyone like it so much?' Certainly in reading author interviews I've noted that they seem routinely surprised that one particular novel or series took off and made them famous, rather than another.)
Oh god yes. I ran into an extreme case of this recently. 200 something lines of class definition, class variables and internal private methods that end up chaining 5-deep, with a single public method.

Refactoring to a single function took it down to under 20 lines.

I wish I knew what motivated people to do things like this.
>Goldman wasn't obligated to put up a shingle reading "We are losing our appetite for CDOs, and so can't take your money if you think they're still a great investment."

This is the problem. They should be obligated. Being a professional carries ethical constraints. If your clients aren't getting your best advice you aren't a professional, you are a salesman. It's not okay for salesmen to pose as professionals.
This is very cool. I hate coming back to a project a couple months later and having no idea what state things got left in.
Also notice how they magically wake up just before their stop? It is the oldest trick in the book to hold on to your seat.
Back in the day I used LCC-Win32 as my main development platform. It was rather cool to have such a nice compiler/IDE for free. Extremely fast, produced small binaries, had a nice debugger, code completion and API reference at the press of a button. Everything VS had (except C++ obviously) in about 10mb of memory. Also, it used to include extra documents explaining how the author went about writing the code editor, the compiler, the IDE, and the history of the whole thing.

I used Pelles C for a while, mainly for Windows CE development. Although the IDE was nice, I still preferred LCC-Win32 for Windows development. I have no idea how both environments have progressed in the last 4 years or so.

Check LCC-Win32 here: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~lcc-win32/
The LIBOR is widely used, but there are others like the Fed's prime rate, and the consumer price index.

The entire entire financial world is built on insider manipulation. Too many examples to list.
But what do people want from a wheel? How do they relate to it? What colour should it be?
It's better to describe regulators as captured rather than complicit.

Regulators have no chance when the people they are supposed to regulate have hundreds of times more power than the regulators. Allowing unlimited wealth concentration guarantees that the most powerful private interests are always more powerful than government regulators.
You could get her to 'evangelize' with talks and maybe some cold calling/email, if she's up to it. You'll know she'll be passionate about it, since it's her idea and she can explain many bits of it in an intuitive way. On the other hand, she'll be the de-facto marketing person, which should make it easier for you to think of an equity split. She'll then get to contribute actively to the business and you'll both be happier down the road.
The exact opposite actually. Apparently airliners, like our mobile phones, can only receive GPS signals to track their own position, but they can't report that back to the control towers - position is calculated from ground radars, which only reach up to 200 miles from shore. That's why the location of AF447 couldn't be pinpointed quickly after the accident, for example, there are only estimates for location while out at sea.