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My comments have been motivated by the characterization of the inheritance tax as liable to leave the heirs as waifs. Sonnabend's heirs are middle aged adults, who like their mother were raised in wealth. There is nothing wrong with that, nor even with owning a $30,000,000 stuffed bald eagle (the prohibition on the sale of which I think is absurd).

However, the basis of my opinion regarding the inheritance tax in general is based on a simple political philosophy similar to that of Socrates - when one has enjoyed and benefited from the rule of law for a life time, the only ethical course is to accept those parts of the law which may be to one's detriment.

Sonnabend clearly benefited from the laws of the US for many decades - among those the ability to own private property, enforce contracts, and exchange goods for fungible currency. Indeed, it was US immigration policy which allowed her and her family to immigrate and transfer their wealth from Europe on the eve of the Second World War.

The US tax code allows wealth to be transferred between generations in accordance with American values. The creation of a permanent aristocracy has not traditionally been consistent with those values. As for me, I shudder at the the thought of money constituting my most important legacy to those I love.
How much of the value of facebook to casual users depends on what power users are posting?
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[Ask HSI] Is Hacker News source code opensource?
I want to build a Hacker News like site for private community use. Is the source code for hacker street open sourced? If not what alternatives I can use?
It's nothing to do with process threads. http://clojure.github.com/clojure/clojure.core-api.html#cloj...
http://badger.com is pretty awesome. Has a lot of pre-configured one-click "apps" which can be tremendously helpful. For example, click the "Tumblr" button and it automatically takes care of all the DNS re-arrangements required to serve up your tumblr on your domain.

Very slick and easy to use interface. I've had a lot of good experiences with their customer support too.
Of course they copied it. Such a brazen knockoff can really only be intentional.

It isn't like it was coincidence; take a look at them side-by-side. The book author replaced some text, everything else is a perfect match.
I would say Flashback is one game I distinctly remember feeling intensely vulnerable all the time.
Find a volume or hvac knob in the dark is much easier than looking down at a flat screen to see which icon you're at.

Try and dial a phone number on an iphone without looking at it. It can't be done. But with an old-style push button phone, you can actually do this. Not that you would want to, but it's to point out the difference between having a dedicated interface vs touchscreens.
"And [the Microsoft UI uses] not just any typography, but specifically the typography of Swiss rail travel, which uses the Helvetica face."

Come on, Helvetica is the most widely used font in the world. To suggest that it conjures up images of Swiss rail travel is a bit of a stretch. It's also the type face that's used in the NYC subway system.
Where are the hordes of other scientists trying to prove Darwinism false?
We get calls like that also.

But while his call could be from FB, the call that we received to me sounded suspiciously like a third party or possibly a company trying to get a leg in by making you think they are facebook when they are just a company offering to help you with FB advertising. This actually happens with some frequency with people trying to claim they are google when they are just trying to offer consulting around what google offers.

(Next time it happens I will attempt to not hang up and dig a little deeper. But it is not unusual for third parties to make reference to a known company and throw their name around. Back in the day this was actually quite common with copier dealers claiming to be Xerox.)
It is workable for some models, but the latency is generally going to be pretty high. It also requires a certain amount of "critical mass", and is more complicated than your plain-jane LAMP stack.
Same, in fact it bugs me out a little when Suspend works flawlessly with KVM VMs running!
Normally I enjoy this sort of thing, but this I'm not taking to. As commented by others, it looks like it was designed by someone who drives very little

First up, the speedo is not only about the number, but also the position of the needle. I don't need to know if I'm doing 110 or 111, but the position of the needle will tell me at a very quick glance if I'm venturing towards 120 or slowing to 90

Second - I thought we'd decided adjusting volume by anything other than a physical turning dial was a poor way to do it about 10 years ago.

Then there's other odd things like 83% oil - what sort of use is a figure like that? Is that good or bad? Oil pressure is what I need to know, and even then a simple binary ok/not ok is sufficient

Possibly the main problem is that there's not really much wrong with displays as they are. I can see my speed and rate of acceleration, rpm, warning lights etc at a glance. I can dim them to my liking. And, importantly, anyone else driving one of my vehicles can very quickly acclimatise themselves and feel confident driving it. With the way things are currently, there's really only two things I need to figure out when I hop into a car i haven't driven before - which side of the steering column the indicators are on, and where the headlight switch is
http://cryptome.org/cia-iran-all.htm

The CIA, in its own words, seems to feel that it was responsible for the "overthrow" of Mosaddegh, in a "coup" (their words).

At the time of the coup, Mosaddegh was more popular than before, enjoying majority support, and had just been granted emergency powers by parliament for six months, which then renewed them for twelve. I respectfully dispute your suggestion that, absent CIA interference, it's doubtful that he would have maintained rule.
My favorite tweets are always the ones that announce some worthless milestone of numbers of followers acquired.
One kind hearted but kind of ditzy friend "likes" everything under the sun. Result, I see a promotion for HP ink jet cartridges because she likes HP.

Both obvious promotion/manipulation, and utterly meaningless to me and, I suspect, all of her other friends. Fail.

I took a screenshot with the intent of mailing it to her and saying/explaining, 'See, this is what all you quasi-random liking gets you, and your friends.'

I suspect that once she sees it in "black and white" (more than one pun I could start to appy, here), that will be the end of that.

If not, people are probably going to start turning down the "dial" on her stream of posts.
I disagree. The article reads to me like a partisan anti-renewable energy opinion piece with the facts chosen to fit the author's point of view. A scientific examination of the issue value would evaluate a hypothesis, not state the viewpoint at the outset.
>I'm pretty shocked they offered cash to help change the cover design. //

Really? You're shocked that they'd spend a couple of hundred dollars to buy themselves a book author as a small time publicist?
"If you saw this bad boy under your desk, would you say anything?"

Well, at this point, wouldn't anyone who has read this article be suspicious of a power strip under their desk that wasn't there yesterday and maybe even had nothing plugged into it?
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I started reading it and admiring their attention to detail with the first two charts. Extremely clear and informative:

http://spectrum.ieee.org/img/07OLAltEnergytechfig3-134088965...

Then it went down hill fast, culminating in stuff like this:

http://spectrum.ieee.org/img/07OLAltEnergyFigIcon3-134012678... and http://spectrum.ieee.org/img/07OLAltEnergyFigIcon5-134020183...

Edit: spelling.
There are plenty of these kind of games, ones that tell stories but don't do character development. LA Noire or Indigo Prophecy/Farenheit spring to mind. The problem is that because they don't do character development, they're not seen as RPGs.

(Or Heavy Rain. Or every point-n-click adventure ever.)
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As I've said in other threads. How about Israel, they do all of those things[1], have Nukes, and are massive aggressors in their part of the world.

[1](Except the Stalinism)
These "games" that exploit simple addictive behaviour have definitely run their course.

I think the next big thing will be creative games and programs similar to Minecraft, From Dust, The Incredible Machine, Little Big Planet, HyperCard, and programs to assist in building 3D printable objects.

We have all kinds of new software to build worlds, make models, music, movies. With Raspberry Pi, the computer is now just another component to be put into other machines. We have 3D printing, Arduinos, Sensordrone, submarine and quadcopter drones. Whole new areas for creative exploration that merge the virtual and physical worlds are opening up.

There are all kinds of games you could create that work towards hardware design, world-building, music production, exploration, or controlling the devices in your home. Just make it simple for anyone to jump in and start experimenting and get feedback on their creations.

There's also stuff like EyeWire - we can make games out of research in neuroscience. Or make a game out of tagging objects in data captured by underwater drones.

Who wants to simply consume when you can create?
Michael;
As a correspondent on your many internal rants at Google, I am not surprised, although sad to see that you have progressed to being a disgruntled ex-employee with an axe to grind.

You were not here long enough to experience the situations you claim to have suffered; you did not fit in, in many aspects, and were unwilling to adapt or in any way change your stance or expectations; and the assertions you make are warped to maintain your own position as being "right" and whatever else needed as being "wrong" to fit.
Which OS version is on your iPod Touch? We tested with iOS 5.1 mainly, so I'm not sure how well things work with a 4.x one. We've also done a bit of testing on Android versions, and it's quite a headache working around WebKit bugs there.
What we really need to do is make take these things out of the realm of the tech press, and into the realm of the main stream media. Make sure that every person in America, from the average Joe to the Congress-critter on Capitol Hill, knows that the MPAA/RIAA are hypocrites when they talk about IP rights to benefit all IP holders. They care nothing to the rights of others, and will run roughshod over everyone that they can, so long as they aren't called on it.

Not only this, we need to make sure that the execs at the MPAA, the RIAA, and the studios/labels that they represent feel personally embarrassed over these incidences.

Then we might see some change. Otherwise, we're just rah-rah-ing ourselves while they take what they want.
What a contrast to https://www.google.com/search?q=getty+images+extortion
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To your two points: you'll see that there is a blue (sometimes yellow?) ring around the number that presumably serves the same purpose as the speedometer needle – position & movement at a glance. And the volume is controlled by a physical turning dial (in the shot with the "hard buttons" label).
You aren't going to get uniform applicants. Different applicants will command different salaries. There's not a reasonable way to put a single number on it. It's not just YC companies that do this, it's basically everyone. Go try to find a salary number on google.com/jobs. You won't find one, and yet Google is known to pay quite well.

When was the last time you saw a salary number for any programming job?

For that matter seeing a salary number in a job add for any high skill professional job is extremely rare.
This is actually very true. During my graduate work in chemistry, I learned how to present well because anytime you present something to a group of scientists, they immediately question every single assumption or scientific result that you obtained.
Solar with storage will become ubiquitous when the price point on the storage becomes low enough. The panels themselves are right on the edge of mainstream viability right now, and the technologies involved are getting cheaper and more efficient all the time and unlike most other energy production methods, can be successfully integrated into existing urban architecture.
Link around paywall:

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Quite neat, I hadn't heard of this.

Nice to see it even lets you use CoffeeScript, LESS, and some other compile-to-js and compile to CSS languages that I hadn't heard of (Traceur and Stylus?).

Also seems like a nice UI. Might try it out as an alternative to JSFiddle for a bit.
> If you can’t compete with the “free” that file-sharing offers, you can’t compete, period.

This is a ridiculous argument. It is identical to "If banks can't compete with counterfeiters and Robin Hood who give out cash for free, they can't compete, period." Never mind that counterfeiters and Robin Hood are not actually creating any value or the products which they then "give away".

In the waffle case it's different since they were personally making the waffles and spending the money to give them away. This should not have been interfered with. But, like western food dumping aid to Africa, it's not a sustainable "business model", and has the side effect of destroying actual sustainable businesses that actually create the products. Even so though, it should be allowed if both parties permit it. In the case of food aid where it is paid for with tax funds and is primarily a system of price supports to large corporations like ADM, it is problematic because natural economic forces don't come into play. A government with tax authority can dump wheat surpluses into Africa on a random schedule, creating chaos and starvation indefinitely by destroying local agricultural markets. This is bad. A private organization like the Pirate Party or Knights of Columbus or Greenpeace or whatever won't be give out free waffles indefinitely as long as it is funded by themselves, and so any negative effects eventually work themselves out and should not be interfered with legally.
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I haven't read either of the books you mentioned, but "Apollo" by Charles Murray and Catherine Bly Cox is also excellent. From the looks of it, the paperback is hard to find ($125 on Amazon!), but the Kindle edition is only $8.
The biggest problem of any alternative is traction. Twitter has done the seemingly impossible and gets itself mentioned in the daily news all the time. A private company is constantly advertised by news journalists - and usually in an inane manner ("on twitter, bob from footown says he doesn't like it either!").
I read these articles and just /sigh

While it is true that they will need to show their ability to grow, FB ads are already a proven platform that many advertisers have built staggering success on.

I say we just leave that alone and focus on the growth of the platform - that is what matters most. They are already proven to work.
The title is not an accurate statement. JQuery 2.0 will not support Internet Explorer 8 or below. While IE 9 does not run on XP, other modern browsers such as Chrome or Firefox do.
$0, google ads do not bother me really (whether relevant or irrelevant).
Indeed! most corporations seem to prefer the lawsuit way.
At least they mentioned the grad student who did all the work!
This is why I will ensure my next car does not have GPS and similar stuff in it. It will be obsolete long before the (at least) 10 year lifespan of the car. I've heard all sorts of prices quoted for annual map updates of in car GPS data, but the lowest number I ever heard was $200. That would easily buy you a brand new GPS (and with better functionality/usability). Or the money would be better put towards connectivity and mobile devices.
It might also use actual numbers for solar radiation in Bavaria instead of childhood recollections.

Bavaria is surprisingly not terrible for solar power. Most of Bavaria gets 2/3 the solar radiation of the best spots in Spain, and is even about 50% of the best spots you'll find (like in Chad, but then you'd have electrical power in Chad instead of Germany.)

http://solargis.info/imaps/ lets you poke around much of the world for your dream solar farm.
> Highlighting and colouring of the command line is supported.

Does this mean something like syntax highlighting for the command line is now possible?
In fact, a lot of them are owned by the same big companies. A lot of scotch is aged in used bourbon barrels, so owning bourbon producers makes a lot of sense for scotch producers.
Hm, seems that sometimes you need to click on edit in JS bin (in the top right corner) to see the editor, http://jsbin.com/welcome/edit is the URL.

It seems like it's a JSFiddle-like editor, with a better (in my opinion) user interface, and potentially better options for sharing, not that I'm totally familiar with JSFiddle's capabilities.
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Eh? Family Guy won - http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/03/16/us-usa-familyguy-s...
This article is awesome. I had read it before but lost track of it. It was nice reading it again. Mike's code is a bliss to read, I don't know how to explain, it shows such a clear way of thinking... I believe one of the best ways to learn about dynamic language implementation this days is by reading his code and the things he writes when participating in discussion forums. He is the real deal.

For an example see: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3851 (he goes by MikePall - without spaces)
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It's just an HTML/CSS/JS sandbox with collaborative features, similar to jsfiddle, which I believe is more well known (at least, among the people I work with).

I haven't used jsbin before, but the interface looks nice, and the redesign is pretty. Jsfiddle is utilitarian; jsbin looks like it is meant to have a little more humor. They both seem to cover the same functionality, so I guess it comes down to which interface you prefer.

For quickly sharing some small piece of front end code with a remote colleague, either one of these tools is very useful.

Edit: I just noticed that visiting jsbin.com skips the whole landing page with the spinning robot, so it seems that it is as utilitarian as jsfiddle.
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I'm using zsh-syntax-highlighting[1] for that, which requires 4.3+, so it will work here.

It's pretty great as a starting point, but it really could use more people writing highlighter plugins for different things. It's on my list of things to figure out how to do eventually.

[1] https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting
It was already possible with https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.

Fish is another shell that supports syntax highlighting out of the box.
I found this piece to be depressingly pessimistic and downright whiny. Many people have argued that humanity has become excessively risk-averse and in-ward looking. "It's hard" is no longer a challenge to be overcome, but a reason to sit back and kick the can down the road.
This reminds me of Alan Cooper's "The Inmates are Running the Asylum," where he argues that you can't please everyone and you should not be designing an application to solve all possible use cases because that's doomed to failure (or, at best, mediocrity). You can do better making a killer solution for 80% of your potential users than you can trying to address the needs of all potential users.
Indeed. I got as far as the author dismissing solar and wind on the basis of "capacity factor" (average output over peak output), which is completely meaningless. That "peak output" number has no relevance to anything. What matters (all that matters, in the context of the article) is obviously cost (in money, perhaps corrected for things like real estate occupied, etc...) per net power. And it doesn't even get mentioned. Yawn.

Still, it's better than the really awful junk Burt Rutan wrote last year.
When was the last time the people really used their phone to dial a phone number? Trading a touch screen for tactile controls was probably a loss only for people that used speed dial or memorized the navigation of their contact list (I was one of those people). On the other hand, voice interfaces like Siri seem like a net win.
It seems reasonable to be shocked considering how rare this sort of behavior is compared to the opposite, and considering that it really turns the tables on who is legally obligated to do what. What doesn't shock me is that there's someone on hacker news playing the worldly, I've-seen-it-all role. Today, it's your turn to be that guy.
I assumed "view of modern psychology" as used by parent meaning some generally accepted views of academics backed up by current experimental research results. Which as the parent states is in conflict with current practices of therapists.
A couple points:

1. The plot to overthrow Mosaddegh went off exactly as planned. Ignoring any moral factors, it was very a impressive operation. I wouldn't doubt that CIA took as much responsibility for it as they could.

2. It is true that Mosaddegh had broad popular support, but he was also opposed by a large fraction of the population (eg. the mass protests that called for his head).

I'll take back the comment that he wouldn't have been able to maintain rule (I'll readily admit I can't predict the future). However, my point is that the CIA didn't create a coup out of thin air.

What the CIA did in Iran was provide operational support for the anti-Mosaddegh forces. Not really all that different than what the CIA did in Afghanistan during the war with Russia.
I have no dispute with the idea that statistics have biases.

However, the fact is that most of the time the parts of the CIA World Fact book quoted on HN are GDP, GDP/capita, life expectancy etc. There are often biases in these figures as well, but the CIA World Fact Book is really just acting as a convenient aggregator of these numbers.

Again, with emphasis added:

Citing economic data from the CIA World Fact Book isn't exactly propaganda
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> Make a list of all the methods people use to criticize
> you. Such as ... calling you a conspiracy theorist.

Should we really encourage Ad Hominem as a valid criticism of an argument? If your only criticism of someone's statements is, "you're just a conspiracy nut," then your argument doesn't hold much water.
That rocker pisses the hell out of me.

In order to do even a mundane task like entering an address, you have to sit there and fiddle until you select the right letters. Even though it has GPS features built-in, I still use a separate unit because it's significantly easier to manipulate while driving.
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I'm wary of anyone who uses terms like "state-coerced" - it suggests that the author has bought into an ideology that is decidedly not reality-based. Too often, phrases like that run in packs with ideas like "taxation is theft" (it isn't, of course).