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R5RS has a clean, small core designed with functional programming in mind. This is both: a boon and a curse. One must add all sorts of libraries to build a decent application. At the same time, it is better than Lua, if you're thinking of adding extensibility to your product. While using it as an extension language for a desktop product, I was irked by only one facet: threads. It really took quite a lot of gyrations to get the multithreaded implementation right. In all fairness, that is more of an implementation challenge, but still, one that must be overcome.
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Let us know if it's still instinctive after 15 years.

I'm not saying every relationship becomes routine/boring/sour/whatever, but often the sorts of things listed in the article slowly disappear from a relationship because of outside stresses. And those little things are important...

EDIT: That first line seems really bitter, and it's not meant to be. I've been married for 12 years, and we've together for nearly 20. My wife and I still enjoy each other, but there are times that those stresses (work, school, kids, life) make you forget about those little things. If you can keep the "good nights" and "have a good days" going through the worst of times, you're in good shape.
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I am taking my own advice as to real estate with my own money. Buying land right now seems a good thing to do. GM stock not so much. GM could disappear tomorrow. The land will still be there even if it reduces in value even further.

I am not advocating any type of loan or leverage to "get into real estate". I just think that if you're looking to park any large amount of money, you shouldn't ignore outright owned real estate (especially the income generating variety) as part of the diversification strategy just because of the recent panic surrounding this one area.

Around here "unsellable" real estate actually means "real estate that can't be sold for enough to pay off the mortgage debt from the previously inflated prices." I've made several rational offers that were turned down for this reason. I've even heard that term tossed around by the very agent that refused my offer. "We just can't seem to sell anything these days, no one is buying! This stuff is just unsellable."

The people who lose the most shirts buy at the top when everything seems roses and sell at the bottom because "its not a good time to be in the market right now".
on the hn homepage, there is a link "lists" that has these
You can invest in development of a family hotel somewhere in Hymalayan trekking areas, like Nepal, Sikkim or West Bengal. Actually you can build two or three of them. =)
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thank to x86 native code generation, the very smart idea behind V8.
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You seem to have forgotten to provide supporting arguments.

Compared to my wife's G1, my iPhone lacks:

* Turn by turn navigation

* One tap calling, thanks to the ability to put contacts as links on the home screen

* Friend location alerts due to background apps.

* The ability to put photoas as widgets on the home screen. Not a big one for me, but my wife likes to use it for our wedding pics.
So, kudos to you, I hope that works well for you! :)

As for parking a large amount of money safely, that's a tough job and nothing to advise other people on unless you are aware of the risks and the potential fall-out from giving such advice.

I didn't realize that there was a different connotation to 'unsellable', apologies for that. The properties I was referring to were bought with cash, no bank involved so I'm not worried in the least. One is being lived in by an elderly couple, as long as they're alive they'll have shelter, it's a huge improvement from where they came from and even if the market was good I wouldn't sell it just because of that.

The other is technically 'up for sale', but with the market being in the dumps it hardly matters, just pay the property tax and stay put. It was bought to be lived in, not as a speculative object, and through circumstances I now find myself on the other end of the globe. Oh well :)

I agree with you that those who bought on speculation at the top of the market are the ones that will be hit hardest, in stock market terms, they're the sheep or the pigs (the joke goes something like this: There are three kinds of people active in the stockmarket, bears, they hope things will get worse, bulls, who hope things get better and pigs, they get slaughtered).

If you have a long term strategy and you have money that is completely unencumbered then it is possible to buy in a falling market, as you already mentioned there is intrinsic value in land. Even so, investing right now is basically saying that you know better than everybody else, and while I applaud you for doing it yourself I don't think you should tell people to follow you down that road unless you have a fairly solid guarantee that it will work out for them.

The OP will be in the possession of anywhere from 1M to 1.3M after taxes, if he just pays off his mortgage or buys a house to live in and very carefully salts away the rest he/she will be able to spend a small fraction of that when the market hits bottom, and then it will still be multiple years before it will pay out, if nothing unforeseen happens in the meantime.
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491 days here and I still haven't figured out what the user params (like "noprocrast" or "showdead") do, what a noob
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I'd say that's true of some, perhaps a few self-proclaimed experts. Most people who claim to know something in a field actually do have useful knowledge to impart.

Sure, there are quack doctors and flim-flam car repair men and consultants full of bafflegab. But most doctors really do know something about medicine, most mechanics know how to fix cars, and most consultants have highly useful experience to share.

That's my experience with experts. Maybe I'm not smart enough to know how little experts really know?
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Yea, large tires are the secret, I got 10 seconds with this:

http://img14.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cartgx6.jpg

http://img129.imageshack.us/my.php?image=coolcrop1tv0.jpg

I can't help but wonder how fast it's possible to get to the end. I think I can shave a few fractions of a second from my time but it starts being a question of bouncing correctly. Also that little nub in the center keeps things from rolling around as much which helps stability but it's still easy to flip. (ect)

PS: I did get one to do 12 seconds to the end without complex driving just holding right arrow.
I think it's hard to argue that this is off topic if it was voted to the front page.

I like HN because of the wide variety of interesting things here. Yes, most of that is tech/entrepreneurship related, but things like this are interesting as well.

I wouldn't want 10 articles like this on the front page, but for most of us who are married/in a relationship, this serves as a useful reminder.
Right now it's more like 2.5%, or $50,000 a year before taxes.

http://www.bankrate.com/brm/rate/mmmf_home.asp

Also, in the long run money market accounts and CDs tend to not even make up for inflation.

That doesn't mean it's not possible to retire on $2M, especially if you are middle-aged and don't have dependents. If you are young, live in a relatively affluent area in North America and are yet to start a family, forget about it.
Wonder if they would consider open sourcing their engine?
MIT did a similar report in the 90s. I read it and found that they were claiming that HP was an MIT company (Hewlett and Packard met at Stanford).

I couldn't find a list of companies in the latest report, but I would take it with a grain of salt.
Uh, how? That's a 5% rate of interest.

The only way to get that is by taking significant principal risk ("junk" bonds or equity investments). 30 year US treasury bonds are only yielding 3.54%, and everything less than 3 years is <1% [1]. The highest yielding US$ CD I could find [2] was 4.3%, and the highest CDN$ GIC looks to be 4.3% [3].

Also, remember inflation - it really eats into it.. Let's say you're 30 and expect to live to 75. Even with a modest 2.5% inflation rate, your effective income will be <1/3 of what you started with by the end.

[1]http://www.ustreas.gov/offices/domestic-finance/debt-managem...
[2]http://beta.bankrate.com/funnel/cd-investments/cd-investment...
[3]http://money.canoe.ca/rates/gics_5.html
Hacking the hacker news! That's the way it should be... :-)
But Safari doesn't have its own new, fast JS interpreter (Squirrelfish) yet either - I'm only using v3.2.1 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safari_(web_browser)#Mac)
There's plenty of good advice here to think about.. but just think about it for a year. (Software recommendation: none for now)

There's no hurry, but there's plenty of mistakes to be made. Carry on as usual for a while and see if any of the ideas really resonates with you after your mind has settled.

Definitely don't get into a contract with someone to "manage" your money - they typically want 2% annually for it, and it's highly likely they've underperformed money market accounts over the past decade. Many (most?) have lost money over the past decade, at least after expenses.
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HAHAHA nice one :D
Mac software: quicken's worked for me. Not fancy, not pretty, but effective.

Talk to a professional about investing & protecting your assets. As you can live on the interest, perhaps the free time is more important than the money for now?

Sounds like a good time to invest in yourself. First: a small vacation (a few weeks, ~$2-5k) to really relax. Next: maybe some school if there were other things that piqued your interest before, but never had a chance to study. If not school, maybe not a bad time to just pick up some books and hedonistically blowing weeks on whatever you want to study :-) If anyone asks, call it market research.

Congrats!
To my knowledge, most autodiff tools will tend to silently ignore discontinuities, as long as you don't compute them at a non-differentiable point. E.g. if you have

y = abs(x)

you will get back the derivative

g = sign(x).

This works as long as you don't try x=0. Similar things would happen for floors, rounding, if statements, etc. In general, as long as each local operations is differentiable, the whole program will be. That's isn't too hard to check.
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Invest in Madoff :D
Agreed, I've been happily married 16 years + 4 kids and pretty much automatically do these things.
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I wouldn't be that worried. ;) I made the same comment myself as soon as I finished writing this piece:

http://twitter.com/mikebooth/status/1225683925

There is something about HN that keeps me writing here. Even I am not sure what it is.
since nobody mentioned it: make a last will.

As for opinions I'd put maybe 5% in stock indexes (Dow,S&P) as 'risk' and the rest partitioned in bonds and cash in high interest account after talking with a tax specialist. I'd forget about money managers.
The two most interesting tidbits from that page are that apparently the prosecution again messed up on technicalities (accusing the pirate bay of 'owning' a certain IP when they in fact did not), and that one of the plaintiffs lawyers is also associated with scientology. Somehow it does not surprise me at all that a lawyer that would let herself be hired by scientology would be willing to work for the mpaa.
Are you certain you're not misinterpretting Herring's comment? I read it as "Dude, that is so good you need to start writing a blog", but you seem to read it as "Dude, get a blog if you want to write rubbish". TBH it's ambiguous enough that either interpretation could be valid.
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(apologies to Omar Khayyam)
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If you don't own a home then buy one. Buy it as a home, not as an investment, so the smaller the better. If possible, buy a home in an area that has no homeowners' association and associated fees. If you don't, you will eventually regret it. You could buy a "fee simple townhome", which means it's small (condo-size) and has no association fees.

The reason I say buy not as an investment is because the real estate market hasn't nearly hit bottom yet and won't for another two years. Until then investing significantly in real estate would be a mistake. So buy something modest that you like in an area that you like.

Cash is king right now. Being in Canadian currency is good. Read Nassim Taleb, who presciently suggested years ago that we avoid investing heavily in the stock markets; they're too risky. Instead put ~90% into absolutely safe investments and then bet the remaining 5-10% in long-shot positive "black swans" (e.g, high technology and biotech ventures with long odds but incredible payoffs). Most often you'll lose but, when you win you'll win huge, more than enough to cover your losses. To understand his suggestions, you'd best read his excellent book, "The Black Swan".

And I assume you've split your money into various accounts so that you are insured against any losses should your bank go out of business.
> For everyone besides this guy, #3 doesn't actually require that much
> money. $20k - $30k buys you time to travel, work on your own projects,
> and wait for the right opportunity. I spent 2008 doing this and
> I'm pretty satisfied with that decision.

Yes, and there are many nice places out there in the world where you can live on even less than that for temporary rentals. A 4 continent around the world ticket costs about $2000 and be sure to pick a good airlines network for the destinations you want. Or just pick two or three places and stay there 4 to 6 months at a time, or longer.

You can definitely spend time on your future projects while traveling, many places have free wireless internet. We used to hack on BBS systems, so even 512k Internet can let you do a lot of stuff. If connection stops working, go hiking or canoeing or off to meet a pretty girl/guy/whatever you like.

Oh, I second that other advise by inerte:

> - Pay some debt close family members have (parents, brothers)

Try to minimize the potential emergencies of close ones, you don't need to pay them off completely but get them in a path where they can restore themselves to financial freedom. This is happening a lot already. Beware, don't bail out anybody on mortgage, specially if highly leveraged, they have negative equity, or have interest-only mortgages! There are laws to protect them and your money will get wasted for nothing. Perhaps help them after they file bankruptcy (IANAL.)

Whatever you do, have a good time! :)
The RIAA is shady and music labels give bands a hard deal, no doubt about that. But what makes you think that bands will be able to turn a profit when everything is free? Where there is no scarcity, there is no price.

There you go again. (I'm very sorry that you're getting picked on in this thread, but you're throwing up a straw man that's very conveniently simple to argue against.) Your assumption is that the current model of music - the broken one - is the only possible model of music. It's not. There are certainly solutions to be had. The problem is that the RIAA is not taking said solutions.

The company to root for is the company that figures out a model that works for bands despite pirating and an oversaturated market. Thinking there's no hope won't help anything.
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I think the author drank a bit too much off Apples marketing kool-aid.
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"(though I really wish jQuery would bundle an onAvailable method into the core.)"

Why? (Serious question - I'm the creator of jQuery.)
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Ask HN: Do you know a versatile web proxy software?
I'm looking for a web proxy that I can use to build a system to capture every page I browse from my machines. I'm planning to analize my traffic and to keep a real history of my web access. The key feature I want is a way to capture and save the text of the pages for online or later process.

Two aditional features are important to me:

* Binary programs (ie C, C++ projects): I found script languages and Java too slow for processing binary streams. I already played with pyhton and java.

* Multiplatform (nix/win)

I've already considered Squid (not very multiplatform).
Also I failed to build something usable with Apache and its proxy mods.
Do you have any suggestion of proxys or similar software? Related articles?

thanks in advance!
There are three things that come to mind:

1. I use Yelp and so far I've found it useful and accurate. Of course I tend to look for substance in the good comments as well as the bad. (hyperaware of how easy it is for a business to succumb to selling itself through 'fake' comments; aware of the fact that everyone has bad nights and competitors) More than ever these days (I have IB back in high school to thank for starting me down this road): understand that every source has bias.

2. Yelp, to me at least, has shifted power into the hands of the consumer. It is now possible to hear, theoretically, what the users of a business (refer to 1.) think of it - good or bad. This, I would think, would make a few people unhappy - changes in power usually do. And complaining about being unhappy at 'power to the consumer' isn't really a story that is going to get much sympathy.

3. Yelp's business involves a trusting user. To undermine that by allowing businesses to remove negative reviews for a sum of money strikes me as being very short sited. Everything gets out eventually, especially in this day and age. In conjunction with 2., the best attack against Yelp (or the most effective) would be an attack on whether or not you can trust Yelp. Again, I can't see Yelp 'offing' itself like this - unless the team behind it really is that short sighted.

I like yelp, I find it useful and if/when it stops being useful, and if this story is true it won't be long till that happens, I'll stop using it.
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I was looking for this exact link for but couldn't remember where it was. I can lay my search to sleep now. Thanks!
Couples who say hello with a hug keep their skin bathed in the “good touch,” *which can inoculate your spirit against anonymity in the world*.

Does that make any sense to you? Oh my frontal cortex! It burns.
Thanks for the comment - they seem to have great prices and coverage.. and logs. Just what I was looking for!
Thanks for the comment - the site seems a little sparse on information but I've sent them an e-mail.
Worth noting that, for my part, I immediately unfollow anyone who sends me an automated (or otherwise mass-produced) thank you DM when I follow them.
Yeah the main problem is buying the actual numbers. We don't have a very complex requirement in terms of managing the calls - they'll all just get forwarded on to different numbers, so we don't really need to manage our own infrastructure.
Is roughlydrafted.com, so no surprises about it.
I avoid their articles because of it. Is impossible for them to be slightly balanced.
Yup. Yahoo found it
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My partner and I have been together 8 years and do the majority of these things. However, I think after a while some are done out of habit, rather than an actual desire to keep things sweet.

It doesn't hurt to be reminded that each other's happiness is important, even if you think your relationship is as good as it can be. :)
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Well, the Unabomber was wrong. Which is not exactly a surprise. The Unabomber was wrong about most things. He was a crazy mass murderer who didn't get out much.

Kelly's essay points out the one thing that the guy was right about: The notion that technology has an agenda. The fact that human agendas and technological agendas are aspects of the same thing is a bit more... advanced. I'm sure the unabomber would react with horror to such an idea, but obviously that doesn't make it wrong.

Of course the dictionary wouldn't define a human child as "something created by the application of science [1]", or "a material implement manufactured by a society [2]". The dictionary's job is to tell us how words are used, not to describe the nature of reality. As I said, even using the word technology to describe a cell phone is beginning to sound stilted -- kids will probably roll their eyes. Calling a wooden sailing ship high technology sounds like a joke [3], and calling a flint arrowhead technology would just be silly. Especially to the Unabomber, who was committed to the fantasy that there was some essential moral difference between wooden-shack technology and asphalt-highway technology.

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[1] Although reproductive biology is a science. And every society has a theory about where babies come from, backed by extensive experimental evidence. And even should you wish to concede that conceiving babies is more art than science, there's more to creating a new human than just having a baby. I was raised on pizza and penicillin. Pizza and penicillin are applications of science.

[2] My right hand is a material implement. If you don't believe me, I can always smack you with it, while uttering the traditional ritual words: "I refute you thus!" ;) (http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=670519)

[3] Man, was the H.M.S. Victory high technology. For a contemporary high-level technical manual I recommend The Young Sea Officer's Sheet Anchor, published in 1819.
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Ask HN: Alternative to the tag cloud?
I'm building a website that will list a (hopefully) large amount user created items indicative on their relative importance.

I have considered using the ubiquitous tag cloud for this, but I find it a bit blasé. In my opinion, it's also not very approachable for non-techies.

What are the alternatives?