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I have routinely found recent HN posts on Google -indexed a matter of minutes or hours after they were created. Google knows the value of up-to-the minute information and I am sure they are working on solutions.
I'd like to think that too. But then I think:

If a company had a legal right to fire me whenever they wanted, and I had a mortgage or family, I wouldn't work for them unless they agreed to waive that right and give me several months notice (or severance).
AFAIK, no Canadian schools provide .edu email addresses, this is definitely something to keep in mind.
Bankers are not necessarily evil but their incompetence/greed appears unbounded. Reference the current credit crisis and mortgage blowout. It is quite obvious that we can no longer allow them to make decisions and that the process of loan approval will have to be automated and safety checks (independent auditing) added. And bye-bye "investment banking" that has any government protection.

And how would the OP or anyone else know the Federal Reserve Board does "a half decent job?"

"Money is not debt" - Did he mean "currency is not debt"? When I borrow $10k at the bank, money is created (they need only maintain a fractional reserve) and there is also an associated debt created - I owe the bank $10k. The "money" and the debt are unconditionally linked.

I think he's overspecified his point, that possibly being that macroeconomists have no trustworthy predictive models.
Inotherwords, he's repeating part of Nassim Nicholas Taleb's work:
http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/
How to write well:

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The gist of this article seems to be "Having gained nothing, we have nothing to lose."
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I read to educate myself. I don't quantify that as waste of time.
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I agree. However, governments, who have a mandate for public welfare, can fund the medical/clinical trials for OTC generics. Countries with socialized medical systems are already doing that.

Combine that with the headstart of stem cell research the UK and Germany has, and we'll like see some cost-saving medical breakthroughs coming out of that part of the world in the next 3-5 years.
> economics is the most non-intuitive.

Especially if you go beyond the sort of "Economics 101" where everything is supply and demand, and markets always self-regulate and yadda yadda yadda.

Politics can and does have positive effects on markets, too. The internet that we're using to post these messages, was of course created with US taxpayer dollars. As you say, it is complex, and simplistic things like "those silly politicians should just leave it alone and it would be ok", or "Buy American!" are appealing, but wrong.
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I use the term intelligent laziness, that is the constant desire to minimize the effort you will need to invest long-term in your life to achieve your goals.

Suddenly writing code cleanly becomes a very lazy thing to do, it reduces the amount of effort you have to invest in a program over the program's lifespan, unless its a throwaway and then ugly stuff makes sense.

Working out isn't a lazy thing, it is easier to climb a flight of stairs than to train 6 hours a week for a year and climb a flight of stairs. It increases the efforts you invest in things, it might be a goal to be healthy and energetic but then the lazy thing to do is to try to hack your training schedule and get the most benefit out of every drop of sweat.
Consider this asking around. Has anyone written anything I can read online?
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I think there should be a social safety net too, that all profitable companies pay into. That way, you're not screwed if you're fired, but the company is still free to act as they see fit. Perhaps they're even less constrained in some ways, because they know they're not throwing you to the wolves, so to speak. Contractual negotiations, like you mention, might also be a sensible approach to providing something similar, but they would only tend to cover workers with enough bargaining power to obtain them, either by being really valuable, or via unions or something.

In Italy, companies, not the government, form the social safety net, because it's nearly impossible to fire people. This has created a huge mess - people are afraid to change jobs, people work for years doing stuff they're not good at or don't like, companies can't hire young people... It's a bad solution.
What I'd like to have fitted in contacts are video cameras that let me record everything I see.
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Television has revolutionised communication, education and how people spend their recreational time.many families only purchased their first set in the 1950s and 1960s. Recently other technologies have been introduced to household TVs with the aim of further improving picture and sound quality. In addition to this, new screen types can reduce the amount of space a large TV takes up in a room, especially when wall mounted LCD Wall Brackets are easily obtainable.
If I read the article right, it's not that it sometimes fails, rather it almost always fails, but the amount of error is predictable. You can converge on the exact value by repeating and averaging the calculation, but it would be simpler to have an exact co-processor.
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The streaming video example is pretty to understand. But I don't quite follow the encryption one. Don't you need to be precise with the calculation to encrypt/decrypt? Or would the advantage here would be mainly for generating random numbers?
Interesting that the don't article has multiple citations whereas the do article has none.

The article itself dates to pre-economic crash times, as it came out August 23, 2006...
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Yes, "leave it alone" does not work, but we can reason about that: buyers must be assured that sellers have the goods they are selling. contract law must be enforced for trades to happen.

The "fuzzier" the reasoning to put controls in, the more they seem due to failure. That means that emotional arguments, based on "fairness" are out: practical arguments based on things that simply have to exist for an open market to exist are in.

It's complex, but we have clear limits on each end. Total lack of control won't work, but control based on politics or emotional appeal won't work either. The criteria has to be "things that make the market more efficient"
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I'm sure in the long run he is also fine with >$500k salaries. I would sure hope so.
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Because it writes like BASIC and C had an unholy love child--vaguely C-ish in style, but it lacks case-sensitivity and uses stupid stuff like BEGIN and END.

Note that I've never done straight-up Ada, just the derivative VHDL.
You don't have to work insane hours to make lots of money. Middle management at a large corporation will do the job and will earn more than national median income for two people.

My dad was a stock broker at a regional Merrill Lynch office (read: nothing like a Wall Street hustler) and he pretty much never worked crazy hours and was paid well enough. My mom, despite being a "housewife" was the more driven of the two and did a whole lot of volunteer / nonprofit work.
In that case, thank you. I've done a lot of systems programming with C and C++.

Understanding exactly what is defined by a language's grammar, though, originally comes from my undergrad courses in programming languages and compilers.
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I run http://cherrypeel.com and we are redesigning to solve a lot of the problems we had with people not understanding the site.

You need to have a tag line right at the top saying: "my website does X". Check out http://99designs.com as they do a great job of this.

Often people don't view the arrows as a voting button, so either change the icon to a heart or cute bunny etc or have some explanatory text describing how to vote or both. I've got feedback from people saying they thought the voting arrows were rising/falling icons, such as on the top 40 chart when they say; "this song moved up 6 spots".

People don't understand why they should vote. Explain that the more then vote, the better the site becomes for everyone. You might need to give people incentives to vote, such as karma, a level system or special names based on involvement.

Make the site look cute. The design doesn't say "this site serves up cute animals". I also wouldn't forward it on to my girlfriend as I don't think the cutness jumps out at you fast enough, which brings me to my next point.

What about having a preview function? There are lots of sites that have lots of cute pictures so why would I want to visit one that each picture is behind a click?

Have you check out the cute sub-reddit?

I got off topic but I hope this helps.
1. Old (2007)
2. Not the original source. I would be in favor of an informal community contract here on HN, that any link to an article which starts off with "Researchers have shown" or "A new study was published", that we must include the original research paper in a link in the first comment. Here, I'll help out this time (it only took me ~5 min):

http://www.nature.com/onc/journal/v27/n3/abs/1210641a.html

3. Not horribly interesting. Know what else will shrink a tumor? Cyanide! If anything, this link is a good example of what has been happening with science reporting recently. Publications, especially those dependent on a page-view model for revenue generation, have been increasingly sensationalizing science. This is irresponsible.
Probably he meant he could get much higher financial aid at UC (thus illustrating that expensive private schools can be actually cheaper).

For example:

UC: $50K tuition - $40K aid => $10K total cost
UIUC: $25K tuition - $0K aid => $25K total cost
> When I borrow $10k at the bank, money is created

This is a perfect example of the kind of misunderstanding the OP was talking about. Money is created by depositing money at a bank, not by the bank lending it. Banks only lend base money, and it's illegal for them to print that.

Of course, people usually don't take the cash loan directly, but have the money deposited at the bank instead, which results in money (in the form of current account balances) being created. But it's the act of depositing, not the act of borrowing, that creates the money. If they took the cash, no money would be created.
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18 hour workdays for some engineers? Seems like it'd be hard to keep morale up.
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Every time one of these stories appears, my hopes are lifted for a split second thinking that maybe it's data structures or scoping tricks or standard library functions, in the vein of Crockford's "The Good Parts". And every time, I know within a split second of looking at the page that it's yet another collection of garish web doodads I'll never use.

Just thought you'd like to know.
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A startup feasibility question
Last night, I had an idea. Searching the web, it seems there are already a couple sites which would be pretty direct competitors.

There are a lot of things stacked against me, and I'm curious if people think it is worth the effort to go forward with my idea. In addition to the competitors, I have a full-time job, and the startup would require a lot of skills I don't currently have (I'm a software engineer, but the idea is very web 2.0ish and I've never used ruby/ajax and have only a basic knowledge of databases).

How plausible is it for a single engineer, working nights & weekends, with minimal web-programming experience, to launch a successful web service?
I would try to avoid it. Top level domains are better performers
The dictionary that I'm using doesn't describe "lazy" as you've described it above.

Could you point out where you got the definition for number 1?
I think programmers have a tendency to believe in simple, elegant systems without a lot of fuzzy human messiness in them. It's discomforting to look at our present system and think that it actually is pretty good, and the best we've done so far. Wouldn't it be so much easier if there were something cleaner and simpler that would make all the problems and uncertainty go away.
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Er, did you read the whole post?

I’ve done a fair bit of reading on topics like the Federal Reserve and money creation, like any good amateur, and the only thing I know for certain is that it’s insanely complex.

In the final paragraph he's obviously being facetious.
Domains are becoming less relevant as more and more users just google the name instead of typing in the address. Choose any non-obscure domain name with one of the common TLDs (.com, .org, .net, .me, .eu) and you should be fine.
Already posted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=472975
in USA? TV raises kids...well nowadays you also have the internet
Should Microsoft simplify XP-to-Win-7 upgrades?
Banks don't create money. When you deposit money, they give you the promise that you can have it back, but you are no longer owner of the money. Similarly, when you borrow money, they let you have some of their money (when you withdraw) on promise that you pay it back, with interest.

Banks don't create money. Government institutions do.
New Toshiba FeRAM can send and receive data at eight times the speed of previous prototype
well, it depends on the size/scope (i.e., i don't think you're going to build the next generation of cloud-based services here). but, really, almost anything is plausible if you attack it the right way.
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In other words: "I don't like the syntax."

I'm always skeptical of this argument; every programmer has a favorite syntax -- some prefer C-like, some prefer Pythonic, some prefer Lispish, etc. In most cases, it's not the syntax they first learned, but it's the syntax in which they do the majority of their work. This suggests that familiarity is the basis of syntax preferences, which supports the "you'd like it if you gave it a chance" school of thought.
What if I decide to take the elevator? Some would say I'm lazier than the person who takes the stairs, but if the goal is only getting to the 6th floor, then being lazy (resistant to exertion) was more efficient.
There should be a geek of the year award honoring the most productive geek. I would nominate Johnny Lee. This is one inventive guy always involved practical fun stuff. Go Johnny, Go.
The article is pointing out that "lazy" is often used like this:

"I program because I’m too lazy to do the same thing again and again!"

i.e. I want to abstract the concept of doing it into a computer program (or shell script, or cron job, or whatever). But the author understands "lazy" to mean something different, and more to the point, negative.

The point that I'm trying to make is that this argument is not about whether programmers are lazy, but it's about what people understand by the word "lazy".
This is really good. That may be the best new search engine/Google competitor that I have seen!
Reminds me of:
http://www.demotivators.com/elitism.html

"It's lonely at the top, but it's comforting to look down upon everyone at the bottom."
I would think tying your spouse to the couch would be more likely to result in divorce/open hostility. If your spouse wanted to be at home with the kids, you wouldn't need to tie them to the couch.

Being a stay at home mom is one of the most miserable jobs if you're not cut out for it. People understand a bad day at the office, but they seem to think staying at home with a kid means it's like a vacation day all the time. You can't vent to anyone without them reminding you that you should be grateful to your husband.

My husband doesn't see a problem with it, so couples counseling is off the table. Honestly, he doesn't have to worry about another guy - I don't want someone who is going to make more demands on time I just don't have. But If I were him, I'd start worrying that being alone seems like it would be less stressful than staying with him.
I think the confusion comes from applying real world constraints to code. Most people would be in shape if you only needed to get in shape once and you maintained that body with zero effort over time. Lazy programmers recognize you only have to build the code once to benefit every time you use it. So building tools can be useful but only if they are going to save you effort over time.

The problem I see with many lazy programmers is they tend to hide how easy it is to fix problems over time. If might take them five minutes to do something, but they don't feel the need to share this with other people. But, in the end lazy programmers tend to get more done than average even if they don't spend much time actually working.
I would be seriously interested in helping you take on this project. I have spent the last year and a half developing RateMyStudentRental.com for reviewing on- and off-campus rental housing and dorms.

We have developed solutions to many of the problems you're contemplating (school email confirmation, conditional anonymity, etc.), so I think there might be a good opportunity to collaborate here.

Just as we've developed a way to involve landlords and school administrators in the site without compromising the students' anonymity, I've thought of how much opportunity ratemyprofessors is missing out on. Their business model is horribly outdated, and there are so many other ways they could be leveraging their information. Imagine if the site partnered with education specialists to help the poorly-rated professors improve their lessons and teaching. And a comment I had often heard from my professors was that until the site gave them a chance to respond (much like we've done with landlords), they would never take it seriously.

Not to mention the fact that there'd be an excellent opportunity to partner with schools (much like our School Partnership Program) and allow them to incorporate the ratings and website into their online registration process (or offer them an online registration process entirely).

I could go on indefinitely, so I'll just stop here. You get the idea. Please let me know if you're interested and serious about pursuing this venture.
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Somebody wrote this comment on the original page

"Ada enforces the engineering principles that we should be following but the hacker mentality the dominates this field pushes back against that since they have a cheap & "easy" language like C to use instead."

What do think about this "engineers versus hackers" debate?
I haven't bought it yet myself, but have heard good things (and the site definitely makes it look good).

It's a shame Google can't roll out this sort of interface itself though - just as a webapp. It's done pretty well with the Gmail one.
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Well, for one thing, phone numbers are in different formats in different locales.
I'm probably pointing out something obvious here, but I don't see any other comments mentioning it yet.

Larry Wall was trying to employ humor to get a point across. By coming up with three negative character traits and finding a way to plausibly make them sound like positive character traits, he got attention because his choice of labels was so surprising. If that causes someone to be curious enough to read more and think about what he is saying, edification can result. If he had just laid out the same principles without the surprising labels, he would have gotten much less attention.

The danger, as with any joke, is people not "getting" it. I think that is what this article warns against. People not in on the original joke, might think that you want to be lazy in the conventional sense. Or, worse still, someone might use Wall's quote to defend their own, (conventionally) lazy behavior. Kind of like someone watching All in the Family and not getting that Archie Bunker is not meant as a positive role model.
We're finishing up the last few key bugs that we've uncovered over the weekend and wanted to get your input before we start publicizing it. What do you think? Like/dislike?

Thanks, as always.
ADA advocates always talk about these safe guards but if its so easy to see how much better and safer it is show us some code. It is telling that the only snippet we see is from c.
Really? You mean after hundreds or thousands of non-trivial applications written in / using JS, a cutesy scheme interpreter was the tipping point?
Getting in shape would be like working to increase your typing speed so you can write 1k-line programs easier when a lazy programmer would just write a shell one-liner (take the elevator).
Why would you add facebook's link? :)
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That's not "gaming the education system" any more than buying a Honda instead of a BMW is "gaming the auto system"

But, yeah, go to a state school.
The Senate's compromise cuts $2B from spending on broadband deployment
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=472964

This article, recently posted here, as well as my comments on it, should help you escape from your fallacious "bankers are evil" reasoning. Bankers are not evil. They're hard working, competent people most of whom have little to do with the mess we're currently in.
Another thing to keep in mind is that your degree matters A LOT with your first job.

After that the importance of your degree is reduced by roughly half each year and pretty soon all that matters is your work, not what school you went to.
Sorry, but I'm not getting it. If there are two boxes together with the label "6x", does that mean that six times the first square should equal the second square? If so, how are we to interpret the 120x? If not, what's the meaning?
at that moment, the company is no longer your friend (if it ever was)

One time, in an evaluation, the first thing my boss said was "if I were to ask your colleagues right now, you would be fired". I was stunned. I thought I had been doing good work and got on well with everyone.

Later I discovered that this wasn't actually true; it's a tactic they teach in whatever management training course this company sent their people on, to keep the staff off balance. Yeah, that company isn't around anymore.

You can get on well with your cow-orkers and enjoy interacting with people at work but you CANNOT be friends with anyone you report to or who reports to you. Eventually they will have to screw you or you will have to screw them. That's just the way companies work.
I don't think this is necessarily the case, because second-tier schools may have more money to spend on merit-based scholarships.

When I was an undergrad (1986-1991), MIT and the Ivies had an agreement that they would only offer scholarships on the basis of financial need, because they didn't want to get into an "arms race" offering scholarships to poach one another's best applicants. This deal was the subject of an antitrust lawsuit and while I know MIT settled the suit, I don't know if the policy stands today.

So if you're smart enough to get merit-based scholarships from a second-tier school, and if your definition of "financial need" is not as Spartan as the student financial aid office's definition, then you may still come out ahead by going to a second-tier school.
Why things look that dark?

Anyway, as the world survived from the 1930's recession, the world is going to survive again... sooner or later!