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> recently told me how he got the airline to bump him to 1st class for free.

Not sure what you mean? Can you please elaborate? How is the Gangnam Style video related to your father getting to fly 1st class?
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This is great - thanks. You may also find these extensions useful:
https://kippt.com/charlieirish/twitter-bootstrap-extensions
There is a site collecting all the Gangnam Style parody videos

http://GangnamStyleNews.com
Companies and public services who use commercial closed software usually pays someone for creating it - will they now send money upstreams to the different software projects that makes it possible? GNU, Linux foundation, Document Foundation, GNOME, KDE and Mozilla?
Thanks for the headsup - fixed :)
It's refreshing. I'm not really sure if it's just a blip though. It seems like every few years there is this "Not US/West European" phenom that rises fast and disappears. Macarena anyone? 99 Red Balloons? There must be a couple more I'm missing?

EDIT: 99 Red Balloons is in fact Western Europe but was in German for more than a year (and widely successful) before being released in English. An oddity. Should have said "Non English" as more accurate than just Western Europe.
Man, this is really livening up my weekend... And thanks for showing us the lighter side of Noam Chomsky. My respect for the man went up several notches.
Thanks Dave - I've just sent you an email.

For those that don't know (unlikely!) patio11, read more on his blog: http://www.kalzumeus.com/blog/
"Our parents could finance a home and family with one earner, now both parents have to work."

The causality might go the other way. When feminism became popular and women entered the workforce, it's not as if more homes got built, more oil was pumped from the ground, more land was discovered, more cars were manufactured, etc. Women did not enter construction and manufacturing trades in large numbers, and the production of homes and natural resources are bounded by natural conditions and regulations, not by labor. So when women enter the workforce wages are pushed down as they compete with men, the price of housing is bid up by two earner families, but production of housing does not go up accordingly. So prices rise and then all households need to have two earners to keep up. The modern economy is primarily not labor bound, it is natural resource and regulation bound, so more labor just results in an arms race where other people need to work harder to keep up. Legislation that mandates maximum work weeks, minimum vacation amounts, and mandatory retirement, might make a lot of sense to avoid the sort of work-hours-prisoners-dilemma we seem to be stuck in.
Gangnam is the part of Seoul known for the number of rich people who live there. It's associated with luxury. Getting to fly first class is definitely Gangnam style.
The point is that even his father who is not familiar with Lady Gaga, another famous pop icon, is familiar with Psy and comfortable using the meme created by his song.

His father interpreted his free upgrade as "Gangnam style".
What I think you don't consider is: during the Cold War, if things had gone bad, billions of people could have died.

I agree that the profit motivation was also in place during the Cold War.
Well, but Facebook should not be allowed to make the call on what is "reasonable" for "normal" people to know, and what is not. They should simply comply with the law.
You may be right, but there will probably never be a scientific conclusion because who is going to fund an independent and rigorous scientific study? Would the government and mining companies risk their profits?

If you lived there and had seen the onset of serious health issues ever since the factory came to town, wouldn't the anecdotal evidence be enough to convince you of the cause? If I observe a zombie eating a person, and that person comes back from the dead to attack othres, I don't need to know if it's the bite that's responsible, I just need to stay away from zombies.
Juxtapose "who is this 'Lady Goo Goo'?" next to "Oppa Gangnam style", and you've solved the puzzle of what he wanted to convey. ;-)
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It's million. Fixed it, thanks a lot.
People have been lamenting the difficulty of making ends meet for as long as humanity has been around and I'm not so sure that today it is truly any less possible to finance a home and family with just one earner than it was a generation ago. I certainly don't think it was easily affordable on one income a generation ago as seems to be the perception. A lot of the reason for two earner families today is because of the fact that more women are able to work due to a more equitable marketplace for jobs. Perhaps the people of a generation ago would have liked the extra income but that just was not an option. Now two inomes is often seen as a necessity but that could be because people's expectations of what kind standard of living they should have, as well as what is possible for the average person to have today, has risen along with their incomes. As for the 40 hour workweek, if I read the same source, that amounted to a reduction in hours for the average person.
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I have a feeling the parent works for Aspose, the site he is plugging. I use Aspose at work, so I find myself spotting these responses whenever something like this is brought up. Every time, an Aspose employee responds, plugging Aspose without mentioning that they work for them.

Aspose is pretty good, as it does not require Office interop to function. We've hit some limitations with it at work, such as dealing with PDF attachments and larger file sizes.

But anyway, yea. I just wanted to note that I think the parent poster works there. I made a similar response a while back and they actually Tweeted me in response to it, so I know they're on here. :)
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I had my disclaimer, lol. As I already clarified some where else, these points are what I learned from what I was doing in the last few years, consulting for my customers modernizing their web sites/apps. And thanks for the advice, in fact I'm surviving pretty well ;)
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Good to know, didn't know larger companies could manually update the count.
99 Luftballons is German, so... West European much. And South American music has been integrated in western culture for a long time already. South Korean not much.
Latin american elites. In the Valley.
What will it mean? That the Linux crowd has grown up!
"An interesting consequence of this, by the way, is that only about 10% as many Facebook engineers as Google engineers are reading and responding on a "smackdown" thread like this one; you should bear this in mind when skimming them."

Well that's interesting, because I count 1 Google employee vs 5 Facebook employees. Did this thread get sent out on an internal Facebook mailing list or something? Several are new users.

Google:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4824681

Facebook:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4824909

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4824979

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4824964

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4825041

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4825113
Shall we create a liquid, transparent, legal market for murder as well?
Gandalf Style wins it for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M660rjNCH0A
Macarena is a spanish song (http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Del_Rio) and 99 Red Ballons is german. How is this Not West European?
I found this thread fascinating. It seems the more heavily people comment, the less they care about reading comments all the time:
http://akkartik.name/blog/2012-11-24-18-10-36-soc.

It's almost like there's a law of conservation at work. The law of conservation of human attention. Comments can be used either as background hum or as salient landmarks.
It's absolutely impossible to believe. In the 1960s, the Apollo 11 moon landing had about 500 million views. The suggestion that in the four decades since it has not gained at least 300 million more is...well, impossible to believe. "An estimated 500 million people worldwide watched this event, the largest television audience for a live broadcast at that time."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_landing
He knew the meme well enough to know that "Gangnam style" meant "living large" more or less.

For someone who usually takes a pass on all things pop culture, this was unexpected to say the least and speaks to the enormity of the influence this music video has had on all layers of society.
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Hi - thanks very much! A campaign is one keyword being tracked and analysed (although it also does other things, like check for journalists tweeting about their industry, and not necessarily their main keyword).

Working out how to charge was actually a pretty interesting issue - I did originally think about splitting it down by number of mentions, but I couldn't find an elegant way to do it. The problem is, most people won't know how many times their brand is mentioned in a month, which could make it awkward as a customer. I quite like the simplicity of the campaigns method - it'll be interesting to see what the customer feedback is like.
Tangentially, I thought Clayton Christensen makes a compelling argument that this type of analysis—focusing on IRR and returns on equity—creates an overabundance of "efficiency innovations" that liberate capital but don't really push things forward. Perhaps the wave of acquisitions is tamping down our ability to produce longer-term, "empowering innovations." (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/04/business/a-capitalists-dil...)
Nope this is not UIKit, Loren stated that the whole UI is implemented in OpenGL
Alright, 3 then ;)
Is it possible for a single website to make $50,000 a day with banner ads? That seems a bit exaggerated.
Open Source monetization options
1. Support (Red Hat)
2. Customization/ professional services
3. Documentation (JBoss in the olden days and most recently with jBPM)
4. Optimization tools

FOSS also helps in sourcing an international labor pool to lower product development costs.

For consumers, mature FOSS provides alternatives to the traditional per CPU cost model. As product spaces and FOSS alternatives mature, the cost models of proprietary software makes little sense.
MVC in JS is almost always overkill.

I disagree. The last thing you want is JS spaghetti, no matter how small or simple your pages may be. Full MVC frameworks like, say, Backbone, are usually overkill, but I haven't seen many web pages with JS that couldn't use MVC patterns in some capacity.
Could this be by design? A private practice seems like a waste of resources. Imagine the unused medical devices or the large number of support staff around just one or two doctors.

To quote, http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/02/are-days-of-independent-...

`These trends will ensure that the consolidation of doctors into larger groups will continue. Whether this definitively benefits patient care is still unclear, but I suspect that patient outcomes will likely improve as this movement continues.`
If this was a change that warranted a drastic switch in a different direction, why didn't they ask the existing user base for feedback? Judging by how vocal this group is, they'd have easily figured out that this wasn't the right move.

Even if that user base didn't care for the change, they could have just released a new app with the new feature set.
The very best remix of Gangnam Style was done Steve Streza. It seems
the video was yanked from youtube due to copyright issues, but the
audio files are still available on his site.

http://stevestreza.com/2012/09/08/so-i-made-a-mashup

Although the mixed audio alone is great, the video mixing was also
fantastic. The whole thing was discussed here on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4493280
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I think what happened was that more and more women entered the workforce, either out of necessity or out of personal desire (I think largely the latter) and the market adjusted accordingly. Because the work pool roughly doubled, the wages decreased over time. Add to that the fact that one of the two largest expenses a family typically has, a car, doubled because both parents work, and also the fact that we generally live in houses that are larger and better equipped than the previous generations, and I think it makes sense that we have adjusted our lifestyles to using up the full capital we receive when both parents work.
Or you can go after the wall street bankers who launder the drug money, pulling the plug on the pushers' finances.
Since 2007, when the government began repeatedly cutting Medicare payments to doctors, the number of cardiologists working for U.S. hospitals has more than tripled, while the number in private practice has fallen 23 percent, according to the ACC. Jay Alexander, a cardiologist who co-owned a practice in Lake County, Ill., says he sold out to a local hospital after his Medicare revenue dropped 35 percent. Now the government pays Alexander three times as much to perform the same tests and procedures—far more than he would have needed to keep his private practice open. “If this was government’s solution to reducing health-care costs, they should have their heads examined,” he says. “This is an unfortunate consequence of bad planning.”
What aspect of HTML5 isn't yet ready for mainstream? JS polyfills make almost all of it possible for the ~4% of global IE7 users (according to the site above... no idea how accurate it is). Just using modernizer, json2.js, and underscore enables about 90% of the HTML5 feature set for IE7. Raphael, excanvas (or whatever) and accepting the lack of drop-shadows/rounded corners in shitty browsers make up the rest.

Seriously. 99.9% of the time it's possible to develop in "HTML5" and drop in a few conditional comments that load extra libraries for IE 7.
If you use a internet phone system, you can easily put the name you want on the caller id. Which make it alot easier to fool people. So, just like he said, I think its better to just say I will call back. ;-)
Really? To me it seems to be more American than anything else. There are guys dancing and pretty girls and special effects. That seems pretty much like an outgrowth of MTV culture, rap videos, etc. which are of American origin. I'll grant it has a unique sense of humor.
But why pay the doctor less than the hospital for the same treatment? The doctors can figure out themselves whether it makes more sense from a cost perspective to join a hospital, a clinic, or to remain independent.
Except here in Germany, where the local fuckwads at the GEMA [1] made Youtube block the video because "they hadn't granted the necessary rights". For a fucking copyright-waived video. Argh.

And people actually wonder why more and more (German) people have absolutely no qualms about piracy. I'm actually not sure whether or not I should thank the GEMA for that.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesellschaft_f%C3%BCr_musikali...
More from the interview with Loren Brichter:

> LB: It’s all custom. The whole game is actually written in OpenGL with my own animation system and a bunch of other neat things.

http://www.macstories.net/featured/a-conversation-with-loren...
Uhhh, the link proves popular drugs can be "disappeared".
The link shows the US government only partially limited ephedrine (meth) and thus failed.

To a thoughtful reader the article illustrates going after precursor chemicals used to make drugs, rather than focusing on policing of users as an effective way to eradicate abuse.

Watch a video of the complete Frontline episode. There is an interview of the DEA official describing his higher-ups killing a complete ban due to lobbying from companies that make over the counter cold medicines based on ephedrine.

Bush and Congress were both lobbied effectively by big pharma.
Dancing and pretty girls are uniquely American now?
I'm no expert on email, but surely once the MX entries are changed, Google are completely cut out of the equation?

Obviously any email sent in the interim will be lost, but any email delivered after the MX record change should just be sent to the new provider.
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Let's start a thread with the Twitter handles of HN users. Follow me on Twitter at twitter.com/alaxic. Add your Twitter in the comments.
Seems like the end point in your case though then is "it's bad" Honestly Camus putting a label like "bad" or "good" on a complicated thing like drug usage doesn't seem wise does it?
I really am not into this kind of stuff (so just coming in as a casual observer/non-fan) but Psy seems to occupy the same genre, marketing/presentation as LMFAO, no? Not that that's uniquely American - I wouldn't know - I just see both of these artists and don't get a vibe of artistic cultural separation.
Geoffrey Hinton, mentioned in the article, has his class on neural networks available on Coursera https://www.coursera.org/course/neuralnets
I didn't feel it was as bad as some of the comments here seem to indicate. I would give them a lot of marks simply for the effort to begin with and considering that it is simply a labour of love (as many of these videos here seem to be), it is very well done indeed.
"The IT department of the city of Munich has exactly one mission and that is to enable the employees of the city to service the citizens of Munich in the most efficient manner"

Does the City have only this purpose? Is there not a secondary purpose in stimulating local business/spend?

In the UK we have local councils making people redundant and replacing local services and contact with call centres in a distant timezone. The cost saving by doing this is possibly offset by the increase in social security/benefit bill (from a national budget of course).
It is possible that you're making the same mistake you accuse the author of making. "You have a hammer and are seeing everything as a nail, but I have a screwdriver and all those things are actually screws."
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These people took it to another level.
Tribute to one of the biggest festivals in India, 'Ganesh Utsav' in Gangnam style.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x47TWUKP3E8
"unique sense of humor."

I think the appropriate word you're looking for (or rather, to be used instead) is "satire". And that completely changes how you view the whole thing.
Ha ha. While it might be a generational thing those types of derogatory comments are also very frequent from members of the current generation (through every generation)
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Nobody's asking you to trust him. Heck, I don't trust you.
Is the video unavailable in Germany or something?
I don't know the man, and while I know what IMAP is, I'm not exactly part of that newsgroup.

However, it's awesome to think that I will now think of his legacy whenever I refresh my email, because he made something that I use every day. I think that's what we all hope for here at Hacker News.
thinking of terminating the relationship, so i'll lose my inheritance and be forced to work, otherwise feel very lazy
A XMMS2-like collections system for MPD
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If a card is invalid (i.e. no signature), the cashier can ask for identification to verify your identity, and watch you sign. If the card is already signed, cashiers may not ask for ID as a condition of the sale, the transaction is considered valid if the signature on the card matches the signature of the receipt.

If your dad had simply signed the card prior to walking up to the counter, that's all the cashier would have been able to verify. So yes, card security is rather lax if it's not signed by the owner of the card immediately upon receipt.

I know this random information because I was a bit miffed that Walmart rejected my girlfriend's transaction because she did not produce ID with a signed card. The above applies to the Visa merchant agreement, I'm not sure about Mastercard or American Express.

Also -- "SEE ID" is not a valid signature, though you can write that over your signature and the card is valid. However, cashiers are not required to honor it.
I'm a big fan of: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo-tWlETq8w Deadpool vs Gangnam Style. Mostly as everyone seems to be such good sports about being involved.
I'm sorry but I don't know what pivot means here.

I can upgrade and downgrade an html5 app (in phonegap) more easily can't I? Just update code on server.

Apple doesn't let you do a/b testing?

This seems to be a case of the product manager having no clue what his customers use in the product.
While the title is clearly suggesting that an entire jet engine is to be printed. The details of this application as stated in the article point to the specific method of laser sintering, which as a form of 3D printing, is useful to creating specific parts.

This article does illustrate the different methods of 3D or additive printing capabilities, outside of the common knowledge we seem to be exposed to through the maker movement. NASA / Military has also explored a multitude of options with additive printing, battle field printing and space station printing.

In regards to parts such as fan blades, which are mainly composite materials in recent engines, this would not be applicable. Where there are parts that are subject to extreme heat and must retain certain properties, therefore, expensive to manufacture, this process has many benefits as highlighted.

EDIT:
In the case of "extreme heat", it may apply for certain types of metals.

http://machinedesign.com/article/new-superalloys-boost-direc...

http://www.onlineamd.com/amd-0310-laser-sintered-titanium-eo...
> To me it seems to be more American than anything else.

Actually, my understanding is that the lyrics are a parody of the Gangnam district of Seoul, and how the rich people there try to act as if they're American, not Korean.

If anything, it's a parody/rejection of Western culture.
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I think the best spinoff is the MIT Gangnam style video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJtHNEDnrnY they even have Noam Chomsky featured prominently in the video.
This is incorrect. Marketing isn't just "selling without accountability" - marketing is an omnipresent (to varying degrees) feature of business, from product development to launch and popularization.
This makes me sad. I'm glad I got a chance to send him the PDP8 programming manuals while he could still enjoy them (about 10 years ago). I only met Mark at a conference on DEC hardware but engaged in several discussions on the INFO-MICRO mailing list. He was the only person I knew of who had a DEC2020 system in his garage.
But production of housing did go up. A quick google search suggests the increase was from about 1500ft^2 to 2500ft^2 [1], though I can't seem to find the primary source.

Eliminating legislation which mandates minimum house sizes, minimum insurance coverage, etc, can also serve to make the cost of living cheaper. If houses smaller than 2000 ft^2 are illegal (which they are in many places), you are obligated to pay more for a house bigger than you need.

[1] E.g.: http://www.realtor.org/RMODaily.nsf/pages/News2007032701?Ope... or http://www.infoplease.com/askeds/us-home-size.html)
"But because they initiated the first call the line doesn't clear until they hang-up, and they don't hang up while you're dialling the number."

That sounds more like a hoax of a scam. I doubt the phone system works that way.
In the TFA is linked the Japanese version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfZZG4Q_FE

There is also an Enlgish version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ermNqkUUiJw

The caption of the English version gives some useful
details on how the video was created:

The footage, which was compiled from photographs taken at
intervals of 5 seconds, was filmed on the last day of
Comiket from around1:30 AM to 2:30 PM from the balcony of
the nearby Washington Hotel.