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Well when you buy real assets someone is selling and they are left with inflating cash they need to spend on something.

If someone is investing in productive assets (companies, rentable property) for their sustained revenue potential that isn't a bad thing. Spending on goods and services will add demand to the economy and money will circulate.

There is also more reason to borrow in an inflating economy which adds money and demand to the economy. Obviously borrowing can get too high and needs moderation if bubbles are to be avoided but gentle adjustment is needed to prevent massive swings in aggregate demand.

Also I'm not arguing for high inflation just that even a couple of percent deflation could be really bad.
This does increase code complexity and make things harder to understand.

You can see a lot of this in Android's framework and it makes modifying the simplest thing require a lot of looking around just to understand the code base.

I think the approach itself is okay, but this is just the con in my view.
This year I decided to dive into the Game of Thrones* series, having discovered it through the TV show. Those were some intense 3 months! These books are the very definition of immersive. While they can get repetitive and slow at times, that is more than compensated by the whole setting, atmosphere and, well, "major events".

* or, for the pedantic out there, A Song of Ice and Fire.
Where's Obama? Where's the great "centerist"? The great leader?

He's invisible again.
You might just miss it, but if you're still in town, check out the Foursquare hackathon on 1/5.
Libertarian ideology isn't a philosophy about government, rather a philosophy about how humans should interact. Libertarians believe that using coercive measures against people and their property is not acceptable behavior, regardless of the alleged intent. This goes towards mafias, gangs, cartels, you name it.

So to answer your question, I don't think an ideologically consistent libertarian would support government for any goods or service.

With that said, I think social safety nets are absolutely critical - and that voluntary solutions exist to the problems we face. The threat of force is never a tool in creating sustainable value.
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Although corporate emails all typically exist on an exchange server. Better in email than 100 different Dropbox accounts.
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"They kinda come close to my views w/r/t one small aspect of national policy" is a pretty terrible reason to vote for a party. If you're correct that many citizens vote this way, you'd all be better off withholding from participation until you can fix your electoral system.
Is that all you wrote?
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Safari version 6.0.2 (8536.26.17) is blocking it now as well.
http://sanitation.hackathome.com/

http://www.rhok.org/
I just visited in Chromium without a problem.
I am puzzled by the admins decision to remove this from frontpage.
Walter Jon Williams' The Green Leopard Plague, which is also part of an anthology of the same name. The anthology includes several other stories that build up the world that GLP takes place in. Some interesting ideas about identity and consciousness in a society with extremely advanced bioengineering.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_Leopard_Plague

Umberto Eco's Prague Cemetery which expands greatly on a tiny section of Foucault's Pendulum. Eco's writing is extremely dense. Similar to Neal Stephenson, but with more of a literary flavor than a technogeek flavor. A nice way to balance out your reading if you find you are a bit too focused on modern technology.

I finally read Robert Anton Wilson's Illuminatus! trilogy. Early Internet and web culture was so deeply infused with RAW's ideas that the trilogy felt like one long déjà vu session. Lots of fun. RAW + Eco are a great antidote to taking conspiracy theories seriously, while having a ton of fun at the same time.

Gibson's Sprawl trilogy. Wow. Since the release of the Blue Ant books, I've been telling people that Blue Ant is the place to start, as it updates a lot of the underlying themes of Sprawl for this decade. But Sprawl is still very current and relevant. If you read Sprawl during or before the dot-com bubble like I did, you probably focused on the prophetic internet stuff. If you read it again, you will find out that there is plenty more interesting stuff to feed your brain in Gibson's early novels.
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It's perhaps some windows specific malware, and this would also explain why it's not blocked in andorid and in some safaris.
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Nonsense. "A Book of Five Rings" is the strategy book for the pure pragmatist. "Art of War" is for sounding cool at parties.
Come visit We Work Labs. It's a room full of entrepreneurs, many of us developers.
I have been saying this for a while. Fanatics are bad news, regardless of how noble the cause.
Hmmm maybe fine isn't the right word.

Wasn't there a time not too long ago when tribes of people would go around raping, pillaging, and slaughtering others just for the hell of it? Because it was fun for them? If our world had respawn, I think life would turn into a sort of valhalla-ish existence for a not small percentage of people, and I bet many would learn about a part of themselves they did not know existed, or had supressed.

Maybe rampage shooters are just people born in to the wrong time period, where in another they would fit in perfectly. The line isn't fine, but they aren't as different as we make them out to be.
Very cool.

There has been a lot of talk about teaching HTML and js to adults recently (learn to web-dev in x months, get a job), but this is even better!

Teach kids! You have to wonder what will become of a whole generation of kids who are growing up with a js shell in their browser... (Anecdote, the other day a 10 year old showed me around minecraft -- not just the 3D world game: he also had a complete understanding of about 10-30 commands in the command window. I found tp=teleport to be quite cool. 10 year old! In a couple of years, you could give this kid some ssh keys and he will run your systems n.p. I spoke to his hacker mom RE hiring her son (eventually) and she said she will think about it.)
I love how you assume that hiring someone means them moving to your area. That's not how it should work - isn't that why we're building the internet at all?
http://boun.cr does this already and also allows you to pick your own email.
Javascript is bad because Vendors like microsoft made it bad , to promote their own RIA tech ( silverlight ). IF ecmascript 4 would have been standardised in 2007 , javascript would be closer to ActionScript and Jscript.NET. they allow the same amount of functional programming than Javascript does yet are strongly typed , with classes , interfaces , etc ...
They at least try to explain that. Something about embedded chips that apparently are programmed to transmit an alert when the host dies, but if they completely disappear.everything is fine. But it's worse than that. Why risk sending future loopers back to themselves, rather than some random other looper? Then just deliver the gold to the correct young looper and tell him he can't work any more.
I don't see what's that wrong with the API other than they ought to have more aligned with the HTML5 APIs.

The code in the blog post is poor because it's width constrained and callback soup. Use of promises and/or better JS would help the appearance of the code.
Based on my experience writing this Ruby library (https://github.com/SlyShy/Tactful_Tokenizer/) it's a somewhat difficult challenge. Most programs don't bother doing it accurately, as a naive solution will get you 80% of the way there. Of course, if you actually care about sentences (like I do), that's unacceptable.
Everything now is stupid and rubbish. Got it. Ignore D, Rust, Go, valid uses of NoSQL, advanced made to RDMS, etc.
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War on terror is a hoax used for pushing forward an agenda. Save us from the terrorists and drugs! God forbid you travel out of the US and see some of the world, you might be "taken".

The way the media sensationalizes some of these shootings, it's like we have to live in a constant state of fear.
>Javascript is bad because Vendors like microsoft made it bad , to promote their own RIA tech ( silverlight )

What on this green Earth does that even mean? JavaScript and Silverlight could hardly be less related other than they're both available in some browsers. Timeframe, etc, don't support your [conspiracy] theory.

JS is different in that it's a prototype-based language. That and the sometimes errant recent love-obsession with Node.JS has given JS an undeserved and often non-specific bad reputation.
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I never spent specific time learning typing. I learned typing almost instinctively while working at the call center. Well I didn't even realize I had learned typing, it was the same feeling while I was learning to ride the bicycle. One fine day I just realized I was riding the bicycle. It was like a 'aha' moment.

I think it what led to learning type(and type quickly) was the call centers quick back to back calls. I had to take notes, solve problems and sometime ship products to some address. It was not possible to do all that unless you learned to type quickly. It just happened one fine day I was just typing, and I realized I was doing that without looking at the keyboard.

It has helped me greatly as a programmer as I don't have to constantly shift my attention to looking at the keyboard every 5 seconds. I can type code at the speed of thought, simply as though my fingers are just dancing on the keyboards like an expert pianist would play at a symphony.

Sometimes the best thing that can happen to you is to be in a tough situation. You will(find a way to) learn things, and you will just make it happen.
I (non-admin) flagged this because the headline is alarmist and I think stories about transient outages, hackings, accidental de-indexing etc. are not HN-worthy. As someone else said, give it a day or two and then start to worry about it.
Beautifully told too. No patronizing narration, no saccharine soundtrack, just a really amazing story.
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Other than the government with it's war on terror, who has actually done anything to perpetrate fear in the population?

Since 2001, there has been no terrorist activity against the US. You are told about threats the war on terror has dealt with, but no actual action or actors can be pointed to yet the government is keeps the fear of terror alive. They have done far more to that end than any terrorist organization has. This causes the population in general to accept any course of action that they are told will deal with that looming threat, but it never seems to do so.

Once side of the government generates and keeps the fear alive, the other side uses the fear to do what they wish. Neither side wants the fear to go away.

The US Government is the largest group terrorizing the US population today. They use the war on terror to do it.
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thanks for the quick replies guys, i will check out the links...
Google's business models are at-ends with one another. Are they an ad company? Are they a free/low-end provider who can get away with killing popular services when they no longer benefit them? Are they a serious provider of business services?

They can get away with one, maybe two of these. I'd be happy to pay a bunch more for Google apps if they had a more serious SLA/they gave more confidence that the services aren't going to change, and if they offered business features to match the price.
The common analogy given from law academics is that email is more akin to the telegram than postal mail. With postal mail, no one along the entire path actually opens the envelope to see what is inside. This is in contrast to the telegram where the intermediary is exposed to the contents directly. This difference is what leads to the difference in expectation of privacy. In this analogy email is actually more like a telegram. Where I think that the analogy diverges with reality is that the intermediary is now a machine, not a person. Therefore, we expect the machine to not "understand" the data that passes through it and simply deliver it.
Good point. Though sending a certified letter disputing a debt to a first-party collections department isn't going to hurt you even if it isn't binding.
The long list of names is a way to make the dinosaurs a little more personal. Nothing wrong with it. No need to encourage or discourage. Just augment with diverse bits of science and your kid will be fine.
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Gravity's Rainbow - took 4 months out of my year, but and it's still mostly a whoosh, but every time I started reading another book after that, it was just amazing how much better Pyncheon writes. Will revisit it for sure, though not very soon.

Anna Karenina - just a whole different level, Tolstoy's writing in a way I don't feel many contemporary writes could. Feels creepy how similar the people's lives in the 19th Century was to ours. Creepy but fun too.

If On A Winter's Night A Traveller - Italo Calvino will just punch you in the face, this is a book for people who love reading books.

The Magicians - adult magic fiction, and somehow it feels that if magic was indeed real, it would be like it is depicted here, not like anything in Harry Potter's (no matter how much I loved the storytelling, the magic theory was just so full of plotholes).

The Casual Vacancy - JKRowling's not-Harry-Potter-book. It's very gritty, and feels very real. Still having my cold shivers thinking of small-town living after this.

(Except for the last one the others are older releases, don't usually jump into the newest ones, I just take it casual)
Not exactly a new phenomenon. Who remembers Microsoft Sidewalk?

Ticketmaster and Microsoft Settle Suit on Internet Linking (1999). http://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/15/business/ticketmaster-and-...
The most beuatiful exposition of the weak anthropic principle I have ever encountered.
IMHO, the main purpose of VP8 was as a bargaining chip to prevent MPEG LA from doing anything particularly onerous with their licensing. Seems to have worked.
Plenty of reasons to.

sed, awk and Perl practically don't have any competitors in their stride.

When you learn those tools, you basically realize that all the while you were using a hammer, while what you should been using is a screw driver.
I went to a k-12 school in Utah. There were ~200 students in the entire school. Per pupil there costs a lot more than a school in NYC.
I'm a huge fan of Dan Simmons, and his Hyperion series is well worth the time. Once you make it beyond the first few pages of Hyperion, I guarantee you'll be hooked. There are a total of 4 books in the series and each is truly a masterpiece in science fiction.

I would also recommend "The Terror," which is a historical fiction piece loosely based on the first expedition to the North Pole.

Simmons has won multiple awards in Science Fiction and leaps across categories with aplomb. I highly recommend any of his work!
I never said "everything now is stupid and rubbish". I'm not sure at all where you got that nonsense from. It's mainly just JavaScript, and its closely related technologies, that are problematic these days.

I don't really consider D, Rust and Go to be all that remarkable. They're not terrible regressions like JavaScript is, but they aren't that much of an improvement over C or C++, for instance. Likewise, NoSQL is merely 1960s-era approaches reused and abused today.

Maybe you weren't around to experience the massive boost in productivity that languages like C, C++, Java and Perl brought when they first became available. Tasks that formerly took months now only took days, and tasks that took days could now be accomplished in mere hours. You wouldn't believe the excitement I saw from some developers when they first started using Perl and CPAN, for instance.

It's like we were due for that next massive productivity jump between 2007 and 2010 or so, but things went horribly wrong and we ended up in this JavaScript swamp instead.
I wonder what kind of parties are you going
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Its like running nude on the street and saying ignore what others are saying
The Cherry team comes from a pretty cool background with lots of ex-Yammer people. Plus demand was strong... So demand + strong team in a frothy market = why not give them $5.5M to see if there is something real there.
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I agree that providing no notice was not great.
How did your husband find out about Cherry and applied for this job?
Mailinator has a ton of different domains. You can check them all from mailinator.com though.
apply for related jobs, if you get accepted, theirs your validation, no need to actually join though.

another approach would be to enter online contest, via deviantart.com or something.
One good thing to make passive income is by selling Reports about something , gather lots of useful data and sell it as pdf.

If you can put some graphs, charts ,or infographic in it to make it more insightful.

Here is great example :
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One of my friend used to do it, he had made good mullah through it.
> There are also "white people" that have ended slavery

But of the roughly half of the country that wanted to end slavery, about 0.0001% of them actually thought both races were equal. The notion was considered absurd.

Even the "good" ones that thought that possibly, in theory, there could be equality, that was ruined by a century of forced ignorance and illiteracy.

His bigger point -- that there are things a Gov't must do because private charity never could/would, is pretty hard to refute I'd say.

> White people are not responsible for the care of black people anymore than I'm responsible for you having a life.

Read about most of the Black Laws in the northern states. In many states it was ILLEGAL for blacks to move into the state and take up residence -- born free, former slaves, doesn't matter.

A black man couldn't serve on a jury. Worse: A black man couldn't appear as a witness against a white man in open court. So white men could bring any crime they chose against a black man so long as there were no white witnesses.

White people were 100% responsible for the ghetto-fication of the black community because that was the only place black people felt safe.

All sorts of immigrant communities -- even catholics who were largely despised in the antebellum period (gradually getting better after) -- were able to fully integrate themselves into the American fabric and prosper. But not African immigrants. Why do you suppose that is?

You act like slavery was the injustice and, hey, white people freed the slaves. No way dude. It goes far, far past that.

Emancipation was only supported by a majority when the case was made that slaves were being used to build fortification and power the Rebel war machine. Among the majority of Unionists that supported emancipation, most considered it a tactic. Some a strategy. Very few an objective.

We -- caucasians -- built a layer cake of misfortune and discrimination. The fact that it's been 150 years since emancipation is meaningless. We absolutely have a responsibility to right this wrong and it is taking a long, long time.

And no, this doesn't apply to EVERY person of color. Many have achieved great upward mobility. Yes, we have a black President. To them, the idea that we need to provide charity to them is maybe insulting, perhaps indicating that we believe they've been prosperous only because of that charity.

But that doesn't change the burden to continue unwinding the twisted wrong of generations of discrimination.
> That's frightening, but freedom is always a little bit frightening

On the other hand, there is no evidence for the existence of free will. So we are just a part of the universe that has become conscious, aware of itself. But we can't escape physics. We are still just complicated sets of reactions. We don't really have choices.
Anything we can do to proactively claim or declare our emails older than 180 days to be not discarded and not abandoned? Or move them to a new server periodically so that they aren't stored in a server for more than 180 days?

From Wikipedia [1]: "Property is generally deemed to have been abandoned if it is found in a place where the true owner likely intended to leave it, but is in such a condition that it is apparent that he or she has no intention of returning to claim it."

I'm winging it here, but Gmail could have an optional feature to prompt every three months "do you claim your mail from January 2005 to December 2012?", and just answer yes every time. Then Google could respond to be subpoena that the user has no mail that has not been claimed in 180 days.

Any lawyers here who can come up with something more solid?

[1] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost,_mislaid,_and_abandoned_...

(Be nice if you had some contact info on your profile)
Selling case studies and reports can make it happen.
Hilariously written article. Here are some of the most wonderful snippets:

"this is possibly one of the biggest war that as been witnessed ... Paolo Bonzin, who has maintained the Free Software Foundation's GNU grep and GNU sed, has quit from his role." This is just the warmup. It's the beginning of the article, and has a few funny typos to get your juices flowing. My favorite part, is there's just something about the idea of "the biggest war witnessed" being kicked off by these unassuming command line regex utilities that gave me a little thrill.

Two paragraphs later, the article starts the real hit parade. "Bonzini put it bluntly saying, 'To put it somewhat bluntly, ...'" In my writing, I've sometimes found it difficult to properly introduce a quote. I never realized that I could simply repeat the quoted person verbatim. This is a brilliant technique.

Next paragraph, the brilliance continues: "it would be impossible to convince a diverse group such as the group of GNU maintainers to agree on coding standards for C. He wrote in his post, 'It is likely not possible to convince a diverse group such as the group of GNU maintainers to agree on coding standards for C++, for example...'"

The author was so enamored with this technique that he repeated it at the end of the very same quote. "'all Stallman had to offer on the topic was "We still prefer C to C++, because C++ is so ugly" (sic). As a result of this, the GNU coding standards have not seen any update in years and are entirely obsolete.” Bonzini blamed that it was Stallman's attitude because of which GNU coding standards have not been updated in years and were entirely obsolete."

I also love the last line of the article. "Well, if the trend continues, it can be a trouble for Stallman and his FSF ..." It rather puts me in mind of a young child, having spoken at unaccustomed length and exhausted their material, who shrugs and ends with, "well, they were in big trouble."

This article was a great Christmas present. Thanks, Hacker News!
I don't think the App has any way of knowing if it is running without the proper signing or not. They can try and read outside of their sandbox, but Apple doesn't seem to acknowledge piracy as an issue, so the APi doesn't exist.