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no, users ensure delivery by querying for the page. It's not like we are forced to open pages with google ads.

Net neutrality means that all content fetching should be treated equally. I have no idea how that can be contorted into incumbency protection, since no one is advantaged by it.

I don't pay for an ISP so that they decide to become a cable TV provider, deciding for me what I do and don't want. I pay for an ISP to allow me to go onto websites. They should act as disinterested as possible as to what I'm trying to get (apart from obvious load balancing things).

Free wants to add a software layer ad blocking? Don't turn it on by default, that is the same thing as filtering for 90% of web users (at least). I hope you'll enjoy when they start throttling other things by default as well.
The problem isn't Keynes model. It predicts that when governments stop deficit spending, the economy slows. It says that if governments don't replenish those deficits in good times they'll build unsustainable economies.

The problem is ignoring the reality that at some point the government cannot issue more debt. The US government has been in structural deficit for all but a few of the past 40 years. If we look at the funny money of state and local pension assumptions there's even more stimulus. OF COURSE when that's withdrawn the economy slows.

It doesn't matter if the fiscal multiplier is 0.5 or 1.5 when the government simply can't issue more debt. Multipliers matter when a government has decisions to make, when it can't issue more debt there are no decisions to be made.
Why do we put incompetent people in charge of things like this?
About the entire Austrian economics school predicted the housing bubble. Peter Schiff is famous for getting blasted on TV about it. Krugman, on the other hand, was calling for another bubble like the housing bubble: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/02/opinion/dubya-s-double-dip...

I find it funny when Keynesians talk about bubbles. What do you think happens when you set interest rates absurdly low? You could make the argument it stimulates the economy, sure, but at what cost?
If Kim Jong Un had started a Twitter account while his father was still in power, would we have a similar attitude towards him?

Totalitarianism is not funny, and its perpetrators and perpetuators should be held in disgust.
Show HN: Goalfinger helps you decide what to do with your life (weekend project)
One feature that I enjoy about AdBlock for Chrome/Firefox is the ability to toggle it on/off with the press of a button. So if site functionality is being broken by the ad block OR if I want to support a site by giving them an ad impression/click-thru I can do that easily.

Since I use the toggle on a daily basis any replacement would need to emulate this feature. My web browser can easily tell which page view spawned which HTTP request. It's hard to see how this would be done at the router level.

That being said this technique would be really useful for filtering out domains serving up malware/phishing/0-day scripts. Connection-level security blocking layered on top of browser-level ad block actually sounds really awesome.
I'd assume the readership of Hacker News would already know this, but you know what they say about assumptions...
I agree with you about how awesome Jacob Appelbaum makes Tor sound, but you could still make a case about not wanting your computer to be used without your consent for stuff like that.

For example, as much as cancer research can benefit from extra computing power, I wouldn't want web sites to start including secret javascript code meant to "reap the spare cpu cycles" available when I visit their site.
Interesting. I've heard of the Icesave lawsuits, but this paints a much more interesting picture. Thanks.
Colo with 17 app servers. We didn't have to spin up additional workers, and this is about half the number of web servers the last startup-turn-IPO I worked at used (and they used Python!).
The trick is growing the debt slower or at the same rate than the economy. But political incentives accelerate debt acquisition when the consequences are not going to hit for a couple of mandates. It's surprising that governments have not been more profligate than they were. But eventually, someone's going to be in charge when the bills come due.

As for the austerity 'death spiral', we can have some sympathy for those social beneficiaries being promised payments. Bond contracts weigh heavier than political commitments (once defaulted, people stop buying debt titles, but once lied to people keep voting).
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Good article. I've been working away from my family the last 6 months and only see them on weekends so have learnt how to prioritise them and the attention they receive from me when I'm with them. It's always an easy trap to fall back into when your mind is always racing with an idea or the work you need to complete but what's the point if you don't have loved ones to share your life with.
The source is called news.arc and you can find old versions on the Web, e.g. https://github.com/nex3/arc/ https://github.com/nex3/arc/blob/master/lib/how-to-run-news
Trap street?
Show HN: My New Years project, Parcoa: Objective-C Parser Combinators
My experience parsing text on iOS is sullied by exposure to Haskell's Parsec and Python's Parcon. Given the ability to create pure, composable, functions using Objective-C blocks, I thought Cocoa an ideal environment for parser combinators.

I've built a somewhat easy to read internal DSL for combining parsers. For example:

ParcoaParser *yes = [Parcoa string:@"yes"];
ParcoaParser *no = [Parcoa string:@"no"];
ParcoaParser *answer = [yes or: no];

https://github.com/brotchie/Parcoa
Random website authors in Steubenville, Ohio are using the term "terrorist" hyperbolically. This tells us something about America. Specifically: that random website operators in parts of America are, as statistics have long assured us, dumb.
Design absolutely matters when a consumer is interfacing with your application, and pixel-pushing is actually quite important. It can be used as a talking point - the SeatGeek application is extremely well-designed for it's vertical, and is meant to be pleasing to use (thereby hopefully driving more eyeballs/higher conversion).

Internally, I think it's also a way to have the designers/developers proud of something they helped accomplish. No, I didn't perform any of the design on the SeatGeek app, but you'll bet your ass I'm not complaining about the three hours I spent uploading about 100 - outsourced and therefore not named well enough for me to automate it - logos to S3 for use in the app. It's a source of pride, and it's what staves off the burnout.

Reference: I work on Operations at SeatGeek, and after slicing up a PSD to very exacting specifications two years ago, I know exactly what kind of a difference design can make re: tech blogs/traffic.
Nobody said to discard the method; it must be improved on. Asking people to turn themselves into a dumb, emotionless governor, removed from the situation, isn't exactly the most helpful advice.
Also, as I tried to point out, your model is flawed right from the start when you say "eat more-> gain weight". The net caloric balance is only forcing when it's negative. The conversion of excess calories into fat is not a law of physics. Now those various factors you would like to ignore come into play.
"More generally, I have never understood why people use these third party CDNs for important sites."

Perhaps its not a core-competency of the company? When you're a small company you only get a few employees to work with maybe none, so you find ways to get the stuff you don't know how to do, done. Whether its contract work for design, or outsourcing operations to the cloud.
You're arguing against a straw man.

Really? Than tell me what other non-austerity policy is being proposed.
We're not talking about what is being pursued. The discussion is about the merits of the alternatives to austerity. Massive debt forgiveness is one although at this point it's a complete fantasy. What else have you got?
clickable: https://github.com/brotchie/Parcoa
Oh, no, I have never agreed with anything he has written and I have read (clearly I have not read everything he has written).

But I'm not in the mood to argue about it, so have a pleasant day.
I'm not sure where you're pulling those harmful false assumptions from, but surely a nation should at least occasionally earn more than it spends? Because the US has only managed that trick 8 times since 1931, of which only one time was since 1960.

http://whereistheoutrage.net/domestic-issues/budget/budget-d...

And sure, unlike households, nations have the option of printing more money to pay off their debts. Unfortunately that doesn't generally work too well (see also: Zimbabwe, Weimar Germany).
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Anyone have suggestions for packages I missed?
Why you should be skeptical of Chitika's market-share reports
Thanks! I actually got the bug to write this post from reading your wonderful js combinator book[1] over the holiday, which reminded me that I also had a copy of To Mock a Mockingbird in my to read pile.

When I got to the bit where Smullyan describes the first sage bird (He explains: "This is quite simple ... for any bird x, Θx = M(Lx). Since x is fond of M(Lx) and M(Lx) = Θx, then x is fond of Θx, which means that Θ is a sage bird."), I felt like I had been hit by a brick wall as it was anything but simple for me, having previously grasped at understanding the y combinator.

Only by understanding the discrete moving parts was I able to finally wrap my head around what was going on. Like many others when I had my a-ha! moment I wanted to share.

Thank you for making content like this digestible!

1: https://leanpub.com/javascript-allonge
I don't think I follow. Isn't the idea that you weigh the cost of doing so with the cost of a prolonged recession? I have a general ignorance of exactly what Keynesian economics actually means, but from what I gather, it's not one thing.
In theory, you have a good point. However, I think even at our ridiculous levels (> 100% of debt-to-gdp), there's still quite a ways to go before our major creditors stop buying US bonds entirely. If we can somehow pursue policies that could return us to constant positive growth in the next 2-5 years, then the benefits of getting there faster will give us a much greater ability to reduce our long-term liabilities.
>Lobbying doesn't necessarily equate with doing evil, but it almost always equates with a person or group of people using their disproportionate power to push an agenda that individuals have little hope of pushing back on.

This assumes both that the ones doing the pushing aren't just pushing back against someone else, and that the someone else is a group of defenseless individuals rather than other corporate entities.

If you think about where all this got started you can kind of see where all the money goes. On the one hand you have Microsoft waging a PR campaign against them and funding front companies to make questionable antitrust claims against them.[1] So then they have to spend money telling their side of that story to members of Congress before the smear campaign can influence legislation. Then you have Facebook doing much the same thing for different reasons.[2] And they'll be pushing different legislation, so now they've got to pay someone to talk to different legislators.

At the same time, Apple is waging a patent war against Android, so now Google has got the incentive to go in and see if anything can be done to address the insanity that allows software to be patented in the U.S.

And then there's Rupert Murdoch, who seems to think that Google is the cause of all that is wrong with internet and the destruction of the publishing industry, and wants to make search engines pay to link to other websites. And the RIAA/MPAA accusing them of facilitating piracy and trying to pass SOPA and PIPA. And that whole Google Books thing with the authors guild. And AT&T and Verizon wanting to monopolize payment processing on mobile devices and anticompetitively excluding Google Wallet, or violating the open access terms on the recent spectrum auction, or whatever else greedy utility companies like that can imagine to do to negatively impact Android.

Oh, and China continues to harangue Google for not wanting to censor and so that they can advantage their own domestic search competitor, so now Google is under market pressure to go in and lobby the executive branch and try to get them to push back under the various trade treaties that ostensibly prohibit what China is doing.

I don't mean to paint the picture as "poor defenseless Google getting picked on by everybody else" because they're hardly poor and defenseless, and "don't be evil" doesn't mean that they're a bunch of saints or that you should trust them -- but holy crap. That's a lot of political fronts to be fighting at the same time. You can kind of see how it could be pretty expensive.

[1] http://falkvinge.net/2012/03/02/how-microsoft-pays-big-money...

[2] http://www.wired.com/business/2011/05/facebook-google-smear/
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Argentina (pop. 40m) did, and seemed to get away with it for a while thanks to the commodities boom and dodgy statistics, but after a decade the chickens are coming home to roost.
Has the issue been fixed already ? I was not able to reproduce it by doing a English to french translation of 'filled with' and doing a pronunciation. I did see the YouTube video demonstrating the problem though.
It's not clear where you're trying to innovate here. IMAP mailboxes on my domains are hosted by Rackspace Mail [1] at $1/mailbox/month. I don't use any other Rackspace services, just point my MX records there so I don't have to manage mail servers and spam filtering myself.

Where I need an API for both inbound and outbound mail, there's SendGrid and SendGrid Parse [2], among others.

1: http://www.rackspace.com/apps/email_hosting/rackspace_email/

2: http://sendgrid.com/docs/API_Reference/Webhooks/parse.html
Isn't the author of the article, Ed Bott, one of those all-Windows, all the time guys? Why, yes, yes he is: http://www.edbott.com/weblog/

So, an article by a "Windows Ecosystem" guy, panning a company that says iOS and Android are beating Windows Phone hollow. Hmmm... conflict of interest, much?
Alright, Got to weigh in here.

I used to work at the ft, and spent a good deal of time dealing with the labs division.

Andrew probably went out of his way to ask for diversity, seriously, he is awesome like that.

I think the issue may be time constraints and the fact that within 3 companies, no females/minorities/etc offered to speak and had the relevant high level of expertise.
True, we don't. But that is usually the reason for A/A tests throwing up different results (assuming of course, that the tool used to run the test is not flawed).
Ask HN: Any editors/would like to be editors frequenting HN?
Given my current work situation (extremely good) I've determined that I need a "relaxing" activity other than programming in my free time. I've decided to write a book (actually a series of books) and would like to find a person (or a few) to edit/proofread my work as I go through it. It's a "survoval" book, but rather than "how to plan for doomsday" or "how to survive in the wilderness", it's designed to go from nothing to at a minimum industrial revolution, including hows and whys. While extremely useful for disaster preparation, it will include detailed info on how to go from foraging to iron age and beyond, serving as a from experience how to on a large variety of topics.

I'd prefer people who don't have survivalist experience to make sure things are appropriately explained. At a later stage I'll be looking for people to help validate the pieces I can't do by hand by myself. Feel free to respond here, or to email me at ismarc31@gmail.com
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ikczgv737lllh0a/nfl_spreads_1985-2...
1. The purchase process is way too long. I counted 5 different steps before I got to the CC form.

2. Don't ask for the email up front. Have people build the card first so they are emotionally invested in the process.

3. Test those bootstrap buttons.

Now, here is how I would do the purchase flow:

1. User lands. Clicks to get started.
2. User pick design and fills in card.
2a. Then user enters the address of the recepient, and then his address.
3. User clicks button that reads "Send Card Now."
4. You take the user to the payment page where his information is already filled in (because he already provided it before). Different address on the card? Offer them the option to do it, but don't show the huge form. Use an accordion or modal for this type of stuff.
4a. Give the user the option to use paypal.
5. When the payment is processed load another page where you will collect their email in order to give them notice of when the card shipped (important).
5a. Offer them an upsell to subscribe to a monthly "Love Letter" subscription service, where they can have a card with a love poem sent to their S.O. automatically. Charge them $3 a month, and be done with it.
As a pure logical matter, just because hyper inflation is possible does not mean it's the inevitable result of an inflationary monetary policy. Zimbabwe and Wiemar Germany are extreme examples. Both had their infrastructure devastated by war, and Wiemar Germany was subject to crushing, externally-imposed war indemnities.
Disclaimer: I work on Operations at SeatGeek

We take design very seriously, and thats because better designs have been quantifiably proven to have a meaningful impact on our bottom line. That means sometimes we try and polish something for the first release, but we always set a limit to that - if it's not in production, it's not shipped, and we will forget about it amongst the 23524 other things going on in a given week. Therefore, we usually set at least some internal goal of "good enough" and then ship. It just so happens one of our founders really likes digging into design.

Also note, this is an iPhone app, not a web application. Very different rules apply here, so you can't just slap Bootstrap on your UI and hope for the best :)
Unfortunately they almost always are. The utilities are in the enviable position of buying wholesale power from renewable generators on 20 to 25 year fixed price, flat contracts. Of course they would never agree to sell power to the customers on the same terms - which is why it is great being a utility!
neat, thanks for the followup!
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Our site - http://seatgeek.com - is free to use as well ;)
> In my 5-6 year career I've yet to experience gender discrimination.

Maybe you just haven't noticed it. It can be very subtle when not overly "that can't be true".

In any case, you may need to re-read the post, which I fully agree with. The author's issue is not with the seemingly inexplicable lack of diversity. He is not jumping to any conclusions, his issue is with the overly-defensive response.

What's wrong with a simple — and I'm just typing what first comes to mind — "You know what, that was completely not intentional," and work from there.
thanks, but to clarify: I'm not proposing to open source it for the purpose of looking at the code or forking my own HN-version.

instead i'm proposing that building _this_ site becomes an community effort, with open feature discussions and people committing code to the HN code base.

there is an army of people who deeply care about HN, and are very skilled to help out. i think it would be smart to use that asset.
I agree the situations aren't identical, but what theory do you think best explains all the observations?

Just to be clear, my answer is: Each country's problems are rooted in the collapse of the US housing market and the resulting financial crunch. The country-to-country variations are there and they're significant, but secondary.
Want a successful startup? Try this simple trick.
Whenever you send an email to a co-founder or team member, try adding "to make more money." as a suffix to whatever action you're asking the person to take and see if the message still makes sense.

You may find it reveals much about your business, your goals and your partners.
The problem I have with this argument is that while everybody suggests Iceland is too small, nobody is brave enough to suggest at what the magic line that cannot be crossed is. Is Ireland too big? What about Greece? Japan? the UK?

I fail to see how a credit writedown for both debtor and creditor suddenly becomes unworkable when it crosses an imaginary population or gross debt line. Plenty of very large companies have undergone debt restructuring and survived to tell the tale. GM was one of the largest companies in the world and the debtors and creditors + equity holders all got wiped out or were given a severe haircut. If the same argument was followed someone would point to a smaller company and say ; well, they are small, it's OK to default. But that big company, no, that's too big.

Nobody pretends that calling an unsustainable and unpayable debt defaulted is a pleasant experience, but it's better to put zombies to the death rather than have them zombie-walking around the economies of the world. If the debt can't be paid back, adding more debt to it is never going to get solved. Anyone who suggested that fixing GM with another set of super-sized loans would have been laughed out of the room - they couldn't make the payments as it was. Yet someone this makes the magic jump from company to country and it's considered sound advice.

Well, not to me.
The Detroit water system completely lost pressure. My assumption was that they upped the chlorine content to compensate for possible contamination in the system. They probably never reduced the concentration (either by design or by accident).
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There are a wide variety of takes, pro and con, on the gender wage gap. It's clearly very political, and so for every report X you can easily find !X out there.

It's also useful to know how this wage gap is calculated. So as you search, see if you can find any source that says this is an apples to apples comparison. Men of some age and schooling in some field compared to women of the same age and schooling in the same field. Because the 77 cents number, the 81 cents number really seems to from adding up all wages in all fields from men and comparing them to all wages in all fields from women.

Here is a report from CONSAD commissioned, I believe from the Labor Department under GWB, removed from gov't websites when President Obama came into office, and if you google it, a report criticized by many on the left, frequently and loudly.

http://www.consad.com/content/reports/Gender%20Wage%20Gap%20... [PDF]

Here's an article at Forbes that seems to break down the 81 cents number.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2012/05/21/mind-the-mal...

Here's a Warren Farrell article that provides more information:

http://glennsacks.com/blog/?p=621

Here's Christina Hoff Sommers, discussing in 2012, the AAUW 2012 Pay Gap study:

Wage Gap Myth Exposed -- By Feminists -- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christina-hoff-sommers/wage-ga...

What is interesting is that, I believe, all of these supposedly conservative reports and analysis support what Robert Reich is saying (and/or vice versa.)
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That was such a good and inspirational read. Google is awesome.
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I'm sure they've put layouts through a focus group or two.