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This guy gets it all wrong. It is not bankers/capitalism fault that we are in crisis now. The Government - Fed - was keeping interest rates so low for so long that there is no other way to have any other outcome than bankers/citizens taking risk bets. Come on, money was here almost for free for years and this made people to speculate. This was expected. This is normal reaction. If you give people lots of free money - yes they will take risky bets with it. I don't know where from all these "economists" are taking all this nonsense about banks responsibility. If the government wasn't there to artificially set interest rates too low - we would never end up in this mess. Is it really so difficult to see and understand basic economics? Anybody who knows what the word "inlation" means shouldn't be surprised at all, and should have talked about it since 2004 like Peter Schiff, Jim Rogers, Marc Faber and countless other economists did.

Solving problems "on cheap" ??? No Mr. "advisor" from IMF has better idea - let's print more! We got in this mess because we borrowed too much and printed too much money and all these complete idiots are telling us that the only way out is to borrow more and print more. They are making the situation worse.

Buy gold, buy silver, buy ammo, buy food.
Economists (eg. Wolfers, Stevenson, Lundberg, Becker, etc) have been looking into the effects of no-fault divorce laws on the rate of divorces for quite a while now (refer to [1] for example).

Their general findings are that "the data broadly indicate that divorce law reform led to an immediate spike in the divorce rate that dissipates over time. After a decade, no effect can be discerned." [1]

They tend to attribute the steady rise in divorces to the changing nature of the family over the last century, things like increased participation of women in the labour force, advances in household technology, the contraceptive pill and the growing acceptance of non-standard family structures (eg. single mothers, defacto families).

[1] Wolfers, J. "Did unilateral divorce laws raise divorce rates? A new reconciliation and new results", http://ideas.repec.org/p/nbr/nberwo/10014.html
Yea, Dr. Drama is back in top form. It was getting quiet without him.
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Further counterpoints... (warning; I'm a touch sleepy).

First, there is the primary issue, severely undermining almost everything you write, of "encouraging" vs "doing". (I'm making an assumption here:) It's really quite ironic to see a libertarian claiming that one who encourages a decision bears greater responsibility than the individual who actually made the decision him/her/itself.

In other words: if I take you at face value, the regulators encouraged bad behavior, individuals and institutions behaved badly, and it is the former who bears the majority of the blame. Pardon me if I don't buy it. Sure, the regulators screwed up, but to a tar-and-feathering degree rather than a torches-and-pitchforks level.

Further complicating the "regulators are more to blame" approach, even if we overlook the basic contradiction at its core, are the issues of regulatory capture: Wall Street and the regulators in question are pretty much the exact same people at this point, and their motives pretty much identical (due to many reasons; e.g. the revolving door). (I digress, but I believe this is a big part of the reason the current response has sucked so badly: too much Wall Street, not too much regulators!)

Finally, although I'm sleepy, I believe I detect huge amounts of spin in your response here. A couple of examples: CDS contracts entered into by AIG were rather larger than the entire value of the company, for example, not what I would call a "relatively small" amount. And Geitner doesn't want to "force unregulated institutions into insolvency" ... the institutions in question are already insolvent! What he wants is, presumably, is to force them into something along the lines of a slowed-down, taxpayer supported restructuring (aka: bankruptcy). This may or may not be a good thing but to cast it as "forcing an organization into insolvency" is duplicitous.
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Good catch, this is why Wolfenstein's control scheme seems to work so well: instead of moving left and right, you rotate left and right. This makes finger-shifting work much more intuitively.
Put things between *'s to italicize them. Its mentioned on http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
The other problem is that the touchscreen lacks the tactile feedback that a gamepad has. On e.g. old-school 2D action-platformers, you end up using finger-feel and "twitch" more than conscious thought.
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For the Arora project one of my default git hooks it to build the project, tools, manualtests, matching autotests (and run them for regressions) before each commit. This slowly increased to the point where it was taking minute or so (over the course of just a few weeks). Taking a few hours I cleaned it up and had it back down to just a few seconds at most and on average less then a second. I did it the more correct way and did some quick profiling to see where the time was spent and then fixing that (mostly that object files that could be were not being re-used across different project when building). Making sure that I never break the build on any commit really pays off. There have been less then a dozen build breakages in the entire Arora commit history due to this git hook and those I believe were either build breakages introduced on OS X where a.cpp == A.cpp (breaking it on win/linux) or when we broke the build against older versions of Qt so it build against 4.5, but not 4.4. When you have a quick build time doing things like build hooks are very possible and useful.
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I don't really agree with your treatment of monads, but perhaps I don't understand your point of view.

What did you mean by "you can't peek at it"? I can peek into the String returned by getLine in pure code, as in the following example:

myStr <- getLine
let len = length myStr
print len

Here, myStr is of type String and 'length' is a pure function of type [anything] -> Int. The <- ("gets") syntax unwraps the IO box around the result of getLine (which is of type IO String, as you noted). Once it's unwrapped, we can treat it as a purely functional value and call length on it. Then I can pass it to the 'print' function, which is also in the IO monad. The compiler will ensure that 'length' is pure.

I also don't understand what you mean when you say getLine "takes nothing as its input". Since it's in the IO monad, it implicitly takes the "RealWorld" as its input, updates it, and implicitly returns a new RealWorld. I prefer this treatment of the IO monad, because it's easy to see how _every function_ is pure in Haskell -- it's just a matter of giving it different (implicit or explicit) arguments.

To be fair, the RealWorld analogy is not exactly how the system works. But it is the abstraction that the Haskell language likes to make (from the docs: "RealWorld is deeply magical. It is primitive, but it is not unlifted (hence ptrArg). We never manipulate values of type RealWorld; it's only used in the type system, to parameterise State#.")

Anyway, an example which is actually purely functional but uses mutation:

import Control.Monad.State.Lazy

incr :: State Int ()
incr = modify (+1)

add2 :: Int -> Int
add2 val = execState incrTwice val
where
incrTwice = do
incr
incr

main :: IO ()
main = do
print (add2 5)

This program prints 7.

The 'incr' function here, like the getLine function, accepts no explicit arguments. However, it is in the State monad, parameterized with an Int, meaning that it implicitly accepts a mutable Int which it can modify. In this case, it adds one to that int, and doesn't return anything (that's the () data type, pronounced "unit").

The 'add2' function here is purely functional: it has type Int -> Int. And yet it depends on mutation occurring because it calls incr (twice). The execState "creates" a State monad from scratch and gives it an initial state (val), and then runs the given State action (incrTwice).

The main difference between the functional State monad and IO (which -- awesomely -- is actually defined in the source code as a State of RealWorld) is that you can't create instances of RealWorld, so you can't execState an IO action. In order to run an IO action, you have to get the RealWorld from the only place it enters your program, the main function.

Did I clarify anything, or did I misunderstand you?
Yah, but I spent 10 minutes and read the ars article on the drives and got what took him several days to learn.
There were American bombs being dropped on Germany, but that doesn't mean we have an animosity against Germany today. We were allied with the nationalist Chinese—the ones that lost the civil war and ended up ruling Taiwan.

And at any rate, America's most major, most trusted ally in WWII and since has been Great Britain.
I think he is wrong. My perception is that the US government is very aware of the fundamental issue that is the US current account deficit. Yes the low savings rate of the recent decade is a huge problem, but right now the savings rate is rising at an incredible pace.

Accepting the savings rate and current account balance must be brought back to a sustainable level does not mean the current turbulent readjustment should not be counteracted. This is not inconsistency, it's a timing issue. Ignoring this fact is plain populism, which doesn't surprise me coming from a fellow at a Rpublican think tank.

Secondly, the comparison to Russia in particular is ridiculous. Russia is uniquely dependent on oil and gas. Looking back at Russia's depression and its current troubles, it's hard to ignore the correlation with crude prices (http://www.wtrg.com/oil_graphs/oilprice1947.gif). Oil revenues pay for everything in Russia.

There's another unique feature in the comparison to emerging market crises that he ignores. All these Asian and Latin American countries were indebted in foreign currency and much of their troubles were connected to rapidly changing exchange rates that increased their debt. The US debt, however, is USD debt. The US cannot default on USD debt as the government can print money and inflate the debt away. That's what the Chinese are so scared of.

Also, the US has a huge domestic market, a very broad industrial basis as well as an unrivaled culture of innovation and entrepreneurship.

The current crisis is bad and there are indeed huge issues to overcome. The crisis will continue, but comparisons with the Asian crisis of 1997 or the Russia of 1998 are meaningless. If things should go catastrophically wrong in the US, they will do so in a unique way, not based on some emerging markets template from the 90s.
I thought this was about Parrot VM when I read the title.
Do this.

1. Read the countless photoshop tutorials on the net and learn it. (if you can't the startup aint going nowhere anyways).

2. Read the book 'Dont make me think.'.

3. Read it once again.

4. Do the ui/graphic design yourself.

5. Get a good designer to critique your site and spend about an hour on it. (shouldnt cost much)

6. Redo your site based on feedback. Rinse. Lather. Repeat.
Me too, but then I saw Cringely, and I know he doesn't cover that sort of tech.
Exactly. When PG says "Make something people want", what he's really saying is: as an engineer, remember to wear your marketing hat when appropriate.
I would also add good karma. As in, it doesn't hurt them.
I say it was also to showcase their tech and provide more confidence in their later services.
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this is my feeling. the games that last are ones that distill some aspect of friendly competition between people. and the very best games are the ones that cause you to interact with your friends in some new way (games that involve auctions or mini-economies tend to do this well)
eHarmony for your brain.

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add a cup of mahalo+yahoo answers

insert probability that you can't make or won't make a decision for yourself

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serve it up as fun thing to do

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hope in time people become addicted to it

profit
" If hacker news wants to be a community where human beings take part rather than some large drone feeding me with 'programming' " news this article stays."

false dichotomy alert! A false dichotomy is a rhetorical device to position your favored option against a rhetorically maligned strawman opposite option.

Given that no one actually wanted "drones feeding me with "programming, , your statement is not very persuasive.

The actual options are about preferences for "insightful" articles about marriages, children etc vs "insightful" articles centered around programming, technology, startups etc. On this choice, people can (and do) differ, and that is perfectly fine.

"If you felt pity for such people who did not have a good appreciation for dynamic nature of all things nature, then think a bit more"

more putting words is my mouth. Where did I (or anyone else) say I felt "pity"? You are imagining the unexpressed motivations of others and reacting to your imagination. In other words, You seem to be setting up straw men and knocking them down.

More strawmen

" Just dealing with programming is not an automatic pass to be hacker news " - Nobody claimed this.

" hacking together your one millionth web based todolist with email and sms feature." - nobody claimed this as a good idea either, especially against "you will suddenly find a new business" (false dichotomy again).

Nutshell : lots of rhetorical smoke, very little fire.

You make one good point ("Hacker is the quality in programming and not just the programming.") amongst all this false angst and strawman burning. And it is a very good one. It makes your post valuable.

I thought the article inappropriate, (still do), flagged it, explained why, and was overridden. That is all right. Getting into a mud throwing contest about motivations is not. So I'll stop. I am done with this thread.
Fear not - at least one person (me) has the same "problem." :)
I believe this list can be brought down to just two basic (not just one):

- Customers: Understand them, improve their lives, get them to pay regularly, get them to spread the word
- Costs: Keep them as near to zero as possible. That will enable you to be profitable even with minimum number of customers

During the first year of your startup don;t worry about anything other than the above two. Special warning: Dont spend anytime on external fund raising, fund raising is the most distracting thing for startups and something where you have least control and very low odds, unless you accomplish something "of value".

If you can get thru the first year with a complete focus on Customers & Costs and hit break even by the end of first year. I can guarantee that you on the way to build a successful company (not just a good startup)
@gromm. Thanks for the explanation. I was wondering if the code somehow "self corrects" or it needed explicit human intervention.
Going off on a tangent here but how is the startup scene in UK ?

I might have to move there soon (for personal reasons) and was wondering if there was a way to keep track of what was going on in the community, who were the players, etc etc. Are there any UK specific job boards for startup jobs there ?
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Goals accomplished. Its vague, but if you're at a startup (or coding for fun / to learn), perfect. Goals can be bugs squashed, features added in, performance gains, whatever you need. Its yours to mold when you start for the day and destroy when you end for the day.

If you're at a more established company, then chances are, they'll care about things getting done, but on a day to day basis, will have a different metric to use. Which is the angle you're coming from, I think.
"Your comment brakes the rules, the article is within their bounds."

I assume you meant "breaks".
You are completely right.
Here is the guideline I violated.

"Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or egregiously offtopic, you can flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did. "

While I am not sure, if this guideline is a good one, using a forum such as this implies acceptance of the rules. I was ignorant of this guideline, but the fact remains that
I have violated this guideline twice. Once by mentioning the inappropriateness of a submission and then my mentioning I flagged it.

Apologies to everyone. I'll be more careful in the future.
A very loose set of criteria that ignores the fact that programmers can exist at different levels of expertise, and can be adept at non-programming activities too.

For example, I don't see how being able to navigate office politics is a sign of a bad programmer. Nor are confidence, strong will and "inner peace" anything to do with being a good or bad programmer.

Verdict: not worth reading.
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You probably don't even need to check. If it's a compiler, chances are it won't be IO bound.
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please :( We can all find the front page of reddit.

http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/87y7f/the_monste...

I'm not usually one to moan ;), but we have an article about marriage, an article on autism, an article on a board game, and "Ex-IMF Official: the U.S. is coming to resemble Argentina, Russia" at the top of hacker news.

As this trend continues, the front page becomes less and less useful (In my opinion) as it starts to overlap more and more with reddit, digg, etc etc.

I don't know the answer, but the trend really does seem to be accelerating fast now.

Just look at the hacker news front page from January 2008. http://web.archive.org/web/20080109085729/http://news.ycombi...

The difference between that front page, and the current front page is pretty marked IMHO.
The criteria is not meant to be a bill of rights. Just quasi funny.
It might help if we knew what your startup did, or anything else about you.

http://startupweekend.com/ is in SF next weekend.

http://www.web2expo.com/ starts on tuesday.

http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2133429 on monday.

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You could always take the Caltrain down to Stanford for a day. There's always something interesting happening on campus, but don't try too hard to "network", otherwise you might scare people off.
Not everyone here goes to Reddit. This was actually a really good read and I'm glad it was posted.
Comment threads like this are off-topic and toxic. If you think Hacker News is ruined by all of these horribly interesting articles and something drastic most be done, make a new post.

>Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or egregiously offtopic, you can flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is a follow-up to an earlier article; you could read that one first if you would like. http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2007/05/18/autism_misdiagno...
And I'd like to say just one thing:

Do whatever you want to do - vote up or vote down whatever you want to vote up or down.

Thank you
He was already making money with his other games.
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The article reminded me of this one:

http://www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/article1152846.ece/Hoogl...

It's in Dutch, so I'll translate the most important part:

Sarah Janssen (53) was recently appointed as the first
Professor of Deaf Blindness in the world.

According to the Groningen professor doctors and
ortho educators often are unaware that children and
deaf and blind. Thus they are often seen as
autistic or mentally disabled, while
mentally sometimes there is nothing wrong.

There is no immediate relationship with the article, but to me it shows that there is still much to learn in this area.
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