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Esplanade is also good for running too during the winter. Because if you are not dressed appropriately for the weather (i.e., in your running shorts), you are essentially forced to run the whole esplanade to keep warm 'till you get home.
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While I do understand what you're saying, it ain't poor.
I liked your initial premise, "didn't want to pollute the air with my ignorance". Usually that beautiful sentiment precedes someone diligently informing themselves. But then you asked others to summarize things for you!

I thought that was a funny enough juxtaposition to deserve a lighthearted response. (I also think the lmgtfy.com website animation is well done, and its tone a nice step up from the pioneer in that market, justfuckinggoogleit.com.)

Sorry you didn't appreciate it, Village. I bet Penelope Trunk would say: "Lighten up!"
A cool page is Paul Hsiehs' webpage. There you will find some good discussion on the trick used. http://www.azillionmonkeys.com/qed/asmexample.html
Look for part 5: "A fast implementation of strlen()".
Some homeless people are mentally ill but this isn't a reason to not have a social safety net. There used to be a term 'noblesse oblige' where the more fortunate are duty bound to look after those less fortunate, to my mind this is where a social security net is required.

Some people will for one reason or another, whether by bad luck or plain old stupidity will end up at some point in there life out on the streets. If these people have kids then the kids end up on the streets and no longer receive an education, so they'll end up as criminals or on drugs or something like that. If this cycle is allowed to continue you end up with large areas of slums in cities. If instead when bad things happen there is a security net that allows you to wipe yourself down, get up and move on then the cycle is avoided, or at least it's depth is less. It can become a social welfare problem, but at least you don't have children dying in tents from exposure, and there's always the chance that when things pick up, they'll be able to get a job or at least the children do.
You are correct. Although we have a fully integrated e-commerce cart and checkout so users don't have to leave the site. On Octopart, I think it links off to the vendor's website.
I actually failed two classes in college (high school dual enrollment) as I was working on like two-three contracting projects simultaneously.

I thought I was doing it wrong but now I see that I'm not the only one who sacrifices school to do something that they like.
> [I have] a love for snowboarding, walking in the snow, fireplaces, hot tea, and all that

Ditto. The difference is that out here in the valley winter is a place up in the Sierra Nevadas that we visit when the December/January rain hits the bay area. The best part is that once we have had our fill of winter fun we drive back home :)
we have a filter by state if you click on "Foodmakers" from the top navigation bar. as we get additional merchants to join, we can work to make regional search more useful.

what products from NC do you miss the most?
MS can't really use the browser to force adoption of Windows the way they wanted to before.

Ironically, they brought it on themselves with a combination of such a bad and non-standard implementation that many corporate sites were, and continue to be, tied to a broken version of IE, and a painful upgrade path by tying the browser to the OS. If IE was treated more as an application rather than a component, and multiple versions of it could be on the same install without hacks or issues, corporations would be able to ease into an upgrade path, of both the browser and the OS.
This is outrageous nonsense about UK social housing. There is a small amount of truly awful social housing but the vast majority of it is perfectly sound, full of ordinary decent people. I have council flats in front of me, and to the right of my house and they are full of good people.

My brother is a professor of General Practice (a GP/local MD in US parlance) who was on sabbatical in San Francisco 2 years ago. He pointed out to me THEN there were more homeless rough sleepers in Golden Gate Park alone every night than there were rough sleepers in London. Los Angeles had, at that time, 250,000 rough sleepers.

The UK (and the rest of Europe) have social (and drug) problems like anywhere buy nowhere are things as bad in the US which effectively has no functioning social security and where whole communities are 2 wage packets from destitution.
Gotta love x-browser issues... We'll take a look, though it's probably lower priority for us. It works in Chrome release version.
Shipping perishables can be expensive, especially when you're talking about ice cream or meat or vegan tamales.

What we're hoping to do is get enough foodmakers to sign up so that we can have more regionalized products that don't have to travel as far (and hence, have lower shipping costs). One extreme example we have currently, is Dee's Mini Organic Doughnuts, which have $0 shipping costs for the consumer but also have a limited delivery area (SF Bay Area). Imagine if there were many mini doughnut makers in small and large cities...
You're confusing money and wealth. When a house is foreclosed, it is transferred from one owner to another, but it isn't destroyed.
Ask HN: What GUI SQL client do you use?
I used to use Toad, but never really liked it. Isn't there something better with support for MySQL and Oracle? SQL Developer? Aqua Data Studio? PL/SQL Developer? What's your preference? What are the free options?
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John Carmack has always used the VC++ IDE. I rest my case.
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Ah! That is almost certainly it. I think from his TED talk actually.

Thanks, that had been driving me nuts.
Why do you assume that? It could just as well be MatLab or something similar, that makes fiddling with multimedia very easy.
Ah, I had assumed you would have had an automated sales process -- I didn't realize your sales channel would involve actually talking with your customers. I'm really intrigued by the idea of creating marketing campaigns and sites before you build the product, but I can see how that might not apply to your niche.
I wouldn't mind an 'earned franchise' for children several years younger than 18, perhaps as young as 12. It could also be partial: only on a subset of offices (such as lower houses, city councils, and school boards).

And any problems from early voters being especially shallow or manipulated by others would be offset, in the long run, by, these same voters in their 20s already having a deeper understanding of the process. A 20something voter with 10+ years of perspective would be better than today's 20something voters.

But I would worry about the combination of public schools and voting children. The school itself would likely be a polling place, and the pressure to both vote and vote in ways the school establishment prefers would be very strong.

So I'd slot the 'teen franchise' somewhere a decade after 'diverse and mostly-privatized K-12 education' on the reform priority queue.
are you confirmed that all listed domain has been banned .
i don't think so because they are indexed in google yet and having cached randomly . and how you have checked have you any tool or software you need to explain it not to give reason. its like that you are saying to a blind person that its night because its dark
Vaguely related: Newt Gingrich's ideas on 'ending adolescence':

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_45/b41070852...

I suppose if you're doing serious paid work -- even as an apprentice -- at age 13, you should also have a full civic franchise at the same time.
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You just have to be able to make something good enough to convince the next round of investors to back you.

That's the problem. I've been working on it for a while already, and it's unlikely that 3 more months would yield a convincing prototype. I'd still have to sell the idea and myself.

How much money do companies make from Unixes now?

I'm not sure I get what you mean. If someone came up with an OS that was much more powerful than Unix, I'm sure there'd be some people interested, and it'd be possible to snowball from there.
When a company goes bankrupt, is wealth destroyed? When creditors are not repaid, is wealth destroyed? When pension fund investors lose their money and would have to retire later, is wealth destroyed? Current stock and bond prices imply that 10-20% US companies will go out of business in the next 5 years.
One of the things contributing to our continued economic illiteracy is our insistence on stupid abstractions like this. When you distribute huge sums of money it doesn't actually wind up being all that much in individual terms. "hose the rich, they can afford it!" yeah, but after you hose the rich (and they start leaving/not investing) you only have like...a grand per person. A trillion dollars is less than 3 grand per person in the US. Say we hosed the rich to the tune of a trillion EVERY YEAR. We still wouldnt have enough for our socialist schemes. Meanwhile, investment plummets and the productive leave the country...
This is something that's always bothered me about progressive tax rates: You mention that 'the rich' should be paying a bigger portion of tax. They are, by a number of definitions. At even a simple flat tax the rich are paying more than others, because they earn more. Now we add progressive rates so 'the rich' pay a higher percentage of what they make.

Do they receive more of the benefit from their tax dollars? Probably not. National defense protects just about all citizens equally, public schools are hit and miss with tax dollars per student (which may be irrelevant because of private schooling for those who can afford it), and public services like libraries, roads, and protection are not distributed according to who pays more (except when you have higher income communities). If anything the rich receive less benefit per dollar taxed from them than any other group.

Now I'm all for helping out those in need, and giving those who don't earn as much a tax break, but in terms of justice and equality I think our tax system unfairly burdens the rich. But hey, they can handle it, right?
"when I was out of school, they could have paid me minimum wage and I'd be thrilled to take a job to be a great hacker's "hands."

I would be thrilled to do it now, 15 years after graduating.
Agree.
I think Yariv for once violets the erlang law ;) This is not big computations && small communications (-> time_to_write_some_spawn_code) but "simple sort on numbers" which isn't that big computations so to distribute that will not give a time performance gain, as he already discovered.
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Some homeless people are mentally ill but this isn't a reason to not have a social safety net.

To be effective, it would have to be a social safety cage. Reasonable people can differ on whether that is a good idea.
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Well. I type 100-120 wpm, use Emacs, use primarily FAR or cmd.exe (bash in *nix), and prefer not to debug. I suck though.

Apparently, these four things are not enough to be a great hacker. What I seem to lack is the mental capacity to clearly see problem out of the box as my friends (great hackers) do so I have to use all the tools I can to keep up.

it's the kind of sober, relaxed look at a problem that I think separates great from mediocre. The relaxedness and calmness with which hackers attack problems -- most people I know and myself would be anxious and pissed off about a problem. Hackers on the other hand are comfortable and relaxed with problems, seeing them as something, that is fun to solve. They are like cats who play with the mice before they catch the prey; they are confident in their ability to solve the problem, and completely free of tension or stress.

I have that some of the time but very very rarely and I can say, no editor can even come to the performance-enhancive qualities of Zen-like centering.
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Reportedly pallets full of cash was shipped to Iraq in cargo planes to finance the war effort.
People that don't understand economics always want to talk about this big nebulous pool of money that apparently sits in vaults somewhere actively making the rich richer and the poor poorer. This is simple hogwash. the vast majority of the wealth is tied up in the working capital of the corporations that these ultra-wealthy run.
The people we should be focusing on helping aren't the 'poor'. Give them money and it disappears. On the other hand, if you give small business owners (who represent the vast majority of millionaires, and employ about 75% of the people in the US) you get new jobs and new products. remember the old adage about giving a man a fish vs teaching a man to fish? If you HAVE to subsidize something subsidize free fishing polls, not free fish.
My ideal income tax structure would look like this:

If you make under $25,000, you pay no income tax. Everyone else pays 20%. You receive tax breaks for disabilities, children, educational spending, and charitable donations. Corporations would be taxed at 30%, but owners could take profits without being double taxed. Corporations could also receive up to 50% tax breaks through charitable works and/or donations (provides tax incentive for community projects, being 'green', or donating to a cause).

It all seems reasonable to me. Maybe I'm missing something. This would also simplify the complicated and bloated tax code we currently have. It could also encourage more businesses and workers to move here, which would stimulate growth.

Note: I chose 20% because I saw somewhere else a chart that showed that the ultimate tax revenue the government took in regardless of tax rate over the past 50 years or so was 20% of GDP.
That's like saying "everything significant that can be invented has already been invented."

Its very short-sighted.
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A side project of mine that I've put together to help search through django source code. I always find myself looking up function definitions. This is a side project that I've made to help look up things much faster.
Ask HN: Selling IP rights to an iPhone app
Hi. I have been a lurker at Hacker News for 6 months now. This is the first time I have had to ask this kind of question to this community. I respect the opinions and quality of responses of people who post here and I hope you guys can guide me in the right direction. I am posting under a different account than usual because I wish to remain anonymous.

A very large company has expressed interest in purchasing my iPhone app which isn't even complete yet. I just gave a working demo to the managers and directors of the company and they really liked it.

Talk of contractual agreements and IP rights immediately followed. They also expressed interest for further ongoing contractual work to build iPhone apps for them and the various digital arms of their organisation.

I am confused about what to do and how to approach this.

I have a company which I set up some time ago for my iPhone apps. My goal was to eventually transition from my full-time web developer role to being a full-time iPhone developer working for myself.

If I am able to negotiate a contract with this company to produce several more apps then this goal may be realised, as it could open the door to many other interested parties.

However my questions are:

1. Should I sell the IP rights to my software?

2. What are the disadvantages of selling the IP rights?

3. Why would they be after the IP of this software?

4. If I do decide to sell the IP rights, how much should I charge for it? How is this calculated?

5. What is a good model for a working arrangement between my company and this other company?

6. It was suggested to me that I sell the IP rights, then have a contract stipulating the price of each feature they want built. Is this a good idea?

Thanks Hacker News.

I would appreciate any guidance you can give me.
Don't feel that you have to answer all the questions I have raised. Any answer is better than no answers.
I wholeheartedly agree with your point. But is it a matter of economic illiteracy? Isn't it a matter of plain innumeracy? $1 trillion = 1E12 dollars, 300 million Americans = 3E8 persons, and hence that is only approx. 3 grand per person, like you mentioned. This is basic arithmetic. It's not even a problem of economic illiteracy, though economic illiteracy is a serious problem which allows demagogues to manipulate the masses easily. Cheap sentimentalism is defeating rationality. Even if the rich were heavily taxed, there's simply not enough money to pay for the benefits this generation of Americans seems to feel entitled to.
MATLAB certainly is the leader in the field, but Mathematica does finite element, control systems, etc.

Anyway, the point is, when it comes to being "trusted" there are a lot of software companies and products who Google doesn't really compare to.
This originally started out as my own tool, but I thought you guys might be able to benefit from it. I'm always forgetting how certain functions such as "direct_to_template" are called , so I end up digging through source code to find out.

This lets you find code quickly. No need to dig through documentation to reference simple functions or class definitions.
This is an idea whose time has come. Look at what happened during the last depression: the top marginal tax rate jumped from around 25% to over 90%. I think a broadly-graduated marginal property tax on non-agricultural properties is also a good idea.

A lot of people made off like bandits during this bubble. A 70% tax rate at income over a million is probably unavoidable. We can't just fleece the average tax payer for generations and leave the top 1%, many of whom profited during this time, undisturbed on their St.Barts vacations.
I agree and I'll add that Sacramento's homelessness has a seasonal cycle to it. The homeless population increases every spring as the weather warms. There's a lot of migration involved with homelessness, apparently. I don't pretend to know the mechanics of it exactly, but that's what I've seen.
And some of those pallets full of cash were reported missing. Is anyone surprised?
If you HAVE to subsidize something subsidize free fishing polls, not free fish.

What a great quote. Did you hear that from somewhere, or did you just come up with it?

I think you hit on a pretty good point about our economy - there is a very long tail of employers and producers in our country. When people think of the 'corporations' or the 'rich', they think of Exxon Mobile and Bill Gates, and fail to realize that the vast majority of our employers, 'rich', and GDP producers are not these companies or people but the small business owners. It's easy to sell higher taxes on Exxon Mobile and Bill Gates, but it's the local pet store owner, or community bank is who is ultimately affected the most by taxes.
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In Belgium, the 50% tax bracket starts at some 30,000 EUR/year. And that's exclusive of the 13% social security tax.

There must be some kind of sensible middle road...
How do you define "great hackers" then? If you go with the ESR "A great hacker is someone who other great hackers consider a hacker" definition, you get a very inbred, circle-jerk culture. (Which seems to have happened in various corners of the free software world, BTW.) Of course a great hacker would use the same tools as you then...that's how you know they're a great hacker, after all. ;-)

Other metrics like "A great hacker is someone who writes lots of code" are equally ludicrous, because then only Java and Cobol programmers end up as great hackers since those languages are so much more verbose than everything else. ;-)
Similar to what I was saying I guess. Although I don't see why race has to enter into the argument.
Exactly. I just don't get why the conversation about tax raising by one or two percent on a high bracket evokes images of "communism" on some people. Going from 39% to 40% (or whatever) is NOT a paradigm shift people.
I have a hard time understanding your logic behind this. The people who make more money (including those who 'made off like bandits' like you say) were already taxed for their earnings. Are you saying that these people (who profited during the bubble) will keep earning money? Or maybe you're saying that we need higher taxes now so that the next bubble the government will get in on more of the action?

Also, how is the government fleecing the average taxpayer anymore than it is fleecing the rich? Aren't the rich not only taxed more (because they earn more), but taxed at a higher rate?
They look dangerously addictive.
It could be that those who don't think so are people who already type fast, and so never notice much of a difference.

I'm in the "typing speed makes no difference" category. However, I already typed 80+ WPM when I started programming (thank you, AIM and MUDs), so I really have no comparison for what it's like to type slowly, except for the couple weeks I spent learning Dvorak. It's really odd for me to look at this thread and see people talking about bringing their typing speed up to 60 WPM.

I could imagine that typing speed would be a problem if you're stuck at 20 WPM or something. I just assume that anyone who does anything significant with computers is at 60 WPM+ already, and at that speed, it really doesn't make a huge difference.
I think it has to do with people feeling as if they are being taxed enough already. If 39% seemed like too much (but tolerable because it's already there), 40% is just insulting. If it weren't a big deal to go from 39% to 40%, then the government shouldn't mind not having that extra 1%, right?
It would ultimately depend on how the interview would go. I'm not sure she's so much an ass kisser as she is just really excited about the company. But I agree, giddiness and dog-like loyalty definitely do not impress me as much as useful criticism. That being said, I'd much prefer a highly motivated and happy employee, who feels the company and their role in it have meaning, to, oh, an employee slightly more productive who doesn't really care. Happy people are much better company.
That's what a good IDE is for. Eclipse or IntelliJ will write most of that Java for you. ;-)
Could be confusing cause and effect. Good programmers write a lot of code, and if you write a lot of code, you will get better at typing it in.
That was the argument for lowering the voting age from 21 to 18. I wonder why drinking and gambling is still restricted to 21. From what I understand there is no federal law against it, but if states allow it then federal money is withheld from the states.
The 3 mistakes in short succession show that they haven't learnt from this, and I should make provisions for myself.

Somewhat similar to a staff member who has had 3 warnings is obviously not learning.
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If someone is looking for a good antivirus product, try F-secure.

Everytime I had to deal with a virus infection, they were always there with a free patch.

They are also playing nice with linux, and made a freely available Knoppix based rescue CD and are blogging about their activity.

http://www.f-secure.com/linux-weblog/2008/11/25/rescuecd-301...

They've always been there in bad times, they've earned my trust and that's the product I would advise to companies from now on.
I had a job interview once where the question was "find all descendants of a DOM node with a certain tag name, and return them in document order." I thought for about 30 seconds, and then wrote up on the board:

element.getElementsByTagName(tagName);

That was what he was looking for. ;-) Of course, then he had me do it out as if getElementsByTagName didn't exist.