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The latest version just pastes URLS. It can be found here:
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Mortgage brokers can make money from both the up-front fees they collect from customers as well as fees which they sometimes receive from the wholesale mortgage lenders who actually provide the money for the loans. The up-front fees are revealed to the customer and the other fees are not. They can be in the thousands of dollars.

I did some database work for several retail mortgage providers several years ago; it's possible this has changed now but I rather doubt it. At that time, as I learned how the system worked, I was a bit shocked and thought the whole mortgage business seemed very dodgy though everyone assured me that's just how the industry worked.

I wonder if Cringely's service is making this "money on the backside" (that's what they call it) or if the $10/month subscription is really all they get?
It depends on what they plan on doing - if they are running ads just on Stormpulse then there are lots of solutions available.

If they are building a vertical ad network (i.e. connecting advertisers with multiple weather-related publishers) than something like Adify will do the trick.

Full disclosure: I work at Adify.
The hyphen in the domain says to me: "We haven't really thought about this much."
Also, when you're offering less for more, you don't want to shout about it too much. Prices have gone up (by large amounts for some, esp. the UK) , specs have gone sideways in a few cases (bottom two iMacs with integrated graphics, headline clock speed drops on the Pros, etc)
Most websites with extended articles have links for "Printer-Friendly" pages. Am I violating a moral code by reading the articles in that form?

How about when I walk away from my TV when commercials come on? That's what I usually do, when I'm actually watching TV, which is relatively rare.

I also never bother reading ads in the newspaper. Sometimes, I fold the newspaper such that I don't have to look at the ad, and can focus on the content.

Are you seriously arguing that just because a service chooses to show ads, I'm not entitled to actively ignore those ads?
Everyone is afraid of getting hosed by not anticipating future rights. Everyone knows how actors lost out by agreeing to a much smaller percentage of DVD revenue than for films (because they underestimated the market and profit margins), and everyone is determined to not let that happen to them.

This kind of fear propagates faster than actual realistic fears because you sound wise by talking about the future. So lawyers can always "add value" by cautioning against some deal that might be disadvantageous in 20 years.
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How about free content that isn't ad-supported? Shouldn't sites like Wikipedia and dmoz give you more pause than an ad-blocker?
I've been pretty happy with FreshBooks for invoicing, etc.
I think you're mis-stating how the capital gains rate will change, although that's the obvious interpretation based on the linked article.

Based on Wikipedia (which may be wrong, but at least explains it more clearly), the long-term capital gains rate will be 0% for those in the 10% income tax bracket, 10% for those in the 15% income tax bracket, and 20% for all others, meaning the discontinuity for joint filing happens around $65k.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_gains_tax_in_the_United...
I live in Argentina. We know a lot about that.
Agreed, but for that you need money:(
Blockbuster considering Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
Interestingly enough, the program uses "Monte-Carlo Tree Search". Has anyone tried this method for arimaa?
I have to disagree with you. Military force is unnecessary and I think Einstein would agree. I doubt I can make the case better than Gandhi, so check out his writings.

Paraphrasing Gandhi and Einstein,

There are many causes I am willing to die for, but none I am willing to kill for.

"Self-Defence" is a subjective term that can easily be twisted towards a desired goal - any educated American should realize that.
Fork Everything
The tax code is an outrage. The sad thing is that we waste 22 cents in compliance and complexity for every dollar raised for the treasury from the income tax. Obama's plan makes the complex code even worse, increasing the deadweight loss to our society.

http://www.taxfoundation.org/news/show/1281.html
Those numbers have M after them. As in million. I never thought this would have ever worked. 100 percent convinced JTv was on a course with obscurity. Tell the honest to god truth -- weren't you?
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. Ad-supported sites have an implicit agreement: view these ads, and you can get access to the content. I feel that disabling the ads violates that agreement. Further, I'm worried about what would happen if everyone blocked the ads. These sites need to make money, and if they don't, the content goes away.

Sites like Wikepedia are donation based, and run as non-profits.
Bittorrent does the same thing more easily, but neither works for live broadcasts. The technical solution to the HD bandwidth issue is probably ISP level multicast, but they'd still only be able to deliver the most popular content, making them effectively "a la carte" cable companies.

Perhaps a frame based variation on the bittorrent protocol is the way to go, where you're constantly torrenting sequential blocks of content and viewing with a slight delay. I think people would find that acceptable for live events that aren't popular in their current location, but broadcast is still superior for mass appeal content.
This is not an argument for 'simplifying' the tax code, if anything, it should be complicated. Using a discrete cutoff point, while easier to explain to voters, is far more gameable than using say, a logarithmic scale.
There's a Dropbox Droplet (http://wiki.getdropbox.com/DropboxAddons/Dropbox%20Droplet) that does essentially this. For somebody who doesn't have Dropbox, this tool seems cool, but I wouldn't go to the effort of adding yet another tool when Dropbox is close enough.
There this website I found that maintains a piece of history

http://backrub.c63.be

Those guys have a year-wise page. Enjoy history!

And the same paper is here too http://backrub.c63.be/May1998/anatomy.htm

P.S: you get "foo" when you visit http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/ wondering where's the "bar"
> families who make $249,999 may actually pay far fewer taxes than families making $250,000.

That's not how tax brackets work. Jumping into the higher bracket doesn't mean you make less money, it means you pay more taxes for the amount above the bracket, but you'll pay the same tax rate on the 249k as the guy only making 249k. So he'd only pay the 20% rate on the extra dollar, hardly far more than the other guys.
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Entrepreneurship And The Valuation Of Public Companies
Maybe the domain name is a SEO play. It only sounds like a Spam domain to internet savvy users. To the other millions of people who only know Hotmail, AOL and Google it won't seem so. And they will click on the link when it rises to the top of search result.
YouTube Holds A Casting Call To Educate Its Users
"Many people hold the highest moral good to be the elimination of suffering. They believe that we should work to improve the material conditions of the world's least-well-off humans. Ayn believes these people are evil. "
I don't have a quote to disprove you, but I'm fairly certain you are incorrect. Ayn's problem was moreso with any moral code that obliges you to help those in need, and with any financial or political system that forces you, at the point of a gun, to do so. If you want to make it your life's work to help the underprivileged, good on you, and I would be glad to help with an extra I may have, but forcing me to do it is another story. This is a common misinterpretation of her philosophy, but she writes so harshly that it isn't surprising, to me.

You will find, in real life situations, where freedom and personal property rights are protected, that almost everyone within that society has a higher standard of living than in countries that do not protect these rights. Most humans are compassionate and generous to the less well off. But if you restrict freedoms, and force compassion, I think its fair to say that you can see the real world consequences of that.

If her philosophy was to never help anyone under any circumstances without them earning it (which I don't think it was, this is often I think unjustly presumed by people), then I would disagree with her, and history shows that in free, affluent countries, most people do.
Ayn repeatedly spoke about open competition, and how it was wrong/immoral to not be willing to compete on an even playing field. Its been way over a decade since I read Atlas Shrugged, but I know for a fact that I could pull a quote out of the book that would show she disagreed in principle with Microsoft's "anti-competitive" practices.
This one is nice but you need to work quite a bit before reading the page. I was not able to do it quickly with PrintWhatYouLike

What I would really enjoy is:

1. Select the text on the page

2. Click on the bookmarklet link

3. Start to read

I wasn't able to do this quickly with PrintWhatYouLike. But maybe I am missing something.
2. Film stock and processing (over 50k with celluloid, but obviously digital is much cheaper).

And if you're shooting a web show you don't need the high quality film because the ultimate medium is digital anyways.
So I have no moral right to use a text-only browser? I have no moral right to browse without a Flash plugin or without JavaScript? I have no moral right to block ads to protect my machine from spyware and make the browsing experience palatable? Most ads are decent, but a minority are extremely intrusive when searching random sites on Google for information.
Does Microsoft's Kumo Herald an Era of Visual Search?
I agree....it's this type of over the top stuff that turns me off her writing. Atlas Shrugged should be rewritten, "now with 50% less cheese!"

But actually, can you see her point? Its quite true in real life, that you are constantly being evaluated by your peers to maintain some sort of a balance between reciprocation of favors. I think what she was warning about was excessive power of the state, so that favors were distributed primarily from them, as the result can be an entire society with a dependent personality and no sense of personal responsibility. Does that remind you of anything we see currently?
This paper is an academic paper, which, in our current system, means that to read it, we have to pay for it.

I would venture to say that all of our institutions of higher learning receive federal and state money. Each of them, as well, has an active program in place to seek out charitable contributions from alumni and other likely victims. "Help us teach the world", they tell us, as their hand reaches out for our checkbook.

There is a tradition in science of collaboration between institutions. Even countries that have political tension between them embrace, or at least succumb to, the notion of the importance of this collaboration.

Yet here we are, being asked to buy an 11 year old paper. Indeed, there's hardly an interesting paper written by anybody in academia that is easily available. Sure, you may be able to hunt it down, or go to the authors website, or pirate a copy. Why is this necessary? Why is this information sold to the world in small, hard to search doses, rather than being made freely available? Can you imagine the disservice done to mankind by this silly practice? How many inventions have not been invented? How many discoveries have not been made? This is not a drug company that's invested billions in R&D, and so deserves the fruits of it's labor. This is work by our young PhD students, funded using tax and charity money, in fields that claim to place a high value on the free exchange of knowledge, and we're still buying 11 year old academic papers.

I want academic papers to be free and available and searchable. I've already paid for them.
I just made some tweaks, and now, files last for 24 hours.
If anyone knows one which primarily reaches educators, I'll be over that like white on rice.

Here are my issues with the non-Google online advertising I've tried so far, and I've tried a bunch of them.

1) I sell a really niche product. You deliver a really niche audience. It is possible that my niche times your niche equals a number of interested prospects so low that it is not worth my (very expensive) time to investigate, implement, and optimize your ads. Remember, advertising on a competing website who uses AdWords costs me no time at all at the margin.

2) I only want to pay for traffic that has a chance of converting. One provider I used, who will remain nameless, charge me the same prices Google does. However, my ad (for a product which is culturally only well-suited to American customers) was getting displayed in the middle of education websites in Spain. And I was getting charged full price for that.

3) My time is very, very expensive -- I shoot for $100 an hour. Let's say it takes, oh, two hours to get everything set up for your website, including conversion tracking, writing copy to conform to your requirements, etc. And lets say that you deliver sales to me at, oh, $10 apiece.

$30 product - $10 for you = $20 for me, per sale. (We'll ignore my other marginal costs since I essentially don't have any.) $200 / $20 = 10 sales required to break even against my time. 2% conversion rate implies I usually need roughly 500 free trial downloads to generate 10 sales. 20% conversion to free trial implies I would need 2,500 clicks from interested users to generate 500 free downloads.

So to just break even with my time for setting up your service once, I need 2,500 clicks from interested users. That is if you deliver absurdly high ROI immediately right out of the gate. If you don't, then I need to analyze results and optimize my ads for you, and that again has an imputed value of $100 per hour.

Most non-Google advertising platforms I have tried require far too much of my time to justify the returns they have provided.
The world as we know it was 45,000 miles away from dying last night and not one of the billions of people on this planet had any idea... we don't need a missile defense shield to protect us from Russia... how about something to stop Armageddon?
One old trick of mine on Windows is to install an Apple Laserwriter, 'Print to file', and then output the filename for the .ps to load into Ghostscript.

As a bonus, you can take out textual watermarks in some cases, because of the Postscript being basically text.
Please don't find it insulting when I say I find your numbers hard to believe. A claim of a marginal tax rate of 75% without any solid numbers is hardly doing justice your thesis. If you'd give a more detailed breakdown, your case would not seem so dubious.
photocracy.org - the future of photo sorting?
Heres an analogy that most hackers can identify with-- the local coffee shop. The agreement there is implicit as well (and sometimes explicit): buy this coffee, and you can use the internet. Should you get free internet without buying the coffee?
I'm trying to use the term "moral right" to distinguish between things that you are entitled to do because of living in a (mostly) free society, and the things you are entitled to do because of gentlemen's agreements.

You have the right to browse the internet in any manner that you see fit. But you are in no way morally entitled to any particular content just because it exists. I see ad-supported sites as gentlemen's agreements: we give you content if you view our ads.
you wouldn't. nor would i trust personal documents with this service. hence, it's not very useful to me -- I use a PDF printer driver.
It is very cool that so many people are using the site, the problem though seems to be that the majority of the traffic is for illegal content. They have shown cases of big legitimate use, like the Jonas Brothers web chats, and the Keke Palmer web chat, however day-to-day it seems to be for sports, TV shows, and movies.
Great story, Nate. Though I hope Inkling's main market doesn't get too crowded with too many people trying to do the same thing!
The subjects of this article never said anything that implies that they don't know what a marginal tax rate is. It profiles a lawyer and a dentist, two professionals whose pay is in proportion to the hours they put in, who have to decide when the marginal value of more money is less than the marginal value of more free time. Naturally, there will be a cluster of people who decide that the tax bracket change point is the right place to do this - more so the larger the difference between the two brackets.

Or, to use the tone that the author used, this idiot author is so stupid that he doesn't understand the concept of marginal utility...
Except coffee shops are for-profit. I'm not concerned Wikipedia will disappear. I am concerned that the NY Times online will disappear, because it needs to sustain a profit.

(For the record, I actually worry if my coffee purchase really does offset my resource usage when I stay for 3-4 hours in my local coffee shop on weekends.)
Rand had serious issues with religion, she wrote about it in her nonfiction. I happen to agree with her by the way.
Phishing Attack Takes Down iStockPhoto
Baseline scenario: good, up-to-date blog on economic crisis
Please go back and read more precisely. I didn't say that I had an actual marginal tax rate of 75%, I said "an apparent marginal tax rate of 75%", using that "apparent" qualification quite intentionally.

Looking at the picture with an understanding of what's going on, it's clear that there's a degree of apples and oranges here. I don't know what my tax liability would be if I were to take the previous year's data and apply the current tax rules to it, but that's what would show what my actual marginal rate is.

What I'm trying to illustrate is that the real-world experience of a taxpayer, under the regime of a byzantine tax code, can (and did, in my case) experience a severe dis-incentive to further productivity. And the farther the tax code moves in a "progressive" direction, the more frequently this will be true.

Incentives matter.

(Sorry, I'm not going to announce all my financial data on the Internet)
Woah. I don't think that's a good way to be thinking. One of the major downsides of internet-based television is that the video quality is typically very, very bad.

To take over TV, you need to at least match the picture quality of made-for-TV movies, and probably match 1080i resolution.
It actually has been done. Joss Whedon produced Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog during the writer's strike. It was definitely a high quality production. And it was well received. Also, after DVD's and songs on Itunes, Joss Whedon has recouped all of the costs.

I do see your point though. Making high quality video is very hard. It cost Joss Whedon around $200,000 to make. And Joss Whedon has a cult following, so just having his name on it gave the project a lot of P.R. And Joss Whedon has been involved with Hollywood movies and television shows, so he has the experience necessary to make a high quality show.

I wonder if the entertainment industry is headed to a model comparable to venture capitalism. Media Companies might be forced to split their services into two sections. They would act like a vc firm and give money to producers in exchange for a percent of the gross. And they could sell access to their distribution network. I'm sure that no media company would want to do this willingly though. It would mean giving up control over the ip rights, and they would have to find new distribution methods.

Hulu:http://www.hulu.com/watch/28327/dr-horribles-sing-along-blog...

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Horrible%27s_Sing-Along_Blo...
I'm listening to one of its authors, Simon Johnson, on Fresh Air:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1013602...

Good speaker & thinker. Blog has him + two other authors, and looks good.
You can extend the amount of processing time available on the client by storing intermediate results in window.name (which gives you up to 2MB of semi persistent storage)
I recognized it as satire by the time I got to the words "I hate Lisp". Really, a variation on an old theme.
Looks that way. Then again, the default behavior from using the search box from the home page also has a few more parameters on the URL, which result in skinning the results.
Mark Cuban has a counterpoint:

http://blogmaverick.com/2009/01/27/the-great-internet-video-...

Not that I agree with him, but it's nice to have discourse.
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This article wasn't about the education bubble as I think of it -- it mentioned nothing of the questionable value proposition higher education provides to students. Perhaps a reduction in endowment values will force the universities to either (1) increase effective* prices even further or (2) cut back on the package they sell to students. A government cut-back in student loan guarantees would further precipitate market collapse.

* "effective" was chosen to encompass the notion of list price vs. street price (list minus university-provided scholarships).
The proverb is, it's better to be the head of a chicken than the BACKSIDE of a buffalo. Meaning it's better being a small leader than a large underling.
Or, you could just read what he wrote. Maybe I missed it, but was he selling something? But then I didn't spend 5 minutes looking for a conspiracy.
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I like this. It is much better than Firefox and Safari. As for usage, I like to save press articles and keep them as downloadable PDFs so that I can quickly show someone on the road that we're a real company. Just one example.
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Feel free to point out the logical inconsistencies.
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BS. Money's marginal value goes down the more you have--your 1st house is worth more to you than your Nth super car. After around 500k net worth, money is more about status and ranking than anything else--something that happens to be preserved under a graduated tax. The only other thing it is good for is perhaps real estate closer to a waterfront, a fancy downtown, etc.; under a graduated income tax that stays pretty much the same because there isn't as much money to be spent on it. Most of the value is in the land, not the construction.
The important questions here are:

1) What's my file limit?

2) How long are files kept for?
> Doing a map and then a filter is O(2N), whereas mapfilter is O(N). That’s twice as a fast!

O(2N) is O(N). The function F would have to be as or more trivial than a boolean comparison for the speed to double.

> Does mapfilter exist in any programming language?

In python, you can use list comprehensions and generators to accomplish this, although it is a bit kludgy:

[fx for fx in (f(x) for x in lst) if fx]

In haskell you can just use the regular map and filter constructs and the lazyness will ensure that the list is only iterated over once.