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If you read a book like "Lords of Finance" you get a good idea why the Keynes school of thought won out. Granted it focuses on the last big financial bust but when you read it you can see a lot of similarities to what happened recently. I read a lot of economic books on both schools of thought and this is one of the best I've ever read.

Love him or hate him Bernanke is a real student of that era and here is a quote (from wikipedia, didn't do a background check on accuracy) "On September 2, 2010, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke was asked by the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission what books or academic papers he would recommend to understand the financial crisis of 2007–2010. The only book that Bernanke recommended was Lords of Finance."
They have, but if you look at it in terms of fundamental change, then of course not.

For example, a cell phone from today isn't fundamentally different than a cell phone from a decade ago. They're both computers and can be used to make phone calls. But with the cellphone of today, I can have a virtual meeting with anyone from anywhere, face-to-face. That alone is a huge improvement for distributed teams.
What makes you think google hasn't tried your solution, among others?

Google spends a large amount of time, energy, and money trying to figure out the best ways to hire candidates that are "fit", and tries numerous things (simultaneously, in fact) past "asking stress problems". The fact that most people go through the current interview process (which, btw, has visibly changed in the 6.5 years i've been there) does not mean they don't experiment, or use alternative methods. It's simply the most common.
I would guess that nobody you know who takes drugs for ADHD -- and actually needs it -- feels like talking about it. When drugs are a game, people talk about them. When drugs are quietly taken to keep one's life stable, they keep quiet.
Neat. One thing I noticed though... my karma isn't correct even though it states it was last updated today. I haven't commented in almost a week prior to this comment.
> and it also hints at potential complacency.

Hints? Potential? Have you guys not seen the kool-aid their employees are watching internally: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AkLOvjl5jo
> Yeah, because Capitalism is a system that has put millions/billions of people out of misery and starvation throughout the world

So has Stalin!!![1]

I am not sure you are aware of the precious, precious ambiguity in your use of the idiom "putting someone out of their misery"...

http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/put+out+of+misery

[1]: Tell me, is what I wrote positive or negative? Either way, I'm sure Capitalism did!
FTA, Amazon's core business is "build[ing] a massive online database and offline infrastructure to transport boxes from warehouses to hundreds of millions of doorsteps", and I would argue that Costco's physical presence, existing warehouse efficiency, and brand identity positions them well for a foray into Amazon's business.

As for "offer something better other than price", most people point to customer service, and in my experience Costco's customer service completely blows away Amazon.
Wonder how many digits and limbs were lost to such systems.
Wonderful, someone summarized stories we've had posted directly and discussed already, and they get voted up? I'd rather the originals just get reposted, honestly.
Depends. As I understand it, using copyright for the betterment of society is a British/American view of copyright. Elsewhere in Europe it's seen as an author's right to control one's work.
If so then why aren't there more people chasing down their position as 'most profitable tech company'?

Competitors are not yet successful at giving Apple's profitability a run for its money, but you'd have to be willfully blind to think they weren't trying.

LG, Samsung, Nokia, RIM, HTC, Huawei, Acer, Asus, Motorola, Sony...
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… but in an overall growing market.

It’s not necessarily true that competitors are converting owners of Apple devices en masse, it’s much more likely that competitors are able to convert more non-smartphone or tablet users than Apple can.

I foresee Apple being just a company that doesn’t grow much in the future but still makes tons of money.
A vanity publisher runs a poetry "competition"; they award a first, second, and third prize. They then publish all entries in a book, and people buy the book too see their poem in "print".

Schools now do something similar, but without the competition.
I just got a measurement of my post, simply because you replied. ;)

Just by talking to me, you've let me know what I said was worth at least a reply.

This is just opinion, so take it for what its worth... I'd much rather someone reply to me, email, chat whatever, and let me know what exactly they think rather than assign my words a value via a mouse click. Wouldn't you?
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Or they think that you were a recruiter who applied for the job with a fake CV (yes, that happens as well) and ignore you from now on.
To give plagiarism more teeth? To deter students from copying each-others notes? To reinforce a policy of students accessing knowledge from only legitimate sources (ie: textbooks)? The applications are numerous and potentially lucrative.
I live in the US, and I'd be surprised if the carriers don't keep such data for a while. That's bad on its own. The part that's extra disturbing is that your government would require it.
Forgive me, but I have to protest. Those are like responding to a comment on Elvis with some [EDIT: removed offensive and distracting epithet] cartoons about Lisa Marie's marriage to MJ. Hardly "obligatory".

It would be better to learn something about Byron. He is arguably the most iconic figure of the 19th century, extraordinarily compelling and interesting, and his life was one of the laboratories in which modern identity was created.
This is pretty cool haha, it tracks and it gives accurate data. Very very quickly to. Great job.
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I think he means to say that there are already various smartphone and laptop manufactures whereas there are few (none?) who have Amazon's worldwide logistics infrastructure. So in effect, the hurdles to be tackled by a promising competitor are more easily monitor in Amazon's case than in Apple's and therefore Amazon is a potentially safer investment.

I myself think the view a bit too simplistic and as a counterpoint I would say that Apple's continuous influential presence within the market despite the hostility imposed by the numerous competitors is a testament to Apple's ability to navigate treacherous waters.
This is also starting to become true with the kindle for consumers.

Anecdata: I'm an Apple customer who purchases Kindle books specifically because they're cross-platform. I like that they're at least future-resistant.
I don't quite follow you either, maybe I misunderstand you. Every sale that Walmart makes is one that Amazon didn't get, right? They are direct competitors (at least for a subset of their respective product portfolio).
I'm not involved with anything remotely illegal but I still watched this all the way through because of the police situation in the US:

"An law school professor and former criminal defense attorney tells you why you should never agree to be interviewed by the police."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc

It's quite fascinating really. The police officer he has come up to speak talks about some of the tricks they use to get people to confess and they talk about word tricks they use to get convictions even of innocent people. It's pretty terrifying.

What I find interesting is how many TV shows depict suspects running their mouths to the police like they're all buddies. You're NEVER supposed to do that. Even innocent people can very easily incriminate themselves, as they show in the above video.

Speaking of Texas and executions, have you ever read about Todd Willingham?

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/09/07/090907fa_fact_...

Willingham was convicted of "multiple infanticide" for burning his house down with his daughters still inside. He maintained his innocence until the end, and finally found a fire investigator to review the case shortly before he was scheduled to be executed. The investigator provided conclusive evidence that he DID NOT start the fire, but the Board of Pardons and Paroles apparently didn't even read it:

“The only reasonable conclusion is that the governor’s office and the Board of Pardons and Paroles ignored scientific evidence.”

And so, sadly, he was executed.

There are so many WTFs in this case, which is probably partly why the article is so long. One thing that stood out is how the witness testimony changed from "he was frantically trying to put the fire out" to "he didn't seem to be doing much of all" after he was charged with starting the fire (the witnesses became biased). And how the fire investigators could be high school drop outs with minimal training, and how they used gut feelings and super outdated science while investigating the case. Their investigation is really what caused him to be convicted. Pretty sad story, and it seems to happen a lot like this, especially in Texas.
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I've been saying for many years - if scientists can't break past the issue of copyrights, nobody will. Academia concentrates probably the smartest minds on earth. They should do better than cowering under the tyranny of copyright. They should lead the way.
The FDA themselves warn Adderrall has a high potential for abuse, not to mention the risks of sudden death or cardiovascular incidents that must be checked for before prescribing it. It doesn't sound like any doctor did the proper diagnosing and checking on this kid before this tragedy happened, and those doctors should be held accountable for his death.

Not to mention the other potential side effects like Psychosis, Aggression, Seizures... I don't understand why anyone would ever take a drug like this, the list of side effects sounds worse than the problem it's trying to cure...
http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/label/2007/011...

I think the scariest thing in the article though is the way he got the prescription: by answering a questionnaire given by a nurse. All the kid had to do to "get his fix" was lie on the form and bam, diagnosed, pills in hand, he walks out and wrecks his life.

This for me highlights the bigger issue with mental health care today, that the science is bogus, it's all based on opinion (just like the DSM where disorders are "voted into existence" by a few psychiatrists every year at the American Psych association convention) and not actual science.

If I go to a doctor complaining of chest pain, I can get a cholesterol test, and he can prescribe me a powerful blood thinner fully knowing it will save me from having a stroke. If I go to a psychiatrist, he will ask me a few questions and prescribe a powerful psychotropic that could make me go insane and hang myself. Sad but true.
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How do you define "competing against Amazon"?

If you define it as general retail (who manages to capture the consumer dollar), then Walmart and its physical stores can be considered a competitor.

If you take the article's concept: "build a massive online database and offline infrastructure to transport boxes from warehouses to hundreds of millions of doorsteps.", then clearly stores aren't competing with Amazon.
amzn see themselves as an infrastructure company, their legacy ecommerce business is being kept at low margin precisely because they're unable to innovate further. aapl keeps selling at high margins because they're building differentiated products. this junk argument is getting tired.
I took Ritalin all through grammer and high school. Obviously it helped me concentrate, but when I got to college, all I could think was "I'm not me, I am this drug."

So I stopped taking it. I flunked out of college, I moved back home, I failed out of community college. Then I moved west, joined the dot com boom, got a great job, a wife, a spectacular career, and I've founded a non-profit.

I am fairly certain that I don't have ADHD. Instead, I think that the real problem is that school is fucking boring as shit! I always loved working for money, since I was 13 and mowed lawns, but I always hated school because it was boring and I was ostracized.

Today, I don't take anything for my so-called ADD. Frankly, I think it's all a buncha bullshit, and ADD is an excuse for teachers who hate their students.

At the end of the day, ADD is just another personality quirk you have to learn how to manage. Drugging it into submission creates weakness in the sufferer.

You know what cured my ADHD? Working from home.
This is completely focused on the financial side of the business. The innovation & marketing factors are not being considered, and those are precisely the elements that allow Apple to keep their high margin.

If a product is - or at least is perceived - to be 100% better than the others, paying just an extra 30% is a win in the mind of consumers
I am by no means a devops guy, and this is just a quickly whipped together t1.micro instance with haproxy/nginx/php-fpm/wp/whatever, that's been built using tutorials of questionable quality (as it turned out now) that I found online.

So there probably won't be too much value in a post like that. All I did was setting some sane parameters for Fast CGI stuff in nginx, some for php-fpm and the db.
Picasso said: "Good Artists Copy, but Great Artists Steal."

Everyone learns from previous generations. Think of copying as a learning process. As one grows, you inject your own variation and create your own masterpiece.
In the medical field investments are on the scale of billions to bring a new drug to market, and each invention in part is somewhat independent.

On the other hand, in CS, algorithms are cheap to code and combine much more, it's always a fusion of many algorithms and patterns, so, putting restrictions on them has a chilling effect. Also, the perverse idea that adding "on the internet" to any previous idea makes it new and worthy of a patent.
I not only read but quoted the manual, in parts of the article that you evidently skipped. I also described why SAFE and FSYNC_SAFE, aren't. I also described why getLastError doesn't work when pipelined or multithreaded.

It's hard writing for the "tl;dr"-generation (as this exchange demonstrates -- there was a time when it used to be embarrassing to have someone say the same thing twice to you in a discussion).

I'll have a separate blog entry on why REPLICA_SAFE is broken, and how the setup you outlined can lose data.
> I just got a measurement of my post, simply because you replied. ;)

Yes, but I also upvoted you ;)

I essentially agree with you, it's just that I think karma has its place, too. And usually when I reply to a comment, I make it a point to give it a vote as well.
You're confusing a single conversation with the ongoing presence on the forum. Karma is an imperfect but effective way of assessing a user's position within the community based on her/his previous actions and reactions. It can be looked at as a substitute to an auditory/visual first impression in the "real" world.
The DEA classifies it as a Schedule II amphetamine with high potential for abuse: http://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/pubs/manuals/pract/section...

The main active ingredients are amphetamines, so yes, it's an amphetamine-based medication, hence its high potential for people abusing it, and many doctors have gone to jail for doling it out carelessly to people.
Richard's proposition is basically that metrics should be created and used because its always better to have more data. This is only true if the data is good. The biggest problem I can see is that metrics are easy to fake. That's fine on sites StackOverflow where the stakes are very low but when metrics are accorded extremely high value, as is being proposed here, you immediately create a huge incentive to pollute the data.

The only way out of this is to create some kind of quality assurance of the metrics themselves. To me that seems like a monster problem that no startup can possibly handle.

If they restrict their scope a bit more than trying to liberate all of academia from the publishers there are probably ways to add value.
> My last comment, a quip about about how every programmer thinks they're the best, was worth 64 points. However, a detailed post I wrote on molecular dynamics simulation where I fact-checked and reviewed the literature was only worth 3 points. Go figure.

It doesn't seem surprising to me. It takes effort to recognize quality, most people aren't going to bother. It makes sense that quality is hard to measure, because if it weren't it would most likely be easier to produce. Perhaps the score should be corrected for length and how deep in the thread a comment is, but getting it right is probably more trouble than it's worth.
How do you stop someone from making an ad out of a Moment? Or leaving some disgusting X-rated stuff designed to harass women or abuse children?
These days, OSX is simply a better product than is Windows (stability, security, feature set). OSX also has things like iTunes (largest provider of digital content world-wide... besides Pirate Bay), FinalCut, Logic, Aperture, and GNU/BSD tools. That's a hard line up for Windows to beat. More importantly, I think, is that OSX and iOS work well with one another. If I have an iPad, an iPhone, and an iMac my content syncs easily and transparently. When taken with iTunes this is simply tough to compete with.

tl:dr digital content delivery made Apple king.
It's a fairly standard comedy pattern: start with a celebrity impersonation, then have the impersonated celebrity come out and critique the performance. SNL uses it a lot, e.g., (the real) George H. W. Bush coming on and critiquing Dana Carvey.
To add to that, the security image can potentially raise the barrier a lot more than the author led on. Usually [1], the bank asks you to answer a security question before showing you the personal security image. Most people don't see this because they check the "remember this computer" option the first time they login, so even showing the security question so that one can grab the image will seem suspicious to many users.

[1] I just tested this with Ally (the bank shown in the blog post) and I remember it being true with ING Direct. I haven't tested other banks.
Umm, a common practice in the US in the 1930s at state fairs was to take IQ tests in order to become informed about your "feebleness" so as to aid you in your decision and fitness for marriage and procreation. In some jurisdictions, you could not enter into marriage if you were "feeble-minded." [0]

Most Americans don't realize there were several programs of enforced, mandatory sterilizations of the "feeble" as part of the social eugenics craze in the US. Faribault, Minnesota was a pretty active center of such activity.

Anyway, I think the comparison is apt and illustrative. Using "intelligence" measures to quantify someone for something entirely irrelevant to the task being tested for. In the first case "thinking on your feet" questions and professional software engineering and in the second procreating and raising children free from genetic defect. Hopefully with a little reflection you will see the connection too.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_in_the_United_States
> I'm a bit bitter because sometimes (often actually) I wish Emacs was multi-threaded

Tony> - Is multi-threading coming to emacs 25?

I don't know about Emacs 25, but I did manage to merge trunk to the
concurrency branch today. If you're interested you could try it out.

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2012-12/msg004...

it looks like Emacs should soon (?) support concurrency
it's very wrong. take a look at the latest batch of 500.co or YC or AngelList. compare # of companies gunning for AMZN and ecommerce compared to those gearing up to build phones and tablets. if i was apple i'd rather compete against HTC armed with margin than the hordes of YC. the article implies Amazon's scorched earth approach is preferable to Apple's continuing innovation. braindead if u ask me.
The site pulls data from the HNSearch API, which only updates user's karma on their end when the user submits a post.
You may even be unconsciously censoring yourself in fear of losing karma.

I consciously say things I wouldn't otherwise because I know I have karma to burn. It's when you have < 100 karma you have to watch out otherwise you could end up in negative territory quickly and your posts be dead by default (the idea of voting people down for disagreement rather than stupidity is still going strong, it seems).
Many atheists understand this. Honestly I think that religious people suffer from the same delusion as atheists. Just like the atheists see religious extremists and tend to over look the rest of the religious moderates around him, Christians, Islamists, etc. see only the atheists that openly taunt and threaten them (whether or not the threat is real or perceived).

I would wager that most atheists are not that extreme. They were brought up and now live in a world seeped with religion. Those that live in areas where religion is repressive learn to hide it while those in the developed world (especially the US) usually have to adapt. Likewise much of the people in the US have no problem with atheists. Many will be confused or question your decision, maybe be a bit condescending, but few will be spiteful. Atheists make up 14% of the population. They may be concentrated in the West and East but they are nonetheless everywhere. I know many Christian families that grew when one of their family members came out as an atheist and they had to deal with an entirely different world view (and often a different view on knowledge and faith), even if it was in the teen rebellion stage of atheism.

I know many extreme atheists and even they dont lack empathy for the religious or their religion. They're extremist because (this is my hypothesis based on nothing more than self reflection) atheists see the possibility for the same fulfillment, morality, and answers in a different world view, one that is largely naturalistic and does not come with the "moral baggage" of ancient (and largely static) religions and philosophies. This view, however, is shared by relatively few people, seemingly in growing numbers, and the few have to be vocal.
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I don't think the article dismisses the fact that people can have trouble focusing in their lives, but how making these powerful drugs so easily available to prescribe to doctors and so easily available to patients who don't need them has created a new drug sub-culture of people who get high on prescription drugs.

There are many alternatives to taking drugs to solve focus problems in life and I personally wouldn't want to be taking drugs that have so many side effects and black warning labels from the FDA...
I don't rightly understand why you would choose to assume the worst possible interpretation of that line and take it as grounds to heap scorn upon the writer (it strikes me as a tad uncharitable, and needlessly hostile), but

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5160287
I see, you mean sell the kids own work back to the parents?
Probably not many. The lines don't move very fast - about 1 cycle per second.
I don't understand. What happened to his Stirling Engine that was supposed to provide low-cost energy and also produced potable water as a side-effect?
Do you need ARM applications, or does it emulate X86 too?
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If doing it from the server side, I think you'll find that you have to answer the user's security questions before you'll be able to scrape the security image and phrase.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5160424