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There are also "science war" in the field of economics, especially regarding what is knowable what isn't.

We have one side that is largely deductive, do not assume that humans are "rational", and distrust mathematical models and believe that economists are misusing statistics.

Another side is economic that attempt to imitate the scientific methodology of physics and as well being largely inductive. This is now the current and newest trend in the field of economics.

From my point of view, the Austrian school("Pyschological") is victorious over both the mainstream neoclassical and neo keynesian schools. Those who are of the Austrian prediction have successfully predicted the recession for quite some time now.

You may have different view which schools is superior but the battle is not decided. Until the field of economics matured, there will be many ruthless debates among those who are in the profession of economics for years to come.

The Economic Calculation Debate anyone?
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It doesn't work.

By "doesn't work" I mean that after turning on JavaScript for scribd.com, it tries to pop up a menu over the top of the Flash embed. But popping up anything on top of embedded Flash doesn't work in my browser (FF3 with Gnash on Linux), so I use AdBlock to block the embedded Flash. Then the download menu offers me a "PDF" option. Clicking on that ought to give me a file download; instead, it pops up a box prompting me to sign up for an account with Scribd.

In short, Scribd is a privacy-invading pain in the ass. So, is there a copy of the document that isn't on Scribd?
I heard mention of charging the cars at night from the unused base load, possibly meeting the demand during the day by taking some charge from parked cars.

Whether that's practical or not...
Is there any chance you could be more specific about what happened? Stanford is a great place to study computer science, but it is far from the sole good place to study computer science. But what does it mean to get vaporized? What are you talking about?
Wow, thanks for the response guys. My site is travel oriented website, and that's why you can see IE is getting 50%, and a year ago it was 70 %, so I was shocked as well as ecstatic when it's getting to 50%.

For those of you who has non-developer-geeky-tech website, do you also see IE getting over 50% of browser share?
That's an idea, in fact. Aggregate all those small players into a big one...and other new small players can join to the federation...
I had it memorized to 20 digits after buying a book about Pi. After that, I think I got bored with the topic, but I still remember about that many.

Lemme tell you how many girls this gets me at parties.
He mentions Spotlight, but not Google. It is almost better to have the data you care about on the web (ignoring privacy concerns), where it can be indexed by Google and found with a quick search. I think the Google search box + hyper links is what has really replaced the files and folders metaphor. Figuring out a meaningful hierarchy and folder names on the desktop seems like such a pain now compared to how easily we navigate on the web.
Here is a podcast interview with the Laconica creator that cleared a lot of things up for me: http://www.twit.tv/floss37
Doing away with hierarchical file systems is easier than he lets on.

Indeed, a large percentage of the world's computer users has never really understood them in the first place.
Great! That would just cause a flood of bulk Twitter name registrations.
No JS library like jQuery (especially jQuery) makes sense. jQuery is useful, but the code written with it tends to be fragile (and when things blow up because of an IE6 bug in jQuery - and they do happen - you're pretty much SOL)..

In fact, the only kind of library I could consciously condone is one that promotes object oriented design by not giving you so many easy (but SLOW) ways to access DOM elements (I'm looking at you, $()).

Of course, it all depends on what you're trying to do. GWT tends to ease the data transfer a bit, from what I know, plus being easier (I assume) to integrate with Gears. So if you're doing a lot of data manipulation and storage with AJAX, GWT may actually be the way to go.

If you feel comfortable writing JavaScript, that's probably the direction you want to take. GWT seems like a platform for Swing programmers who don't want to deal with JavaScript's idiosyncrasies and browser quirks.

But for all I know, I could just be blowing smoke - I've not delved that far into GWT. Seemed like too much trouble for what you got from it...
I wrote a little piece on this topic a couple months ago (though not as good as Steven's):
http://www.wonderwarp.com/blog/archives/107

There are a lot of apps on the Mac that sort of try to provide a way to deal with information that's separated from the normal filesystem.
Yes, you follow your teammates (your dev team, your account team, your CSR shift manager), plus management up the chain to the CEO, plus facilities for your building, HR, and finally the hashtags for any project you may be a part of.

I'm not sure I understand the disconnect here. Bob the programmer never sees what Sarah from accounting is working on, because why would Bob want to follow her? I don't see what you're typing on Twitter on the Internet for the same reason.

Presumably, a good part of the opportunity in enterprise Twitter is in figuring out what the features are that helps mainstream users stay subscribed to the right feeds.
It takes more than a 5-minute 3D diagram and a passing thought to design a building.

"I have this interesting idea for a start-up. People give it money, and it spends some of that money on costs, and overall makes money, according to the formula:

profit = revenue - cost

I'm sure we could make that work"

^-- this is roughly the level of implementation of the idea in this blog post at the moment.
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But the Chinese cultural sphere has long been bigger than the area under the political control of the recognized emperor in a dynastic cycle, in much the same way that Rome's influence extended beyond the broadest boundaries ever ruled by a Roman emperor. The spread of scripts and literacy is instructive: there are more pre-movable-type-printing era writings extant in literary Chinese than in all other world languages combined, by a huge margin. And Japanese and Korean (and formerly Vietnamese) have long used Chinese written characters even after developing indigenous alphabets or syllabaries for what are languages that aren't even cognate with Chinese. Many other cultural influences have spread outward from China to a recognizable cultural area known as east Asia, just as different influences spread from Greece and Rome to an area known as Europe. But for most of human history, east Asia has bested Europe in both population and prosperity.
Is the statute of limitations (6 years) that's mentioned in the article BS? I sort of suspect it is. 6 years seems way too short.
The startup time is way too slow: the built-in Mail app shows my inbox almost instantly, but -- with 5 bars of 3G! -- almost 20 seconds elapse between the time I click the Gmail bookmark on the Springboard and the time my inbox appears.
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I'm not a JS expert but judging by the questions on S.O. I had the impression that few people had bad things to say about jQuery. Was not aware of its 'fragility'. Good to know.

You say: "GWT seems like a platform for Swing programmers who don't want to deal with JavaScript's idiosyncrasies and browser quirks." But couldn't you say the same about jQuery?

In fact, GWT requires you to understand the DOM and to get into the more advanced tricks with GWT there are features to let you write js directly in your Java code.

Not sure what you mean by "ease data transfer": "If you're doing a lot of data manipulation and storage with AJAX, GWT may actually be the way to go". Do you mean if your ajax passes a lot of data back and forth, then GWT might help because its minified and optimized?
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reminds me of an old rule of thumb:

http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/031208/how-many-digits-of...
I fell behind in filing by a couple of years back when I was doing a lot of daytrading, and because of the way the IRS gets its data feed of stock sales, but not associated cost basis, they were sending me bills for literally 7 figures of overdue taxes. (I'd done about $6mm of stock sales that year, naturally with a cost basis of somewhere pretty close to that $6mm.)

They see $6mm in sales, treat it all as capital gains, compute the tax I owed on it (and obviously hadn't remitted), stacked up huge penalties and failure to timely file fees, etc.

When I finally got around to filing the correct information (you have 3 years from the original due date of the return to file to claim a refund), they took the updated schedule D information, and cleared the account.

In the 18+ months that they were sending me notices for over a million bucks, they never took any further action. So, I don't think it's a dollar threshold, but rather a time threshold at which point they start attaching wages, subjecting you to backup withholding, etc.

Also, the stress totally isn't worth it.
I tried it out for a few days. It's a chat room, nothing to do with HN. It gets its share of random people typing in test messages, and the odd troll trying to get a rise out of folks. There's some networking, but not much. Zero conversation interesting to anyone outside of the 2 or 3 people participating at any time.

I suggested to the folks that they include a link back here. People seem to get there without knowing of HN.
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Strange list. Does anyone know what criteria they used?
is this the first twitter account to be acquired?
It's $289 to use this?

http://extjs.com/store/extjs/
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Yes, you follow your teammates (your dev team, your account team, your CSR shift manager), plus management up the chain to the CEO, plus facilities for y
our building, HR, and finally the hashtags for any project you may be a part of.

Which is completely nonsensical. Why put that burden on the user when a simple chatroom serves the exact same purpose, with better scoping? Why would I want my CEOs messages intermixed with my project related chatter?
Why should I receive messages for projects that I have nothing to do with only because one of my co-workers is involved with them?

You'll probably say "then filter by hashtag". And I'll tell you: This is why many people consider twitter nothing more than a very poor re-implementation of existing chat technology. The hashtag emulates a chatroom (poorly) on top of a broadcast protocol. In fact the whole construct is so primitive and backwards than one has to wonder whether the twitter guys had ever looked at IRC, jabber or, well, anything, before they started their broken impl.

What they did successfully was to make person-centric scopes (rooms) the default. This obviously has a lot of mass appeal due to the inherent psychological effects (cf. "why babies cry"). But again, I don't see how this has a place in any productive environment.
You're right - I weren't thinking that through really.
Very nice. I could see this going both ways: horribly annoying and inundating (recall twitter updates via IM); an awesome way to stay on top of everything that flows these channels.
Wow, tough crowd today... this blog post wasn't meant to be a comprehensive design, just a high-level idea I wanted to capture/jot down. The subcomponents aren't original, so I didn't spend too much time explaining them.

The urban greenhouse component is better known as vertical farming (http://www.verticalfarm.com/); much analysis has been done on the idea, including advantages to having farms in the city, near the populace.

The waste-treatment idea is better known as living machines (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_machines), also widely analyzed and implemented.
This actually might be good for a problem I ran into today. I'm distributing some source code with a large data file, one that we would like to store in a SQL database for ease of use. However, we don't know that the user machines will have MySQL installed. Would it make sense to use SQLLite in this instance? It sounds like you don't have to install it.
Can you say XMMP...

Those who don't understand are doomed to re-invent. Poorly.
the default tab in chrome that shows most visited webpages is a start but crude.
combine that with a much more robust bookmark service and RSS feed and you start to have something.
From what I've gathered, the real debate is between neoclassical economists and behavioral economists. Behavioral economists are more empirical, studying exactly how incentives work and how people behave in the economy. "Austrian" economics (aside from what was done decades ago, in Austria) only lives on as a pseudoscientific attempt to justify libertarian politics. Politically, I'm largely libertarian myself, but there's nothing more unscientific than turning something like economics into an apologia for anarcho-capitalism.
You don't have to solve novel problems. If the People's Republic of Whatever wants an international airport, all they have to do is hire one of the big international engineering firms, and they'll build them an industry standard airport. Commercializing a new drug appears to be similar in the sense that you can fly in a bunch of outside experts to take you from initial discovery to drug company.
My blog, http://maximise.dk/blog/ which is pretty technical and nerdy in nature.

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Safari 17.13%

Chrome 10.00%

Internet Explorer 5.44%

Opera 2.53%

Mozilla 2.44%

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Camino 0.28%

Konqueror 0.14%
>> "IRC, Campfire, and Confluence all require you to actively participate."

Please. Most of IRC is idlers. It's simple enough to setup an IRC client to be connected to channels that are useful to you.

Twitter is a single dimensional thing. You can only follow people and be followed. With chatrooms you can have several groups open at the same time. I'd say that makes it far more useful, especially in a corporate setting.

With Twitter you just don't have the granularity. You have to either say you're interested in Bob, or you're not interested in Bob. With IRC/chatrooms/etc, you say you're interested in Bob IF he's also talking about some project you've setup a channel for.

I'd say the only real reason for a corporation to use Twitter in their intranet is if they want to appear hip+cool and "get it".
The core library is available under the MIT license:
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17. http://www.miibeian.gov.cn/

I have honestly never heard of this site. And it's number 17.
> This was 7.5 billion worth of collateral in extremely safe treasury bonds.

> this is the 10 billion number that "went from tax payers to goldman" that everyone keeps saying

Goldman Sachs was owed $10B. 7.5B was available in pledged securities. Goldman got $10B in cash because of govt flow-through via AIG.

> So to be prudent, they bought CDS protection that would pay 2.5 billion in the event of default.

Shouldn't the insurer be paying off, if solvent, and not the US govt? And, if the insurer is not solvent, why shouldn't Goldman take the hit?

> What is the problem here?

The claim is that Goldman is not taking a hit from their transactions with AIG while other parties are. The above documents that Goldman is, in fact, not taking a hit from their transactions with AIG.

The only remaining question is whether other parties are taking a hit for their transactions with AIG. If they are, the question is Goldman Sachs is being treated differently.
Depends, there are other great CS schools out there say MIT, CMU etc. So is it worth it to be there specifically? Do they do research in something that just blows your mind? If not then you can get smart colleges elsewhere and worth it depends on acceptance letters to elsewhere. I would say it is worth it compared to the university of phoenix online but that is kind of an absolute and doesn't reflect your options.

As the other poster asked what happened? Is it the whole you used to be the brightest person for a hundred miles and now you are middle of the pack because everyone there is the brightest person from their high school?
ranked by the number of linking root domains

So I guess how many domains these domains link to.
> Don't get a NY state ID. You have to file paperwork to become an official citizen of New York (eg, your primary residence).

I'd be surprised if NY was that lenient.

CA isn't. I know of cases where they went after folks who had no CA property and hadn't been in the state for months before receiving income that CA wanted to tax.

CA says that you're a resident after a small number of days for the purposes of car registration. I'd be surprised if they were more lenient when income was involved.

CA wants income taxes from folks who win money in golf tournaments or play professional sports a couple of times a year in CA.

Residency is tricky. There's an infamous case where >100% of an estate was owed in taxes because several states managed to claim that the deceased was a resident of their state for the purposes of taxation.
Does anyone have any good information regarding what actually happened? Amazon's corporate PR and random LJ posts have about the same level of credibility to me; they both have a single objective, to make themselves look good.

The troll did seem a little too perfect, but Amazon's "oops-a-daisy!" explanation doesn't smell so good either. Anyone know the real story? Or at least of substantiation details to make the "official" lines, on either side, sound a little more plausible?
Ditto. Amazon makes it so easy to buy.
I, for one, do claim to understand the quote by Bloom. I think he means that openness understood as "going with the flow" is in fact not openness at all because it obscures alternatives. This is actually a theme recurring throughout the literature, nothing really special.

I do not mean to defend the poor prose of some professors, there is indeed plenty of that, however, in many cases it is simply not an option to use everyday terms because of their ambiguousness.

Finally, the charge of obscurantism and particularly its "explanation" by social factors is just nasty! It's no better than calling your readers too stupid to understand you. In fact, I would argue that while both factors are at work, the latter is much more so. But hey, I'm biased.
It's the link to a Chinese Government Department that all websites in China had to register with (and link to I believe).
Probably more than anything else in the world. I wouldn't be close to where I am, or who I am, without mine, and that's an observation that I can extend to pretty much everyone I know well.
If we take evolution as our the model for our species then parents and parenthood are vitally important to the survival of the species.

At certain times peers might play a bigger role in forming who we are but to say that consistently peers are more important than parents, I think, is incorrect.
Out of 7000 million people in the world, at least 1200 are related to a .cn (china) domain. You may not be one of them.
Ben Shneiderman's "Eight Golden Rules of Interface Design"

http://faculty.washington.edu/jtenenbg/courses/360/f04/sessi...
I think you've reinforced pg's point - 24/106 (~20%) is a huge effect as compared, like you've done, to every other place on the planet. Basically, from this data, if you're a tech company and want to eventually get acquired would you rather choose a 1 in 5 chance or, based on a quick guess at second-best - NY area (7 in 106) or MA area (8 in 106), a 1 in ~15 chance?

Great idea. I'd love to see 2007 as well.
Did I miss something obvious?

How does one configure Excel to use SQLite?
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chapters involving quantum mechanics.
8 9 7 9

Not as much as 100, but easier to remember.
This is not very high quality data. Extrapolating from the cases I know about, I wouldn't be surprised if half the deals on it were merely nominal acquisitions. You would have to have some threshold on the size of the acquisition for the list to be meaningful.

Looking at the locations of companies acquired in small deals is particularly misleading as a measure of the clustering of startups, because smaller deals are generally done as an alternative to series A rounds. So they're disproportionately likely to happen to startups that don't have access to funding.

For example, YC funded one startup that had an acquirer appear on the radar screen about a week after they closed their series A. That had priced them out of the acquirer's reach (for now). If they'd been located outside the Valley, the startup would not have been able to raise money so quickly, so the acquisition might have happened.
You do need to "install" SQLite, but not in the traditional sense. Most likely all you need to do is include a library that knows how to read and write to SQLite files. Worst case, you'll need to ship your code with a small static binary and call out to that.
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> His reasoning behind that is to give us a stake in the success of his business.

He's figured out how to shift his costs to you during an economic down-turn.

He's probably projecting a down year. If your software hits a home run, he has an even year. Unless he does a lot better than that, he's going to come back to you next year and say "we used your stuff for a year and didn't even break even."
It really is amazing how consistently better it gets. The community is ridiculous, too. Every time I read through or ask questions in #postgresql I am reminded that despite knowing way more SQL than your average developer, I am still a big noob compared to the PG folks.

Most SQL questions I field from fellow devs go like:

Him: How do I write a query to do X?
Me: Which RDMS do you use?
H: MySQL
M: Well, I don't use that, but you can probably use Y
M: Now, have you ever considered switching to PostgreSQL...

That probably makes me a fanboy ;)
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Simply put, if you require vast amounts of processing power, it's probably cheaper to just run your own data center because otherwise you end up paying for a cloud-based data center with all the third-party service overhead.

If, on the other hand, you simply require the equivalent of a few machines on the net, it's cheaper to buy a piece of cloud, because the extra per-CPU cost is small compared to the costs in maintenance, personnel, etc that you would have to keep in-house.
yeah, the focus is on collaboration and creating a change history and annotations, not collective rich text editing. And you don't need a google (or any) account to use it. If you want to get non-technical people to help, they don't have to bother with any signup shenanigans.
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