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Thank you for your answer. On one hand, corporations get tax breaks on debt interest, even in Canada, so why should not people? On the other hand I believe that corporations are way more rational than people in taking on debt. For most people buying a house is not an investment, but very emotional decision, and I see how tax incentive may put more steam into bubbles.
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The paper: http://www.andrewoswald.com/docs/finalmayHomeOwnershipUnemBl...
"Barr said something as small as sunscreen samples from tourists could alter the lake’s chemistry."

I thought the point was it is constantly replacing all its water?
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I started using Anaconda on OSX to skip the install headaches.
What about construction jobs that aren't permanent?
The paper actually is available for free online [1]. Someone better let Phil know about Google Scholar.

[1] - http://www.feifeishi.iie.com/publications/wp/wp13-3.pdf
I remember the same claims being made in the 1980s and 1990s about technologies like HyperCard, PowerBuilder and Visual Basic.

There was all this hype about how they were going to render C, C++, Pascal and COBOL programmers obsolete, because they'd let non-technical folks build production-grade software systems with ease in record time.

Of course, what ended up happening is that this didn't hold true at all. Most apps developed by non-programmers were quite limited and terrible. Anyone stuck with such apps often had to bring in actual developers anyway. Unfortunately, the developers were now stuck using rather limited technologies that often took longer to develop with than if C or C++, for example, had just been used in the first place.

Any serious software system will require lots of custom code, and this only comes about through the efforts of actual software developers.
Wow.. Is not one person even willing to entertain the idea?

"Shut him up! I've got a lot invested in this ride, shut him up! Look at my furrows of worry, look at my big bank account, and my family. This has to be real." - Bill Hicks.
Honor wasn't satisfied-- the top Taliban Mullah and Bin Laden both got away. And it wasn't just the Bush team whipping up support-- Congressional Democrats almost all voted to authorize force and the New York Times reporting supported WMDs as well. The consensus thinking was that Saddam was a bad guy who might have WMD, ongoing sanctions had their own human costs, and we were positioned to take him out easily.
Looks good, I'd change the link to http://www.windowsphone.com/s?appid=57a88f24-7dce-47cb-b322-... which doesn't include region that ends up telling me the app isn't available for my region (en-NZ).

Might just be the screen on my phone (Lumia 920) but the orange seems very flouro compared the screenshots.

Good to see some Windows Phone apps on HN.
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In addition to what others have posted, it only benefits those who have a mortgage when the deduction is passed. For everyone else it effectively raises the price of the house by the amount of the deduction.
I find our community desire towards home ownership to be really strange. For example, we all need to eat food everyday for the rest of our lives, but you almost never hear society bemoaning how few people own their own means to produce food! We seem perfectly happy to pay for what we use (i.e. rent) instead of investing in production (i.e. own).

If you know you're going to live somewhere for 20 years it usually makes a lot of sense to own, but I don't know why we ascribe that aspiration to all our real estate needs.
> I have personally encountered the color black being linked to death/unluckiness in Asia, as a new franchise of a major eCommerce company insisted I make their website's background white, instead of black like every other country's.

Funnily enough, in Asia white is also linked to death or morning. Thus the ban on white t-shirts in some parts of China this month.
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It also inflates house prices [1]. If people get handouts to purchase houses, they're going to be willing to bid higher than they otherwise would.

Also, I don't see why we as a society should want to subsidize loans that take 30 years to pay off, which are most used by the relatively well off anyways. It effectively enslaves people, or at least radically reduces the space for choice and entrepreneurial activity. Similar thing happens with student loans.

[1] This even includes, partially, rental prices. If the market rate for a dwelling that's to be rented is driven higher, those costs are passed on in large part to the renter, especially in areas where housing elasticity is low (i.e. it's relatively difficult to add more units or houses e.g. SF, NYC). It's so bad that I really have a hard time figuring out who wins from the deduction. Except for the banks, of course.
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Yes I have, different sizes of teams on many occasions and with very different mentalities, religions, motivations and "qualities".

But that's an "Apples" vs "Oranges" type of comparison. Don't compare a team with a party. A team is working to solve a problem. A party is there to reflect their ideology and motivations and to fight against other parties. Different parties rarely find consensus, because they don't work to solve a problem. They work just for themselves and THAT's the problem! But hey if you agree that bureaucratically manifesting your ideas is work, it's ok.

To answer your question: I had no failures until now and I am grateful for that. There would be no excuse if I had one though. I and my team would know what my failures were. Communicating that early is very important. But admitting failures officially is counter-effective, you're better off communicating countermeasures that will protect you from further failures. Avoid becoming the symbol of that one failure you had. Keep up, we're Start-Ups after all, no everybody will succeed in this race and it's ok. We should help other succeed when we can't. This is the big difference between you and a politician.

Ever seen a Republican going to the Democrats or vice vera who shared his knowledge having good intentions?

It is not the democracy which is wrong, people have the need for consensus. What's really wrong is that the people with the wrong mentalities or motivations lead us. People we didn't vote for join the winning parties. Corruption evolved into a sign of success inside of those parties.

Politicians give excuses for their failures, but in reality the overall situation isn't the cause for their failure. There are no excuses!

Example: Try walking outside through the crowd looking very angry, very disappointed, very sad or very happy. Every emotion, idea and thought you have in your mind will unwillingly express in all you do. You shape everyone around you without noticing it. Your thought, has a lot of effects to your environment. When you look very angry for example, people could be irritated, afraid, or aggressive.

Reading all the books about Information Management and Project Management won't help you. First hand experience, will show you that it's very important to reflect what you want. Your team will find consensus based on that.
Ask HN: source of proprietary licenses?
There are lots of open source, Creative Commons, GPL, etc., licenses out there.

For those of you distributing proprietary software, where do you get your license? Is there a standard license typically used?
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> Well, wait until you have a power bill, water bill, gas bill, garbage bill, phone bill, cable bill, mortgage, credit card bills, car note, doctor's bills, lab results, dentist's bills, vet bills, student loan bills, newsletters from your kids' schools, bank statements, ...

Where do you live? Here in Vancouver, I get my power bill online as a PDF (pay with online banking), water bill via email as PDF (pay with online banking), phone bill online (auto-charge CC, among other options), internet bill online as PDF (pay online with CC), credit card bills online (pay with online banking), bank statements online as PDF... and I'm not usually prone to thinking of British Columbia as a digital vanguard.
Perhaps he means 'order of magnitude' in base e. Or 2. Or even phi.
I think this is how it goes:

Banks/credit card companies have their payment APIs[0] open to parties they deal with (usually) payment gateways(now don't ask me for public methods and web service URIs) ->> payment gateway firms[1] deal with the banks and have access to those APIs ->> merchants/sellers[1] deal with payment gateways ->> customer checks out on seller/merchant's website ->> is redirected to (usually) payment gateway's portal where basic card/account credentials[2] are entered ->> is redirected bank/card's secure authentication page[3] ->> user enters login/password ->> is redirected back to seller/merchant's page with success/fail message.

[0] You might have to get in touch with some bank and/or payment gateway.

[1] When the seller is big, sometimes, they are themselves the payment gateways. Some PG examples are Citrus, Billdesk, SBI,CCAvenue(the shittiest) etc.

[2] Here in India the basic credentials include card number, exp date, name, CVV. In the USA these same basic details are more than enough for final purchase - sometimes even minus the cvv.

[3] Usually Mastercard's NetSafe or Verified By Visa etc.
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This is false. Nobody claimed or believed an attack on the US was imminent (although another attack on Israel was a concern), the idea was that taking out Saddam could help stabilize the middle east. In official Washington it was well understood that WMDs were just an excuse/legal justification/foreign policy explanation for finishing the job begun in Iraq in 1992.
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The biggest problem is scope control; as you start having closures that get passed around freely, those closures drag values along with them that you can't collect. It is not impossible to write this with malloc/free, but I've played that game and it's not very fun. And remember, what seems easy in one little blog post isn't easy in a real program where you've got dozens of the little buggers flying every which way. (And by dozens, I mean dozens of distinct different types of closures from different sources, not just dozens of instance of the same code instance.)

Many of the dynamic languages fling closures around with wild abandon, often without you even realizing it. (One object has a reference to another object which is from the standard library which happens to have a closure to something else which ends up with a reference to your original object... oops, circular reference loop. Surprisingly easy.)

There isn't much technically impossible with malloc/free (though IIRC there are indeed some cases that are both sensible and actually can't be correctly expressed in that framework, but the example escapes me), but there's lots of practical code where the cost/benefit ration goes absurdly out of whack if you're trying to write the manual freeing properly. It's hard to write an example here, because it arises from interactions in a large code base exceeding your ability to understand them. It's like when people try to demonstrate how dangerous old-style pthreading is; even though the problem is exponentially bad in nature, anything that fits in a blog post is still comprehensible. The explosion doesn't happen until you got to real code.
I have to wonder though if in aggregate if a predominantly rent based society will lead to even more wealth disparity. While the housing bubble was not exactly the epitome of economic health, we've seen what has happened in the bay area recently. For most bay area tech workers there has been a substantial rise in employability and wages but on the other hand a significant portion on average of the individual economic gains typically have been funneled to increased rent that seems to go up 10-15% every year out here. Heck we even see this in North Dakota with the new oil jobs - the rent for a place in the middle of nowhere has skyrocketed. I guess the point being that Im unsure that low unemployment and mobility strongly correspond to more accumulated wealth for employees.
It sounds like a straightforward premise: if you're glued to one spot you're eligible for fewer jobs. I wouldn't discount that, except there will be an upside as well: an area with lots of homes might be a good place for more businesses. The question would be which factor has a greater effect?

And unfortunately we don't know what the rest of the article says. That's a pity, because we can't see how they account for the giant freaking housing bubble the US had that immediately preceded an epic crash in the economy.
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You must live in a rough town. The mail is great where I live.
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That one's bad enough, but my favorite is the $420M "Glory" satellite that fell into the Pacific ... after the payload faring separation failed ... just like it did for the previous, Orbiting Carbon Observatory launch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glory_%28spacecraft%29
They've also made a CSS mockup of the new interface: http://people.mozilla.com/~shorlander/files/australis-design...
Extremely low cost and I practically(and truly) can't afford a book Amazom USA, even an eBook. So, ones that is not available in India or is available at sth like INR 3000 or 4000 or so, I pirate.
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The article argues that as long as Stalin was neutral, the Japanese had some hope of negotiating a better surrender. After Stalin declared war, Japan was out of options and was forced to surrender. Therefore Stalin was the deciding factor in surrender.

The atomic bomb was not the deciding factor for two reasons: 1) the decision to surrender happened before the impact of the atomic bombs was fully assessed, and
2) the effect of the bombs was no worse than the massive conventional bombing that Japan had already experienced. The vast majority of Japan's large cities had already been pretty much destroyed by the time the atomic bomb was used: it was a "raindrop in a hurricane."
I worked at Lawrence Livermore as an intern last summer. There were many people, including Post, that have worked at the lab for their entire lives. It was normal to sit next to scientists that were well beyond retirement age during lunch. While a career at the lab may not come with the many luxuries offered at other opportunities in Silicon Valley, it didn't seem bad either. People (including myself) were very happy to work there. Post, as well as many others, were a huge source of inspiration and taught me to do what I am passionate about in my career.
Wasn't FDI in retail for online sales banned in India? When did that change? (If it ever was the case).
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The story leaves a lot to be desired in terms of defining technology and specifying methods.

Depending on how you buy/sell power, and if you have access to TOU metering, you could spin up flywheels with cheap power and sell it back when rates are higher. If you've got your own generation on site (solar PV, wind, tidal), you could bank excess energy with flywheels.

In terms of storage, flywheel round-trip efficiency is very, very good, above 90% for well-designed systems. The problem has always been storage density and cost. Beacon Power produces 25KWh flywheels priced at around $1000 /Wh.

Add into this the failure modes (Beacon's systems are installed underground in concrete culvert pipe with a several-ton lid cap), and remaining problems with precession (even the Earth's rotation around its axis peturbs flywheels), and they have some significant hurdles. For mobile uses (automobiles, etc.) these problems are compounded.

My money's on large, cheap batteries for grid-scale storage (molten salt or liquid metal), though flywheels for short-cycle load/generation matching may play a role.
If the USPS would implement something like this in a reliable fashion...well.. it would eventually end them.. but in the interim I would be so happy. Imagine you sign up to have every one of your standard size envelopes opened / scanned automatically. Magazines and Birthday cards (weird sizes) would still come through. It would be terrific. I'd pay 5-10$ per month to have all of my tax things, pay stubs, financial product offer letters, invoices, all scanned and searchable, and they would have to deliver so much less physical mail.

However for a startup to try to replicate the multibillion dollar infrastructure that is already in place there is silly, and the USPS won't do it because of federal laws that would need to change about opening mail.

Of course it would make the NSA happy as well ;)
I think Outbox even fails to meet the much lower bar of naming your product something that is minimally searchable. Trying to find technical help for this product through general web search would be a nightmare.
Buying a house ruined my life. I bought a house with my savings after the collapse. Got it really cheap (no mortgage). Only problem is now I want to sell it but can't.
There are no jobs around here.

I do have a crappy job. I could probably do better if I could afford to move away. I've considered just abandoning the property or selling it for basically nothing.

Buying sucks. As does renting. I've seriously considered van life.

http://cheaprvlivingblog.com/
I think PaaS's are a pretty natural next-step on the evolution of hosting which is a lot more specific and smaller in scope than "programming" - the stuff they abtract away from you is for the most part just a timesink and chore that has between negative (salaries & exploits & downtime) and limited (bang for your buck, ram, disk io) benefit to do yourself.

Parse takes that model another step forward and just addresses the most common use case - CRUD applications that an experienced developer could create in their sleep but haven't we done that enough times already?

There will still be occasion when your own server/s are the best or only option but fewer than today's developers want to admit.
I also designed a bunch of submarines and wanted to build one for the masses. Until my friends told me I was crazy and I would kill myself.

My final design was using scuba tanks to equalize the internal pressure of the sub with ambient pressure at specific depth.

This was a clever design but limited it's usefulness to 30f as well.

It simplified the construction of the sub but limited its use as it required depressurization following the same rules applied to SCUBA divers. So at 30ft you could be submerged for a while, but any deeper it limited the time you could remained submerged unless you depressurized before surfacing.
We definitely need a better app discovery method than Apple's.
I would be for getting rid of the mortgage tax deduction as long as there is some way of giving current home owners a one time chance of making them "whole" or some portion of. In an effort not to penalize one group, it should not accidentally cause issues for another. I.e. I already own a comparatively expensive home because of what the market was, home prices would inevitably drop without the mortgage tax deduction but I don't want to be caught in a negative value situation.
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I hope you continue to turn your experiences
into stories, and that you continue to survive them.

Advice: Buy a spare phone battery. Keep it charged.
Fold a crisp $20 into the battery
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When boarding a strange bus, ask:
"You stop at Meridian and Chestnut?"
so the driver has a chance to tell you that
that stop is closed, or the map is out of date,
or his destination banner is showing the previous route.

Attend to en-route announcements from the driver.
They're mostly nice people, and will usually
be helpful if asked effectively.
Set your phone alarm before dozing.

Source: I once rode the right bus number in the wrong
direction. To the end of the line. In Guadalajara.
It's a big city. Luckily, it was not the last bus,
and I did have the price of a return fare.
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I like what they're doing to signify trust here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/File:PanelMenu-i01-CustomizationMod...
But personal bankruptcy still carries somewhat of a social stigma whereas corporate bankruptcy is part of a good business plan.
In Canada you get an exemption for capital gains on your principal residence, which is a pretty big tax break already.
Scientists at Lawrence Livermore use a lot of software that I believe is not available to the public (e.g. scientific simulations). Mesquite is one custom LLNL software [1]. MATLAB is very common, but I didn't see much (if any) usage of Mathematica (intern last summer).

[1] https://iscr.llnl.gov/annual_report/fy2005/subcontracts/kraf...
>Flywheels do not produce energy, they store kinetic energy.

The article says, twice, that his design both stores and generates energy. Have they got something wrong? I'm aware that they're using the term 'flywheel' pretty broadly, and his newer device might not be a traditional flywheel. They use scare-quotes a couple of times when using the term flywheel, so they seem to be saying it's not a flywheel.

> His latest project -- perfecting a prototype of his lightweight "flywheel," a cylindrical, rotating battery -- could revolutionize the energy industry, storing and creating energy better than any conventional electrobattery on the planet.

> Post has been called the "father of the modern flywheel," a title he dismisses as "too generous." The rapidly spinning devices not only store energy with minimal losses, but they also generate it.

The relevance is also mentioned in the story - he wanted to "apply physics to help solve the world's energy problems" and banks of these in power stations might help. Isn't storing the excess power generated by solar farms during the day a problem? Couldn't something like this help with that?
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>From my perspective, it's a huge giveaway to people who are already doing fine, which offends me, morally

If it makes you feel any better, the home owner in reality gets practically none of the money. Since everybody gets the deduction it just causes everyone to have to bid that much more in order to be the highest offer. And the higher prices don't really spur new home construction to compensate as you might expect, because the areas with high demand are largely urban areas with minimal available undeveloped land and zoning regulations that often prohibit the construction of higher density housing that would relieve pricing pressure. The result is that the big winners are banks, which end up making larger loans and collecting that much more government-subsidized interest.
There's a number of other factors that usually coincide with home ownership that would produce the same effects, chiefly domestic partnership and children. The problem seems to be more that the increase in necessity of labor mobility has far outpaced the progression of transportation. Public transit in most of the US is a bad joke. And high speed transit is all but non-existent. I don't really have any idea how we reduce the car-culture, but that seems to be the root of the problem, not home ownership.