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You can get some important and interesting insights from economic statistical data, but macroeconomics is a series of just-so stories, at best; it isn't even really the same thing as microeconomics. Microeconomics deals, in part at least, with things you can run experiments on, with actual controls. Macro, not so much; like politics, you can find a macro pundit to give pretty much any conclusion you'd like, even when they mostly agree on micro.

[Edit: apparently I'm just rephrasing the article summary. I guess I should have read it before ranting...]
If you read my post I am saying that XmlHttpRequest on its own will do no good. Agreed Intuit good a really good job in the 90s but that's over.
I got back from Railsconf and couldn't start the GitHub Rails app because of some dependency issues caused by a random gem I had installed at the conference.

I feel your pain. That's where it all began.
Then there'd be two ways to view the word "tagging." One is the UI and organization style you popularized through del.icio.us. The other is the common English gerund of "to tag", which is the way Common Tag is using it. Maybe it would have been better for them to call it Common Label...

Re: common "tags" through a shared namespace -- seems like it'd be a good thing to do and would increase the relevancy of our stuff to search engines. Would Google actively support Common Tag or does Google support it naturally through RDF indexing?

This approach also reminds me to review the debates on Ontology.

http://www.peterme.com/archives/000558.html

I would like to implement some kind of semantic marking for the data on my web site. If not Common Tag, what's the best way to say "this is an Author who has written that" or "this is regarding the Terminator movie (1984) directed by Cameron..."?
> Trent could probably solve some of this with technology

From the post:

In a closed environment like nin.com a lot of this can be moderated away, or code can be implemented to make it more difficult for troublemakers to persist. It's tedious and feels like wasted energy doing that shit, but some people exist to ruin it for others - and they are the ones who have nothing better to do with their time.

They've done the tech thing, but it's an arms race. I think the point of the "experiment" comment in the third to last paragraph is that the problem doesn't want to be fixed. The coping effort is doing more harm than good, idiots rule.
sounds like a good idea it will prevent a lot of those military suicides that have been happening, but the main threat to this is releasing sensitive information that might endanger soilders in the field. But we aren't dealing with a technologically sophisticated enemy in the middle east so i don't think that will be a problem.
Apparently him leaving the inbox open wasn't what spread them she sent those same pictures to other guys.
Actually not at all: well, definitely not in the UK.

Here we use the Copine scale (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copine_scale)

It's important to note the ONLY classification that images of clothed children can fall into is #1 (the least "worst" case). However to actually qualify the poses would have to be very sexually sxplicit. Child underwear models, for example, wouldnt normally get categorised there (obviously if there is more extreme indecent material they WOULD be appended as "relevant" images).

Your right the jury will be shown an image and if it has a child in it they will cry "OMG CP" but fortunately experts analyse all of the data first and ensure only real indecent images make it to the trial :)

I cant say 100% for the US but I believe things work in the same way.

EDIT; a colleague pointed me at this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_Test). Apparently in the US you lot are completely unable to make use of a simpel classification scale (I jest, I jest) so things are less cut and dried. In which case I guess your point stands.

I prefer our way.
Not everyone is able to get a room where they want when they want, of the quality they want on couchsurfing. For many possible hosts, money can make it worth their while to open their doors to a broader variety of visitors, and perhaps support the opening of nicer rooms to visitors.

That said, I too am a couchsurfing aficionado.
I want to start a startup, but have no ideas. What should I do?
I really want to quit my big corporation job and start a startup. Problem is, I don't have any viable ideas. I tried a startups before (while still working my main job), but didn't get far. Should I join someone else's startup? Should I start a consulting business? Or keep plugging away at BigCo, biding my time until ideas appear?
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>"...if my daughter took pictures of herself, of her own volition and sent them out, it's really her decision"

And that's the key here, isn't it? She wasn't coerced into these pictures. She may have been peer-pressured, but the article doesn't cover whether this is the norm in this school or not. I suspect not. She did it, she distributed the picture. What did she think it was going to happen?

Her father's quote is laughable: "This country has laws in place to protect children. Those laws need to be enforced, and parents need to pursue those laws to the fullest extent to protect their children." What the hell does he think happened here?
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I'm not a math expert, but I like trying to follow these proofs as a puzzle. Here's my handwavy, intuitive take:

1) Setup a matrix to advance fibonacci numbers

Define a matrix A so that

A times (Fib1, Fib2) = (Fib2, Fib3)

That is, A "advances" the Fibonacci relationship when you put two numbers in (Fib1, Fib2 and Fib3 are also multiplied by the appropriate power of 10 to make them at the right decimal place). You can see this when we multiply it out:

A * (Fib1, Fib2) = (Fib2, Fib1 + Fib2) = (Fib2, Fib3)

Since Fib1 + Fib2 = Fib3 [again, at the right power of 10; writing all the 10^(i+1) bookkeeping obscures the reasoning IMO).

2) Define the sequence we want

We really want the sequence Fib1 + Fib2 + Fib3, where each Fib number is advanced the appropriate number of decimals above.

We can do (.01, .001) [starting with the first numbers 1 and 1 in the right spots: .01 and .001, with .0002 coming next).

This means we take (.01, .001) and use itself (multiply by identity matrix I), then take (.01, .001) and advance it once (multiply by A), then take (.01, .001) and advance it 2 steps (multiply by A^2) and so on:

Initial * Identity + Initial * A + Initial * A^2 + ...

(I + A + A^2) * Initial = (Fib1 + Fib2 + Fib3 + ..., Fib2 + Fib3 + Fib4...)

We only want the first element of this result: the sequence starting at Fib1.

3) Rewrite the sequence

I + A + A^2 looks like a geometric series which (handwavy) has the same properties as regular series:

1 + r + r^2 ... = (1-r)^-1

so the series can be rewritten as (I - A)^-1

If we do the appropriate calculations, we get

I - A = (1 0, 0 1) - (0 1, .01 .1) = (1 -1, -.01, .9)

which we can invert to get

1/(.9 - .99) * (.9 1,.01 1) = 1/(89/100) * (.9 1,.01 1) = 1/89 * (90 100, 1 100)

This last matrix is the SUM of doing all the operations: I + A + A^2 + A^3, etc.

We seed it with the first two fibonacci numbers, in the positions we want: (.01, .001) and off it goes!

1/89 * (90 100, 1 100) * (.01, .001) = (1/89, 11/89)

We only want the the first element (1/89) which is the sequence starting Fib1 + Fib2 + Fib3...

Phew. There's probably some typos in there, but that's how I intuitively understood their argument. It helped to actually work through the matrix math to see what was happening.
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> I still don't see what mechanism you're claiming inhibits parts of the genome from mutation.

It seems like he's saying that the burden of proof is on you, since you are claiming that macroevolution exists. He doesn't need a specific qualm to do that. For instance, if you had said, "it is possible to build a mountain out of rice, since the total mass of rice in the world is sufficient for that purpose," he would be entirely justified in asking you to actually build the mountain rather than just measuring the amount of rice in the world. After all, who knows what problems rice-mountain-building encounters. Maybe rice piles higher than a hundred meters begin to fall apart. Nobody knows. One could say the same thing about macroevolution, namely, there might indeed be some factor which prevents a large number of minor mutations from sticking around to cause speciation. A skeptic doesn't have to name this factor, the burden is on you to provide proof.

...and, of course, ample proof of macroevolution (and the fact that it is caused by an accumulation of smaller evolutionary changes) has been provided by the fossil record, as you've said many times.
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Well, as someone else pointed out, frats, etc., routinely create archives of past tests/quizzes, etc., for the benefit of their members.

Some people are currently exploiting the "efficiency" you mention, which is in my opinion a bigger problem than the extra time needed to create fresh materials.

What course could you imagine where it would take more than a few hours to create a fresh exam or batch of quizes? We're talking about undergraduate classes and any prof qualified to teach them could easily rattle off dozens of great (and unique) questions on a moment's notice.

So not only do I not think it would be a waste of time, but it would result in fairer tests/quizes, less exploitation, and fresher and more topical material.
It's only mentioned because the publisher has teamed it up with "The Sands of Mars" in a double novel volume, but I've very much enjoyed Clarke's "The City and the Stars". I've been struck by its prescience, particularly given it was written in the late 40's / early 50's. Amongst other things: Immersive, virtual reality gaming as a major passtime and social venue. Crystalline data storage (think holographic storage).

The inward nature of fear and self-absorption, and the need for society to have its outliers. The new and novel as the source of renewal.

Upon reflection, one might consider the latter portion of my last sentence almost a pun. I'm often prone to consider "science fiction" to be research and requirements gathering for modern society's progress. Its authors sit at the leading edge, taking in what's new and looking forward.
Read this and see if you get any ideas:

http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html

It's important to be passionate about whatever it is you decide to do. If you don't really care about whatever it is you're working on, it's not going to be successful.

I do want to be careful about the definition of passionate. It doesn't have to be some world-changing thing; just something you enjoy working on or something you feel is very important.

Here are some ideas you can have for free as well:

* A website builder specialized to a specific industry. Real estate agents for example. Build widgets that they can drag onto their own pages that provide things like MLS searching. Or appointments for a doctors office, etc etc.

* Yet another polling site. Except let people login to track their polls. Later you can use the data to give them suggestions about potential matches, or build a personality profile for them, or whatever. People seem to like hearing things about themselves.

* A health tracking site that lets people keep track of diet, various health biometrics, drugs / vitamins they have taken. This one would require some serious UI-fu, as I think it would only be really successful with a shitload of really beautiful graphs that allow people to track their progress / amount of money spent on supplements / whatever.
don't quit your day job yet... at night, figure out what you want your startup to do (preferably in a field not related to what your employer does).
while ($ideas < 1) {

do dayjob;

}
There's no support for this currently, but maybe we should introduce syntax in the .rip file?

`latest` or `rip-latest` or some such?
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This runs into issues when the code relies on anything outside of the lib/ directory. This is because Rip only copies the lib/ directory (and bin/). Bug reported http://github.com/defunkt/rip/issues#issue/25 and being worked on but I wanted to give the heads up.
I think joining someone else's startup is a good place to start, especially if you're young and have lots of time ahead of you.
that's the reason why macrofund managers, like george soros are called speculators.
makes sense, enemies of the future are aiming to attack our connectivity in the field of battle( so we can't coordinate a war) and cyber attacks to steal information. Cough cough china.
A butterfly market just means a large fuzzy cloud of potential consumers and a large fuzzy crowd of potential suppliers that come together in a little body in the middle = so the shape looks like a butterfly.

Take used books, there are 1000s of used bookstores and a million readers. the stores can't all separately advertise to all the readers, so you need a common central marketplace, like amazon, to make it possible.
I tried using couchsurfing on a recent trip to Japan - the interface was horrible and I got no responses. I ended up using AirBnB and found a super cheap place in the nicest neighborhood of Tokyo with an awesome host who took the time to show me around (and visit a semi-legit hostess bar.)
Tito Jackson in the house!

(check the whois)
I actually encourage my students to POST all of their WORK under a by-nc-sa Creative Commons license so that other people/students can build on their work - it's actually EASIER to check for plagiarism when their work is online - I just Google it and it will flag if they are copying verbatim.
In the current environment, the dean's best course of action (provided he cares about the students and their futures) is to keep the images as far from the police as possible and try to handle it as quickly and quietly as he can.

Such is the sad but true we now find ourselves in.
Two Japanese detained in Italy with $139 *billion* in US Treasury bonds
http://docs.python.org/library/functools.html#functools.part...

This already exists in the standard library as functools.partial, except the stdlib version is better in nearly every way.
This is a macroeconomically significant amount of money - en route to Switzerland, apparently. There was a discussion on Reddit which failed to debunk or explain: http://www.reddit.com/r/Economics/comments/8rnt5/very_strang...

I'm posting it here in the hope that someone can shed light on it.

Original story here, with photos of the bonds: http://new.ticinonews.ch/articolo.aspx?id=161782&rubrica...
Even short of polyphasic sleep, try getting between 6 and 7 hours of sleep, make yourself get up and see how that does. Often we get "sleep inertia" where your body keeps just pumping the melatonin into your system when it really doesn't need the rest. I know that aside from a polyphasic schedule, I can sleep for 8-10 hours, but anytime I do it I feel groggy all day - melatonin in the bloodstream - this has nothing to do with having enough sleep or sleep debt.
Are you looking to invest in more east coast based startups, Josh? :-)
What happens on reddit, stays on reddit.
Thanks Paul, this was super helpful. Your email isn't in your profile, but if you drop me a note, I'd love to pick your brain a little bit: aditya at sublucid dot com
It is actually kind of simple really. If you have fixed identity (or even psuedonyms that are tied to a "true name" a la Chaumian credentials) then filtering out bad behavior becomes easier. Users cannot create sock puppets, they get one chance to troll and then join the global killfile or get put a sufficient number of user killfiles as to have the same effect. If the identity was non-pseudonymous or the pseudonym systems supported cross-domain joins it would get even harder to troll since a trolling attempt at site A might get you added to user filters at sites B and C.

The trolls would not go away, but no one would ever see them and this would have the same effect.
I don't understand what you mean by "the content remains untouched." Referring to the original Beatles markup above, isn't it useful content to say this sentence is about the Beatles -- the topic described by that Wikipedia page. Presumably, you and I would agree on that mapping and reject tying that sentence to the Wikipedia page on the organism Beatles.

The overlaid, personal tags could be through some other mechanism that wouldn't even be part of the page. It could be some browser plugin that maps my tags for the band Beatles.
Is that an actual rule? If the Bank of Japan is dumping dollar holdings (as one commenter suggested) then it's probably a good time to know it. The discussion on HN is often a bit more sophisticated - just because Reddit tries to solve something and fails doesn't mean it's time to give up on the wisdom of crowds.
Start building things you are creatively and emotionally invested in. Even if they are very small things.

- work creates ideas

- you need to hone your skills; how to make decisions, how to negotiate constraints, how to balance tradeoffs. you can't do this until you've got really thorny problems. and the best problems (that is, profitable) problems to solve are all thorny ones.
It didn't happen at school, and it didn't involve school resources as far as I can tell from the article. The best course of action for the dean is to avoid dealing with the situation entirely.

There seems to be a common attitude among school administrators that anything involving students is their business. It is not.
I have to ask what thegreatmustachechallenge was.
I often see people suggest things in comments on HN, and say, "that would make a great startup!" but no one ever does it. Keep an eye out for comments like that.
You want to tag somebody's pages, I'm talking about tagging my own pages (which is what this "standard" is about, as I understand). They are already mixing structure with content, they're just doing it one of the hardest possible ways (from webmaster standpoint).

Just out of curiosity - why would you want to tag somebody's content?
do you have 'non-viable' ideas? can you refine them to be viable? do you not have many ideas? or do you just think they are not that good.

Though i agree with the whole passion thing, their are lots of people who are successful because they are passionate about creating or passionate about business rather than just their ideas.

two ideas on finding ideas
1) get dissatisfied. find something things you don't like and figure out how to make them better
2) get playful. try new things. have you written a mobile app? build one. have you seen the new mozilla video stuff? try writing tools for stuff like that, or business surrounding the newly created technologies. as you play, you learn, and may discover new opportunities.
(b) you think an intelligent person would be convinced by what you have so far.

Convinced of what? That they're making a worthwhile investment? How do you know when you've hit that point where you're ready to ask someone for money? Is this further down the road from making something people want?
The justification for banning possession of child pornography was that you could draw a straight line from the images to an act of exploitation. The reason for the laws is not primarily to prevent the spread of the images; it's to prevent the exploitation of a child that lead to their production. When you have teenagers voluntarily snapping pictures of themselves, there is no act of exploitation. Sure, it's not something that should be encouraged, but it's not something that should destroy your life, either.
It can't be 100% verified, but that doesn't mean that the theory of evolution holds no water. Being "skeptical" doesn't mean ignoring the evidence for things you don't like. It's the most likely explanation at the moment, backed up by evidence and the experiments we can do. Thus, for the time being, we accept it. It's not a tablet handed down by God, but it's not ignorable just because we're not cocksure.
If you know some other people who might be interested in doing a startup, maybe you could get together and have a brainstorming session.
yeah, go work for another startup. you'll learn a lot more than your bigco job and you'll figure out if you're ready to do your own thing, also you'll meet people that you can start startups with.

on the other hand, start building something, anything on the side with your bigco job, release-iterate-repeat from there.
I would start by putting an e-mail address in your profile so that others can contact you. Who knows, maybe there's someone reading this thread with a great idea but noone to partner up with.

just press this link: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=zavulon
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I did some napkin calculations once. Try it too. Take available land surface (wikipedia or somewhere else) and divide it by population. Then compute the side of the square this surface represents. Take out living space and roads and rivers and lakes and mountains waste land and garbage land and... well, just do the division and you'll see what i mean.
Look at the articles the only definition of hacker that doesn't fit is the golfing one.
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interested in salemetrics and listlocal.com.
Why are you sitting on that? That website would take about 15 hours to build and will most likely earn you more than a few bucks for doing nothing.
Start a two-person consulting practice, making sure to bill corp-to-corp and, if you can, avoid staff-aug projects that will simply stick you in one place for months at a time. Two people. Solo consultants get screwed by clients, have less time to manage and grow the business, and aren't learning how to operate as a company.

You'll learn how to market yourself, how to manage a sales pipeline, how to keep a set of books, how to track utilization and how to set up triggers for hiring new people.

If you're successful, you'll build a revenue stream that you can divert from to build a full-time product development team, at which point you'll have bootstrapped yourself and be at cash-flow-positive.

The ideas will come.

Working for a startup is fun. It will definitely teach you how to develop under hair-on-fire circumstances, and probably expose you to current technology (Rails instead of J2EE, Erlang instead of C++, etc).

But I was --- am --- shocked by how much 10+ years of dev work for startups did not prepare me to start a company from scratch. I got very lucky picking my partners; had I been even a little less lucky, I'd have failed in the first six months.
I'd be scared to hear your idea for manwench.com
Indeed. In fact I think HE needs a good lesson in parenting. His daughter taking images of herself of her own accord and handing them out (to a single person the context seems to be a personal connection - but she sent them to 4 people = huge naivety, or sexual excitment/experimentation, or both) is naive. But if HE thinks it is wrong then he has obviously failed to instill that in his daughter........

Much of the failing, if there is one, seems to lie with her parent here.
internetcultureawesome.com This was intended to be a place where I could share things that are awesome on the internet that my less technical people could follow. But I never got around to doing anything with it, and it's been 8 months now.

jsvampires.com Its cousin, jsvampire.com (without the s), is a domain I use as a test site for a few things, but not sure why I bothered to register the plural.

foos-hack.com (currently just a placeholder, never had any great ideas for this one.)

authentipede.com