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I use org-mode and symlink ~/org/ to my dropbox folder. I love this setup, though I really wish Dropbox had an iPhone app and a public API. Both have been promised for quite some time.
Ah, that's different, that's just compilation (and yes, I've seen compilation incompatibilities too; VS usually requires code changes to compile).

I was referring to the binary interface. What I'd want to do (and generally can with C) is compile a library with any compiler, and link it with any other code, with no recompiling.

You see this all the time with Unix, say; maybe Sun compiles a bunch of stuff with their C compiler, but you can easily link to what's in /usr/lib using GCC. But with C++, it's typical for the loader to not link C++ libraries that were built differently; and if you're really unlucky, the loader won't notice and instead you'll see subtle binary errors at runtime.
What if we change the slang to "flail", which is at least both a noun and a verb?
Friendfeed does have to think about it compared to Twitter at the time they removed Track, more than a year ago. Even then Twitter had more traffic, but it wasn't nearly as dramatic a difference as in the more recent part of that graph.
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All costs are transferable. So, whether you rent or own, you will pay property tax -- just like today. In my hometown, one prominent landlord sent out letters to his tenants telling them that, if an upcoming school levy passed, their rents would be raised. The same transfer goes for commercial property as well. If the "single tax" was levied, one conceivably could compute the portion of the cost of a gallon of milk attributable to the cumulative taxation through the supply chain.

My issue with property taxes is that the government gets into the estimation business. I'd prefer a sales tax because it seems less likely to distort market behaviors and is less susceptible to political manipulation.
I recognize that what you're saying is true, and that there are people for whom an iPhone-shaped shiny piece of plastic is as good as the real thing.

However, I hate those people :-) They're bad people. Stupid people. Superficial people. I don't want them indulged.
Nope, the iPhone doesn't support over-the-air updates. Apple can patch it in the next version of the OS, but no one's gonna get the update without a computer.
It strikes me that environmentalists should want to tax land improvements and/or the procurement of physical goods. Imagine if a new toaster cost $100 after taxes but the toaster repairman only charged $30/hour because he was able to keep 100% of his earnings. Today, if you can buy a new toaster for $60 and toaster repair costs $50/hour, you're a lot more likely to buy a new one and put the old one out on the curb for the trash man. Would people buy houses so large if property tax rates were twice what they are today?

The problem with radical changes to taxation schemes is that they have to be made slowly to avoid chaos. Ignore for a moment the last ten years of US housing history. If property taxes doubled tomorrow, the prices of houses would drop by some percentage as the marginal cost of a bigger house increased. And, we now know what happens when housing prices drop :) Slow changes could allow for gradual adjustment.
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It's probably custom made, based on a bit of that Google secret sauce that Paul was exposed to.
I think one reason governments use a variety of taxes is that otherwise there is a single point of attack for people who want to game the system, and all that energy focused on one point could produce weird distortions.

In this case there would be a great incentive for people to live less densely, which seems a bad thing. Someone who went off and lived in the sticks where land was practically worthless could reduce their tax bill to next to nothing. Especially if they lived in a mobile home (deluxe versions of which would rapidly appear).
Oracle RAC is stupidly complicated to administer. You are correct in your statement that a RAC environment generally does require a DBA team and the cost overhead is significant. Further, Oracle has very stringent hardware and OS certification and you will not receive any support from Oracle on uncertified systems.

However, I would not associate it with the "cloud" movement/paradigm/whatever. It is a cluster (the C in RAC stands for cluster) with 2 or more instances sharing memory structures across a network. To add another node to the cluster is excruciating; I would not classify it as dynamically scalable - the hallmark of cloud computing.
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At that age my dad was teaching me and my siblings circuit debugging and my mom was teaching us programming on CP/M. Valuable stuff. If anyone thinks this is "too advanced", I respectfully suggest that this stuff is just too new to be mainlined into the traditional curriculum. Process analysis is as powerful, simple and vital as any chemistry or maths.
I appreciate the explanations. I was not familiar with the fact that the "overlords" joke was overused in hacker circles, so I can see how it is played out. I'm just a big Simpsons fan.
Early risers are welcome at the Bootstrapper Breakfasts http://www.bootstrapperbreakfast.com/

July 3 7:30AM Palo Alto (First Friday of the month)
July 10 7:30AM Milpitas (Second Friday)
July 17 7:30AM San Francisco (Third Friday)
July 21 7:30AM Santa Clara (Third Tuesday)
July 24 9:00AM Mountain View (Fourth Friday)
August 5 7:30AM (First Wednesday)

There is also a Hackers & Founders Meetup Tuesday 6pm July 14 in Mountain View see http://www.meetup.com/Hackers-and-Founders/ and http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=iamelgringo
What is non primary healthcare? Should people have to pay for their own brain surgery but not for their nicotine patches?
Ha, I do exactly this for converting these generated html files into pdfs using itext/flyingsaucer
The Thriller 12" album on the other hand, is probably the best-mastered record (or CD) I've ever heard.
People meet each other before their thoughts on gay rights, or really any thoughts are known. I would say physical location would be more of an indicator of whether or not you'll meet someone gay. If you go to the Castro for example, it's much more likely you'll meet someone gay than if you are ... well, I dunno, somewhere there aren't a lot of gay people.
That question is reasonably answered in many countries across the world.

Usually it is defined as 'essential' and not optional services. Breast implants aren't covered, but breast cancer surgery is (potentially finishing with a breast implant).

The details are really a moot point - the bigger issue is whether it is a basic human right to receive treatment regardless of your economic situation.
The secret to programming is not intelligence, though of course that helps. It is not hard work or experience, though they help, too. The secret to programming is having smart friends.

I think there's a lot of truth to this. It's the real reason some of the best software comes from universities.
Briefly noting a vital detail is very different from factoring it into one's theories.
I think this is the best proposal for just one tax: http://www.fairtax.org

Essentially, a national sales tax, and low-income people get a rebate for what they might have spent on taxes every year. Encourages individual saving and exports.
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Do you live to work, or do you work to live?
Also, at the moment we only tax "land" -- meaning actual physical land, not space inhabited. Therefore, the truly rich could afford to construct difficult vertically engineered buildings, thus reducing their tax burden while simultaneously keeping a superhigh lifestyle. Meanwhile, many middle class who are wealthy enough to afford a home but not wealthy enough to afford a towering monstrosity would be taxed at a higher rate.

I am loath to use the term "wealth redistribution" because it tends to bring around the less thoughtful, but louder, segment of the population which rails against anything that remotely sounds like socialism. However, consider that this is one of the reasons for the progressive income tax. Essentially, money means less to you the more you have of it, especially considering that sustainable goods for comfortable life actually cost very little (thus meaning that taking ten percent of someone earning $35,000 dollars a year is far more likely to cut into their cost of living than taking ten percent of someone earning $500,000 dollars a year). One tax certainly introduces problems of point vulnerability, but it also brings up a problem with different taxes on different income brackets.
Ask HN: Any Los Angeles hackers interested in a meetup?
I don't see much about SoCal on HN ... anybody out there in the Los Angeles or San Diego area?

Would you be interested in a SoCal meetup this summer?
[Ask HN] Entrepreneurial Events Calendars (esp NYC)?
Hi all,

I was wondering if there is (yet) a site where folks organizing events with an entrepreneurial flavor? For instance, I'm going to be in NYC for a about a week in late July, and was wondering if there was anything going on that would be fun and/or educational to attend (19th through 24th to be exact).

I've had a look at all the stuff at meetup.com that seemed 'obvious' but none of the dates mesh with mine... There's gotta be something going on in that city, even if it's summer holiday season!
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Yes. I lived in San Francisco for years. The murder rate there is about 7 per 100 000 population per year. Does that qualify as "not trying to kill one another" in your book?
"Therefore, the truly rich could afford to construct difficult vertically engineered buildings, thus reducing their tax burden while simultaneously keeping a superhigh lifestyle."

If the tax rate is so high that this is a worthwhile use of a rich person's money, we've already lost.
The post says that they are talking about the nonrelational database systems in general, that's why i added noSQL to the header.

I posted it because it is a post that supports the contrary position to many of the pro-nosql comments going around lately. Just to add both sides of the equation... to maybe, help get to truth.
Any time you tax something, you disincentiveize it.

I think the point is to tax things that society considers negative: carbon, alcohol, nicotine, potentially marijuana. Because you can't raise enough from those, we may also tax land. But let's not tax the positives, like income/production.
Well, how high should we make it then? Remember, this is supposed to replace all other US federal tax, including income tax (I presume, maybe I misinterpreted the article).
This isn't right. Property tax is almost always in proportion to the area of living space on the property.

Even anti-redistributionists acknowledge that taking 10% of the income of someone making $5e5 will reduce that person's lifestyle less than taking 10% of someone making $35k. I think the issue is more that this isn't the case -- the 500,001st dollar is taxed at a much higher rate than the 35,001st dollar.
Well, because class stratification denies opportunities to people who are born to the wrong parents, drastically reducing the pool of innate talent that can actually be applied to solving society's problems, maybe. Or because lack of interchange between social groups brings those groups to misunderstand and fear one another, leading to violence between them (Japanese internment camps being an example inside the US in living memory). Or because groupthink results in intellectual stagnation and collective delusions.

It's true that there are a disproportionate number of upper-class twits on HN, while the twits on Reddit are mostly lower-class. But I don't hang out here because of the upper-class twits. I hang out here because it's a little less vulnerable to, among other things, delusional groupthink than Digg or Reddit.
Should the president of the US get the exact same quality of care as a homeless person? If not, why not?
Ask HN:  I have yet to do the one thing I wish before I die
The thing I want to do is to go back to college full time and major in mathematics. I would like to get a master's/advanced degree in math ("maths" if you are non-US :) ) and while doing so, ponder and study the queen of sciences.

I've made it to 41 years old. I am a software engineer, and I'm so-so at it. I self-studied my way to a C++ programming job after working my way from network admin to web developer to programmer to software engineer since 1999. I'm not even all that great at math. But I failed my first programming course back in 1985, but I am now a well-paid professional. I know if I do a math program full time and work really hard, I can at least get to "good".

My one true joy is solving problems and I even enjoy figuring out proofs. I have taken enough math courses to know I thoroughly enjoy the subject. But there are no evening programs anywhere near my home to study math. There are no part-time programs. I would have to quit my job and find a way to finance myself through a proper math program.

I am willing to give up my current lifestyle and live in poverty to pursue this goal.

My question is, why shouldn't I do it? What lies at the other end of the goal? Am I crazy? Have any of you done such a thing? It feels like I am throwing my life to the wind. But if I don’t do it, I will regret it the rest of my life. Advice appreciated.
Taxes are the cost of participating in society.
Hey, there's a socal yc group on Facebook - 'socal.yc'. We're hoping to have a meetup some time as well.
Sounds about right. This wasn't computer fraud or abuse. It may have been harassment though. It seems like people forget that we had laws for punishing conduct we did not condone before the Internet, i.e. ones that never mentioned computers in any way. Back then they were called "laws." Why are these no longer applicable?
What about your data? Most web applications have persistent data of some sort that is vital to the user experience -- without it, you don't have much of a site.

[Edit: And keeping a hot copy of that data is a lot harder than it sounds]
Or, maybe flow is just one of the few times we already do what the author is talking about?
Why do we want to encourage exports?
It increases the price to the users of the "advanced" version, because by keeping 2 versions the seller has to collect AT LEAST enough extra to pay for the increased overhead costs of dealing with 2 versions.
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If you ever wondered what it was like being a subject instead of a citizen... an attempt is being made to repeal the 22nd amendment.
Regarding renting, there is a huge problem with that in many eastern states: rent control.

As for estimation, we can create good incentives. If the government estimates the value at X, and you can't sell it for at least 95% of X (lets say in 6 months), then the government must buy it at X.

(Not that I expect this to ever happen.)
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Unless you have other responsibilities that you haven't mentioned, like, say, a wife and children, there's no reason you shouldn't do exactly what you want to do with your life.

Money, beyond subsistence, isn't really correlated with increased happiness, as numerous studies have shown. Just make sure you always have a reasonable level of health insurance coverage. Otherwise, I can't think of any good reason not to do what you want.

At the very least, if you find you really don't enjoy it and that it isn't worth giving up two or three or four more years of your life to schooling, you'll put that nagging question of "should I..." to rest, and it'll only cost you a few grand and one semester. I find that having those kinds of questions nagging at my mind is far more detrimental to my emotional well-being than the actual outcomes.
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In order to really answer your question, we'd need to attach some numbers to the problem, since it's all a matter of which is cheaper.

However, every time I try, I find the concept of "unimproved value of the land" coming apart in my hands. There's really no way to separate the value of the item on the land from what is on the land. Oh, we do talk about lot values, but that's ultimately an abstraction that once it actually started to matter would be subject to gaming and interpretation.

It isn't really meaningful to talk about the economic value of something that doesn't exist. You can only determine the value of something by seeing what people will actually give up to obtain the item. When you ask about something that doesn't exist, you are asking people to estimate what they might be willing to give up if the thing actually existed, and people are notoriously bad at that.

(Note that the failure is ultimately human, not economic; a being that was more rational about being able to hypothesize what they would give up might not have this problem, but we have to go to government with the beings we have, not the beings we wish we had. This metric would start game-able and get worse.)

So I guess my answer is I can't seem to wrap my head around what's actually being proposed enough to elaborate on what my point was meaningfully. Consider this a strike against this summary of the proposal. (Whether it applies to the original I don't know, and I don't care enough to go check.)

(... actually, if you want to get really meta, the problem is that even if you waved a magic wand and had this implemented, Congress would still have it mangled inside two years flat. Congress is the real problem here, or government, or special interests, etc. The tax system is more effect than cause.)
I think it depends on the state -- certain states separate the taxes into Land Value Tax (LVT) and then actual "property" taxes, which is IIRC the improvement value of the building on the property. Both of these combined would be a real estate tax. I had assumed that they were taxing LVT, but the article is a little poor on details.

I think the issue is more that this isn't the case -- the 500,001st dollar is taxed at a much higher rate than the 35,001st dollar.
I can't quite tell if you are agreeing or disagreeing here. I was saying that the property tax is unfair in this case. There are many ways in which someone who has a high income could be taxed lower than someone with a lower income (which is what the progressive income tax is supposed to correct).
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I think you have it exactly backwards. The more points of attack, the larger the vulnerability. There are laws passed for specific corporations to reduce tax liability.

What's wrong with low density? There is a real economic value to variety and a minimum density to support certain kinds of commerce. You can't take this to a limit assuming there is no cost (if only opportunity cost) to moving to a less dense area.

Also, at least in the easy coast, the least dense areas are typically already state or national parks. Wyoming is the exact opposite. 5 digit license plates are common there.
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This seems like an inverse of what you get when haskell's laziness is an advantage, namely that with haskell you defer computing stuff until its needed in a certain sense, whereas in this case, we're considering eager computations where whenever the code path for generating some data is purely functional in some sense, the runtime heuristically deletes the data and if it comes to be needed again, it gets once again computed.

This woudn't end well unless there was some way for the runtime/compiler to know the complexity of the computation.

On the other hand, this does remind me of work on what's called "self-adjusting computation" by several folks at uchicago and cmu, (http://ttic.uchicago.edu/~umut/research/) which winds up being a really slick way of converting certain offline algorithms into online algorithms that in some cases have runtime complexity comparable or the same as the best known explicit online algorithms
Why do people always equate universal healthcare with some kind of extreme socialist conspiracy to remove healthcare from the wealthy and place it in the hands of the poor?

I can't think of a single jurisdiction where universal care is provided that prevents a private individual from going out and purchasing more or better care if they want it. The point is to put a floor under the quality of care, not a ceiling.
This is just a guess, but have you tried ctrl-d and ctrl-u?
Test the waters with MIT OCW (http://ocw.mit.edu) and Academic Earth (http://academicearth.org) for lots of lectures & problem sets, and then make the jump if you feel that'll make you happy.
This may shed some light: http://hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml

Truth is, most people, including some vocal advocates of XHTML, don't serve it with the proper content-type.
Taxation is efficient for true public goods: goods which are non-rivalrous and non-excludible. Of the examples you mentioned, only roads fall into that category.

If such goods are provided by taxation, this will encourage overconsumption. If I'm already paying for it, I might as well use it, right? It also forces a "one-size fits all" solution. I.e., rather than purchasing the amount of mass transit I want, I'm forced to purchase the amount that the average person (as envisioned by politicians) wants.
At my age, 27, the notion of an actual nation attacking the US with a conventional weapon is unimaginable.

It literally does not compute in my mind.
Possibilities:

* Prosecutor sees this case as some sort of 'new' offense and to seize the opportunity to get his name into the law books.

* Prosecutor sees the harassment conviction as 'too hard to get'

* Prosecutor sees harassment maximum punishment as a slap on the wrist and tries to get 'creative' in getting something else to stick to the woman.

* Prosecutor sees the word computer, says 'Hurrr Durrrr', immediately starts looking at what 'computer law' applies to the case, sees that there isn't a 'computer law' against this particular crime, tries to shoehorn whatever 'computer law' he/she can fit into the crime and turn on the over-confidence in his/her persuasive court room skillz, hoping that the judge doesn't use moree than 2 brain cells during the case.
You really ought to closely examine your own motives for wanting a math degree. Having said that we usually end up regretting the things we did not do more than the things we actually did.. go for it, and if you don't like it, you can always find another job.
This is like complaining that your student version has the artificial limitation that you can't use it for commercial use. If you needed to use more than 32GB of ram, something only heavy duty commercial servers would need, then you buy the heavy duty commercial version of Windows Server.

You have paid a price before that was in essence subsidised by the higher-end commercial users - now you are one of them (Congratulations!) and get to "subsidise" standard versions for the rest of us.

It's the same theory as scaled taxation (which is a different argument as government has separate responsibilities than business) - think of yourself as in the highest earning bracket now.