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I made no argument, I merely asked a question.

To be explicitly clear, the question is this: Suppose there are concrete negative consequences to having ppp-adjusted ppp-adjusted ppp-adjusted ppp-adjusted income below $14,500/year. What are those consequences? Why don't middle class Bulgarians and upper middle class Indians suffer them?

(I overemphasize the phrase "ppp-adjusted" since you, llllllllllll, and many other people in other threads seem to repeatedly ignore it.)
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The article is mostly based on a work by "Tim Hatton, an economist at the University of Essex in the U.K.". That the author took license calling a moment in man's history 'most of human history' doesn't imply the rest of the article isn't worth anything. Also, I don't know living longer, or living without hunger is that terrible of a price to pay. More souls, after all.
Reminds me of a "hack" I pulled years ago -
I was developing desktop software that needed to retrieve information from a Palm OS application called Ultrasoft Brainforest Deluxe. This particular application was a general-purpose outlining/tree-structure data store. Basically I ended up searching for a description of the .PDB file format and using that to decode the tree structure from the synced back-ups. It took a bit of trial and error as well as some bitwise operations (my first experience with those). IIRC, the Palm data was stored as unsigned bytes, and I was using Java...
Consider that Quora is almost exactly like Yahoo! Answers, except that it has a more professional color scheme.
I don't understand the arguments against the merger very well. From what I've read, there is currently very little overlap between the regions of Time Warner Cable and those of Comcast [1]. If this is correct, how could the merger allow either firm to raise the price?

Raising the consumer price is only one of many things ComcastWarner could do. Having an even larger marketshare would allow them, for example, to extort more content distributors for more paid peering and hosting, for example.

But the combined customer base is supposed to be less than 30% of households that subscribe to cable or satellite TV [2].

30% is a very big number! No company would voluntarily give up 30% of its income over a distribution dispute, so ComcastWarner would be able to extract far more concessions from content producers.

It looks like the problem (which is addressed at the end of the post) is higher barriers to entry from local governments.

A larger ComcastWarner would have even more lobbying power to ensure those barriers to entry remain high.
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"It wasn’t until well after the invention of cars and antibiotics that the average European man outgrew today’s average American teenaged girl."

Am I missing something or is that a really bizarre statement?
Dynamic allocation isn't the only cost there -- a cost that's just as big when you're doing number crunching in Python is cache efficiency. If every number is on the heap, and every number in Python is ~20 bytes long, you're going to have caching problems, even if your numbers only ever range from -5 to 256.
> I program a lot in Groovy these days, and it now has optional static typing with a limited amount of type inference

Groovy has enabled types on variables and functions (and fields and methods) since Groovy 1.0 but that makes the code run slower.
Suppose there are concrete negative consequences to having ppp-adjusted ppp-adjusted ppp-adjusted ppp-adjusted income below $14,500/year.

That doesn't need supposition. They exist.

What are those consequences?

Not having adequate supplies of nutritious food, potable water, shelter from elements\other people, and access to information.

Why don't middle class Bulgarians and upper middle class Indians suffer them?

Well, A) they do, and B) ppp adjusted, $14,500 isn't upper middle class India or middle class Bulgaria.
You could also try http://betalist.com or even http://producthunt.co.
There is no question that much education and much housing is purchased for entirely practical reasons, and I'm not asserting otherwise. That is not incompatible with them sometimes serving as displays of wealth - a need for my children to go to the best schools, whatever the cost (of which tuition plays only a part, to be sure).
No, you've just edited it to say "PPP-adjusted" since I posted the comment.
It's kinda depressing that if the FCC acted to rein in the companies that have the lowest levels of customer satisfaction in the country, conventional wisdom is that it would be immediately thwarted by Congress. The same Congress which was elected by those same dissatisfied customers.
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I assumed this was kind of a troll until I saw this example. It looks a lot better and seems like a totally valid use case.
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It's a bit odd. Instead of just saying "Until the 1940s, average European men were shorter than today's average American girl", the author tried to spice it up with a historical reference. Surprised the editor didn't demand it be changed.
Females are shorter than males. Adults are taller than teenagers.

It's saying it took until the 1930+s for European men to reach levels of height we'd consider normal for teenaged girls today.
But you would still need a tool to manage dependencies, track updates, etc. And it will be this tool that you will need to use to keep the system in a consistent state.
All sorts of weird stuff, like horse:

If you can get your hands on that sort of things, I really recommend trying

- a steak from a horse

- sausages, barbecued (hey, I'm German. Let's play the stereotype card) => Bratwurst

- as pointed out elsewhere in this thread: Sauerbraten (although that's somewhat 'special'. I'd say everyone eating meat should try the first two, the last one is really weird and a dish that is both savory and sweet)
We could slightly broaden the definition of net neutrality to prohibit such selective non-upgrading. Or maybe the FTC could consider "high-speed" broadband with persistent packet loss to be some kind of false advertising.
I think you're missing the point. Once its a lot more trivial to synthesize a cell from data its not just blue skies scientists involved anymore. When anyone can do whatever they like you will get misuse of the technology.
I haven't! The exact fraction would have to be carefully researched, of course.
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Was hopeful but almost immediately this article also devolved into introducing the fibonacci function.
This is almost as bad as examples of "aspect oriented programming" in java 10 years ago when every example involved inserting logging aspects to your code...

Just write a simple tutorial about a real world example, nowadays usually having something to do with the web, and especially point out how it's better than doing the same thing in ruby, php or even gasp java!
We'll learn ourselves how you define lists and how magical they are in haskell...

And people who write compilers and parses all day long probably won't have a problem with the way haskell looks.
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I didn't edit it. See this comment from an hour ago which points out someone else ignoring it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7724518

I adjust the numbers for PPP every time I ask this question. And for reasons I don't understand, people repeatedly ignore it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7539966

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6856005
You filed a lawsuit. You suggested that the defendants are ethically challenged. These are facts.
Sorry, that was a trick question: in Smalltalk, the for-loop is just a block/higher order function applied to a collection, except that the collection is an Interval defined by its start, end and optional step that only generates its contents on-demand, for example when iterating:

(1 to: 10) do: [ :i | ... ].

So (1 to: 10) creates an Interval, and then `do:` iterates that Interval. There's a shortcut convenience `to:do:` in Number that allows you to avoid the brackets.

The point being that the dichotomy "for-loop vs. higher order functions" is a false one. And usefully so, for example you can adjust methods in Interval to iterate in parallel (or you use a different kind of Interval) without having to touch the language or most iteration code.
Serious question: why not python?
Yay! Maybe it's finally the year of the Linux Desktop!

Give me a break. For how scalable Linux is & how fast you can automate installations, move data around, script work to be done, it took them 10 years to do this? (Judging by the comments)

It would take a typical Linux Sysadmin 3 years tops, depending on if they have everything they need, planning & getting people trained. This is a joke.
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Seriously? This crap is so old. SRS is great and I can't believe someone hasn't made a better application than crufty old Anki yet. This is some seriously low hanging fruit here.
Another neurologist author whose books are worth checking out is V.S. Ramachandran. His book "Phantoms in the brain" in an interesting read.
I agree.

I love Trello and use it all day every day, and one of very few minor annoyances is the date/time formatting.
30-some years ago the courts broke up the Bell System (original AT&T) monopoly on the basis of monopolistic behavior.

Perhaps a judicial finding that present day ISP practice constitutes a de facto, /necessary/ monopoly, forcing wholesale access to competitors to the incumbent ISPs' customer access facilities.
I agree. For most of the apps out there, I use Google+ to login, even if there are other services available.

Why :
* Using Android, Google+ seems safer, faster, and easier to remember ( that I logged in using Google )
* I don't have to worry about Permissions that much ( Facebook - post to news feed, send notifications )
* I can use Multiple Google accounts for logging in ( and switch anytime )
* Again, it's Google.
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How does this apply to Postgres?
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Is saying this is similar to an issue in goimport a sly way of saying markdownfmt "works on a file-by-file basis like gofmt; and as such it does not and cannot know that file a.go and b.go belong to the same package. Put another way, this is a user error for the tool as is."?

That explanation does not really make sense. I want markdownfmt to work on the file chapter1.md and the following day after editing chapter 2 I want to process chapter2.md. markdownfmt never needs to know and never will know that I use chapter1.md and chapter2.md together. When I am done I am going to feed chapter[1-X].md to another tool for publishing. But I cant because I used markdownfmt on a file by file basis and it damaged my files.

Every large book I have seen that uses markdown uses this chapter (or smaller) as file workflow. The biggest example that comes to mind is the progit book: https://github.com/progit/progit/tree/master/en
Google Auto-Correct is killing my site
I run a site https://birthde.com.
But when you google the "Birthde"(https://www.google.com/#q=birthde) it Auto-Correct changes it to "Birthday".
And I dont get any traffic in.

Do I have to change to a better domain name?
or
Should the google change something for such senario?
Seems like a good move for Quora. They'll get early access to acquihiring super talented folks at struggling/failing startups. At the least, they can generate goodwill and word of mouth as a good place to work. Talented people know talented people, etc.

Not sure about the impact on YC though. It may create an environment of mixed incentives. Quora's incentive is almost perverse, in that they get the most value out of YC from failing startups.
Bear with me as I'm an econ neophyte, but if as Wikipedia suggests the US stock market holds about 20 trillion USD, and the average rate of return is 10%, is 2 trillion a good estimate for how much is made in the US stock market annually?
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Yeah, this reminds me of a somewhat chilling moment when a chinese teenager asked me what I was reading about (regression to the mean).

By way of introducing the concept, I asked "if someone is very tall, are their parents probably taller or shorter than they are?" "Shorter". So far so good.

"If someone is very short, are their parents taller or shorter?" "Shorter".

Apparently, to the current generation, no matter how short you are, your parents are shorter. Long live the CCP :/
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I run an Arch droplet and this is the first I've heard of this. Certainly makes me want to take my business elsewhere. Suddenly they don't have any bleeding edge distros.

Linode just seems to care more about their customers.
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A rock too heavy to lift would be a rock inside the event horizon of a black hole, if one can stipulate that the rock still "exists".

My own attitude toward paradoxes concerning God is that understanding is a gift - awesome in its comprehension of the universe from big bang to Planck length scale interactions. Nonetheless, the understanding given to us as finite beings will be incomplete and approximate. If we avoid every other end, dementia will eventually remove what little understanding we have. I hold that rejection of the gift of understanding - e.g., the six day materialist biblical interpretation - is a grave error. Nonetheless, I hold that entities (or sets of relations) exist for which I will never have a consistent or correct rational model - and that one of those is God. Other instances are my fellow humans, and even myself. It should go without saying, ignorance does not preclude fascination with, delight in, nor love for those beings.
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Sure, but the marginal benefit is almost inexistent. When you have billions (or tens/hundreds of millions), an extra $12k is practically nothing.

This makes me think of mail-in rebates for electronics, at a different scale. It's also weird to me to see an engineer making over $100k/yr to buy a hard-drive or GPU with a mail-in rebate, then put in the effort to send in the coupon to get that extra $10 back (I've done it myself, but I don't earn that much). To someone making >$6-8k/month, $10 is peanuts. That's also how I see this $12k for billionaires.
Well, he built his empire on Emitter Coupled Logic. He didn't have the limitations of CMOS to deal with and so parallelism wasn't as necessary for continued computational power.
That is not what I am referring to. 2.0 introduced true static typing that compiles to code that not only enforces complete type correctness at compile time (unlike the old option) but executes at near Java speed.
yet they require you to have a real name

if you don't, they'll flag you and until you update your name, your account will be frozen (you can read and follow but can't answer) and all your previous answers hidden
> Like craftsmen in the past, every line is bespoke, every function something toiled over. [...] None of them worried about how to build the screws that hold it together.

Many years ago I wrote a video game in x86 assembly. (It was a shitty Snake game, but still) That code was burping out pixels direct to the VGA framebuffer. That code was pretty manual, and every assembly instruction that ran was designed and typed in by me.

Contrast that with modern web development. You're getting TONS of functionality for free. Did you toil over every line of the node.js code? Did you worry about how the interpreter stored your data in a pretty optimal data structure, gave you the illusion of nearly-infinite memory by garbage collection, or automatically cached a bunch of stuff that you never had to think about? And let's not talk about the encryption library, or the networking code, or the OS, or etc, etc.

In other words, I don't think modern web developers worry about the screws that hold it together, but man, they are still still there.
Unless you are just storing a couple entries that rarely change, you should really consider http://symas.com/mdb/ nowadays.
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Linode did the exact same thing with their IPv6 rollout.
Update:

https://github.com/iSECPartners/yontma-mac/issues/4
Archive.org honors the robots.txt, at during the indexing period - okay. But current domain owners should not be allowed to remove historic content of the domain at a later date by just modifying the robots.txt.

A lot of information is lost as domain squatters take over domains set new robots.txt files. On Wikipedia for example you find a lot of reference-links that point to archived website URLs on archive.org. Every now and then the vital information source is lost - it's a bit surreal like book burning. I really like archive.org, this is the single feature I dislike a lot.
And where can I download these tools?

This isn't free. You are attempting to extract rent from already cost-sunk designs rather than enabling a blossoming of new design ecosystem.
Paul Graham's essays discuss how the most exciting work in many media was done by the generation that invented them. For example, the most interesting paintings were done centuries ago, when oil paint was new. Bach is like that. When he was writing, the piano was a new invention, and a system of musical scales had been found that allowed you to change key mid piece, without retuning your instrument. Those things are old now, but Bach lets you feel the thrill they gave when they were new.
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I'm avid Rhapsody user to discover new music. This hard to find album is available there to play: http://app.rhapsody.com/artist/various-artists/album/js-bach...
See also tinycdb, a public domain reimplementation http://www.corpit.ru/mjt/tinycdb.html
I actually like the standard Unix filesystem layout, I find it much better organized than the one used by Windows or OS X.
I suspect there are many many more very high net worth individuals who are unknown, and we can only hope that they act as well as these guys.
Can you elaborate on why you assumed I downvoted you? Because I didn't.

Mobile apps are interfacing with Internet servers (that they usually do so over HTTP is irrelevant, since Web refers to hypertext documents).
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A teacher friend told me about a conservation she had with a pupil. The kid told her that he'll get an iPhone laptop and that his family already has an iPhone monitor. It's not hard to guess that he means MacBook and iMac. Is this the point where the iPhone brand is starting to overshadow the Mac brand?
You'll probably need a different domain name if you want to rank for the name of your product.

Google has little reason to change anything - chances are most people who type in 'birthde' are looking for 'birthday'.
I totally agree with the idea that calm serenity is the symptom of a software process done right.

What I would like to plead for is hosted Fogcreek and other products in the EU only. Data protection laws here make getting government work awkward if you use hosted services outside the EU. It's painful. please host here !!!

ps
anyone else in same position?
Honeybees aren't native to the US

Both wild and domesticated Honey bees were present in the Americas when European colonists arrived. However, the common honey bee was not among them, and the other (I hesitate to say 'native') species are indeed no longer extant.

If CCD is causing problems for professional beekeepers, those problems don't seem to be reflected in the economy. The price of queen bees hasn't changed.

Queen pricing might not be as strongly correlated to CCD as you might expect. Raising queens is indeed done commercially by specialized beekeepers, but if you're already a beekeeper, it is not hard to do or learn. You can raise dozens at the same time, in a single hive, and this does not stop that hive from producing honey later in the season. It's therefore quite possible that the increased demand in queens after overwintering has simply been met by an increase in the supply.
Well, it looks like it's a perfect case for contacting support.
I don't see how this is exceptional value. Same hardware as Lumia 520 or Sony e1 (Android 4.3) for approximate the same price.
All true. On the other hand, std::sort in C++ works on RandomAccessIterator, which means that it can sort vectors, C arrays, deques, strings, your custom container type, etc. The Haskell implementation can only sort lists. Furthermore, the Haskell type signature fails to express that the input and output have the same size. But std::sort necessarily preserves its size, because you pass it a range, and a range cannot access its underlying container to change its size (a limitation leading to bizarre APIs like std::unique).
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CDB isn't really a DBM.
Definitely seems like something pg would have never done.
So what is your opinion of the vote scheduled for next week, which is definitely an action?
Supposedly https://github.com/gstrauss/mcdb is quite good.
To add to the acronym soup, what you described (nested MVC) is known as HMVC, and I agree that it's what most frameworks end up as, regardless of what they end up calling it. It works very well in my opinion, too, to the point where I'm currently working on a framework like that myself (as a learning exercise)
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Hmm.. yup.. looks like the stock market is just chalk full of Robin Hoods who are so humble they don't want any recognition.

Either that or some guys got filthy rich using questionably legal means, felt guilty so they started giving a lot of it away, and are worried they might get caught if they become well-known.
Its pretty typical for any personal project here to have a lot of negative feedback and reasons why it wouldn't ever be used. Just make sure you take the good suggestions as constructive rather than getting discouraged.
This is not as rare as the article says. In fact, giving my experience around rich people I would say it it the normal thing.

Most people believe what mass media tells them. The media talks about the actors, but not about the producers, they talk about the young sport star but not so much about the owner of the team, and so on.

And the main reason is: Most of them don't want to be famous, they don't want people stalking them for money whenever they go, or someone kidnapping their children. They don't need to show off their money. They live in good, but normal houses, and drive a 10 year car.

Most of them already made themselves, they don't need external recognition when they have the internal one. Most of them were naysed when they started their business(most people tell you "it wont work") or wanted to create something new and survived extreme negativity, so they are quite indifferent about what other people think about them(when you are super rich everybody wants to be your friend and the same person who told you "it wont work" the most now tells you "I always believed you were going to make it").

You have lots of them writing in HN with pseudonym. Like writers they want their words to carry a message from itself, not from the authority of the person who writes them, and it lets them interact with intelligent people in an equal level.
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I understand the problem, I'm thinking how to best solve it.

FWIW, the markdown files for all chapters in that book you've linked do not contain an extra newline at the end; there's only one (just like markdownfmt leaves it).

What about using something like cat, except one that inserts a newline between all the files it concatenates? That way the .md files can remain as they are.