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What frustrates me is the number of websites that impose additional restrictions on anything they don't recognize, or worse, websites that impose additional restrictions on (or worse yet, just outright ban) anything that isn't Googlebot.

And people wonder why alternative search engines have such a hard time taking off.
The whole point of mentioning taxis was that the part about self-driving cars where you don't have to control the vehicle and where the vehicle just goes and picks someone else up after you are done with it is already served by taxis. It's definitely likely that self-driving cars will displace taxis, but it's not clear that it will actually be all that cost-effective in most places. The argument to be made is that the driver is such a large fraction of the cost of a taxi that reducing that to a single fixed-cost addition of a computer + sensors is going to dramatically change the pricing structure in such a way that people will give up personal vehicles.

I think that's very likely not true in most places where population densities are low. There will probably be some rebalancing, but I don't think it will be as dramatic a shift as the parent comment made it out to be.
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I'm curious what the HN community thinks is the value as well as what they think MSFT paid.
Yeah, I did say "Some people" not "EVERYONE."

Also, I generally sleep less these days while being better rested because I have worked hard on improving my health. So I think there are things people can do to work on this issue but, for the most part, when I try to talk about stuff like that, I get shouted down, pissed on, and treated pretty horribly. So I say stuff like that a lot less than I used to. I don't think you need "good genes" per se to be well rested on less sleep. I think you just need good health -- and I think most people are less healthy than they really think (not exactly a popular opinion to express though).
Totally agree on this. The low-hanging fruit isn't squeezing in a couple more hours, its improving the quality of the hours you currently have. If you can do 8 hours every weekday of truly productive time spent focused on the right things you'll run circles around most of these 100-hour-week braggarts anyway.

Of course if you are truly god's gift to white-collar workaholism then sure those additional hours can add up, but if you sacrifice sleep and thus cognitive function you're shooting yourself in the foot to get there and probably don't even realize it because of the haze you're living in.
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I have invested mostly in first-time founders. Serial founders usually don't need my small-time money :)
I have this problem. I am perceived as relentlessly negative for pointing out obvious points of failure, ridiculous management, etc. Most people just parrot what management wants instead of what they need-- good advice.

In reality I am trying to ensure the success of the project-- FAILURE IS THE DEFAULT OPTION.
How could it not? Macroeconomics and politics are inseparable.
What would happen if an airline published their pricing in $/lbs? You'll know your price only after checking in your bags and getting into a plane by stepping through a scale.

First of all, would that be legal? Secondly, how would that affect the consumer behavior and the competition?
There's a specific mental trap -- I'll call this "scientism" -- that a lot of comments here are rapidly falling into. It's in treating macroeconomics as a "solved" problem, or putting too much faith in specific studies or sentences.

That's not at all the proper way to look at macroeconomics. Our economy is unimaginably complex -- it's full of hundreds and millions of moving parts, with each single part (the human brain) driven by an even more complex system with hundreds of billions of parts (neurons). All of these parts are re-orienting themselves with new data in real time.

What Sam is trying to say here, is that we don't know if these trends are "good" or "bad", or if they'll lead to bad outcomes or not, or in what time frame this will occur. All we know now -- and this I agree with -- is that something in our economy has changed permanently. And this should be a good cause to worry, or at least, should be taken as a call to arms to economists everywhere to try and figure out why our models aren't working as well as they used to.

"Too large a proportion of recent "mathematical" economics are mere concoctions,
as imprecise as the initial assumptions they rest on, which allow the author
to lose sight of the complexities and interdependencies of the real world in a
maze of pretentious and unhelpful symbols." - John Maynard Keynes
Yes, I took a semester-long class for (among other things) understanding road signs in highschool, and my parents took several hours of their own time to coach me as well. Learning to drive and understand the road system is not a trivial task.

Yet for the metro, if you don't know what you're doing and you don't know anyone who knows what they are doing, you're essentially dumped in the deep end during all-swim. The maps and the keys for understanding the maps are all printed in high-traffic areas (of course, where they will be seen by the most people), and the other passengers are often quite annoyed by "noobs" who stand in those high traffic areas and gawk at the maps.
I missed the call to confirm my number. I don't see an option to retry the call. What do I do?
NPR had a brilliant episode where they discussed an experiment where money was given to a control group of people on Kenya. http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/11/08/243967328/episode-...
Nice work, mute is genius. I work on Plug, since it's a hobby project, we've just focused on the most popular stuff from Hype Machine.
I've been learning guitar for about 5 years now and would consider myself a serious guitar learner (i.e. I could happily play all day given the time). As a reformed sheet music reader during my saxophone playing youth, I would disagree with the idea that serious players should learn to read music, at least not at first. Serious learners should work on the most important part of any instrument: their ears. I don't read sheet music or tabs on guitar, and while I'm not Slash or BB King, I am confident that I could learn either of their songs by ear without too much trouble. I might never get fully up to speed on a Slash solo, or have the nuance of BB King, but reading music won't teach you either of those anyway. I'd suggest getting a program that can slow down music without changing pitch, I personally use Transcribe and am reasonably happy with it, and try learning one of your favorite songs by ear.

It will be painful at first if you don't naturally have good ears, it was painful for me (which is why I avoided doing so on saxophone), but the payoff is huge. It changes you as a musician. I've heard songs on the radio where I knew the chord progression and thus knew how to play the song before even picking up the guitar, that is pretty cool. I might come up with a bit of a song in the shower or in the car and when I sit down at the guitar and figure it out. Neither of these would be possible if I hadn't put in the hours listening to bits of songs again and again.

At the same time, if you are a beginner or intermediate player, I'd recommend justinguitar.com to get started. His youtube channel is extensive, and he and Marty Schwartz were my two main guitar teachers.

Also, I've met people who have played guitar for some time but cannot play bar chords. This simply shouldn't happen. There will be a song you want to play where you will need a bar chord, and you will either have to learn how to play bar chords or learn a way to "cheat" on that particular chord. Bar chords are awesome, piano players would kill to have a movable shape that makes transcription trivial (they'd also kill for a capo). They are well worth the initial effort and once you can finally play them you'll realize that they aren't that hard.
You're in China. They adjusted the local time zone. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6841333/why-is-subtractin...
>Just hearing bad news all the time about the direction this country is going makes it loom in the back of my head.

Things are getting better across the board, but that narrative won't sell. Doom sells.
May I add David Deutsch's (not yet peer-reviewed, but promising) paper on the Contructor Theory of Information?

The Physics arXiv Blog writes about it here:
https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/deeper-than-quantu...

For the curious, the link to the paper can be found at the end of the article.

I remember being downvoted by circle of HN folks who weren't comfortable with Information transfer using Quantum Teleportation. Depite efforts to refute it, here's a team that suceeded doing exactly this => http://phys.org/news/2014-05-team-accurately-teleported-quan...
I am sorry if I have hurt anyone's feelings. Having someone lean on you for 5 hours because they don't fit in their seat is extremely unpleasant. I thought "invading personal space" would be the polite way to put this.
If I had to guess, I'd say Silicon Valley would be among the easiest for women to penetrate

In the average relationship, the male is 4 years older than the female. That means that women (as a group, even if their individual dating patterns differ) have a "look-ahead" insight into which careers turn out well (medicine, law) and which promise the moon but fall flat (startups, academia).

Among a group of 21-22 year-old college-senior women, at least a few have dated 24-27 year-old guys, so they know a lot more about the career landscape than the 21-year-old men, who've been dating 18- to 20-year-old women.

That's why there are no women (except for hand-picked pretty tokens) playing the VC-funded game. They have the look-ahead information, and they're smart enough to see the VC-funded "tech world" as a fraud and not get involved. It's clueless men who get in, wreck their careers, and find themselves with no other options.
It also assumes that such removal wouldn't have any effect on longer flights, such as international ones, which are often conducted using the same planes.

It is important for your argument to distinguish international and inter-continental flights. I have been on international -- in the sense of crossing a border and landing in a different country -- flights operated on CRJs. But those are short 30- or 45-minute hops from somewhere in the northern US to somewhere in Canada.

The article's example aircraft is the Boeing 737-700, which can be and is used for intra-north-America (Aeromexico flies them to several US destinations, for example) international flights, intra-Europe flights, etc., but is not used for inter-continental flights, which are generally beyond its operating range.

Aside from the anomaly of BA's specially-configured A318s which fly LCY-JFK (and which can't take off fully loaded at LCY due to runway length, necessitating a fuel stop at SNN on the westbound leg), the smallest aircraft regularly operating such flights is the Boeing 757. And even it is limited in the routes it can fly, often requiring fuel stops based on wind and weather conditions; only the actual widebodies have the natural range necessary to do those routes consistently.

Also, when international-configuration aircraft are used domestically in the US, it is almost always a positioning flight for which tickets happen to be sold (i.e., a plane landed at Hub A and needs to operate a flight from Hub B, so will fly that route, or needs to get from a maintenance hub to the hub it will actually depart from for international operations), or a temporary sojourn from base for a seasonal flight (US Airways, for example, occasionally flies its A330s to Orlando to carry Disney visitors, but keeps them close enough to its international base at PHL to get them back when needed). Those aircraft also are configured differently; the biggest difference from a passenger perspective is the existence of genuine business class or even three-class configuration, which is rare on domestic flights -- typically only the ultra-premium routes like JFK-LAX and JFK-SFO are operated domestic three-class.
Exactly this. The moment you make an autonomous vehicle where some period of time can be done with no driver interaction, drivers will fall asleep. What do you do when it's time to get the driver back into the action, and they don't respond?

If expressway shoulders were consistently safe to pull over upon, that would be a good approach, but they're not.
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HTML5 indeed. Though I suppose taken literally the title doesn't claim html5 for the pitch detection part.
Looks excellent! I'll be using this for a little API idea I have.
That's the crux of the problem. You have to build for maximum capacity, even though that happens comparatively very rarely. The electric grid faces the same problem, perhaps worse.

I remember an enlightening graph of power grid demand over a year sorted by demand. (Which I can't find for the life of me.) The vast majority of the time is spent very near the average, but a very small amount of time needs almost twice the average, and another very small amount of time demands half the average. The problem is, the grid must be big enough to supply that 3-times-a-year double the average demand, which just sits there idly the rest of the year.

I imagine demand for transportation is similar though not as exaggerated.
I'm suggesting that, as hackers, we ought to try and "cure" this disease that the economy tends to have on the world, rather than complaining about the symptoms that pertain to us. If we're gonna talk symptoms, there are more serious examples of human labor exploitation.

And I'm all for action against any type of exploitation, but I haven't heard any ideas suggested here. If you have an idea on how to specifically address exploitation of software developers, I'm all ears. Maybe those ideas could later be transferred to help protect workers in other industries.

Lets figure out how to fix this. One of the most basic ideas is a union. It would be easy to unionize in a basic form, but I wonder if a developer union could hold any power.

What if some hip new language/framework had a unique license with some higher-level ethical clauses, backed by a tight-knit developer community? Such that developers are at least theoretically protected when they write code in that ecosystem.
Here is an article giving high level overview of a few of the experiments: https://decorrespondent.nl/541/why-we-should-give-free-money...
Unfortunately there seem to be two distinct groups that each think the other has never studied economics.

It's possible to have good discussions about this, but it requires a lot more moderation than HN wants to do (rightly, in my estimation). And probably a different format: the threaded discussion format leads to all sorts of weird tarpits.
Agree with most points, except Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had their smallest market share at that time, as private lending was taking market share (and as we later found out, was driving the subprime lending).
I think killing babies is a big jump from making heavier passengers pay more. The airlines already consider weight in their cost when you pay for baggage.
Too bad so many Asian brands seem hell-bent on destroying that good name with cheap garbage. Vaio laptops, anyone?
I can debunk two of these right off the bat:

Requires C extensions to run - Nope, there are pure-Python implementations as well.

Does not provide advanced querying capabilities - Nope, https://pypi.python.org/pypi/zope.index, https://pypi.python.org/pypi/zope.app.catalog, http://docs.repoze.org/catalog/
The deflationary road leads to the dystopia portrayed in The Hunger Games: one or two massively advanced cloistered cities for the mega-rich, and vast feudal slave classes feeding them with coal and other should-be-obsolete things.

Huh? That's what the inflationary road leads to. This should be obvious, inflation skims value off the top of everyone's savings and channels it to the ultra rich (or politically connected, aka ultra rich). Almost every society in history, over the past 4000 or so years has been weakened by inflation, not deflation.

As a counterpoint, the US, which had a pretty good net deflationary run for about 150 years, had a pretty significant social equalization (freeing the slaves) over that time period.

The "deflationary spiral" hypothetical is popular idea but it is not supported by any historical evidence whatsoever (conceding that it may be true), mostly because despots have had a really hard time keeping themselves from debasing the currency over history.

I suggest reading this for some broad historical perspective: http://www.amazon.com/The-Great-Wave-Revolutions-History/dp/...
It's an interesting effect, and fairly obvious once you hear the explanation the first time. This article focuses primarily on the effect that roads have on their own congestion, but I think you can do similar analysis on the effects of roads on many other things.

This sort of idea is discussed a lot in the libertarian community. I don't intend to make the conversation about that; I just want to mention the ideas because they're similar. Basically, a common and oft-parodied criticism of libertarianism is "but who will build the roads," implying that massive road infrastructure is something that can only be produced by government through taxation and eminent domain.

One common retort by libertarians is to come up with a bunch of proposals for how private enterprise could create a very similar road system to what we have today. I think that's the wrong approach. I'm more interested in the ways that government roads, no matter how well-intended they are, can lead to inefficiency and perverse incentives.

I think the biggest and easiest argument to make is an environmental one, which is somewhat ironic, considering that libertarians are generally considered (by themselves and others) as a threat to environmentalism. And yet, I wager that public road infrastructure is one of the most obvious cases where government programs lead to (probably unintended) environmental problems. The interstate highway system is a massive blow to railroads, which have a vastly smaller environmental impact than road freight. The public road funds essentially subsidize the price of fast shipping via truck. Big trucks are probably responsible for a disproportionately large portion of road wear relative to the funding of roads that they provide.

Another interesting effect is that urban sprawl probably wouldn't happen without roads which are primarily produced by government. This is probably another big threat to the environment, since I would imagine that suburbs pollute much more per capita than urban areas because of the necessity to use automobiles.
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Another anti-Copenhagen argument by Carver Mead: http://www.cns.caltech.edu/people/faculty/mead/Nature_Of_Lig...
You could make a fair argument along that line if you measured the cost. Just having the baby means a few weeks off at most since there's nothing gender-specific about childcare, average person has about two babies, a couple months out of decades of work, you could reasonably argue that women should make about a quarter of a percent less than men.

My point is, don't bring up a flawed argument that's used to support unfair discrimination to attack another argument. That's nothing more than a strawman.
My guidance to others, when they ask about US debt, I suggest they watch Japan. When Japan's interest rates rise, even just a little, their debt will become unserviceable. Once that happens, it will be time to think hard about US debt. The plan is clearly to inflate out of it. Survivable for the wealthy, devastating for everyone else.

The blog post raises some fair points, but the author does a pretty poor job at getting any point across. The most concerning things right now are: low interest rates on very high risk debt, continued and dramatic growth of derivatives (you fail, I fail, we all fail), and China's decision to push the 2008 correction in to the future finally running out of steam. The geo-political issues in the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia are a whole other cause for concern.

I think the risks now are still fairly benign compared to what was faced during the Cold War (though we still build new nuclear weapons and delivery vehicles, Russia fell short of its recent goal of 300 and instead has built 30 so far.)
Likewise. Stopped drinking it and for a week withdrawal was hard, but after that I would wake up in 3 minutes, rather than snooze for another 20. I do still crave for it, but one hour into the day you forget it and become normal.

Coffee is such a short term fix with implications for the rest of the night.

The best thing is that I actually sleep same amount, but am better rested. Perhaps it's not the same for everyone, but I feel more people should try it. Caffeine is the nicotine of our era.
Well, at least there'll be multiple toll lanes. Some cities have demand pricing (Atlanta, for one) where there's only one lane and it's separated from the main highway by solid painted lines or barriers. So if you are in the lane behind some slowpoke, you're unable to pass them.

I drove from Austin to Dallas the other weekend -- what a mess I-35 is. And it's been that way for 30+ years. High speed rail could help, if there's good transit connectivity at both ends, and the trains are frequent enough.
I'd caution using R&D investment as a metric. Historically, it seems the huge game changers (Google, Apple, Facebook, etc.) came from motivated individuals and not corporate research labs. Microsoft's early and enormous investments did not help them catch/contribute to the search/social/tablet/mobile wave which generated much of the value in the tech economy the past decade.
So... that thing they've always done on airplanes?
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Are you saying that we will continue to invent things to do in exchange for money? I feel like there has to be a point that you can't do that. I guess it would have been insane to think that people would be sitting in offices making comments on news forums most of the day.
>The fact that interest rates on Treasury bonds remain so low, despite our debt levels and despite certain political figures repeatedly attempting to force the US Government to default on that debt, is prima facie refutation of the idea that no one in the market actually thinks US debt levels pose a major macroeconomic problem in the short to medium term.

Not necessarily. If you have to ask yourself what the country had to do to keep those rates from changing. The more a country is in debt (especially to other countries) the more their foreign debtors have leverage over what policies the debted country can enact. For the sake of arguement, let's say that China decided to annex Alaska. If we retorted with a threat of military action, China could come back and say we'll increase your interest rates.

Also high debt to GDP ratio makes printing money as a solution more attractive for a government. Inflation is a theft from everyone.
Private HN is a great way to put it. It's been a useful way for me to see what my friends find interesting, rather than having to comb for them on FB / Twitter.
No, you have to look at the margin. The other 99 people are already there, and you have to choose whether or not to drive; you slow down everyone after you, but you don't slow yourself down.
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