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No. Buying fewer iPods allows you to quit your job.

If you live like a college student for just a few years after leaving college (keep the shit car, live in a cheap studio, don't buy stuff you can't afford) you'll soon find you've got $50,000 sitting in the bank. I mean look at it, they're giving you $5,000 every week now to work at this job, when they used to be charging you money to go to school. If you can't find the willpower to save a few pennies at that point, there's something seriously amiss.

Anyway, you'll find that your tolerance for a crap job goes way down when you have $50k sitting around and no car payments or mortgage. Spending $10k of it hitching across Africa for a year starts to seem like a good idea.

So yes, by reshuffling our fiscal priorities, we can definitely make travel more doable. I know this because I've done it.
A) is completely possible in a few minutes if you have a prewritten permutation function.

for C) I wrote about 30 lines in python - 20 of them file handling - to solve the problem (after a few hours of deliberation). What matters is your speed in figuring out how to write a proper algorithm. The codewriting will not take near as much time.

B) is the one where they surprised me the most. It took me about 150 lines to finish off that beast in about 3 hours, and there are definitely errors in the large output even still. I would love to see how they did it.
Yes. I've been training for long-distance cycling for about a month, and did at least 8-10 hours total last week. Although a strenuous workout will generally get me asleep sooner (and for longer) than normal on the day I do it, it doesn't seem to have any permanent effect on my sleep patterns (I'm a serious night person - I like to stay up until it starts getting light out - and seem to have a natural 25/26 hour circadian rhythm)
Are there actually any not vulnerable Flash players? Or at least not yet vulnerable?
Absolutely, those are all very valid and have been rehashed endlessly, but if those didn't convince the weirdos out there a bunch of pictures isn't going to make much difference. The risk here is that people will start to think this was the main objective for the Chandrayaans mission.

Nutcases thrive when you give them a platform, this not only gives them yet another reason to get plenty of airtime but makes it worse by actively addressing them instead of just ignoring them. They're now 'officially' part of the game, instead of relegated to the fringe where they belong.

'Moonlandings', 'hoax', an article that makes claims without the image to back it up, great factors for a bunch of stories in a slow news month, this will get plenty of airplay.
The chances of you actually learning anything of substance by running around from one exotic country to another are very slim indeed.

Compared to, say, sitting in a cubicle for the same amount of time? I'd put my money on Travel.

Being on the road accelerates your life. Things happen faster, and more things happen. You'll need half an hour to explain to somebody what you did yesterday. When I'm living in the 'states, saving up for the next trip, I can often sum up an entire month in about 5 minutes.

It's just night and day. I'd suggest you try spending a year on the road & let us know if you learn anything.
This Dr. Siegel guy makes no sense:

"as Dr. Siegel put it, sleepers are less vulnerable to harm than they would be if they were out on the street late at night"

Circular reasoning. If people didn't need sleep, there'd be just as many people on the street as during the day and it wouldn't be any riskier.

"argues that sleep evolved to optimize animals’ use of time, keeping them safe and hidden when the hunting, fishing or scavenging was scarce and perhaps risky"

... so if all the animals are asleep at night, we should be awake then, right? We can just walk up and bop them on the head from behind, Halo-style. Why don't lions hunt at night if it's got anything to do with that? Moreso, why does any creature at the top of its food chain need to sleep?

It's hard to imagine any scenario when asleep humans are more safe at night than awake humans. Even if there were giant nocturnal monsters all over the place, they could just hide .. in the same place they would be so safe sleeping, say.

Very unconvincing.
Australian rules football seemed even more interesting to me than Rugby. It seemed a bit faster and with more movement.
I'm personally not obsessed with keeping things out of landfills, but it definitely appeals to my sense of efficiency.

Sure, you can throw out everything you personally don't need, but isn't it more efficient to recycle? Why waste anything, whether that's materials, time, or effort?
Why poor people win the lottery
I'm a big fan of saving before spending. Go find a job and save up $10k or so. Get yourself enough experience to make yourself thoroughly employable. Then quit and go take that trip.

Being in debt sucks, and doing what you propose will put you into debt in about a month. The end result will be several years of working at some crap company trying to pay it off. Get some savings laid in first, get yourself into a position where you're calling the shots, then go for it.
I met these guys in Michigan before they moved. Lots of promise, I think this is going to be really interesting. I really hope they will get to a place to take LivePerson on.
Ask HN: What to do, blog post or HN post ?
I'm working on a fairly large posting, I expect it to be ~20K characters when it is done.

Is there a limit on HN post size that I should observe ?

Is the preferred method to post elsewhere then post a link on HN ? (that seems rather blog spammy)
It's the ultimate form of "eating your own dogfood".
i vote for blogging it, and NOT posting a link to that blog on HN.
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I'm an upgrading user and have my bookmarks in ~/.opera/bookmarks.adr. Default bookmarks seem to be stored in /usr/share/opera/defaults/bookmarks.adr or /usr/share/opera/locale/<LANGUAGE>/bookmarks.adr. The files are plain text. It may not be a perfect solution, but I think you can just edit it to remove them. (Make sure Opera's not running while editing, of course.)
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But you cant distribute those copies to others.
Post it on your blog, then post the link on HN.

Whether you post it here or on your blog doesn't affect whether we will find it interesting (you have already decided that some of us will), but it will affect how easy it is for us to read: mid-grey on light grey is not that legible in large quantities, and it is nice to be able to click on links.
I'm using git because that's what I ran into first, but mercurial seems to be nicer from that point of view.
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Common sense would suggest: because there are more of them, because they play the lottery more often than rich folks, after all it is a chance of becoming rich. If you already are then the incentive is lower.

What is really sad is that lotteries are taking money out of the pockets of those that can least afford it (and plenty of times do not have the education to compute the odds).

Lotteries have been named 'taxes for people that are not good at math', I think that should be amended with: and that are being abused because of their desperation to get out of the hole they are in. Not as sexy but it definitely seems to cover the majority of the people that I know that play the lottery.

Over their lifetimes they contribute a fair sum to the (in this country) state operated lottery monopoly, at the expense of their kids and themselves.
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I disagree, there is a minimum that you are almost guaranteed on a big label as long as your sound is easily accessible (otherwise known as shit).
If you get the vast radio networks the labels bought up playing your music people will start to "like" it, through familiarity, it must be subliminal or something.

The above must be true because my local radio station 2CR (which we reckon is short for 2 crap records) is still being asked to play "I think i'd better leave right now" by Will Young which is the most hideous song EVER created.
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"almost half of my life if I were bipolar ..."
Why ?

The subject is a switch from the PHP environment to Django/python, after asking a lot of questions here regarding this subject I figured I would give something back for all the help I got (including unsolicited emails with great advice).
Based on the context, it's more likely Joel intended to use say this:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/voil%C3%A0
With all this positive press that Asperger's Syndrome has gotten lately I almost wish I had it.
This appears to be identical with
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=800869
where there is already much discussion.
Your pretty much correct on this except for the extreme cases like markus frind and plentyoffish (if the profits claimed are actually true)
What are you not convinced about? That their current following hasn't been that big since the dawn of time?

37signals is an excellent case study of a company which has built a profitable successful business without any kind of fame or following. Because they weren't famous and they didn't have a big following and Rails didn't exist, way back in february of 2004 when they launched Basecamp.
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They go on and on about how small and simple they are, and how they do less, and so on and so forth.

However, small, simple, and few features makes for a very low barrier to entry if that's all they have, so I'm not sure it is a very good model unless you are famous like they are (that's their "barrier to entry"). In other words, they are something of a special case, not really an example to be followed, even if what they've done is admirable.
Quite right - that's one of the biggest mistakes people make thinking politically. Socialism and Communism aren't bad because they're ostensibly about sharing, cooperation, or being nice. They're bad because they're run by the government, who arrests or executes its citizens if they decline to participate in the government-run activity. If you've ever shared a refridgerator with multiple people pitching in to fill it with groceries, you've been part of a "commune" (lower case), which can be fine and great thing. It's when people aren't allowed to decline to participate in the commune without being arrested or shot that there's problems.
they can still give it away ... as pillows for the homeless :)
I'm torn by the lottery. While it's called a 'tax on the stupid' here in the UK it does put millions of pounds in the hands of charities every week as well as the winner(s).

While I like the idea of the charities getting cash I dislike the 'tax on the stupid' and the 'at least some of it goes to charity' line you hear from gamblers.
And there are a bunch of ex-cam.ac.uk startups over here.
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Maybe the post got edited, but you're replying to a suggestion to repeal only "software patents". This is not impossible, indeed many places don't even have them in the first place.
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There's a difference, but not a fence, between "lack of personal subtlety" and "taking advantage of others in a sociopathic fashion."
Except they implemented it wrong. You are supposed to leave gaps in the numbering to add new nodes. If you use consecutive numbers then inserting a node requires renumbering all consecutive nodes.

When I was faced with this problem, I used a dynamically sized bit vector field as an id and indexed it lexicographically. When a node is inserted, it's assigned the id of its parent appended with a 0 or 1, depending on its relationship to the parent. Thus, ids are unlimited and never have to be reassigned. Selecting a subtree is just a single range search. For a non-binary tree, a vector of some other type can be used.

I got the idea from this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surreal_numbers
Learn some version control and use it. Period. It saved my MTech thesis a couple of times. And that is something. Even if it is for just this one time, blindly take this advice. Will thank HN community later.
I think you're ignoring the fact that utility is non-linear with money.

If you're kind of poor (not starving though), it makes sense to play the lottery. $10 a month isn't going to cause you to starve, but there is a possibility you'll get a decent chunk of money (not jackpot perhaps, but enough to substantially improve your standing say). Whereas for someone who is well off, getting a few thousand dollars isn't such a big deal.
Circular reasoning. If people didn't need sleep, there'd be just as many people on the street as during the day and it wouldn't be any riskier.

No, what he is saying is that when you're sleeping in your bed, you are in a situation that are far less risky than being out on the street, driving your car, etc. How many people, statistically, die in their sleep, compared to "out on the streets" (especially when it is dark)?
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If you (or anyone you know) support the lottery, I urge you to read this analysis of them.

http://www.taxfoundation.org/news/show/1126.html

It breaks down the effect of a lottery when analyzed as a tax. It goes beyond "tax on those who are poor at math" or "a tax you volunteer to pay". And it is very devastating.

Choice bits:

Lottery proponents argue that a tax is a mandatory or compulsory payment, and playing the lottery is voluntary, so lottery revenue cannot be a tax. But they're confusing the purchase of a product with the payment of the tax on the product. True, the purchase of a lottery ticket is voluntary, but the tax portion of the ticket price is not, just as a sales or excise tax is compulsory on a voluntary purchase of alcohol, clothing or books. The voluntary nature of the purchase does not make the tax any less of a tax. Using the lottery supporters’ rationale, we’d have to say that because the purchase of a book is voluntary, the sales tax on the book is not really a tax. Just try to buy a $20 book and hand the cashier a $20 bill, but refuse to pay the $1 sales tax and leave the store with book in hand. The only difference between the lottery tax and sales or excise taxes is that the lottery tax is built into the price of the ticket, rather than reported separately.

On wealth redistribution and tax burdens:

The only thing the Wisconsin lottery really accomplishes is a redistribution of some of the tax burden, shifting it from property owners to lottery players.

On regressive taxation:

The National Gambling Impact Study Commission determined that, during the time period studied, not only were lotteries regressive, but the poor spent more as a dollar amount.

How lotteries support education:

In 1995, after nearly twenty years of earmarking proceeds for education, the [Montana] state legislature began transferring revenue to the general fund instead. The president of the Montana Education Association stated that it was an 'illusion' that lottery funds significantly benefited public schools.
I don't think you are crazy. Wishing you luck with what you want to do. Just make sure you post back your experiences on HN. Also, like someone suggested, blog about it regularly. Will be great to see whats going on with this idea on a daily basis!
that seems rather blog spammy

Don't worry about that. This point has been raised on many occasions, and the conclusion every time has always been the same: Submit interesting material, and ignore where it comes from. If you've written something which you would submit if it had been written by someone else, you should submit it anyway.
that seems rather blog spammy

Only if you do it several times a day, or several times for the same post.

And you definitely shouldn't write something that long on HN itself.
Sadly these stats don't show that the swine flu scare is mostly hype and that it's far less deadly than seasonal flu.

For instance in Germany there are 15k swine flu cases after roughly 4 months and not a single death while overall there are 20k seasonal flu and similar disases related deaths in Germany per year.

So basically swine flu is a joke.

People die in South America, Asia and the US because they have no health insurance there and poverty is endemic. Thus they don't get real treatment.

In Germany still everybody eats well and get decent treatment. Btw. you don't need Tamiflu which has severe side effects (teenagers get suicidal after taking it). Simple home made remedies are enough to treat this very harmless kind of flu.
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Of course lotteries do not make sense economically.

But what if it buys hope? And entertainment?
I think most people think the non-linear aspects of money work the other way round e.g. progressive taxes take more from the rich because they will miss it less.

"Investing" small amounts to achieve a big pay-off also hits the problem that large windfalls aren't psychologically or socially very beneficial.
If you like to give cash to charities, give some money to charities. That way you'll also avoid paying into the jackpot of some sad idiot who'll blow it all on vintage champagne and a slew of sleazy new friends, and end back up in square one anyway.

The lottery is a ticket to dream, and that's probably fine for some people. I'd venture a guess that most people here has a dream that not fueled by a load of cash dropping from the sky, but by some sort of merits based success.
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Microsoft is not the best company to talk about patents. They are a software company and in a lot of places in the world mathematical concepts, ideas and software could not be patented.

This is the main issue Microsoft wants to change making an universal system, in fact what they want is to export the American system over the other countries.

Patents favor the powerful, witch get a monopoly, witch makes money to the powerful, who spends money on new patents, new monopolies. That works great for Microsoft(witch was created when USA software patents didn't exist),and maybe some USA states(all world software needs to be done on Seatle or California), but is bad for the rest of the world, we became a colony, like USA were from Britain.

Imagine you are not American, you are an intelligent, smart person of the rest of the world. Would you give external people the monopoly over what you make? Am I not going to think because you bought the exclusive right to it?.
Abducting a child is waaay cheaper than the hideous crime of stealing music from hard working music industry execs.
Movies also potentially provide hope and entertainment. Would you support a fifty percent tax on cinema tickets?

Except, it would be a 50% tax on cinema tickets levied almost exclusively on cinemas situated in poor neighborhoods. Cinemas in rich neighborhoods would pay regular consumption taxes or be tax-free, and not subject to the special one-off inverse-luxury tax.
Don't buy the CD, steal it. It's more affordable than stealing music online:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=802145

;-)
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"Why on earth does a single error message correspond with multiple, completely unrelated conditions?"

This aspect I am OK with. It is a client side error, raised when there is no connection to server. It is impossible to provide more details in the error message.

The problem is that you cannot get any more info from the server logs, even with the most detailed debug settings.
Ow ow ow. No.

The usual reason for disagreeing with what you just said is that for most people the utility gain from (say) a 1/6000 probability of getting $3000 is less, not more, than the utility loss of certainly spending $1, and it only seems otherwise because we tend to round small utility differences to 0 mentally. I think this is correct. But here's another reason why you're wrong.

First of all, let me correct something in the previous paragraph. Of course hardly anyone plays the lottery just once, so let's consider playing 10 times per month in a lottery whose tickets cost $1 and whose only prize is $3000, with probability 1/6000. (Oversimplification, of course; I'm going with basically the figures you mentioned, and a fairly typical 50% take for the people running the lottery). So, if you do that for a year then roughly speaking you are paying $120 for a 1/50 chance of getting $3000.

So, suppose there's some person for whom the utilities really do work out the way you describe: getting $3000 with probability 1/50 is worth more than $120. And suppose that person could instead invest their money somewhere reasonably safe and get a return of 1% per annum over (inflation plus their temporal discount rate). For simplicity of exposition, I shall ignore inflation and discounting in what follows, so that's just an annual return of 1%.

Then instead of spending $120 on the lottery over a year, they could invest ~ $119.40 over the same period, at the end of which they will have $120 which they can put into the lottery. Same result, less money spent.

So. Unless your temporal discount rate is higher than the best rate of interest over inflation that you can get, playing the lottery now cannot be your best option -- at least, not if your motivation is that you think the utility gain from having more money when you win is worth the utility loss from having less money because you spent it.

In less-crappy economic times than we've had recently, you can typically get a rate of return that's quite a bit better than inflation. In which case, unless your discount rate is really high, you should not play the lottery with the intention of increasing your net utility.

(Of course, if your discount rate is really high, it follows that you should never save anything: anything you would save you should spend immediately on things that give you immediate pleasure, or put into the lottery at once.)
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That's not how I read it. But if so, if the safety of sleep is indeed an evolutionary pressure, why don't we sleep more? And why do we have to close our eyes and lose consciousness to get the benefit of this safety?
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I really don't find it insane. Young people have much more powerful brains, they just have to learn programming at a younger age. I did it, and I find myself (and others who learnt programming as kids) better programmers than those who learnt in college.