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While I see why you got down-voted, I can't help but agree. This is design-as-art, and it's an insult to true design. Why are top-tier designers visualizing choose–your-own-adventure books? Yes, it's pretty, but in the meantime, I'm looking at code all day using monospace fonts of ~100 characters. The input device through which I express my intentions would been not unfamiliar over a century ago. So while it's nice to see pretty pictures, and I appreciate the enormous efforts put into them, I'd much rather this guy use his PhD in Computational Neuroscience to help my brain visualize code.
What is being described here is how the Swedish government is externalising costs. Of coarse it looks good, and profitable on paper because most of the costs (and environmental effects) have been put onto the population.

As the article mentions this is bad for the environment.
that's what people said about usenet. "just killfile the trolls." that didn't stop almost everybody from arguing with them.

usenet was designed in a more naive time, and it has zero defenses against disruptions. and that's why it died.
The basic premise is that (in Sweden) the uncounted cost of cleaning and sorting waste and driving to dispose of it is greater than the savings due to recycling. It would have been nice to see at least an order-of-magnitude calculation estimating the uncounted cost. If the cost is so obviously greater than the savings of recycling, then a simple estimation should be sufficient.

The author is probably right, but some concrete numbers would go a long way to supporting his argument.
Alpha is their #1 revenue source? Whatever happened to Mathematica?
That's a very slippery slope, 'old and respected' should not matter when posting off-topic stuff.

I've seen content that was much more on-topic killed off ruthlessly, it creates a sense of class-justice.

Whoever posted it and how long they have been a member should not be the deciding factor in killing stuff or letting it be.

Anyway, of course it is your call, but that's how I feel about it.
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Android seems like a more natural home for Bump. At a conference, I can keep Bump running in the background at all times and "bump" at the drop of a hat.

With the iPhone, either I keep Bump open all the time or I have to spend the time to fire it up. It's enough to make the experience noticeably less convenient.

I've been looking for a clear-cut case where multitasking provides a better experience. This may be it.
The original infochimps blog post is at
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Seems there is very interesting info out there:

* The packaged data was contains almost the entire history of Twitter: 35 million users, one billion relationships, and half a billion Tweets, reaching back to March 2006.

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So does it have closures?
Github or sourceforge or your own homepage it doesn't matter, that depends on where you want to go with it.

If you plan on just releasing it in to the world ('fire and forget') then your own homepage would be good enough, if you plan on long term collaboration with people using your code then sf or gh ?

As for advertising, please post it here, probably reddit and /. are also teeming with people that would have an interest in this.
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There might be plenty of other people interested in that back ported stuff. Why make the decision for them ?

By opening it up categorically you are bound to make a bunch of people very happy, and you might even 'inspire' the kernel maintainers to do the 'right thing'.
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No offense but I'm getting the impression that you (and grandalf) haven't read past the title here.

Nobody is saying "[Django|Rails] fails as a tool/project/framework", the topic here (and in the related submission about Rails) is how do the tools we use respond to error, how clear is the message we are given and weather or not these responses could be clearer or friendlier. In short, "useful error messages".

I think it's an interesting and useful topic of discussion and I submitted this link to be complementary to the story about Rails (though I admit I probably should have just added it in a comment to that story), not to some how put Django against Rails (which seems to be a point of misunderstanding) or to put Django itself down (which wasn't anyone's intent).
It's interesting to read along and see what was cut for the version on the website.
We're talking about the UNIX and C heritage. Hardware is irrelevant and I'm surprised you received any up-votes at all. Bell Labs may produce some good things, but programming languages isn't one of them.
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Is it possible for you to have an argument without resorting to the personal ?
The title really should be "The Myth of Forced Recycling"

I guarantee you there are efficient and even profitable ways to recycle, but those not only don't require the use of force but will be made less efficient by its presence.

That being said... Why is this on HN? I would prefer to keep more political topics off of here. Mises.org has some really good technology and Intellectual Property right related articles, but people might be inclined to ignore the source if they're already inclined to believe that it will be off topic.
I wanted to flag it for the same reason, but there wasn't a 'flag' link anymore...
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I think dumb laws are there to be broken.

Those who use cookies for nefarious purposes are not going to be stopped by this, the rest of us could do without more alert boxes popping up when users visit a site.

The 'I think this poll is dumb, someone please kill it' link is at the top right, it's called 'flag'.
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Yes, sorry, I didn't bother to look at those results.
I tried this on my Android phone but the app must be active before you bump. It doesn't work even though the app is loaded in the background.
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Yes it does. It has full first class functions and closures. However the lack of generics means that you can't write a general-purpose map, filter, reduce, etc. You'll need to keep writing almost identical pieces of code.

See http://golang.org/doc/go_spec.html#Function_literals for confirmation and http://groups.google.com/group/golang-nuts/browse_thread/thr... for more details.
Articles that label this language 'go' instead of 'i9' or 'issue9' should be ignored.

Stand up for the little guy and help a bit, with every article that cements 'go' as the new 'go!' there is more damage.

Already you have to look real hard in google to find anything on the 'old' go. It really isn't fair.

When you're a giant you should tread carefully, lest you flatten someone by accident.

EDIT: hey downmodders, if you disagree, let me know why.

What would you think if google decided to call their project 37signals or something like that next week ?

Would you stand by 37signals or would you tell them that on that scale their efforts amounted to nothing anyway so they should man up and change their name ?

What rationale do you have for giving google a free pass on this ?
Typical american mindset: Everything is money. Use something, throwaway when don't needed, bury it, contaminate the soil, the seas, it's cheaper.

Of course they are external cost to recycle, what he doesn't say is that THEY ARE EXTERNAL COST TO NOT RECYCLING. Nature knows that since long long ago, she recycles everything.

The Pacific is filled with polymers just because people love to use plastics and don't recycle them, fishes dye (external cost) every day because they confuse it with jellyfish. Jellyfish plague the seas(external cost).

Plastics additives are getting to our food chain(external cost). Our water contaminated by flame retardants and biphenols A when you bury it are affecting us (external cost).

If you want to make new paper you need to contaminate the rivers (Think about International Paper corp.). Making aluminium from oxide, instead of melting takes an exorbitant quantity of energy(external cost).

This article is pure demagogy, if he want to be serious he needs to put numbers over the table.
Sorry, so it does, I did not notice that. My mistake.

I was never questioning the validity of bada, thats a given. I was just thinking that dumping symbian off hand like that when, as far as i know, they have yet to ship a single bada handset would be rather strange think for an experienced vp to say.
I don't know which part of Sweden the author lives in, but it's apparently not my part. In our trash room here we have bins for glass (white/coloured), paper, batteries and garbage. Card board boxes and other "big" stuff (basically anything that isn't normal consumables) is left at the recycling station (and assuming you do that on your way to work and don't go once per item, the extra energy needed is next to nothing).

I'd say that he's trying very hard to make a point, and exaggerates.
Fishes dye ? You mean they change colour because they ingest polymers ? Or you mean they die ?

My money is on the 'expiry' :)

Anyway, you make excellent points, and the article is spouting typical industry grade bs.

Resources are finite.

A guy called 'Eckart Wintzen' promoted a concept he called 'taxing resources removed', which essentially is the opposite of 'value added tax'. His idea was that you should pay taxes on those resources that you remove from the biosphere, and that products made from recycled goods ought to be tax free.

I think it was an excellent concept.
Why is he 'probably right' without proof ?

I remember when I was a kid that factories were paying for old paper and old glass. A whole generation made their pocket money that way. If it was worth something back then I would expect it to be worth something today.
So, there was basically a glaring hole in the logic of the article, and I was wondering if there's anyone else here that can answer it for me....

Garbage is already a big externality. A positive one. The government takes care of hauling away your trash and disposing of it, somewhere, and you get to benefit from the economies of scale of centralizing this.

The truly individualist, libertarian thing to do with your garbage is not to leave it on the curb for the government to pick up. It's to bury it in your backyard.

What's that you say? "Not in my back yard"?

I had a couple actual questions buried in the snark. Is it still legal to bury trash in your own back yard, on your own property, assuming you take the necessary precautions to prevent it from seeping into groundwater? And if so, would you - or the article's author - do so?

And if someone wanted to start a garbage collection corporation, using land they own, that they've lined so it doesn't leech into groundwater, and hauling away garbage with their own trucks, would the government stop them? I don't think so, but I dunno if it's ever been tried. I think that they'd quickly find out that skipping every other house on the block because they aren't a customer isn't very cost-effective, instead.

I don't think it's necessarily wrong to externalize costs back onto the population if they initially came from the population. It's like complaining about the free food your employer gives you, when there's nothing stopping you from getting your own food elsewhere. (I admit that I've been guilty of that on occasion, but at least I don't write articles - from a libertarian/anarchist POV - about how the government owes me convenient garbage disposal.)
Well, darn. That's a bummer. Serves me right for assuming, rather than testing.

However, this seems more like an implementation-specific thing than a limitation of the platform. Bump can fix this on Android, they can't on the iPhone.
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I live in a (rent-controlled) apartment in Stockholm. Our apartment building does not have a trash room; all storage needs to happen in the apartment. The recycling center is easily reachable on foot though, so there's no driving involved.

For people living in the suburbs, the nearest station can easily be a kilometer or so away, which might be further than you're willing to walk, carrying a week or two's worth of recyclable materials.

Like many other commenters below, I too reacted at the single-minded economical focus of the article, while still agreeing that the current recycling system is a bit ... annoying, heh.
Correct, but that means that an editor will look at it (as happened, see above) and has to decide whether to give the article a pass or not.

I wasn't referring to the 'auto kills', but to the editor kills.
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>And if he paid less in taxes, he'd buy more goods and services, too.

I disagree. Buffett is so wealthy that it simply doesn't matter if his bottom line is reduced by 35%. His net worth is $40 billion. It is simply impossible for him to run out of money at this point.

Think about this for a moment. At $200M each, he could have a personal Boeing 777 on call in every state in the country ($10B) and still have $30B left over. The most expensive house in the United States is a $165M compound in Beverly Hills with 72,000 square feet of living space. Why not build 100 of them around the world for $16B? There's still $14B left for the cheap stuff: Ferraris, Bugattis, servants, chefs, and whatever else you can dream up.

Barring any bad business deals, it's effectively impossible to squander away one billion dollars much less forty. A 35% tax hike or cut won't affect his spending in any way, shape, or form.
I tried to get sector working on a bunch of machines two weeks ago but it didn't work out.

I will get back to it when I have some more uninterrupted time though. I always love it when there is a tutorial on something, you follow it and it doesn't work :(
We were in an entrepreneurship club together at our university (well techinically we had met a few times before in various classes and parties).
Nice, I literally read "philosophy" as "ideology" as well:

"however I am [ideologically] opposed to the existence of their review process."

(I wouldn't take ideology in necessarily a negative way)
I think you're mistaken in thinking that money will be distributed to the average worker in this scenario. It would all be paid out to the same shareholders as a salary instead of capital gains. The regular employees wouldn't see an extra dime.
Yes this point was particularly ridiculous. Yes, this is a convention from Java (and C++), but I actually do this in my JS code as well. Every minifier will easily fix this for you, and in my opinion it makes things clearer. In fact, there exists an argument that this form of clarity is more important in a language like JavaScript precisely because you don't have a type system (in other words, seeing a 1.0 when an operation should clearly be dealing with ints can flag incorrect logic).
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Yes, through the API.
yes, the government would stop them. just like they go after kids on bikes trying to deliver mail. the monopoly is all they have to legitimize them.
Agreed. I was expecting a critique of the library API. JavaScript APIs (including, especially, the browser APIs) have a long history of being overly-verbose, and designed as if it was Java.

Has anyone used the closure library API enough to comment?
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HackerNews succumbed to mob rule some time ago.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=935085 - a response consisting of 'I disagree' with no additional content - is currently sitting at 6.
How about a global effort to achieve post-scarcity? (The quicker the better.)

Before I go on with the steps, let me remind you all how far we've come in the past fifty years: We have the internet. All electronically-reproducible data is now virtually post-scarcity.

We are also on the cusp of everyone owning a high-performance personal-fabrication machine. Twenty years from now, You will be printing (or pirating) all manner of toys, tools, and electronic devices. The Reprap (and even laser printers) can print circuits right now. Printing an iPod isn't too far off. How much longer until we're printing meat and vegetables? Welcome to the future, everyone.

Step One: Make the populace care. Without a culture that encourages learning, diligence, and scholastic achievement, Step Two is irrelevant.

Step Two: Educate the populace. Better public schools and libraries, and more time spent studying at home.

Step Three: Divert investment and time from more frivolous pursuits.

It's 3:30 in the morning, so I might not have said all that with optimal clarity, but you get the gist of it. Everything will be free soon; let's make it happen faster.

We need cheaper means of producing and reusing raw materials, we need really fantastic nanotech, and ... tons of other crap. I'm going to bed now before I make an ass of myself :)
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This goes up there with the AOL dataset in terms of being a crucial asset for anyone doing web research.

Who wants to bet that this will be available on torrents in days?
I had no idea what you were talking about until I wikipedia'd it. Some context might have helped your original point.

That being said, definitely an interesting read, thanks.
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You don't think it would be a MAD situation to sue Cisco over networking patents?
Thanks for the link, bonus points for the video being on vimeo!
I'm surprised he didn't call out insurance policies and warranties, which are always negative expected value in return for smoothing out risk. For some things this actually makes sense (you can't afford to gamble a few million bucks on "I'm never running anyone over in my car") but things like extended warranties, you're usually better off saving the money and, if need be, buying another toaster oven if yours goes kaput.

I'd imagine one of the things that happens when you get rich is you get to save all this money poor people spend on risk mitigation.
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Certain things make people happy, and people repeat behaviors that made them happy in the past. The fact that happiness is communicated throughout the brain by dopamine concentrations has no predictive value in figuring out what new thing might also make people happy.

s/dopamine/happy juice/ and the article has exactly the same information content. People like to throw around names of neurotransmitters in order to sound scientific. But to then claim a special connection between dopamine and 140 character messages is pseudoscience.
The point about gold is a bit misleading. Gold is not an "appreciating asset" any more than a baseball card that has a misprint and skyrockets in value is. Gold is priced on a world market and, for those of us in the US, purchased in dollars. When the value of the dollar goes down, the value of gold goes up, and the opposite is true. Macro factors have an effect on both sides of the equation (for instance, if nuclear war broke out tomorrow it's likely that both gold and the dollar would decline together, though there is probably a case for gold going up at that point) but in general gold moves inverse to the dollar. There are lots of reasons to expect the dollar to lose more value in the short term, but calling gold an "appreciating asset" is only true to the extent that the dollar (or currency of your choosing) is an inherently depreciating asset.
What rationale do you have for giving google a free pass on this?

There is absolutely no chance that Go! will ever amount to anything aside from a bit of research. It's hosted on a homepage.mac.com account [1], and hasn't been updated in over two years. Google's Go, on the other hand, is designed by ken [2], at what's arguably the top industrial research lab in the country. It's designed to replace C++.

1. http://homepage.mac.com/WebObjects/FileSharing.woa/wa/defaul...

2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Thompson
My parents had a simple rule they instituted after our food fights: You can eat what is on the table or go hungry - obviously if there was only 4 of some kind, I would only get to eat one.

That means that if I didn't care about a particular kind of food I didn't have too eat it, but on the other hand I wouldn't eat junk because it wasn't served.

The problem with eating everything that is on your plate is that it steams from a time when you could actually risk not being able to afford food tomorrow - today it just causes overeating.
JR (East and West) are both publicly traded corporations. I sympathize with "governments are inefficient by nature", but I think you're a wee bit off the mark here.

I say "a wee bit" because Japan Railways was once owned by the state, and at certain industries and certain sizes in Japan it is difficult to tell where the government stops and the companies start, and vice versa. This phenomenon isn't unique to Japan -- c.f. "military industrial complex" or the security arrangements at airports.

Anyhow, both of the JRs are solid constituents of what used to be called Japan, Inc. (A derisive name in the late-80s which fell out of favor after denationalization and, probably more importantly, after Japan's economic woes caused it to drop off the radar screen of threats to American economic preeminence.)
You could redirect those sites to localhost in your hosts file:

127.0.0.1 news.ycombinator.com

Yes, Windows has one too.
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If you want to super careful, obj.hasOwnProperty(key) is actually dangerous. What happens when obj has it's own property named "hasOwnProperty"?

The safest thing to do is:

Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty(obj, key)

Of course, as with the "undefined" example, malicious or incompetent code could overwrite Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty
So what ? Stuff goes down all the time. It's not like delicious is google or the the collective root DNS servers (well, if it were then we'd not be writing this here...).