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Your latter point is often ignored as inflation numbers are often taken as undisputed (or at least "what can you do about it") figures. There is tremendous bias in the calculation of inflation, although the BLS has done a great job of fixing this in the last decade or so. Unfortunately historical data will be incomparable because of these frequent revisions. See the Boskin Report for more details.

Missing from the title is that this is restricted for social networks only (or at least that's my read of it).

If it were for general cases, passing this patent would be highly disturbing.

will paginate & authlogic definitely.

HTTParty is a gem if you work with outside resources.

Also, related question, which ones are free?

Are most other people using gmail smtp as a workaround?

Watch out!

That equation for the macroeconomy (Quantity Theory of Money) went out of style in the 80s when people realized velocity wasn't a fixed constant, i.e., it only appeared attractive given the small set of data at the time.

This is exactly what I needed at the right time.

In particular, I've only recently realized that working in blocks makes the design process go much more smoothly.

There's no way to get around invalid email addresses. Anybody can put in something like asdhsouhdosd@ahsoufhsdof.com and it would pass most regex checks. I think the best solution is to just check for an "@" sign and a "." after it.

I think a lot of you are missing the point. I could be wrong but I think the gist of the message is to look at what 40B into ycombinator would mean in terms of value added, employment created, etc. (with the wild assumption that it all scales). His point is to heavily criticize the 40B bailout of GM.

Snowleopard release date at least. I would be sad I've been waiting to be a new mac if this weren't true.

Try example searches for "roller coaster" and "US presidents" . I think those are better examples to try and get a feel for what's going on.

I didn't either. Maybe I still don't.

I think it takes a search and is smart enough to give you comparisons between results. Look at their examples to get a feel for how it works.

I could be wrong, someone let me know if I'm completely off base.

Agree. It's almost impossible to determine the correlation, if it exists at all.

On your later point, ironically if everyone now decided to save more, this would not have a positive effect on the economy.

This is only true for the best schools with a decent amount of money. As bloomberg noted in a piece last month, a lot of schools on the cusp are in big trouble financially and depend on tuition to make up the difference. For most of these schools, students making under whatever the line is, don't get full aid like they might at Harvard, MIT, etc.

Also, this only extends to international students at, again, the best schools. When I applied for college several years back, I think it was only five schools that were need-blind to international students (they were also very generous with that aid). There might be more schools that do so now but I can't imagine it's substantially more.

If none of these plans pan out, I'd be surprised if they continue the non-ads approach.

I hope they figure it out though, they'd be a great case study on a question we'd all like answered.

I agree with you, but ironically the post reads like he's trying to land them as clients.

For me, the study of algorithms is cs. Hacking is just a means of implementation. Also, I think it's a huge misconception that algorithms is all about math -- it's about problem solving in general.

As Dijkstra said "Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."

It's also possible they were spammed.

I'm not a fan of either. I guess what I'm looking for is something like delicious but more multi-purpose.

What if you want something completely web based. I usually work on multiple computers, e.g., computer labs.

links, notes on articles you find, basically anything you'd want to save from the web to reference later

Post an article about xyz company rumored to be in late-stage talks to acquire Twitter.

Which types of smaller RoR apps would work well with Heroku as opposed to say EngineYard's solo plan?

It probably has to do with the fact that very prestigious schools typically have smart students and being smart in general is probably going to play a huge role in success.

Without taking sides, why is this being voted down?

Your opinion that this snippet reads like a natural language and is therefore useful is well taken.

Wish we had launched our beta BEFORE the application.

Good luck to all of you. I think they mean well when they say they make lots of mistakes.

Labs are great for group projects, free printer access, a place to work on a computer so your backpack isn't 5lb heavier every day, a place away from your room to check your email(s) quickly, etc.

I'm surprised there's little mention of either context or culture. I think those are two of the most important elements of translation. Without context, it's impossible to know the tone, or sometimes even the actual grammar/conjugation of translations for certain languages (I'm thinking Korean/Chinese but this probably applies for other languages as well). Context also helps tremendously with disambiguation, one huge flaw in machine translation.

Culture is another interesting aspect. What somebody might translate as a greeting might require a totally different literal translation in another language, but it's always hard to justify translations that aren't exactly literal. This usually impacts tone quite a bit. From my experience, conversational style for the major Asian languages is indirect and hinting. Most people already understand the importance of cultural differences, this is strongly present in speech as well.

Programming aside, UI, and design in general, strike me as pretty important.

Just look at what separated early Yahoo and early Google, a confused page of text and links vs. a simple search box. Was this necessarily the reason Google ended up winning out? Maybe not, but it's probably a strong reason for why.

Agreed.

Also, more businesses involving content search should have their search box in a prominent location.