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I really hope not. But they are trying.

Every time I hear a story like this I feel like I read it as "run far from this madness!" and the local telecoms read it as "still some way to go, still some way to go".

In the end anywhere in the world there's never more than a few mobile providers, so I wouldn't be surprised as eventually they settled down in a nice oligopoly.

While Europe has mostly had good contracts, it is very easy for them to stop doing that. Because mobile technology is advancing so quickly the can always say they are keeping the same offer but charging you for the extra.

If Europe is saved, we'll have to thank the European Union, I think. Not sure how long it will last though.
I'm still running CM4 on my G1. Before I buy my next phone a major consideration will be if Cyanogen supports it.
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How does the product make you feel when it works well? And how about when it breaks or wastes your time?
tszyn, you have a LONG way to go before your claim that philosophy or science is "more valuable" than music to our culture. How would you go about proving that, anyway, given that nearly every colossus in 19th and 20th century science, mathematics, and business was/is an avid consumer or enthusiast of good music? Would you be willing to impart an experimental design, for example, in which you surveyed the careers of the top achievers and found a negative correlation between scientific or philosophical achievement and musical devotion? And with respect to Einstein, I'm not sure on what grounds you could gainsay Einstein's own assertion that Mozart's music informed his mental heuristics for describing the cosmos. And I would challenge you to make a well reasoned separation of Wittgenstein (the most important figure in 20th century philosophy) from his music. Music informed Wittgenstein's highly influential philosophy of language: "Understanding a sentence is more akin to understanding a theme in music than one may think. What I mean is that understanding a sentence lies nearer that one thinks to what is ordinarily called understanding a musical theme" (Philosophical Investigations remark 527). Again, on what grounds can you gainsay Wittgenstein? It's a matter of FACT (we like facts here on HN, don't we?) that music, by the mouths of these geniuses and creators played a critical role in the formation of these thinkers' aesthetic values and motivations.

We aren't machines.
What do you think of Richard Granger? I've read several of his papers (Essential Circuits of Cognition, Engines of the Brain), and as a non-neuroscientist his hierarchical model seems interesting and plausible, and more importantly from my point of view, computationally feasible.
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I often find it highly useful to flesh out terrain in my own mind before exploring the literature. You're remarks were extremely condescending and you could have made the same point without the poor tone.

Oddly, you nearly admit the usefulness of it. "They've just been randomly discovering the territory". Discovering territory is valuable, whether it's random or not!

But the oddest thing is that you don't provide any useful information. You don't link to a page with the info you think we should read, or to a book on the matter, or a paper. Nothing, but condescension.
So it'd been a while and I ran out and listened to the following, recording my visceral reactions:

Op. 17 No.4 (performed by Horowitz) - pretty, no "connection". I'd probably play it in the background during a nice dinner party.

Op. 33 No.2 (Horowitz as well) - entertaining but not beauteous to me, sounds like background music for old movies before "talkies". No "connection".

Op.24, No.1 (Zimerman) - pretty, I could see this being the music for a pre-talkie film of a world's fair. It's a bit downbeat for a dinner party. No connection.

Op. 63, No.3 (Zimerman) - pretty, I'd probably enjoy playing this one for some reason. I like the ornamentation this the best so far. No connection. I'd play it at a dinner party.

Op. 68, No.2. (Rachmaninoff) - pretty, I feel like this captures the Polish folk origin of the form the best. I listened to a few different performances of this one actually since I like old folk music and I like Rachmaninoff's interpretation the best. No particular connection. I'd probably play this in the background while doing something else.

Overall, I can appreciate the music mentally. But it just doesn't push any particular emotional buttons. I suspect that for a couple of them, 63.3 and 68.2 if somebody would just play them straight out like a proper Mazurka and stick to a hard meter it might come close.

Again, nothing wrong with these. I'm not placing any value judgement on Chopin. I'm just not "tuned" to him I guess. I enjoy Bach quite a bit more. But even plenty of "newer" things like some of the Paganini piano variations, or some very modern Copland (Hoedown does it almost everytime), and especially Holst (Jupiter has long been a huge favorite in this way).
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The timezone you are using this. More specifically the timezone set for your browser.
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> maybe this is the natural gender ratio

Why nobody complains all mothers are female?
There was an article in the past few months (or maybe longer, if it was a reading assignment) about one homeless man in NYC that had a yearly tradition of putting on his nicest coat, going to a fancy restaurant and eating a large meal, and then saying he couldn't pay. He would then go to jail for the winter. He cost the city upwards of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

So yes, it happens, and yes, it is far more expensive than simply providing the necessary social services to begin with.
Honestly, this scares me.
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Old but good HN discussion on homelessness

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=116079

> 2) The existence of the minimum wage hurts the homeless. The people I worked with were incapable of producing $6 an hour of value for an employer. If there was no minimum wage, they could work $2 an hour of value and then gradually work their way up.
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Was there a link missing in this story? Otherwise, it's rather unsubstantiated. :)
Most social media 'gurus' on twitter are just spammers. They don't really want to follow you and just follow you for the follow-back which they then use to spam your living daylights out.

I was an early 'twitterer' at a time, when we used to follow everyone we met. Because of the spammers, I hardly use twitter anymore.
Yours points are true but also somewhat simplistic. I'm not addressing you point by point, but laying out a couple of points for you to consider.

1. There is a tendency to corruption in any concentration of power, government or corporate. There still remains the problem in capitalism that concentration of capital leads to entrenchment, stagnation, and corruption, and our regulations, faulty as they certainly are, have historically at least attempted to address problems in concentration (Sherman Antitrust Act and the original Glass-Steagall Act). There is no fire-and-forget legislation that can guarantee this, of course, since it is also in the nature of power to route around such fault lines.

2. Many theories based on the free market assume rational actors. The bulk of psychological research shows that this is a faulty assumption for individual humans. I argue that we also have sufficient evidence that this is a faulty assumption for behaviors in aggregate (corporations and governments). We need to take this into account when we talk about the power, the benefits, and the faults of the free market.

With regards to your point 2, I'm interested in data you have regarding the relative effectiveness of charity and the welfare state. My understanding is that the European-style welfare state consistently gets more balanced outcomes and a higher quality of life for more people than reliance on charitable institutions.

Your point 3 is too laden with loaded words to be used effectively in an argument and reads more like right-wing talking points than an attempt at discussion. When discussing this in the future, I recommend sticking to redistribution and outcomes, and leave out the rhetorically charged "taking my money through force" and "extort".

Also, you will be hard-pressed to find anyone who will argue that "inefficient state run welfare programs" are a good thing; really the argument is about relative efficiency between state welfare systems and private charity.
So you're saying the idea is nothing but the deranged rantings of a sociopath? That's an ad hominem logical fallacy, and doesn't refute the actual value of the concept.
What's your opinion on websites that "force" users to use modern browsers?
I'm about to launch my first SaaS application, it is geared specifically towards webshops, or owners of big sites, in short I don't expect general audience to use my services (basicly webdevelopers) would use it.

I strongly believe that web should not be slowed by Internet Explorer, and I want to use features like canvas, css shadows and other properties - without resorting to ugly hacks or image slicing to get a pleasant effect. I know IE9 will support this functionality or other users can use chrome frame if they insist to use IE.

Would you find it acceptable to demand from my future clients to use modern web browser?

I strongly believe in open technologies and what HTML5 and CSS3 has to offer and would go in that direction.
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I am interested in people's experiences doing this, and in particular, I'm wondering what you used for landing pages, or if you linked to iTunes directly.
So where's the link to some real information on this rig?
I'd be interested in seeing the same study repeated except with knockoffs reported as genuine being given to the students.
So it's my congressman's fault that you lack ethics?
this is also very very very true. And thus why parsing combinator libraries are one of the sanest defaults one can adopt in dealing with parsing
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> Wow, I'm really surprised to find someone on HN who is against capitalism.

Heh, yeah :) It's possible to like computers and enjoy programming without being a capitalist though! Look at the free software movement!

What you are describing is "anarcho"-capitalism, I think. I'm an anarchist. We seem to agree agree on some things. I think most of the same things that stop people from organising and participating in communes in our current society would still exist in an "anarcho"-capitalist society. The rich still control the means of production, and the poor need to work for the rich in order to survive. I can't see that ending well. That's the essence of it.
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[1] Though when I googled "Jeri Ellsworth", Google suggestions helpfully suggested I would be interested in her cleavage. Shame on you, internet!

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The key is "locked phones they sell for cheap". Gotta be paid for somehow.

You can buy an unlocked phone easily; I got mine at eXpansys. Be prepared for a shock if you don't know what a phone actually costs...
I'm always slightly puzzled as to why this is an issue.

Young, single guys don't like having all of their coworkers also be guys? (Especially if they work crazy hours and are a bit light on social skills.)

Having more women in the field would make it more socially acceptable?

A bigger industry is better? (What about the industries we'd be stealing the women from?)

More competition is better? (Even when you're the one being competed against?)

Maybe having more women is a sign that the industry has become socially acceptable, or that we've learned better social skills, or something?

Maybe "women" here is really a stand-in for some larger group that wants our perceived salaries without our perceived social sacrifices?

i.e., I suspect it's not really about the women at all...
It wouldn't work though. Employers would take advantage of the situation, market rates would drop to the point where the homeless person would no longer be able to create $2 of value per hour either...
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Personally, I don't mind when sites complain about my browser, as long as there is still an element of choice. Not all HTML5/CSS3 features are there in stable versions of a lot of browsers, so if your site were to use a feature only available in the latest stable version of Chrome, for example, and not Firefox, then I would consider that to be too restrictive.

However from the sounds of it, your application should work in the latest stable version of the major web browsers, which, in my opinion, is enough.
Most people are so busy running the community, taking part, adding features and generally caring for it that they don't really see this.

If you look at financially successful forums you tend to only see what is visible, the adverts. But actually most successful forums make way more revenue from affiliate schemes than they do from the adverts. Affiliate schemes are almost invisible to the end user, unless you're looking for them in the links on the site you won't even notice them.

Just look at this company: http://www.internetbrands.com/

All it owns and runs are forums.

It may not be sexy or cool, but there is a lot of money in it and reddit is a great site and really shouldn't have a problem.
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He's right though, in the communist countries that I've visited there was nobody homeless.

I am surprised that on HN someone that states something that contributes to the discussion gets modded to -4, I thought we reserved that for trolls.

You can find plenty of things wrong with communism, and I think that for the most part capitalism is to be preferred but that doesn't make him factually wrong.
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Well - let's keep this in context. I lived in Vancouver both Pre/Post Institutionalization - and I'm pretty certain those people who are chronically homeless lived much better and happier lives when they had a warm home to sleep in, and people to watch out after them.

And, I don't know what institutions you are referring to, but Riverview (one of the mental health institutions) had a Bus Stop in it. Crazy people were always getting on board - It's true that people who posed a threat to themselves or others, or were in for evaluation to determine if that were the case had their ability to leave restricted - but I don't think "Institution" and "Prison" are synonymous.
That's a really nice initiative.
To clarify, addiction is a disease. According to Dr Drew Pinsky in an interview on "The Eyes of Nye" (yes, that's another Bill Nye show)

> The definition of a disease for me would be 'an abnormal physiological process brought on by a relationship between the genetics of the individual and the environment. That path of physiology would create a set of signs and symptoms that progress in a predictable way that we would call a 'natural history' and by affecting the natural history we create a predictable response to treatment [...] and addiction does fit that, but people get hung up on where the physiology goes wrong. They don't understand that it's a brain disease.
Indeed, but i would find a common denominator - I would go with features firefox 3.x, webkit, opera + ie9 support. This seems like sane compromise to me.
So what happens when one of these applications overwrites the signature of another? Does the latter stop working?
Thankfully for (male) software engineers, not all women enjoy Harlequinn romance novels. :)
I can't speak for companies that are using those tools internally (you can ask @danpodsedly who's using Pivotal Tracker in-house for example).

I know that for our development projects (www.xtremelabs.com) with F500 companies, we do use Pivotal Tracker and Github, and they are typically ok with it.
> The failure mode of networks is quite different to that of files

Actually, with a remote file system, the failure modes of networks is necessarily exactly the same as that of files.
What really killed me was seeing the homeless buy or sell drugs/booze. I went from a really wealthy suburb to a college campus that was more representative of "the real world" and encountered the homeless on the edge of campus for the first time in life.

At first, we'd give money and feel awful about the homeless situation. Then, we saw a couple of the regulars making a drug deal. Then we saw that again.

After that, in my mind, any dollar I'd give isn't going for a McDonald's sandwich. Instead, in my mind, I was practically buying crack for the homeless myself.

The sad part is that I realize that it's likely that there's only a few bad apples and they're not all representative of the whole batch...but it's enough to let me say "no" without feeling guilty.
So, I read a little bit about Anarchist-Communism from the Wikipedia page, but it seems like it would never work in the real world.

For one thing, there are no property rights, people are free to live wherever they want, which usually tends to turn society into Mad Max type "you live wherever you can take and hold by excessive force" scenarios.

For another thing, all goods and services are communal and you are expected to just walk into any community store and take as much as you want or need. Let's take beer for example: Everyone loves to drink beer but nobody wants to go to the trouble to make it. How do you suppose those community store shelves are going to stock themselves? Basic food and supplies would be the same deal. What does a farm gain from putting the food created by his hard work on the shelves? Freeloaders will just take it all and he'll get nothing in return.

I guess I'm trying to see how society wouldn't devolve back into tribal villages under any form of anarchism. I just don't think people will work hard for each other out of altruism. They need a reason to work, and that reason seems to be wages and compensation.
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"I know that some women believe that the instant they leave the room, we break out the pork rinds and start watching porn videos, but really, most male programmers I know are pretty mild-mannered."

That's an straw man. You're drawing a cartoon caricature of gender discrimination, then inferring that because we don't live in that particular cartoon, the problems that I mentioned don't really exist. But again, my friend didn't leave CS because the guys were watching porn in class and pinching asses -- she left because the more subtle behaviors of hundreds of poorly socialized nerds add up to a tremendously unappealing whole. She's a tough woman; she could have handled one jerk who was outrageously sexist. But it's much harder to work with 500 guys, 99% of whom know don't know how to treat women like people.

It's tremendously easy for a guy in CS to look around his circle of colleagues, shrug, and pretend that because he can't see an immediate problem, the problem is irrelevant. But since most men in our industry are completely unaware of inappropriate behavior, self-reporting is hardly a reliable measure.

(Also, not for nothing: it's telling that the one woman to respond to this thread had her (perfectly reasonable) comment flagged.)
How sad :-(

"But the ultimate purpose of music is a physiological/emotional response, something utterly subjective and that does not enrich our objective understanding of the world."

You can read about our planet, and see pictures of it, and everyone can agree on the objective understanding of it (even a computer can "understand" it objectively).

But what really enriches our (personal !) understanding of the world is not the objective understanding, but our subjective understanding, and music can enrich this understanding ...

The sun will rise again tomorrow, and it will be a new day, and we all know it....but listen to 'morning mood' in this video, look at the pictures, think, feel, and tell me that this doesn't make you appreciate the wonderful world we live in even more...

Morning mood, by Edvard Grieg:

- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxlnnvz9lJk
I had to stop using Chrome. Being fast and efficient means little if the semi-frequent safe browsing cache updates grind the system to a halt for several seconds.

They say it's "fixed," and I know it's hard to reproduce a random bug, but there's only so much I can do to help. It does the same on Linux, so I know it's not the usual causes (AVs and stuff).
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Is this all commercial real estate in the world, or just NYC?
It's a user driven site. At millions of people it's obviously not entirely personality driven, but still the site is driven by the actual individual people who submit and comment. They generate not just the content but the tone of the site, which is what keeps people coming back. You can't treat them like a straight up commodity that can be swapped in and out.
So basically, you know you're rationalizing your lack of charity, and you don't care.
In the case of ads, "middle groud" is often a few steps down the slipperiest of slopes.
This makes self-righteous dreadlocked Marxist-toting hippie activists all the more puzzling.
Everybody has their own way of rationalizing why something is not 'their problem'.

You could buy some food and give that instead. I've had a guy panhandling outside a supermarket here refuse food that I'd just bought because it wasn't money. Clearly he wasn't hungry but to me that doesn't make me look at all homeless people in the same way.
I don't think the supply of human time is that large that the market would adjust that significantly to a lower minimum wage. Lowering the minimum wage would generally raise supply of human time, yes, which drops the price, but the additional human time is by the terms of this discussion already relatively low-grade stuff.

$2/hr of value is a low bar. Anyone who can't do that can't be saved by any job. Based on previous discussions, that statement covers a lot of homeless people anyhow. ISTM that the ones who would be helped by lower minimum wage are high schoolers and younger workers trying to get their first part time jobs, not the homeless.
That is quite idealistic.

Now we only need legislation to mandate this.
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Would it be helpful to create a forum or community site specifically for them? Then they can vent and bond anonymously, or with people far away who don't have conflict of interests with them.