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"I am strongly against drug use"

Why are you strongly opposed to letting individuals decide what to put into their body? Are you also strongly opposed to alcohol and tobacco?

I just don't understand why many people opposed to marijuana are OK with alcohol; drunks are more likely to speed, brawl, and generally behave poorly, while stoners are more likely to drive 15MPH, munch on snacks, and generally chill out.
As much as I would like to eliminate the biggest political spenders from the public discourse - the public sector unions who spend hundreds of millions of dollars to elect their own bosses - I believe even they deserve the right to speak.
What else do you want to make illegal? I'd prefer to not legitimize horrorcore rap, but I don't want it to be illegal. The same with biker shorts.

It just seems like laws should be for things that we think breaking will undo the moral fabric of society more than denying people freedom will. IMO, this drug doesn't meet the bar.
I was sort-of expecting this. I am very disappointed, even though I don't smoke pot. To me, it was a question of personal freedoms.

Here are some reasons why Prop 19 didn't pass, as far as I can see:

1. Fear of the unknown. People are fairly comfortable with the situation right now: small-time tokers don't usually get busted; anyone who wants to light up can get it from a neighborhood 'pharmacy' with a doctor's letter (or via a friend with a doctor's letter). So why change a good thing?

2. Fear of the feds. Eric Holder deliberately came and put the fear of federal retaliation into people. Why did he have to come down and take sides in this _state_ proposition?

3. Medical Marijuana folks. I was surprised to see that quite a few medical cannabis dispensaries were strongly opposing Prop 19. I guess they're doing a roaring business now; if Prop 19 passed, their business would have suffered badly as the recreational smokers no longer needed them. Shame on them for putting profits before principles.

4. More fear, this time about the wording of Prop 19. A lot of people came out and claimed that Prop 19 was flawed, it would make matters worse, etc. Just this evening one anti-19 guy was on TV, saying "Prop 19 doesn't ban smoking weed just before you get into the car and drive". Well d'uh! There's already DUI for that; does the Prop have to explicitly lay out and ban each and every way one can get high on pot? Use common sense, people.

5. Recent law in Sacramento that turns possession into an infraction. Many people are unaware of this, but the State legislature passed a law a few weeks ago (and signed by Arnold) that reduces the penalty for possessing a small amount (1oz or less) to and infraction; just a $100 fine, and no jail time. This, to me, is still a victory for Prop 19: had Prop 19 not been leading, the legislators would not have passed this new law.

So all in all: I'm disappointed that Prop 19 failed; but at least we got a law in the State that makes possession just an infraction.
So, a somewhat unrelated question: What are the signs that your program is a good one? I get that there's a distinction between computer science and programming, but I'm interested to know what distinguishes a good CS degree from a bad one? Does the fact that, as of second year, I've spent most of my time on data structures/algorithms and far too much discrete math for one lifetime bode well, or is it not that simple?
That's basically where I'm at (speaking of redundancy).

I'm usually afraid to say something wrong, since I know that there are always experts on the topic of the post. It makes more sense to me to let said experts explain a particular topic than to possibly disseminate wrong information, even though I might have a useful perspective to add.
They talk a good talk, but they really don't care about elites except through the narrow parameters they define--- they're angry about liberal or educated elites, not the rich folks funding them or buying elections.

It's about identity politics, among other things: anybody that's not like them isn't a real American, and they've got to take back the country from same. They're animated by the fear of and anger at their increasing irrelevance. And the Koch brothers are more than happy to help out.

It's funny, though, because people who aren't from the US who talk about visiting the US talk about NYC kind of a lot. Branson, MO? Where the hell is that? Oh, right. Flyover country.
What do you mean? Texas Oil wanted to stop our environmental bill from taking effect by creating scare about job loss. Californians said "No."
That's a pretty interesting idea. Right now I'm in the "My Weekend Project" stage (I havn't even finished setting up paypal) but maybe at the very least, I could get advice from them?

What's a good way to ask? Do you think they'll be bound by NDAs etc?
Zed Shaw is there! love that guy!
Find complaining users that blog or twitter and contact them.
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Rejected, what next? 
Our plan is simple to finish our project, gain users and try to make some revenue and apply again in summer 2011. I was even happy that we did not make it, as we win time and don't rush our-self.

So finish your project and apply again next summer or think of new idea. Go for it! )))
We'll be adding more before this year is done. I think it's reasonable to expect additional redundancy for hosted DNS. I've run many, many services just fine on two name servers but I can appreciate the comfort of having more.
Wait... It seems to me that the Federal Controlled Substances Act itself is on quite shaky constitutional grounds.

It is only enforceable under Congress' authority to regulate interstate commerce.

See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzales_v._Raich
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A government will spent a trillion dollars on "innovation" before even contemplating relaxing a law that's stifling it.
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My parents gave me a head start in math. I spent hours solving problems instead of socializing or playing outside. I deeply resent them for it. I hope you don't push your son too hard.
What do you mean?

Where did you find a logical discussion on this topic?

Who is Texas Oil? What are the positives about the environmental bill that would be lost? Scare? Does that mean there's no logical argument for potential job-loss?
Uhhh.... http://www.google.com/images?q=Trek+communicator&um=1...
Slippery slope arguments are also a slippery slope.
This is even sillier in the case of Star Trek since they could use even a Polaroid or film camera and beam the film/photos back up to the ship (or, of course, a data crystal or what-have-you).
As awesome as these are, I'm waiting for the 2nd generation. I simply like to play it safe and have them work out the kinks before making the plunge... most times.
For previous discussion about the hand:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1836462
Wouldn't it also make sense to have HTTPS as default for the read-only clone URL? I for one always replace "http" with "https" before cloning.
> If you're clicking through to find out what you get as a class member, the answer is nothing, apart from some mild injunctive relief that seems to involve things Google's already changed anyway.

Commensurate with the actual harm done. But it's possible for someone to opt out of the class if they think they can do better for themselves.
I married the first one, over half a life time ago. Some times you just get lucky.

Edit: Before I get uber-up/down-voted into oblivion and challenged because I am not 50, the accurate version of this statement should read "I married the first one, whom I started dating over half a life time ago". Still going strong though :)
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We are bringing secure email (and other messaging) to the masses by making it easy to use. We believe strongly in customer development and are looking to lay the foundations of our development organization now that we understand who our customers are and what our product needs to be.

If you want to build a product that will make a positive difference in the way people use the Internet, know a few programming languages, and are generally optimistic in nature (even if a bit cynical), I'd love to hear from you. Send me your resume and a short blurb about why you want to work at a startup to travis@clicklock.com. Equity is definite part of these positions.

While we would prefer a local candidate, remote is possible for an amazing candidate. If you are amazing, let me know (and make sure I know why you are amazing! :).
The way the proponents spin this is that AB32 means higher energy costs which they say results in a loss of blue-collar jobs.

The opponents point to the large number of green energy jobs that can be directly attributed to AB32 plus the obvious environmental benefits.

Personally I find the job loss argument hard to quantify because there is no direct correlation while it is pretty easy to count the number of green energy companies and the resulting jobs that have sprung up in California.

Also, it is pretty much impossible to ignore the fact that the proponents of prop 23 that are touting blue collar job losses as the reason to suspend AB32 are not the folks who traditionally would give a crap about blue collar job losses.

The list of Donors for prop 23 is pretty telling:

http://www.ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/California_Proposi...

Compare that to the list of opponents:

http://www.ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/California_Proposi...

Pretty amazing that 42% (as of the current numbers) voted Yes on this one.
Wouldn't an email sent from your gmail on that date be sufficient? The sent mail box could be faked but I think it would be sufficient evidence for this purpose.
It's fine to be against something but I think this comes down to basic adult human rights. I have a theory that if it is regulated, kids would actually have less opportunity to use it because in order to get it they would have to find someone to buy it for them or give it to them and that person would be taking a risk for little benefit much as with the purchase of or giving alcohol to a minor. As it is now, the dealers all run the same risk and so they are willing to sell to anybody and are highly motivated to find new customers.
I'd say you lose a lot more from trying to play real music on crappy iPod earphones rather than real speakers, than is lost in the transition from analog to digital. (This coming from someone who only buys CDs and never digital downloads.)
The article makes some reasonable points, except registration by the inflight device is necessary. Unless someone is in the hold clicking the EULA that cellphone is useless.

Am I missing something?
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I thought that name sounded familiar. He mentions it in passing, but this is one of the guys who wrote the Bell Curve.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bell_Curve

I'd seriously question his credibility on this topic. A bunch of cherry-picked wedding announcements plus some ivy league admission rates aren't gonna do it for me, guy.
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" If you thought the rate of change was fast thanks to the garage innovators of Silicon Valley, wait until the garages of Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore get fully up to speed. I sure hope we’re ready. " -- Quote from the article.

I sure hope this turns to reality and the tide rises the rate of innovation that has meaningful social impacts on problems like poverty and disease plaguing the developing nations.
I'd say they help you in the sense that you get massive publicity and, most likely, offers for mentorship assuming your product is good.
I see your point.

Where does it end though? If the government can regulate what I do with my own body when it comes to drugs, why stop there? What about dangerous sports? Dangerous eating habits?

Should the governments prescribe a set of "safe" sports? Or approve a range of "safe" foods to consume? How about unsafe sexual practices?

If you answer "no", then how are drugs different?

In fact the big problems stem precisely from the attempt to control drugs, creating artificial scarcity and consequently high prices that lead of organized crime serving the market.
Bravo man - good post. Good luck to you as well. We were rejected, but life is not about how many times you fall. It's about how many times you get back up.
Beaming Polaroids back to the ship would be amazing!
Do you have a portfolio?

TechStars is accepting applications for NYC BTW.
Can you please correlate lurker users with an account later registered or currently registered. Atleast correlate my account to my ip visiting. Definently gonna get a startup up at some point so please do it.
Wow.. you're the only person I'm aware of where that actually worked out for the best. Congratulations!
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Very interesting point.

I feel like the situation is even more extreme in a sense. It seems like ubiquitous information disrupts a large percentage of all possible story plots.

Most story plots hinge on ignorance and discovery. With no physical personification of ignorance, a plot is simply less compelling.

Imagine -
* Odysseus travels through exotic, distant lands, that he just forget to do Google earth on beforehand, * Why wait for Godot when you can just give him a call? * etc.
I'm willing to bet that the best Poker player, piano player and marketer are all very intelligent people. Being the best at something often takes both extreme intelligence and a lot of practice.
No, that's a reasonable counter-argument, as long as the registration can't be automated.

The bigger hole in this argument is the fact that a remote trigger isn't even necessary, a simple timer, or altimeter, or GPS, could be used as a trigger. If a remote trigger is desired for remote hijacking purposes, cell or WiFi would be convenient, but sat phones would work too...
Although you come off as somewhat biased, your circumstantial evidence could be convincing.
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The objections make no sense whatsoever. If a Tango has a Wifi enabled bomb set up, then it's not going to matter if the Cabin SSID is broadcasting. They'll just use a peered connection.
Also, there's a video over here of what paulg says is a "successful application video":
http://wikitorrents.org/wiki/ycombinator_applicants
The article on Wikipedia takes no position on the proposition.

In fact, it makes it sound better than, say, the newspapers do.
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From the end of the article:

"There are many ways of coordinating an attack without using a mobile phone," says Aurélie Branchereau-Giles of OnAir, a company based in Geneva, Switzerland, that Airbus is backing as a maker of in-flight cellphone and Wi-Fi systems. "The position of our security experts is that the use of mobile phones on planes does not constitute any additional security threat."

I tend to agree. A timer is as effective, though perhaps slightly less precise, than a phone call. Even as it stands, one could probably set up an ad-hoc network with the explosives (laptop in luggage? Not sure about signal strength.) and use pretty much any electronic device to connect to it.
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Back when github first launched, SSL protection was only included on private repositories.

http://web.archive.org/web/20080621111340/http://github.com/...

Although I may be misunderstanding something.
The subset of providers for in-flight WiFi is small enough that they could just create an Application (even the "dumb" phones can run JavaME apps) that spams it with HTTP requests for each different provider and auto-registers using fake data.
What do you find wrong with that?

Considering that producers and purveyors of television programs, along with those who pay to advertise on those programs, do considerable monitoring to find out if they are attracting viewers, and have no qualms about canceling a show that isn't performing well with the public, a rise in successful shows about mystical phenomena is probably a pretty good indicator of increased public interest.
Thanks. I was incredibly lucky, both in meeting her and in how shared challenges helped us build a very strong friendship over the next several years to support what started as an infatuation. I am aware of how rare it is and don't recommend making life changing decisions like marriage based solely on romantic notions of first love.
I think Kasparov disagrees with you via "...working hard is also part of an individual’s talent"

though to be fair he follows with

"I think working hard is sometimes just as important to having a talent."

http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=6069
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When it comes to debugging, nothing beats a few strategic print statements to inspect variables or a well-placed panic to obtain a stack trace.

I respectfully disagree with this statement.

Beyond simple issues a debugger is invaluable for following program flow and inspecting variable/memory states.

And why does "missing .. patience" mean you are more likely to use a debugger over a print statement?
Well, first off... that's a really old archive (come on now). The problem there was that the wording was wrong (private repositories vs paid accounts).
When is the deadline to apply?
This sounds great, but what I really want is to simply edit docs on my iPad. I heard it's coming, but I hope soon.
not a bad idea -> obviously not very scalable, but I've already engaged a couple of people on twitter. We'll see how it pans out
It was really an eye-opening experience to go through a big list of these videos. Thank you to everyone who has participated. It definitely gives me a new perspective. I once thought it inconsiderate that YC didn't even click the demo link in my application, but now it's obvious that it's a necessary evil in sifting through so much of this.

One thing that stood out to me was how late all the videos were in the application process. About 75% of the videos were submitted within 48 hours of the deadline. It seems that submitting just a week earlier than the deadline would gain a huge advantage in terms of how much time the YC folks are able to commit to your application.

If I had to sift through this many videos in a short amount of time, I wouldn't even finish most of them. Whereas, if I received a video for the first time in a few days, I'd probably watch the whole thing regardless, and even try out the demo.
Thanks for reminding me of those lecture videos. I have a linear algebra test tomorrow, Wednesday, and these videos will certainly help me study for it.
Do you have a portfolio??
Well, you asked who "Texas Oil" was. I gave you a nice list that told you exactly who they were. It is Valero, Tesoro, Flint Hills, Marathon, Occidental, Tower, World Oil, Frontier, etc. vs. the American Lung Association, Pediatrics, Firefighters, AARP, League of Women Voters, just about every chamber of commerce, Jerry Brown, Meg Whitman, and even the Teamsters. If you are going to pretend to fight for blue collar jobs and you have the Teamsters against you, something is fishy.
The main point of creating his resume with Markdown seems to be the ability to store it in version control, and hold the whole thing in a plain text file. While a resume done in Markdown seems like an interesting idea (and I may end up writing one up just to have a web version of it online), I'd also consider writing one in LaTeX. It's easily storable in version control, and the base file you use to generate the PDF is a plaintext document, which is exactly what he's looking for, and the system is a lot more flexible than Markdown.

As an example, my resume can be found at https://github.com/mdwrigh2/resume/raw/master/mwright-resume... and the source for it can be found at https://github.com/mdwrigh2/resume/blob/master/mwright-resum...
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Sure. The trick is to make sure that you recognize what the mistakes were and don't repeat them. (And if someone says "no, I can't think of any mistakes we made", don't hire them.)
Her portfolio seems to be here: http://www.ecargnfx.com/grace_portfolio.pdf.
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I know this has been asked before, but now some of you would have been using your MBAs for a week.

1. How is the 13" (which is 1440x900) as a primary dev machine?

2. If you moved from a 15" MBP, do you miss the screen real estate? Was the MBP a 1440x900 one or the higher-res 1680x1050 one?
.... and the Launch Conference (my new version of TechCrunch50!) will be Feb 23rd and 24th.

website launching shortly at www.launch.is

deadline will be January 10th, but i'm doing rolling interviews since many folks are apply for Open Angel Forum AND LAUNCH.

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Netflix talks about their use of AWS
Adrian Cockroft talks at the Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group about running massive infrastructure that spans AWS and Netflix's own datacenter: http://blip.tv/file/4252897
That is not too surprising. One idea is that the war on drugs is one of those easy sell issues that's always good to have in your back pocket to pull out when you need to be seen taking a strong stance on something. This works for both republicans and democrats.
Quite interesting. I suppose you could ask the user to press "z" and see which KeyUp event fires.

Would love to hear a more elegant solution.
The API should still allow HTTP requests. No cookies are involved, so they shouldn't be vulnerable. I would like to keep things all SSL for consistency, but I think that'll require a bit more notification to API developers.
I'm also strongly against drug use, and think society should discourage it through education.

On the other hand, the war on drugs is destroying Mexico, and is not stopping drug use here in the States. I just don't think we can afford the drug war's costs (social, foreign policy, and monetary) any more. If you can't teach your kids to stay off drugs, I'm sorry, but they're on their own, as far as I'm concerned.

Edit: I don't live in California, and haven't looked at Prop 19 in detail.
It's funny that Apple released a 11" MacBook Air because it seemed to compete directly against it's own iPad. Now it's a tough choice between the two for the average consumer.
No HTTP cookies are involved, so no. For now, git will always ask for your password for https clone urls.
StartupRiot is the weekend before also... Lots of conferences for startups to pick from!

http://startupriot.com/
The biggest issue I've found with latex, is its kind of a pain to write in, and has a higher learning curve. In reality, it is the better choice if you want the final product to be printed, or need more stylistic control.
From Gentoo's ebuild:

MY_64B_URI="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/flashp...

and hence:

http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/flashp...

Edit: I do know that "Square" isn't an official release, it's a preview, but boy is it great. 64-bit support on Linux, hooray! 32-bit with nspluginwrapper is a pile of crap and would consistently crash, also taking out Firefox before they abstracted out the plugins from the browser. Secondly given Flash Player is insecure by default, it's probably better to be using the bleeding edge release over the current stable since it's less likely to be targeted.
To be honest I don't have a simple procedure for their power users. It's a one upload at at time interface (though I could offer an import function for users who are logged in I guess)

According to disruption theory (a la Thomas Thurston) I should be in ok shape at the moment - cheaper and worse ;)

I think offering an uploader/importer for those dropio dumps is probably a good idea for this weekend though huh?
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