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Do you really think that an unlocked phone will end up in Canadian
Best Buy stores? Besides, 3G on the phone will only
work under Wind. So far as I understand it, it breaks down as such:

Canada U.S.
------ --------
Wind T-Mobile
Rogers,Bell AT&T

All GSM phones will work for phone calls and Edge for internet, but 3G tech is outside of GSM. Due to controls over frequencies by the government, each of these networks has carved out their own band to use, which puts different hardware requirements on phone manufacturers (this is in addition to CDMA vs GSM).
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FYI - I made the appropriate changes to webcrunchers.com like I said I would. The problem has been my hosting company who is hosting Webcrunchers was out of town on a mission, and had left before my volunteers put up the fundraiser site.

Early on, it was mentioned that this had to be done. Somehow, it fell into the cracks, next time, I'll pay more attention to such details.

You all please have to understand, that I'm going through tremendous amount of pain, and none of the pain medications work, and now I'm having to have stellar ganglon nerve root blocks, which kills the nerves, but only for certain periods of time. I'm told by the doctor, thereby increase this frequency, it may end my problem. I'm now having them three times a week. And I do want to say this, when you have a shot in the front of your neck with a needle going all the way back to the root nerve, it is a very painful experience.

But another doctor, insists I have surgery right away. I see said surgeon on the ninth, to find out what this is going to cost me above and beyond that Medicare can pay, and whatever is left over, I'll send back. I know who you are, I'll contact each and everyone of you individually, to ask if you want me to return what you paid. simple as that. And nice and fair. Again I want to thank everybody who donated, for your information, I am almost but not quite 2/3rd the way done to the goal of $10,000.

I remain

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Ask HN: YC Schedule for Spring Round
Hi, I'm planning to apply for the spring-round of YC funding, but I can't find any information about the schedule. I'm sure they'll post it when the time gets nearer, but I'm currently living outside of America, and want to have moved back by the time they call people out to California for interviews (I am an American citizen, just currently living abroad). I want to buy a plane ticket soon, so I would like to know when, at the latest, I can come back to America and still be in time for a potential interview (flying to California from outside the country would be too expensive, so I want to already be moved back).

So if anyone could let me know during what period interviews will take place next year, it would be really helpful.

Thank you.
It's fixed now. It was on my things to do, the person hosting my site was out of town, and had left long before I had to put up three donation website.
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Maybe part of the problem is that NYC doesn't have as many people familiar with running high volume consumer web apps at scale?

They have banking people (who use a largely entirely different technology stack, budget, and way of working), and people who have worked for smaller companies, but they don't have a huge number of veterans of large consumer webapps. Google's NYC office probably is more of a sink than a source for ops talent, and there isn't a large presence of declining big giants to strip for engineers like there is in Silicon Valley.

Do people move from SF/SV to NYC to work for established companies? I could see this if you had personal reasons for wanting to move (being from NYC and going back, or just wanting to go there), but it doesn't seem like a compelling option otherwise.
I challenge you to rebuff my claims. You contact me personally, I will be happy to give you the name of the doctor's physical therapists, and any and all medical staff that can substantiate my claim. And I find it totally offensive to say that people don't believe me. I'm have anything else to say, I'll leave you to judge based on what you can find out on your own.
> I'm quite certain some people will find Microsoft more free than Oracle

After all, like professor Wirth once said, P. T. Barnum was right. It's not reasonable to bet your company on the premise either Microsoft or Oracle will have a sudden change of mind and start playing by the rules.

It's not reasonable to bet a dollar on that ludicrous idea.
Right. So my logic is faulty based on arrests that weren't reported, are unverifiable, and as far as I know don't exist? Ok. I say your logic is faulty based on twice as many imaginary crimes where no arrest was made because there was no news article.
Ask HN: How long do you put off getting help on Stack Overflow/Lists/IRC?
From the moment I started programming, I've had a dogged need to solve my own puzzles instead of reaching out for help.

If I'm having a challenge with a framework or a new language, I'll sit there and tear my hair out for hours until a steady onslaught of experimentation, Googling, Stack Overflowing and discussion board searches erodes the problem and the dam breaks. It takes longer, but I think it's more fun. Maybe it's a typical nerd control freak thing: I can control the ongoing assault on this problem, but I can't be sure someone will respond to a question in a timeframe that pleases me.

Assuming a smart colleague with experience around your challenge isn't nearby and able to set you straight, do you go immediately for community help or is it a last resort? Is my addiction to puzzling things out wasting my time?
That's a bit like calling DropBox just rsynch with a billing frontend. It's not.
Domain model as REST anti-pattern
Actually, that was one of the physical therapists treatments. But I don't hang upside down, use a pulley with a strap around my neck, going up over the doorway, with a water bag for weight. Recommended weight: 25 pounds. It feels pretty good, but it doesn't get rid of the pain in my hands. I have very little muscle control and my fingers right now, this nerve has to be released soon, or I'll lose all muscle control in my fingers.
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Three quick thoughts:
1. Relax. It's not a test or a contest, it's more like solving a puzzle together: what can we discover that we have in common.
2. Have a sense of warm curiosity about the other person.
3. Share details from your recent experiences and your reaction to them.
Fair enough, but still. Don't you think it's a bit odd that they just happened to magically come up with enough evidence to arrest him a little bit more than a week after the article? To me, that says that at some point the police could have stopped him from gaining more victims instead of acting after it became an embarrassment.
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I'm not the only one noticing the connection to startups right?

Though not as morbid, I would imagine "stepping over dead bodies" and "leaving teammates behind" is a rather common experience in startups as well, though potentially frowned upon (but even then, it would depend on the situation).

EDIT: I think I need to clarify, I'm thinking more that startup COMPANIES are like everest climbers, trying to reach profitability/success. And then we can similarly say "[The internet] is littered with dead, exposed bodies [of startups]"
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There is a great mountain-climbing article here that I recommend reading: http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2010/11/prep-scho....
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If I receive more money than needed. I will contact each and every donor, and asked them if they want it returned. Simple as that. It's only fair. I know Who you are. I know much you donated, and will happily pay that back if it's not needed.

The most out-of-pocket expense I have is post surgery care or, other costs not covered by Medicare. I will say this, Medicare does not cover everything. I can assure you that. You'd be surprised at how many clinics are not covered by Medicare. And I've heard nothing about Obama care, even if that exists.
The mini-documentary season Everest: Beyond the Limit (streaming on Netflix) is a pretty interesting watch, and chronicles an expedition to the top - including a climber who actually encountered David Sharp on the mountain, while he was still alive, and the thought-process / decision of having to leave him behind.

Also, even though Everest is the highest mountain the world...

Annapurna has the highest fatality to summit ratio of all mountains @ ~40%.

And K2, with the second highest fatality rate (and 2nd highest elevation), is generally regarded as the most physically difficult and technically challenging.
I try to search as much as possible before posting a question. Usually someone else has had the issue I do. I'd rather find their accumulation of knowledge and add my own, rather than start another pile.
I up-voted you because I'm honestly curious how many people would agree with your statement. (no sarcasm implied)
This announcement would have been worth something if they supported DNSSEC automatically for all the domains they host. Using unmaintained broken software prevents them from supporting advanced protocol features.

For another example, the DNS already has a standard update API, but Amazon chose crippled software and reinvented the wheel instead of interoperating with the dynamic update code that is already out there.
There's a difference between even screwing over your best friend ("The Social Network"-style) and leaving them to die alone in a frozen desert of hell, where their mummified remains will stand for years to come as a grim reminder that someone left them behind.

Sure, there's some very distant analogy, but it's really a different kettle of fish.
Sure, but that doesn't get you out of the contract.
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Just out of curiosity, what kind of embarrassing data could they pull out of my browser history? I guess I should be scared they might find out about all of the porn I've been watching. Oh wait... nevermind.
Deep wreck and cave diving is similarly dangerous (and was much more so before the adoption of Trimix by the technical diving community). There have been numerous fatalities among rescuers trying to recover corpses of other dead divers, too.

I decided after reading a fair bit about this that even if I can afford to dive like this ($20k+ for equipment, $10-20k+ for training, and $500+ per dive for helium-based gas fills), it's just not worth the risk. I'm going to build a ROV or AUV to do all my deep/wreck diving for me, and stick to much safer diving profiles.

The other problem with deep SCUBA is that it's all been done, and better, by commercial divers using surface supplied or saturation diving techniques. It's like cryptanalysis in the open world; the NSA clearly has vastly better capabilities, so at best you're discovering things they already know. Except with surface supplied/saturation, you can see exactly how they did it, and if you had the money, could just do it that way yourself. (I'd be really interested in semi-professional surface supplied or saturation diving as a new super-technical hobby diver thing)
I feel like there's a sort of mutual understanding of the risk among all parties going into these situations. Yes one is much more grim than others, but in concept at least.
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It may be "prototypical Blub," but it has attracted a lot of bright and effective programmers, including several top-ten finishers in the Google AI Challenge and many, many people writing oodles of useful, practical code. I think it's fair to say from history that if you want to get things done in a cool, nicely designed language, it helps if your cool, nicely designed language runs on a platform that is dominated by a popular Blub language.

Proof: If there's no Blub on your platform, you'll exclude the vast majority of people who might write useful code you can use. If there is a Blub on your platform, its popularity will ensure that the vast majority of useful code on your platform will be written in Blub, and first-class language status on your platform will be defined by ability to interoperate with Blub. Therefore, the best case scenario is for your favorite language to be a minor player on a Blub platform.
Depends on the person. The original climbers probably went for things like extreme personal challenge, or fame. I'm sure there are climbers now as well (now that climbing Everest has been commoditized a bit) who do it for the novelty.
Yes, that's absolutely right. Plus, if I am accepted for endoscopic surgery, I may have to increase the cap. Right now, I am not even sure that I qualify as a candidate for this procedure, and one of my surgeons is advising against it while another one says to give it a go.

I will say this, it is my body, I'm going to do the best I can to make sure I get the best possible treatment, and not turn down endoscopic surgery, even though it is $25,000.

I will say this, so far endoscopic surgery costs is about $14,000 per disc, plus $7500 for each additional disk.

You will note that I am only asking for $10,000. Making sure I don't ask for more than I should. This figure was discussed between me and my advisers, and we think it's a fair goal to try to reach.
I had a friend describe his experience when climbing one of the highest peaks in South America.

He said it was the most specular view he had seen in his life - he could literally see both the Atlantic and the Pacific simultaneously. But despite this, he was so physically miserable that he derived no joy from the experience at the time.

Of course, that's still much lower the Everest.
I believe YC does two investment cycles a year, one starting in January and the other in June.

So there isn't a spring round; the next one will be summer.
The LLVM Project is a collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies. Despite its name, LLVM has little to do with traditional virtual machines, though it does provide helpful libraries that can be used to build them.

If LLVM is not a VM, do you have a particular LLVM-based VM in mind?
> They killed OpenSSO, they killed Open Office, the killed Open Solaris, They where contractually bound to not kill MySQL

And you know the beauty of it? Then can't kill neither Open Office nor MySQL. When the time comes, I just have to move to a fork. LibreOffice is on RC-stage now and I am curious about Drizzle and the other forks of MySQL.

> because they don't want JDKs to exist that did not pay Oracle

Probably. What they would really hate would be not to get some money out of every feature phone out there. Their thing is with mobile and J2ME licensing means a lot of money.

> They will make the early 90's Microsoft look like a benevolent democracy

Don't get me started on that...
It's been my experience that the community is exactly the opposite. Founders and early employees are generally eager to help others, even when they probably don't have the time to spare. I've always tried to do the same and it has paid off easily 10x in terms of the amount of advice and help my startup has received.
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So far i must say that aerofs provides some features i'm missing elsewhere. Most importantly the possibility to have some directories synced with the cloud and some only on LAN/private.

Aerofs/Yuri have been very responsive and friendly on mail support, i like that a lot!

Thanks guys, and keep up the good work!

Yuri, what i am missing is some way to mark a directory to sync with the cloud. Usecase: I have some Windows directories in c:\users\xxx\ that i'd like to keep in sync. Obviously i can't link them to the aerofs-drive..

And now, to the 64bit linux version.. ;)
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I'd be willing to assume a lot more personal risk to be the first person to do something like land on Mars or summit Everest, especially if it's not even clear that it can be done, than to be the 50th. Even more so if there is some compelling scientific benefit to going (which, thanks to robotics, there really isn't anymore, at least for brief boot/flag-planting visits).

There are extremely limited cases where it would be worth sacrificing someone's life to accomplish something (jumping on a grenade to save a bunch of other people, perhaps where acting saves other people). I could see people willingly sacrificing themselves for sufficiently otherwise unobtainable knowledge, but it would be immoral if not voluntary.
Any specifics? I may be using Python for so long that I got used to its warts. Some outside perspective could be useful.
> Apache doesn't have enough money to do that

No, but if they can convince telcos and phone manufacturers they can win, I am sure they could direct some of the money provisioned for J2ME licencing and Android-related patent-licensing into that.
I keep hearing how startup founders are often "scratching an itch." I think the climber's itch is different in primarily beginning and ending in personal gratification.

If you are looking for a challenge climbing Everest might be only a little cheaper that doing a startup (about $65K it appears: http://outside-blog.away.com/blog/2009/12/how-much-does-it-c...).
I was told that by the time of my inquiry, that I would have to hire a private detective to go in and see information I'm not entitled to along with my personal information that I know to be in there and needs to be corrected. The fees for this at the time is $100 or was. But I don't have any money right now, so it's really a moot point at this point. Excuse the pun!
example http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/How-a-cave-diver-film...
"So it turns out that getting older isn’t all that bad. Sure, people say that 30 is the new 25 (or is it the new 18? I can’t keep up)."

Ahem... well based on the fact that we're seeing "startup advice from the ripe old age of 30", I'd say it's more like 30 is the new 60. And my experience in the Valley would seem to reinforce this. :-)
That's a pretty harsh characterization of their motivation. I'm guessing when you're standing on the top of that summit you establish a connection with nature that you can't get from simply running a marathon. I'd absolutely celebrate anybody who achieves that. The world needs more people who are willing to step so far out of their comfort zone to achieve seemingly impossible things.
At the risk of sounding like a corporate apologist since I write for Wired.com, Wired.com did NOT use the javascript history hack. It was noted in the report for using Tynt.com, which notices which portions of a story a reader copies and pastes and inserts a link back to the story. Wired.com has since stopped using the service, in no small part because it annoyed the writers, but it never, to my knowledge and to the report's findings, secretly captured users' browser histories. You can read the full report's findings at the following link: http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/users/lerner/papers/ccs10-jsc.pdf.
This occurs far too often in my view and it's always coined on "exchange rates". I'm not sure what sort of optimisations they could make other than being preloaded with T-Mobiles network settings since it is supposed to be the pure experience.
There is a certain beauty in mountain climbing that I doubt any marathon can compete with.

That said, maybe they can just climb smaller--but also beautiful--mountains? 6k? 7km? Why does it has to be 8.8km?
Looks interesting for low-level stuff. I assume memory management will become more sophisticated with time.
SQL gives some people the howling fantods. I think a large part of the programming-nerd population looks at it and sees it as a kludgy chimera like JCL, or an inscrutably unfunny INTERCAL variant. Maybe they've been forced to use a shitty ORM leaked abstractions on a project of theirs which they had to clean up; maybe someone slipped them the hot SQL injection, back in the days of CGI; maybe their parents were tragically trampled to death by an elephant while a nearby dolphin laughed. Regardless of motiation, you have to concede to whom it riles that SQL is not the most likeable language/model/framework/paradigm out there.

Personally, I actually love SQL. You asked me, nothing satisfies like nested right inner joins. But that's not who I am. I have needs. Sometimes, what I need is a schemaless eventually-consistent document-oriented persistent data store, because I am aggregating data from multiple web service APIs whose field names and structures change around like they were samples on a Girl Talk record. CouchDB ain't SlouchDB... I can dance to that.

I can tell that some of my buddies are embracing databases from the ranks of the quote-unquote NoSQL movement because these databases' aesthetics are not at all like SQL. That's the catch with NoSQL -- it's a really pointless thing to talk about because it's not a thing; it is an un-thing, a classification of everything in the contemporary database world that is not SQL. It's the kind of classification that makes the most sense in the emotional context of how people feel about SQL.
excuse me! I'm highly allergic to that of smoke. It is a medical condition I have no control over. When people smoke near me, I get extreme nausea, headaches, and I find it very annoying and repulsive, not to mention it being a very filthy habit. I have every right to complain just like anybody else. You're all entitled to your own opinions about me, that's fine, just don't lie about it.
Results are out. http://jcp.org/en/jsr/results?id=5111

Quite a few of those who voted yes added comments about the yes being on technical merit, not licensing.
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Do you think it's implausible that Apache could fork Java and Oracle could be eventually left with nothing but a trademark and some loyal corporate customers? With so many prominent Java folks leaving Oracle, I'm not sure what kind of leadership or moral authority they could muster to convince people that they're the most more credible center for the Java community. The community would suffer from a fork, no question, and it would be severely weakened, but I think Java users would prefer to go through such a tribulation rather than write off Java completely.

Personally, I think Apache should fork Java and kick it off with a renaming competition, just to get us past the most traumatic part.
Media 2.0 at its best: a bunch of photos lifted without attribution. I recognize at least one to be from a Nat. Geo. story.
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Multiple job offers? How to choose the best one for you.
Consider yourself lucky if you find yourself in the enviable position of having multiple job offers.Have you ever encounted this situation in your career and if so, how did you proceed and what were your results?
the co-pay I wind up paying is 20% of the total cost in medical care including hospitalization. The cost of my surgery last December was more than $175,000 if I had to pay it myself. The operation like an open surgery operation, in my neck, is going to run around $100,000. Co-pay pays 80% of that, which leads me to pay $2000.

However, there are other charges that I'm responsible for paying for, I do want to go into those, but there are many.
I'm not sure what you mean by that, because CM is as custom as it gets: https://github.com/CyanogenMod

It even adds a new "Cyanogenmod settings" to your settings panel where you can do stuff like alter cache size, etc.

CM removes the default launcher and replaces it with the ADW launcher. CM also incorporated the AAC+ bug fixes much before Google.

In conjunction with the DroidBasement overclocked kernels (http://droidbasement.com/db-blog/), I have my ole MyTouch 3G performing better than stock 2.2

Could you cite why you say that it is impossible to "to do a custom build with the same qualities as the google provided one" ?