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Liberal arts like geography, anthropology and philosophy give you an excellent foundation for information architecture, business ethnography, user research and business analysis. A startup that's doing customer development instead of building something arbitrary should find those skills invaluable as long as you present them the right way.

EDIT: I graduated as a Geography major, with the pitch being that cartography is a very skilled form of information architecture and interaction design, as we use maps both as art and as a useful, tailored tool; geographic information systems mean I have experience working with demographics, statistics and spatial analysis; multiple anthropology courses mean I can research and present analyses on both the developing internal business structure and on our customers; philosophy means I can think critically.
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This echoes my thoughts all along.

For open-projects, it's a FANTASTIC platform... no doubt about it.

For a corporate closed project, I honestly would not use github - not because of any feature or lack of them, but because it's a hosted service. I want control over where my code sits, period - if only for the same reason as most hosted services - a subpoena or similar court order can be served against the provider with no notification to the owner of the data. This is the #1 reason one should be careful basing one's business on hosted services.
In rural areas the problems will be the longer stretches without connectivity

The most pressing need for mobile comms and richer media will be in the cities, where this is less of an issue. For getting news out to less populated areas, something like Fidonet could work as a way of disseminating alternative news.

On such a network the communications should be limited to the essentials, rich media is pretty much out of the question.

What about USB flash drives carried by drone aircraft or carrier pigeon?

On another note, the frequency spectrum is highly regulated, powerful base stations operating as hubs could be shut down by triangulation and force and operating transmitters outside of the alloted frequency ranges is forbidden by law.

The only part of the electromagnetic spectrum that does not currently need any regulatory before equipment can be sold or operated is as far as I know > 10GHz, and even then there are strict limits on power.

If one can rapidly disseminate many units, then infringement is not so much of an issue. Protesters are already engaging in civil disobedience, and the authorities already have a lot of other chaos to deal with during a crisis like we are seeing in Tunisia and Egypt.

Other options are UWB and optical links (for instance lasers).

Relevant to both Tunisia and Egypt would be hardware to establish Line of Sight communications with vessels offshore carrying satellite uplinks. Infrared lasers linking with boats 10 miles offshore would be hard to detect.

EDIT: WiFi has been transmitted a distance of 237 miles. http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/news/article.php/3695986/New-Wi-F...

Unamplified WiFi has gone 125 miles.

http://www.engadget.com/2005/07/31/unamplified-wifi-distance...
Disclosure: I think I got misunderstood. This is not a serious library meant for multi-browser support or a general purpose library like jQuery (which I use daily). It's a toy project born out of interest, will to learn and the simple fact that in another project I have, Sight(https://github.com/tsenart/sight), I didn't use any external libraries (except Underscore.js). That's how I really started to learn Javascript. I missed the ability to directly iterate through the results of document.querySelectorAll() so I just had fun playing with a solution and ƒu.js came out. I'm not praising it as the best library in the world. And it can even have no advantages over the others. It's just my toy project with which I learned a lot (and even more with brutal criticism) and published for the others to see.
Not selling anything here. (The headline of the page is mere satyre)
How come so many business people are douchebags?
Asking someone not to generalize is not the same as claiming someone is an anti-semite. I appreciate your clarification that you're not questioning Israel's right to exist, I read too much into it. Finally, thank you for helping this thread comply with Godwin's law.
Having to download PDFs to read a magazine or newspaper online is real nasty. Just goes to show how much techincal expertise the media publication houses have with them currently.

A lighter format[in terms of size] which also supports social media sharing would be the right thing to bring the magazine experience to the iPad.

I wonder if anyone out there is actually making a publishing platform for the iPad.[or did I miss it here?]
I was referring to the hardware. Not the set of supplier corporations that are intertwined with the state.
It's not impossible but pretty unlikely that you're going to be able to join something really early-stage as a liberal arts major fresh out of college.

Join a larger startup that needs people to do joe jobs - customer support, account manager, etc. Suck it up, work your ass off, learn all you can, and get yourself promoted to something interesting. (Larger startups are still fairly fluid - at least compared to the broader corporate world.) Product management worked for me, but your experience might vary.

Once you've got a couple years of experience, and you've done something a little more meaty than entry-level work, you'll have something more to offer an early-stage startup.
Absolutely a matter of scale - it depends on the app, the audience, your budget, your workflow....

A one-man operation doing sysadmin, development, everything? I'd be looking for hosted solutions too for my clients - it makes my life easier.

But as a company, with a development and operations staff? I'd be wary.
In all honesty I would be happier making my own games. I am just thinking other possible directions if people don't take to the games I create as a way to stay in the field. So far writing game code is the most fun I have had programming. I also don't want to join a studio as I see little benefit to not being part of a founding team when it takes such small groups to create games with the newest tools.
For instance, I'm normally logged into my personal account, which uses Mail, Voice, Calendar and more. To use Mail with my work account, my current account in every service is changed, so my Voice Chrome extension no longer shows correct data, as well as other weirdnesses that I've blocked from my memory since I started using incognito windows instead.
I would be interested in seeing a similar map based on GDP per capita.
Is there any way to see which 57 people voted up this article? Can anyone who did so please explain how it made it past any of their b.s. filters?

I read HN for the high quality content its curation system bubbles up, an article like this making it to the front page is a bug in that system.
Answering my own question, it seems if the user of the CCL is using the "ShareAlike" version, the answer is yes, your entire work must be released under the same license.
Pharen: A lisp that compiles to PHP
In the Cogent example, Bell is legally required to let Cogent use their loop for a low maintenance cost. That is not what this issue is about, and nothing about that has changed or will change.

The case here is that these small ISPs are not only terminating the loop, they're also using Bell's pipes beyond the termination, with contracts that were enforced when Bell really was a bonafide monopoly. There are actually a lot of competitive options when you're looking for bulk bandwidth, will Bell being a small, small player.
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Let's see... he doesn't speak Arabic, so any "regular" journalistic skills he might have would be useless, and AFAIK he's not an expert on Egyptian culture and politics, so he doesn't have any special domain expertise that might be useful even without Arabic language skills. I'd personally rather hear more on CNN, MSNBC, etc. from actual Egyptian journalists.
My point was more;

"Wouldn't it be interesting if [big, well recognized american media personality] went to Al Jazeera"
I went to CMU and dropped out after two years when I decided I was learning a lot more at a summer internship than I was at school. (this back in '96 BTW)

Things that have surprised me:
- the name does open the door more than you'd think, even to this day, it gets respect, even when I always disclaim it with dropping out
- I don't think the quality of the education was particularly better, but the quality of the students was. Being surrounded by people that make you feel like a moron is a good life experience.
- It won't automatically get you hired, but it will make people spend a bit more time on you.

So I don't know, my advice? Drop out or transfer after a couple years, because jesus christ that shit is expensive these days.
The difference between the government owning and the government not owning but controlling a corporate entity(s) are irrelevant to me. If anything, the government sets up the conditions for monopolies and oligopolies to exist.

> If it were not for the crtc, bell would never ever have shared their infrastructure with smaller companies and the free market would have delivered us a monopoly for sure.

How do you know this?
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If there is one thing that I would attribute the popularity of Ruby and ROR to then it is that Ruby has been made exceptionally accessible to younger people learning how to program. Other language proponents should take a leaf out of this book (and that of the tobacco industry as well as a lot of organized religions): 'get them while they're young'.

Congratulations on a really neat project, if there is one thing I love doing it's teaching kids about computers and programming, and this inspired me to go and do some more of that.
Thank you for sharing that.

I wonder if moving to another country would help? There are other cultures that don't put so much emphasis on extroversion and are just plain different that you might find that you fit better there.

You can always use the excuse that you don't speak the language to avoid interacting with people.

There is always the online world? Do you feel more comfortable there? Aside from work (and even there you can work remotely), there is online bill pay and other services where you can limit the number of interactions to the maximum.

In other words, why not try to mold your own world around you where you can feel better?

If you do make the choice to leave, there would be no way to undo it...

Don't worry too much about being labeled with a mental illness, as others mentioned, it is just a label. I think it is still beneficial to try ( and I know this is exactly part of the difficulty) to talk to a psychologist about stuff like this. You can just get a different perspective from them about things and you can tell them stuff you won't tell your friends or family.
Hi everyone, I'm the creator of Pharen. Feel free to ask me questions or remind me why this is a terrible idea. :)

Yes there are a lot of issues with cross-language compilers. That said, Coffeescript: http://coffeescript.org, which compiles its own language to Javascript has had a lot of success and is being used in production. So it's at least possible to use languages like this.

The extra layer of abstraction is a big hurdle. When debugging you have to find the source of the problem in the PHP, though ideally after that you can just find the matching Pharen code and go from there. One of the things on my todo list is to have at least a rough line-to-line tracker built, so that it could at least tell you the general location a problem happened, if not the exact line.

Translating docs and example code for existing libraries into Pharen is a bigger issue, I think. Mainly because Pharen emphasizes a functional style of coding while most PHP code assumes you are doing things imperatively. This is something Clojure has to deal with in terms of Java interop so again it shouldn't be too hard to get around.

In terms of efficiency there is tail recursion optimization (converts a recursive function to having a while loop at the end) and a persistent sequence library in the works that would make functional looping through a list about as fast as imperative iteration. More aggressive optimizations might come in the future.

If you're interested, feel free to contribute: http://scriptor.github.com/pharen/contribute.html. If you use IRC you can come hang out (or berate me personally) on #pharen on Freenode. Any suggestions or ideas are welcome.
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The tower-devices will be broadcasting their presence and location, so hiding them isn't as important as making them expensive and time consuming to remove or highly mobile (on UAV's or back pockets) to run away from the government.
I go to a 'meh' school, but it was by choice for me. I'm a math major for the theoretical background, and then a computer science major for the practical background. I do what I love, and I take misc. classes enough that my parents are legitimately worried about me becoming a 'professional student'.

I didn't apply to any other schools than the one I'm at now. I believed that the campus was beautiful, and so I applied here. I could have gotten into any school I'd like to think, but life is too short to be worried about future financial gains or something like that. I'd rather go somewhere with a beautiful campus than be a person that's worried about some potential future monetary gains. Money is just money after all. After you have enough to buy a plane ticket to get to Google IO, what more could you really want?

It's worked out for me fairly well though. I met a professor, and he's become a mentor in my life. We worked on a research project together last summer, and he has the connections to get my resume in at almost anywhere I'd want to go. He worked at Motorola in their research labs for 16 years, and he knows people that have been at Google, Microsoft, etc. from their very beginnings.

Don't worry about what school you go to. Go to the school you want despite things such as academic standing or something equally silly. Things have a way of working themselves out if you give it a bit of effort. Just remember that life is about more than just your grades.
A job, maybe. But no office.
Interesting psychologically - but given the example in the wikipedia article, the effect at work here that causes us to choose Red rather than Black or White, while not a better choice, as we may think it is due to the effect, is also not a worse choice. Statistically the odds are the same - so from a game theory point of view, the Red choice is just fine.

Someone with a psychological liking for gambling might actually take one of the other two options precisely because the choice is ambiguous, and they perceive it to be more of a gamble. "Hey.. the black or white ones COULD have an almost 2/3 shot at winning... so they'll focus on that and take those just for the thrill."
I wonder if any studies have been done to that effect?
Is this true? Is it any different than IPv4?

Obviously a permanent static address would have tracking value, but proxies and networking would seem to have equal obfuscation capability...
The draft doesn't apply to non-Jews because Israel doesn't want to force its Arab citizens to fight other Arabs. However, Arabs, Muslims, and Christians are encouraged to join the military or civil service and they serve alongside Israeli Jews or in their own units. In fact Druze men have mandatory conscription.

Check the law again. The draft applies to all Israelis but exemptions can be granted. And in fact have been granted to Arabs. The conscription of Druze men is a consequence of their not having been granted a special exemption.

Note that not all branches of the military service are open to minorities. Notably the airforce is not. And having served as a pilot in the airforce is a requirement for being a pilot in the state airline.

Many, many countries have a Right or Law of Return. I always find it interesting that it is particularly bad when Jews do it.

I was not saying it was good or bad. I was citing it as evidence that different races are treated differently under Israeli law.

There are reasons for this discrimination. However discriminating and claiming that you don't discriminate is hypocrisy.
> Fertilizers and pesticides are mostly made of oil and natural gas.

I think you're talking about "artificial nitrogen fertilizers" specifically:

Wikipedia ("Fertilizer"): Artificial nitrogen fertilizers are typically synthesized using fossil fuels such as natural gas and coal, which are limited resources.
Or the problem might be that wealth is increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few who are vulnerable to groupthink and consequently triggering financial disasters with their incompetence. DISTRIBUTE MORE OF THE WEALTH.
Same here. I'm with BT in the UK and I'm on an unlimited* plan with a fair usage policy. This is fine by me, I held off downloading until night time (for both my own convenience and others) but because I had 2mb/s download and a Steam library of 200+ games, I figured I may as well DL my entire library at once. After a couple of days I'd downloaded over 300GB, one night I get an email saying blah blah fair usage cap has been hit. So now I'm capped at 1mbps between 5PM and midnight every day for 1 month (thankfully the cap is lifted tomorrow) because my "unlimited" plan has hard defined limits that aren't publicised. Try finding the limit for the unlimited plan I have and it doesn't exist, yet EVERYONE gets capped at 300GB/m. In a normal month I use ~150GB and would stick to that if I'd known about the defined limit, the misleading nature of it sucks.

I don't mind limits, unlimited is impossible, but when the limit is the same for everyone regardless of how the service is used and then tout it as unlimited... it's ridiculous.
^ Works with vlc too.
> Bell is legally required to let Cogent use their loop for a low maintenance cost.

Yes, that's because they own all the lines and Cogent has no other way to sign you up as a customer in a way that would be worth their while.

> The case here is that these small ISPs are not only terminating the loop, they're also using Bell's pipes beyond the termination, with contracts that were enforced when Bell really was a bonafide monopoly.

So, again, what choice do they have?

> There are actually a lot of competitive options when you're looking for bulk bandwidth, will Bell being a small, small player.

If that were really true don't you think these ISPs would switch to those competitors with their 'competitive options' instead of waging silly lawsuits?

Bandwidth is cheap. So cheap that it's hilarious to see the rates that Bell now charges these ISPs for transit.

Really, Canada just took a giant step backwards in time and you are cheering it on and I can't see what reasons you would have for that other than that you perceive Bell to somehow have a god given right to a chunk of the turnover of each and every bit of data that gets moved in Canada.

It really should not be that way, the sooner it ends the better. Every company that can afford it should be allowed to put in 'last mile' connections, and every company that can afford it should be allowed to use the former monopolists infrastructure at a cost-plus basis (and not a metered basis). That's the only way the situation will ever get to normal.

Canada is hurting it's citizens interests and the interests of Canada as a player in the global economy by putting the population at a disadvantage as compared to other countries.

Have a look at Korea for what's possible.
True, but it is still an interesting link. I wonder if it is because of the isolation and the breaking of family ties in a developing world, which is is linked to the level of mobility and also with culture.
Jason L Baptiste on "How to become a millionaire in 3 years?":

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1447467

I actually printed this out for reference, the only time I've found myself doing this.
I'm glad you pointed this out, as I was going to express something similar. I don't know that I would classify the pot as "hot", but at the same time I'm glad Jacques tempered his opinion with the following:

If a dictator should come to power (which you can never really rule out, even in a democracy) then that may change but it won't change overnight.

I completely agree with that, as did Thomas Jefferson apparently:

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

and

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Under the Bush administration we got the Patriot Act, warrant-less wiretaps, torture, and the repeal of habeas corpus (the right to due process which had to be reversed by the Supreme Court). There was a thread before on HN about some new Orwellian syle video from the DHS featuring Secretary Napolitano admonishing shoppers at checkouts in Walmarts to keep on the lookout for anything suspicious. At airports we are now forced to either be exposed to a radiation laden scan of our body, or intrusive physical pat down whenever we take a flight, no matter that we've done nothing wrong. Indeed, you risk being arrested [1] with this direct challenge to the Fourth Amendment which guards against unreasonable searches and seizures if you don't submit to it.

So while I agree with Jacques that Americans are much farther from any revolt than the people of Tunisia or Egypt, and I wouldn't say there is a pot which is boiling, or maybe even hot, I also think it's a mistake to imagine there is no pot at all.

[1] http://noblasters.com/post/1650102322/my-tsa-encounter
"don't underestimate opiates. They can be highly inspirational and consoling. After all, a drunken man is usually a little happier than a sober one"

This is the crux of the argument presented here. Really.
If I'm understanding correctly the parent is referring to high school, where to a large extent I can't help but agree. The situation at the university level is much different, as illustrated by your example.
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How would you, as a designer, recommend people get low-budget work done?

Is it that most of the designers don't get paid at all or the lowish price that the winner gets that offends?

There is a huge appeal in having a designer "try out" - I've been burned by designers who couldn't get the work done to my satisfaction. It was a waste of my time and money. It would have been very easy to weed them out with a simple "audition". This seems entirely legitimate to me. I've ben asked to write code prior to getting a job, for example.

As for price, I've been quoted $3k-5k for a logo and $15k for 4 pages of html. That is never going to happen. I might pay $2-300 for a very good logo, and maybe $1500-2000 for a very good set of HTML pages. That is simply the value I place on the services.

I hate to be the guy who doesn't respect creative talent, but I can't ignore what the marketplace is telling me. Designers really seem to hate the crowdsourcing model, and I want to work on terms that they like, but how? Saying "pay me more and take the risk that I won't work out" is not good enough - as evidenced by the success of 99 designs, et al. If designers want people to abandon crowdsourcing, they need to come up with a better low-budget alternative.