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I see it, but I clicked away as soon as I saw that the guy writes under the name "Carnage 4 Life" and is proudly quoting some ridiculous gangsta rappers in his headline. Whatever kind of content he then may have below that, then simply does not matter any more.
MIT CS program is not very focused on teaching programming I think. They are a lot more focused on the CS theory itself.
What implications does this have for those who may have been convicted of a felony based on those 40,000 violations?

Scary thought that chances are... of those truly guilty and convicted, there's at least one or a few who committed a heinous crime and could now walk from illegal/improper police work. That's just as scary as violating other's rights and wrongful convictions.

Another loss for liberty and safety.
The explanation is all here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1597129

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I interview most of the job candidates that we get at Justin.tv for technical positions. Once you get to the point that I see you, what degree you have doesn't matter at all. For most candidates, I never look or ask about their education.

I used to, but the correlation between education history and hirability is weak enough to be useless to someone in my position. I think that most of the employees that are evaluating resumes feel about the same, as well.

What's important to us is whether or not you can actually write code and reason about computer science problems; what path you've taken to get there doesn't really matter.
As far as I know that's an accurate representation of the situation.
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Switzerland is by no means socialist and is rather an example of many libertarian ideals. Taxes are done by canton (city/state) and in some one can pay as little as no income tax. Health care is required, decoupled from employment and well regulated, but private. I've lived in all of the aforementioned countries and prefer the socialist model, but Switzerland is another example of there being many ways to reach the same ideal. I only hope the US can make it there too one day so that I could feel comfortable living in it.
What do you think about compulsory vaccinations?
I enjoyed the lean layout and thought you had chosen the mobile version for that purpose.
I also agree with metering if we're charged prices that we consider reasonable (defined by the prices that most people are paying elsewhere in the world).

I'd like to pay for internet like I pay for electricity. We pay by the kW*h and that's it. I think it'd be nice to pay a higher rate for electricity / internet during the day if it meant that we'd pay a lower rate during the night.

I keep hearing about how europeans get the mobile phone services waaaay cheaper than we do here. Some guy in a TED Talk said that cell phones were common in poor regions of Africa. There's no way that these poor people are paying what I pay for texting on a mobile phone. :P
I know many people who go through 2-4 phones a year. They always lose it at least once a year. Sometimes as often as every 3-4 months.

On the same kind of note... the keys to my apartment are the most important thing I need to grab before I leave. Yet, once every 6 weeks I leave w/o them. Any system has to recongize that the keys will be lost and make them fairly easy to replace.
Universal bandwidth metering would certainly incentivize moderation. For starters, it would immediately kill the Internet advertising industry, as just about every Internet user would moderate the bandwidth they spend on ads by installing Adblock Plus.
Like Anderson Cooper: http://twitter.com/andersoncooper/status/31518264634900480
“Comcast, Charter, Time Warner, Dish Network and DirecTV all passed.”
You're conflating small companies with a few employees and revenues in the thousands to millions with massive quasi-governmental institutions with profits in the billions. The first group doesn't have access to inexpensive healthcare (because their risk pools are small and they don't have much negotiating power), they don't have access to lobbyists to write laws for them, and they don't have access to armies of lawyers that can twist the meaning of laws already on the books.

The "free speech" issue really only applies to companies that have the resources to influence the government to begin with. A startup that has five employees and is only ramen profitable isn't going to hire a lobbyist.

On the other hand, I do think you're sort of right. If a benefit like this were passed, a lot of unemployed people would suddenly become "entrepreneurs" to get free healthcare. Large companies would find ways to spin off into thousands of "new" shell companies and transfer their employees there to get free healthcare as well.

Of course, the way the healthcare system exists now is basically that the government subsidizes entrenched players with tax incentives and allows employment to become essentially indentured servitude because the risk of losing healthcare while switching jobs is just way too high.
Thanks for pointing this one out. I was aware of many similar approaches, but having them expressed so succintly really drove home the point of how to use them and progress through them on a particular 'bug' or project.
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"Most people don't really enjoy being mean; they do it because they can't help it."

I wish this point had been expanded upon, but I feel like I just saw a bunch of weasels sucking eggs.

It would make a very interesting essay on the origins of meanness, clearly (citation needed) it has evolutionary advantage (or is a side effect of such). I wonder if a poll could be constructed that would given to enough people would support or refute pg's claim. Given limited resources and if it comes down to me feed my family or you feed yours I'm pretty sure the past 600million years of brain development would kick in and side with meanness, but we live in a time of relative plenty and given those conditions I truly wonder where human nature falls.
why? is the story not true? please explain . . .
I am sure we can stop as soon as Columbus Day is removed from the list of holidays and stops being listed as discovering America.

On a serious note, there have been a lot of attempts to remove "Indian" from the naming, but most of those have actually been pr failures and not generally accepted. The weight of history is pretty strong. The whole "feathers not dots" differentiation is probably gonna be with us for a long time.
As it was when I was living in Toronto, the last-mile lines are owned by either Bell (DSL/Phone) or Rogers (Cable). Both of those companies are the Canadian telecom heavy-weights.

Rogers does: cable tv, ip phone over cable (ala Comcast in the US), cable internet (which IIRC it own the only coax last-mile lines in the areas where it is a monopoly -- I think that west Canada has a different cable monopoly), the only gsm carrier in Canada+, a chain of video rental stores that competes with Blockbuster Canada.

Bell does: phone, DSL++, and the only CDMA cell carrier in Canada+++.

+ At the time I was living in Canada, there were many smaller GSM players, but they had all been bought out by Rogers, so you largely just had different branded GSM services from the same provider. More recently there have been at least two new GSM players (Wind and Mobilicity) though I believe that their coverage area is mainly just the Greater Toronto Area. [Of note is that Bell and Rogers use the same 3G bands as AT&T does in the US and Wind/Mobilicity use the same 3G bands as T-Mobile does in the US.]

++ The last-mile DSL lines were being sold to 3rd-parties ISPs as well as Bell itself being an ISP on those lines. See me ascii-art diagram in the other thread.

+++ Similar to Rogers, IIRC there were a couple of smaller players that were bought out by Bell so that all of the CDMA carriers were under the Bell 'umbrella.'
yes, that may apply for some countries. But then how do you classify hispanics of amerindian origin?
Two notes:

1) The article spoke mostly about the phone being used for authentication. This doesn't necessarily mean that the authentication system has vast amounts of PII.

2) If the authentication system does become the repository for vast amounts of personal data, then the concern is really for consolidation. You've already surrendered vast amounts of data to Visa, Amazon, Google, Apple, NetFlix, etc. Seems you're worried about it being consolidated.
"Content and infrastructure MUST be separated if we are to effectively create fair pricing conditions and net neutrality."

Or at least strongly regulated. The more I read about the situation there, the more it sucks.

Especially because I remember 10 years ago I was boggling at guys in Canada with 10mbit cable connections (getting 4mbps), whilst 512/128 (getting 200mbps down) ADSL or cable was just becoming a reality here.
The "Self-designation" for Native American does have some rules based on blood and tribal enrollment. A entity (e.g. college) not reporting on this correctly can bring some consequences.
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Should have been "How Facebook permitted all kinds of spam as long as the market could bear, then stopped and got lauded by FastCompany for fighting spam". Sheesh.
Uh, for some reason when I posted, it double posted, so I deleted one of them... and then this happened.

Slight head scratcher.
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Metering only makes sense if the costs vary with usage. In the case of DSL, the vast majority of the cost is the cost of maintaining the copper pair to your house, and that cost largely doesn't change, regardless of usage.

Now, if the line from the CO (where the DSL terminates) to the internet was a significant bit of the cost, I'd agree with you. But my understanding is that the line from the CO to the 'net is a very small cost compared to the cost of all those copper pairs.

You also have a point when it comes to shared-loop technologies like cable. Metering is probably the most fair way to decide who gets what percentage of the limited fixed loop. (and probably the best way to get the telco to add more capacity when a loop becomes overloaded)

I'm just saying, the last-mile has many situations where running the connection, regardless of how much you use that connection, dominates the cost. And in those cases, "unlimited" (up to your port speed) billing makes a whole lot of sense.
The first group doesn't have access to inexpensive healthcare (because their risk pools are small and they don't have much negotiating power), they don't have access to lobbyists to write laws for them, and they don't have access to armies of lawyers that can twist the meaning of laws already on the books.

see, you identified a handful of problems that are worth solving, not postponing them by giving out "reimbursements".
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A guy posting as "muuh-gnu" responding to a post from "goopot" has no business complaining about the name someone else writes under.

And what was wrong with the quote? Do you disagree with it and think respect can be bought?
I'm a French Canadian guy working in an English workplace and I feel a bit insulted whenever I hear this expression. I never hear anyone complain about it, but it makes me want to start saying "pardon my English" right after belching loudly (on purpose for that occasion).

The only thing keeping me from doing that is that I don't think people would make the connection and understand the reference.

I don't know how Jews feel when they hear someone say that they've been "jewed" by their ISP or some other company ripping them off. Probably something like that.
I concur–the US has a big market and a big advantage culturally in terms of startups.

Switzerland has the opposite problem, people are very ambitious, expect to earn a lot of money, and so are unwilling to take the pay cut to go to startups. I have run into many who think creating a successful startup involves having an idea and throwing money at outsourcers to program it. There's so much money thrown around that the idea of a MVP is out the window, a few companies I know have runways of 6+ years....

It's also partly about catching the bug and reaching the critical mass. If you have many friends making amazing things it's hard not to be inspired to try to join in. I don't think the cultural problem is by any means inherent in socialism, but those are just my 50 kroner...
I can't see self driving cars being commonplace in 19 years time. People tend to like control.
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"Time to fight back, Canadians."?
What do you want to make that other people want enough to pay you? This question is important no matter how large the company is.
Can we stop calling U.S. people AMERICANS already?

Since I was born in the continent AMERICA and my family is from the country Canada, I guess I am known as a Canadian American?

Just cause someone made a mistake we shouldn't propagate it.

/sarcasm
Are you in the Bay Area, NYC, or Boston? Salaries listed are likely an average across the entire country.
probably the forced login/subscribe
but that would assume a browser, right?
My phone is both easier to steal and harder and more expensive to replace than my passwords. Marvelous.
Probably, especially considering I'm fairly sure we've never met. :)

Don't get me wrong, the Americans I talk to regularly (and work with) aren't complaining about this, but if you get enough foreigners in a room together, there always seem to be a few who like to complain about taxes.

As for the FrP, the ones I know tend to be younger, and while they don't mind complaining about taxes, the real reason they tend towards the FrP is racism, even when they'd rather not admit it.
Didn't we have a long thread on #4 (By 2030, the best food will be grown in skyscrapers) and had a pretty big majority conclude it was bull?
This is awesome! I hope this rolls out soon. Brings in more incentive to support open-source
Whoa that's super cool. Coupling a turbine to electric seems to get around one of the problems of turbines in land vehicles. Basically, fuel efficiency at low speed is atrociousness . It was one of the arguments against the Abrams tank when it first came out, and it's only really through your ridiculously super developed logistics system (really, it's one of the shining examples of what the US Military can do super well) that you can keep your tanks running at will.
I'm not at all a Java fan, but how does shifting from Java to Scala help you scale easier? Scale what?

As to hiring better developers, I've never found that the language makes a difference in finding good developers, it is just that the smaller the community, the easier it is to find the good developers. I know many brilliant php, java etc developers but they are much harder to find when doing a blind job search than lisp, smalltalk etc ones because the community for php, java is so much larger.

I experience the same thing when looking for css/html people. It is hard to find the good ones because you get buried under a mountain of mediocrity when you go looking.
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Love your feedback. Would you use this for your own startup?
Older discussion:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1021060
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For the past year and a half, I've been working on a simple online debating site on and off. I was really inspired by all the new web startups when I first started, so I bought a few books on Ruby on Rails, and taught myself the framework by making the first buggy version of the site. Now that I'm in college, I haven't had any time to work on the project, but I was able to fix most bugs, make the design more purty, and put ads on the site over winter break (about a month ago). I tried seeding some initial content with mechanical turk, but the quality of the posts were extremely poor. So, I'm basically at the stage where I'm trying to get users now. Any tips or feedback would be greatly appreciated.

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From reading the examples this looks awesome, I'll give it a try tomorrow at the office. Is there a way to expand macros only and not do the compile-to-php step?

My current project involves generating php from a declarative definition and this could be just the right tool for the job! Maybe it will make switching to common lisp a lot easier once I learned enough of it :D
The headline is link bait.

Covers near field chips in future iPhones to be used as a credit card swipe.

This hardly concerns "iPhone users" in the whole as the headline suggests. First, only next gen purchasers and not ALL iPhone users as the suggestive headline reads and second, if it comes to fruition, then it would only concern that further segmented population of next gen iphone users who actually use the technology.

Even worse, the author doesn't even really make a strong case. I understand and agree with him, but not a string case at all.
Might be a reference to the Monty Python's Finland song, or just coincidence.
Canadians can sign a petition that also purports to send email on your behalf to the CRTC:

http://openmedia.ca/meter

I've been considering not getting Internet at my new place when I move (which is coincidentally the end of the month, when this regulation takes effect) for productivity reasons, and this cements the decision. I've been pretty happy as a Teksavvy customer otherwise.
I like the business model, but what prevents someone from looking at a developer's solution and incorporating it without paying the developer? Say the company is charged when they use the patching mechanism to bring developer's work into their product. What would stop them from simply going around this mechanism and just copy and paste the solution into their own repository?

Also is the developer responsible for fixing bugs in their solution? Can a developer exploit the process by submitting buggy code they'll be paid extra to fix? Can a developer be required to fix bugs in their solution?

If a company can't inspect code before they pay they can't be certain it's relatively bug free, if they can inspect the code they could use it without paying for it easily.
Seconded. Most likely won't be a technical issue but more of a social issue.
Along those lines is exactly what I'm saying... in addition to shortening the function names and other small (yet important size-wise) optimizations that would really help out in the long run. If I had the time I'd specifically address each optimization, but I don't.

It's cool that my comment is at -1 points. Thanks HN! You make me want to return here more and more every day with your unbiased contributions.
I think a liberal arts major can be an exceptional strength to a growing company. Great code monkeys/hackers are quite common, but if you have a liberal arts background, with science background AND are hacker friendly, imho is a great asset for an established company.
In Bryan Magee's Confessions of a Philosopher, he describes exactly this habit as the thing that impressed him most about Karl Popper.

I think some fear that giving an opposing position (X) the best possible interpretation, or responding to the smartest supporters of X, might make their own position (Y) look weaker by comparison, perhaps so much so that some readers will decide to buy into X rather than Y after all! "Strawmanning" is the easier route, as it saves one the bother of having to come up with powerful or detailed counterarguments.
A Hacker's Guide to Tea: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1934051 . I stopped drinking tea because I would sometimes like the taste and sometimes not without being able to sort out why some was good and some was not. Now I understand and can reproduce consistently good cups.
I agree with you, yoyar, but the use of fascism is so overloaded with historical emotion that it weakens your argument. Corporatism != fascism. Fascism adds to corporatism religious intolerance, racism, denial of freedom of expression, denial of due process, etc. While we can see individuals in power espousing elements of fascism, thankfully we havent gone there yet.
I realize this is somewhat oldish in Internet time, and might have been here before, but I just discovered it. I'm rewriting some clients for a binary protocol into Node.js and this found this to be very interesting.
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"My business interests are based on the availability of the wired and wireless Internet to everyone all over the world. Our firm has been active in working with the US government to make sure that continues to be the case in our country. We support net neutrality rules and oppose legislation such as COICA and the Internet Kill Switch."

Well said. Now would be a good time for Hacker News to re-examine its bias against discussion of civil liberties.

EDIT: downvoted! Are you (a) saying the Fred Wilson quote isn't useful or (b) saying civil liberties are such a poisonous topic that we can't even propose talking about them?
You raise a great point. Still stuff to work out. This is the result of 54 hours of work (Philadelphia Startup Weekend) so definitely expect more in the coming weeks.
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Concert ticketing is a huge mess. I looked at creating a startup in that space before my current startup.

Ticketmaster/LiveNation control 70% of the market (in the US and UK; to a lesser extent elsewhere), this is though a mixture of owning or having exclusive contracts with big venues and having exclusive contracts with artists.

Venues make almost nothing from the tickets, for a big artists the artist will take a huge cut of the ticket price (often in the 70-85% region). Venues make all of their money from selling in venue products (food, drink) and a cut from product sales (tshirts, etc.) So it's in the venues interest to get as many people in as possible, venues would love to do dynamic pricing like airlines do.

But they can't, they're restricted by the contracts with the artists. Those contracts are very tightly written so venues cant do auctions to make more money or sell excess tickets at discount. It's also a reason places like ticketmaster have weird pricing, they can't just change the price of the ticket to be inclusive of all their fees.

Ticketmaster/Livenation for some time have wanted to run a discounted ticket site but it means renegotiating tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of artist and venue contracts, it's a non-trivial task. The whole thing is a huge mess.

Most startups in this area have tended to concentrate on the secondary market where you have less of these problems, but even there you need a lot of money to break into the market. It's very advertising driven (ticket sites are one of the biggest users of affiliate sales) and there's a huge amount of credit card fraud in the space so you often need to post a huge bond to even get a merchant account.
Yep, I think this is what you're referring to: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1701724 & http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2024252