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See also his interview in Playboy - http://www.playboy.co.uk/print/print-article/item77251/

which has been discussed here a few times

http://www.google.com/search?q=jobs+playboy+site:news.ycombi...
You're ignorant. Everyone has to apply the UBB and no one has contracts, even Bell.
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No, because these aren’t pairs of people separated at birth. There’s groups of one thousand men, and one thousand women per racial group represented here.

I agree on the perceptions though, there’s a ton of demographic sloughing going on here that can’t be represented simply.
I'm a student out in Melbourne, if I got a ride, this would be great.
See, the thing is, you're obviously biased towards Israel and you're endorsing the Israeli side of the story. Now, I don't know anything about this guy, but clearly the Lebanese side of the story is that he's a resistance figure.

You're both a little wrong and right here. The grandparent is right that journalists shouldn't be outright supporting viewpoints. He's also correct that it's generally agreed that Samir Kuntar was responsible for several deaths in his orchestrated kidnapping of an Israeli family (Wikipedia, I had never heard of this incident before this conversation).

However, the Al Jazeera network head then admitted that the behavior of the Beirut office was wholly inappropriate and should never happen again.
I'm well aware that we're already redistributing wealth, I'm simply advocating we do more of it by raising taxes on the wealthy.

If you Google 'economic mobility' you'll come up with a lot of citations supporting the idea that most rich people come from families in the upper reaches of the economic spectrum. Here's a particularly good study that got a lot of press a couple of years ago: http://www.economicmobility.org/reports_and_research/other?i... . Keep in mind that I'm not saying no one goes from being poor to rich, only that it's a minority of the wealthy. One reason that it may seem like there are more is that those stories are more compelling and so get more media attention (who wants to hear about the upper middle class doctor's kid who became a millionaire?), and because Republicans focus on those stories in their campaign rhetoric to deflect taxation on the wealthy.

It would be terrible to die waiting for treatment; fortunately that doesn't happen any more often in Canada than it does in the free-market US (where, until the recent health care reform, insurance companies could arbitrarily drop sick patients altogether).

And contrary to whatever ideas you may have about hospital life, they're really not all that pleasant. Most people stay away from them unless absolutely necessary, to the point that a lot of people (heart patients in particular) don't go when in fact they should. No doubt there are some hypochondriacs who waste doctors' time, but they are hardly justification for throwing up our hands at helping the truly sick who greatly outnumber them.
@JaredCohen has some pretty interesting things to say:

http://twitter.com/#!/JaredCohen/status/31726988934778880

Every Egyptian I talked to on ground this week laughed when I told them some think tech was not a vital tool for organizing #jan25

http://twitter.com/#!/JaredCohen/status/30662558541152257

People on ground in #egypt adamant about critical role tech playing in crowdsourcing logistics #jan25

http://twitter.com/#!/JaredCohen/status/31836874016296960

Tech doesn't make activists, but creates space for unlikely leaders to emerge and redefine civil society as smthg more inclusive/expansive

http://twitter.com/#!/JaredCohen/status/30665407077556224

One Egyptian says, "facebook used to set the date, twitter used to share logistics, youtube to show the world, all to connect people" #jan25
I think the larger problem is that hardware at this scale is so finicky. You can get 'meaningful' results fairly soon (say a half-adder, a working clock, or an instruction decoder), but making them work reliably, so that parts that work in isolation still work when connected to each other is problematic. Voltages drops may get too large, the clock signal might get too diluted, etc.
That's what I think too - it's brilliant for non-tech people, and it's straightforward enough that they can do it.
Thanks for the new background.
I don't see the big deal; it's cosmetic. The logo's easy to remove. I can't imagine significant damages. Legal issues are only a problem when the content is infringing, such as video uploads.
> Why isn't Norway the center for startups?

It is a center, per capita. From the full version of the article, http://www.inc.com/magazine/20110201/in-norway-start-ups-say...:

"Rates of start-up creation here are among the highest in the developed world, and Norway has more entrepreneurs per capita than the United States, according to the latest report by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, a Boston-based research consortium."

You don't hear about it as much because Norway is a relatively small country relatively far away from the U.S. (both geographically and culturally). The lack of Silicon Valley-like echo chamber is also a factor.
I've heard nothing but bad things about SVB.
I don't get why people create ton of OpenID identities, then use them in a way they can't remember which one they use where. I have one "main" OpenID URI per identity (with several "backup" ones, which I use on sites who allow me to associate multiple OpenID URIs with the account) and have never experienced such kind of problem.

OpenID is fine in this regard. The root of the problem in lack of site with a short and concise explanation what OpenID is, and best-practice tips on how it should be used. With all contents in public domain or under very non-restrictive free license.

Also, I'd note that the problem you mention is the same for passwords/passphrases. I.e. you have to remember whenever you used one password generator or another (I, unfortunately, have two, because due to way-too-smart sites which decided they won't accept some ASCII non-alphanumeric characters, passwords made by first one, while being secure, weren't allowed to use), or the site was a special case where you typed man-made password. "Did I use my X password here? Or my Y password?" - it's exactly the same.
If you study this a little deeper, you will discover that it is improper to cast Kant in the role of being a champion of reason.

On the contrary, Kant made no secret of his motive for writing those books. His aim was to make a metaphysical domain for religion.

His method was to drive a wedge between the natural world and the human mind.

In the Preface to the Second Edition of the "Critique of Pure Reason", he says "I must, therefore, abolish knowledge, to make room for belief."

To understand Kant's main gimmick, see "Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology" by Ayn Rand.
Facebook: set the date, Twitter: share logistics, youtube: show the world
Cool drop shadow.
This could snowball with a nasty public backlash.

Can anyone tell me if this is specific to bell? If so, how would this affect us out west where our wholesale provider might be telus, shaw or allstream?
Governments will always have the power over the physical infrastructure that the internet lives on top of. The only way to protect our access is via education, people need to see the internet as owned by the people, not the government (backdoors, unlimited taps) or corporations (net neutrality, anti-competitive caps). It needs to be seen as a new basic human right in the 21st century.

http://i.imgur.com/YU3Ww.jpg
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"So you don't mind if they take 35% by force, but 39% is looting?"

When did we ever talk about percentages? I seriously doubt that all of the social programs you are talking about would only be a matter of 3%.

You're missing the point. You made an argument based on a moral absolute, that when the government takes your money in the form of taxes that it is taking it by force. I picked 35% and 39% because that's basically the difference between the current rate and the rate if the tax cuts had been allowed to expire. If you really believe the government is looting your bank account when you're taxed, I'm not sure why it's morally OK to loot any of it for any reason.
special interests and businesses having too much power over politicians

I think that's such an oversimplification that it misses the truth quite significantly.

It's not that various organizations have power over politicians. It's that they have power that the politicians need, and that in turn the politicians have power that those organizations need (viz regulations allowing rent seeking, etc.).

This leads to an unholy symbiosis between the two, with each groups power (relative to the people) spiraling ever upward. And the people don't do anything about it because they're buying the surface rhetoric (that it's a clash between the values of the GOP and DEM, when in fact they're just two sides of the same coin) since the cost to dig deeper isn't justified by the potential payoff (see "rational ignorance", and The Myth of the Rational Voter.)
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> Fertilizers and pesticides are mostly made of oil and natural gas.

Because these are the cheapest sources of the relevant hydrocarbons. If necessary, coal can be cracked down to the right length. Or wood. Or hemp. Anything organic, really, so long as you have the energy input.

It's just that it's cheaper and easier to get it from oil and gas.
Is the country, or the people, evil, of course not -- but the action surely is. Involuntary servitude is wrong. If it's not, then where do you draw the line? Can the government draft people to work on farms, build infrastructure, etc? If not, then why is it ok to send them into battle?
I agree. JSON is inherently dynamically typed. Trying to make it work in a static language is a pain just like using XML in a static language.
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The very reason the Abrams uses a turbine is for logistical flexibility. It can burn petrol, diesel, jet fuel or (at a pinch) methanol.
I would prefer it if people responded to the content of a remark, rather than the tone. I agree with what Paul Graham wrote here:

"The next level up we start to see responses to the writing, rather than the writer. The lowest form of these is to disagree with the author's tone. E.g.

'I can't believe the author dismisses intelligent design in such a cavalier fashion.'

Though better than attacking the author, this is still a weak form of disagreement. It matters much more whether the author is wrong or right than what his tone is. Especially since tone is so hard to judge. Someone who has a chip on their shoulder about some topic might be offended by a tone that to other readers seemed neutral.

So if the worst thing you can say about something is to criticize its tone, you're not saying much. Is the author flippant, but correct? Better that than grave and wrong. And if the author is incorrect somewhere, say where."

http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html

I myself have been downvoted a lot due to tone, rather than substance. This, more than anything else, has caused me to cut back my participation on Hacker News. If people are going to react to my tone, then I do not think I want to post much here.
In my opinion that crosses the boundary of simply unwise to outright unethical. The angel investor decided to invest in company A, not company B, and it doesn't seem right for company A to turn around and re-invest the angel's money in company B. That would ignore the angel's interests entirely.
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JSON won because there's a straightforward mapping between a JSON document and the language's native arrays, maps and values.

The remainder of the problems you list are not problems. There are one line parse and dump functions for XML. You don't need to use xpath to traverse a document. The result of parsing a document is the same across each OS (at least in Python, Ruby, Java, Go and other languages that I have used). An application shouldn't need to use more than one parse, so it does not matter that different parsers represent the DOM differently.
Any investing decision should answer this question:

When do I need the money back?

Since you'll want to access the money pretty soon, preservation of cash is the primary goal. So a savings account is the answer for you.

(Likewise, someone saving for a retirement in 30 years would do well with aggressive capital gains investing, but that's a whole different thread. Just stick to answering the above question for any financial question and you'll be ok.)
Just out of curiosity, what is an example of a draconian change that was added by XHTML?
The landing page (which looks awful) is maxdandy.com. Shoot me an email off list and I'll shoot you what we've built to date - looks very similar to what you guys have done though my CSS is a little screwed at the moment. ned@nativedigital.com.au
It is bad. We never started with caps in Canada so we're losing a lot.

In australia you get ripped so badly for broadband it is not funny.

This affects not only consumers, but also the whole tech ecosystem.. For example business models that rely on unmetered internet (think netflix, or offsite backup).

It also affects people like me who have to host services in Canada (for regulatory and/or data security reasons). If I get nailed on wholesale bandwidth, I have to pass that cost onto my customers.

This ruling appeared out of the blue.. Without much time to prepare contigencies.
I would not mess around with CDs or Money Market Accounts to chase yield, because the returns from doing so are very low and it can be a distraction from the real business. This is particularly true now because rates are so low. For example, the average CD Rate for a 6 month CD is 0.38% (http://www.cdrate.com/?term=13).

* A CD requires you to lock your money up in the CD for a certain amount of time, e.g. 6 months

* You can get the money out early only by paying a early withdrawal penalty, which is typically 30-90 days worth of interest for a CD with a term less than a year (http://banking.about.com/od/cds/a/cdpenalty.htm)

* This is not applicable to you, but FDIC insurance typically covers up to $250k per CD, so you may need multiple CDs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_of_deposit#Deposit_...)

Money Market Account rates can be as high as 1.10% (http://www.cdrate.com/money-market/). However, they are not like checking accounts and you'll have to plan out when you withdraw what amount.

* Because of "Regulation Q", MMAs allow only 6 withdrawals a month, which sometimes includes ATM transactions, and only 3 may withdrawals may be checks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_market_account)

* FDIC insurance is up to $100k per account

A $200k deposit in a CD earning 3.8% would make around $7.6k over a year. The same deposit in an MMA earning 1.1% would net around $2.2k over a full year.

My personal view is that a CD or MMA requires extra effort and management time and reduces flexibility, so I don't use CDs or MMAs for my businesses unless there are very large amounts involved and a lot of stability in the business. I also don't chase rates from different banks, because of the convenience of having a single bank provide all my accounts.
I think "whom" is still in use. I still use it, and I still see it used in the emails my friends send me.

Despite that, I agree with part of what you say: it would be good to modernize the language.
"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."

Pure nonsense. ISPs have to pay data by volume to upstream providers.
Quora's team is either disingenuous or lost themselves. Many of their own people are using Quora as a Twitter - sharing thoughts, chit chats, in a form of questions. How viable is that to sustain a service? If they wanted to create a social-networking site to begin with, than why bother with the QA format?
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Ask HN: How to plug a knowledge gap in a startup
Hi all. I've been running a "startup" for just over a year. It's a website aimed at people in the local community, of interest to generally everyone in the area.

We have some interest from advertisers that barely cover the bills, let alone salaries etc. We do have a product to sell on top of this, basically just premium features for those that want them (mainly local business owners) but have not yet rolled that out.

I'm a developer, another co-founder is a developer and the final co-founder is designer/UI person. I can run a business bookkeeping wise; where we need help is with sales and marketing.

We do all the usual twitter/facebook stuff but we need help with proper marketing aimed at getting average people to use our site, not just the tech circle we've built up so far (circa 4K people). We also need someone to go out and get businesses paying us for the premium features and secure advertising. We've been looking for someone for a while but no one in our circle fits the bill, it's mainly all programmers or designers.

So my question. Where do you go/what do you do to find people to plug a gap in your startup's expertise. Someone that doesn't mind not getting paid but has some entrepreneurial spirit and can take a risk, just like the rest of us.

I've no idea where to start. Any ideas?
I've always thought it funny that people who use 250+GB of data class themselves as 'not heavy internet users'. "I don't torrent" != light internet use.

What do most people torrent? Movies and TV. And yet there you are doing lots of HD video while claiming you're not a heavy user ("I don't torrent", "I simply...").

Out of curiosity, what level of bandwidth usage do you think quantifies a heavy user?
Ask HN: Fastest way to get to MVP for something I'd like to try
What's the fastest/easiest way to get to an MVP for a site where people post some text, and then others vote on that text, and can also add comments of their own. The submissions are ranked by the number of upvotes minus downvotes.

Sort of like Stackoveflow, but the original entry will not be a question, or sort of like HN, but the original entry will not be a piece of news.

I know PHP/HTML/Javascript/CSS fairly well and am quite familiar with Joomla.

Would the fastest route to an MVP for me be to install Joomla and find some extensions that do what I want to do?

Would it be faster to set this up in Wordpress?

Alternatively, are there any open-source Stackoverflow/HN look-alikes that I can download and modify for my needs?
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I was in YCS09 (CarWoo!). The 150k would not of changed anything we did when it came to being frugal.

We would of still lived in our office (not in an apartment that was our office, but in our office that was our apartment).

We would of still rented a total crap hole in not the greatest part of town. It might of helped WePay not have a neighbor who got macheted because we all wouldn't of had to live in the slums. It might of helped us not live next to other tenets that were growing weed and getting raided by the cops. The day we moved out the cops raided them. We had armed police officers in our hallway. These 'stories', while hilarious are not conducive to a good working environment.

I'm older then most entrepreneurs YC funds. Tommy is also older then most. A bit more money up front would of been very helpful and wouldn't of changed our drive or decision making one bit, except to make us not worry about raising money until later. And that would of been a good thing. Raising money stole a fifth to a quarter of our time during YC.

We always knew we would need more money. Right out of YC we raised another 200k. It was very stressful because if that didn't work out we were up the proverbial creek. Having that 150k up front would of helped ease a lot of sleepless nights...listening to our neighbors scream and yell as they tried to hang a sodium light, but I digress.
Sounds like a bargain. There's a business opportunity for you!
So, you think you’re not a tech fogey?
They also operate their own internet backbone and sell access to corporate clients.
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The Reddit code is open-source. http://code.reddit.com/

I recommend using that instead of a generic CMS setup.
You are implying that Israelis vote based strongly on race. This is entirely untrue. There are Jews of many different races in the Israeli government. I suppose every country that hasn't yet had a minority president is racist?
Interesting. Do you think we will see micro-VC's start up, like Prosper or Kickstart for startups?
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Apparently there is someone on Hacker News from Churchill, Manitoba (population 923). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churchill,_Manitoba

Perhaps they are simply tech-curious or maybe they are about to prove to the world that you can launch a tech startup from anywhere! :)
I don't see how this is different than the typical spam fighting tactics used in email. Email providers like gmail take action on messages that are flagged as spam across their network.
Where did you find these rumors? Everything I've read indicated that only DOM applications and Flash+friends applications will be possible on the Playbook.
A farmer who has difficulty plowing straight lines because his oxen are recalcitrant doesn't get his feelings hurt and write lengthy books in oxen language for the oxen to read whining about how he is a superior type of animal and why can't they just realize that! Then the farmers says "I'm tired of being unappreciated!" and leaves the farm in a huff just to show the oxen that if without him, there'd be no-one to feed them or clean out the stables. The reason this doesn't happen is that the farmer really is superior to the oxen, so he doesn't need to prove anything - for him, recalcitrant oxen are just one of many obstacles involved in farming.

Despite all claims to the contrary, the very fact that Rand even bothered to write a book at all betrays her secret, perhaps unconscious need for recognition. Here, the medium is a message - if Rand's audience is the superior people, why did she choose to communicate her ideas in the format most accessible to the "oxen" of society, the novel, instead of a dense philosophical treatise? She even helped to make the movie version of The Fountainhead, an even more accessible format.
How does he "game search engine ranking algorithms"?
Meh. We were told the same thing about voice recognition, RFID, and computers in general. I'll a) believe it when I see it, and b) still want more control over things like this, which will likely require a password in some form.