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I can confirm about Switzerland.

When I visited Zurich a couple of years ago I saw things unimaginable for my city, like people leaving their unchained bikes outside their apartment buildings.
San Francisco needs to run the city more efficiently. I'm tired of paying lazy lifers to do nothing but collect extravagant salaries and lifetime benefits. Work hard for a living dammit. We do.
Maybe i am too, but I can't figure out how SF is "giving" [the companies] wealth? Said companies are earning their own wealth. SF is not "giving" it to them, I'm sure.

Let's say you were going to lease storage (physical) and outfit A had a flat fee of 50/mo. Outfit B had a flat fee of 70/mo plus appreciation on the goods you stored. Let's say 20/mo difference had negligible impact on your disposable income. Who would you choose?

If you have a choice, why choose the costliest one?
11:36 The remaining 50 workers located in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have evacuated after radiation levels there have surged. They were allowed back in less than an hour later.
I'm sorry, but I didn't read the article. I'm just posting right now because I clicked on it accidentally for the exact same reason that I decided to quit reading Tech Crunch: there is little to no substance there, but there are tremendous amounts of gamey, overblown, linkbaiting article titles.

I'm really frustrated right now, for several reasons.

One, I know that a portion of the articles I'm scouting around for are being shoved aside to make way for these techno-celebrity gossip columns. Only so many articles can get in the top 40-50, and I only have so much time in a day.

Two, I clicked on it. Which means Tech Crunch is correct in their assessment of my interests and certain keywords that instinctively drive my click impulses.
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5 dead, 2 missing, 22 injured (including some severely).

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/world/asia/16workers.html?...
They're still there and working on the plant. http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/15/latest-updates-o...
I see a lot of threads go by on HN along the lines of "why aren't there more women in technology?" and then lots of replies along the lines of "I guess they are just allergic to keyboards. Too bad!"

This article, particularly the section about attitude towards noobs, is all tied up in why some women never go deep into programming. There are lots of other reasons too, but this one is especially well articulated by the OP.

If you are in the keyboard-allergist camp, ponder this one long and hard.
I don't think there are many YC startups that can boast a few hundred grand per year in profit, as opposed to revenue or money they raised.
I appreciate it when people pay taxes because I like public transportation, fire safety, paved roads, bridges, public schools, police officers, health inspectors, safety inspectors, public parks, libraries, clean air, (relatively) fair corporations, airports, hospitals, court systems, electricity, vehicle regulation, elections, veteran associations, child support, public television...

San Francisco is a pretty nice place to live. Sometimes you need to pay a little more for nicer things.
The headline doesn't at all sum up this article. It's not about Stallman's opinion about phones in particular.
Just in case anyone is wondering, levels of radiation in Shinjuku, Tokyo, have remained at about 0.05µSv/hr for the day, tapering off from 0.1µSv/hr for a few hours very early this morning (before the evacuation from Dai-Ichi). Equivalent to about one chest x-ray each month. Normally the amount in Tokyo is 0.035µSv/hr.
Google moves forward with NFC mobile payment tests while Apple backs down
The Talent Code...even better. The author finds places around the world that produce a lot of top talent and tells how they do it. http://www.amazon.com/Talent-Code-Greatness-Born-Grown/dp/05...
Really? Like I said, that's not my purview, and I may mention the idea to those who would be responsible for it.

The main sticking point right now, I think, is that we are short staffed, and administering the service would be just that much extra. That's also likely one of the reasons we aren't using Google Apps yet.
Commenting doesn't help. If you don't think it's appropriate, flag the story.
Maybe the "wide concrete tray" will capture the waste. Maybe it won't.

Maybe the laws of physics will change, but I'd be willing to bet that they won't.

But in the meantime, you're hoping that there's not a secondary fire from the heat

Concrete doesn't burn.

or a steam explosion

At the point when the nuclear fuel melts, all the water has boiled off 1000 degrees ago.

or some other kind of explosion that flings radioactive particulate for miles around.

Explosions don't just happen for no reason.

You're hoping that the fuel won't melt, form a critical mass in the bottom of the reactor, and re-initiate a reaction that's hard to stop.

Nuclear reactors don't hold enough fuel to form a critical mass. In order to become critical, they need a moderator (usually water) which thermalizes neutrons.
I've never heard anyone complain about Google Apps' accessibility at Northwestern. The only issue we've had with it is that it became unavailable with no explanation or information last spring for about a week, and the best the IT department could tell people (I used to work there) was "Google's aware of the issue."

I also used to go to the University of Washington, and they were offering the option of either Microsoft's or Google's software when I left.
Ask HN: I'm being ripped off by a charity fund raiser. What should I do?
There's a user who signed up for my webapp Pluggio. They signed up via the paypal free trial subscription route which unlocks 100% of the features for free for the trial period.

During the signup process it makes it perfectly clear that they are signing up to a paypal subscription and that they will be charged if they don't cancel. It also sends an email 3 days before payment is taken as a reminder that they are about to be charged.

The user did not cancel the trial and when it came round to the end of the trial, paypal tried to take money from their account 3 times. The first 2 times paypal tried to get the $9.95 there was some kind of issue with the users account (no funds), so paypal skipped the payment (and my app extended access by 5 days for each skipped payment).

Then on the third try paypal was able to successfully take the $9.95 from the users account for 30 days access.

The next day the user filed a dispute with paypal claiming that the services were not as described.

Paypal put a hold on the money and asked me to refund the $9.95 out of my own pocket after which point they released the money back to me.

I decided to let it slide and and also let the user have the 30 days access that the $9.95 gave them (even though they filed a complaint and got the money back).

Today, that 30 day period came to an end and they lost access to pluggio.

Today, the same user signed up for a new account with Pluggio. This time they registered with a completely new email address so they could once again avail of the full paypal free trial status.

If they had used their existing account a payment would have been made, as there is only one free trial allowed per registered email address.

Now they are back in full access mode with another active paypal subscription.

To top it all off, after a little research, I have discovered that they are a working member of a well respected charity.

I have decided the best course of action is to do nothing until I get some salient advise!

So, what would you do under these circumstances? All thoughts welcome!
TRY to write better code, even when it takes you more time that hacking something together. Build stuff for fun sometimes because play is important. Realize that building stuff you already know how to do is not really "practice".
Please, do share the story in detail. Perhaps a blog post?
were you expecting the moviefone/AOL email to say "CHANGE THE FUCKING ARTICLE"

off course they are subtle about it, it is so they can deny it later - but the recipient and the sender (and people reading it now) all know wtf is going on and what was being asked
Reading articles like this makes it obvious that Y Combinator is a very special group of people (investors and starters). That being said, I'm always a little skeptical when one of many groups in a field is supposed to be superior in every single way. My question therefore would be what comes close and how close are they?
It's just moving them a step closer toward a more vertically integrated business structure. Why start with 20, when you could test the waters with 1?
I think so. I think it is a good idea that they are being open and honest.

I think we can all agree that's not the typical policy of TechCrunch
I don't get it- you are right, this isn't part of their core competency. And, that's why they were smart to only buy one show, with two big names attached to it. They are reducing their risk and seeing if they can play in the content game. If yes, they will likely buy a few more shows and grow that competency.
I don't appreciate the extravagant waste and the entitlement of the state to impose it's will on the people. With our taxes, we also support bailouts, wars, and other profiteering of those in control. Also, these institutions are basically monopolies, where the people in charge are not really accountable to run them efficiently or effectively.

Does giving the government more money make the government more effective?
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you are reading for too much into this. most bloggers barely have time to get stories out, let alone sit around and think up conspiracies

each writer at TC has independence to say what they want, and it is ingrained in the writers there to say whatever you want, so in this case Alexia though 'no this doesn't seem right' and instead of keeping quiet like 95% of other sites, she published it

arrington is famous for this, he has published lawsuits, internal emails after being asked not to, the emails where he is being asked not to - so I don't know why it is now a surprise or conspiracy when TC keeps doing it

tbf, most people at techcrunch couldn't give a fuck if the other AOL blogs or properties are getting traffic

(disc: i worked at tc for 4 years)
Umm, Mountain View/Sunnyvale/San Jose don't have which of the above? Btw, I upvoted you giving a nice list of things taxes support.
Plenty of companies are located in the far more boring Silicon Valley. And assuming they are talking about Sierra Point, a place close to a freeway and caltrain. Doubtful it'll be a problem. :)
Maybe they have streets that don't smell like urine and marijuana.
I don't have a strong use-case for JRuby in this particular case, so I'll just continue to use YARV. There are some Java libraries I've been tempted to use, but it's not crucial at this point.

It's not implementing message passing that's the problem, it's the shared state, multi-threaded model in general. It's too easy to trip up, so I prefer fork() and message-passing. I am less worried about my own code, but what future maintainers who have less experience in concurrent programming will have to deal with.

It's just a framework for a pool of workers that hang off an MQ, so fork() also provides some extra resiliency in the event that something bad happens.
Why yes, because hoping to take this insane amount of money flowing into the city (and state!) and use it to make everyone else's lives that much more livable is a terrible, horrible, no good very bad thing. I'm sure nobody involved in the tech sector has ever benefited from any public monies; it's only right that they shouldn't have to pay any taxes!

</sarcasm>
depends, do you as a reader want to know if public relations people are attempting to manipulate the sources of your news?
I used to want this feature. Then I realized it's nice to be forced to wade through bad/low vote comments. Sometimes I even find them interesting.

With sorting the higher will be higher (people sort and agree with the higher voted comments, hence voting them up again) and lower remains unread.
I wasn't aware of the wars or bailouts the city of San Francisco has run. Could you elaborate?
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The SF Chronicle has long been playing it the other way: the city government has been tripping over itself to brown-nose Twitter and other companies.

Being able to work in the city is a huge draw. Just ask the many people who live in SF and commute down to Stanford, Google, or elsewhere in the South Bay.
I run subscription services, and in my terms of service, they must accept to allow all details of any dispute to be made public, including names, telephone numbers, and emails.

If you do this, and give them ample warning, most "dirtbags" will turn tail and run, fearing exposure with validating info being made public.

On the other hand, you could take the initiative and file a fraud claim against the user with Paypal, which would freeze their accounts for up to 30 days (unless terms have changed).

cheers
remember though that the jvm in '95 was not even close to what it is now (and as a 'better perl' it would have made you cringe for the startup times)
According to the IAEA, Reactors 1-3 have been in cold shutdown since yesterday, which means they finally are where they were supposed to end up, in a stable situation where no water is boiling off anymore, so all the risk is gone.
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Oh wow that all sounds very drastic. I just want to be amicable if at all possible...! But thanks very much for the advice.

Have you ever had to call any one out on that?
Ah, politics: Taking from someone and giving to someone else.
If you're aware of a better place to discuss my dissatisfaction with a recurring news source, here, I think that, itself, would be more newsworthy than this article.
Yeah, but he's explicitly saying that they are different resources with differing types, not the same one with differing types.
So, in other words, because Twitter and Zynga's staff get paid more, we should give them tax breaks.
Certainly, selling heroin to kids is immoral. But it is the process of earning, even by your new definition of the term (an honest, i.e. no cheating, trade of goods/services, both parties know what they are trading). That is my point. Money is readily earned through immoral activity. Which is exactly why money is not in any way an indicator of morality.

You appear to want to redefine "earning" once again so that the definition now means: a moral trade of goods/services. As such, your argument boils down to this: a moral trade of goods/services is moral. Yes, yes it is.

But that also roughly translates into meaninglessness. Good things are good and bad things are bad. Yes. Ipso facto. That's the way it works. There is indeed no other way. But that has absolutely nothing to do with whether money is itself moral (it isn't) or whether helping other people is moral (it is).

Here's a zen story I'm going to mangle that will surely blow your mind:

A father in a small village gave a boy a horse of his own for his fifteenth birthday. All the village were happy for the boy, "how lucky he is" they said. One villager asked the old monk, "isn't it good that the boy got a horse?", to which the old monk replied "maybe it is, maybe it is not". They ignored the old monk and congratulated the boy on having a horse. A few days passed and then one day the boy fell from his horse and broke his leg. All the village were worried for the boy. One villager said to the old monk "you were right, isn't it a shame the boy broke his leg", to which the old monk replied "maybe it is, maybe it is not". Again the villagers shook their heads and walked away from the old monk. Two weeks passed and soldiers from the nearby town rode into the village. All the villagers gathered around and the soldiers said "every abled bodied man must come with us to fight for the Emperor so that the Emperor can conquer more land". All the women cried and all the abled bodied men rode off with the soldiers to fight a war they had no stake in. One of the women turned to the old monk and said "isn't it fortunate the boy broke his leg so he does not need to go die to conquer more land for the Emperor" ... maybe it is, maybe it is not.
Ask: Is there a "Machine Learning for Dummies"?
Maybe such a book shouldn't exist but I'm just curious. I tried taking the hacker dojo course but it's too theoretical for me. It'll be long before this saturday before I have HW #1 done.

I'm kind of a person who needs code and an explination and example. I sound dumb compared to most of you but that's the kind of programmer I am, i guess
The last sentence reminds me about the scene from Dr. Strangelove: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUAK7t3Lf8s
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2131563
Where's OCR when you need it...
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That is correct, the original first responders had no idea and many of them died within a few days. Afterwards the government called for volunteers.
This is BULLSHIT, the guy (Oehmen) is a mechanical engineer with a management focus. He worked at my alma mater (ETHZ). His field of experties is supply chain risk management. Look up his papers, he isn't a nuclear physicist.

I'd say he's about as qualified to make a comment on the situation as I am.

The "essay" by Oehmen was first published by a notorious nuclear lobbyist, Jason Morgan. Look at this: http://nuclearfissionary.com/about/

Nuclear Energy suffers from a poor public image. We’re here to change all that.

For decades the nuclear energy industry has been under attack
by antinuclear activists both organized and unorganized.
Fear and panic have been their call signs and with little
regard for science or the impact on civilization, they
have remained unchecked for years

And more, from that page:

Jason Morgan

A corporate finance and accounting professional
who has great personal interest in the future of
the world’s energy crisis. Jason is looking forward
to utilizing his financial and economic data
analysis skills to shed light on nuclear energy.

In short: FUD by nuclear energy lobbyists.
I hear ya. But I think maybe my main point didn't get through. I'm not praising TechCrunch, or speaking to their intention at all.

I'm delighting in the outing of a well-worn Hollywood practice that ideally will not work as well as they try to court the Internets. If any publicist, PR firm, or studio starts to feel even a little self-conscious about massaging a story, i think that's great. And regardless of TC's intention, I think that's a little more likely after today.
Not sure if he has a study to prove this.. But can you think of any other industries in SF that have generated huge job growth during the past 10 years?

I can't. That doesn't mean Arrington is right, but I can't think of a reason to doubt that statement.

And I know I've heard that many of the financial companies have moved out of the city or downsized operations here during that span in order to avoid the high cost of living and tax rates.
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ditto. 'j' is so non-browser-navigation. :( That doesn't work either.
Sure the laws of physics don't change. But the state of this complex system is way way out of understood and explored space at this point.

http://www.digitalglobe.com/downloads/featured_images/japan_...

This game was out of the playbook from the beginning, as soon as all the batteries and backup generators failed.
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Related, but ran out of time (too many things going on), but maybe someone can generate a pull request to complete this: https://github.com/pcapr/memcouchd
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public transportation? I live in Vancouver and recently flew in to SFO. Being from Vancouver I thought I know I'll save time and money and just take the subway in. BART is fucking disgusting and I couldn't sit down on the train for fear of picking up god knows what. In Vancouver if you start a startup and hire someone under 30 with a degree the gov't will pay you the first $15/hour of their salary, the rest you can avoid paying all taxes on if you make a SRED claim. All that AND we have public transportation you can sit down on, and even inside the tunnels you still have 3G connections. All that AND 'free' health care, and there is no f'ing way the city would ever levy a 1.5% payroll tax, let alone on stock options. In Vancouver we live in the best city on earth and pay less tax to the city than in SF.
I could see how someone in June 1989 could think this. At that point, the Nikkei was around 33,000-- nearly its all-time peak. Japan was a huge bubble and people believed it was going to be the biggest economy in the world soon. Within 18 months, the index had dropped to 23,000. Today it's trading at about 9,000.
Twitter is almost certainly not going to pay this tax. The finance committee supervisors (who will consider it tomorrow) are fiscally conservative and Avalos and Mar are the only major opposition to the tax break when it comes before the full board next week. Mar will roll over in the (unlikely) event that the board is split.

This is not really about the tax, though. The city is not so much fixated on taxing anyone's options, as it is using the exemption to make it worth Twitter's while to stay in the city. Taxes are lower in Brisbane, but rents are higher because the building on offer there is newer. Over 6 years, Twitter stands to save ~$15 million by staying in the SF Mart building, notwithstanding the higher initial refurbishment costs.
Looks like one of the big lessons he learnt at AOL was how to write sensationalist headlines.
Throttling (to the point that it degrades the quality of online video) or caps will mostly work against ISPs. Sure, netflix uses a lot of bandwidth, bo so does youtube, hulu, TechCrunch TV or Khan Academy. The online video is here and will only grow, so ISPs will have to get on with the program or face backlash from their users.

If ISPs target netflix specifically, there will be PR disaster for them, possible anti-trust investigation from the government and a likely lawsuit.

ISPs are not even a blip on the radar when it comes to selling video content so today Netflix has a clear value proposition: it's a cheap (about 10x cheaper than cable) access to a lot of online video. Netflix's strength is that it's content producer-agnostic. ISPs that are also cable providers can at best offer ability to view via internet their cable programming. Except they're not doing it, it would still be 10x more expensive, they cannot offer anything else that is not part of the cable subscription and probably they can't even offer time-shifting (without re-negotiating contracts with content providers).