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I am, or have been, eligible for membership in several Credit Unions, because of where I work, where I live, clubs I belong to. Each brought the advantage of the credit union getting a group, rather than seeking out individuals.

Once I'm a member, the credit union doesn't tell my employer what I do with my money, or anything about my fiscal health. If I quit my job, move, change social clubs, the credit union doesn't kick me out; they don't care.

Is it so hard for medical insurers to manage this?
Verizon already switched the default search to Bing for its Blackberry users back in 2009[1] (which included pushing the Bing app to people's phones), and there was some uproar from folks, but it seemed to die down quickly.

This is a good deal for Microsoft, probably a good deal for RIM, but I doubt if it will have any noticeable effect on Blackberry usage.

[1] http://gigaom.com/mobile/verizon-bing-make-google-go-boom-on...
That is exactly how I see it, self hacking. The most fascinating thing about psychedelics is that they give you a momentary glimpse into what is pulling the strings behind the organism that is you. They allow you to selectively shut off or amplify the effect of different parts of your brain, which should be profoundly interesting for anyone with a hacker mindset.
According to Gates in his TED talk (reference elsewhere in these comments) the US has enough nuclear waste stockpiled to power the country for 200 years. After that, we can get enough thorium(?was that it?) from ocean filtration to continue for the imaginable future. Hopefully, before then we'll have switched to 100% solar.
Never hurts to try. And there are answers to those questions -- I'll try below, but I'm sure other places can answer it better.

If you don't know anyone, the best way to get intros is to do an incubator program. Regardless, people there are generally very nice and most will make intros pretty easily. But to do a 3-5 day blitz is extremely difficult even for people with huge rolodexes; especially if you're raising from VCs as the followup cycle can include up to a half-dozen meetings. And not meeting in person on those can hurt you because VCs care most about team. I would say AngelList is probably your best bet for that quick of a blitz, but it's probably best to budget a week and a half or more.
I was just going to say, "I smell an opportunity for Linode!"
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I don't use any illegal drugs, but the drug laws are unjust and I don't think people who break them should be considered "morally wrong".

It can be irresponsible, in that a parent should not be engaging in activity that can lead to jail time, but it's not "immoral" and these laws shouldn't exist in the first place. The "drain" you speak of is the cost of drug prohibition, not use.
Awesome. I'd be really interested in seeing how this works out. Will be checking back :-)
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I thought that what I'm promoting is the exact opposite of squatting, ie sharing domain ideas instead of registering them.
I can only assume that the $22-per-gig plan doesn't actually exist on a consumer level. Instead, this is some bizarre charging agreement which works between Telstra and the electric company, specifically for smart meter applications (which presumably don't send all that much data). Nobody ever bothered to think about what would happen if the SIM were taken out and used elsewhere, though they really should have.

Since the electric company is already out of pocket for the $200K, and since it's not Telstra's fault (and hence Telstra shouldn't have to pay the $200K back either) I guess charging the woman the full $200K as a deterrent (assuming she can afford to pay it) isn't too bad.

It does sound like a pretty harsh sentence, but if she'd gotten away with a slap on the wrist imagine what would happen next -- everyone would be ripping apart their electricity meters to get cheap internet access.
Doesn't add up.

The only way you can keep this with the numbers given here is if you buy near the start of a release cycle and always sell before it ends. In order to do both, you have to both predict the release schedule well AND spend a month or more with no computer while you wait for the new release.

The numbers in the long run are weaker, since some of your purchases will invariably cross release cycle boundaries. Buying a new one every year may in fact cost less than buying a new one every 2 years (depending on the resell curve, which you do not know in advance). Regardless, it's certainly not such a clear win that you can insult the intelligence of everyone that doesn't behave this way.
4 months internet access = approx $80.

If the worst possible punishment for stealing something was that you had to pay back the cost of the item then the justice system would be doing a pretty piss-poor job of deterring theft.
It’s not obvious where to start.

Just ask. If you feel like you are overwhelmed or too inexperienced (maybe not in skill, but just in this project) -- just ask someone. IRC is good if they have a channel or the mailing list if you have to.

Just ask for some easy tickets. Read the source, figure out the problem, create a test, make your patch, submit the patch using whatever process they use on the project. This will get you familiar with the source code and their development process at the same time.

Trying to contribute and failing makes me feel stupid.

Maybe you should take the time to find out why your contributions are being ignored or turned down. You might not get an answer right away, but it doesn't hurt to ask. Internalize the responses you get and adjust your approach accordingly.

Few people contribute to open source with the intent of making other people feel stupid.

There’s no time.

Priorities. It helps if your employer gives you a little time at work to contribute back to open source. But ymmv depending on where you work.

Even a couple of hours out of your weekend to squash a bug is appreciated by everyone.
Keeping most of the software reasonably up-to-date isn't too hard; on Debian, for example, just regularly use apt-get update && apt-get upgrade. (Hopefully you have backups ready in case it goes sideways.)

Probably my number one time sink on the mail server is, "Where is the email from X that I've been expecting?" A close number two is, "I'm getting too much spam." If you're paying for hosted email from someone else, you can just give them a call and make it their headache. If you're doing your own, it's your own headache, and it's a headache that can easily consume a few hours at a time.

You also should regularly check in with various system and software logs, to make sure that someone isn't trying a novel new attack against the mail server, or that a process isn't struggling for some reason.

Most of the software does a pretty good job of being rock-solid, so I don't find myself having to tune things all the time or nudge dead processes or anything. But, I did find that if I left the mail server alone for a while, then when something did go wrong, it took me a lot longer to resolve it (I think mostly because I'd forgotten where everything was), which is not what I want in a downtime situation.
This comment reads like a clever way of getting people to nod their heads (natural gas does indeed seem better than coal) while at the same time getting them to overlook an unsupported assumption (that nuclear is less safe than natural gas in the long run).

Statistically, the long-term damages attributable to total nuclear fuel chains are lower than those of the total natural gas fuel chain.
How does this affect the "free Kindle" theory?
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No more business phone calls - just endless email replies
If those are the hurdles one sees, I'd suggest starting by contributing documentation. It's welcome help in almost all cases, since it's something the people that do know the problem domain in and out often have too little time, and too little need for. Also, as someone who is not yet fully emerged you're in the perfect position to design documentation from the point of a user who isn't familiar with the code base.

It usually also consists of small jobs (fixing documentation, keeping it up to date, making sure documented behavior is tested) and bigger projects (tutorials, cookbooks, main manuals). So it's possible to start out small and work your way up. From documentation you can go to testing and code cleanup contributions (X needs a better error message, Y is not the way library L says you should do it anymore) and then, depending on the project, on to larger tasks.
Whether or not this experience works for everyone, I have found that Apple laptops/desktops hold their value much longer than their PC counterparts. I'm not sure if its because Apple tends to spec their machines more on the mid to high-end of capabilities that allow them to be used longer in a changing market.
I didn't understand your comment before reading the article, but it's perfectly clear afterwards.

This guy is trying to do a good deed for the deed's sake, instead of for the sake of the project. No wonder he doesn't get accepted!
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I agree that the email is just about things that have little interest to customers. My own questions were more along the lines of:
- Will I need to restart my servers, reinstall, reconfigure them for the change?
- How long will be the downtime?
- Will the IP change (My DNS is managed elsewhere)
- Will it still be 64 bit?
- When will this happen approximately?
- Will we able to choose when it happens for our instances?

Also the fact that I haven't received the email myself is not reassuring at all.
I am not going to just sit around and remain without a predictable migration path, be it a migration to Rackspace or elsewhere.
That's hard to justify these days, however. They even use SQLite on the Airbus A350 flight software!
I'm seriously considering migrating from Slicehost to Linode. I've been a Slicehost customer for over 2 years. I was happy with them at first, but I don't think I've noticed a single thing change about their service since I signed up. Particularly the pricing. I'm now paying double what I would at Linode for a 1024MB VPS, and the control panel isn't as nice. These guys dropped the ball, big time. This announcement (Very vague -- I don't even understand what they're announcing) will probably just make me start migrating this weekend.
Oops, sorry, apparently the maintenance I'm doing killed some component due to low memory. I'll reboot as soon as I'm done and it'll all be back to normal!
Don't be.

If you follow the rules to a T (ship only to confirmed U.S. addresses, ship with tracking, require a signature) you're covered in the eyes of PayPal.

I've probably sold 5 laptops and (easily) 10 phones for myself and friends on eBay.

Cover your bases, require PayPal and a confirmed address. Don't budge on these points and you'll be fine.

PROTIPS:

* Absolutely start with a $1 lowest bid, no reserve. The market will bring your laptop up to acceptable prices.

* Include as many words and pictures as you can in your description. I routinely just copy the specs from one of the tear-down sites for my exact model and paste them in. Buyers find comfort in knowing exactly what they're buying.

* Take as many hi-res pictures as you can. Don't worry about the scratch. Buyers find comfort in knowing exactly what they're buying.

* This is hugely overlooked: Make your auction end on a Friday or Saturday night around 11pm EST. This is when the nerds with money are sitting on their couch putzing around eBay looking for a new lappy.
eBay is indeed difficult, but Craigslist is easy. Only sell to local buyers for cash or a money order from a trusted establishment, and it's fairly low risk and effort. Shipping to people remotely through eBay and Paypal is sketchy as hell, and Paypal offers very little fraud protection for the seller.
Craigslist is fine with some precaution--meet in a public place and trust but verify. Do not just take their word, seek evidence like receipts etc. Also, cashier's checks/money orders are pretty cheap and would be relatively safe to accept. Amazon and eBay take a huge chunk out and you can still have the person reverse the Paypal transaction, so nothing full-proof and I don't think the added price is worth it.
I don't disagree with you. It's just that even if the Rackspace control panel was perfect today that wouldn't fix the core issue.

The core issue is that you're going to have your needs met if you are on the critical path, especially for a company growing at such a fast pace that has to deal with the reality of making choices on where to spend scarce resources.

By your own logic, having more people be squeaky wheels for the Rackspace control panel should be a good thing. It will be even more pressure for that to be addressed.
Why should i buy every year a new laptop ? even it's free ? every time i buy a laptop , i have to;

- backup my files / projects

- destroy my personal files

- sell my old laptop to someone and hopefully get my money

- copy files to the new laptop

- set personal settings ( wallpaper, mouse speed etc )

- and optionally : get used to new keyboard layout

- hope for a fix if there is a some hardware/design error.

for programmers, i think old but working laptop seems fine to me.
That is the same amount that Aurora was charged for the network access; essentially, she was ordered to make Aurora whole, which is basically the whole point of a civil action.
The N+1 problem was fixed by changing the ViewModel to use a left join which pulled all the records in one query.

This is a classic ORM problem. The usual solution: apply a Declarative Batch Query. I've even written one of those things! The reason why you might want to code a Declarative Batch Query option for your Object Relational framework? You can then apply it to similar problem queries in a few minutes total and one line of code.

The first operation I optimized went from 2500 SQL calls to just 40, which is an over 50X speedup. And yes, the entire declarative mechanism was written in about a week to satisfy a routine "Change Request," and yes, it ran in production on a heavily used trading application at a major multinational.
Fortunately, the US government has $12 billion to help people out in the event of a catastrophe:

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/fu...
That's what I said. The person making the bet is betting on attraction, so the response was betting on repulsion, and I responded to the latter.
You have a good point. We just recently deployed an in-house mail server for a client with security concerns; they wanted all of their intra-office email to not leave the building. Our mail server does backup duty for their mail server, in case their connection drops or anything goes haywire, and we monitor their server and keep it healthy for a really low monthly amount.

I had only sorta-kinda considered trying to offer that to a wider audience, but I didn't really think the market for it was that big. I might be wrong.
Currently solar power is getting much cheaper and more practical.

Every now and then, I see a tech news article about a new breakthrough in solar that should be ready for the market in the mythical "3-5 years" timeframe, then I never hear about it again. I'd be very happy to see some evidence that there's real, marketable progress being made right now that isn't marginal improvements to existing inefficient and expensive technology.
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My thoughts exactly.

However, this works VERY well with iPhones. I have had every iPhone starting with the 3G, and have upgraded each year. Both times, I have sold my previous phone on ebay for at least $100 MORE than the subsidized cost of my new one.
Very informative. If you're a C# developer, this is must listen to (as it's basically all talking, you can have it on in the background).
I think the Apple keyboard is one of the best keyboards I have ever used in the last 25 years. It's right up there with my IBM Model-M.
"In depositions, law enforcement personnel admitted that at least one of the dogs was running away when shot.[25]"

Possible explanation for your post: you are a cop apologist who doesn't know what he is talking about.
It's because a Macbook is a Macbook whether its 2005 of 2011, but some HP-24x454 vs a MX311 is meaningless. That's why Motorola/Samsung are making their Droid/Galaxy lines.
Huh. A little odd it wasn't in his article, but I guess it didn't help anyway.

Color me surprised. Perhaps the volume of responses they got were more from fans of 37signals rather than actual job seekers? Regardless, I don't have any ideas on how to combat that.
A lot of this is really great. I think the part that stuck out the most to me is that sales, at its core, is really just a conversation to give someone information about how your solution solves their problem. If that's true, then I guess I've been "selling" in one form or another for quite a long time!
Actually, according to Ars, it looks like they're not even buying the rights, as in the exclusive rights, as enumerated by the copyright acts (which, importantly, do not include a specific the right to sue).

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/04/righthaven-r...
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There are, in fact, perfectly good methods for permanently disposing of nuclear waste, but the Nuclear Regulatory Commission requires that the waste material be retrievable for a certain period after emplacement. So we have to get rid of it... but keep it close. Therein lies most of the long-term safety issues with storing/disposing of it.
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What are examples of good startup term sheets?
I'm not trying to say you support coal. However, you are trying to saddle the nuclear option with future problems which have not actually happened yet. How is that fair?

FWIW I do not see what is so hard about long term storage of nuclear waste. 1. Go to somewhere which never has earthquakes 2. build a shed 3. put the waste in it
About 4 seconds after that feature was implemented, someone would write a greasemonkey script that clicks all the abstain buttons for an HN article.
That Hofstadter piece felt a bit like being repeatedly hit over the head with a mallet.
People often recommend contributing to open source projects as a good way to learn and to build your resume and reputation. In that case you're not necessarily motivated by an existing product need.
But at the same time there are a lot of people who suggest contributing to open source as a way to practice or give back. Most open source software is already at a level of maturity that it's difficult to find improvements. At the same time, I don't use a lot of open source software on a daily basis which makes it even harder.
See also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTQnarzmTOc
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Two words: peak oil.

Two more words: electric car.

In the next 30 years a significant fraction of the transportation and other oil-powered infrastructure is going to get connected to the power grid. Solar and wind can barely make a dent in current demand with current technology.

When electric cars get cheap, power demand will explode.
You mean history takes place in ordinary rooms with ordinary people?

I do hate it how hollywood over-dramatizes everything.
It certainly didn't cost Telstra $193K, and I seriously doubt Telstra held Aurora to that charge, at least not if they wanted to keep them as a customer.
This is always good for a laugh:

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=intitle%3A%22Live+View...

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=inurl%3Aview%2Fview.sh...

Never turned up anything as fun as a policecar though.
I also tried both, I was recently promoted into a position where I'm surrounded by developers. They all say both work, but they also all say go Django.

I like Django documentation, I'm a rookie and I'm making progress. Progress is encouraging.

Start with Zed's LearnPythonTheHardWay... then move onto Django.

Rails will get you there, too. My support group is familiar with Django, which is generally the biggest deciding factor.

Soo, I'm going Django and not looking back.
She committed a crime. This wasn't a civil suit.

Once again we see the phenomenon where technology makes everything easier, including criminal acts, resulting in shock and dismay when the consequences and penalties of those acts are not themselves mitigated by technology.
I would suggest starting by creating your own open source projects, that way you get to learn the ropes without anyone hassling you...

Once you feel more comfortable you'll contribute to other projects as if they were your own...
This makes me sad. I always thought that part of being a good user on HN was submitting feedback via comments and voting. To imagine that there are users out there who don't consider this a community, and want only to leech off the useful information contributed by others, is saddening.
I suppose that securing your security system is a comparatively new concept which requires a significant jump in technical understanding.
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I loved Slicehost and have had them a long time. Wondering if I should stick with Rackspace or move on to a new host. Please vote up your favorite VPS host based on : low cost, very flexible, allow you complete control of system, development environment that could easily become production if an idea takes off. I'll add the first few I found in the slicehost thread.
Does any LaTeX user ever need \hsize?
It's also incredible that it made me understand trigonometry at 30, after mexican education failed to got me interested in math.
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<picture of cat with caption that reads, "you're doing it wrong">

Seriously, if you want to engage in some activity to "build your resume" but you can't figure out how to do it... maybe there's a message in there.
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Even non-programmers can contribute to open-source software. Proofreading and copy-editing patches are always appreciated - especially if the developers are ESL (English as a Second Language)!
I love this app.
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Here's how you contribute to open source. Start writing some software. Use an open source library.

One day, something will break. Instead of whining on the bug tracker or hunting for shitty workarounds... open up the library source, delete the bug, make a diff, and send that to the project maintainers with a note like, "I was trying to call foobar, but it segfaults because bazquux is off by one. Patch attached."

That's contributing to open source.

Alternatively, write some code and share it with people. That's good too.
In general I would agree, and I would agree that people should do their part in up (and down) voting comments. But to me, with no scores visible, I hardly notice the impact. I always read all the way down the page, and rather than trying to work out how high a comment has been voted based on its position on a page, I just ignore it.

So I'd rather chose to not have any votes and actually get something out of other people's votes than to have an impact that nobody can actually see.
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