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Hi GHFigs. I'm sorry you feel that way about the link I submitted to g8internet.com . I agree the "call" itself at http://g8internet.com/call-for-creative-action/ issued by FAT Lab, Free Culture Forum, Chaos Computer Club, Boing Boing and others provides little information. One reason there is little information is that the G8 is not the most transparent institution and much of their discussions and decisions are behind closed doors (not say, streamed live on the web).

However, the point of the link was not just to be to the call for action. The site itself, as you'll see if you scroll down, is meant as a collection of information. Links posted so far and found on the site include the following:
http://www.boingboing.net/2011/05/17/fight-back-against-s.ht... (English)
http://alt1040.com/2011/05/e-g8-la-balcanizacion-del-interne... (Spanish)
http://www.repubblica.it/tecnologia/2011/05/01/news/sarkozy_... (Italian)
http://www.lemonde.fr/technologies/article/2011/05/16/manife... (French)

In the future, more links will likely be posted so if this is an issue that concerns you, you might consider bookmarking the site (which I am unaffiliated with).

Like I said, the G8 is not extremely forthcoming with what they plan to do and it is unclear to what extent the information they do release should be trusted. And so we have opinion pieces where people watching the general anti-democratic trend of certain G8 decisions express caution at allowing them to control the internet.

If you prefer to read euphemisms discussing what will take place during the talks ("the promotion of human rights and democratic freedoms"), consider the official site - http://www.g20-g8.com/g8-g20/g8/english/priorities-for-franc...
It looks ideal for high quality prototypes versus the sketch based prototypes that come out of Balsamiq, I can see the use case for both
I can't stand technical jargon or people who use without regard for their audience.

The only purpose of jargon is to make a conversation exclusive to only those who know the language. If your purpose is to educate or collaborate or truly communicate, then jargon is harmful.

Legal jargon is probably the worst example.
I'm almost positive he's British, or at least he has a British accent of sorts: http://www.infoq.com/interviews/Erlang-Joe-Armstrong

Also, regarding his writing, he did at least preface his post with This is a brain-dump-stream-of-consciousness-thing. Despite being a stickler for grammar rules myself, if I don't proofread my writing, there are bound to be plenty of grammar errors and typos that pop up, especially if my brain is really flying with ideas and my fingers are struggling to keep up. His post had that feel to it as well. A bunch of ideas, semi-related, bouncing ideas around haphazardly.
I was paying rent in NY on a below average salary and still managed to save about 10k over a course of a few months to eventually quit and bootstrap. All it took was not going out excessively and not buying superfluous new things.
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Those are fair points, and I didn't mean to minimize the profession, or imply that it's easy to learn. My point wasn't that you don't need education to become good at something, it was that an undergraduate education shouldn't just be about becoming good at one thing. It should be about learning how to learn. Are you implying that school is the only place one can learn the things you list?

And as with the rest of the professions you mention, I imagine there are many subfields of programming for which school is the best place to learn the specific advanced technical and conceptual aspects of, but not for an undergraduate degree.

I guess I wish I could have learned more CS as part of my Comp Lit degree, but everything beyond CSE 142 and 143 were closed to me as a non-major.

I also didn't mean to imply that I was looking for programming jobs fresh out of school, nor that programming was the only field that I was looking for jobs in. I'm learning to program on my own because I want to, but I was looking for jobs in many fields, but despite the degree and four years of military experience, I had a really hard time. Probably a big part of that was the state of the general economy, but I got the feeling that the 'soft' degree was also a part of it.

I do understand the economics of the situation. With so many people graduating from college with a specifically applicable degree in the field you're in, why would you hire anyone else? And, relatedly, why would you pursue a degree in something that isn't going to be directly related to a job when you graduate?

Maybe it sounds like sour grapes from someone who picked the wrong major and regrets it, and maybe that is a component, but it's not a complete description of how I feel. I do think a well rounded education is valuable, maybe not in the sense that it's going to make you more money, but in the sense that it makes you a better person, and makes the society that you're a part of a better one.

And that's not to say I think I'm better than you because I studied literature and you didn't. It's just that college might be the last chance for you to get exposure to different ideas, different people, different experiences.
I'm just dying to know how exactly he did it and how they tracked him down. I've joked about this type of thing with friends, but it would be absolutely hilarious if he did something to the effect of putting his information within the malware which led cops right to his doorsteps. I have a feeling, this may be something at the level of a burglar leaving footprints in the snow right to his home... I mean, wouldn't they have locked him up and thrown away the keys if it were more of an Oceans 11 type plan & they had to chase him down spending tons of federal money? 400k & 27 months for what essentially is equivalent to bank robbery?
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I think you defeatist in accepting the bastardisation of the term Democracy. Elections are term based not decision based. https://jolitics.com/ is an example of people voting online, it has potential improvement over what currently passes for Democracy. The Swiss system of local vote taking for many more local decisions is a better example.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_in_Switzerland

Democracy is used liberally as you say and it has come to mean something else other than what it was supposed to, this is the thing we should be fighting.
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Oh yes :)
"Chrome is a new browser."

Why not just... use Firefox?

"Firefox is a new browser."

Why not just... use IE?
Whitout the address bar I'm afraid we'll see a new peak in phishing attacks.
extremely fascinating, but what problem does this solve that a standard analog equivalent ruler/markings didn't?
Thanks. What about the PG "office hours" that was supposed to happen? It sounded like it'd be really interesting to watch.
I wonder why no one is considering auto-hide mode! That sounds like the most feasible option.
I think this just exacerbates the problem with erlangs flat namespace, right now it is impossible to have 2 versions of a library inside the same vm because they both exist inside the same namespace, it is insane the amount of people that have had very obscure errors because they happened to call a module "http.erl"

I would appreciate a solution that is a first class solution 'in code' as opposed to some special case with module loaders, but I would like to see people talking about the problems they are solving before pontificating about solutions
Must download location bar add-on.
Thanks! Just curious, how do you think you would use it?
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The timeframe from the article was 30days. which make 401k or IRA funds available. If you can't sell your car in 30days you are not trying.

Also, most Brokers will allow you to borrow against the value of your IRA, or your 401k with very short notice. If you have a house and a mortgage you probably also qualify for an unsecured line of credit and could get a cash advance immediately.

The surgery example is a non sequitur because hospitals have very liberal payment terms and are willing to negotiate costs down significantly for people with financial hardships.
Absolutely. Mutually complimentary leveraging maximizes team members strengths instead of focusing on their weakness. I love the analogy of that my high school coach used to use all the time about the Quarterback and the Wide Receiver. Both are necessary components to scoring. One throws, one runs, and as a dispassionate evaluator, coach would always argue that the best thrower throw to the best runner, instead of suggesting that either the thrower or the runner should do the opposite. I think solving technical problems is similar. Hustlers should hustle and hackers should hack, so that together problems can be solved, and solutions improved. Because in the end, that's what important. Isn't it?
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My personal experience is that it becomes tougher to find a full time programming position after about 40. Like hga, I look younger than my age but that is starting to fail as I get older. I haven't resorted to scrubbing my resume yet but I've considered it.

I mostly do contracting now. It avoids many of the issues of trying to get hired after 40. For short term gigs, fewer managers care about your age. I prefer contracting so that works out well for me.

I will have to come up with a strategy for dealing with age discrimination since I've tried other jobs and hated them. I'm a programmer and it is pretty much all I want to do. My short stint as a manager was pretty much a failure and I really didn't find anything I liked about it.
You mean where you hover over a thin bar and it turns into a big bar? That could work. There would need to be an obvious icon on it or something that I could describe it to a user over the phone though. On the same note, I really wish there was some better visualizations for browsers so I could tell my dad "hey, click on XYZ to enable/disable that toolbar" but instead I have to try and describe the mysterious (usually) grey area near the URL bar but not right by it but under it and not on any buttons.
I find the idea behind the lottery linked savings account very interesting. In order to save others the trouble of looking for it (although it was a quick Google), I believe this is the podcast you were referring to.

http://www.freakonomics.com/2010/11/18/freakonomics-radio-co...
Please let us know what you find.
I read your other posts and hope you are able to work toward better days sooner than later. I have to wonder though - if you hadn't been prudent before everything happened, how much worse off would you be now? Something of a rhetorical question, of course :)
"The total value of YC companies is now around $3 billion — YC has invested a total of around $5 million."

Damn, that's a good return, if you assume all positions were held and an 8% stake taken then that should yield $240 million, or an ROI (CAGR) of 116% since 2005. (This assumes the 5 million was all invested in 2005).

Anyone have a good metric to factor dilution from future rounds?
Hmm. As a geek I like Gray code and think it has many useful applications, but this is not one of them: Iris stood against the post and the nurse adjusted the bracket to exactly the top of her head. Then she read off Iris's height from an attached display.

How is this an advance on looking at a conventionally numbered ruler (with a similar bracket to touch the top of the head) and writing down the number? It's technological and presumably expensive, but it isn't delivering any discernible benefit that I can see. Measuring height via computer vision + Gray code would be very useful in security applications where you want to log biometric information for a large number of people efficiently (camera + abstract-looking wall design in an access corridor or at a security checkpoint), but if you're paying a human to take the measurement you might as well use a scale that's easily human-readable (ie at a glance). I hope the doctor's scale was at least using bluetooth or similar to automatically update the patient's digital record...but I wouldn't bet on it.
People have too much time on their hands and not enough good ideas.
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Does having a credit card count?

What if someone has a $5k debt on a credit card, and only $1k in savings? Should they prioritize getting more cash into a low-interest savings account, while racking up interest on the CC?
The issue here for me would be the difference between 'removing' and 'turning off by default'. I don't mind if I can turn the bar back on and put it where I like it as I consider it to be an essential item for me. If it's just a case of turning it on then no biggie.

I registered a lot of complaints over the removal of the status bar text at the bottom of FF4, and the fact that I now have to run an add-on to get that functionality back. It could have EASILY been made an optional element, off by default, but dragged back into place via toolbar customization. As long as you maintain the option to restore classic GUI options then altering the defaults for the 'typical user' doesn't bother me much. But don't remove something entirely and go 'So sorry, too bad.' when it would have been easy to maintain the option.
Why not just make an actual essay into a t-shirt? The instapaper logo is a merlin mann essay, for example.

Sorry to be blunt, but word clouds are just ε over meaningless.
There's nothing wrong with 50 parties responding to the actions of another party in a perfectly legal manner.

> trying to use the court system for the express purpose of inflicting financial pain on an adversary in order to intimidate them into changing their behaviour

Does that sound unusual to you in some way?
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no, this is not a money thing. it's because they are doing something in their field of passion.
You're looking at it from a middle class perspective. Unfortunately, most of these people are also deep in debt and have already made such cuts.

This is the byproduct of double digit unemployment as much as anything. As much as we talk about consumption, most of it is at the middle class level. Now, I've seen poor people make very bad decisions, but many are on purchases you and I would make without a second thought.

It is far too easy to forget how good we have it.
Does the UK not have something like FDIC Insurance?
The optical machine doesn't have to count lines, it can read it's place on the bar from a small (2cm wide) part, rather than keeping an incrementer from the bottom or top.
My guess is that when the money in the ATMs didn't reconcile.

It may be normal for a set of ATMs to be off by a few hundred a year, but anything higher than the norm would be enough to set off alarms.

After that, it just involves reviewing code checkins and camera footage.

Just a guess, though. Hell, maybe he used ATM card first before each "heist".
I would say that you shouldn't believe everything you read. The part that the people making those claims leave out is that they want someone who they can pay $30/hour.

There are many truly senior developers who can pass the FizzBuzz test who are never given the chance because of age. It isn't universal but age discrimination is real. And while it might be illegal, age discrimination isn't irrational. Older developers are generally more expensive. They generally can't or won't do 90 hour work weeks. And even people in very good health will generally have more issues the older they get.
I understand this sentiment, too. But after working without the status bar in Chrome (autohide, I guess) for a while, I got used to it and now actually quite like it. And I think hiding it by default, especially for app tabs, is actually quite nice and I like the idea of having more space for the actual content.

As long as there's an easy way to invoke the url bar, I'll be happy.
The function names would still be user readable. The compiler and/or runtime would translate what you say to what you mean (think c++ mangling).
From what I understand, it'd be more:

from global_database import foo291 as foo

and you'd have lots of meta information associated to foo291 so you could easily find it by doing:

db-search blah
A lottery-linked savings account sounds awesome since I already play low-odds lottery and put money into savings every month. Texas won't give up their lotteries or multi-state lotteries for anything though.
@mikeleeorg
Thanks for the vote of confidence. We have tags built-in right now, which should make your sorting/organizing easier. Eventually we want to get to "collections" where you can drag/drop your favorite quotes, yours or from other users, and organize as you please. We also have tweeting quotes built-in :)

@jh3
Agreed that it's not a new idea, but hopefully our approach is new. Thanks for trying it out!

Gabe
Co-Founder, Quotica
I grew up in a house that was ~250 years old. It and many others in the area were designated as historic sites. As you say, the effect of such a designation is to protect it from being updated.

More often than not, the regulations would "protect" the house from home owners who wanted to perform renovations. There were many kinds of improvements that the owner of the house might like to make, but wouldn't be allowed.

I think this parallels the Wikipedia thing pretty well. Becoming preserved in this way cedes much authority to a third party, who can then dictate the kinds of changes that you may (or even must) make.

In the hands of an entity like the UN, I might even worry that steps might be taken to ensure that the resource that is Wikipedia be usable by all people -- and therefore needs to be sanitized of offensive content.
In other news, the NHTSA, citing road user confusion, has declared that all street signs shall be removed. The only remaining signage will declare the city being entered.
I'm not sure how many people here are "domainers" but this could very well end up being a nuclear bomb dropped on the web domain industry.

I honestly can't think of all the implications of how this might change how people interact with the web, but what value is a short memorable domain name (ie: "color.com") if browsers are redesigned to eliminate direct type ins?

Perhaps not as big a deal if the location bar is set to auto-hide, and expand on mouse-over ... but it would really be a tragedy for the industry to disappear.

There are a few domainers on here (Ohashi, Michael Cyger, others?) I'd love to hear some of their comments on how they think the domain industry would change.
Sort of off topic, but I wonder if you can copyright or otherwise do something legalish with specific word frequency distributions. It's not nearly enough information to, say, reconstruct a corpus, but it's often sufficient information to identify someone with precision (so I've heard, anyway).
this is about protecting the culture, not the content, of wikipedia. and the ongoing deletionism vs. inclusionism-debate is part of that culture (and so are edit wars, i'm afraid...)
It's interesting to see that en.wp was the only project that experienced quadratic growth in the number of articles. en.wp and de.wp were pretty close in size until the start of 2006, when en.wp took off and de.wp continued with more or less linear growth.

I'm aware that the english speaking world is larger than the german speaking one, and that a feedback effect exists in large networks with little downtime (ie, no time of the day where contribution dies off, due to the geographical dispersion of english-speaking countries), but I'm still surprised that en.wp was the only project to experience quadratic growth.
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Unless you are carrying low/no interest debt you should really pay it off rather than put money into savings.

As long as your bank is not evil and keeps dropping your credit limit as your balance decreases you can always borrow again against that line of credit if needed.
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Presumably it's considered useful because there's a measurable error rate in the nurse a) reading -and/or- b) recording the observed data. Assuming this thing works properly more often, you've not only guaranteed you get the data entered properly, but it's more likely to be right.
technically, Wikipedia is seeking protection as intangible cultural heritage (examples include french cuisine and agentinian tango), not as a heritage site. But that is such a mouthful. Let's go for "World Heritage Website" :)
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I know iTunes isn't very popular with HN readers, so I'll balance things out a bit and play devil's advocate for a while: I like iTunes quite a bit. There are certainly some minor gripes and irritations, particularly with the UI, but overall I'm satisfied with the performance of iTunes and wouldn't want to replace it without much careful thought.

I'm not a computer power user, more of a 'system dadmin'; we run iTunes in the house on about six (Mac) computers and half a dozen or so devices. iTunes runs happily on all the computers, ranging from an old original iMac from 2001 (which runs Tiger and iTunes 8 and acts as an internet radio and music 'terminal') to an eMac from 2005 running Leopard and iTunes 10) and various Snow Leopard machines and attached drives.

The different copies of iTunes copes with various libraries (the biggest one is 110GB) with apparent ease, and keeps track of the settings on various iPods, including a 60GB classic from 2005, two iPhones, three iPod Touches and a couple of Shuffles. It's easy to play music from other machines around the house - click on the computer's name and start listening to its music. It's also nice that when one of my children, say, buys an app for their iPhone on their iTunes Store account it appears automatically on mine too; similarly if I put music on mine it appears in their library, but of course you can be more selective in what you copy from family members' accounts and machines...

I love the power of iTunes playlists - those heavy duty database-query-like nested multiple smart playlists - and it's a great way to control what gets put onto your iPod while it charges and you sleep.

I also like: the automatic downloading of the latest podcasts and TV episodes; adding PDFs to my library puts them on my iPhone; broadcasting music around the house using iTunes DJ mode and Rogue Amoeba's Airfoil - controlling the music from any room using the Remote iPhone app (and sometimes letting people select music from their iOS devices); browsing the iTunes University and downloading lectures; tracking my App store spending with Wetfish Software's App Store Expense Monitor; writing new visualizers with Quartz Composer (which is cool if weird); ripping CDs with automatic track naming. I could go on.

OK, I'll accept that iTunes is a bizarre behemoth of an application, and has certainly outgrown its moniker. But, for day to day use, people like me find it a solid and reliable media and device 'engine' that doesn't require much thought or effort to use effectively.

But don't get me started on those stupid scrolling boxes within boxes...

Edit: when I started typing this, I was sure the title said 'Miro 4 ... iTunes replacement ...'. When I finished typing, it didn't. (I went off to work between those two times.) So I was thinking about whether Miro could replace more than 10% of iTunes' functionality. This comment seems less relevant now.
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yeah, $2,000 is pretty much just an emergency room visit.