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E-signatures are legally binding. Likely they want the fax to discourage anyone who actually wants the list from obtaining it.
All of the spoiler CSS (Reddit-wide) broke for me a few Chromes ago. Running 14.0.797.0 now on OS X.
Although that is often the case in criminal cases, it's not generally true that unanimity is required for a US jury verdict.

And, regarding your main point - duh. What would the result of that poll have had to have been to make it a compelling (e.g., actionable) argument for comment points?
I actually tried to contribute interaction design to to Elgg (referenced in the post). I spent some hours on concepts and got almost no response on the forums. Hindsight is 20/20 but I've found that some open source devs aren't that excited about people who add scope but can't make huge contributions code wise.
The problem is that there are plenty of ways to undermine these rules. For example, most junior pilots commute to work because your duty station is a function of seniority and they don't want to live in the shitty places they have been assigned to. So, such a pilot might start his day in the city where he actually lives, catch a ride in the jump seat from there to his duty station and then begin his work day, which is allowed to be up to 16 hours long (the actual hours of flying allowed is less than 16, but the time from when he shows up to work to when he has to stop flying is 16 hours unless the airline imposes a more conservative limit). Depending on how long his commute was, he might make his final landing after being awake for well over 20 hours.
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great site, awesome design, i love benfords law, first heard about it on WNYC's RadioLab (best podcast in the world ever, im not even kidding).
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That has to do with how spoiler tags are set up on that subreddit: the actual spoiler content is in the title attribute of the link and the href points to /s. The CSS for the subreddit uses an attribute selector to find links pointing to /s and styles them appropriately.

If you view the posts outside of the context of the subreddit, there's no special CSS, so the link appears normally with some title text that appears on hover.
I don't think even Google has the power to fight the Patriot Act. This is one instance where you can't blame it on them, unless you're saying that they should pull out of the U.S. (which the author did).

But Google is an american company. They've got huge investments in their U.S. facilities. Many of their developers live in the U.S. Many of their data-centers are in the U.S. Pulling out of the U.S. would come with a huge price for them and it isn't really feasible.

So instead of blaming Google, why not blame the government for extending / prolonging the Patriot Act? Heck, why not blame it on Obama, since all his preellection talks about civil liberties were clearly bullshit?

This reminds me of that South Park episode: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douche_and_Turd
I found it interesting that Scalia, who is the most conservative/religious member of the Court, not only voted with the majority but even wrote the opinion.

My guess is that as a father of 9 kids and a grand-father of even more, he's seen firsthand how nominal an impact video games have on minors.

In my experience, the most vocal opponents of violence in video games don't actually have any video-game playing children of their own.
From Charles Karelis. To begin with, I don't think the kinds of income transfers from rich to poor that would significantly raise aggregate utility from consumption are in fact politically unfeasible, so I am, as you appreciate, reluctant to get into this what-if area.

That said, taxing the poor and transferring the money to the middle class let alone to the rich would carry big negatives according to my approach. We ought to care not only about maximizing aggregate satisfaction from consumption, but about autonomy, including maintaining people's incentives to acquire what they want to consume through their own efforts. Making poor people even poorer will (on my hypothesis) lower (not raise) the marginal utility of their consumption and thereby undermine (not strengthen) their motivation for self-help. If someone with six bee-stings has enough salve to relieve five and the state takes that salve away, this action will probably reduce rather than increase the effort the person will make to get the salve needed to relieve a single sting, because the salve needed to relieve a single sting will make less difference now that the other salve has been confiscated.

A fuller answer to your objection than I can give here--including a discussion of the roots of the moral intuition behind your question--is offered in the last chapter of Persistence of Poverty.
That would change with time (technology): in the end all our perception translates into electrical impulses in our brains anyway.
I don't really blame Google here, though I could see how they could (should?) take a similar stance to the one in China.

But let's not forget who is truly to blame here. It's the US Government who keeps pushing for policies like these, and who is disregarding due process whenever they think they can get away with it.

And finally, it's the US people who are at blame for being content living under such policies, and not speaking out enough against them and trying to stop them from materializing or trying to get them cancelled - allowing the Patriot Act to continue, allowing the TSA to not only exist, but also expand outside the airports, not speaking out against the Protect IP, and so on.
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I agree but prior to your posting that link that was the only way I found and no not real fun wading through the change log like that.
There is another layer of protection you can put in place - Google Apps. For many people, spending the $10/year on a private domain with the 10 account limit would be more than sufficient. Allocate one of those accounts to a strictly administrative role with 2 factor authentication. That way, you can self-serve on things like emergency password resets etc.
I'm not a lawyer, but: the cops can still hassle you even if you know you're in the right.

Consider this case: http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2010-05-08/news/bs-md-herma...
Eventually a judge ruled for him, but imagine the heartburn over the prospect of going to jail for 15 years. Some cops do not like being video-taped even in public. Some will even pull a gun on you to intimidate you: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/06/02/v-fullstory/2248396/wi...
If demand is low, no-one will miss them much when they strike. If they are missed, basic market economics dictates that they should get paid more.
Further, there are two sides to the demand curve. There is supply - how many people are prepared to do the job, and there is demand - how much those who pay them, directly or indirectly, appreciate what they do. Now, clearly there is some variation in the demand - you perhaps have little demand for their services, whereas some commenters value them more highly. So I guess in the fullness of time, perhaps with the aid of a strike for clarity, we'll see who's in the majority.
LinkedIn and a big box full of business cards; archived email if we wind up exchanging any email. Not a particularly sophisticated system, but it works well enough for now.
In fairness, you are right. I've found a few helpful pages on about.com. (I've found a lot more unhelpful ones, though.) And even Demand Media has shining moments. Thanks to eHow, I was able to fix a jammed disposal last month.
Fun idea, I will definitely try it out!

By the way:

if ( ready? && set? ) { fight! };

ain't valid ruby code :).
Alas, the supply is close by, but the refineries are so far away.
Quite. Mobile Webkit-based browsers were a joy to use long before we had responsive design. I'm not saying responsive design is a bad thing, though I'm not on the bandwagon because mobile browsers handle most websites with aplomb.

OnSwipe is definitely not responsive design -- it's changing the behavior of a site for specific a devices which already have wonderful natural web UX interactions.
Yeah, something like that but for python would be great, like http://www.pythonchallenge.com/
We're in a similar position at the moment, trying to decide how to price a specialised monthly subscription service.

Our potential global market ranges from people who tend to have very limited time, and who might therefore put a substantial value on services like ours that help them save it, right through to university students with very limited funds (and, let's be honest, a tendency to obtain media content through not entirely legal channels).

We've been working on ideas for pricing plans, and soliciting feedback from people within our market, but you never really know how things are going to go until you launch and ask people to put their credit card numbers into your system. That goes double when much of the informal feedback you get in the early days comes from friends/family who will have a tendency to be kind.

If anyone has any experience of this sort of decision and how they changed their plans over time, I'd love to hear it.

(Shameless plug: We're also interested in any experience of making informed decisions using metrics in the broader sense. Unfortunately my question last week only got a couple of votes before it fell off the New page, but please feel free to comment there as well: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2686151)
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My usage of of "evil company" was in relation to the post I was replying to.

Also your article is 13 years old. It sounds like things have changed & Branson has a more hands off approach with the airline now.
I do design for open source projects, I've started helping out on the Gnome Project doing interface design.

• It's great for scratching an itch of 'I want to help other people'.

• It can be good promotion. The same way a good github account can help developers, stating and showing how you have participated on a open source project that is real is good for showing you can pull through on projects and deliver.

• It can be great fun to see something you designed being implemented and working. Even more fun if people praise you for your great solution to a problem. The thing with doing FOSS as a designer, you have to take alot of control - and push for developers to code your design. It's not just delivering a PSD, you have to work with the developers.

• If you solve a real problem, people will thank you.
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I thought kids couldn't see R-rated movies in theaters without parent supervision.

I remember being turned away from a ticket counter for that.
Is it possible in this app, or any other, to upload live? This is a function that would be incredibly useful, as there have been reported cases of the phone/recording device itself being destroyed on site.
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And what compounds the reply Lucas made just above (below?) mine here is that you've got entry level salaries for pilots often as low as $20-30k and senior pilots making $150-250k. (Philip Greenspun has a great write-up on this if you care to google for it).

So when you've got that kind of disparity, you're going to have guys who are quite ambitious and willing to sacrifice long hours to move up into the more livable parts of the salary range available in their profession.
Honestly, I'd attribute the problem to too much noise and not enough signal. My honest guess, at this point, is that the community has been diluted from what it was to the point that no method of karma manipulation can fix it.
I was disappointed to see that it was booked up. Mind you, I did only notice it the day before. Next time!
It's why I eat steel cut oatmeal, no sugar.
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Yes, the standard is vague. But at some level, all laws come back to moral judgments of one kind or another. Even if you start with practical concerns, you end with moral values.

For instance, why do we value free speech? Because we believe that free speech is a human right. This is a moral belief. If a dictator says "I don't believe free speech is a right," I might argue that society functions better with it.

But the dictator doesn't care how well society functions, in terms of outcomes for other people; he only cares about his own power. In the end, my argument would be that people have rights that "shouldn't", in a moral sense, be violated.

And that is exactly what the United States' founders said - "that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights..."
Wasn't this an idea of someone who applied to YC but was discouraged from entering the health field due to liability and expensive regulation?
the roth test was superseded in Miller v California: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_v._California#The_decisi...
You have to take ownership of the project you want to work on. As the designer you have to think of every scenario, and write why your solution will solve the problem. Get the developers interested.
I like dotcloud for this, but before I fell in love with dotcloud, this is exactly the sort of solution I was looking for.
If you waste time re-inventing the wheel (eg. HTML forms auth) for your webapp you are just allowing someone else in your space to get competitive advantage.

These are solved problems (by frameworks) and decent developers should be spending time on better things.
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I don't think you understood the article. It is not about the physical restrictions and trade-offs of mobile broadband. It is about the inefficiency of TCP on such connections. Current TCP implementations are optimized for wired networks which usually have fixed bandwidth and latency. They use dropped packages for congestion avoidance, interpreting package loss as a signal to slow down transmission.

Wireless networks with their higher packet loss (compared to wired ones) fool the sender into believing that the connection is satured. Combine this with the enormous buffer sizes used by mobile broadband systems and the TCP congestion control algorithm throttles the connection to an unusably slow level.

The author is not making a case for trading speed for reliability by using a different PHY, he is making a point for embracing the package loss and delays that exist in current mobile broadband systems and using those characteristics to create a smarter transport layer protocol to replace TCP on mobile devices.
My site, FAB Apps Bundle (http://www.FabAppsBundle.com), charges $1 a month for individual subscriptions (paid annually).

I think it's possible to make that work, with some caveats.

First, you have to have modest expectations. Maybe you've got a service that you developed for personal use (as in my case) or as a hobby, but you figured it might be useful to other people as well. Maybe you'd be completely content with it making just a couple hundred bucks a month, with no aspirations of making it be anything more than that.

Second, you can't sink a lot of money into advertising your service, at least not at the outset. Which, of course, means you have to come up with more inventive ways to get the word out. Tough, but not impossible.

Third, you've got to primarily target people who understand that for $1 a month, they're not going to get very robust technical support.

And fourth, you're more likely to be able to pull of a $1-a-month price point if you also offer higher price points for premium services. In the case of FAB Apps Bundle, the premium service is targeted to small-business owners and people who manage their organization's Facebook Page.
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Voluntary self-regulation by the film industry. The MPAA is to movies what the CCA used to be to comic books.
I just put that on the main site page. I've basically rewritten exercises 50,51, and 52 to have you create a web application out of the game in 41 and 42. I also rewrote 41 and 42 to be a more challenging game that's a bit more complex to create. Finally I fixed bugs and errors in about 50% of the exercises, mostly minor typos here and there.
I'm here only a short while, I think, until Wednesday, then off to Berlin.
I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm fairly sure you legally can watch an R-rated movie, it's just the policy of the theater that you don't.
It's a great challenge to better the user experience on a small problem. Alot of designers would love doing small 'papercuts'. I don't think your statment that designers just love redesigns or complete products holds true.
I wouldn't call it rudeness, it's more a habit, you might find it rude, but that is your interpretation. Holland is a really small country that survives by trading with other countries. The countries around it are all much bigger and tend to want to speak their own language (German, French, English) so it has become common that the Dutch person adapts instead of forcing the other person to speak Dutch.

Though funnily enough I will (during the summer) quite often get addressed in German when I enter a shop, at which point I haven't even said anything yet nor do I speak German.
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About taxes: yes, they are high, very. But, if you play your cards right you can get the '30% regeling', which means 30% of your salary is tax free. IIRC you can get it for 4 years, and can be extended to 10.
>> In my experience, there is one lead person who does fundraising, by contacting investors, setting up meetings, preparing the slides, etc

That's not my experience at all. Almost all the pitches that I've been involved with (either giving, hearing, or advising) have had 2 people trading back and forth with the dialog.

And contacting, setting up meetings, etc is often more than one person.

Just my $0.02.
Really? I remember Oxford having a great many dedicated bike lanes (not just a part of the road), although maybe it's an outlier.
Interesting. I cannot stop thinking how cool it would be if Google actually decides to step in and propose an alternative protocol for mobile networks. If they put it in Android, they already have a huge base for adoption.

Ended up writing a piece on Google because of this on my blog:
http://micheljansen.org/blog/entry/1060

(shameless plug :P)
The course has 8 (I might do more) videos where I go through most of the exercises and show you how to do them with tips as I go. You basically get to watch me make mistakes typing the exercises in and learn how I do it. In addition to that I answer questions people ask on the site.
The aim here isn't to bow to the demands of users, but to maintain the quality of discussion on the site.

Seeing comment scores can easily lead to disproportionate scores as the ones with high scores are read more and consequently voted up more.

Many people may skip over new comments in favour of getting straight to the top scoring ones. I assume this is the rationale here.
There are certainly some problems with the way polls are conducted on HN that would make me question the results.

The way poll questions are worded could sway people to vote one way or the other.

The order of choices is always fixed, and this could also have some effect on the votes. I've often noticed that the first choice (at the top of the list of choices) tends to be the one that gets the most votes.

Finally and most damningly, votes on polls have the same problem that comments used to have: you can see how many people voted for each option before you vote!

This makes polls susceptible to the exact same thing that comments used to be susceptible to before pg took away visible comment scores: voting with the herd (ie. piling on to whatever option seems to be the most popular).

I wonder how different poll results would be were poll questions stated more neutrally, the order choices were displayed in was randomized for each person viewing the poll, and the vote totals were kept hidden until after you voted.
I'm not saying we shouldn't blame the government - but I'm somewhat tired of hearing the "we're just complying with Federal Law" line from US-based service providers. Godwin aside, it's the same dodge as "I was just following orders".

I'm the OP and author, and I personally pulled out of the US for this very reason.

EDIT: I feel I might also add that I had the same attitude toward the situation... for the first decade. After 10 solid years of PATRIOT Act abuses, I've become convinced that the American people and the government simply aren't going to do anything about it, and it's up to individuals and other organizations (e.g. corporations such as Google and startups such as those found on HN) to do something about it themselves.
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Thank you for that clarification. I've been running shell scripts named .sh all the time without trouble. Of course, I run them from crontab. I'd never even heard of this /etc/cron.* thing.
You can still charge $1/month for the basic service with limited support and then charge $5/month for full support.

When you start a new SaaS, a low price point can help you acquire a lot of customers/credit cards on file. Your customers will often tell you more services you can add, that they will be happy to pay extra for.