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Yes,

I'd been rooting for Google, against Facebook on this. Till now..

But now... The thing is that Facebook so far mostly has just made noise about not allowing pseudonyms - I've only seen them ban obvious organizations from using individual accounts and then only when someone complains. If you're locked out of your Facebook account, you have to show state ID. But it's a lot easier to just another "fake" account (which is not really particular fake if it is you representing you).

I'm in a somewhat "special" neck of the woods on Facebook but I'd say more than half my friends use pseudonyms on there. If all of those got banned, we'd move elsewhere. That might be a good thing. But we sure wouldn't move to G+.
That would be quite funny, given that USA has spent much of th last hundred years promoting free trade and trying to force other countries to open up their economies for foreign imports.

And I don't think a protectionist customs scheme is what you want. It could boost local manufacturing on a short them, but eventually the lack of incentive makes them fall behind. Then you have whole industries producing stuff nobody would buy, except for the fact that anything imported is way overpriced.

USA has a quite large domestic economy, but it still probably isn't enough for the companies there if they are not competitive elsewhere.
Or to the $800/HR lawyer, even.
Forgive my ignorance:

What jobs are asking you your credit score?
I don't want to hire a DBA that's never touched a DB before at this point, though - since that field has been around for a while now, there's now a lot of signaling where before noone could distinguish themselves. Those who have the aptitude and/or are motivated/interested in the field have made themselves into DBAs or something similar that could easily transition on their own time. I don't want to hire a warm body that's looking to work just for a paycheck. If you've never bothered to learn to program, I don't want to hire you as a programmer, even if I think I could train you.

There is a shortage of employable people in the US, and a glut of unemployable. To me, this means that our culture and our education system need a lot of help.
Hmm, just had a thought - wouldnt it make sense, based on what you are saying, for people to just lie and say that they started a business which failed during the time they were unemployed?
I'd like the palo alto store as an office for startups please! And right across the street from the Apple Store.
Yeah, most marketers don't want to put the time into the platform because it won't get them anywhere near the amount of traffic as Google does. I think this is slowly turning around though as the tools around bing are catching up and marketers are seeing pretty good returns on the traffic they actually do get on there. Also tools that let you manage the same campaign on Google and Bing are getting better.
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You know what happens if we tax the hell out of cheap overseas goods? Everything gets more expensive. Cost of living skyrockets and wages would have to go up commensurately if people were going to survive/thrive. Businesses who raised wages would have to curtail hiring because more of their revenues were going to wages.

Any they'd keep shipping jobs overseas because of the healthy margins selling in overseas markets. Start taxing that stuff too and see how many corporations decide that being a US company isn't so awesome anymore...
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Violent crime is the main source of incarcerations.

http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/glance/corrtyp.cfm
I heard this for the first time on HN the other day. I think (and certainly hope) it's illegal for potential employers in Australia to use your credit file as a factor in deciding whether or not to hire you.

Not hiring people with bad credit seems to me to be patently absurd. Talk about kicking someone when they're down - as if non-payment of debt was a crime!

It seems that the likely result of this for most is the development of a disenfranchised underclass of black market employees.

Having healthcare attached to employment makes this all the more despicable.

Why aren't people in the U.S just rioting in the streets?! This is the real outrage.
A few years ago, I laid out head-to-head comparisons of the top newspapers in the US with and without adblock and noscript. NYTimes, on a screen, is easily the best newspaper. Unfortunately, the pressure of jamming more and more links and stories above the fold seems to have eroded the NYTimes usability.

http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0...

We should do a poll too: I think a lot of netizens would support NYTimes to the same degree they do NPR, but I don't think the average netizen donates $260 to NPR annually (the price NYTimes is asking for their tablet app).
I am curious as to why you state that government employees are not producing?
Perhaps the article writer was making the assumption you imply, but there's potentially more to it than that.

Members of households all need to contribute, and while I am neither female nor married, I have heard from many married females that unemployed men do not generally tend to assume the duties of housekeeping. That is to say, the wife winds up both breadwinning and housekeeping, and the man does not contribute. This is broken.

It's sexist of me to generalize (and certainly I hope if I wind up married and unemployed, I won't let my partner take all the burden), and it may well not be what the author was thinking of, but if we take feminine anecdotes at face value there are more reasons to encourage men to be breadwinners than simply because it's their role.
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I think seanmcq is referring to the implication that "getting by" means subsistence wage (of the wife).

I don't think it was a sexist statement, but rather the focus is on "getting by." It could've been "getting by on his partner's wage" (if he were homosexual).
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Or they would buy fewer things that they actually needed, and that would probably last longer.

Not an idle consideration on a planet with finite resources and an ecosystem being pushed beyond its limits.
Even traditionally 'entry level' jobs that historically don't need a four-year degree are like this these days - secretary/receptionist jobs are almost always looking for people with two or three years of prior experience.

I wonder how much of this is due to the job market. Is it a supply and demand issue, where there are simply so many applicants that HR can sit back and wait for the perfect candidate? Or is the reluctance to hire less-experienced workers a long-term behavior shift that will stick around even if the worker supply dries up?
I believe the economic term for that is "Protectionism".
I've always wondered why an employer would demand good credit. Even if the person is a spendthrift, what does it matter so long as they perform their job?

My employee could be living in a shack having had every single item of worth repossessed... but if they can do their job well, why wouldn't I hire them?

In any case, I know what you mean - I'm from Canada, and arrived in the US after the financial meltdown and subsequent tightening of the credit belt. I still don't have a credit rating since I couldn't convince any major bank in the USA to give me a credit card. Yes, this includes secured credit cards (i.e., you leave a month's credit limit with the bank in cash, if you miss your bill at all, they take the entire sum... aka zero risk for the bank) And yes, my credit in Canada is stellar - but that counts for absolutely zip in this country.

It's not until very recently that I was able to flash about an employer's name and convince one of them to cut me some slack. It'll be months still before my credit score populates - this has made renting apartments, and just about everything a nightmare.

The only way I've been able to skate by is by flashing an offer letter and pay stubs showing I make >3x the US median income... imagine if my pay was dead average... I'd be fucked.
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Selling to small businesses- figuring out how to break through the noise.
So many of us have developed technologies targeting small businesses. We need to figure out how to break through the noise. Here are a couple resources I have found on the subject:
http://www.uxbooth.com/blog/selling-ux-to-small-business/

http://www.usatoday.com/money/smallbusiness/columnist/strauss/2008-03-10-selling-to-small-business_N.htm

http://sellingsb.blogspot.com/

My partners and I are trying to find the best methods of selling our $10/month service (http://www.getonsocial.com) to small business owners. We would definitely like to hear from anyone with insight on this matter.
This is pretty serious and brings into question all of Dwolla's million-dollar-a-day transaction volume claims. If if it is a million dollars a day--which I find totally inconceivable having built FaceCash day-by-day for two-plus years--it's clearly not from mobile payments.

Dwolla isn't licensed as a money transmitter anywhere but Iowa to the best of my knowledge. Their management claims that their investors make them exempt, but that's simply not the case. If there were anyway to bring regulatory scrutiny upon oneself, processing a million dollars a day in fraudulent transactions for an unregulated cryptocurrency would be it.

Be careful!
Hear hear. Also, besides that, there is still a fairly widespread (if minor) stigma to making less than one's wife. It's not necessarily the writer making that judgement.
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Some additional coverage on MacWorld.com: http://www.macworld.com/article/161325/2011/07/kindle_drops_...
Right, and you're not even discussing the subsequent tariff war. Other countries would tax the hell out of American goods, global demand for our goods will fall, we'd produce less, companies would make less money, and people would lose their jobs.
Yes. While I think he's right about the top nav, I bristled at his knock on the massive list of sections in the left nav. It allows discovery in the same way a massive Sunday Paper sitting in your lap does. You glance at the headlines for a moment and then decide what you really want to read first.
Can sports betting be a career?
There are a number of ways you can make money through sports betting. You should not place all your money in this exercise because you really do not know when your team will loose the match. You cannot withdraw from the bet until the game is over and the results are read. It can be a risky business and at the same time it can turn out to be very profitable. Weigh your options before considering taking it as a full career.
I wish more people would accept the challenge of TDD as it would show how the projects ease in pain over time. I work at a place now where people consider it TDD because they write Unit Tests after they write their code... and the systems certainly show it.
I hope you realize that you can fine tune every bit of your profile to hide sensitive information (and show it to the right circles). The stalker would only be able to see that [someone] has a Google+ profile...
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It's quite possible that the drunk who killed Steve Lacey may end up serving less jail time than Aaron Schwartz will for running a mass file download script. Perspectives on our law: mind blown, consistently.
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You're reading something into the article that isn't there. Perhaps that is what the author was getting at, but he certainly didn't make it clear. Rather it could simply be referring to an increase in the number of single-income households.

And salaries for women still tend to be lower than those for men. Is it sexist to point this out?
I was thinking of the same thing when I read this. To be fair, one of the letter's suggestions was that they hold people accountable for failed products. Excerpt:

"Just because someone may have been a loyal RIM employee for 7 years, it doesn’t mean they are the best Manager / Director / VP for that role"

...although maybe they're doing the reverse...
When they said the system was free of chargebacks, that just meant due to people changing their mind. You still get the rug pulled from under your feet if there's fraud (I assume, stolen bank accounts).
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Your experience stands in stark contrast to what the general belief of the tech media, including HN, is. Specifically, that the job market for engineers is extremely tight and that even junior developers can name their price, that recruiters are spamming everyone who has ever written a line of ruby, and that even the dumbest ideas are attaining ludicrous levels of funding.

I find it interesting that this 'tale of two cities' situation is becoming more pronounced.
Same thing happened to me with the same searches. Their 404 page is not very helpful, and is dynamically generated, which means Goog's spider may not ever realize that the media mail page doesn't exist at that URL any more (see https://www.usps.com/send/waystosendmail/senditwithintheus/m... and look at the URL for an example).
And what about the pollution and CO2 emissions from your car? Does "freedom" allow you to ignore the deleterious effects they'll have on other people?
Why aren't the oldest living people getting any older?
As an employer, I'd be willing to take a chance on a new employee without experience if he/she could demonstrate some aptitude and some effort to learn independently. I got my first software job with no formal training this way. I spent several months studying Java on my own and did well enough on an interview test to persuade the company to give me a shot at a low salary.

However, I don't think I'd be interesting in bringing somebody up from absolutely nothing. It's just too big a risk and an investment. I think the fundamental problem is that the American public education system just isn't training people in the skills they need to succeed in a modern economy.
Video content brings in 20x the ad rate of display ads. The news agency I worked for had a "push video for all content" stance because of this, I assume all other news sites have the same stance.

You bring up the biggest argument of them all, I had it every day with the site I was responsible for. I'm a minimalist myself, and the person I reported to was a everything and the kitchen sink guy. We had some heated arguments followed by days of ignoring each other LOL

I hated his approach, but our numbers did suggest many people landed to the front page each morning and read the whole thing. So having a lot of information and links on the page is very important. So assume your behavior validated as normal viewing behavior. Behavior changes through out the day though which sucks LOL

And the most amazing thing was user testing is near useless, the demographics, experiences, behaviors are so vast. Even as noted the time of day has a huge effect on readers.

So no matter what you do you isolate a community, so you compromise and compromise, and produce the most average pile of junk anyone has ever seen. But people understand it, sure they moan, but they get it. Go for the lowest common denominator.

The times uses the motif of a news paper online, I guess because it's contextually people understand. I don't know if by design or accident, but there is a level if usability there because of the fact.

Its messy but its reliable, and sometimes thats what design is about, not a great looking product, but something that does its job.
If Reeder for iPad is considered as using Google Reader, then yes, daily. This is without a doubt my most used iPad app and very essential for my daily routine.
Since the request is coming from an authorized user, then SSL won't matter any which way. The action the attacker is causing the user to take would be legitimate except the user doesn't actually want to do it. Check out CSRF.
Andy is a talented designer, but his style shows through a bit too strongly here. He knows how to utilize whitespace to create an aesthetically pleasing visual flow, but I don't think he pays enough respect the essence of a newspaper—namely density of information.
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ide does stuff i don't understand.

i read the "other ide" page on androids docs and understood all the build process.

if i used eclipse, all i would know is how to hunt down menus filled under nonsense names...

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I self host a copy of rnews http://rnews.sourceforge.net/ which I've hacked up to do a heap of extra things, such as tweet links which I click on (I use this as a simple history system).

I was never a fan of the g.reader layout and toyed with a boxed layout on an igoogle page similar to what I have set up in my rnews system but it felt clunky.
Because hamstringing and stifling business activity that does not comply with the interests or arbitrary whims of politically connected powers is not an economically productive activity?
open a default project in eclipse and just compile.

do all that the docs tell you that the ide is doing ioutside of it and compile.

i did the test. eclipse version had 30 extra kb i could never explain.
Exactly. With RSS i never got into the habit of checking it consistently because there was just too much stuff i did not care about so quickly i dismissed it.
With twitter i follow great people from all the areas i am interested in and they usually have very interesting stuff to say and share. So if something is interesting i will just email it to me.
I have tried Instapaper to save interesting stuff for later reads but then i have the same problem of not checking it again after some time because i dont have much time to check it and the stuff piles up. With emails i need to get my inbox clean and will check the article and then eventually save it to Instapaper if its long or worth a reread.
Also, while we're talking rss.... yahoo pipes is brilliant. I use it to mash up a whole stack of feeds and convert pages which don't have rss into rss.

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/

Anyone who uses rss and hasn't messed with pipes is missing out on a whole heap of awesome.
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But people will still find it through search engines if you write it up on your blog and link to it from here.
Yes, online as well as Android app.
Sure there is. "just" use the Metadata API :) https://developer.spotify.com/en/metadata-api/overview/ There should be services built using it, but I don't know any offhand.
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how long until companies start to offer wifi securing services, and sending 2 strike notices to all elderly homes?

... worked well for AOL.
What you're describing is very similar to W3C's Widgets: http://www.w3.org/TR/widgets/

Widgets are zipped up HTML/CSS/JS files so can easily be emailed / bluetoothed between phones. Communicating with other users is a bit harder but HTML5 Device APIs should provide what we need in time.
No, but they're meant to have a good faith belief that they can actually make the case.

http://www.litigationandtrial.com/2011/07/articles/series/sp... examines in some detail why they probably don't.
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Why does something have to be cheaper to be disruptive? What if it's the same cost but better? Were automobiles cheaper than horses and buggies?
From the article:

(Of course there are other Google-wide policies (e.g. egregious spamming, illegal activity, etc) that do apply to all Google products, and violations of these policies could in fact lead to a Google-wide suspension.)

So don't post about your favorite torrents site that violates copyright law. Or if you're like me and live in Illinois, video tape a police officer because that violates wire tapping laws. Yes, I know I would be in violation of this policy if I sent an email from gmail about these things, but I'm guessing I'm more likely to get caught if it's on g+.

Keeping my gmail account active is worth far more to me than any potential benefits of google+ at this point.

In any event, the down votes on the grandparent were uncalled for.
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That's an interesting chart, although it's for state prisons, drug offenses are the main source of incarcerations for federal prisons: http://www.bop.gov/news/quick.jsp#2
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Not really subtle, just in the US they are called lobbyists.

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The headline is ineffective.

The problem, as the article implies, is that those monopolies are transferable and hoarded.
NewsBlur (big comment thread above) does this to some degree at least.
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You can't get the same level of service in a webapp. From technical papers on Spotify, one can see that they get an average of about 250ms to start playing a song, but still their own servers only need to stream about 20% or so IIRC of the total music played.
Because facebook had years to fine tune this process. I don't think they had one kill-all switch that they pressed one morning after writing the fake name algo. It really helped that facebook grew in a very carefully plan Ed manner. On the otherhand, google plus' growth is kind of random from a geographic point of view. Why is this relevant? A lot of fake name confusion arises from lack of knowledge of names from another region. For facebook, they could soften specific criterias that would typically denote a bad name if the name ends up being a legit one in Thailand and there was a recent spike in Thai signups. G+'s lack of planned growth really hurts them, this being just one instance.
It probably does, but 50 plusses aren't very impressive. You'd have to buy thousands of them in order to appear viable. And even then, most people who are able to recognize a high "plus" ranking would probably be sophisticated enough to recognize a spam site instantly anyway. This kind of reminds me of those weird sites with a button on them displaying 3 million likes on Facebook and when you look at the actual source code, it turns out they embedded the widget with "example.com" as their site address.

Fifty ClickMob accounts on non-social sites are worth a lot more, for a short time you could totally dominate sites like HN, Slashdot and Reddit. But Google+ accounts that are not connected to relevant people, I just don't see the value...
The "new web APIs" look like the W3C's Device APIs: http://www.w3.org/TR/dap-api-reqs/

Are Mozilla working with the W3C or doing their own thing?
Yes! It's the U.S. educational system that refuses to move into the 21st century that is not providing the needed skills to new workers.
Most likely, that will just end up wasting everyone's time when it turns out that you do not, in fact, have any experience whatsoever with business development or product design.
Digital news is broken

/rolls eyes.