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Eh, the thought is that revenues vary wildly with the state of the economy. If increased spending and/or tax cuts now can stimulate the economy, we'll have lots more money to pay down the debt next year, or so the theory goes.

Personally, I think it's pretty irritating that governments seems to think that the current revenue levels will continue forward no matter where we are in the business cycle. In the past, this has been most noticeable in state governments. Every time there is a boom, California goes and spends all the increased tax revenue and commits to spending it in the future. Of course, this is a problem when the economic boom ends.

I'm just suggesting that we tackle the debt problem when the economy is good. Doing so while unemployment is still 10+% is, I think, risking another downturn, which is going to make paying off the debt even harder.
The same reason companies hiring developers get mostly bad developers applying. The bad developers are on the market the longest and apply to the most jobs.

The same applies with bad recruiters, they're desperate and will try and hit as many people as possible to work the numbers game. Hence you're much more likely to get called by a bad recruiter than a good one.
Call me insensitive, but I think the drama here is overblown. Renting out your room to strangers comes with risks. Theft is an obvious one. Could have been a one or two paragraph post, but maybe this is part of the catharsis in getting over a robbery.

And now call me a cynic, but I kind of have the feeling that the the public drama of this complaint is a way of getting the sweetest customer service response ever from AirBnB. Like, new gear, near apartment, moving costs, all of it. Almost like a cooked up insurance claim... if it's not that, AirBnB will probably experience that kind of scam at some point.
Why are you asking me? Go ask them.

And whatever answer they give you, if you think that it's not a sane reason then the problem lies with you, not with them.

It's hard, but eventually you will learn to accept that other people have different opinions about things - even things that seem totally obvious to you.
Cross-reference this Google Tech Talk by Matz, the creator Ruby: http://goo.gl/rAxIL.
I tried to use Carbonite. Nice UI, simple service. But with Comcast it was going to take about 3 months to back up 400GB -- and that was with leaving my laptop on 24/7.

To this day I'm not sure if it was Comcast or Carbonite that made the uploads so slow, but I've since had to rethink my offsite back up plans. Would love suggestions.
Are you against requiring car insurance to drive? (another situation with a small chance of a large loss that most people can't afford)

If yes, please explain why. If not, please tell me what's different here. I'm genuinely confused why you said what you said.
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If the implication is don't use AirBnB, then the implication is also: never leave your own home and never let anyone in, which is paranoid and absurd.

You might object that what you say applies only to strangers and not to those you trust, but then you would be forgetting that everyone you trust was once a stranger.

Simply walking down the street is a testament to one's notion that in general humans are good and that that goodness is worthwhile enough to risk the occasional social or even physical injustice.
Sweet DOS memories. I could probably still remember how to write CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files that wring out every possible byte of <640K memory so that Ultima VII would run. (This game had a home-grown memory manager which required an obscene ~620K of so-called "real" memory while also requiring certain drivers that ate into that real memory, making it difficult to run the game without manually customizing the DOS startup command files.)
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Will the government get serious on cloud security, data privacy?
The whole thread worth careful reading as well.
This is the output of :

curl http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/2.5.x/api/allclas... | grep -o '<I>[A-Za-z]\+</I>'| sed 's/<.I>//g'| sed 's/<I>//g'|awk '{ print length($0),$0 | "sort -rn"}' | cut -d' ' -f2 | head -n 50
I see a lot of anger directed at the FBI. Remember that ‘Anonymous’ gave these tools to children and encouraged them to use them knowing exactly what the consequences for the kids would be.
Precisely the arguments of many posts about programming:

* http://brandonbyars.com/2008/05/13/beating-sapir-whorf/

* The creator of ruby on the "The power and philosophy of ruby: or how to create Babel-17" [1][2][3]

However these usually imply the weak version of Sapir Whorf, not the strong one.

[1] http://www.rubyist.net/~matz/slides/oscon2003/mgp00001.html

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity#cite_note...

[3]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity#cite_ref-...
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Two factors. One is laziness. Upgrading to Firefox and Chrome takes work. Second is that if they upgraded, there are probably a lot of people who would complain, "WTF where is my [some menu item from IE]?"

These are stupid reasons, but they are enough to prevent companies from upgrading.
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The job of the patent office is impossible in the field of software patents.

It is not realistic to expect anyone to judge novelty and non-obviousness in a field this wide and active. Imagine trying to evaluate mechanical engineering patent applications if millions of people carried machine shops around in their backpacks.

The only solution is to end software patents. Obama could do this today by directing the patent office to respect the Supreme Court's Flook decision, which they reiterated as good precedent in Diehr and in Bilski.
The problem for corporate environments is that they tend to have a few really big legacy applications which only function correctly in older versions of IE.

The question then becomes whether to upgrade the application (with a massive price tag), or keep their old version of IE as the standard (which appears to cost nothing). In fact, there are costs of maintenance and security, but those aren't readily apparent on the balance sheets.
I'm afraid I'm not. Guy was really pushy, when I didn't budge, he just said "good luck" and hung up. Then called me again in a month or so. Truth is I probably would've given him some leads if he didn't start off with demands and being a douche.
I just was quoted in a national article here in Canada (the Globe & Mail) that talked about using AirBNB... I've passed this story along to the author who is going to see about a followup.

This wont stop me from using AirBNB as a guest, but I was never comfortable with renting my own home anyway.

edit - if AirBNB kept a drivers license scan on file to confirm the credit card was the users, that would be helpful. I know that is difficult with privacy laws, etc, but when I check into a hotel I always have to show my ID to make sure it has my name on it....
Appls vs. Android the way it might go down
In theory, recruiters can save a lot of work by sorting resumes once and then using that sort to give some subset to companies A, B, and C - rather than the sort being repeated at each company.
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You left out another element of the storm: the bread and butter newspaper ad clients were: real estate, finance, auto sales, and national retailers. Guess which industries have cut back drastically on marketing during the recession.
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> Disabling all but a handful of my Safari extensions brought the Safari Web Content subprocess's RAM usage down from 1.06 GB or more down to a much more manageable 300 - 320 MB with five tabs opened, but over time usage climbed to over 600 MB again, so it's possible one of my enabled extensions is the culprit.

Why even post this if you're not going to investigate aside from extension disabling roulette?
I understood it as rarer than a free quark, as that was the way it meant sense.
Hey, don't get my wrong! I'm probably one of the most cheerful and happy people you'll ever meet in real life. I'm always smiling and enthusiastic with everything I do. And you're right - people tend to (usually) treat me the same way. Everything is beautiful on the surface, and that's just about never where I have a problem.

I've been betrayed by a lot of people I trusted, and I've had to do some things (not for my own good) that I'm not proud of myself. I'm in the process of blogging it (http://shenglong.posterous.com/a-prelude-to-eternity), but unfortunately, it's very long and I've only had time to finish the prelude. In the end, I've seen what people are capable of when they think they can't be held accountable, and that's the primary driver of my cynicism.

Regardless, I still treat every person I meet with respect. It's just, in the back of my head, I'm cautious about what could happen.

Edit: I don't know if I can post links like this. If not, let me know and I'll edit it out. It's for reference, not for publicity.
Food — enjoying foodstuffs grown in less developed places with lower wages, driving up prices of food and farmland in those places.

Cheap electronics — enjoying access to devices assembled in places with less worker rights, creating pressure to keep workforce prices down, thus limiting the access of said workforce to gadgets you yourself enjoy.

Crude oil and cars. Quality fabrics. And so on.
Wth? It's now going down. I guess that ultra-thin laptops are more important :(
A decade ago, Oren Tirosh published "mnemonicode", which was a selection of 1600 words which were optimized to be (i) internationally recognizable, and (ii) have distinctive pronunciation that would survive a low-quality phone medium and/or a non-native speaker.

I can only find a copy in the wayback machine now:

http://web.archive.org/web/20051109233255/http://www.tothink...

http://web.archive.org/web/20051109230247/http://www.tothink...
There is also the cost of labor associated with upgrading. A lot of corporate IT departments don't want to spend the hours upgrading their whole infrastructure when they have other things to do - from my experience IT is expected to run with as little cost as possible - if everything needed for people to complete their work is possible with ie6, there is no incentive to upgrade.
? Thought this was a competitor to Saleforce Chatter. This just seem to be new marketing material.
Yea I wonder why its not on the FP. This is a fantastic talk...
From my phone conversation with Wepay's saleforce, they are moving away from "group pay" and focusing on the "business space" created by the "hate of Paypall".
This is a really great idea, but I find that I quite often just skip over automated email, which is why it probably won't be useful to me.

This has me thinking, though, how can I trick myself into opening up a (known) weekly digest email? Might work if it didn't come at the same time always (like, every 4, 5 or 6 days randomly), and the From header was from a person. But, I'm not sure on that.
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His sincerity and commitment will cost him continued success in re-election after a famous movie Nandha. Now, Surya is known as the best player in Kollywood
You can use spottiness.com to let others know about this guy anonymously
That could be construed as assisting in the commission of a federal crime.
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Car insurance is different, because it also covers damages you inflict on others and other people's property.

I am speaking out against mandatory insurance of your own property. Yes, there will be cases where people are underinsured. But mandatory insurance would make some people overinsured.
There is a long argument to be made for balancing this tradeoff, but in short: Owners are in a better position to judge whether they should insure their property than lawmakers and thus it should be up to them (again: as long as their property doesn't have a high probability of damaging other people; in such cases mandatory insurance might be reasonable).
Apple Looking into Solar Powered Mobile Devices
What's a "non-project"?
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I wonder if John figured out a solution to the "Home" and "End" keys not working properly in Gmail for Firefox/Mac. This issue is a bit frustrating and compels me to use Chrome. If anyone has a solution for this it would be great.
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I am asking you because you made the assertion.

Now you're asking me to go prove your assertions for you. I wasn't the one who made the claim.

It's hard, but eventually you will learn to accept that other people have different opinions about things - even things that seem totally obvious to you.

This is unnecessary. I do accept that other people have different opinions. What I don't accept is that they are inherently sane, which is the assertion you made. I simply asked you to support the claim that there are sane reasons with an example of such a reason.
Yes. Welcome to US law. Take it up with your congressman, not Google.
This is somehow unique to Safari, or bad? Has the author never used chrome or firefox? Right now I've got three tabs open in chrome and it's using 703 mb of ram between all the threads.

A modern browser will gobble memory. But it will also get paged out to disk when necessary, and that's not such a terrible thing.
I would love to see what cognitive neuroscience research exists on this: This project seems to support my lay hypothesis that there exists a continuum of "aspect ratio blindness." Here is a master craftsman who has spent innumerable hours building a beautiful, unique device -- with a 16:9 screen that will, by the nature of the hardware inside, only ever display stretched 4:3 images.

I'm willing to consider that this aspect ratio blindness may consist of "lack of OCD."
I've found the situation slightly better with Opera on OSX, but even with Snow Leopard and 4G of RAM, Safari leaked memory after 7 days
London’s 44Con is looking for a few good hackers
Usually the only insurance you're required to have is for damage you do to others, not your own car. You're allowed screw yourself over.
The author's testing methodology appears unable to tell leakage from caching.

If your machine isn't swapping, then any unused memory is wasted. Better to keep all sorts of speculatively cached data. For a web browser that includes downloaded resources, but it could also include the rendered bitmaps of page fragments, preparsed documents, or any manner of partial computation that may be reused later. Once there is memory pressure the code can start dropping these things.
Good idea. I was wondering if I should have changed the title, but it's too late now. Btw, the author of this article is not me, so I didn't gain anything by it.
I'll tune back in once Puma.com is back up and running. Would like to see how their Rails front-end handles the traffic; not sure what they were using before but the UX was awful.
Np plugins ship with Firefox.
OK Go play with Chrome
AirBnB already has a host rating system, but because of no set level of expectations pretty much everybody gets 5 stars. Hotels are easier to rate in that regard, and people have no qualms leaving lower ratings if they don't see extra towels, have to sit in uncomfortable chairs, or are charged $14.99 for wireless Internet.

Guest rating system is even harder, as unless you're hardcore traveler, your use of AirBnB might be limited to once or twice a year. This would also penalize any new user to the service.
That split seems wrong. There seems to be no deterrent to the type of behavior the author experienced, so it would seem that everyone with an inkling will try to steal the renter's identity. I'd estimate that population to be 1-3% of people, which implies the expected value is strongly negative
2500-4500 degrees sounds impressive, I can't believe how NPR manipulated me!

Wait... http://www.vendian.org/mncharity/dir3/blackbody/

Pretty sure a standard household toaster is well into that range.
(Again, just answering for me personally, not with my official Google hat on.)

Good question. Just like a good programmer finding a bug should ask "How could I prevent this bug from happening next time?" it's pretty common that when a situation like this occurs, the relevant people at Google ask "How could we prevent this situation from happening next time?"

In this case, I believe the solutions that have been proposed elsewhere on this thread (letting the outside person know about the suspected violation, letting the outside person have access to their data) can be fraught with potential legal difficulties.

I'm sure that people at Google will be discussing what different steps could prevent a situation like this from happening in the future.
I see. I wish you all the best, keep us informed! :-)
Ask HN: Need some advice about school.
Basically after this summer I'll have approximately 1 year left to get my degree (I already have a diploma).

I've always hated school, I find it boring and tedious. I really just want to work full time with a startup. If I am able to find a full time job, should I just drop out of school? Or should I tough it out through all the bull shit classes and get the paper?
Yes - my experience with meth heads is that they can be perfectly normal in their interactions, but once high on meth they can be aggressive, obsessive compulsive and destructive. Granted, this can't only be blamed on meth (or drugs in general) - the person was obviously sober at some point during this trip - or at least sober enough to know what they were doing. This all seems like a planned out event to have fun with a couple of 8-balls and have a fun couple of days without worrying about what happened to the apartment in the end.
"Though recruiters report that start-up salaries for engineers rose 20 to 30 percent in the past year and a half, to upwards of $140,000 for a developer with three to five years experience, that still leaves start-ups priced out of top talent in a city where working for a hedge fund can mean bonuses of up to 80 percent on a good year and CTOs command seven figures."

As a developer at a tech startup in NYC I always hear figures like this and they seem kind of mythical. My friends in the startup world tend to feel the same. Are there only a handful of companies paying this kind of money (Google, Gilt, Etsy, etc.) while everyone else pays considerably lower?
Apparently the quality (colour reproduction, etc) of the Macbook Air screens is significantly worse than that of the Macbook Pro.
Interesting. I'm not sure I'd give out my email address to do something that could be accomplished more or less similarly by having a filter to automatically label & archive the messages (and then look at that label weekly), though.

Two feedbacks which aren't exactly an "idea":
* The email address font is too big, so I can't see the whole address at once. This has been shown to greatly reduce errors
* When I clicked on Feedback and then closed the popup, it loaded the parent page in the popup. Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/6JxxP.png
Of all of the items discussed, the birth certificate, social security and passport are the most important (imho). Supposing I kept them in a bank safety deposit box, what would a thief need to get access to that box?
>"The Google Gods have banned you. You have 48 hours to collect your child pornography."

This is completely a non-issue. If the user already potentially committed a crime, Google already has the evidence. Whether or not the user is able to go back and redownload images that may or may not be illegal that may not have been saved is completely inconsequential. The issue is for the false-positive cases or the borderline cases. Google is not the law; let the judicial system determine guilt.
I wouldn't be surprised if this was organized and executed by an AirBnB competitor.

It is just too malicious and meticulously done to constitute a random crime (do I watch too many crime shows? maybe.) AirBnB just closed a gigantic $100m round and they are doing phenomenally well, and here comes someone who makes "everyone's worst fears" about lending out their apartment to a stranger come true.
My first encounter with viri. The waterfall virus and michelangelo.
In exchange for being a product. Not very different from in exchange for money.
Hackers, Warriors & the Kik API
Survey: 35% of U.S. Consumers Planning to Purchase Next-Generation iPhone
How can "Firefox be nearly at the phone of Netscape" when it doesn't ship with a mail client, irc client or any of the other related stuff that no one needed? People hear words like bloat and jump on the bandwagon. That's disappointing for a site such at this. I personally see more memory usage for the same workload (number of tabs) on Chrome over Firefox. However Chrome's memory is distributed across more processes so it's easier to hide in plain sight.

That said, I'm starting to come round to the train of thought about a user being able to control what they install. Not all users require the developer tools, in the same way that not all users require the ability to read news feeds and in the very same way that some users want enhanced share options in their browsers.
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That is the case at my company, over half of the web based applications that we have to use are built exclusively for IE. It is a massive pain, but I do not see it changing any time soon.
Are the stakes high enough that you'll pay someone who doesn't snitch to screw with your competitor? If you ever get found out, your brand's mostly sunk.
I agree that it is possible for a recruiter who knew the job well enough and that had multiple clients looking for people in the same field to more efficiently sort the resumes, but even if you could find a sufficiently skilled recruiter, I don't think there is 1/3rd of a year's salary worth of value in that alone. I mean, maybe if the recruiter charged me a week's salary, it'd be worth it for the time I'm saving, but 1/3rd of a year is a lot of money; that's a lot of time I or my people could spend sorting resumes.

I mean, if the recruiter knew more about the position than I did, that'd be different. I mean, this would be very unlikely if I was hiring someone in my own field, but hey, sometimes you need to hire outside your field. I can see using a consulting recruiter for that, but most of that value is teaching me what to look for in an accountant (or whatever I'm hiring for) and they'd need to sit in on the interview. Really, in that case, I'd be looking more for a consultant than a recruiter.
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A thousand times, yes. You'd be insane not to carry at least a half million dollars in coverage for fire loss in a city like San Francisco. I think my own rental insurance covers something like $1M, and they explicitly don't cover losses incurred to property that I'm renting to others. That's another class of insurance -- much more expensive, because the risks are so much higher.

I think you have to be incredibly naive to rent out your personal apartment on AirBnB. The downside risk is virtually unbounded (and lest you think I'm exaggerating: what happens if a tweaker AirBnB renter burns down your building, and your neighbors die in the fire? Hello, civil judgment.)
Sadly it looks like there's an arms race brewing. Hopefully some sanity is restored before these companies start destroying each other.
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