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Agree. I am also not a good writer, and what I write is often unclear or confusing unless I've reviewed it carefully.

It's dumb, but many words and phrases do have multiple meanings.

Good news is: practice helps. When you are misunderstood, try to understand why and rewrite until it is clear.
If your argument hinges on mind-reading your opponent's view into something simplistically stupid ("they dislike wealth"), it's probably not a very good argument.

Also, Barney Frank is wicked smaht.
Nope, my opinion shouldn't. But the fact that he isn't hacking at anything should.
Hence the comment, as a programmer I couldn't care less about him.
Here (Australia) we have one broadcast channel paid for by the government (ie, by taxes). In this case TV is exactly the same as the free healthcare we get (also paid for by taxes).
This is why the "10,000 hours" thing is stupid. It's unfalsifiable. If this guy fails people will just make various excuses like "his practice wasn't 'deliberate'."
I was think about getting one of these yellow tinted glasses instead of a screen filter (f.lux isn't enough for me). Anyone has experience with them? (i.e. something like this: http://www.amazon.com/GUNNAR-Gaming-Eyewear-Mercury-Frame/dp...)
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If they want to provide better customer service, stop bugging me. In the past month I have received several emails, at least three letters begging me to subscribe to OnStar and one phone call to my vehicle for the same. If decide I want to subscribe, I will contact them.

I have been pretty happy with my vehicle, but it is stuff like this that makes me wish I was dealing with another company.
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This will be fun once the language's popularity wanes. Imagine an old guy on his walker with an "IDENTIFICATION DIVISION." tattoo…

As for this particular item, I'm not a big tattoo fan in general and have a particular disdain for writing – it's usually pretty bad typography. While this isn't all-caps badly kerned blackletter, it kinda looks like someone invented an automated prison tattoo maker. Sorry.

PS: I know, being German I'm not allowed to mention "identification" and "tattoo" in the same sentence, but my knowledge of COBOL divisons is lacking.
Fair enough; how about "your closest certified service center is on Main Street"?
You can unsubscribe from the celebrity news and stuff but your friends will end up sharing as they would have subscribed to the celebrity junk. You can't do much about that.
If his experiment works out moderately well I could see a great consulting business in training and self-improvement. If it works out really well he is now a professional athlete which seems pretty cool too.

I really wonder how being an amateur golfer would change the 10,000 hours - would it be a head start or would it hold someone back?
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Get a lambda. Geeks will nod approvingly and you can tell the jocks that it's from 300.
Agreed! I recommend reading this article from 37signals : http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2188-theres-no-room-for-the-i... , pure gold too, having THE idea is not enough
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That's not the case though.

Universal healthcare is a safety-net, to make sure everyone gets a basic standard of care.

It doesn't preclude premium offering which include "a better product".

Here (Australia) we have a public health system, but you can also buy private health insurance which gets you into things like private hospitals (nicer rooms, etc).
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Sounds to me like DigiNotar forced itself into Bankruptcy. Over the long term, getting hacked seems unavoidable. However, poor responses to getting hacked are completely avoidable.
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Ask HN: What are you bringing to YCNYC?
As I have never been to an event like this before, and the time is almost upon us, I was hoping to get some advice from more experienced individuals. So, more knowledgable people than I, what are you bringing with you to YCNYC?
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I'm sorry, but you say that you're versed in scripture?
Well, clearly you're not. You would know that we are ALL sinners and that Jesus Christ died for our sins.
You are not versed in scripture, nor do you have knowledge of what sin is.
You should pay better attention:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/crisis-in-egypt/go...

And Libya:

http://www.comfec-cefcom.forces.gc.ca/pa-ap/fs-ev/2011/02/28...

And even Lebanon:

http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/World/20060919/evacuation_tab_0609...
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I've been building websites for less than a year now and have registered 4 or 5 domains for side projects. I used a credit card and my (parents) address was published for the whole world to see.

No other web service could get away with grabbing information from your credit card and posting it publicly. Why is whois given such an exemption?
It looks pretty nice ... and adding the start and finish notifications doesn't seem too hard.

But it seems to me that if Doug really meant what he said below, he would have got up, walked down the hallway and given John a real pat on the back ;)
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I was following along Bezos, who of course can be wrong and you of course may be write. Bezos' point was:

>> On the other hand if a market is established, to win market share startups must differentiate their products by better serving the customer. <<

And it generally means not coming up with an idea but following the already established customer pain. And in this situation execution matters more.
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Yes, and that is disturbing. But I still wouldn't say savings for six months of ordinary middle-class life is a big amount.
It's worth noting that healthcare hasn't seen the kind of productivity explosion other areas have. It's still in many cases a more "artisanal" discipline vis-a-vis manufacturing, etc. The major bright spot has been pharmaceuticals, which are industrialized; I think we know the broad outlines of how to industrialized medicine, but also that the technical hurdles are among the largest ever faced.
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I don't think you understand how fuses work.
Come on, you can't say something like that without giving a single example....
Does this question have anything to do with overseas-account tax evasion specifically, or is it just a general anti-tax jab? If you're against all taxation, then of course you wouldn't be against tax evasion either. But if you believe taxation is legitimate, then a concern for tax evasion also follows. (Whether this is a good way of dealing with tax evasion, where the pros outweigh the cons, is another question, but separate from the simplistic anti-tax slogan framing it as whether "the US gov't own[s] a person's income".)
Reading this, I was immediately reminded of why I couldn't wait any longer to start my own company. As others have mentioned in the thread, many of these 33 lessons are spot-on ...unfortunately. (I don't want to sound like I'm criticizing the author - it's well-written and concise, and he's certainly achieved the composition skills his boss had hoped.)

Some of lessons compared to working for yourself:
>1. You’re not smarter than anyone

Unfortunately, we're "smarter" than our users in that we over-estimate their comfort with our service. The majority of users are not necessarily computer-literate or used to the modern computing idioms Westerners take for granted. (My company is in a developing African nation, operates over SMS, and every day we're surprised at how many users misunderstand what we wrongly assumed to be simple instructions. Example: "SMS 'en' for English. SMS 'fr' pour le Francais." and we receive an SMS containing "[our-product name] fr". Gah, wasn't prepared for that!

>3. Looks matter

Like most things in life, "it depends." When I'm working in my underwear, no they don't. When I'm going out to recruit new users, I'll groom/dress in a way that's likely to appeal to that specific demographic du jour. I'm young, which scares some people (the kind of conservative, MegaCorp lifers who'd normally agree 100% with this article) because young == inexperienced. Ok, so I don't shave for a while before planning to meet them. +10 to age perception, "maturity" unlocked.

#4's brains are splattered on the wall, and bad_user is holding the smoking gun. Well said, amigo. The advice I've taken from HN on this matter is simply "fake it 'til you make it". HOWEVER, being a short phrase, it's prone to misinterpretation. It doesn't mean lie about what you can do. It does mean when I'm negotiating with veteran suits I should try to remain calm and collected, like I have some clue what I'm doing (I don't, but if you can't believe in yourself, how the hell is your client supposed to?).

>6. Software’s primary function is to earn profits

Nah, it's about making the users of your software happy. This way, the advice applies whether the software is FOSS or commercial.
At the risk of getting downvoted for being meta-, can I remind people that links like this need to be flagged? The Guidelines clearly state:

"Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter." - http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

If you see a link to a blog post like this, which is just a bad summary of an original source (http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/sep/19/android-fre...), please flag the summary link on HN, copy the URL of the original source, and paste it into the HN "submit" page (there's usually no need to fill in a title). That will automatically upvote the original source, giving it exposure and improving the quality of discussion.

Obviously if the secondary source is an important editorial piece in it's own right, it's fine.
I didn't say anything about US medicine, especially whether it has price problems and whether it could or does have price control problems. I only gave a specific answer to what happens when there is inelastic demand because of a government that can also regulate the suppliers. I see how "this is known" might be taken the wrong way, but all I meant by it was that the OP didn't need to wonder...it's found in any standard microecon textbook.

I would like to think we could talk about cause and effect in isolation here without making everything a grand political statement.
Everyone ought to see a privacy interest in this sort of thing.

The IRS does this, not because these folks have appreciable tax liability, but because they want a compliance environment that exposes anyone who _might_. There is nothing really new in this, the government requires extraordinary disclosures of everyone so it can verify their tax compliance. (The health law included provisions further extending reporting to monitor compliance of those we do business with, but I think the resulting fuss got these rolled back.)

On the one hand, no one is in favor of tax evasion.

On the other, at some point we might ask whether these disclosures threaten our liberties. Even if the IRS never abuses the information, the requirements set a precedent of government review adopted by other entities large and small. For example, you simply would not believe the intrusion powers of agencies enforcing child protection laws, or the flimsiness of the basis they require to use those powers.

I expect the good sense of the electorate to protect us from real abuses, but I'm beginning to wonder where these disclosure requirements will end, and what their unintended effects might be.
I omitted a comma, and I think you didn't parse my phrase correctly. People are generally more rule-abiding in the US than in Italy, with plenty of positive and negative exceptions in both places. Once you start picking and choosing which rules are sensible, and which ones you can 'get away with', I think it's detrimental to society.
And for Linux users whose distro doesn't have a F.lux package, redshift is often available as a nice alternative in your package tree.
Get new friends, or block the ones who do that.
> [...] in the US you pay or get nothing.

Things certainly aren't perfect, but it irks me when everyone thinks they are an expert in US affairs. It may not be universal but there absolutely is free (or very cheap) health care available in the US. There are all kinds of programs for the old, young and poor. Otherwise, just about any job will offer health care. Sure, there are people that fall through the cracks and that's a huge problem.
I honestly tried it: http://linuxblog.darkduck.com/2011/06/mageia-is-it-kind-of-m...
You might make more money selling physical or virtual goods than from ads. As jeromeparadis pointed out, you need millions of pageviews and a good CPM to make even a decent sum.
For me the public Hangouts (Hangouts On Air) seem even more interesting.
This vulnerability works by injecting HTML and JS purporting to be from a plaintext version of the site being attacked. In other words, the browser has to accept non-SSL pages from the domain. If your browser just threw away all unencrypted requests for the domain this would never work. Neither would sslstrip or a handful of other tools; the improper handling of SSL certs would have an impact, however.

I could have read that draft wrong but it looks like it depends on headers from the victim site to determine if all traffic should be encrypted. MitM would defeat this.
This is really better than any donation. :)
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"They looked at 130 different values per country and year", they don't say how many years were studied but I assume the greece book fixing lasted only a few years so we are looking at ~500 samples. I honestly don't know if that's enough or not, on wikipedia they show examples of the distribution on less than 100 samples so I guess I'm on the wrong.
As a student you can have more than this, it's around ~6K pounds, which if you take into account a student loan plus some help from parents/savings, going over this limit is a reality.

The key point here is AT ANY TIME so even if the amount is just passing though (i.e to pay for uni fees) you are in breach, which I just found out a few weeks ago, and the fines for not filing a FBAR are insane.
my tattoo means something to me (a stylized hydrogen atom; I'm a physicist) but it also has multiple meanings and is first and foremost an aesthetic decision.
China's growth comes from following capitalistic free market policies which are not communist in nature. (http://www.google.com/search?q=capitalism+in+china)

Moreover, I remember listening to one of The Economist podcasts where someone had done audited Chinese firms more strictly where they don't write off the cheap (free) land government provides, or other give aways. Turns out on a whole Chinese firms are destroyers of capital and not creators. Crudely speaking, they take land and convert it to output X. The value of X tends to be lower than the value of the land.
> At this stage of development all India should worry about is earning wealth. Trying to redistribute that is a 'premature optimization'. :)

When do you think is the Right Time to start that "optimization"?
And, apparently, if you don't know if you're a U.S. citizen, check.
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Nice in theory...
Ha :) They actually work from home four days a week, so he'd have to get in his car and drive to his house to do that.
So why not just renounce your US citizenship?
Except for Google Apps users
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heh, well, that's a bit harder /c most of our team is remote, but you're right. John, you get a cookie on Friday!
I meant to begin with. I've been toying with the idea myself but wow...
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Per capita income is extremely low in India. But things are improving.

India's growth is mainly because of growth of service industry, manufacturing and modern agriculture techniques. The countries that you have mentioned have higher per capita income because of huge natural resources and less population.

Iraq -> Huge Oil reserves / Small population

Mongolia -> Huge mineral resources / tiny population
Good advice, but I would modify it a bit: instead of just letting job skill statistics from job boards inform your choices of where to invest learning time, I would tailor it more to what potential customers and employers who approach you ask for.

I spend my learning time split between Java technologes (huge job market) and Ruby + Lisp languages (smaller job market, but still plenty of work).

BTW, Jay's book "Refactoring, the Ruby Edition" is very good. Obie Fernandez (the series editor) sent me a copy a few months ago and I really enjoyed it. Recommended.
I'll give Jeff the benefit of the doubt and assume he mis-spoke and is not actually wrong :-).

As with any taxonomy (or tool) one can over analyze.
I've always been a night owl (fortunately, not DSPS) with my most productive hours and highest energy late into the evening. This usually led me to wake up late too, as you'd expect.

In the last few months, however, I've found myself waking up early too - because I am so excited about what I am working on. Sometimes, I'll try to sleep in. All that leads me to do is just lie there, thinking about all the stuff I could be doing instead.

What I perhaps ought to do is take a siesta in the afternoon to balance out this lack of sleep. I haven't done that yet though...
I didn't really say that. The hard problem with price controls is difficulty producing the right amounts of goods to meet demands because of regulation needed to mandate supply of less profitable goods. It becomes very complex when so many different products are involved, and because of insufficient resources it's not possible mandate overproduction of every good.
Shit, I feel lucky...
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Can you hint how many distinct counter increments can i expect to have per second with Redis?
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Hmm... how does the IRS know people file fraudulent claims?
call him/her out on it and say why.

Often, it's really hard to do this without starting a petty meta-argument. It can be hard to call someone out and maintain focus on the topics people actually want to read about.

For example, I have downvoted people for complaining about getting downvotes. Sometimes I explain, if I can do it in a way that I think adds real value to the discussion, but really: it's in the guidelines. Nobody wants to see someone complain about downvotes and then see me complain about the complaining, which can easily start a flamewar. So I downvote and move on.

Another example is prefacing a sentence with "look,". This is almost always condescending and unnecessary in written communication. If I really think people would appreciate an explanation of why this is condescending I will explain, but usually doing that will distract from the real discussion.

Sometimes really lazy posts with blatant logical fallacies and lack of substance get a downvote without a comment. Because really, if there's no substance then what is there to comment about?
Since we are all wired and connected, this would wreak havoc to our overall communication systems and power grids. Solar storms cycle from Max to Min intensities every 11 years - the last "big" one recorded in 1859 -> burning down telegraph lines and transformers. Imagine what would happen today ('shudder'). I also understand that solar flares and the impending energy clouds take a few hours to reach earth's atmosphere. Couldn't we just 'turn' things off/down within that time window to prevent electrical overloads? I guess the problem is detected/predicting them early enough - just like hurricanes and tornadoes...
Identified seems to be an effective way to drill down who went to school where, what companies employed who, and who knows who. The number generated from the search engine can be entertaining however when it comes to hiring decisions and real job experience the candidate who is “friends” with the most influential or worked at a certain company won’t exactly turn out to be the most intelligent or at least for a particular position a recruiter is trying to fill (ie, George Bush Jr vs Ronald Reagan). If I was a recruiter now and I have been in the past for various types of organizations (both in the private and public sector), those who benefit the organization most tend to be those who have the personality, the technical skills, the heart for the job, and share the vision of the team which are all determined by a variety of factors bigger than one single score. As labor costs constitute such a huge portion of a company’s budget, I would suggest getting to know exactly who you hire, inside and out, which takes time and effort. Well worth it to avoid a disastrous hiring decision.
I'll be expecting that pat on the back when I come in on Friday Doug...
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he's right, but in the wrong way. honeycomb is not open source software, but that does not mean that android is not open source software. honeycomb is a dead fork of the android project, it has no future. the android trunk is as open as it has ever been.
You take things too seriously. All I was saying is that people scream for "government funding because look Internet, GPS".

Both of these things were born out of war. I'm of the opinion they would have happened anyway.
...almost everyone.

"Google+ is not yet available for Google Apps. Learn More."

I should have known better than to get my hopes up...
Could you please explain what this means? The blog post says that anyone can join the project.
Why is there even a set number of invites left for each G+ user? I see that I still have 94 Gmail invites even, and in both cases, I'm not seeing the point.
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Very nice, but one suggestion, the 'dashboard' view might benefit from showing a sequence of graphics that show either the status of the last x number of runs:

X X X ok ok ok X ok

obviously color-coded to stand out, or at a minimum show the time elapsed since last successful run.

This way provides a real at-a-glance way to see one or more broken tasks.
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Then how do you explain the metastudy that I linked to below

I read the fine abstract of the article you kindly posted in your comment, where it says, "Moreover, the observed association between good adherence to placebo and mortality supports the existence of the 'healthy adherer' effect, whereby adherence to drug therapy may be a surrogate marker for overall healthy behaviour."

This finding (for which I would expect a lot more replication across independent data sets before relying on it too much for my own health) says that patients who make efforts to take care of themselves generally fare better than patients who are so careless that they don't even take physician-prescribed medicines according to the prescription schedule. If, once that difference in patient behavior is taken into account, some patients gain little additional benefit from a particular prescribed drug over the bare lifestyle difference benefit shown by patients taking only placebos, that suggests that the prescribed drugs can be improved (or that physician practice in choosing and dosing the prescribed drugs can be improved) but it doesn't suggest at all that placebos themselves are doing anything beneficial for patients.
Too little, too late. Facebook already aped all of their innovations.
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