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As an American who moved to the Netherlands, I can vouch for this. My fellow countrymen don't know what they're missing:

* There are no ATM fees levied by another bank's ATMs.

* There are no ATM fees levied by your bank for using another bank's ATMs.

* There are no fees or minimum transactions for using your debit card at a business.

* You are allowed to overdraft, you just pay an interest rate to the bank for the money you owe (mine is 10%, up to €2,500).

* There are no bounced check fees, because:

* There are no checks. Non-debit card transactions are done via online banking, are free, and usually instantaneous.

* All banks use 2-step authentication (phishing is nearly impossible).

I was confronted by the joke of US banking again recently when I had to mail someone in the US a check, which they lost, found 6 months later and cashed... generating an overdraft fee in my US account.

Totally unnecessary.
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As you say, no more so than the average CEO. In fact, you could argue that for a while now his product unveilings were relatively spin free, since when he'd say "Isn't this great?" he actually believed it.
Douchebag!

BI has some awesome commentators.

Oh well. It's obvious we can't have great products without someone being a douchebag. Cause and effect. So it's worth it. And when all is said and done, after your time on Earthhas expired, that's what's important. Products.

Yes, I've learnt much from Steve Jobs.
How about storing the most common successful searches by the user base for certain phrases, then skipping the search path once over a certain threshold?
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In Silicon Valley, you don't have to "invite your former co-workers to leave and come work with/for you."

When you leave, they will contact you on their own to find out what you're up to.
Your conception of the role of a sniper in modern military conflicts is way off the mark. Snipers are rarely deployed with a picture of a high value target and told to go eat snakes. Are you aware of the multitude of roles played by snipers on COIN missions in iraq or af-pak?
I'm a student, and I'm an RA at my University. I don't work for the government in any way, shape, or form, either directly, or via secondary means (like a contractor), if that's what you're asking.

Anyway, that's bad form to ask. :(

Edit: Also, for those not in the know, "US Person" is a legal term that covers not just US citizens, but also legal aliens and citizens of certain countries like the UK that we hold close ties with.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_person
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As a third party executive recruiter, I definitely have to agree with many of the comments and frustrations that have been expressed. Unfortunately, at best the perception of recruiters is that they are a necessary evil sometimes in getting access to job opportunities. No recruiter is perfect and even the best retained ones do some cold calling during the week to establish relationships. However, I do agree the approach should not based on gimmicks and sales tricks, but have the intent to establish good rapport with those that are contacted.

But at the end of the day, a recruiter that is in tune with the market, cold calling should really make up less than 20% of their "deal" flow. Great hires are made through referrals, and great recruiters gets constant networking referrals to keep their pipelines full and their days busy. If the recruiter is doing their job, either they are getting warm leads from their networks when jobs are broadcasted, or their networks is referring strong talent to them.

Like a lawyer or accountant that desires to create a reputable brand in a particular marketplace, recruiters needs to see themselves as resources within this marketplace and not view recruiting as purely a transactional game. From my experience, just because I don't collect a fee does not make a relationship unsuccessful. Providing great customer service and building strong relationships will usually evolve into mutually beneficial interactions in subsequent years.
This seems to be a trend, at least in my perception: the more universal technology (the internet, mobile devices, ...) gets and the younger people become immersed in technology, the less they seem interested in how it works. The shortage in engineers and programmers seems grow while less and less people want to study these technical professions. At least where I live.

Why is this happening? Doesn't make sense to me.
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I wouldn't say it's more convenient. It's rather the case that most people have no clue about how to pirate music. It's an information asymmetry. You need to be at least minimally technically skilled to pirate.

Once you install an extension to chrome, it's actually easier to just go to youtube, search for a song, and click the download link. In iTunes, you have to set up a credit card, you can't copy the songs to any device, only works with iPhone ... etc. There are lots of inconveniences.
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> Yet, people still pirate music.

Do they really?

I remember 15 years ago when a lot of my friends started building mp3 libraries, ripping the CDs they had, and downloaded huge amounts of music.

Now, none of my friends have their libraries anymore, or care about it at all. They use Spotify, or Last.fm, or something similar and never pirate music, because it's simply too much work to do it, compared to just searching for exactly what they want in some paid service.
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Thank you. :) As a fan of PG's articles regarding language power, I've wondered why he didn't make more comparisons of other languages to Smalltalk (whether positive or negative)
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Let's not forget the happy medium: going on leave. Stanford lets students take 3 quarters off and many other universities offer a similar program. A few months may be enough time to decide if your side business is viable.
"There are no fees or minimum transactions for using your debit card at a business." isn't always true. For (small) business with not enough transactions, accepting debit cards is an expense, and below 10 euros they often charge 0.25. Nothing major though.

And the big downside to all of the above? Credit card acceptance is very very low. Tourists can only purchase train tickets by credit card at Schiphol Airport. Everywhere else the option is disabled due to fraud issues.
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Their customer service is amazing too. I've never had a bad experience with them.
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Crazy things like overdraft fees don't exist at all where I live (The Netherlands), you simply pay interest on the amount that you get below 0. So I doubt it is a symptom of anything. It's just another way in which the USA's predatory capitalism works.
> Old ideas put together in a new way

AKA innovation
Ask HN: What is the best way of getting back into programming?
A couple of months ago, I started learning Python. I got quite into it, before I became 'too busy' to do any programming.

So, my question to you guys is what is the quickest and easiest way to get back into programming?
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While using bcrypt is a good idea, why not just (also?) add a short (~0.5 second?) delay before responding to 'bad username/password' reply? This has the advantage that you aren't burning CPU cycles.
True, but this is all about the 'wings'. An one propeller heli will not fly, it will only spin around. But this thing uses flaps (or wings as you like).
That's why this is not just a heli inside a ball.
> that suggests bipolar people do better in a "difficult" environment than "regular" people would in the same situation?

Maybe there's something about it in here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depressive_realism#References ?
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Therapy? What about a close friend? Relative? Hell, even just pausing a moment to self reflect is better than therapy. Use community before you seek "professionals".
Hey, what this .swf file? Oh, that's a "Small Web File". LOL!

Flash just needs to die. It adds nothing to my "user experience". Except stealth tracking of course.
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I'm not making a judgement call, I'm just saying, it's gonna fuckin happen because deliveries must be made. You can write all the tickets you want, it just is the cost of doing business.

Also I'm not sure if you're referring to me or not, but I commute 95% by bike, over 4000 miles a year.
While the Kindle can handle ebooks from other sources, there's an Amazon logo on every one, and the 3G versions makes it so convenient to buy from Amazon that most customers probably won't shop around. For the iPad and Android they're facing off against a wide range of other players.
This is not the answer. Why don't we invent technology that beats the "supercookie" instead of passing laws that restrict innovation and ideas?
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When I was 13-14 or so, I used to say: "Suicidal thoughts? Stop thinking about them or just do it already." It's a stronger form, that I no longer agree with, of the "Get busy living, or get busy dying" sentiment I do still agree with. I stopped believing the stronger statement after I had a lot of suicidal thoughts that wouldn't go away.
You're still assuming that variety in a product category, or technology being all-powerful, is the end goal.

But to 95% of the world, or even 99%, this is not the case. Technology is there to make their lives easier and help them accomplish certain tasks.

I don't complain when my car cannot transform into a speedboat on cue - because that's not what I bought it to do. Likewise, I really don't care that my pen is unable to change brush shape or stroke size while I'm using it, where an artist might find that to be the bee's knees.

Technology is a means to an end - I for one am sick of the technocratic elite denying everyone the benefits of technology in the boneheaded pursuit of some kind of technological purity.
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I don't regret anything I did, I do regret how I did some things, but the action itself was always something that I wanted.

Cheating on my girlfriend wasn't the best way to break up with her, but if that relationship was perfect I'd seek shelter in it when things got rough rather than see it as something that I also have to get rid of.

Similarly for the job, if it was a good fit I wouldn't even think of quitting.
Make better software. Hackers are what drive innovation. I for one support this mans use of "supercookies". Law is not the answer for everything. We can fix things through advancement of technology not additional (pointless) legislature.
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Did they already sign a LoI with the other company? If so, then while this not as bad a breaking a signed contract, it is a big warning sign as well. It means they probably have told your "competitor" also how great they are, how important their software is for their business etc - just to keep on looking for something else. Would be a big red flag with regards to trustworthiness.
The difference here is not so much that it hovers and stabilises position, but that it has two modes of flying: when it hovers, it works like a helicopter (the propeller provides support), but when it goes forward, it works like a plane (the wings provide support while the propeller only provides forward movement).
I really want to know what would have happened if they just bought a couple 24 drive arrays and stacked them full of SSDs. 50,000 IOPS per second sounds like it could be handled with a couple gigs of BBWC and a decent drive array. Typically, you want about 200 15K spindles per CPU spread over a couple controllers, jammed full of delicious battery backed RAM.
Ask HN: Why garbage collection?
C programmers (myself included) can often write correct programs with manual memory management (malloc/free).

Why can't a sufficiently capable compiler/language manage its memory based on static analysis of a program? (i.e. insert its own 'free's where a programmer would have put them)
We are based in Italy, and we know European laws very well, so you're in good hands. One of the team members is a lawyer, of course :)

About the problem, it's weak if you own a personal website, but relevant if you sell websites to other people, for example if you are a freelance web designer or a web agency.

One of the goals of this first period of MVP was to test the need, and now we have many, many people praising for the product :)

I think that the problem is if the market is big enough for this product. Since the market is 'every website in the world', we can afford that part of it doesn't care of the problem, and still keep having millions and millions of potential customers.
I'm amazed that some people still do services without using memcached or similar. It's not very difficult, and brings enormous benefits.

So, why not?
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At the time of writing, the UK tax system's personal allowance (the amount of money you can earn free of tax) is £7,475. An increase in this rate would be beneficial to entrepreneurs attempting to start a business, because it leaves more money for the entrepreneur to pay other bills, clothe their children, pay the mortgage etc.

The UK government is committed to increasing this allowance to £10,000 by the time its term expires in 2015 (it was one of the things the Lib Dems insisted on).
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They can, and it's basically what LLVM does when you turn on ARC for your Objective-C program.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6385212/how-does-the-new-...
A random delay has an average. If you do enough attempts you can figure out what that average is. Then you do many trials and change if the average of those trials was above or below the random average.

Do that enough and you get your info.
I had a free checking account with TCF National bank (US). After getting hit number of times with overdraft fee, I went to my local branch, asked for a manager and explained that I want to disable overdraft protection on my checking account. Manager told me he can't do it and that I have to write a letter (they didn't have any forms for that) explaining things and send it to their HQ. Needless to say, I closed my account the same day.
This is slightly better, IMHO: http://www.python.org/doc/essays/list2str.html

Some best practices when optimizing CPython code:

* Re-evaluate your algorithm (an inefficient quicksort is still faster than an optimized bubblesort)

* Use Python functions and constructs implemented in C (ex. most builtins, list comprehensions)

* Move loops from outside functions to inside (function call overhead is high)

* Use try/except to handle uncommon cases rather than using conditional checks in a loop.

* Eliminate dots (attribute lookup) in tight loops (create a local alias if needed)

See also: http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonSpeed/PerformanceTips
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Actually, many prop planes can control the pitch of their blades as well :)
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Just build something.

If python is your thing, find a tutorial to build a todo list app or a calculator or whatever.

Once you finish that, either build the same thing in a different language / framework if you're not happy with your current tech choice, or build something that's slightly bigger than what you just build.
Well, there was almost no content in that that people familiar with Marco or idlewords don't already know. Still, cool to see it making Times.
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After waiting so long to get access to it and after hearing so much about it I am a bit disappointed.

http://getflow.com and http://trello.com seem to have stolen their thunder.
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Because if the 0.5 second delay is even marginally different than the amount of time it takes to actually run bcrypt, the attacker could tell the difference between valid/invalid usernames. Unless that 0.5 second delay comes from an extremely precise (and fresh) measurement of how long bcrypt takes to run, it's just as bad (if not worse) than doing nothing at all.
It doesn't need a camera...

iPhone knows your latitude and longitude --- your position on the surface of the Earth. It also knows the location of each star. Lastly, it knows which way your screen is pointing.

That's all the knowledge that's needed in order to display a starfield on the screen.
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Stellarium (http://www.stellarium.org/) is pretty good too. I've only used it on Windows and Linux, but there is Stellarium XL for the iPad.
I have a few years experience with CakePHP, Symfony 1 and I have also been playing around with Ruby on Rails a bit.

Now, I just finished going through the Symfony 2 internals to see what is so different from Symfony 1. I have to say that, when I realized the paradigm change, I had a WOW moment.

I mean most of the frameworks gravitate around the classical "MVC monilith active record framework" and they all resemble more or less Rails.

Symfony 2 isn't even a MVC framework (although it separates concerns very well), I mean it doesn't even have a Model!!!

At the core it's a Kernel object that is responsible for building a Service Container for dependency injection, into which all sorts of Components get pluged-in as services. And along the way it triggers lots of events to which you can attach listeners.

That's it! Everything else you augment by choosing the kind component you want to use and by configuring the Service Container.

After the little bit I played around with Ruby on Rails I have to say that Ruby is much nicer then PHP, but as a framework I really like where Symfony 2 was taken.
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Hence, signup forms tend to have CAPTCHAS more often than login forms. Also, it's easier to insert an artificial per-signup-form submission delay under the guise of "setting up your account". An artificial delay upon login might be annoying, but during signup it's not as painful (seeing as it's a one-time thing).
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I think this quote is hogwash, because having two opposed ideas in one's mind is a core functionality of the human mind. Everybody does it.

Take this vulgar example:

Idea 1: "I really want to have sex with that waitress" - "She is so hot"
Idea 2: "I really do no want to have sex with that waitress" - "Because I have a wife and kid"
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Exactly this - the UK banks tried to move closer to their US cousins a number of times, but each time consumers managed to stop a lot of these charges becoming commonplace, particularly with regard to charges or ATM fees.

If you want a really convoluted banking system, try Japan. Its not that you get charged for using another bank's machine, you just can't, with the ned result being that you are always on the hunt for the convenience store that contains your banks machine. My bank also offers no automated payments, and entering payment details is a sea of impenetrable numbers.
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I;ve tried, with some success. This kinda makes my point though, using shady means to download content because I am of one nationality and living abroad - not exactly an edge case.
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Yet, people still pirate music.

I pirate music from time to time, because (1) I can't find the albums I want from my country on iTunes or similar and (2) wages are lower where I live, and these services are still too expensive. Both issues are fixable however.

It's also the case that some people will always pirate stuff -- but does it really matter when the market got a lot bigger? To me it's really not an issue of price -- BUT I do refuse paying for crappy content or for content that's too expensive relative to my monthly revenue.

The biggest problems with the movies/music industries for example is not piracy, but crappy content. For instance I go watch movies at my local movie theater, and I regret paying for 25% of all movies I'm seeing, even though I'm pretty selective about it. That's just sad.

Nobody wants to spend their hard-earned money
on something they can just as easily get for free.

This is true, but the MP3 file itself is not the only thing you're paying for when using iTunes or similar.

Other things would be convenience (searching for stuff on PirateBay is totally not fun), free online backup (100 GB on DropBox is $20 / month - and with my current needs, I would need 3 times that storage and constantly growing) and the insurance that you're buying quality.

You see, even if people prefer Free all the time, people also think that quality reflects directly in the price paid. That's why people still buy Nike shoes, even though there are hundreds of brands producing cheaper clones with reasonable quality.

And back to searching on PirateBay, I can't count the number of times I downloaded something, only to find that it was not what I wanted or that it was of poor quality. Sometimes whole hours would pass until I found something that I liked, or until I gave up.

And that's the thing -- some people will always pirate, but other people will prefer buying if it is more convenient. And yet other people have this feeling of accomplishment when rewarding authors that they like (me included) ... like 2 days ago I bought a copy of an ebook called "The Making of Prince of Persia", even though you can find the whole book in the author's blog.
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I've found myself ordering tiny stuff like a single pack of caffeine pills (we're talking 24 pills here, not exactly bulk buying) rather than walking 10 minutes to the nearest pharmacy... It's scary.