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Wasn't there an experiment PG tried a couple of years ago that only showed links that the top percentage of contributors had upvoted?

I suspect a lot of this stuff (and lets be honest, the quality of HN posts has been a bit down lately) is from reddit refugees.

Basically the opposite of this: http://news.ycombinator.com/noobstories
Isn't it also easier to implement if you don't force the customer to go through a rather long and annoying cancel form?

Win-win for the developer and the user, then.
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Yeah, I had a P800 running UIQ back in the day. But I think the bottom line is that if you put a UIQ phone, a WinCE phone, an iPhone, and a G1 in a lineup, the G1 would be a lot closer to the iPhone than the others. And the similarity has only increased over time.
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"If you are a resident of or have your principal place of business in the US or Canada, this Statement is an agreement between you and Facebook, Inc. Otherwise, this Statement is an agreement between you and Facebook Ireland Limited. References to “us,” “we,” and “our” mean either Facebook, Inc. or Facebook Ireland Limited, as appropriate."

Wonder what's valid for me. When I created the account I wasn't US resident, now I am.
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Make sure you keep your taxes up to date.

Make sure the local government knows that your taxes are up to date.

Make sure you follow the rules in your neighborhood covenants.

Make sure you know when the neighborhood council have charged you for a remedy that they took upon themselves, make sure you pay that, and make sure you see the levy notice if you don't pay it.

Make sure ...
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I liked the post a lot. I was sympathetic to it because I've met mikael and he's a really cool developer -- on the level of very few others.

Y'all can criticize a blogpost for not being concise. And that makes sense. But just thought I'd voice that it's not just about concrete information transfer from a marginal utility standpoint. Sometimes it's just interesting to read what other bright developers are thinking (even it's sort of loose thoughts).
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You are so right. When I visited Egypt years ago, the amount of "helping" was so over the top. It really does get in the way.
It's not just BofA, that was just the bank specifically mentioned in the article, and of course one of the worst offenders in the general category of being a major pain in the ass.

Most of the cases I read about begin either before the owner falls behind, or shortly after the first missed payment. They try to work with the bank on a loan modification, sometimes under the federal program that some qualify for, but paperwork just keeps getting "lost" -- sometimes they claim to have never received it, other times they freely admit that they "lost" it themselves.

Edit: I'm not speaking generically here about all foreclosure cases. I'm speaking strictly about cases where loan modifications were sought, and the owners weren't turned down, and followed the bank's instructions, but one day the bank just decided to start the foreclosure process, and after that it was robo-bank time, nothing could be done.
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Ah, I understand. I had assumed some level of sarcasm in your post -- my mistake.

I agree with you.
Wait, are you saying she'd make more if there was welfare? How does that work?
Basically everyone is waiting for Spain, Italy, Greece, Portugal, Ireland and Iceland to crash. None of them have, despite all the screaming and all of them will have to implode in their own sad ways, eventually.

Thus, despite all the media talk about fear, drama and emotion people in the investment community are actually very unemotional and pragmatic and unfearful (I can not say they are courageuous now can I?)

The problem is that all of the above countries are still stuck in economic bubbles, yes the bubbles are not as rosy but they are in bubbles still — partly to keep American, British and French banks safe (who are the largest other party to all the debt that these countries have taken), partly because the populations there love to delude themselves.

Investors will get back into Europe after the crash to buy on the cheap — almost everybody is as cunning as a fox these days, nobody buys when the price is percieved to be too high, because of the abudance of information.

These types of investors are small guys like you & me, sovereign wealth funds.

However, there is an another type of investors who look for even a bigger score. Obviously, the counterweight to buying on the cheap in Europe is that a lot of banks in the U.S., British and France will be up for grabs as well.

To give you an example of how these other type of investors operate — you might not have noticed but there was a lot of noise during this late summer from the controlled alternative media, such as Zerohedge and even your trusty old charlatan Alex Jones and from rumours on the trading floor about Societe Generale being on the verge of a collapse — these rumours were magnified until the moment that S.G. turned to the Rothschilds in France for help and guardianship — then suddenly everything stopped. Heheee.... somebody is beginning to take control of the banks on the cheap.

The funny part is that the Rothschilds are not as rich as people claim or think they are — there have been a lot of people in the U.S. who are richer than them in terms of net worth, however they just manage affairs by spreading rumours and perception better than you or I can or that glamorous, over-the-top big, soverign wealth fund ever can — connections, connections.

I mention this as an example to conclude that there are two types of investors, the ones who are waiting for the big crash and the ones who are trying to manipulate through the anxiety and rumours prior to the big crash.

But nobody is particularly scared of anything as far as things go. Everybody is preparing themselves, like F1 cars for the start of the race. A game of nerves, perhaps but not of emotions if you know what I mean.

References, before you judge me:

[1] http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20110823-709045.html
[2] http://www.latribune.fr/entreprises-finance/banques-finance/...
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I flagged the story. I've found that politely asking others to flag stories works, even when the story has gotten voted up. Sometimes I'll even try to say something nice about the story at the same time.
Unfortunately "1222 pages" is a pretty clumsy measure of data, making this hard to really get a mental handle on. I'd be more interested in a byte or word count.
I bought a G1 back in February 2009 around when Android 1.1 was released and it didn't look "exactly like an iPhone". It didn't support multi-touch, it didn't have an on-screen keyboard and the launcher was quite different in operation from iOS. Applications weren't (and still aren't) added to the main launcher screen by default and instead get added to the application drawer. Apps have to be manually added to the home screens. Android of that era also made extensive use of a long-press gesture (I distinctly remember it as I found it quite un-intuitive at the time) which didn't show up in iOS until version 3.2 (except for in the homescreen anyway).

Physically, the devices were quite dissimilar too. The G1 had a smaller screen, was much thicker, had a slideout keyboard and a trackball in addition to five face buttons (Call, End Call, Home, Back and Menu).
Who'd want to buy a house

Renters who don't want to be inconvenienced by foreclosures on their rented property. There is a time value to packing, moving and unpacking, and then updating addresses.
As far as I could tell, the landlord wasn't claiming to be entirely blindsided, but blindsided by the actual foreclosure and auction when he'd been in communication with the bank seeking a modification.

He absolutely should have told the tenant what was going on sooner, but I have no reason to doubt, and plenty of reason to believe, that the landlord was trying to fix it and wasn't expecting an immediate foreclosure when it happened.
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As someone not wholly familiar with government bonds, let me ask- does this mean that private creditors, aka individuals like you or I, are taking a 50% loss on investments? Or is this at a corporate or governmental level?
Is a side channel attack very feasible in a cloud computing setting? Say for the server spaces of places like Amazon EC2, Rackspace, Linode, and other such providers.

Also, could this sort of thing be circumvented by doing the encrypting and decrypting inside a virtual environment and then interspersing random computations throughout?
Exactly. Look at the margins on the pages in that picture...they look like they're about 2 inches.
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>>It's a nice car, but far from one of the finest cars in the world.

I'm not trolling and this is a sincere question. Which car would you consider among the finest in the world?

Edit: Thanks for the replies.
Did they "acquire" the technologies or develop it themselves? How do they even figure out the price to offer you?
http://news.ycombinator.com/classic ?
Sounds like the owner might have been underwater on the mortgage, decided his best bet was to keep collecting rent and stop paying the mortgage, and hand over the property to the bank, unless by some miracle they gave him a mortgage modification.

It's a messed up situation. A mod to reduce the mortgage amount in line with market value might have been better for everybody. But another wrinkle is the bank might have sold the mortgage and just be servicing it on behalf of bondholders, and there's no way to get all the bondholders to agree to start doing mods. And it's a bad precedent to do mods every time the borrower thinks he's underwater, even if he has the ability to pay.

Even if the bank still owned the mortgage, they are not well equipped to deal with situations like these. They're not professional property managers who can take over the property and deal with a renter. It's also a PR nightmare if they foreclose and then try to kick someone out so they can sell it at full value. So they end up selling it at a lowball price to someone who is willing to do the dirty work.

I think the writer might be confused about TARP. Mostly TARP was buying stock in the banks, most of which was paid back. There were some programs to buy and guarantee assets. I guess if TARP had somehow bought that mortgage it could apply. Not saying TARP was a great idea or not, just that it wasn't a blank check for banks to no longer care if they got value from the property.

The latest administration proposal is to let mortgage owners refinance no questions asked, even if they're underwater, if they've been paying on time. That seems like a good idea.

http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2011/10/few-comments-on-ha...
"History shows that vendor lock-in" blah blah. Why has Apple remained so successful despite locking-in consumers with the app store and itunes?
go for classic view if you want... http://news.ycombinator.com/classic
Seeing that this is basically writing an app on top of an engine that isn't portable or sharable it's not exactly in line with: "There seems a reasonable chance that handheld devices will displace laptops as development machines in the same way that laptops displaced desktops."

Why hasn't anyone pointed out that if you wanted to program for fun on the run you could bring your graphing calculator with you. Was I the only one here that did that?
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The blog said TARP, the blog is wrong. Downvoting Colin will not change that.
This app goes against the iOS Devloper Program License Terms.

They specifically state no code or scripts may be executed period unless (a) they bundled in the application's package or (b) use WebKit and WebKit's JavaScript

If Apple is relaxing their policies it would be good to know. Lots of others would like to write apps like this but were told they would be banned.

Maybe they are getting around it by running Lua in JavaScript in WebKit?
There are certainly cars that go above this one, but once you cross the $100k threshold, you're basically in the "I don't care what it costs" territory.

(Personal dream cars that cost more than this):

Ascari A10

Koenigsegg CCX

Ariel Atom V8
Are all you guys as fucking bored and burned out as I am since the acquisition? Counting the long days until we're vested?
Ignorant guy talking here: Wouldn't it just "fly away". I mean, its a gas. Why would there be any sticking around when delivered to the dealer?
Multi-Touch was disabled in the G1 on purpose but was there (it appeared in the European version:http://androidcommunity.com/forums/f8/some-good-videos-on-en...). It didn't have an onscreen keyboard because it had a physical keyboard but Android that an onscreen keyboard (as evidenced in the sdk video). Applications are added to the Apps screen instead of the launcher but Google just added a step.

As for the rest no one was saying the G1 was identical to the iPhone just that the OS looked identical.
I agree that Amazon's site is pretty terrible at finding what you want or discovering new content, the player isn't too bad itself though. I especially like the pop-out feature which lets me resize the video window exactly how I want it.
You may be thinking of comments like this (from 'nirvana):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3102129
There are a slew of more expensive cars. Whether they are finer is a matter of opinion.

For example, I think that the bugatti veyron is one of the finest cars in the world.

As for price, the hermes-modified veyron is about 10 times more expensive than the SL65.
Hopefully only the top page was printed out and he didn't actually print all that out.
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I really wish this butt-hurt comment wasn't at the top. It's a beautiful app.
Yep. This story started out sounding like it was going somewhere. But in the end, it didn't.
> I just don't understand _why_ they didn't touch it between iOS1 and iOS5.

My guess is: limited engineering power and other things they considered more critical to user-experience (however misguided their consideration was).
The saddest part is how much easier it would have been to provide a byte count than to print those out and count the reams he went through (if he even did so)
There's a whole class of cars in the 100-250K class (more expensive BMW/Mercedes/Porsche) which are a notch below the 350-450K range (Bentley/Rolls Royce)

That first range is generally for the rich professionals who do care, to some extent, about price. I would say the "I don't care what it costs" territory starts at around 400K
> They're not professional property managers who can take over the property and deal with a renter.

Neither are most rental property owners. I think you'll find most landlords who have many tenants either engage the services of a property management company, or end up effectively building one themselves.

I think the major banks could dedicated a few of their middle managers and staff attorneys to finding and contracting with some reputable management companies for a while.
While it's good to see online privacy issues getting more attention, I think that the enduring message that people take away from these articles shouldn't be "Facebook is evil", but rather "I should be more aware of the privacy of my data". (Although, if Facebook is breaking the law, that's a little different.)

After all, these issues aren't specific to Facebook. They, and companies like them, are collecting information that has been voluntarily surrendered to them in the first place, whether explicitly by you (creating an account, messaging people), by others (friends tagging you, inviting you to events), or implicitly (visiting websites with "like/share" buttons). People need to be aware of these issues across all facets of their online life, not just the policies of a single company.
IMO, Rs.800-999 would be closer to the mark, for a family of four with a bank officer. About $20 US.
I see dozens of people failing to obey traffic laws every day. Few of them appear to be billionaires.
I'm well aware of all the stories of people getting screwed over by banks while trying to renegotiate their mortgages, and I'm also well versed in foreclosures, since a few people that I've known have gone through this process via strategic defaults. I would hazard a guess that I know more about this process than you do.

But I still don't believe that the reaction of the landlord makes sense to me, unless the author was missing some key facts.

The article says that not only was he renting the house for several years, but the landlord also raised his family in it. So, depending on how long the landlord owned it, there must be considerable equity built up in the house. To let something like this slip away without fighting it would be ridiculous. If the account of the author is accurate, then it sounds like the landlord walked away from the place. It just doesn't make sense that he would be apologetic to the renters, but instead he should be steaming mad, and would be trying to protect his investment. If this were me, and I just lost a house that I put a few 100k into it, and I had good renters, I would tell my renters "Don't move anywhere, I'll handle everything." But it sounds like he hung he renters out to dry.

Remember, in order to get a loan mod (which the landlord claims he was in the midst of), the landlord at some point must have stopped paying his mortgage, so he definitely was collecting rent without paying the mortgage. Landlords letting their rental units slip into foreclosure, which collecting rent is even more common than banks screwing up and accidentally foreclosing on homes, so to me this is the more likely scenario.
I will probably get downvoted for this simply because I'm disagreeing with patio11. Frankly, I don't care.

To be honest, you can leave your content-free political jabs and meta-comment meandering off of HN as well. The aricle isn't rambling and incoherent. It's one tech founder's story of how his startup is being jolted by issues with housing - a major problem across America.

I hate to say it, but no matter where you stand on the issue, the Occupy protests are too big to ignore. Hundreds of people will likely see the occupysf protests when they come to Startupschool this weekend. The issues they raise have major implications on business owners. You can't just sweep it under he rug with a "its not tech" statement and an ad hominem attack. We are supposed to be better then that.

Besides, I'd rather see blog posts from real founders than see bullshit HTML 5 demos anyday.
Flagged. Please keep this soapbox garbage on other websites. There aren't many forums on the internet that aren't infected by this endless American whining, tantrums, and absurd political bullshit.
While privacy doesn't always seem like a concern, lots of these things come back to bite you later on.
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I don't think the amount of data (or pages) is important, although it's attractive as a headline. The important aspect is the apparent indefinite retention of deleted information.

I wonder if the data retention is on purpose? And if so, why? Commercial reasons? A requirement from a stakeholder?
> People were acting aggressive, not criminal ...

Suppose a hair dresser buys a house for $750k, the interest payments alone consume 50% of family income, clear title has not been established for the house, and the signed mortgage document is filed into a dumpster. Suppose hundreds of similar mortgages are piled together into a mortgage-backed security.

The criminals were rating that festering bond as AAA (highest rank) and stuffing it into pension funds. The rating fee was on the order of $500k, but the raters did not even pick a single private eye out of the phone book to verify that the house even exists, nor a CPA to see that if the paperwork exists.

The whole thing was a fraud from beginning to end. Thousands of people need to go to prison, and pay trillions in restitution.

> Just tell me the the end-of-day positions of every "large" participant.

Bernie Madoff Investments had stellar numbers. The whole point of a financial fraud is that the numbers are cooked.
No, it's correct that iOS 4.0 was a huge performance hit on the 3G: it significantly increased iOS memory requirements, on a phone which was already memory constrained It was unusably slow.

iOS 4.2 improved some things and made it usable again, but the phone was still nowhere near as responsive as under iOS 3.1

On the other hand, rsheridan6 had bought a year-old design.
> I couldn't help be struck by Rob Pike's comments on the death of Dennis Ritchie a few weeks after Steve Jobs

Wow, O'Reilly's sense of time is way off. Ritchie's death was announced one week after Jobs.
Both. Pension funds and the like often invest in government bonds; traditionally they're a safe investment used to hedge against riskier ones like stocks. With the latter you know there's no guarantee of performance, but you expect a risk premium in the firm of a dividend or accelerated growth. 'Bond' is another word for 'promise' so you should be able to rely on it. Saying that 'people knew the risks' of investing in bonds misses the point: they're supposed to be risk-free, so bond default is a very big deal.
I feel the same way about email. If I know you're running your list through someone like Mail Chimp, I'm more likely to give you my email address, because I know how easy they make it to unsubscribe.
I see no reason why a guy who owned a hundred identical black turtlenecks should not also have owned a succession of identical Benzes.

It's not what I'd do, but hey, I'm not (yet) rich enough to be eccentric.
Google has been stepping up. (Google it.) Facebook has been hiring a lot of "Washington insiders" for awhile now. Etc.

While pg talks about HN as a community of (historically) "apolitical nerds" as a positive thing[1], but being apolitical will catch up with you eventually if you have anything worth losing. If members of congress don't have programmers in their mind as future frothing voters, or people who would ever support them, that's probably a bad thing.

[1]I do agree a lot of the political 'discussions' on HN aren't worth having here, and create a lot of noise, but I know way too many apolitical tech savvy individuals. At least make it known to whoever is in office that they do not want you against them, and be willing to pick a side.
Modest by the definition of, no one notices your driving it. In any affluent area a Mercedes stands out no more than a Toyota.
I wrote a Slashdot submission about exactly this recently:
http://slashdot.org/submission/1778830/google-is-gagging-use...

For me, I want to find out why it is happening, because as I mentioned in the Slashdot submission, it is "ironic that these anonymity requirements are needed to talk about nymwars". I am not for real name policies, but I do believe problems like this needs to be fixed.
Perhaps win-win for the customers and developers, but not so win-win for the investors.

Personal gyms practically make their living out of impossible-to-cancel memberships.

Some economist should do an analysis of how much money is spent on unwanted/unused subscription fees. I bet the answer would be interesting.
I think print to pdf is pretty easy... If anything, easier than byte counts, especially after formatting, graphs, and other stuff is factored in...