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You have confused "what a national defense agency has said their reason for doing something is" with "why they are actually doing something".

The stated reason is not terribly compelling. Deorbiting satellites are very small, the Earth is very large. As the article correct points out, nobody has ever been injured by space debris, or even killed. Dozens of people are killed by cars every day, yet each automobile fatality does not make it into the New York Times.

Note the timeline of the two ASAT tests. China shoots down a satellite in January. One month later, the United States does the same thing, presumably in response. Why are the Chinese shooting down satellites?

A critically important piece of context is that China really, really hates satellite-guided bombs, such as the American JDAM. This is because the Chinese embassy in Belgrade was hit by five JDAMs during the 1999 NATO operation in Yugoslavia, killing three people, and injuring twenty others.[1]

The American position is that this was a simple mistake in targeting, as they were attempting to strike a Yugoslavian arms warehouse 180 metres away. The Chinese maintain the Bill Clinton personally ordered the attack, possibly while drinking the blood of Chinese infants, as a part of his mad genocidal urge to destroy the entire Chinese race. (The reaction of the Chinese media to the bombing was remarkably hysterical; it's essentially their 9/11, only they didn't have the option of invading the US)

Various cynical independents have pointed out that, five weeks earlier, the Yugoslavians had actually managed to shoot down a F-117, the only combat loss ever sustained by a stealth aircraft, and that the Chinese had been seen buying recovered debris from locals. You could make an amazing jump in deduction here, and conclude that they had been storing debris in their embassy, in the hopes that the Americans wouldn't bomb it in retaliation.

The JDAM depends on GPS satellites, which have to be in a fairly low orbit, for accuracy, and so that the receivers can use small antennas; where they are fairly vulnerable to ASAT missiles. (I don't believe any current ground-based ASAT missiles can hit targets in geosynchronous orbit, which is 15,000 kilometres higher than MEO. This is an educated guess, not a certainty: governments are chary about giving out details on the performance envelope of missiles.)

An ASAT weapon isn't something you want to use at the drop of a hat. Blowing something up in orbit produces a lot of debris, most of which hangs out in space for years. There's various doomsday scenarios, of varying plausibility, where blowing up a satellite produces high-velocity shrapnel which destroys other satellites, which in turn fragment, producing a cascade of destruction, throwing us back into the stone age.

In conclusion, you can blow it up, but you probably don't want to.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._bombing_of_the_Chinese_emb...
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What was the actual comment/context?
One thing I would like to add, in addition to my earlier comment, is this: There is a time to gamble, and a time to play it safe. The best time to gamble is when you've got the money to lose, not when your mortgage/rent payment is on the line.

Even if the startup has a great chance of success, my decision would personally be to go to Google. This is with very limited info. However, what we are going through right now very much resembles what we went through during the dot.com era. If history repeats itself, then in a couple years our job choices won't be so vast. In that case, I would rather be with the company that has billions in the bank and can continue to employ me. This is a very personal choice, and one that I'm sure is causing you tremendous anxiety. I hope this helps.
So their market is a free IDE?
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Simply being different/edgy doesn't mean it's better or effective. Someone can attempt to be different and you know what, be wrong. It's neat they made an effort and I hope they would continue to experiment though there comes a time when we must abandon ideas we have come to love if it is shown there is a better way and it takes great character to sacrifice.

Another point is that just because something was discovered a long time ago doesn't mean it's out-of-date, irrelevant and should be replaced. Our society now seems obsessed with changing everything for the sake of changing and ignoring the foundations we have been given.
Can we judge someone by their choice of words? Or rather, by what they allow out of their mouth?

When people become completely adjusted to swearing and it no longer helps 'drive a point home' (For some people), what will these people rely on then?
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Generally, there's data to support the submission as well.

The submission did not have the data (logs, bug reports, etc).

So it's pretty much easy to disprove the rant as nothing more than a rant.
This is unique to applications that wish to store users' data in a central location.
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> Am I Human? Clearly, YouTube is not.

That about sums it up. ;-)
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Sorry then. I misunderstood you.

But then why is that loyalty misguided?

How does it particularly different from loyalty to people (which you seem to think isn't misguided)?
Given your dire financial situation, you should probably treat Google as a backup while negotiating hard with the startup. The Google package is worth ~$100k more per year than the startup's? How steady is freelancing for you? Could you make ~$100k a year at it while holding a full-time job and being a family man?
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Surprising that this isn't a feature already. I can go to https://market.android.com/ and install apps straight to my phone from a browser on any machine if I'm signed in.
That and the launch system to LEO worked perfectly. It's the probe/upper stage that failed.
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It is disappointing to me as well.

People should be upvoting articles based on quality, not headline-bait or baseless rants (no data of bugs, no logs, etc) or rants where the person is oblivious (locks are in the docs).

Unfortunately, I can't downvote links. Like other sites, I can only ignore it for so long before it's drowned in noise (lack of interesting quality links).
I'm no expert in SQL (Especially the Oracle flavor) but why would the following not work?

SELECT *
FROM Products.Category AS c
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WHERE c.CategoryId = p.CategoryId (+)
AND p.ProductId IS NULL
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You'll be plenty valuable, don't worry. Sometimes the business guys go out and do market research, get preliminary letters of intent signed, do presentations, etc... Enjoy the experience, it's completely worthwhile and rewarding. (note: I'm a technical guy, been to a couple of these types of events, and know the value non-techs bring to the table)
>"given the volume and pace of new infringements on Hotfile, Warner could not practically download and view the contents of each file prior to requesting that it be taken down."

This seems to be the same line of reasoning that protects YouTube from legal responsibility for users' content.

YouTube won't (and doesn't have to) police everyone's uploads, because there are so many. Well now the media companies can spam DMCA takedown notices, but "there are too many to verify"... putting the costs of verification/validation of content back on the hosting sites?
You can connect to HipChat from any Jabber client, though unfortunately it makes chat rooms slightly less discoverable. (I’ve used Adium with reasonable success.) The big advantage is that (at least on a Mac) the Adobe AIR version is a tremendous CPU hog.
I don't think we'll be replicating the "can only run on only one OS" aspect of it, among others.
> I asked the founders to make something special for me: a version of playback that shows text that will ultimately be deleted in yellow.

Now a killer feature would be highlighting text that will be deleted immediately, not just in retrospect. =)

I guess, some super-smart NLP algorithm could be developed to make that possible—once enough data on what gets eventually deleted is collected.
I'm sorry you don't like it, but it's a fact. Predicting orbital decay to such accuracy is simply impossible.
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We wouldn't be having this discussion on the Internet if it weren't for our love of "tits and ass".

Why are we acting so prudish about sexuality? I know my wife wouldn't care about a reference to celebrity t&a. What kind of girls do take offense? I'll tell you what kind, ugly girls. Had to be said.
if data can't leave the room and it's on your network, you are in violation of that policy whether you have an intranet or an internet.

security policies like those are stupid, and an artifact of a time before networks. we shouldn't have to build our networks around outdated policies, security policy should be built to accommodate the technologies of the time.
Not that Russia screwing up a Mars missions should be newsworthy anyway.
Yep - in fact, I switched from a Mac Pro to a MacBook Pro largely because there was no way, at the time, to get a multitouch trackpad. I love the gestures.
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"""The OP isn't saying "let's not offend anybody." She's asking conference speakers and organizers to maintain a minimal level of professionalism and respect as is standard in pretty much any other industry."""

So basically make it as boring as an insurance convention...
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It's likely he made enough from the sale of his last startup that he wouldn't care about an exit. Thus, this could be his signal that he's staying in this company for the long-run. Since he doesn't plan to sell the company, stock probably won't be worth that much (unless they go public). But a 5-year retention bonus could turn out to be pretty good.

This isn't a big incentive for a tech startup employee (who could make $50K from 6 months of stock options). But for the people this guy is hiring, the bonus could be a morale booster and a pretty good deal.
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> it would not be surprising for a court to force partial payment if the "cause" is particularly flimsy or the timing excessively suspicious.

For that kind of upside, an employee might well roll the dice with a lawsuit, even if it were his or her case that was flimsy.

Some years ago, a client let an employee go (for poor performance) about a month before one of the annual stock option cliff vests. The employee sued, claiming that the company wanted to keep her from getting her next vest. The client settled the lawsuit, and soon afterwards, changed its ESOP so that the first vest would still be a cliff at one year, but then subsequent vesting would be quarterly. That way, there was much less incentive for disgruntled former employees to file lawsuits of that kind (and no one else ever did).
I'm a professional game developer who's jumped into indie/mobile. The problems people with my game are having are not (in general) things not working -- there are tutorials, and it's in the Angry Birds genre, so people know how to play it pretty quickly. I just got picked up by a major publisher (hint: they've had the #1 revenue app on iOS for a large percentage of the last two months...), so I'm not the only one who thinks my game is fit to run in the big leagues.

One problem is occasionally buggy devices or firmware. I have one crash where a WebView is dying trying to display an ad, and while the ad is possibly conflicting with the WebView, I'm not sure how to FIX that, since the ad being provided isn't under my control (aside from choosing another ad provider).

And don't get me started on Samsung and the SoundPool class. It will just lock up your Samsung device to USE a SoundPool on it in a game. But only intermittently. Sigh.

When the problem is they don't like ads -- well, it's a free game, and there aren't words I'm willing to use on HN that are sufficient to describe what I think of those...individuals.
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Used Google+ Page layout to illustrate the functionality of my app.
Very easy: everyone who had a significant role to play in this, starting at the very top of each institution - going for the people RESPONSIBLE and not necessarily the low traders and sales drones who were just following orders. Going for decision makers, those who actually made this possible.

You could probably just as well do it by millions of bonus paid out.
Does anyone know the reason for referencing Android and ChromiumOS in such a context? Surely they are not implying that Google's considering shutting those projects down. Are there perhaps some ChromiumOS/Android specific search systems?

edit: I assume they are referring to this http://www.google.com/codesearch/p?hl=en#uX1GffpyOZk/core/ja...
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I would never normally submit anything political and I have not even been active in the Occupy Movement at all. But I saw this on twitter and couldn't believe it hasn't been covered anywhere else. This is literally happening in Berkeley and one of the school professors was taken to the hospital because of it
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Thanks! I'm pretty young and haven't dealt much with these kinds of financial issues before, so the advice helps a lot.
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Old Windows CE devices could do that too: you just had to click on a .cab file link from within the device's browser to install a program.
Thanks for posting the slides.

I don't find them funny, I find them interesting and useful. It's a discussion on interesting aspects of the Cocoa libraries. The common theme is that dirty minds could find the names of certain calls naughty. But it's not discussed or the point of the slides at least.

Seems like a reasonable talk. I was actually all set to defend the point of the author of the article, having read the article, but now seeing the slides I don't really see anything at all troublesome here. It's a valid tech talk.

But as you say, perhaps the video of the session would indicate the slides were ignored and it was a wild free for all of obscenities and bigotry.
> I wonder if they used a regex for that?

Not possible. You have to parse the file fully to extract that information; regular expressions aren't powerful enough.
Those are all desktop apps, though. Mobile apps - like the ones referred to by the article - are rarely for content creation.
That would be worth gold the right buyers, assuming legal cleared it. Is there an ethical issue, do you think, with not informing the fillee of that? No current opinion either way.
Yeah, this is a terrible headline. Google's emulating a Facebook widget (sort of). Nothing deeper.
the left and right buttons already work actually, and if you press space you can pause the music.
I'm just teaching myself how to program as a hobby (makes no sense to do it professionally at this point in my life) and I think this is one of the best descriptions of programming I've read.

This description also highlights why it's fun. It's like doing a brainteaser except you're actually producing something that is useful.
that's what screencasts are for - write code and annotate it with with a voiceover as you along. There is big enough niche between plain text code and screencasts.
I'm 35 and I honestly don't see any problem with that line of thought. But then again, I'm not a WASP, and I'm not into political correctness either.
Yeah, I've never been a big spender, and I've scaled back even more, so pretty much all my income goes to my parents.

Thanks for the advice! The open and honest route definitely sounds like the way to go.
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<answer based on generic startup model>

>The consulting wouldn't affect my main job

The higher your level of responsibility, the less likely it is to be the case.

However, the problem I see is that even if you get the blessing to consult from the startup founders, it is likely to fall outside of the company culture - there is a high probability that the consulting will necessitate a more 9-5 mentality than is appropriate for a person with substantial stock options (assuming the stock options are substantial enough that it doesn't take a billion dollar valuation to allow you the option to take up full time investing).

In the end, the side work is just too likely to be seen as a lack of commitment in an environment where others have forgone salary for the sake of the enterprise.

In other words, even if consulting doesn't affect your work, there will always be a reasonable suspicion that it does.
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This is a fun problem.

Issuing takedowns for things you don't control is wrong, and it's easy to verify that it costs the host time and money to resolve their mistakes. Suing material, basically.

Meanwhile, having penalties for issuing faulty takedowns means it's impractical for owners to police things fast enough - the uploaders can always out-pace them. So it's essentially the same situation, in reverse.

I side with the hosts on this, especially as issuing a takedown seems equivalent to a company claiming ownership of something that's definitively not theirs - a bit of a no-no, I hear. And since issuing the takedowns is easily poorly-automated, but not actually performing the takedowns or dealing with unhappy paying customers, it seems (completely) unfairly weighted against hosts unless they're explicitly protected.

But really, there's absolutely no way to make everyone happy in this, unless illegal sharing goes away entirely on its own. Hosts can't catch everything, owners can't watch everything, and removing user-uploaded content sites would massively cripple the internet.
From your comment it becomes clear: At the moment "web" is primarily a data display platform. Not surprising, given its pedigree. Input techniques are quite limited... Especially responsive ones we've become used to on mobile. Sounds like a good project to work on..
You are assuming that it is always true that the government bureaucracy is always in complete compliance with the law. I believe this is an unwarranted assumption.
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Pages were superior because:

1. Scrolls were more difficult to handle as you read.

2. You could jump around to various places in a long book document, but with a scroll you had to manually unravel it to the point you were looking for, a time consuming process.

3. Books were not without their difficulties, however: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQHX-SjgQvQ

But in all seriousness, the scroll concept works perfectly well, in fact better than the book concept, provided you have the right technology to drive it. And modern computers have that technology. I can use a search box to jump to wherever I want. I can quickly scroll up and down in the document using a scroll bar rather than paging through a book.
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A company can send non-legally binding notices to copyrighted content it does not own?

What legally stops me from filing it against all of Warner Bros' legitimate content like trailers then?
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I'm lucky in that the startup is fairly mature and encourages a good work balance, but yeah, I don't want it to be an 8 to 5 gig either. One of the reasons I want to join is that I think the vision is something I can dedicate myself to, which I feel less likely to want to do at Google.

Again, thanks for the advice, I really, really appreciate this and your other comment.
It makes sense to focus on founders over ideas because the idea frequently changes as MVP's a launched and lessons are learned. The people stay the same. YC is not stuck with the business plans that are pitched, they are stuck with the founders they accept.

Plans can change, people rarely do.
Or, ala Reddit, comments from deleted users.
Unfortunately, getting the $50K as a lump sum could have negative tax implications. If it pushes you into a higher tax bracket, you could end up paying more tax than if you got a little bit each year. Plus, you'll have the disappointment of seeing much less than $50K after all the taxes (income taxes, social security, etc.) are withheld.

Also, by having to wait five years for the money, you're giving up any possible investment gains and income that you could have made if you'd had the money earlier.
Who the fuck goes to a talk titled: "The Ten Dirty Words and How To Use Them." and is surprised that there are jokes of an offensive nature? It basically screams this talk is going to be unprofessional.

Exactly what could the presenter have done to more fully communicate the nature of the talk? Put up a green first slide that says "This talk is rated "O" for offensive by the Tech Conference Association of America."?
Wait, you're looking to Silverlight for cross OS/browser support? ha!
When that is the stated purpose of the talk, then one has the option to avoid it. It doesn't seem fair to attend a talk that warns you of its nature, and then complain about it.
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Quick backstory:
1. I'm from the UK, when I was doing A levels, I was performing as a musician all over the UK, which made a ton of money (relatively) at the time for me, and I thought it'd last forever. It didn't. I let my A level grades totally slip, and...

2. In this time I've built and sold several online businesses which I won't detail in order to stay anonymous, but let's just say I take my self-education very seriously and have developed serious entrepreneurial balls. I spent all the damn money and let my nut run out. My fault.

3. I'm screwed, 20 years old, and have bad A levels..what do I do? I'm damn good with computers, dabbled in it from time to time and thoroughly enjoyed it, so I'll do Computer Science as a degree and go into being a programmer, with the added benefit to my future employers of being a pretty good copywriter - who gets results analytically.

4. Damn I have bad grades. I can only get into london met university, which doesnt have an excellent reputation.

I'll have to make the best of this situation no doubt, but my biggest question to you is, if you were in my situation, with a stellar track record for a 20 year old, but bad academic prospects, and being in the first year of a degree with THE bottom-rated university of the UK..

what would YOU do, in order to get into a career as a developer?
You could start with "This piece of... software..."