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Most of the organizations made sense on the list (in the sense that they think they have something to gain) but there were a few I just couldn't figure out:

-National Fraternal Order of Police

-National District Attorneys Association

-National Criminal Justice Association

Why would these 3 organizations be supporting this bill?

If anyone knows, I am curious.
Isn't a startup a company? I'm guessing u're refering to a "project"/"webapp" as "startup"?
I see. That must be the explanation for why the media didnt blow iPhone 4 "Antennagate" out of proportion, and why the media gave Apple a pass for using the same Foxconn factory journalists gave Dell and others such a hard time for using...

On the contrary, Apple is reported on like a celebrity because celebrity sells magazines, papers, or page views. The reporters are happy to write admiring articles, but even happier if they can find dirt to dish. The more controversy, the merrier.

Even on non-controversial topics, writing the contrarian point of view is more likely to drive links and page views and "engagement". Why do you think Joe Wilcox has a job? And why did MacWorld employ Dvorak? Turns out people get hired for dissing Apple.
Hmmm. I think I still maintain my preference for bad Java over bad Ruby. The AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBeanImpl insanity is painful, but I feel like most Java problems can be solved with pruning shears. Ruby's metaprogramming, on the other hand, puts COMEFROM-style functionality into the hands of noobs, and its duck typing makes it very hard to answer basic questions about what the hell X is. In Java, I can always tug on something and figure out what it's connected to. But perhaps that's just a matter of my personal debugging style.

Broadly, though, I think you're right: it's irrelevant to the real problem. Java is the new COBOL because most large software development organizations are functionally insane. They can't tell good code from bad, and rig things in a way that bad code is almost guaranteed anyhow. So naturally they'd prefer a language in which bad code is merely painful, not fatal. Because that lets them cover up their failings for much longer periods.

My personal solution is yours: stop working with other people's shitty code. I'd like to see the problem solved across the industry, but focusing on language choice doesn't seem like it's getting us anywhere.
Totally biased poll obviously but still nice to see all the stories.

I was lucky enough to find two amazing cofounders to start Ridejoy and doubly lucky to participate in YC. Being a founder isn't for everyone but for me, it's the most thrilling occupation I could imagine. I wouldn't trade it for anything.
Maybe because of the PKI features of SSL?

For instance...with an SSH client, the first time you contact a new server you're asked to verify the remote host's identity. I bet most of us just blindly type 'y' at this point despite the security implications. On the other hand, with SSL, you can have the server cert signed by a CA the client trusts.
Would you learn a Skill or get A Business Degree?
The video was posted on InfoQ on December 23. Since the presentation's slides got a good reception on HN two months ago, I thought HNers might be interested in the video.

Previous discussion of the slides at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3169678
If there were anti-piracy legislation introduced which in your eyes was better than SOPA, would you support it or are you against regulating the Internet in any form?
Why emphasizing the influence he had on the company would in any way state they can't survive without him? Can't see any relation here, just a homage. It's not like they're trying to bring him back from the dead/permafrost or talk to his spirit or anything...
Japan has the highest suicide rate among youth across all industrialized nations

I'd like to know what source you have for this statement, because the last time I checked the issue with World Health Organization figures, the statement you just made was incorrect. The WHO figures are stratified by age groups (which, if followed over time in WHO annual reports, can be tracked as age cohorts), and although Japan has long had a higher AGGREGATE suicide rate than the United States, manifested especially in a high rate of suicide by the elderly (age cohorts born before World War II), it has often in my lifetime had a lower YOUTH suicide rate than the United States. Moreover, in many of the postwar decades the youth suicide rate in Japan was declining while the youth suicide rate in the United States was rising.

Here's a little snippet of a FAQ I prepared in the 1990s to show the youth suicide trend for the United States to that decade: "In the United States, recent studies suggest that between 5 and 10 percent of adolescents have made suicide attempts . . . Suicide is currently the third leading cause of death among 15-to-24-year-olds, . . . Moreover, this incidence has increased threefold from the 1950s to the 1980s (Berman & Jobes, 1991; Fingerhut & Kleinman, 1988) . . ." -- James Zimmerman, "Treating Suicidal Adolescents: Is It Really Worth It?" in Treatment Approaches with Suicidal Adolescents (1995).

As in all such matters, if any participant here can point to current officially gathered statistics by an internationally comparable methodology (for suicide, that is the WHO statistics) with age stratification and a time series for each country, I would be glad to check the details.
Banks Struggle With Euro Contingencies
thanks. fixed.
You seem to miss the part in the original post where he states that things are running just fine. Everybody knows Bob has to set the machine to 190 degrees.

What they lack is the knowledge why it's 190 degrees. That's a bit harder to just pin on management. Anybody who's worked on a project for a long time has seen that drain of knowledge.

Alice, who wrote subsystem XYZ, leaves for greener pastures. Bianca and Christy worked on it with her, but they were juniors when they first started. Some practices, they just adopted without thinking about the why.

Now XYZ needs to be ported to a new environment, call it dotWEB. The question why things were done that way inevitably arises. Unfortunately, Alice works for a competitor - talking to her would violate all sorts of security rules.

That is the problem he's talking about. And like the original author, I'm not sure there's an easy to fix this. Not even if everybody including the bosses is supremely competent.
I hate iTunes and Quicktime with a passion and don't consider them to be user friendly, but then again I'm a Windows user, so maybe it's my fault.
The Software Crisis
True enough. But why respond at all? Seems like it has some effect, even if not as large as one might like.
I lived in Japan for two years in a rural/semi-urban area. It was only about 2 hours from Tokyo, so I have seen the difference between urban and rural life.

Two things come to mind with this:

1) The huge divide between big business and small business. There are so many small businesses in Japan that don't scale. They run from small run-down shops run by old people to super-trendy, artisan shops run by young people. Most of these younger people just want to run a small artisan-type business, they're not interested in being a part of the next big thing, or going public, looking for investor backing, etc.. These businesses are essentially confined to a community and neighborhood. The largest I've seen is one that spreads across the prefecture.

On the other end, you have the zaibatsu/keiretsu, which are run by oligarchies (Mitsubishi, etc.). A lot of young businesses talent is driven to these companies because they run essentially everything. I feel like this is what's driving the economy, and it's also not a part of the consciousness of the everyday Japanese person.

2) Japan's global stance. Japan is very traditional and modern in very awkward and confusing ways. People may have high definition TVs, but they live in hundred-year old houses with antiquated heating systems.

A friend once told me that Japan may be inefficient or wrong in some ways, but Japanese people like it and want it that way, and they are willing to work hard for it.

I feel like maybe the whole Japanese economic boom was some type of fluke. It was an odd advantage that a naturally introverted society had, and the economy is just going back to the way it was always supposed to be. I don't know if they're supposed to have a large economy, or really want one if it comes with a certain price.

Do you guys get what I'm saying?
Two things.

1) In the place of the world where you are: Is "piracy" legal or do you already have laws against it?

2) The internet is regulated. I'm not totally sure about future changes in that regard. So far, all the 'ohhhh my god, we're killing jobs/innocent children' arguments fail to explain why a new way to regulate the internet is needed. I'm not allowed to download the latest movies, period. If I'd do that, I'm gambling. If I (since this tends to be conflated with theft a lot) go to my local video shop (yep, these still exist) and manage to steal a dvd, I'll be punished if you catch me. Just like - with the current anti-piracy legislation.

Writing this down I realize that I'd be hard-pressed to support this kind of legislation, really. This is coming from someone that buys a metric ton of things 'to support' people (currently I'm hunting for a decent site that lets me buy the remake of Another World, after the flashback I got from the discussion on HN).
Ask HN: What accounting services do you use?
I'm a self-employed developer and recently formed an LLC. I'm not too keen on doing business taxes four times a year and am looking for an online accounting service that's as polished as the other tools I use (freshbooks, etc.).

Any recommendations?
Can we learn anything from legal discovery processes?
Coders take up USPTO's $50,000 challenge
hi - any ideas how to fix it? wrttn.in is my site and i can make a change to the css or rendering if necessary...
Best Christmas Gifts for Computer Hackers
Blogcast 1.1.0 is Here!
I've been using Hover for quite some time now, they are great.
You can even change the search engine for that. Try about:config --> keyword.URL
It's for the same reason that we sometimes favor Newton's tools over Einstein's: RAM isn't the only cognitive limit. "Powerful" in the sense you're using is similar to compression. The deeper the compression, the more effort it takes to unpack fully.

Deeper abstractions are only useful in coding to the extent that you don't have to understand the details. But abstractions leak:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/LeakyAbstractions.htm...

As Martin Fowler writes, "Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand." You might be able to turn 100 lines of Java into 1 line of Lisp, but if it takes your colleague more time to understand and modify the 1 line of Lisp than the 100 lines of Java, then you've made things worse.
I usually consider my start-ups to be pre-trading/revenue stage, where it can have a url & be in active development, but not be necessarily be an active registered company. Generally I prefer to avoid the expense (and in some countries the hassle) of business registration if I'm not sure the start-up will reach launch or revenue stage.
I'd like to be able to get rid of the search bar in firefox et al and just have a single point of entry like chrome.
I was in Japan a year ago and it is interesting to compare things with my country (USA) as far as living conditions: in Japan I saw no homeless people. They keep their roads and parks in beautiful pristine condition. People there didn't seem so friendly to foreigners (but I don't speak the language) but the impression I got was that people in Japan had a contented look (sorry for the generalization, but that was a general feeling I had, being there). My only disappointment with Japan is that I thought that many people in Japan play Go (I love the game) and I talked to no one who played. I should have looked harder for a public Go club.

In my country, we are closing public parks, in many locations the roads are in very bad shape, the fraction of people in college has drastically decreased in the last two decades, many businesses are closing, etc. We have problems just like other countries.

It seems common to diss on other countries. I view my country as being as good a place to live as other prosperous developed countries. Thinking that we are "special" is a mistake. I think that the author's main point is that we have been "propagandized."
I suggest you read any of the w3c/whatwg mailing lists where Mozilla and Google folk discuss issues.

I don't think you can accuse Mozilla of caving in to Google demands at all :)

Which, while annoying for you if you happen to want to push one of those things, is a fantastic thing for the Web. We all simply want to build a better web - and out of the disagreements, we get clarity how to do that.
Care to ellaborate why?
What I ended up doing was having vim save backups and temp files to ~/.vim/backup and ~/.vim/tmp by adding this to my .vimrc:

set backupdir=~/.vim/backup
set directory=~/.vim/tmp

Of course these can also be relative paths so you can have a project save these to a local .backup directory too if you want to keep them near the files they relate to.
These aren't innate talents, they are learned.

Start interacting with people with the objective of getting better at relating. Read the classics - Win Friends, etc. Check out the literature on pick up artistry. Balance it with meditation and compassion training, so you don't become a social robot. Go to parties. Slowly put yourself into more challenging situations. Start with dance or cooking lessons.

It may take 10,000 hours to become like Sam Altman, but 1,000 will get you half way there.

You're 23... you've been learning code for 11 years? That time you put in was time you couldn't be socializing. The good news is that jocks weren't putting their mind to it. Dedicated practice will make you even better than they are now.
I know it is a shunned statement around here but "I developed an idea for a company" this past November. Regrettably, my programming skills are limited so step 1 is learning enough to create a prototype for my project. I am really interested in shaking up the language learning industry and plan to be able to answer this poll differently in 2012 :)
Nice View, and the Profits Surpass All Horizons
Why Should Google Take A Stand Against Verizon Over Wallet?
Note to self: this could be a data mining web app if encumbered with proper algorithms

earlyriser: would you mind sharing what is the logic when deciding which article is "the most" popular? is it a simple time snapshot or something more intricate? have you considered using Instapaper API?
Translated words and phrases often have to be very different than the literal translation. For example: "sack" in english can also mean firing a worker, or plundering a city. The word for "a large bag" in most languages will not have these same extra meanings.

Also, you may even need 3 subtitles:

- transcription of the spoken language: les jeux sont faits

- literal translation: the games are made/done

- correct/useful translation: the chips are down
from speaking to staffers (i live in the DC area). They are generally young 20-somethings whose job it is to answer the phones, tally the e-mails & letters, and report on it to the congresscritters; they are generally unanimous on a few points:

1) that the congresspeople care and notice if an issue is getting a lot of attention from constituents
2) that this is something they usually ask about every day
3) that phone calls are generally more influential than letters, which are generally more influential than e-mails -- but it depends on how each office handles their inbounds.
You wouldn't steal a car
you wouldn't steal a handbag
you wouldn't steal a television,
you wouldn't steal a movie.

Online piracy is a crime, m'cay?
It scrolls very slowly on my orig iPad. Also iOS scroll to top feature seems broken
No - started one in 2009. Got out in 2011, starting a new one in 2012.
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Dan Ariely: "Why is the price anchor for apps so low?"
because the lean startup methodology is currently the herd favorite...
TMDb movie database downloader - GitHub
Many great geniouses DID compare themselves with others a lot (they pick a single "nemesis" and spend a great deal of energy trying to prove themselves better). E.g. Newton and liebniz.

Plus, you don't have to frame yourself as "completely" anything, when comparing to others. You can focus on being a better mathematician, or a better business person, or simply a better human being, without automatically implying the other is "completely inferior"
I'm seeing maroon when I make a comment/reply (e.g. now), but othewise orange.
Maybe my monitor is miscalibrated or something, but the red bar looks too dark and rusty, not cheery and christmassy at all.
Too many people are definitely trying to follow the trends, but that is by definition since they wouldn't be be trends otherwise.

But yeah, people need to learn to think independently.
ISO updates C Standard (Now we have C11)
No, i just had an outdated version of Firefox.
Java - Weak references and GC
I think this is really interesting stuff. I personally think that the startup scene needs to be better developed in Australia. When I was just coming out of University (UoW circa late 2008) people's mindsets were different than they are now and currently, entrepreneurship/startup groups are springing up everywhere. I am currently overseas and I am honestly deliberating between heading back to Oz and try my luck there or head over to the US. Anybody with suggestions or advice?
There is no doubt that anybody with an MBA is forever useless at anything but running steel mills and other places where what they have learned makes sense (at which they will no doubt be fabulous). I don't believe retraining is possible, for the simple reason that the average person doesn't change (individual people may, but on average they are average), thus no grand retraining is possible.
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Is it me or idiomatic Perl 6 resembles normal Ruby syntax and methods?
http://philh.net/hn-2011-titles-dist.txt

Nothing stands out. Google gets 26 hits, YC gets 14, Apple gets 13 (between 'apple' and 'apples'), HN gets 10.

I am moderately surprised that github (9) gets more hits than facebook or twitter (7).

The other surprising one was __, but that turns out to be three hits in one title after stripping punctuation. (http://adamcecc.blogspot.com/2011/01/javascript.html)
'Anonymous' Stratfor Hack Reportedly Start Of Weeklong Assault
I was going to say the same thing. Especially at the lower percentages, it's almost impossible to follow the line across the diagram.

ugh needless chart junk.
Am logged in and still experiencing it. Not sure what causes it. O well.
Certain parts of Reddit are entertaining and interesting with some great humor I think many people on HN can enjoy. This linked comment is a great summary of how to get the best out of Reddit.
Time Inflation and Deflation Theory (TIDT)
Actually, that doesn't put him in the 1%. That number isn't "income"; he will be able to deduct all his business expenses and donations on his taxes. He's in the top 96%, and will be paying a higher tax rate on that $220,000 than the 1% pays on their billions because it was earned through legitimate effort rather than off capital gains.

Paying taxes isn't a penalty. If we charged 105% tax rate, it would be a punishment, but at any rate less than that it's not. He still pays no taxes on the first couple thousand, 15% on the first bit and so forth up the marginal tax rate chart, just like everyone else. And this makes sense, because each dollar you earn is worth less to you than the one before (declining marginal value is one of the fundamental principles of capitalism, after all.)
Taking away an extra 1% of the income of someone on the edge means they stop having a house, or go hungry, or can't get to work and then loose far more than 1%. It is why the multiplier on money given to poor people is greater than 1; they will spend more extra money than you give them because they don't have enough money to be able to make the money they could make in the first place. If the government took an extra 1% of Louis CK's money above $250,000, he wouldn't even notice.

If your son were, say, unemployed and living in your basement and you didn't charge him rent because he had no money, would you assume that when he got a job you wouldn't start charging him rent? Would failing to let him live rent-free for the rest of his life be "punishing" him for getting a job? While at the same time insisting that he pay you rent when he has no money and the alternative is that your son would end up out on the street also makes no sense, especially if the only reason you were doing so was because otherwise it would be unfair to his future self who would be punished by paying rent when his former self didn't have to.

But you keep telling yourself whatever you need to to justify historically low taxes that allow all the money to collect at the top to people who don't work while letting our infrastructure crumble.
Canadian here. I spent the past 3 years living and working in Sydney. This program kind of overstates the size of the scene there. It is growing, but it doesn't really feel much like a scene so much as a few companies making it. Lots of social media events but that's about it.
New Twitter: What Is New?
Yes, I just launched yesterday : http://www.rtcool.com/ - It's an API for news readers.
No, mainly because there is no such a place.
I'm in lust with xargs
I've seen lots of photos related to this issue. The validity of all of them is always called into question, but given the sensitivity of this issue, I imagine that a lot is being done to maintain reasonable doubt without an investigation.

Some facts are indisputable. Chinese executes more people per year than any other country. There is no accountability within the country for how these executions are carried, nor is there accountability to how they are carried out to international governing bodies. Compare how executions in the West are carried out versus China. I'd say there is more than enough evidence to warrant investigations into how these executions are carried out.

I would like to see someone take all Chinese government statistics on issues like organ donors per capita, transplants performed per capita, etc. and see if they are out of line with what is seen in other countries. I wouldn't be surprised is Benford's Law could be applied to the data.