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I think that Facebook beat you to this - I believe they are the top ranked site in terms of traffic for much of the continent. They have a nicely done mobile web version.

In addition, they've partnered with carriers to make http://0.facebook.com free from data charges across much of the continent, which solves the access problem. Zero is their even more lightweight version of http://m.facebook.com/
Seven Wonders of the World: DANNY HILLIS 
Danny Hillis is a computer scientist and inventor, best known for his 'Connection Machine' massively parallel supercomputer. He was the first Disney Fellow and he co-founded Applied Minds. Here he talks about seven things he finds wonderful and the ways in which they connect. From a BBC TV science series called 'Seven Wonders of the World' (1995)
Being an mother (or father?) is not traditionally a career choice. If the state wants to set up a formal program for people to get paid to have children, it should do that. A system that gives a financial incentive to having children can and will be abused.
So both robots were programmed to balance on a bridge but accidentally got on the same one and were still able to pull it off? That is impressive considering they would have to know not to push each other off but stay on the ends and scoot just a little bit until they balanced and react to how the other robot is shift its weight.
You simply cannot, in any modern society, discriminate against someone because it happens to be a woman, or throw stone at someone until they die because you didn't like his opinion.

And yet the US is the strongest ally of the worst offenders in this regard, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. Women can't vote or drive in Saudi Arabia; heck, they can't even go out alone, and can't go out with a male who is not a blood relative or husband. And oh, even when they go out in a car, they can't sit in the front.
While I'd say I am in fact a moral relativist, I'd also say I'm not exactly arguing for it. As far as I can see, relativism is the agnosticism of morality - in the lack of evidence for an objective moral code, the only reasonable, logical position is relativism.

On the other hand, I'm rather ignorant about the subject, so my opinion isn't to be taken very seriously.

On the other hand that would mean that the U.S. is justified in however they treat Iran, since they're nothing objectively wrong either. Sometimes you really can't have your cake and eat too.

Sure, but I can still dislike it, which in practice means the same (essentially nothing, since my influence is zero ;)
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There is plenty of evidence that maternal leave is beneficial for children. Go to Google Scholar and search "maternal leave child outcomes".

A sampling from one paper:

>We find considerable associations between early returns to work and many of the outcome measures [regular medical checkups and breastfeeding in the first year of life, the receipt of all DPT (diptheria, pertussis, and tetanus)/Oral Polio immunisations (in approximately the first 18 months of life) and cognitive and behavioural assessment scores at age 3 or 4]

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.0013-0133.2005....
Yes. I hire excellent people who are interested and interesting that fit into the culture of our company. Age/sex/race/gender/etc. are irrelevant.
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@georgefox, I do think that you shouldn't have children if you can't support them, but that is their decision to make, and they should bear the responsibility for their decision.

@brown9-2 In theory it does, but if businesses don't hire said unwed mothers because government policies make it too expensive, it doesn't benefit anyone.
I have to second the hub suggestion.

I use it daily and it's a timesaver. The syntax for creating a pull request from a branch on a non-forked remote forces you to always pass the -h option, but beyond that it's amazingly simple.
This is for personal productivity, not product management.
kls doesn't think age discrimination is as bad as it is. I'll wager he doesn't think gender discrimination is as bad as it is either. He's more likely to age than he is to change gender, so we'll check back with him in 30 years.

It's kind of amusing to hear him think of COBOL and Java in the same breath; I've worked extensively with both. Not at the same time, though. :-)

He is on target in saying keeping your skillset fresh is key. Like the Red Queen, it takes all the running you can do to stay in the same place.
The government (at least in Sweden) already imposes really high taxes. And people here are still generally wealthy as fuck (relative to most of the world) and able to use a large chunk of their income for beer, trendy clothes, smartphones, restaurants, travel, etc (ie nice-to-have luxury goods).

It's all a matter of perspective IMHO.

Of course, I'm generally leary of "solutions" that come out of the gov't but that's another story...
> The Asia which has generations of poverty and casting and wants to do nothing about it?

No, the Asia that has recently engaged in less gambling at the casino of the "financial services industry" than the West.

Generations of poverty? Well, that can be explained by human nature. Various "Elites" oppressing/abusing/killing people, and confiscating the wealth created by them. Our problem as a species is that the West consists of the same homo sapiens as all the Asian countries you have a problem with. In other words, our collective problem is that we're all human beings.
Also, you can very easily associate a pull request with an issue. If you're using GitHub issues for feature planning it makes it very nice.
I would love to know the answer to this. It seems that people are taking Iran at their word.

If you did capture an enemy's drone though sheer luck, isn't it in your best interest to tell the world that the cause was the exact opposite?
FYI, people would upvote you if your tone was a little less harsh.
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What do you think is more effective and cheaper? Legislate against discriminating against females of a certain age and punish companies that violate it, or increase the corporate tax with x%, have Skatteverket collect it, and politicians to re-distribute it in such a way as to provide jobs for females around 30?
> I don't care about elegance and the code is still readable.

Part of code elegance is readability and maintainability. Perhaps this is one of those soft-definitions that everyone has their own meaning for.
I think he's arguing that the attack in which SecurID was compromised also resulted in the red key being compromised.
How much work did it take to make your first startup successful? Now what do you think the outcome would've been had you only invested half or a third of your time, ressources into it?
Ask HN: Hacker trying to create icons for mobile apps. Free icons for your help
Help me create icons! I am an iOS developer and I am tired of being unable to find good/reliable graphic designers specifically for creating tool/tab bar icons. So I have decided to do it myself -- learnt Illustrator, bought a Wacom tablet. And I am ready to go. All I need from the hacker community are some ideas for the most commonly needed/used icons in mobile apps. To get started below are some that I have needed in the past. Please add to the list. If you contribute (non-duplicate) you will be eligible for a free icon pack when ready. Thanks a bunch.<p>- map marker
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I love the irony of this being posted on a "green" website when it's an obvious waste of energy (both to build and power) compared to just keeping a decent watering schedule.

Nevertheless I like the build, although something using ZigBee would be more handy, unless you only have a couple of plants, otherwise the cabling might become unwieldy. And I wonder if there could be some way of extracting energy from the plant itself, making it self sustainable...?
"Men's" magazines are one of the things that sadly make me feel ashamed of being part of the cisgender male demographic.
Most people cannot do more than one full-blown startup at the same time.

What I personally find myself doing is dealing with several different projects on varying levels of intensity. So I have one startup that takes most of my time, and then some side projects that are either limited in time, or fall into the weekend project category, or just projects I like dealing with in my spare time, with no time pressure (and no ambitious goals).

But more than one 'real' startup? Don't go there.
So it's mainly "dumbphones"? What kind of tech is best to reach these? WAP? Native apps?
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Right - no one wants to consider this null hypothesis. Not exciting enough, I suppose. Actually spoofing GPS - which would involve masking the actual GPS signal and producing the precise nanosecond differentials from a simulated fleet of satellites needed to give a false location, seems highly unbelievable.

GPS jamming is possible, which may have led to a loss of nav (although I would have thought there may be some inertial guidance), but either way, the guidance-and-control system probably just leveled off for a smooth crash landing. (hence the way the iranians not-so-cleverly hid the underside of the UAV in anti-american propoganda posters)
"Disclaimer

This tool is not official. It just uses the GitHub API and that's it."

Headline is wildly inaccurate.
How much do families fit in the with culture of startup? Would it be odd for an employee to have to leave in the middle of the day to pick up sick kids at school? Will you be a "good fit" if sometimes your family responsibilities trump work. What is your desire and inner motivation at 50? It's probably a lot different than the 20yr and 30yr old startup culture. I would say if you are 50 yr old that fits in with the younger culture and have the necessary skills you will do just fine. The reality is though that you are probably at a much different place than the majority of startup employees. You have probably see enough to know how to best spend your time and your priorities are likely different than your peers. The guy doing the hiring knows all of this and where he won't directly use age as a factor in hiring he will take these other factors into consideration. good luck.
Amstrad CPC6128 was my first computer.. put it to good use for several years, both gaming and my first steps in programming (BASIC FTW!). Ah, the memories..
What incentive is given in systems like Hungary's? Are you saying that such lengthy parental leave is an incentive to produce babies? This would seem to ignore all of the other impacts of having a child on your money and time.
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Unless you have a lot of capital, it's not about preference, it's about reality. The more you work on, the more you spread yourself thin. The more you work on, the less likely anything is going to succeed. If you want something to really take off, you need to pick one.

There should be one idea that really jumps out at you above the rest. If not then maybe you haven't found anything big enough yet. In that case it may be helpful to simultaneously explore multiple ideas. But pick only one eventually.
If someone cannot afford to feed his or her child and the child starves--literally or metaphorically--who's bearing the responsibility?

Edit: To be clear, I agree that you shouldn't have a child you can't afford, but mistakes happen, situations change, etc. It's a lot more complicated than the commonly portrayed notion of welfare mothers defrauding the government.
I wonder if it works with cross-domain images. I could not see in the documentation if it does.
Could you provide some working examples of using HTML 5 parser for input sanitization?
It's a problem when businesses still have to pay the employee's salary while she is on maternity leave in addition to the salary of her replacement. Also, there is a lot of productivity lost during the transitions. If it were me, I would prefer to keep the "replacement" rather than hire the old worker back. Apparently you can't do that in Hungary.
Is the "red key" real or mythical?
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It's unlikely that the drone relies exclusively on GPS. If the designers believe the red key to be axiomatically secure, it's not an unreasonable assumption for them to say "We'll believe GPS while it's present. Only if it's not present will we fall back to inertial navigation" (or whatever). Obviously, a spoofed signal would be hugely problematic for that system.

And yes, Occam's Razor does point to a crash-landing rather than a hack, but a GPS crack isn't unlikely enough to be completely discounted.
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>Actually spoofing GPS - which would involve masking the actual GPS signal and producing the precise nanosecond differentials from a simulated fleet of satellites needed to give a false location, seems highly unbelievable.

Literally the plot of the James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies.
A similar situation in the state of Texas: multiple units under a condominum regime with a (now majority) owner who wants to buy all remaining units, raze the structures and convert the land to commercial use.

A minority of condo owners want to continue to live in well-maintained condos in a nice part of town where commercial real estate is _very_ expensive.

You guessed it, the majority owner is a shell corporation with the church/school behind it. The majority owner has slowly purchased units, stripped them of utilities and let them lie fallow without renting them.

The subdivision has well-written deed restrictions limiting the land to residential-only use. Commercial entities are specifically disallowed (churches and private schools are commercial entities in Texas). The deed restrictions can be changed only by majority subdivision vote once every 10 years (2020 next vote). The church/school does not own a majority of the land in the subdivision.

Through these shell corporations, the church/school has quietly purchased properties at residential rates in this deed-restricted residential-only subdivision and then converted the land to commercial use (IMO a clear violation of the deed restrictions). Commercial land in the same neighborhood is _very_ expensive. The city is allowed to enforce deed restrictions but is reluctant to do so.

The condo regime requires that units be kept for the welfare of the owners and residents but soon the majority owner will take over the condominium board. Minority owners fear that the majority owner will use the condominium association's powers to drive them out..

To me there appears to be a legal conflict of interest: all condo owners sign an agreement to support the condo regime and the welfare of all owners in perpetuity, yet this particular majority owner seeks to liquidate the condo regime.

Anyone have expertise in handling this type of case in Texas? Or who can direct me to someone familiar with this type of takeover?

What does this have to do with conspiracy? The ties of the church/school to the city government, the local legal community and real estate developers are deep and intricate. Most real estate attorneys we have spoken to have some affiliation with the church/school (which is a very large and very wealthy organization) and cannot or will not sell their services to us. For years the companies that were acquiring units in the condo used multiple shell corporations to do so. It was not clear what was happening until fairly recently.
Not all the ex-socialist block have 3 years maternity leave. Here in Bulgaria it is 9 months and it is payed by the state (from social security fund).
Also the taxes are a lot lower. You have medical insurance (cost of having non-payed health care system: 8%) + social insurance (pension, unemployment compensation, maternity leave: 22%). This insurances are calculated on base up to 1000 euro - so your insurance taxes are max 30% of 1000 euro even if you get more than this level. Over the rest of the money you have 20% flat state tax. On every purchase you have 20% VAT.
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I am not dyslexic but wondered the same thing. It was until I saw your phantom/fathom comparison.

English is a first language but I think my poor spelling has stayed at the level it was in high school due to 'F7' and Google's 'did you mean....'
If you are 50 years old, your kids are likely to be old enough to get to home by themselves.

Personally I'd hate to work in a place where it would be considered odd to take care of some private business during the day every once in a while. Stretching and leeway goes both ways.
It has been discussed (in chess circles) in excruciating and unambiguous detail how Rajlich blatantly ripped off (Google it) open source code, thereby violating tournament rules, open source licenses, etc. This "debunking" series of articles by Chessbase is a pathetic attempt to reinvent the past on behalf of one of their most lucrative products, and perhaps to fool a wider audience who didn't follow the original scandal when it happened.

I used to be a big fan of Rybka, Rajlich and Chessbase, but these continued denials just make a bad thing worse. It's like Floyd Landis, Tyler Hamilton, and the third guy.
The fit depends on the makeup of the CEO and the management he has chosen.

Regardless, you're going to have to work twice as hard as most of the others in the room. It's easy to walk out the door at 5pm if your work is done. It's not so easy when a crunch is going on and you have an external commitment to make. Nobody likes to look up and see you putting your coat on, believe me.

If the CEO understands, it's one thing. If you have a CEO that says "you need to risk your marriage to make this company succeed" (and yes, I've actually heard this), then you know where you fit in. Unfortunately, you don't learn most of this until you're already in. If you find during interviews that the CEO has kids of his own, that's a good sign.
The bureaucracy and costs make it a bad choice when your clients are not in the country. The tax law changed at least 3 times (I stopped counting) last year.
Way cool! I would buy your sci fi novel if you wrote one :)
Do you have any numbers that actually suggest poor parents are profiting off of such programs? Children are, strictly financially speaking, a huge expense.
all geolocators, even those that employ advanced techniques, can only get as far as the capitol.

no, not obviously.
Interesting question.

As someone who is working full-time and working on 2 start-ups (one with far more commitment) I know what it is to take one too much as an entrepreneur.

The first thought is a warning! Burnout! If you choose to go full-time and a startup you're going to hit a wall. Naturally if you do more than one startup you just hit it faster...

So the issue is commitment. My advise would be to divide your week into blocks of commitment for each project. In my case Mon,Wed,Fri,Sun using 4 hour blocks per dsy for startup A. Tues, Thurs of 4 hour blocks on startup B (Saturday is a much needed recovery day, normally resulting in a much deserved hangover).

Another consideration is how you work...

For example I am an 80/80 person. I work 80% and play 80%, the important part is that i'm never 100% at one time so have that buffer to avoid burnout... you have to find a balance between the minimum required effort to have a successful company and your own personal space (even work-a-holics sleep, generally on the keyboard)

As you have experience with startups i'm surprised you've so easily embraced another two projects. However that intimates that you know how to divide you time between them... It would be interesting to see a blog post from you in 6 months to discover if you were able manage both and how the progression/success of each respectively influenced your commitment in them.
Age would matter for a startup beyond just skills. Older hackers might not be able to "keep up" and "fit in" with many startups. Culture fit is really important, but being old doesn't automatically mean no fit.

One interesting thing about a hacker being 50 is that they potentially have an empty nest (no kids), much like their 20s. In some cases they might be able to work "startup hours".
the google maps = USA thing is probably because either you haven't set your location in google settings (or wherever...there's a thing), or you configure your browser to throw away cookies.
From my experience 5% is generally (depending on service obviously) a pretty good conversion. The real question comes down to ROI though I guess. How much do you need to spend to increase conversion and how much revenue will that generate? Likewise how much would it cost you to drive more traffic? This ROI will change over time. Sounds like (albeit with limited info to go on) that it might be cheaper for you to drive traffic at the moment but as your traffic gets higher, and keywords you need become more expensive then they focus may very well shift.
You answered your own question - if you're too busy to manage the issues around your first startup, adding more startups will contribute to making the first one fail.

As many HN threads point out, ideas are easy, but building companies, finding customers, and product/market fit are all hard and need a team's full focus.
It's not really the workload but the brain overload. Right now I have a paying gig which I try to work on but not think about maybe a 3rd of the time. The rest of my time and mental energy goes into my one startup. I had a couple side startups but I had to let them go. My mind was trying to think about all of them at once!
I don't have much sympathy for companies who doesn't invest in their employees. If you value your employees and are in it for the long run, then your biggest problem are employees leaving you not the opposite.

Otherwise you are free to hire consultants and pay a premium to the agency and (hopefully) the consultant, but don't be surprised when they leave you in six months for something better (paid).

Also fresh graduates or self educated people are loyal and relatively cheap (especially in Sweden). But then you would of course have to invest in them.
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Your link goes nowhere: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27état
Only in countries where there aren't any laws to even this out.

Where I live, there's plenty of laws that stop companies from discriminating against women, thereby removing the competitive advantage, which in turn forces the companies to do the right thing.
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Being an entrepreneur is like that: high risk, high stakes, high stress, (hopefully) high rewards. That's how it works. If you want to reduce risk/stress, then you would have to accept less rewards. No employer will ever accept that, so i don't see why workers should accept to suffer in order to make his life easier.
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I think you have pretty much made nostalgia for that era an art form, so you'd be doing everyone a favour by linking to some more of your posts, e.g.:

Classic Arcade Game Deaths http://boingboing.net/2011/03/25/classic-arcade-game-1.html

Tinyhack http://boingboing.net/rob/tinyhack/
This is an interesting development. Anyone think this might signal a potential splitting of the company? Smartphone (god I hate that word) division to MS and entry level phones staying in Finland?