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Ask HN: How much is a good culture worth to you?
Lets say that you have two jobs available to you.

One is offering you N dollars a year, where N is more than above industry average, but the persons you will be working along side are not a great fit for you (wether it be because they are unpassionate about the work, well below your skill level and therefore unable to really work on the same level, or just a general lack of compatibility), and the other is offering you N/x, but would have passionate peers who you get a long with great.

We all would like to take the more compatible job, but at a certain point it is not economically feasible.

So, what is 'x' for you? Where do you draw the line?
The title of this article has it backwards. LightSquared's technology is entirely scientifically feasible.

The problem is political-ish, and the U.S. government and GPS industry carry a good portion of the blame:

The way that spectrum is allocated in the U.S., the chunk of spectrum that LightSquared got just happens to be designated as low-power, space-ground. Or at least, that's what their neighbors (GPS) are doing.

According to LightSquared, GPS makers have been lazy in their filter design, under the assumption that they wouldn't have to deal with much noise from neighbors on the spectrum.

I can understand saving cost by not designing really aggressive filters, but it would be sad to see an innovative idea like LightSquared be shut down because the GPS people don't want to clean their act up.

I hope LightSquared can trade for another chunk of spectrum that will allow them to move forward. This is really cool technology, and a great step forward.
Don't understand why I was -4 for typing "agreed"
Awesome! This reminded me of a mashable article I read about a year ago : http://mashable.com/2011/04/18/qr-code-design-tips/

Kinda crazy that up to 30% of a QR code can be inaccurate, and it will still work.
Yes, they have stats and applications to apply some of the variables prior to the game. Even at the Division 3 level we had binders with probabilities based on formations. This was a fun brainstorm to see how far the technology could be applied.
> There's mandatory Internet censorship in Australia, in a sense that it's funded by the government and users have no choice except to leave.

This is simply not true. There are two ISPs: Telstra and Optus, who voluntarily block websites from a list provided by the government. However, I don't know anyone who actually uses those ISPs, and they're more expensive to boot. The other major ISPs, such as iiNet and Internode, have no intention of implementing the filter, and in fact actively and successfully fight government interference in court. They're also cheaper, and in my experience provide superior customer service.

If the government decides to impose restrictions on NBN access, the latter group of ISPs are highly likely to fight it in court, and are quite likely to win.

And furthermore, given the fragile position the Labor party is currently in, it has shelved its plans for mandatory filtering, and is unlikely to reintroduce them, as it alienates their voter base, who are increasingly driven toward the Green Party, which is now in a position of significant influence and vocally opposes Internet censorship.

> Both parties have been known to support the ability to declare war without parliament

While Australia doesn't require parliamentary approval to go to war, the countries that do, the US in particular, don't seem to pay that rule much heed, so I'm not sure how much would change if such a rule was on the books.

> There's many secret copyright enforcement meetings and rumours

They can meet in secret as much as they want, but fortunately, they cannot pass laws in secret. Until a bill is introduced, such meetings are of no concern, nor are they in any way unique to Australia.

> Did you know that police can now issue $1320 on-the-spot fines and confiscate all electronic equipment deemed involved in piracy?

No I did not, and could not find any sources to corroborate that, nor examples of such fines actually being issued. Can you provide some links to that effect?
I'm happy that Go performed so well, but the example is a bit strange for a few reasons.

First, the version of Go they're using (r59) is very old. The current stable release is r60, and most Go users have recently switched to tracking the weekly snapshots in preparation for Go 1 (mere weeks away).

Second, and most importantly, they demonstrate the web.go and mustache.go libraries. These third-party libraries were written shortly after Go was released (in 2009 or perhaps early 2010). Since then, Go's standard http and template packages have seen a lot of development and should now perform much better than web.go and mustache.go.

Third, there's a new "database/sql" package in the recent weeklies that provides a single interface to SQL databases. There are several drivers available, including sqlite, so it's relatively easy to implement the database part of the benchmarks in Go, too.

Given the task of benchmarking frameworks, I suppose the author thought it necessary to reach for a framework. That explains why he looked outside the standard library for these tools. Fortunately for Go programmers, the Go project regards http, templates, and databases as core functionality in its standard library.

http://weekly.golang.org/pkg/
I have mixed feelings about a loser-pays system and have articulated the reasons why I believe that such a system can sometimes work undue hardships on average people who go to court to try to obtain redress (see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1792353). While such a system would undoubtedly serve to deter certain forms of abusive litigation, I think its benefits would be outweighed by the detriments it might bring.

As to the chances of its ever being adopted in the U.S., I think these are basically nil. The U.S. departed from the UK on this issue dating back to the formation of the country and both judges and state legislatures (which now fashion these rules) are very committed to the current rules. Among other things, those rules are seen as helping plaintiffs (such as consumers and personal injury victims) and those who fashion such rules are not prone to disturb the existing system because of this. Moreover, in cases where legislatures do consciously want to tip the balance, they enact special statutes that allow for fee-shifting in favor of plaintiffs (e.g., in certain civil rights cases where a plaintiff can get a fee award as prevailing party even though traditional rules would require such a party to bear its own fees). With sentiments (and prejudices) being so heavily weighted toward plaintiffs in general, I don't see any movement whatever toward a loser-pays system even though this might help lessen frivolous litigation (I do believe that an occasional U.S. state has adopted such rules but this is a rare exception).

By the way, I don't see the Oracle case as frivolous. It is, in my view, grossly overstated in its damage claims but it may be that Android is infringing certain of the patents and that Oracle may be entitled to some damages. I say this even though I am not sympathetically aligned with Oracle's case and believe it was a mistake to bring it. As to the final outcome, only time will tell.
I'm logged into all except Facebook and it told me I'm only logged into Twitter.
Let's see... the NYT article was the cover story for the New York Times magazine, a high-quality long form read with a circulation of 1,623,697/week [wikipedia]. The high quality of these long form articles are one reasons why people pay to read the Times. Presumably, the Forbes post will not be in print.

The NYtimes.com has 16.3m monthly US visits, Forbes has 10.5m. [Compete] The NYT article has 435 comments (sign of high engagement) v. Forbes' 155.

I'm not sure how he pulled the total FB share data for the NYT article - they don't display that sharing information in the same way Forbes does.

In short, despite the validity of Nick O'Neil's main point - that a more descriptive title and a synoptic treatment can travel well - his rhetoric is more than a little overblown. Details matter, and what the Times article includes is deep context, originality, and above all, diligence.

As far as a regurgitative blog post making anyone's career... ha, I guess? Only if you want your career to be limited to that activity. The Forbes writer knows it - that's why she includes 6(!) links to the original article, as well as a plug of the original writer's upcoming book. Careers are built on respect, and the most valuable quality a writer or article can have is credibility. Otherwise, it's rubbish, no matter how many people buy it.

And, ultimately, the people who you want to respect you will know you make rubbish.
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Ask HN: How does an iOS app like Clear get so much publicity?
I mean, it's a kind of interesting interface but how come it shows up on a site like macrumors.com as a major article?
Having the two categories SQL and NoSQL is a bit like having the two categories "books" and "non-books." The latter category includes giraffes, planets, feelings, and windmills.

Okay, maybe it's not that bad, but NoSQL databases still make a huge non-homogeneous set of things.
There is a rational middle ground.
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Ditto to this. I added a couple feeds but got annoyed with entering feed urls before I was able to see anything awesome. Ability to auto-add all my twitter friends, pull my google reader subscriptions, etc. would be awesome.
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Yikes... that is quite high on the todo list (add selector boxes for a "pen" to draw with) but unfortunately it didn't make it for this release.
As someone who went through Intro to CS courses. I must say that including the object oriented paradigm of Java in an intro class really confused me for a good three years. It wasn't until I learned how data was organized and executed inside a computer that it all became clear to me what programming really consisted of.

This tool is wonderful. It visualizes the inner workings of a computer very well and how it translates to code. I hope this teaching tool is used on students after they've learned some basic programming concepts and syntax.
It looks nice but opml import is a must have if you want anyone to test it out...
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>It's worth noting that the UK, France, Germany, Sweden, Australia, and almost every other western democracy finance very large chunks of their governmental expenditures via high consumption taxes.

They do, but they also have higher overall tax rates, which includes an income tax. It's hard to point to European-style VATs as an argument for replacing income tax in the US when that's not how most European governments use VATs.
This is a different method than using error correction that allows for more usable area (see details in other threads.)

It still leaves 7% of the ECC intact so you can further modify the code after it is generated. I had to modify a few pixels still to embed another QR code inside a QR code (and have both scan!)

http://designerqrcodes.wordpress.com/designer-qr-code-art-ga...
I've seen similar cases in the past. In one case, I did web scraping, using Google's cache to recover partially.
>This is commonly known as cheating

I agree, I don't like to bring in existing code. Once I saw a friend of mine do (very obviously), still the jury was so impressed that they awarded him $25k in advertising for his bootstrapped startup. That moment I wished I had done the same thing:)
It's pretty unbelievable that a hosting company like that doesn't make backups for their customers by default. Even if the guy didn't follow the "instructions" to the letter you can still assume that the hosting company are the experts here. And why are these guys physically deleting files on cancellation of an account? Pretty amateur if you'd ask me.
I think your reply is cut off. :)

Anyhow, to the best of my knowledge, the best study on the subject is summarized in this graph:
http://goo.gl/tmywx

What that shows is that no tax system has a significant impact on Gini. Switching from the most progressive tax system in the study (the US one) to the least (the UK one) would result in a change of Gini of around 0.02. If you rank OECD members by Gini coefficients, such a large change in taxation wouldn't even change the ranking; the US would remain at 4th most unequal. As such, I think it's fair to say that we can tinker with the tax system without fear of victimizing the poorest off. (And, also, that if we want to help the poorest off, we need to pull some lever other than tax policy.)
Are you referring to the image on that page? If so, go here:

http://www.tomanthony.co.uk/tools/detect-social-network-logi...

It's accurate for me.
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I am not sure about that. I tried it as recently as 6 months ago.
Obesity is not only a problem of quality of food, it also IS linked to quantity. You will never get obese if you only get a small amount of crap food everyday, but eating lots of it will surely put you on the right way. There are some genetic exceptions (some people get fat even when eating reasonably) but this is a tiny minority. Most of the obese epidemic is lifestyle related (no or not enough exercise / too much food ). There's no way you can get away from personal responsibility there. It is nothing like homeless unable to find jobs. You are directly responsible of what you put in your mouth everyday, and how much of it.
You would think they would do this, but they certainly don't do a good job of it considering almost no coach in the NFL gets it right consistently outside of Belichick. Presumably most of them are still using old 4th down and 2 point conversion charts from decades ago, either that or their risk-aversion is just so high that they're afraid to make the obviously statistically correct call.
Here's my theory.

NoSQL came about because smart people were exposed to relational technology in this order:

1. A university course or book that mostly focused on SQL and then normalised design

followed by

2. Using MySQL in production.

What's missing from this picture is learning the other halves:

1. Normalisation matters to transaction processing. Fast queries is another matter entirely and usually only gets airily waved at in many books and university courses. I went through an entire semester without seeing "OLAP". Techniques I learned on the job were kept to the "Advanced Databases" course which was only taught sporadically.

The idea that OLAP is some high mystery is just silly. It's join-beating, denormalising stuff, like NoSQL, just with decades of literature and code to back it up.

2. It also matters that MySQL is not the benchmark of relational technology performance or features.

My day job is working with Oracle databases. The price, the odd absence of useful features because It's Never Been Done That Way (I'm looking at you, primary key triggers and booleans-stored-as-char(1)) ... sometimes it's amazing that people pay so much for it. Then you see the manuals, the supporting tools[1] and the performance a half-decent DBA can massage and you get that this stuff isn't as bad as the sticker price says.

For my own work, postgresql is where it's at. But for a big site I'd look to DB2, Oracle RAC, Teradata, NonStop, Greenplum and on and on and on before betting on 5-year old technology reinventing a 50-year old paradigm that didn't work real well the first time around.

[1] Except SQL Developer. What a dog.
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Cheating. New technology = new forms of cheating; and if the league allowed everything on the sidelines, it'd be near impossible for them to keep up with.

Predicting plays isn't an issue. Predict all you like. Stealing plays (& the play calls), that's the real worry, as it probably matters most in this sport than any other. Stealing signs in baseball is the only comparison I can think of.

The WSJ article linked by breakall mentions it a little, but nowhere do I see the word 'cheat'. I doubt the league would address a question about it seriously anyway as that would imply they don't trust teams' staff (which they shouldn't).
GPS makers have been designing their receivers under the rules the FCC has set forth for decades, that the bands surrounding GPS are for sky level signals. I wouldn't call that "lazy".

Imagine if the NTB suddenly decided that it would be OK for people to drive tanks at 1000 MPH on existing highways. Would you call carmakers "lazy" because cars currently on the road wouldn't be safe to drive anymore? Or would it be OK to tell hundreds of millions of people to replace their cars immediately at exorbitantly higher cost?
Note to self stop writing comments just before bed.
>>As far as I can see stepping in such a teleporter basically amounts to suicide. Whatever is happening in another part of the Earth doesn't change a thing from the perspective of the guy getting shot.

This is true if you include your sense of self as your entire body. However, I think I will have to decide that my sense of self is my memories stored in my brain. If you look at it from that perspective than as long as my memories, and everything else at the sub-conscious level, is persisted across any medium then I'm still alive. The body then becomes a vessel. However, I think I will still like to have my body so I might as well replicate that also.

Of course, I think this is a choice people will have to make themselves since it is true that the original you dies, as you state. The original body of yourself dies, but not your memories. I guess you could think of your memories as your soul. As long as those are alive, you are alive.

>>So suppose we change the story a bit: we don't create a new copy of you, but we still shoot the old you. For you (the old you) this isn't any different than the previous story. Would you still go for this?<<

Of course not. Why would anybody do that? I'm not sure what is the point you are trying to make here. Notice that in this case not only has my body died, but also my memories. So as far as the universe is concerned I'm truly dead.

If for whatever reason a new me cannot be created than I expect the original me to be woken up. The old me must only be terminated if the new me is created successfully.
I think the "Take the tour" should be renamed "FAQ"

I was hoping to see some shots of it in action before I signed up.
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Agree with the others on the OPML import. Also, would be a lot more interesting to be able to link into Twitter and pull links from all of the people I follow (or certain lists), rather than have to add them individually.
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Well, there are some species that do not age (at least one specie of turtles is extremely slow to age). Some tiny life forms that do not age and do not die. I may agree to say that "death is part of our paradigm" but that does not mean it should be so. Saying "death is part of life" may be true FOR US, but humans have always tried to reach out to impossible things. And sometimes, succeeded. There's no reason not to keep trying to solve what is, in the end, a technical issue when you consider that everything around us is based on a set of rules and interactions.
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Same here, I don't really understand what it does, or why I should spend 10 minutes registering and setting it up just to find out.
Ah, hell, I'm a smart one. In this case, yes, it works as advertised for me.
Cool project. Love the concept.

One thing you may want to work in. While QR codes need to keep to a specific pixel size to keep the data right, the logos/image embedded IN the QR code does not. So you may want to allow an image, any image, to be uploaded and have your app resize and work the art into the rest of the QR code.
Uh ok. I didn't say Walmart dominated haircuts in the US. I didn't say Walmart dominated gasoline. I didn't say Walmart dominated donuts. I didn't say Walmart manufactures their own drugs or operates as a bank or directly employs the barbers there.

What I said was that for a lot of people, Walmart is where they go for nearly everything. There are a lot of places in small town America where a Walmart moved in and a lot of the existing local retail and service businesses shut down. It doesn't have much to do with positioning or branding. It's just really easy to get everything done there.

The point is, it's possible. If Walmart can do it, maybe Facebook can too.
Where exactly can you watch (as a sport) two algorithms running against each other?
Wouldn't that be an awesome new sport? team algorithms fighting against each other. Maybe one was written by some random genius team of programmers to take on the big dog tech companies.

Or maybe a professional robot fight league within google/facebook etc.
> The other major ISPs, such as iiNet and Internode, have no intention of implementing the filter, and in fact actively and successfully fight government interference in court.

They may be expensive in some aspects, but they have a duopoly over cable among other competitive advantages. Even gamers/buyers like it due to lower ping in some cases.

iiNet and Internode are becoming one ISP, so they're two brands soon. iiNet seems to offer policing users with copyright infringement notices as a compromise due to relentless lobbyists. Again, I believe these compromises are a result of political tactics of Door in Face technique [1] and Overton window technique [2].

Labor party does not care if there's many surveys, polls, rallies against it. They're still considering the mandatory filter. I have similar concerns about the Liberal party wanting an Internet filter since they publicly stated that Labor's Internet Filter is not effective enough. Fortunately, they are not accepting an Internet Filter for now.

> While Australia doesn't require parliamentary approval to go to war, the countries that do, the US in particular, don't seem to pay that rule much heed, so I'm not sure how much would change if such a rule was on the books.

Democrats and Republicans jointly voted for the Iraq War. I'm not sure why you say they're avoiding that. Labor party was vocal in their opposition to Iraq war. If they were actually trying to gain votes, then well done. Seems like a cheap tactic that would be absolved with the parliamentary requirement.

> They can meet in secret as much as they want, but fortunately, they cannot pass laws in secret. Until a bill is introduced, such meetings are of no concern, nor are they in any way unique to Australia.

There are secret international collaborative exercises such as ACTA that erode Internet Freedom that were only initially exposed due to Wikileaks. That said, the results of such secret meetings, the government comes out adamant that copyright is a fundamental right over Internet Freedom and other rights.

For copyright infringement notices:

http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_reg/cr1969242/...

http://www.mipi.com.au/About-Piracy/Penalties-for-piracy/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door-in-the-face_technique

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window