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I am French and that smells bad, really bad. This is the kind of law or rules that are born in the heat of the moment; these "think 'bout the children" moments. What happened in France is really sad, but it is what it is: an act by an isolated person. This is not a repeated pattern that needs a law to solve it.

I am very far from being an extremist but I have consulted websites that are considered extremist, just because sometimes I stumble on them while browsing the internet, or just by curiosity, because I think I ought to "know my enemies". The definition of extremist is also very blurry, and will probably be abused in the future.
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Had this problem with a large background image (over 2 Megapixels, I believe). The solution that we came up with was to split the image in two, and then use css3 multiple backgrounds on the ipad, iphone. At that time, those were the only culprits.
If these things are cheap ($<20), and there are hundreds of them scattered in various not-so-easy-to-find places around the city, good luck trying to snipe them all. Or even find them. (Imagine hiding one inside a vent shaft inside a building. Or in the sewer.)

This idea is brilliant. True decentralized piracy without a a network to connect them all. Impossible to stop!
This has so much conspiracy potential. It is all to familiar: Conservative politician down in the polls, "Terror" craze happening out of the blue with a superb timing for the election, that even the FT can't resist from titling "Sarkozy stands to gain most from arrest...".
Isn't free speech a constitutional right there?
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I don't think that the examples given in the blog post are examples of a "hair trigger." For one, it's repeated behavior; even a small annoyance is worse when repeated for years.

If I were one of her male coworkers, and I had to watch that kind of behavior continually, I would quit. I want my coworkers to be able to do their jobs without being tormented.

Also, I think you're missing the distinction between sexual jokes and sexist jokes. There are plenty of funny sexual jokes. There are even plenty of sexist jokes that the joke-teller finds funny. That opinion is not shared by the butt of the joke, and that makes them crappy jokes.
I get an Access Denied when trying to download the beta..
Faster, more efficient and cheaper than their AMD rival.. it has been a long time since you could say that!

Hopefully Nvidia's move to 28nm starts some price competition.

More in depth anandtech review: http://www.anandtech.com/show/5699/nvidia-geforce-gtx-680-re...
Ask HN: Why did YC fund two startups that do exactly the same thing?
I thought perhaps they were imprints of the same things but it looks like they're entirely different start-ups since they are from two different YC seasons.

Both Picwing and Picplum send printed photos to recipients on a monthly or bimonthly basis.

http://www.picwing.com/

https://www.picplum.com/
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In Rails that's called "Fragment Caching", which is different from "Page Caching".
Sealand was a WW2 anti-aircraft platform. It's too close to shore for doing anything really criminal (like, copyright infringement - murder would probably be fine).

The problem these days is that organisations who don't want to be under US rule have to possess a reasonable number of operational nuclear warheads... It's not enough to set sail and stay in international waters.
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It's interesting how the lessons learned in startups and IT mesh so closely with those of political theory. IT architects are in some ways the working, practical philosophers of the 21st century.
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Applying De Morgan's laws to fix how to determine if you're in or not then yields:
say the wrong thing AND do the wrong thing

I would also like to point out that an ability of your parent poster clearly stood out, that of making themselves memorable. Hiring is a multivariate problem, focusing on just one of those variables could be the most broken solution within the space.
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I find this point particularly salient regarding recent events and the cry against asking others to "lighten up":

"I have a better idea. Let’s have an amnesty — from the left and the right — on every made-up, fake, totally insincere, playacted hurt, insult, slight and affront. Let’s make this Sunday the National Day of No Outrage. One day a year when you will not find some tiny thing someone did or said and pretend you can barely continue functioning until they apologize."
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I don't think so, and here's why: we are post-scarcity when it comes to bottled water. You don't deprive any other 7/11 customer of bottled water when you shoplift, because 7/11 carries a lot of bottled water and has developed processes that ensure they never run out.

You could probably shoplift all the bottled water you can carry, every day, and you still would not deprive another customer. 7/11 would simply keep shipping in more water so they would have product to sell. (Of course they would also get some cops in there to try and stop you!)

Eventually, if they're not making enough money due to all the shoplifting, they might stop carrying bottled water. But that won't be because they ran out of supply; it will be because it's no longer profitable to do so. This is analogous to a movie studio deciding not to make or distribute certain kinds of movies anymore because it is no longer profitable for them.

What about the store? Surely you're depriving them of the bottle of water, right? Again, not really. The store does not actually want to possess so many bottles of water--what they want is to make money by selling bottles of water. And if you look at the economics of the transaction, that's primarily what you're depriving them of. Let's say a bottle of water is priced at $1.50. 7/11, who buys in bulk and then marks up, probably paid $0.50 or less for that same bottle. Thus when you steal it, 66% of the harm is in foregone revenue! Only 33% of the harm is loss of property value. Again, this is analogous to copyright infringement, where the primary harm is foregone revenue, not deprivation of property.
Your making some interesting assumptions like it is three times as easy to fill a $65k spot than a $120k spot. The recruiters I knew had pretty good contacts that gave them the ability to place highly paid salaries (Oracle DBA, SAP developer) at a pretty good clip, much better than the generic recruiter. Their shooting for the higher-end gave them the right reputation to do this well.
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True, maybe instead of working I should start producing weekly "website ROI & Key Performance Indicators Executive Report" and Email it to everyone.

All I would actually have to do is dump some google analytics screen shots into a word document..
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Hydrogen exploding may not be such a bad quality in this use case. It would be difficult for an aggressor party to get the drone back in one piece; snipers would be ineffective. A sniper could still take out the floating server, but (properly designed) the resulting explosion would wipe away any useful evidence of the server's purpose. One would likely need another drone built to separate the server from the balloon without aggravating the hydrogen.
Really? M.A.C. has more brand awareness for that term outside of this little valley.
Notice how truckers work with highway congestion too. They tend to slow down to allow congestion in front of them to flow. This might look at first to allow braking space for the big trucks but I think it has a lot to do with the traffic flow as well.
Let's talk about Chinese.

Can you "learn" Mandarin by reading a few books on Mandarin, taking a few courses, attempting to read some books in Mandarin, and occasionally speaking a few words to that cute Chinese girl at work?

Yes, you can "learn" Mandarin that way, but you can't Learn it.

If you were REALLY passionate about learning Mandarin, you would have to go to China (or at least Chinatown) and stay a while. Then you would be driven to learn Mandarin because you would need huge chunks of it for very real things. NOT learning Mandarin would be more painful than learning it.

You need a project. You need a project complex enough that you need huge chunks of programming knowledge to implement functionality. You need a project so interesting to you that it's more painful NOT to learn how to program than it would be to learn.

UPDATE: One other thing. It's ALWAYS difficult to read other people's code. Always. This gets easier, but complex codebases always look like gobbledygook the first time you look at it. I've been programming for 20 years and this still happens to me. You get used to it. What's the strategy? How do you eat an elephant?
The best way to stop something like this would probably be to claim that they disrupt other important, life preserving services. That would probably keep most people from putting them up.
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The revision history go back almost that long (November 1988): https://www.ohloh.net/p/gcc/analyses/latest
I don't see what this has to do with YC or how it is at all similar apart from trying to trade on the name.

What stops this turning into another oDesk type site?

Edit: I didn't read the part about the matchmaking.

Although if you are trying to appeal to a higher calibre of clients the website design probably needs to change, go with a more "prestige" feel rather than pictures of people slumped with laptops in coffeeshops.

Also ditch the "hacker" branding, this has too many wrong implications in the mainstream.
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Very cool idea! I'm wondering if it solves this problem that a lot of clients face- the client knows what they'd like, but have no clue as to what kind of coding is required to accomplish it. So when they look for freelancers, they don't know the alphabet soup of languages and end up connecting to people that might not be the best fit.

If you guys are acting as "matchmakers," you might want to specifically say that you can help people who don't know what they're looking for (if you offer that service). I've bookmarked you though, because finding good freelance talent is a real problem.
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If we do not believe in freedom of speech for those we despise we do not believe in it at all.
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Why not? Isn't competition supposed to be a good thing? Also: if you're convinced an idea is going to be big, why not bet on a few companies at the same time? This is not a horse -race.
Awesome meetup and great group of guys! Thank you so much to Solution Space for hosting the meeting, the new space has dramatically increased the value of these meetings!!
After reading through an absurd number of licenses, this is my understanding of the way various things combine.

I'm sure the HN community has people smarter than I, who will immediately see some mistake I may have made.
Thank you!
In that event, I shall issue a correction post-haste.
None, but I've found myself starting to follow individual IT writers as opposed to publications, setting up Google Alerts and RSS feeds to have my own "fantasy" league of great writers with minimum cruft and no sneaky advertorial.
I wrote this after the 'PG has lost the plot' thread. I didn't like the title, but the content was fairly good. People really seem to have trouble visualizing "that which is not seen":-)
> Computers are an extension of people's minds, not devices like a record player, typewriter, or printing press. Intrusion into somebody's processing and data should be treated the same as intruding into their thoughts. It shouldn't be done.

Well said. This is probably the most challenging analogy for people (and courts) to grasp.
Yes, non ferromagnetic materials are still subject to some inductive heating due to eddy currents* but I have no feeling for how much.

*I've had the pleasure of being MRI'd a few times in a 4 Tesla research MRI (normal MRI's operate around 1.5T) and occasionally I would get nerve stimulation due to eddy currents set up in tissue. An interesting feeling!
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Okay, I linked up Matt & Solution Space. Who was the hardware guy? </blush>
So the importance of the top at the end - one of the most debated points - isn't whether it falls or not, but the fact that Cobb having spun it doesn't bother to check?
This is one reason I don't mind that the only built-in option for search on Windows Phone is Bing. While I believe I get better results from Google (though that may be bias on my part), when I hit the search button it pops up a nice picture. Many times the picture is relevant to a holiday or special event that occurred on that day, and there are call-outs you can press to see quick facts (today's is about Yamuna River pollution and the Taj Mahal).

It's a good example of TheCoreh's point that it's all about providing a more compelling experience. If I was given the option when I first turned on my phone, I likely would have put in Google just out of habit. Today, I probably would not. Probably.
Yep, good point. Helping to figure out what's needed is an important aspect - it's one of the most tricky parts for people who are starting to contract online or don't have all the necessary technical background.
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Nicolas Sarkozy announced that anyone consulting any kind of extremist, fundamentalist website would become punishable under the law. This would have to be a new law that would be introduced.

"Désormais, toute personne qui consultera de manière habituelle des sites internet qui font l'apologie du terrorisme ou qui appellent à la haine et à la violence sera punie pénalement".
Here's a brief demo [video] of how these jams can start for no apparent reason http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Suugn-p5C1M
I guess the words I use are closer to guys/gals then boys/girls then, except that it's used commonly the language (as opposed to gal in english, which is fairly rare - at least from my experience).
You're probably right. I tried to get a positive message across (i.e. 'Embrace your femininity to your advantage.')

I ended up sounding vindictive though, probably because I am at some level.

It's hard to publicly talk about this and even harder to find the right constructive tone between the indignation, anger and resentment that (for me) have accompanied my non-standard gender identity.

And even though I don't know what to make of the large number of downvotes, I'm still glad I tried. :)
They also funded competitors in the email CRM space as well.

They even say in their FAQ that they will - http://ycombinator.com/faq.html
I'd imagine it's probably not illegal, since that's not the only information on your profile. Just like they can't ask you your race or marital status, but when you come in for the interview they can certainly see the color of your skin and if you're wearing a wedding band.

It should be illegal though- I'm not sure when it ever became acceptable to ask for someone's login credentials.
Wow! And Airport products weren't even released until 1999. I'm not sure how they did that. Probably something to do with liquid cash assets ;)
It's illegal in France to deny an atrocity acknowledged by the State. If the government calls something genocide or a heinous crime, it's illegal for a citizen NOT to agree. It was meant to reign in holocoust deniers, making it illegal. Then it was used as a political pawn against Turkey, viz Ottoman crimes against Armenians.

In Britain two women are in court demanding their right to wear a cross to work.

In Germany it's even illegal to salute the German flag, or borders on social taboo.

Europe .. it's fucked, but it's better than the U.S.
I think going back into some production code you wrote years ago and doesnt have tests and putting them in is a really nice way to self-reflect. It would provide at least two benefits, 1) improving the code 2) showing you just how far you've come since writing the code, which in turn shows you how far you can keep going.
Definitely - this is actually on purpose for the first phase, where we would rather focus on a small number of clients and hackers for whom it goes well, rather than trying to attract everyone who has something to outsource.

But, agreed, if we want to go beyond the types of clients who aren't scared of the word "hacker", we'll probably have to create a separate site for them.
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Superb. Will it be regularly updated?

One thing I'd add is to the app overview page, add a quick overview of the processes going on. You have to go pretty deep to look at the number of workers/dynos.

It runs really smoothly, best heroku UI for the iPhone if you ask me.
I wonder what the implications would be if facebook introduced a feature that allowed a potential employer to "buy" temporary access to a potential employees facebook data?

For example you apply for a job somewhere and the next time you log into facebook you get a message that reads something like.

"InitTech PLC has requested read only access to your account for 48 hours, please be aware that compliance with this is a condition of employment with InitTech PLC Allow/Deny"
Very interesting problem to tackle. Only problem I see is how the incentive structure will work out. The YC process works because as a hacker, there is a huge monetary incentive(average YC statup is worth 22.4m) to apply. However, it's not clear to me how the incentives will work out with hackertrade, since most hackers already have plenty of paid work opportunities.
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Is this really becoming common? I agree that it's absolutely wrong, but, every headline I've seen gives the impression this is becoming a common practice. I've never heard of it actually happening anywhere but the few cases cited in the articles.
Off-topic point about horse racing - plenty of people place multiple conflicting bets on races!
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Of course, another factor is how ending copyright might redirect a lot more resources into open source. Without being able to benefit from rents that come from keeping proprietary code, how many companies would switch to using and improving open source alternatives?
>Why is this hard? In Clojure, the complexity of all core functions is well defined. i.e. map is O(n), hash lookups are log_32(n) or better, etc. Seems like you can compute the complexity analysis at compile time.

Because your standard for-loop iterating through a collection is a special case of all for-loops. Much old code doesn't even use iterator-based or comprehension-based for-loops, but instead just iterates through arrays by using a local variable as an index.

for(int i=0;i<strlen(string);i++)

The programmer knows that strlen() will return the length of the null-terminated string string, but without dependent types or some similar computation, the compiler has no idea. To your C compiler, that string is just another pointer to a character!

If we "move up" to a language like Java or C++ where iteration uses (gasp) iterators, then we have to detect the special case of code employing an iterator class/type and associate a collection-size variable n with the collection over which we're iterating.

I say special case because that check will only catch the employment of an iterator via an iterator-based for loop, not a while loop. And the while loops or index-based for iterations can also have off-by-one errors and other bugs that will, needless to say, prevent our static complexity analysis from proceeding as planned.

These things look easy to analyze to the human eye because Pseudocode is the Sufficiently Smart Language, designed by humans for performing complexity, computability and correctness proofs. Once we get actual code involved, any resemblance to our vaunted Pseudocode is a happy coincidence.
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It probably wouldn't be considered a free speech issue since they are not targeting the speech, just those who consume it. I would imagine it's more of a privacy issue since they would have to track the browsing habits of every single person in France to make sure they are only viewing "acceptable" websites, whatever that happens to be on any given day.
Somewhat odd to see that people around here are trying to shoot down a bold idea like that. I would argue that the idea is not at all that "crazy" as some here try to make it sound. The great thing is, that there is a very active RC plane community with many brilliant minds around.

For example the arguments, that planes have to land every so often are highly questionable, when there are already long-range planes in reasonable size and weight such as the Tam-26.

With relatively unsophisticated components they were able to make the flight across the Atlantic (1888 miles) in about 40 hours ( http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=941744)

Countless other efforts are at the moment working on how to solve the problems using solar power for RC planes. And the problems seem to be at least in theory not that unrealistic.
This happens with a lot of software, unfortunately. On the side, I do computer repair (and charge for it). I'd say about 30% of my calls are "my Google changed to Ask!" after installing FoxIt or Digsby etc.

I was hoping that charging people money would lead them to finding their own solutions for trivial problems, but instead it has just padded my beer fund. C'est la vie.
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