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>> The tighter control, even enacted for "good" reasons now, attracts the type that use it for evil later.

Are you so sure that those good reasons aren't conceived by ill intented guys knowing what you have just described: It sucks because you can't fight the evil up front.

More commonly refered to as wolf in sheep's clothing.

Big power players are not naive.
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And I think the lack of foriegn travel by a lot of US citizens has somthing to do with it. If you have gone on forign holidays and gone through customs your self you might be more understanding when your doing that job.
There is the point that the investment arms of these banks were "bankrolling" the retail arms. They in fact provided the capital to take the mortgages off the retail banks hands (typically for more than they were worth). This had the effect of encouraging the retail arms to lend to even riskier clients; a positive feed back loop. I think there is probably a case that even a "chinese wall" between these two arms may have reduced the investment arms inducement of the retail arm to take on board such huge risks. As you state though legislating against this is difficult, many so called experts didn't see, or refused to see, this coming. If you put up new rules people will find new ways to get around them. Maybe a social responsibility requirement of the board in the Corporations Act might help? Who knows...
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I think that's definitely good enough. You see an important metric in gauging _good_ answers is also how succinctly you've been able to express yourself. It is not merely good enough to have done something cool. Especially for YC.

...of groups good enough to make it to interviews, more than half blow the application.

Indeed not surprising. Rephrase what you're trying to say so it brings out why this was so brilliant a hack in the least number of words possible. Rewrite it again.

We're looking for people who like to beat the system. So if the answer to this question is good enough, it will make me go back and take a second look at an application that otherwise seemed unpromising.

It is definitely one of the most important questions in the application. Think of other things you have done that might seem trivial to you but might be really brilliant. Talk to your friends. They might help.

In any case, best wishes for your YC Application.

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> Readability did the analysis and certainly seemed to believe that Android supported their product.

Readability has a completely different (if any) business model. They're following the standard approach of using venture funding to gather as much market share as possible and then exploring way to extract revenue once they have a large user-base.

Do you expect him to shell out a large sum of money to develop an Android app to _hope_ he'll regain the money through sales? There's a large amount of risk there, and it's definitely not your call to make how risk-averse he should be. How many apps are only available for Windows or OS X? As an independent developer, it makes more sense to focus on one high-quality product.
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Unfortunately its an essential political sell.

In essence you've called out the fact that its the slippery slope.

In this case though its intentional. These structures affect the power structures, so the power structure will react to it in order to either minimize/control/remove its effect.

Sadly you have to play ball in a manner that shows that the power on the other end (the anti RIAA portion of the spectrum) has the ability to create/co-ordinate voters.

The RIAA supports its cause by spending tonnes of money to 'educate' legislators.

If you can influence their voting base though, that education is pointless, since voting power is far more important.
That's hardly an issue : just use joda time.
I use ReadItLater on Android. It seems to work pretty well, and formats things better than reading actual web pages would.
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To install socket.io you need only execute `npm install socket.io`

This installs socket.io from the npm registry (there is no need to download/extract the zip).
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True. That scene was almost a textbook Prisoner's Dilemma case.

But the overall arc of the movie -- concluding with Batman's needing to sacrifice himself for the greater good -- seems pretty Volunteery.
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neat and awesome talk
Twitter does this. Flockdb is built ontop of an RDBMS

http://github.com/twitter/flockdb

the downside is that unlike a proper graph database (such as neo4j) you can only query a single hop per SQL query (which is fine for twitter, since there is no requirement for 'followers of followers' etc.)
Have you gotten the "Who is TED?" question yet?
Do you expect him to shell out a large sum of money to develop an Android app to _hope_ he'll regain the money through sales?

I would bet that he could have (well...not any more as the opportunity has long passed) gotten any of countless decent individual developers to write a very good port for free, asking for only a fraction of sales: It is not a complex app and isn't pushing the envelope.

I would never expect that from Marco, however, as he has been hilariously unprofessional about the Android/iOS divide, essentially choose to cheerlead a team over considering rational business choices.
Isn't Google full of developers, run by developers? Maybe they need an ideas guy... they do seem to be coming up short for say... the last five years?
Google is full of developers that have proven they have no idea.

Therefore hiring an ideas guy makes perfect sense...
I think this will help you move to the right track.

How a Macbook was replaced by an iPad+Linode combo

http://yieldthought.com/post/12239282034/swapped-my-macbook-...
I don't want to pile on with my complaints about travelling to the USA, so I'll just mention that I will not fly there for leisure or if it can be avoided. Living in Toronto allows me to drive across, which will suffice in most occasions. I came to this conclusion after a few unwelcoming treatments.
I wonder what took them so long to crack down on pornography. It's been a while since the Prohibition got rid of all the alcohol. Maybe they were too exhausted from putting all those copyright violators behind bars. But since sharing of movies, music and books has been so successfully staunched recently, it seems to be time to tackle the next big thing. Go Santorum.
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> The only reason I'll travel to the US for at this point is if I have an overwhelming business imperative to do so. For example, I'd probably travel to the US to be interviewed by YC, if I ever applied. For pleasure? Not a chance.

Don't fuck up your visa application though, a colleague did that (he got a business visa but the wrong one), was refused entry and — because it was during the Eyjafjallajökull event — had the chance to visit the US's penitentiaries for a week before they could put him on a plane back.
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Do you have a project on the sides? Or at least, if you dont have a project yet, are you learning anything interesting so that you might have a future personal project?

At the very least, you could also list things that you find interesting.
IMO, it depends entirely upon the type of book. For works of fiction, or biographies, or for other books laid out in linear fashion, there's a tangible benefit to reading linearly. (And on through to the end).

For reference works, or almost any type of nonfiction these days, nonlinear consumption makes a lot of sense. How many of us have read a dictionary or an encyclopedia from cover to cover? How many of us have read a collection of essays in a perfectly linear manner? Any sort of book that does not confer a specific benefit upon linear consumption offers no real incentive for such. Linearity is largely a convention to which we've grown accustomed, and I would argue that the era of software and hyperlinks -- cross-references at the click of the button -- is steadily eroding that convention. And authors will start to intend for, and eventually optimize for, newer modes of consumption.
Great write-up. My company (Tawlk) actually open sourced a library to automate this very thing. We typically get around 80% accuracy with about 2 million samples.

You can grab our sample set here: https://github.com/downloads/Tawlk/synt/sample_data.bz2

And check out the project here: http://github.com/Tawlk/synt

It also ships with a full CLI interface if you just want to play with it without getting knee deep into the code.

Also if you want to to see a stripped down stand-alone code sample that steps you through the process I made this gist:

https://gist.github.com/1266556

Enjoy :)
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I recently had to change Airports in France from CDG to Orly when travelling to Barcelona for the Mobile World Congress. I had a Schengen Visa and on mentioning that I was on transit to Barcelona, they started demanding to see the invitation (Lucky I had it printed), whether I had some cash to take me Orly Airport, my credit card and a load of bullshit questioning by a guy who I could hardly hear because he was speaking very fast in a low voice behind the glass. I felt like asking him to speak up but felt like that wouldn't have ended well. After some moments he stamped the thing and threw it back.
"Still relevant"? What is threatening Netflix right now? Hulu maybe, I guess. If you really like TV shows, and paying to see ads.

I'm also an Amazon Prime member, but their streaming catalog is abysmal -- I mean, it borders on embarrassing. I check it every now and again when Amazon uses the home page to tell me all of the 'great' new content they've added, but going back to the Netflix comparison, by that benchmark, it doesn't even come close.

I've never run into an issue with them hiding content. I'm not sure to what you're referring. They didn't plaster Iron Man 2 all over the landing page when it became available?

You can more or less watch the views flood in on instantwatcher.com anytime a 'modern' movie is released on streaming. It shoots to the top right away, which makes me think that, for most people, finding the 'good' content is not an issue.
I didn't know Marco had a podcast until I heard about it in this thread. Got it this morning and I'm listening to him say how he was ready for iPad Retina back in October. I've had that being ahead of the game feeling before then something comes along at the end to throw a wrench in it. I think that's why releasing/shipping is such a good feeling.

Even then, once I built the free version of my app without a necessary ObjC linker flag and shipped it with a bug that caused it to crash on a couple of screens. Was always testing in debug mode...
You want to be very careful with this, as you can end up classified a money transmitter and have to comply with a whole bunch of painful regulations. Just search for PayPal chained payments or Amazon's equivalent, it will do exactly what you need.
I grew up in the Canal Zone during the transition to full control to Panama. It was during the Noriega years and I had quite a few Panamanian friends and went into Panama City a lot. It was a dictatorship. Not at the same level of Romania but it was a dictatorship and I remember how one had to approach cops. In the U.S. people laugh at me when I say that I can no longer tell the difference between how to approach cops in America versus a dictatorship.

We Americans have been manipulated by our leaders and it's sad for me to see how easily it was done.
The method is mostly the same one that is used within our synt library (htto://github.com/Tawlk/synt). We built quite a bit on top of it however. That said, the author did a great job of explaining the process.

Good encouragement for me to better document synt.
He's also a bit of a perfectionist; I can't really see him using a contractor, so he'd probably have to do it himself.
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I know that it was a Supreme Court ruling that Americans had an absolute right to come into the country. But in the present time we live in a situation where being labeled an enemy combatant or terrorist is grounds for indefinite detention without recourse to Habeas Corpus. Also, my girlfriend comes to the U.S. and I don't want to fuck things up for her. They know about her because she gets asked why she and I were in Turkey together 4 years ago.
Tiny niches? All the data tables in Wikipedia; Apple acquires Siri; Google acquires Freebase; the Google and Bing search indexes, .... This story is not over.

Bitter, absolute statements like that are regurgitations of a myth. (And maybe you mean SPARQL not XQuery.)
"There are even government initiatives such as the JobBridge scheme that allow start-up companies hire people free of charge"

JobBridge has been roundly derided as a source of cheap/free labour for less than scrupulous restaurants , shops etc. under the guise of internship (as well as a useful way to fudge unemployment figures); "Learn to deal with problem customers..."

The short of it is, you'll need to offer a fair incentive to get good people - the IT sector is still pretty healthy here and decent graduates can expect to walk into a job from third-level.
And if you set it aside you get 40% time next quarter. It's very much alive and well.
What does intent:X do besides firing event:X? i.e. what does intent:X buy you?
My grandfather likes watching YouTube videos, but even the simple Apple TV interface was too difficult for him (remembering all the remote buttons, mostly). I know it's very simple, but it was just too much for him.

However, he knows how to use his iPhone to play music and use AirPlay to stream it to a stereo (Airport Express). So I showed him how to AirPlay to an Apple TV and now he doesn't need to know anything about how to work the Apple TV (as long as he changes the input, the Apple TV will automatically wake up as soon as it receives an AirPlay stream).

Basically, if your relatives like the iPad app, just have them continue to use that and then send the video to an Apple TV via AirPlay.
Well, there had been laws treating encryption as weaponry, and forbidding it's export. So outlawing it for such uses, is not that far fetched. We've regressed a lot in a lot of areas since the nineties.

OTOH, VPNs are needed by companies of course, so they can't outlaw this kind of use. But it's not like they cannot poison usenet/tor et al, and catch guys this way. If they have their way, one can imagine a future that you're only allowed to VPN to a whitelist of addresses that you have declared beforehand for business use --or something of that kind.

Also, how about any "odd" pattern, like repeated high volume traffic, giving them "probable cause" to bust into your house and check for illegal downloads?
Especially given the current economic climate, you'd think they'd want every dime they could get!
The only time I travelled into Yugoslavia during the Cold War (July '88) was rather scary - we were on a train from Italy and it stopped in the middle of nowhere and a troops appeared and surrounded the train. I distinctly remember watching them set up what looked like an enormous machine gun of some kind, which was pointed directly at our compartment.

They then did whole "papers please" routine down the length of the train. Things got quite amusing when they got to my travelling companion as he had grown a beard since having his passport photo taken - so his facial hair was given a rather close examination and a sound tug or two.

In my typically rather naive way I thought it was all quite exciting, at least until they got to some harmless old lady who clearly did not have her papers in order and the soldiers all got really very angry indeed - to the point where one took out his pistol and started waiving it around rather a lot. They probably shouted at her for the best part of an hour.

Eventually the train moved on, but it took a long time and was very unpleasant.
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http://www.marco.org/2011/12/07/standing-up-for-android

He has invited people to do just that; if you make it with his public API, and he thinks it's good enough, he'll let you call it the official Android version and split revenue 50/50.
That may be true for the TED channel, but they claim a searchable interface for their Netflix channel: http://www.roku.com/netflix-partner
There are different levels of "open sourcing":

1. dump the code into a zip and release it under a free licence

2. step 1 + answer to emails

3a. step 2 + provide a hangout for interested developers

3b. step 2 + actively work on the code base

4. steps 3a and 3b

5. step 4 + actively sell the project to devs

For example, id Software is on level 1 (or 2?) by releasing old engine sources. That is already much better than throwing the code away. Most open source projects themself are only at 3b, because they are hobby projects and don't care about users.
Me and my partner have a day long stopover in Miami in October, so we're hoping to visit the city for the day instead of staying in the airport. What's immigration like there, do you know?
This looks to be right up my alley, I'd love to give Github more of my data :)
It is about readjusting the base line. They aren't making it illegal to pay overtime. They are removing it from the list of positions that mandate overtime pay.
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I've personally used Percona/XtraDB quite a bit - if you are used to MySQL it is pretty much a drop-in replacement (i.e. you won't need to rewrite any queries). One nice feature is the ability to do hot backups without locking tables, using their XtraBackup:

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When you guys delete a feature/complex function that you wrote just to discover you don't need it, do you guys mark it somehow to know something that worked was removed in that commit?
I do not like that line of thinking! Per your view, the employer can then claim your "thoughts" outside of the office as their "property". Anytime someone puts a[n] employment agreement that claims right to all my intellectual output while employed I say "Thanks, but no thanks."
This is against HN guideline[1]:"Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."

[1] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I work here in Madtown :-), but I'm not sure that I would describe it as a start-up hub. Sure, there's the university and that has lots of energy, but tech start-ups? I'm curious what you see that I don't.

(Perhaps it's because I only work here and live an hour out of town, that I don't see it.)
Exactly. Terrorists trying to fight a war with flying .22s would be pathetic. They would never get even 1 shot in before the thing is taken down. I think a few people downvoting me and/or posting about the threat these things might cause don't really understand the state of this technology and/or basic physics.

We weren't talking about psychopaths. Everything is a threat in the hands of a psychopath. Give a psychopath a spoon and I'd still be worried.
Santorum has an extra one-year MBA degree. Both had Bachelor of Arts, both had Juris Doctor (a law degree).

Here's the scorecard for sport fans:

Santorum: BA (Hons) from UPenn; a one year MBA from University of Pittsburgh. Katz.; J.D. (Hons) from Dickinson School of Law

Obama: BA, Columbia University; J.D. (Magna cum laude) from Harvard Law
You're lucky that you don't have to apply for a visa.

I do, and it's not fun.

I have an application in the works at the moment, started the process with the US Embassy on 28th October 2011, and here I am 4 months and 17 days later not knowing anything and no idea when I might hear.

Ignoring all other points (2-6 hours in secondary being interrogated at the border), the endless process for getting a Visa is a real pain and a massive deterrent.

It's not like this is my first time, I've visited the US more than 10 times and had visit Visas in the past. Nothing has changed, but each application still takes an indeterminately long time.

I was hoping to go to a conference, but it's too late now, it's passed. Perhaps to also try and make some meetings with some potential business partners.

The reality keeps coming home: Just don't bother. It's far more hassle than it's worth. If you get past the Visa (a gamble in itself), then you still have the border to look forward to.

I cannot recall a single trip in which crossing the border was anything less than hellish.

This, of course, is all anecdotal. But behind anecdotes are people, this is my unfortunate reality.
The thing that gets me is that these fraudulent apps are showing up on the App Store's highest grossing apps list. What's the point of all these App Store rules and the 30% cut if they aren't even going after highly visible offenders?
Well it sounds like a success though - you didn't manage to blow anyone up, did you? :-)

FWIW, I'm not wild about these "righteous indignation" articles on HN. This is one of the better ones I've seen, and I agree with it wholeheartedly, but... I feel that perhaps they're just better left to other sites.
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I get nervous every time I cross the border back in to America, and I'm an American citizen.
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Compared to JFK, Newark is efficient, civilized and welcoming. I guess I should board in Dublin to reset my perspective.
It is a binary classifier so everything is at least slightly negative or slightly positive in a range from -1 to 1.

Think of it like leveler tool used in construction. Nothing is ever _perfectly_ level. It is either tilting one way or the other, but there is an acceptable range people will generally call 'level'. Neutral is the same.

If the classifier rates something something as 0.001 then that is probably safe to call it 'neutral'. It would be up to the application to decide on a 'neutral range'. You could for instance just flag anything between -0.2..0.2 as 'neutral'. It is good to define functions like these last so you can adjust the range manually until you have reduced false positives to a minimum with your particular data set.
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