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The moment this campaign started, I felt it was unnatural. Just drive through the center of Bucharest once, and you'll see just how smart Romanians are. I'm not one of those that feel like that they don't belong to this country, but we still have a long way to go.

Funny thing is that even romanian searches would yield 'Romanians are rude' and similar suggestions. Cause we are, just like other nations around us from the former communist countries. After aprox. 50 years of living under constant pressure that what's yours will be taken away, now everyone sees everyone as a potential threat. It's our/their blood. And it'll take a while until things will change. They're changing, but I'm not sure campaign like these will make a big difference.
Actual lawyer.

He's generally right, in the U.S. at least. Suggesting that someone commit an illegal act does not rise to the level of conspiracy. You have to actually do something meaningful to support the criminal effort to be charged with conspiracy.

In certain circumstances, incitement can be a crime, but the threshold for that crime is very high.
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The U.S. criminal code is not like the Canadian Criminal Code. Also, I suggest you reread the statute. By the plain language of the CCC, it is not enough to recommend that someone commit a crime, you must actually counsel them in how to do it (i.e,. provide advice).
Except that: we aren't 'ENTERING YOUR COMPUTER CASE'... we are removing code that you are running to infect other computers. There is no world equivalent, ridiculously phrased analogy that applies.

You might want to just stay off the internet if you are afraid. Here's another example of fearful users, frozen into not doing anything: http://ddkportraits.com/2012/02/why-i-tearfully-deleted-my-p...
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In the U.S., by definition the conspirators must agree to commit a crime. Thus, they must know each other--not in a personal sense, but they must actually know that there are other participants and agree to act in concert with those other participants.
here are some real numbers:

http://www.mrhealthinsurance.net/PDFs/Blue_Cross_Options_Blu...

a 64 year old with a drug problem and 3 kids is looking at 31k a year (worst case, 6k best case).

what, exactly, are you looking to have happen? it's either socialized, where healthy people subsidize the sick, or it's not, or there is some gradient between the two.

I think, right now, you're looking at about 6k/year per person. you can divide that up however you want... billg pays all of it, you pay your own way, or some point on the gradient between the two. regardless, the money has to come from somewhere. I kind of like the obamacare, everybody contributes something model. I think i'd prefer it as a straight up tax, but FREE MARKET IS AMAZING, RAWR, so whatever. that's fine.

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or we just let people die. i'm not ok with that.

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I need to qualify that, this is only for people that aren't poor or old (which medicare and mediaide cover already) or for veterans (which have their own system) or kids (chips it think it's called). this is exclusively for working class kinda folks who never went to war. the other 60% are already covered by socialized medicine.

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why the hell am i participating in an /r/politics discussion on hn? i'm obviously dumb.

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Thank you for simply downvoting and not replying. this way, i can go to sleep not worrying you're expecting a reply.
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> Even Apple gets this wrong (you'll reach a point going through the Top Charts in the App Store where pressing Back reduces you back to the first 10 results)

Apple gets a lot wrong. Personally, I think their website is horribly difficult to navigate - specifically their web store and web-based app store. The site is chock full of beautiful graphics and plenty of information, but I can't believe how difficult it is to buy the damn thing once I've made up my mind. The call-to-action buttons (ie "BUY THIS RIGHT NOW") are tiny, nearly invisible, or nonexistent. Not what you'd expect from the tech powerhouse that is Apple.

I'd love to do a writeup on this one day. I feel like I'm crazy finding the website so difficult to navigate, but there's no way I'm alone here.
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To be fair, I spent a few days trying to wrap my head around Mercurial so I could commit to PyPy, lost a bunch of code, and switched to just using the hg-git bridge. It's mostly about what you're used to.
I used the .net stack for 8 years. But, I wouldn't use the platform for a startup or my own projects. I don't want to be locked into the Windows platform. Mainly, because of licensing fees and just a general preference for the Linux shell and its scripting environment.

The open source community isn't very strong so there aren't as many options for a lot of things, and the community has relied on Microsoft to provide most of the tools and libraries.

Also, while C# is a nice language, I don't find it that different that it compels me to use it over other options available elsewhere. Personally, I find F# to be a much more compelling product.
I'm going to ask the dumb question that the article doesn't explain: why do people hate Romanians so much? I've never found Romanians awful people. Is this just more ethnocentric rubbish and typical hostility toward Eastern European immigration?
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Even if there aren't pre-made bibliography styles, is there a bibliography system at all, comparable to something like BibTeX?
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> but the threshold for that crime is very high

What exactly does that mean? What is the line between "incitement" and "suggesting a crime"?
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"We probably destroyed more than we created," said Microsoft Research Partner Architect Jaron Lanier, who in a baggy T-shirt and dreadlocks could not have looked more the opposite of the impeccably groomed Mr. Sorrell. "We discovered in Silicon Valley if you apply information systems to an industry you can shrink an industry but grow yourself. It happened to the music business, and it's a huge problem."

Mr. Sorrell swung back: "[We've got] the internet ... and you've narrowed it down to [the notion that] data and data analytics have destroyed more than they've created. I think that's palpable nonsense. Clearly there's a change in the balance of power to consumers … [but] the political benefits, social benefits and economic benefits outweigh the disadvantages."
What if I get permission from the owner of one of the infected systems to "penetrate" his setup and upload the botnet-destroyer. Would that still be illegal?
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Ah, I see. I didn't reload the page. I wonder if there is any way to do this without reloading the page...

It be fun to show off if someone figured it out.
Noticed that 50% are primarily mobile[1]. I wonder how this compares to past YC batches? Obviously this figure does not represent this YC batch, but it definitely seems like YC is interested in mobile.

[1] iOS: PlanGrid, Pair, iCracked; Android: Sonalight, Kyte
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Nice... I'm considering switching over to XBMC for a week or two to see how I like it. I might write a blog post to compare the two soon. Moving this week though, so it might be a while.
In many countries, yes.
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Romanian is a latinate/romantic language, like Italian, French, Spanish, or Portuguese... but for some reason it never gets listed with the others.

Relevant linguistic map: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Romance_20c_en.png
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This is great news - raising capital for a new venture has traditionally been controlled by restrictive regulations. While the regulations were likely originally designed to protect investors from getting scammed, they also end up making it much more difficult for legitimate ventures to raise that first round of seed capital. The best part about this is the crowd-sourced angle... huge potential for disruption here!
Yes and no. The point is that you're not retroactively billed for licenses you got while in the program. Believe it or not, a lot of people seem to think that it's just a delayed payment program. Yes, if you're designing a system that's going to require more than 6 servers you might end up paying for a license. Windows Web Server runs ~$470. But for many businesses, if you're using >6 servers you're likely going to be deploying to some cloud hosting solution, or possibly using a shared hosting service (which would include licenses).

It's a tired example, but StackOverflow really is an example of a startup that got a lot done with very few devs or servers and launched a very successful business. Also key is that you can mix and match technologies as you want, something that the StackOverflow used very intelligently (e.g. Microsoft server fronted by non-Microsoft reverse proxy, etc.).
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There was a reasonably high profile case of Amazon remote-deleting Kindle books a while back, ironically George Orwell's 1984 (amongst others).
Wouldn't this simply result in a flurry of single-purpose hardware devices that could be patented?

If not, why not?
The equation builder looks downright painful to use.
Yeah, his forum argument made a good point, but what about 200-page threads? How am I supposed to get to page 200 without scrolling?
Hmm.. this actually looks like developer is going to start making less money the moment they release the first feature pack. To make things fair to users [1] you have to start selling base version for less money at some point to ensure that the full price of the application stays the same, but if you do that you have no guarantees that people will buy "feature packs" - actually it's guaranteed that not everyone will buy those so you will get less money than you would if you could just stop selling version 1.0 and start selling version 2.0 for the same price (and provide an upgrade path for existing users)

EDIT: clarified a bit
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Flutter has a lot of potential beyond music, especially if they are looking beyond desktop computers.

I could imagine Android-like "face unlock" for laptops or screensavers that kick in when you're facing away or leave the room. :)
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Kingston has a successor language, called Nonpareil, which seems to have been in development for quite some time: http://sydney.edu.au/engineering/it/~jeff/nonpareil.

I love (La)TeX, but I'd also love to see viable alternatives in place. However, I've never heard a success story (for example, "I wrote a book in it and it was pleasant"—or even "… a paper … painless"!). In fact, this is the first story I've heard of anyone (other than Kingston & co. himself) even seriously trying it.

Is there a Lout / Nonpareil showcase out there somewhere?
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Also interesting is that the campaign chose "Romanians are smart", when they could have used much more positive phrases like "Romanians are friendly". Typically being "smart" is a stereotype already well-covered by too many other ethnicities (primarily Asians).
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> I am a developer who has leaned towards .NET over the last few projects and one of the things that used to nag me is that the platform is a closed one (and the licensing fees can be a decent part of the cost). I was fairly certain I would migrate off it if the project ever took off seriously.

Can you explain why? Is it because the only reason it's closed? You just hate MS.
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For a big old school company like Microsoft to accept patches from the community is huge. I always grudgingly accepted there must be some sort of commercial risk ("Microsoft used my code and made 10 million dollars, now I'm going to sue them") holding them back.

Does anybody have insight on this topic? I'm currently building something that would benefit greatly from user contributions of code, but I'm wary about the legal implications (the project will be a commercial site, and while I have no problem publishing their code if I choose to integrate it into my site to enhance the user experience, I have no interest in publishing the core code for the rest of the site).
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Maybe the use of the word sharecropper has changed recently with respect to Apple, but as far as I know, it doesn't have anything to do with whether or not you're successful and content with the Land Owner's restrictions. It's meant to signify that you don't have full control over the ecosystem you're living in and that you owe part of the profits you reap from your hard work to the land owner.

In that sense, App Store developers are very much sharecroppers whether they enjoy and accept it or not.
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What will be interesting to see is how well Microsoft acts as a steward of the project. I can't count how many bugs I've seen on Microsoft Connect sit untouched for years.

Assuming they're not being fixed due to lack of development resources, perhaps this will help. If it's any other reason, including test resources, management resources, or overall project priorities - a move like this is unlikely to be significant.

If we're just trading a list of ignored bug reports for a list of ignored pull requests, it'd be difficult to muster much excitement.
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Ive seen secondmarket.com and sharespost.com but they seem to be for institutional investors and not very straight forward.
I'm talking about investing sums of around $500-10000.
For my own work I plan to keep a store of ALL user submitted links.

I plan to iterate over it and do sane things with it:
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My aim is to self-heal user submitted content that links elsewhere, as much as it is to monetise that content where it's possible to.

I plan to visit links on a schedule and react as necessary. I hadn't really figured in affiliate spammers, but that would just be part of the self-healing now... detect change in destination and re-run the bit that strips affiliate codes.
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The problem with Romanians (imo) is low self esteem and negative self image. Like you said, after many years of psychological abuse it's hardly any surprise. If they could only see their potential ... unfortunately, most times you have to be unplugged from negativity to see the positives.
I think the issue is that to remove the botnet, it requires having your code be executed on all infected machines. You can't possible get permission from the owners of the millions of infected machines to do this.
I wasn't trying to be funny. I was on my phone so I didn't elaborate at all. Obviously it is expected that most startups will fail. But the key is that they fail publicly so I think it is easier to get a feel for how serious of a candidate/team there was behind the startup. Additionally I think that people that are just credential seeking will tend to cluster together so I don't expect a large mix of credential-seeking and serious founders together.
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This is actually an excellent idea, I think I'll try it in some future projects of mine...
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Lighter:

Nootropcis, which may be interesting to the hackers aboard.
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I use the term coder for myself, because I think it is more accurate than any other phrase. I will never be a software engineer. I don't think of myself as a Real Programmer, and I don't expect to ever publish any program that will be used by my grandmother.

I like doing stats, and making sure that I really understand how things work, and at times automating parts of my life. At most I will end up knowing three of the programming languages that currently exist, and those only to a moderate level.

Calling myself a coder is, I believe, an accurate summary of my skill set and desires. Is there a better term? Is it condescending only when applied to engineers or programmers?
This campaign doesn't change the reason why peoples are searching for bad things about Romanians. It's just fixing a symptom but not the source of the problem.
Touché! ;)

And actually, corruption is not really much of a concern right now, it's more of radical incompetence on all levels. At this point, no amount of bribery will help you go smoother.
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I tried with a bunch of nationalities and every one returns equally negative results for "[Nationality] are". I don't know why people get so upset about stereotypes. I bet almost every one is stupid/lazy/ugly by the opinion of random strangers in the world.
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Agreed -- have people no memory or perspective of the housing bubble? "Get in now or you'll be priced out of the market forever! Real estate never goes down!" RE agents courted sellers and ignored buyers.

I often remember the Emerson quote, "The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons." Sometimes an uptick in everything-is-A-OK bluster is a pretty good indicator that things are about to crater.
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