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Pot wouldn't be a factor in my investment decision; it would depend on the quality of work they did.

I don't think drugs are incompatible with being a responsible and productive person. There would be downsides to high profile drug use, like what happened to Sean Parker at Facebook, where presumably there was fear that the LPs in various investors would raise issues.

People can be useless fucktards with or without drugs; people can be productive with or without drugs.
Dude! Interlake?? We should catch up! founders@familyleaf.com

We're also now a big fan of you!
Intrauterine devices (IUDs) fit exactly that bill. But one of my points is that one form of birth control, only for men or only for women, shouldn't wear the title "best."
Thanks for the tl;dr. I found myself unable to continue listening to the narrator's slow, halting, breathy voice.

IMO, and unrelated to this video, it's a good reason to provide a transcript of videos (advice I myself rarely follow) -- people with bad voices (or good voices that inexplicably annoy some people) can still have interesting things to say.
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If find it downright disgusting that you imply caring for privacy is in any way related to pursuing criminal activity. I seriously hope you aren't attempting the "if you have nothing to hide" rhetoric. That fallacy has been dismantled into oblivion, and everyone who uses it should be laughed out of the building, never to be taken serious again.

Let me present my point either way: I simply do not want anyone, be it corporation or government, to have aggregated records of my habits, behavior and interests, because I find this to be discomforting and highly dangerous. Information is a powerful weapon in the wrong hands, and nothing guarantees that these data aggregations were, are or will be safe. I do not care about it being published - I care about it the fact that it exists in the first place.

I do not even know how this is an issue of who cares. Apparently, many people care, and privacy is a fundamental (constitutionally granted) right in many western countries, at least on paper. Just because you don't think it matters doesn't mean it isn't an issue for more than enough people.
> Here's the thing: words (as opposed to physical violence) are very curious insofar as they can only hurt you as much as you let them.

What happens when Bob, (who was hospitalised for 6 weeks by a gang who beat him while shouting racist abuse at him[1]) hears someone using that same racist abuse?

> Racism, sexism, genderism (is that even the right word?), and agism are all stupid biases, and by treating them like a valid threat instead of a silly self-limiting arbitrary preference we are doing well by no one.

I really don't understand the self-limiting argument. It's made very often. Maybe I'm being a bit thick but doesn't history prove it wrong? Women (in the UK) were openly paid less than men until laws were passed. That didn't self-limit. It was common (in the UK; after WW2) for people letting rooms to have signs saying "No Blacks No Irish". That didn't self-limit.
“It is very clear to me that substantial change is what RIM needs,” Mr. Heins said on the call with investors.

Compared to (just a few months ago):

"I don’t think that there is a drastic change needed."

Oh, RIM.
Don't be too optimistic:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/21/us/21latina.html

As I said, the confounding factors exist, but they seem relatively minor. Attempting to effectively homogenize the diverse human gene pool through education is anything but a new effort. If it was possible to educate the Mbuti pygmies of the Congo into the cognitive equivalent of Great Neck Jews, don't you think someone would have tried this already?

Imagine that the remedy proposed was not educational, but rather pharmaceutical. Someone's selling you a drug that purports to turn Pygmy populations (mean IQ 55 or so - but let's be generous and add 10 points for cultural bias) into Ashkenazi populations (mean IQ 115 or so).

You might ask: has this drug ever been tried before? Is there any evidence that it can work? And what happens if the Beastie Boys take it - do they become the world's leading physicists? These would all be very rational questions.
As someone who had to have this explained to me several times in person before it clicked and I said "Holy Sh%t":

You seriously do not understand what Patrick did with BCC until you understand where the bingo activities came from.
Accepted into Ycombinator. From my prospective, if you believe in yourself and the business enough then you should be able to make considerable more (as your example of Heroku). The other reality is that 5 million isn't a lot of cash, assuming that is pre-taxed. While you could live a modest life with that amount of money, could you face yourself in the mirror at 75-80 and say, "I give it my best shot" versus "I never tried and don't know if...". I couldn't live with the doubt or unknown of what could have been.
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Have you ever had sex with someone who has an IUD. Or talked to a woman with an IUD to see her opinion on it? Because it's not all you make it out to be.
This was news to me. What is the solution to making money as a privacy preserving search engine?
The problem with the pedophile argument is that being called a bitch or treated like a secretary cannot result in you ending in jail.

After this can we please not post anymore racist/sexist/*ist stuff? I don't know about you, but I come here for the news about tech and the super insightfull comments and these stories seem a waste of brain power.
I find that most people's suggestions on this topic are that someone else modify their behavior to accommodate the suggester. This observation applies to both sides: pro-feminists suggest men stop behaving in ways that offend them, and (non-pro-feminist) men suggest that women stop being offended.

I don't think we're going to get very far when both sides put the responsibility[1] for action on the other party.

[1] Responsibility is not the same as blame.
I don't see how it sounds like you'd get a granuloma. It sounds like the sperm are destroyed as they pass through the vas deferens but are still washed out as they normally would be.
How did the Chromebooks do?

I don't ask with snark, but with genuine curiosity. I heard lots of people happy they got the free ones... But didn't hear about many people buying them.

I actually think they WOULD do better off if they made it themselves. Or at least just let Motorola do an exclusive Google-branded model akin to the Nexus.
Are you talking about the Nexus S 4G? Because Nexus S (otherwise) is already updated.
Shipping an app is one thing. Making money for your Backrs is another
Motorola has something called Smart RF which is the same thing. Since ExtremeNetworks and Brocade OEM the Motorola kit all 3 have it. I imagine all major vendors have this now.

But you will never be able to completely remove the human from the equation. A proper wireless site survey with someone walking around and taking readings pre/post AP installation is really the best way to do things. I'm not really a WLAN guy but I work with some really bright people who are. There is a lot of depth to this problem that we should not expect to be solved anytime soon by AI.

If you're interested in some of the theory about applying AI to RF determination check out the work of Tim Brown http://ecee.colorado.edu/~timxb/
How is the feeling Bob has any different from the same guy getting beaten the same way by a gang in a particular brand of car whenever he sees that car?

Do you want to ban that car brand too?
> Now I am biased, but why would one go into a partnership with a business person in the first place.

Because they know the bureaucracy and can get on with handling the paperwork and legal admin while you get on and do the actual work?
Even better: the US used to have a half-cent but they abolished it in 1857 due to its lack of value. With inflation, it's worth more than today's dime.
This would not fly in Germany. Change is always exact.
Here is a link to a drawing by the artist I mentioned in my reply:

http://art.wmmhs.org/marrero/drawing_class/silverpoint/denni...

This would probably be considered a "Not Safe For Work" image, so be aware.

The photo really doesn't do justice to what these look like. The image as perceived in the room is almost latent, no where near this explicit. Very faint, but definitely there.

A very difficult medium to work with.
Was there any other phone that got upgraded to Android 4.0 before Nexus S? As far as I know only the Transformer Prime and I think Motorola Xoom got 4.0, but those were already Honeycomb devices, and I believe they were significantly easier to upgrade to 4.0.

But I understand your concerns. For me the actual disappointment came from announcing the Nexus One would not receive it at all. The internal storage and the GPU might indeed suck for 4.0, but I find it hard to believe that there was absolutely no way to upgrade it, especially from the makers of Android. I'd expect a Nexus device to get at least 2 major version upgrades (so a 4.0 device would get 5.0 and 6.0, in this case).

Still, the Nexus tablet is something Google should've done a long time ago, and I was very surprised they didn't release a Nexus tablet in the same time with the Galaxy Nexus, to celebrate the unification of the phone and tablet software. To me that seemed like a no-brainer.

The fact that they decided to take the low-end and try to increase the Android tablet market share quickly, is also a welcome strategy, but I still think they need to be very aggressive about getting tablet-optimized apps from developers to be really successful.
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In what way does this trivialize birth control?
The ideal of birth control as a technology would allow anyone to cheaply turn their ability to reproduce on or off with no side effects. It's no more concerned with unwilling partners than willing, the technologies work the same for both. Judging from this article the method in question is getting pretty darn close to that ideal.
It's really hard to make the decision. We priced up co-lo at our local data centre and the costs are good and would save us money, it's just a massive headache. Network switches, redundant lines, internal vlans. They are all a pain in the ass, the only person at current who would manage that is me and I need to be developing really.

Obviously you don't know our company structure so I'm not having a go there! We have gone through this process and pricing already and it's ideally an area I want to stay clear of. I would prefer the responsibility to be somewhere else.

It's really hard making any decision, I just want a reliable solution where everything just works. Whenever I seem to settle on something then something happens at one of the companies and I'm deterred.

I do appreciate the comment though and if I do ever get the day when there is someone dedicated to sorting this then I'll be dogging them to get this solution in place, the mythical 100% is the end goal
Scarily like the Nortel situation, only consumer facing.
Emailed you

Cheers

Chris
This is the most important topic in this discussion and maybe the most topic for any startup or company in general. How do prevent your business from becoming obsolete? Is that even possible in the long run for IT firms? How about staying hungry or at least not becoming arrogant like RIM?
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Odd as it may seem, I fully expect iOS to take over Enterprise. They're already dominating as personal devices among the people who would be making those decisions, and I see it as an inevitability that they'll eventually be adopted officially.
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As the owner of a Nexus One I've had some frustrating experiences with Google's customer services. They frustrated a lot of users [1] and it was obvious they were unprepared to handle support issues and angry customers. HTC and Apple both offer exemplary customer service and Google will have a lot of work to do to match them in customer satisfaction.

[1] http://www.pcworld.com/article/186399/google_faces_deluge_of...
Ya, the good ol' Saints! Though, I graduated in '04.

(I read in your YC app that you were from Bellevue so I Googled you and saw that you went to IHS. :)
You're welcome to do as you please, of course. Just acknowledge that, if it pleases you to be offended when somebody says something factually incorrect about you, well, by golly, you'll be offended.

We cannot do anything by message passing (especially on the internet) that directly and unstoppably changes the mental state of another person--they must read it, and then become offended or not. This is trivially shown to be true.

You don't throw a system out on the 'net without hardening it--even well-meaning applications can cause problems if you don't.

Similarly, even well-meaning messages can cause people distress if they allow them to; it's better just to have thicker skin and deal with the unrepentant troublemakers by ignoring them or correcting them.
I don't want to ban anything, not even words.

Some words come from hate, and are used by hateful people, and the recipients of those words will perceive that hate, and it's not their problem of having thin-skin.

(btw: I am not going to post anymore about this. Kind regards.)
I know this comment doesn't add up much to the conversation but that is one of the coolest things I've ever seen, I don't know why I'm so hyped, maybe it's the memories...
http://www.quora.com/Computational-Genomics/What-are-some-go...
Is this not arguing semantics? Technical co-founder / programmer / coder / whatever . Someone who produces software?
As a fellow Australian the pennies aren't what I found most bizarre about US and Canadian currency, I more often found myself getting tripped up by the fact that listed prices in US and Canadian stores never include sales tax.
I believe from the article that it already neutralises HIV...
Thank you. I was a little surprised that my comment got downvoted so much. Maybe this is due to the low percentage of female HNers?

Its as if most people think that the pill would have been as revolutionary if it were for men instead of women.
I'm not sure how that would inform my awareness of the fact that IUDs provide effective birth control for women for 10 years after insertion. But I'm in medical school, so you can make a guess as to how many of the women that I know happily use IUDs (hint: many).
I can only speak for myself, but the reason he is being downvoted is because circle-jerky comments about RMS's appearance add absolutely nothing interesting or insightful to the discussion. The internet already has one reddit. I don't think we need to turn HN into another one.
Spot on - in fact I wonder if YC would be open to "funding" more groups if some of those groups didn't need the money? For us it's about the network like you pointed out.
A tip (workaround) for the missing hand guard, as often done with Wacoms: Wear a glove (e.g. wool) on your drawing hand. It will not register any unintended touches, and your hand will glide easier over the iPad, allowing for smoother curves and straighter lines.
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And I disagree with that. If it's the best at controlling birth, it's the best birth control. Since all sex acts involve two people, and I have a really hard time picturing a form of birth control which targets both parties equally, which party benefits/is responsible for it/controls it is neutral for judging which form is best.
I hope to soon see something like:

cat ~/message.txt | google mail --to "user@gmail.com" --subject "Awesome!"

You can do that now:

aptitude install sendEmail
alias google-mail='sendEmail -f myaddress@gmail.com \
-s smtp.gmail.com:587 -xu username -xp password'

Then

cat ~/message.txt | google-mail -t "user@gmail.com" -u "Awesome!"

Sure, pre-defined command would be nicer, but if you use VIM, I assume this isn't too much for you ;)
One thing I miss from google is auto-fixing keyboard language layout.
Ask HN: cheapest cell phones evar?
I would like to know what the cheapest cell phones on the planet are (yes, entire planet). Making calls, SMS, GSM, English language support and phone book are the only must requirements. Anything above 15 USD is !interesting.
HTC's agency fired 2 employees after reading their Skype messages
Both parties are responsible, so there can and ought not be a single "best". "Best" is not any single method, but instead requires something from both parties.
Moreover one of the best things for consumers was when the stock market changed quotes from fractions to cents.

Why?
Ubiquity. Once dropbox becomes essential for a large number of mobile or web-based apps (and their users), it becomes indispensable. With this comes a lot of possibility for monetizing either from the users or the vendors.

Of course one could say that's the same goal for just about any consumer-facing startup these days.
"Unfortunately today's classroom is just an auditorium, a place to listen."

This is the sad truth. It isn't completely on the students though, there are plenty of teachers out there who would rather just get through the class instead of actually teaching. True teachers seem to be few and far between.
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I suspect pricing of goods changes more often than sales tax rates.
The claim isn't that nobody is above their "level"; it's that black people are "likely" to be - and I read that as "most" are - above their "level".

At what "level" are people with good connections, powerful parents etc.? Is affirmative action more effective in advancing people than pulling strings and calling in favours? Isn't this mechanism - the social status quo - what affirmative action is designed to change?

Why would one expect more incompetence from one than the other?
I do, too. There are some lacking management tools, sadly, but have the best hardware right now.

In the Bring Your Own Devices world, you pretty much have to support iOS #1 and Android #2 (pretty much all Android users in corporate environments will take a free iPhone if that's cheaper for the company than also supporting Android; the reverse, no). I haven't seen anyone except tech companies actually buying iPhones at the IT level for distribution, but plenty of people given a corporate phone buying allowance will do so. And, IT departments DO buy iPads, so supporting iPhone + iPad is easy.

It is sad that Apple doesn't care about the enterprise market directly; even if they just had a closely-allied company like the old Claris to build the management tools, consulting, etc., it would make it a lot easier to use iOS and macs in corporate environments.
I liked this piece. I'm a designer, not a programmer, but I a lot in this piece would resonate with designers as well. So many times I have been asked to illustrate or design something, in exchange for "exposure" - "how great this opportunity is to get your design out there." One thing that I disagree on this piece is that I don't think there is a specific formula: that "you need" a technical co-founder and a business co-founder for a startup to work. Although programming is obviously a big part of this business, in my view successful entrepreneurs can come from a variety of backgrounds, and make it work - it's more about how they can draw from their backgrounds and how they can learn/contract what they need in order to make the idea fly.
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Obama and his wife when they were poor
...of pennies.
Because it gave an advantage to market makers and large institutional traders. I can look for some of the research if you are interested...

This is from the SEC at the time:
http://www.sec.gov/news/testimony/ts092000.htm

It should be a good starting point if you are interested. There was also a NYT article that was very succinct but I can not find the citation at the moment.

EDIT:

I'm at a loss for why this was downvoted. Decimalization is widely held to be a huge win for consumers. It's almost laughable to think otherwise.

From the NYT:

"There is a potential for investors to save hundreds of millions of dollars, but some of those savings are likely to be offset by increased commissions. Brokers have made substantial profits by pocketing the spread, and in some cases have been able to charge low commissions -- or, in extreme cases, no commissions -- on trades in stocks with large spreads, because of those profits.

It was the discovery that brokers in the Nasdaq market had been conspiring to keep spreads high on many stocks that began the inexorable move toward decimalization. The Securities and Exchange Commission imposed new rules last year that partly integrated electronic markets, like Instinet, that were previously available only to institutional investors, into Nasdaq. Suddenly, quotes with spreads of less than one-eighth were available." [1]

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/06/business/so-long-fractions...
Solid contender for most-unfortunately-timed post of the week. Factory images for the 4.0.4 went up for the Nexus S not 5 minutes ago.

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/android-b...
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i was thinking more along the lines of keyboard based android devices. rim have shown they can build heavyduty hardware that can take a lot of punishment.
(in case you don't know) I think the downvotes will be for the implication of the FSF being unpragmatic zealots. Obviously many don't share this view.
I think RIM also made the fatal mistake of focusing on their competition rather than their customers. Their response to the iPhone was to build a bunch of rather crappy touch-only devices. They responded to the iPad with the Playbook.

I suspect, if they survive, the playbook will be killed off as well as any phones resembling the iPhone.
A rare exception to a solid rule; outsourcing your core thing rarely works.
I am always surprised that every discussion of vasectomy, and even this solution, hand-waves away the experience one undergoes in the process. Before doing this yourself, at least know what your getting into:

http://thebrowser.com/articles/final-cut

For example, compare "one little injection" to "I don't scream, but I clamp my jaw so tightly it clicks. I arch my back so much I end up looking behind me at the door."
"Specifics aside, knowing that Google is far superior in their results makes it real difficult to use another search engine"

Except that Google is far from delivering superior results. In fact, many of their results are full of spam links and garbage.

One of the main reasons I use DDG over Google is that DDG often delivers better results.

Another major reason is DDG's promises of no-tracking and privacy (which I hope can be verified some day). That alone sets them far above and beyond Google, which is spyware incarnate.

Google is now basically in the exact same position that AltaVista was in when Google came along and ate their lunch. Only Google is much more dominant and wealthier than AltaVista ever was (not to mention their legendary ability to attract and keep talent), so they'll no doubt hang on much longer. But DDG and other search engines are still primed to take a bite at those parts of the business where Google has drop the ball -- like privacy, literal search, and search quality.
Have been using DDG for the last 2 months but have to admit I'm feeling withdrawal symptoms, mainly due to speed. I hope that the increase in traffic is mainly responsible for things being a bit slow - the sluggishness (NOT results) is the primary thing making me yearn for Google at the moment.
When you say you know these women, do you mean in the biblical sense?
Wow, I'm glad I'm not alone. Married, 32, 3 kids (all girls,yikes!) and a mortgage and working on PhD but still want to do a startup. Glad there still is hope.
> After this can we please not post anymore racist/sexist/*ist stuff?

How about we stop talking about racism and sexism when there's no more racism and sexism? And how is talking about a problem that effects people negatively a "waste of brain power"?