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I'm thinking more like, I wake up and want to check my mail from bed, but -- surprise! -- it's expiration day, and my OTP token is downstairs. And using a single recovery code immeditalely invalidates your electronic token, logging you out everywhere and forcing you to go through the activation process all over again before you can log back in.
Looks like this post was flagged for some reason :/

If any HN people see this, I'd appreciate an explanation as to why.
As a Spaniard who has worked worked in Germany I have to say it is possible but the main problem is that not many spaniards speak German. And this is something that you're likely to need. It can be easier if your job is IT, for instance. Nonetheless many young spaniards are leaving the country, specially the ones with a higher education.
A very specific kind of investor - a career-long early stage VC. But even there, there is much room for disagreement without labeling people as "stupid".

I expect investors to be rational - and to seek profits where they are available given the information that is currently on the table. In some cases, that means they will say, "you know what? Screw that doc - we're selling these puppies."
a) Not speaking German.
b) Is there a job in Germany they can and will do?
c) I'm in Ireland. There are currently >2 Spanish co-workers working within 20 feet of my desk.
Germany has a better educated workforce, a much larger amount of flat land that is connected by waterways, and a central location to other high income nations. They are more competitive. For Spain to be competitive, they need to be able to price their goods lower. This means that their money won't be able to buy as many things from abroad, but they will be able to export things and conduct business amongst themselves. The simple fact is the fiscal policies in Europe are united and the political policies differ. The Euro was supposed to help unify the continent and avoid another war but instead has put the southern countries into debt.
The generally lacking support of SNI is such a shame.

Especially when you consider that there are currently two forces in move that clearly work against each other:

On one end you have cool stuff like SPDY and more and more pervasive proxies altering HTTP data on the fly which makes SSL more and more interesting.

On the other hand, we are running out of IPv4 addresses, making it harder and harder to use one address per virtual host.

So even though we are much more motivated to use SSL these days, the growing difficulty of acquiring IP addresses makes it harder and harder.
I don't really see what OpenSSL has to do with anything. I'm pretty sure that MS has its own independent SSL implementation.

SSL as a protocol is fully documented and standardized, and has been for a long time.
Most YC hackers:

"I'm fixing x because x is broken. They're slow, costly, inefficient, and aren't taking advantage of modern technology."

Elon Musk is doing a YC startup (in spirit) on the most grand scale possible.
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Discussing a hairsplitting definition of a walled garden doesn't make sense here. Google do not deadlock wether users nor site owner/publishers (referred above as "users" as well) to use their products but they could as explained above (deadlock=walled garden).
I agree. I think the reserve-currency status of the US places it in a position where inflating out of debt will be less devastating than in other parts of the world.
I do understand the language divide at least. But given a choice between unemployment and, say, working in a place where you don't speak the language, I know I'd pick work any day! At least you're picking up work skills and a second language, which is far better than sitting at home twiddling your thumbs.
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Honestly, the same thing I had to do with Hacker News. Font is damn too small, for me at least.
Didn't Greece's creditors have to take a pretty nasty haircut with that swap - a 79% reduction in value that is being viewed as a default?
I had no clue they were profitable. With "over $3 billion in revenues" and "total company expenditures ... were less than $800 million" that is quite the ROI.
That doesn't really debunk the main thrust of the article, though. Yes, GDP isn't really like personal income, but less GDP growth is generally bad. And in this case, there are plenty of other economic metrics showing how bad the situation is, such as unemployment which was mentioned in the article.
I really really really hope this means they're are going to be hiring and need another RF/wireless comms guy that can do software on the side. I so want to build those!
Spot on.

Spanish society isn't up in arms precisely because of the black economy, rendering unemployment indicators really ineffective.

I was in Spain in the early 2000s, and there was a huge Real Estate bubble. People came in droves into the country, illegal immigrants made 3000 euro per month (~5000 US$) tax free without any qualifications, and they couldn't come fast enough. Even then, when demand for workers was IMMENSE, official unemployment figures never came under 9%. That's pretty much the bottom over there.

Rajoy already introduced a less protective employment legislation and he will have to lower the barriers to make contracts further.

No doom and gloom. Hardship, yes. The biggest hurdles are already being taken upon in just about 100 days since the socialists left power:

- forcing banks to re-provision on their massive mortgage leverage. Basically, take the hit and admit that housing prices need to FALL big, and they will have to take a big hit.

- reform in sacred areas like education, healthcare and - most importantly - standard contracts.
That's actually what is happening. A running gag / frequent banner text is that the "Future of Spain emigrates to Germany". In one town, the Mayor even subsidized free German oourses to his people (http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,771736-4,0...).

The problem is that emigrating requires money and mobility, and Germany is looking for qualified people. Hence many of the emigrants have university degrees, and only the lesser qualified remain, which is not exactly helping much, economically.
I really like the way this article is written, but it's really too easy to say something is "inevitable" after it's happened.
Textmate is certainly cool. Then again, I've tweaked my Gedit to work like Textmate (and it's Free-as-in-Beer, and I can use it right now).

However, neither do what Light Table does. I'm also certain that there will be plugins for practically every language with a REPL, given enough time and the fact that it's open source.
Respectfully, I never claimed to be an expert of any sort, and I said so earlier. A large part of why I participate in these kinds of discussions is so I can learn.

I still get the feeling that you think I'm attacking HFT. It's not "upsetting" to me. The only questions for me are whether there's more value in HFT than cost, and whether the same value could be had with lower cost. It's good to know that my Alice scenario is invalid, though. That means HFT isn't breaking what I thought was a useful scenario for sellers.

Thanks for the book recommendation. I've added it to my list.
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You're right, but it still didn't work when I tested it. Looks like I should have dug deeper to figure out why, instead of just "blaming XP".
I interpreted it as a concession to moral rights - we can't initiate a lawsuit without your consent, sort of idea.

More broadly, they're hedging their bits by trying to preserve some financial value to their patent portfolio.

Suppose you patent "swipe left to refresh" and five years later the private equity group that has bought the husk of your former company approaches you and offers you 10 grand for the right to litigate aggressively… I would find it hard to say no, despite thinking all software patents are bunk.

In the end, it's converting the yc pledge into legally binding language, and without limiting it to just startups. Like the pledge, it's rather toothless – but a step in the right direction.
I'm sorry to hear that. What about taking care of "smaller" bills, like grocery etc. Make a list of what they need and just buy it (without asking them). Brush it off as "you were buying groceries anyway".
Wouldn't this "evil" company just buy out or otherwise pressure the inventor? I don't see how that works.

In one case, evil company buys patent, and pays off everyone involved to drop this agreement. Now we're back to normal.

In another case, evil company can't get eveyrone to do that, so the transaction doesn't happen.

This seems exactly the same as saying "We won't use our patents offensively, and we won't sell them." No legal documents required.
Post seems fine to me?
You are conveniently ignoring IPv6 which IE on XP actually supports. Maybe instead of buggering MS to add features to a dead OS we should be buggering ISPs to get on the IPv6 train.
Wonderful quote from the article:

"(This concept may be foreign to some traditional government space contractors that seem to believe that cost overruns should be the responsibility of the taxpayer.)"
That's the one - although 413 makes a lot of sense too :)
I wonder if you could use this technique to transmit data to a phone via its camera?
Probably just a coincidence but Chrome's history page has a "Search history" button.
One of the subplots was that the technology basically required total subjugation of the precogs. That doesn't seem all that sane.
My major problem with 501 developers is that it's hard to tell those that say "it's just a job, but I take pride in my craft and do it well" from those that say "It's just a job. period." without pride and love for the craft. It's fine to leave by 5:01 or even 4:59 and I actually urge my coworkers to do so, but it's not fine to leave by 501 when you dropped the ball at 4:59 and leave the rest of the team to clean your mess.
But everyone running servers is dealing with that for me. As an end user, why do I care?
I think you are right.

Why default when you control the currency that all your foreign debt is denominated in? The us has an option other countries in this position do not.
As explained above, if Bob's $10.05 buy order was in the order book first, then Alice's $9.90 sell order would trade with Bob's buy order at $10.05.
Perhaps she meant her browser history.
Working too much is stupid
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I think there is a lot of delusion going on here.

In today's modern world, we are intentionally ignoring the rights that were given to us.

8 hours a day was fought for. 40 hours a week was fought for. If you are expected to exceed these limits without compensation, you are being ripped off. You have limited time in this life.

As a developer, you create tremendous value in this world. If you didn't you couldn't demand the salaries that you demand. If it was easy, then the business guys would be learning it and doing it for themselves.

It's a modern skill required by modern business. You should not feel like you are forced to spend every waking moment eating, drinking and sleeping code.

In my personal experiences I have found that I have to force myself to step away. After a few hours the wheels stop spinning, but when I come back I am always excited to work on something. This is far more desirable than feeling the dread that comes from doing something non stop.

Balance is extremely important, I do not understand the opposing viewpoint that we should all be code robots.
this is on the business side. But yes, learn to code.
Anecdotes say that many more Spaniards are now in fact moving at least to Berlin, but my guess is that the movements would be much bigger if the language barrier wasn't there.

Besides, it's not like Germany is paradise either. The official unemployment numbers are low compared to other Eurozone countries, but (a) that hides a lot of underemployment such as in part-time jobs and (b) even those "low" numbers are still pretty high.
That's why users haven't forked out money. If it comes free with the new computers, fine. I reckon we'll be seeing it for another couple of years.

It's been coming free with our corporate PCs for years now, and we're still unlikely to switch any time soon.

(At least until they stop shipping security patches)
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I would doubt it.

For starters, how would you enforce licensing? You'd have to… sue other people for patent infringement. I thought we were all agreeing that software patents are mostly unadulterated bullshit.

Secondly, if they put up the patent lawyer cost why wouldn't they also keep any potential licensing fees ;)?

In the end the Right Thing To Do™ would be to publish your work and try to establish it as prior art so people can't abuse it.
Thanks, point taken. I've rephrased it, CTRL-F5 / CTRL-R to force-expire the browser cache.
In the more detailed version of the hypothetical (i.e., the careful econ textbook version), it's explicitly stated that the wife continues spending the exact same amount as before, and she was already a live-in maid.

Welfare has improved - the husband and wife have all the same goods and services as before (a house paid for by the man, which is cleaned by the woman), and they are now having sex (which is presumably welfare improving). Yet GDP has gone down $25k.

GDP measures the value of all the stuff and services we produce.

No, it doesn't. If you believe it does, I have a great stimulus package: ban joint bank accounts for married couples and require the higher income partner to pay a salary to the lower income partner.

This will certainly increase GDP. Could you explain how this would have any effect on anything else?
The problem with spanish economy comes from the HUGE construction bubble it had a few years ago. Spain alone was building more than France, Germany and Italy TOGETHER. Government made money, construction enterprises made money, real state companies made lots of money, employment was high, even some citizens speculated buying and selling houses at a higher price some years later. To support that accelerated growth and construction, spanish banks borrowed money (LOTS OF IT) from european banks, mainly german banks. Banks went crazy giving mortgages, just as in the US. Mortgages went up to 25-30 years and beyond. When the bubble burst, prices went down, mortgage interest rates went up, and many people lost their jobs. That led to many people unable to pay for its mortgage, and banks started acumulating real state. Nowadays, banks hold a HUGE real state stock, and they don't want to sell it at current prices, because they would have to admit that their assets aren't worth what they claim. Because of that strategy of the banks, prices haven't go down as much as in other countries which suffered a bubble burst too. There is a very big stock of inmovilized real state in Spain.
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If Starter Edition lacks the "easily pirated" feature, then it can't really displace Windows XP in these cases.
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Exactly.
There's a TON of courses, now!
Impressive.
I can't think of a better person than those who find something they truly love and are passionate about. No one said you should put 80 hours a week into any one thing or for any one company (lets face it no one pays enough to be worth 80 hours of your time). But the 501 manefesto comes across as a whining from the "just a job" crowd.

I almost never put more than 40 hours a week into my "job". But I love it and I know I do great work. I've never found anyone has judged me for when I go home, but if they did, I'd put them in their place right quick.

I do put probably another 10h into side projects, maybe another 10h or more reading, being involved in user groups and talking to people (which I love) and blogging whenever I stop procrastinating.

I love doing all this. I also love my family, I play with my daughter every day and I see my friends all the time. Yet amazingly, in all that I still find an inordinate amount of time to waste watching terrible TV shows.

The point is there is more time in our lives to do awesome than the 501 developer seems to want to admit. If there is anyone who deserves pity it is anyone who does anything because it's "just a job". I can't say I'll have much regret about all the time I've spent coding, and learning and attending meetups, but I can say how much regret I would have doing "just a job" for 40 hours a week. Exactly 40 hours a week worth.
Add in the guy who said: "Programming for fun" was always a foreign concept to me...I was not a great programmer. I pity the fools who are maintaining my old code right now.

A little known fellow named Ken Jennings who happened to win a few million on Jeopardy.
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"Europe's policymakers have blundered in the control of a delicate machine, the workings of which they do not understand. They're not evil. But they're almost certainly wrong."

How does this columnist then believe that he understands the economy if policymakers are so clueless? If Spain's economic problems were so easy to fix that everybody could just read this article and solve them, they probably wouldn't exist in the first place.
Classic example of economic profit. They figured out how to do something at a fraction of the cost, and get to print money until the market catches up and prices fall.
See also: the awesome that is WebDAV. Very similar story as SNI.
Umm, yes I do. Shark Tank notwithstanding, I am a patent lawyer, and I see these deals all the time.
Well, let's be honest then.

If you don't contribute to the projects, if you don't spread your knowledge, if you don't give away your source...

...what good are you?

What have you done?

How are you anything other than a consumer of other people's work and knowledge?
When did writers at major publications like The Atlantic start submitting their own articles to HN? It's one thing when a programmer or other startup / tech blogger submits their own work, but when a magazine does, it just feels like spamming.</rant>
I can share experiences and what I think I know, but at the end of the day this isn't about going off and following some author, speaker, or book. It's figuring out what works in your particular situation

Likewise and ditto. As I said I would imagine that it would be very context dependent.
I'm dying one second at a time and I'm in the way of all of my personal aspirations and the only way out is to blindly hope for salvation.

AND MY COFFEE MUG BROKE
Instant reaction: wow, I don't want to work for a company that would treat anyone that way.

Second thought: why aren't these people working from home? What benefit is seen from bringing them into a central location where they don't have any space of their own to work in?
This looks like a precursor to what we can expect with IPv6.

A significant minority of users are going to be on old operating systems that can't or won't be upgraded to support IPv6, and servers will have to make the choice about whether to exclude them or not.
MITx is planning free courses and pay to get a certificate. Udacity is planning free everything while making money by hooking top students up with recruiters. Coursera doesn't seem to have decided yet.
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That's the curse for MS, there are very few legitimate reasons to upgrade, XP works great and MS offered upgrades for 10 years! I cannot think of one thing that I wish they had though, at least not on top of my head. Everything else is offered by third parties
Linux version would be nice.
People tend to forget that Keynesianism is about counter-cyclic measures. That includes not wasting trillions when the economy goes well -- not what was done in the '00s exactly...
This article is totally pointless. It doesn't provide a single argument, just a bunch of assumptions.
Under what definition of "decimal" is Pi a decimal number?
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But this agreement, that essentially makes the patent worthless for licensing? If you say so, I'll believe it, but I'm shocked that anyone would buy such a thing.
I guess you aren't. Alright :)
But it's rarely as simple as a.) paycheck, different language or b.) no paycheck.

What about family, friends, hobbies, etc. There's plenty of people not willing to move to a different town/city/village in their own country for a job, yet alone to a different country.
you are the "SERIAL HARASSER WHO DEFAMES FREE SOFTWARE LUMINARIES" !

http://techrights.org/2010/02/19/defamed-by-access-employee/

Summary: Serial harasser of Free software luminaries may be put on their blacklists, but the verbal abuse continues.

It is understandable that some people wish to defend a pro-software patents strategy, GPL disdain, and companies like Apple and Novell. This is not an excuse for making defamatory claims and saying things like “Richard “My holy duty is to rape women who’ve never used EMACS” Stallman“. There is no rape, virgins can also be male, and it was so obviously a joke. This perp (David Schlesinger aka 'stonemirror') who cried in front of Open Source visionary Bruce Perens because he didn't join his anti-Stallman crusade is just trying to tarnish the GNU brand which is almost synonymous with Richard Stallman and this is just another example of the FSF smears that we wrote about last week.
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even though he is not a politician, reading first 5 words that he believes in something bla bla bla, BUT. There is always that BUT.

Just answer yes or no, thats how simple it should be.
Anecdotally, I've heard or read that around $1 is decent but I don't have any data to back that myself = /
Couldn't really see what's the point here. my experience in academia (anecdotal) suggests that Mendeley already has a pretty substantial lead
Let me paraphrase: "I bemoan the rise of Internet tollbooths and gatekeepers, such as the ones put up by Facebook and Apple. By the way, please build native apps for Android, and please use Google+ to connect with your friends and family."
points to US's rapidly escalating debt

... and explain why again this is a problem? Unfortunately, the majority of commentators just take "high debt = bad" as a given, because they confuse their own situation (private household, currency user) with that of the US government (currency issuer).

The US situation basically boils down to: the rest of the world has been crazy for US$ for some time and is therefore willing to send real goods to the US in exchange for numbers in a computer system. This is certainly going to change in the long run. That will drive down US imports and make imported goods more expensive for US residents, but that's only fair. It won't lead to collapse. In fact, if it is semi-intelligently managed, it could lead to a rebirth of US industry.
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Hmm, seems like we're back on page 2 now. We went from #13 to not on any of the first few pages.
And add to it that Spain issues bonds but doesn't easily find buyers now. ECB (European Central Bank) has given spanish banks thousands of millions of euros at an 1% interest rates, and those spanish banks, instead of giving loans and credit to enterprises and people, they buy spanish bonds (at 5%-6% levels).