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> Isn't this result exactly what we would want and hope for in a system of governance?

It's all too little too late - after most of Greece's public assets have already been plundered by the the ECB and the IMF. We wanted that result 3 years ago - not now. A country can be ruined in 4 years.

Should we really need to wait until a country has become so fucked beyond repair that we can protest it by "punishing the main parties"? It doesn't matter who you vote for in the end, the government still gets in!

While 'democracy' isn't inherently the problem, our current interpretation of it is. It goes as follows: Some men in suits make up lots of lies to gain your votes. After they get power, they ignore all their promises and usually do the opposite. If you don't like it, tough - come back in 4-5 years.

We don't really have any democracies (rule of the mob), we have rule of the representatives. The flaw is that they don't represent the mob, they represent their own parties. The concept of a political party is undemocratic. If you vote for a representative in your constituency, he should be voting as his constituents want, not how his party tells him to. (And moreover, if this doesn't happen, you shouldn't need to wait 4 years to give him the boot)
In the end, it turned out to be an example of restraint and civility in the tech world.
Saying "shyness is ultimately a symptom of you being uncomfortable with who you are" in the first sentence of the article does not sound like "it's OK; no one wants you to change :)" to me. That is the problem with the article, it presumes that there is something wrong with shy people. It could instead presume that there is something wrong with outgoing people, or that they are simply two equally reasonable ways of being, but it doesn't.

It's too bad that it bugs you - your way of being makes sense to me, you open up with those who have put in the time to deserve your openness and don't with those who haven't. Contrary to popular American male belief, pretty much everything in life is more important than being able to go to a bar and talk to a woman you don't know.
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He says numbers, not primes, so it's trivially correct.

Though that doesn't directly imply the conjecture being true for sufficiently large numbers, since primes become increasingly sparse as one moves up the number line... it seems more like an appeal to intuition than a real argument, to me.
A. Please stop thinking you are google. Styloot != Google

B. Why don't you ask a business relevant question, like how they would approach a problem you currently face. Even if you don't hire them, at least you might get some fresh perspective for your time.

So sick of this BS - I have walked out on stupid questions like this b/c it typically shows nothing but incompetence from the interviewer.
>The bad case of Hacker News authentication usability design

What design? It was just thrown together.
> Experience says it's the first thing that springs to a relatively small percentage of minds, actually.

Can you explain in more detail about what experience lets you know this?

> No, someone who didn't ask about the kind of bus isn't necessarily under the impression that it's a toy problem. Again, experience says that for a large percentage of people the problem, or more specifically any problem of the ilk of this problem, is completely overwhelming.

Also I'd like to know how you know these people are 'overwhelmed' with the problem itself, rather than just with not understanding the point of it or not knowing whether its OK to make assumptions or ask questions about the type of the bus etc.
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In other news, former German president Roman Herzog, member of the (for now) largest party, the Christian Democratical Union CDU, suggested that having new parties like the Pirates entering parliaments is bad for overall democracy because it is increasing political diversity, and should be combated by again increasing the election threshold, which is now at 5%. According to the interview he gave recently, increasing political diversity in the parliament decreases support of a goverment and the chancellor, which could destabilize a country, meaning less dissent in the parliament, more stable country.

The two big parties are basically getting threatened by the internet and are obviously ready to go nuclear by threatening to simply team up, get supermajority required for a constitutional change, and "optimize" the political diversity down to 2 or 3, US style, maybe even 1, by simply throwing the annoying emerging competition out of the parliaments.
I will have to disagree. Or rather, I think that while some bubble are pretty closed, some are very permeable. I'll take Hacker News for example.

Although some people complain about the fact that there are strong biases on HN, I actually think that it is not that bad, and there are plenty of topics on which the community is divided (on top of my mind: internet piracy is acceptable vs bad, windows is a good tool vs it sucks, google is evil vs it is awesome, linux will never be a good desktop environment vs it will, etc..).

I think that there is a distinction between bubbles that are created around certain opinions (windows is bad + piracy is good + linux rocks) and bubbles that are organized around values (I disagree with you but I like debating with you + I like to learn about different subjects + etc..).
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I don't like the user management functionality on HN. It is a little basic for what it could be.

One issue... For some strange reason I cannot login through my Android browser but can through Opera. I am sure username and password are correct.
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What "self" are you expressing when you say you want to express yourself but don't want that self identifiable? That's a pretty big contradiction. You can't eat your cake (post thoughts that refer to experiences that could identify you) and have it too (not have anyone know who you are).

If you're really worried, create a pseudonym and post under that. Probably a better option is to take the bull by the horns, post as yourself and use that as an incentive not to post stupid things.
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As a devil's advocate, I'll ask, would software patents be as bad if:

1) The Patent Office gave proper attention to prior art
2) The Patent Office implementation of "obvious" was sane?

I'll posit that, given these two stipulations, most of the bad in software patents wouldn't be with us.
i still have no idea how they got that code in the header.php. Anyone have any ideas?
I think what batista is referring to is the amount of fanboyism on HN related to these Louis CK threads (and it shows, since his posts are turning grey).

The personal touch thing works because he is a comedian, it isn't anything new and exciting that hasn't been done before. It works for him because he is in comedy. Do you think the AWS homepage should have something like 'Yo dawg, I heard you like EC2, so get up in a m1.xlarge for only $0.08 an hour'? That doesn't work because it is a huge corporation employing thousands of people. The Louis CK site is representing one person, who is in comedy.

These endeavors work for him because he is one of the most popular standup comedians out there and is loved by everyone in the biz, so it is easy for him to go at this alone since he already has the fanbase.

I just hope that everyone isn't assuming that since Louis CK made $200k profit off of his last endeavor that they think they can demand HBO release Game of Thrones online, worldwide the same minute it airs on TV.
I think the Greek situation is rather more complex than that it can be summed up by two parties fucking over the voters.

Greece (and a whole bunch of other European countries) has a system of governance and a corruption level that is very different from other EU countries, and as such probably should not have been part of the EU to begin with.

Now that they're in Greece is in a position to reap the benefits of that fact but the countries that have for many years (Germany foremost) kept the weaker countries afloat are now themselves getting into trouble. This upset a lot of apple-carts and now we are at a very difficult moment for the union and for Greece.

As it is there are no real good solutions. Greece leaving the euro zone or being forced out will have big consequences for all parties involved and likely the end result of that route would be much worse for the general Greek population than any level of austerity that is currently in effect.

Greece staying in the eurozone will require a lot of very unpopular sacrifices in many places, the end result of which will be a much weaker euro.

There are no winners in any of these scenarios, only losers and it will take a long time (decades?) to fix this problem properly.

What you are seeing here is the result of the EU growing too fast in order to win the pissing match about which economic block is the largest on the world stage. If the forging of the monetary union would have been done in a more restrained fashion a lot of this misery could have been avoided.

Cowboy politics a decade ago are what caused this, emotional reactions to the problem at hand certainly won't repair it overnight. It will get worse before it can begin to get better.
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The pirate party will continue to win seats until the larger and more traditional parties will need them for a swing vote.

The election after that one the pirate party main points will be part and parcel of the established parties' programmes.
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"Major service outage"

"isolated to Time Warner Cable users" Also it looks like it was down for 4 minutes when you posted this. Seriously?
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More parties being bad for democracy is extremely funny.

It would be nice to see a total abolition of parties, in fact in most democratic constitutions the word 'party' is never mentioned.

People should vote for other people, not for parties.
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It isn't a well-formed question. There's so many different kinds of buses, there might be furniture, it might be toy bus, the doors might be open, it might be an alien bus, it might be full with people or superglue; Who knows? The question is so loosely-formed as to be nonsensical. You might as well ask "How many/much object(s) can fit (insert spatial relationship here) (a/an/the) thing(s)?"
Thankfully Git is a decentralized platform so it needn't actually interrupt anyone's workflow. Unless, of course, they're not using Git properly.

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What is the point of this submission? It just goes to a landing page with absolutely no information at all.
With Mobile Network Virtual Operators, you don't know which carrier your connection is actually going over.

Perhaps someday. Nowadays, people who are paying subscriptions to T-Mobile resellers pretty well know they're on T-Mobile.
Nah, they don't like discussions there either... Check out the FAQ: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/faq
I've used Play 2 for freelance work and I use Play 1.4 for my day job, and I vastly prefer Play 1.4. Play 2 is heavily biased towards Scala and static compilation (even to the point of requiring "HTML" templates to be compiled), and I don't see a substantial benefit to the Play 2 claim that everything - code, configuration, templates - is typesafe.

I'm perfectly willing to accept the possibility that I just don't get it, but I think Play 1.4 provides a far better development experience. Further, there's no sign that the developers are going to abandon the "old" Java-centric Play architecture anytime soon, so you won't be starting out on something with a shelf-life measured in weeks if you went that route.
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> Seriously, between Google and Wolfram Alpha, do you think that any of these inane questions can't be answered within a reasonable level of proximity?

Using Google? 3 in 600 searches used the + operator, and of those 2 were wrong.

Saying "I would understand the problem, I would work out a suitable search query, I would use available resources, I would evaluate the responses I got; here's the result when I used a typical question like this".
It also means that the person asking the interview may not be the technical hiring manager. I expect such questions from someone in HR, but not from a technical hiring manager.

Someone in HR most like can't judge the answer to the question "How would you scale X, given Y and Z", nor could they come up with such a question that is appropriate for the position in question.

Such questions do more to isolate the variables, (1) the job to be performed, and (2) the interviewer's ability to judge the answer to a question relevant to the job. I can really only see such a question being asks by somebody that doesn't know why they are doing the hiring in the first place.

Judging by the responses in this thread, such a question is controversial, especially among the type of people that make up the HN community. That alone should be indicative that such a question may result in a high rate of false negatives. You probably lose more good candidates than gain.
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> I've had certain websites require VbV for purchases. I can only assume the transaction fees are lower for such transactions, or they got some kind of other deal from their merchant bank.

Transaction fees are not the problem, putting a stop to consumer fraud and charge-backs are the net win for the merchant.
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The hoops are invisible in this case.

It's a matter of putting on a show for the interviewer. But we don't know what kind of show. A show where we make assumptions about things? or ask questions? A show where we try to get as 'real-world' an answer as possible? or one where we assume things to make our lives easier? Why not just assume it's a toy bus and nothing can fit in it? Is that a clever and funny time-saving technique, or am I mocking the interviewer?

But yeah, the candidate has to do what he has to do if he needs a job. I think that's what you're saying anyway.
It's much more focused on: 1) specific technical questions; that 2) plausibly have a good answer. Quora is a more general Q&A site, where you can ask questions on pretty much any subject, and can ask open-ended/discussion type questions as well.
That's pretty funny. I live in the same country as st3fan and my home carrier charges anywhere from 1.75 times less, through 7 times less in Paris, up to 35 times less in the U.S. for roaming data than his carrier apparently does (Wind, $20/MB, $5/MB, $1/MB respectively). They must have one hell of a negotiating team.

Needless to say, neither Canada nor France are cellular-monopoly countries.
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It depends on your circumstances:

1. If you have money, consider going for a year to some cheap/sunny place and do exactly nothing. Take notes of that nothing. I've spent 9months doing that(although I stayed at home) and it was one of the most productive periods, in terms of self-discovery/reading/ideas. The downside can be absence of social connections but if you are the type you can love it. Another one that it somewhat involves your comfort zone, so you will learn a lot but a motivating team can be more effective(and harder/luckier to find).

2. PhD or any job is not a life-long decision. Go there, see it and if you don't like it move on. I've started a PhD at the moment and for me it's good as the scholarship is okay and I literally do whatever I want..

3. Getting into a phd can be much easier than what you think, you just have to write a myriad applications(~20) chances you can get something you like. Once you are in its usually pretty much up to you how you spend your time etc..

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> ...and some IT-smarts...

I don't think he said that. For one, cheaper hardware doesn't imply increased management costs; for two, the more expensive hardware didn't come with a support contract included in the price (at least, it's not mentioned in the article); for three, his comment reads to me that they could have optionally put the money towards employing people, to put people back to work -- i.e., it was one example of a better way to spend the money. I don't see anything in his comment that implies, "cheaper hardware and some IT-smarts...".
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It was just 700 KB but I was charged a good $25 for that. That roaming rate translates to roughly 35000 CAD/GB.

What I do when I travel: remove my sim card and put it in a CD sleeve. That way, I can still listen to music and use the device on WiFi, and not worry. Another option, in case you think you'd lose your sim, is to put the phone on "Airplane" mode but turn on WiFi.
The worst thing is the chip+pin machines that do not have any shield to hide you punching the pin in, and then to just add insult to injury, they're the kind of buttons that you have to forcefully press with all your might to get them to register. So it's blatantly obvious to anyone taking notice which buttons you pressed.
> They do not have the indepth knowledge required to make a
> good decision.

You need knowledge to decide whether something is good or not, when the policy is fact-based. You dont need knowledge to decide whether you _want_ something or not, when the policy is purely opinion and preference based, for example filesharing. You dont need domain knowledge to decide that for you freedom to share information trumps the freedom to profit off information creation by enforcing artificial scarcity.

> the ordinary person will vote for the person who promises

> Thoughts?

If people are not allowed to make bad decisions, you dont have democracy, but a kind of dictatorship disguising itself as democracy. "You can vote on whatever you want as long as I and the few other stakeholders approve of the results" is a fake democracy, designed solely to sedate people's natural desire for co-participation and to prevent uprising.

Whatever your justification, you're trying to ban people from contributing their small share to the overall policy because you dont like their likely policy. One of the primary goals of the pirate parties is to fight opinions like yours and people like you by enabling maximum participation for everybody. Direct democracy baby. Bring on the regular swiss-style referendums.
I suspect it's likely that apps that wish to use an alternative rendering engine for untrusted content would use IE only for trusted content.
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No, it's normal for judges to teach courses on law. As someone studying law, I much prefer classes where a judge teaches or participates as a guest lecturer or panelist. Judges who are expert in a particular area of law often end up trying similar cases, and even if judges are randomly assigned (depending on the judicial system) a judge with established expertise will be noted mainly for his/her rulings in that area of expertise.

I have no idea about the merits of these particular cases or the quality of the judge's legal reasoning. It might be terrible. But Falkvinge isn't making legal arguments about why the judge is wrong, he's relying on people's ignorance of the judicial system to whip up opposition where none exists. Politicians always like to beat up on judges, and there is always a ready audience for populist bullshit.
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I think HN is a reasonable place for that.
My company provides free I.T. services, support, and sometimes equipment to non-profits and other community organizations. We would be happy to be the on-call techs for stuff like that.

I would be surprised if there wasn't somebody in their area that does the same.
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Well, "Googling it" could also mean a programmers that copy/pastes codes from various sources found on the internet when faced with a problem, instead of trying to understand the problem domain.
...need someone that knows how to do solid architecture and design.

Solid architecture involves having an order of magnitude estimate of the load you might expect and building accordingly.

How do you get your order of magnitude estimates?
There's so many different kinds of buses, and it clear what kind of level of accuracy is required. I can just say 'two thousand' and that's a good enough answer.

The problem is, that isn't good, as the interviewer wants to 'see how I think'. But he hasn't really given me a problem to think about, so I have to just put on a show for him. He hasn't seen how I think at all; he's just seen me putting on a show based on what I think he wants to hear.
Most of these places don't know what the box is and when Johnny down the street comes in to fix their internet it will be replaced by a blue soho router. There will be theft and waste and probably 20% of these will be missing within a couple years.

A librarian will notice a computer missing, but an expensive router replaced with a cheap one won't even be noticed for years.
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> Everyone dealt with their Flash crap for years, Apple/HTML5/etc finally killed it, and now all they have left is the CS suite.

huh, Flash isn't dead... far from it.
That would help, of course, but what about the situation where A works hard to solve a difficult problem and puts out a product, only to find out later that B had already patented that solution? If A's work was independent of B's, why should B own it? Especially in the egregious and common subcase where B never actually produced anything other than a patent.
Democracy and freedom are double-edged swords by their very nature.You are perfectly entitled as an individual to reject those freedoms.

I think you as an individual then should be slapped with a visa requirement to visit all other nations in Europe. Then you'll have fun strutting around with your papers to all the different embassies - which I guess you'd certainly prefer than having foreign beggars around. Or you could stay in Sweden forever if you don't even want to do that. We certainly wouldn't mind.
Shyness is NOT "ultimately a symptom of you being uncomfortable with who you are." What an offensive statement to make!

Sure, shyness is easily surmountable--just start talking. It's like jumping off the high dive 'cause everyone behind you's already started climbing the ladder.

Awkwardness, however, is not so easily dispatched. So shyness has its uses and I'm perfectly comfortable resorting to it when necessary.
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If your app runs on HTML/CSS/JS where's the point to make locally installed app out of it?

One reason might be a better hardware accessibility (at the moment) but with the pace Chrome, WebGL, etc. are evolving there shouldn't be any reason in near future and you would have cross-platform apps without any installation and update hassle.
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my bad, didn't spot that when I posted it; hadn't even noticed I got redirected to a .se version before. I'm presuming its the same content.