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My other comment is the most important thing I have to say to this, but in regard to your other points:

> There are lots of good things about the United States, there are lots of bad things too...in spite of free speech the United States still has a long way to go when it comes to...The United States is not at the pinnacle of civilization yet...

I never said that improvement was impossible or the USA was number one in every category of freedom.

My point was that we Americans tend to assume the UK is like us, due to our common language, shared history, superpower status, democratic government, etc. -- so it's a bit of a shock to realize that things which would be perfectly legal free speech here are illegal in the UK.

> [Free speech] also does not translate into being able to say whatever you want.

I never said it did. In the US, it's illegal to say things that will cause a panic or incite violence. Obscenity is a special category with a long history of regulation, which has been rolled back considerably in the last fifty years or so. Individuals have some degree of privacy with regard to publication of photos or details of their lives, which is less for politicians or other public figures. Lies which harm someone's reputation can result in a successful lawsuit. Commercial advertising has to be truthful. Free speech protections only apply to government actions; private individuals or organizations can set their own rules for spaces they own. (Just read an HN post about Apple's prudishness with respect to app content a little while ago [1].) Just being able to legally say something doesn't mean you should; saying controversial things may make people and businesses shy away from associating with you. It may be hard to find friends or employment if you make a habit of expressing highly unpopular or distasteful opinions.

Personally, I feel free to cut loose with this ID. I say what I want -- usually what I actually believe, but sometimes I play devil's advocate or seek out controversy. I think HN can be just a hair on the insular side sometimes, getting itself into one big groupthink because most of us are rather similar in a lot of ways; I try to push others out of their comfort zone when I think it'll be good for them, and for HN and society as a whole. I suppose you can think of me as a friendly troll.

But I'm well aware of the risks of free speech. Other than IP address, there's absolutely nothing about this ID which correlates with my real identity or my identity in other places online. I don't express myself strongly on controversial topics like politics or religion in real life, unless I'm with friends who I know well and who are intellectually strong enough to agree to disagree -- something even very bright people sometimes are not.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4825235
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Your "no claim discount" will still remain valid incase the renter hits your car because you will using renting company's (flightcar\silvercar) insurance for filing claims. You are right with your other points.

The OP made up this stuff pretty badly - "There are the lines, the hassles, the constant upsells, confusion around cost of gas and insurance, and about 15 pages of paper that you have to sign before being able to pick out your car and leave the lot. " I have never experienced any of this.

Most of times I have used enterprise and few times hertz. Car choice is an issue when it is a long weekend otherwise not a problem at all. I use my own insurance because I know there is no point in using their's. If I can use an insurance for my own car then why should I get some other insurance for renting a car. I get cheap gas, free upgrades from enterprise.
As words, sure, it's great. But since it conveniently doesn't apply from time to time at the government's whim, it's just that: words.
The truth is that those two things should not be compared. They have a few similaritys (mostly web stuff) but for example facebook has no android-maps-chromebook etc.
Why, did they tell the truth in the fifties or something? I assume "classy" is your stand-in word for politically correct.

I can see that no-one likes what I said but I assure you it's my honest feeling. HR departments' best contribution to an organisation is cute HR girls. You can deny this truth, or perhaps try to change the way of things. Clicking to downvote me, of course, changes absolutely nothing.
Firstly good to see that while the UK was asleep the first amendement was busy at work.

The UK regardless of what is being stated here has excellent standards of free speech. I can protest government policies (see student protests of 2011 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-15646709), I can write what I want and talk about what I want with some clear rules for example:

- Defamation (Publicly making statements about another individual which are false and derogatory)

- Official Secrets Act (Revealing information covered by the act. Everyone is bound by regardless if you signed a copy or not)

- Make threats direct at individuals or places

We also have a ton of rules to protect rape victims, on-going prosecutions and children.

The twitter / facebook cases are already causing serious issues for prosecutors here and the Crown Prosecution Service is already writing guidance to limit the number of prosecutions.

The UK just like the US has a good legal system in place with separate police, prosecution service and judiciary (non of which are elected!) in the Robin Hood Airport case the high court ruled it was a bad prosecution and this will stand as case law for the future.

If you have not seen what's been going on in the UK in regards to a wholesale bbq'ing of the press, police and government by the Leveson Inquiry and the three on-going related police investigations take a look. It is a good example of a working democracy cleaning house.

Free speech means sometimes you get offended by me saying X politician is stupid but it should not be used as an excuse for threatening, bigoted or racist behaviour.
Chris Ford explains music theory using Clojure. He starts with a pure sine wave and builds up abstractions, ending up with a Bach canon.
How do they integrate front end and back end work together? 
I'm just another young and enthusiastic programmer. I have an interest in working with backend stuff and try out new languages. Recently, I find out playing with these stuffs cannot get me to create a real application, because no one wants to use ugly app.
So I begin to learn more about UI/UX and front development. But I have a doubt about integrating front end work and back end work. For an example:
For front end work, I use tool like yeoman to create UI.
Back end, I use rails.

If it's only me working on the whole project, I will work only with rails. But what if I have a another frontend who uses yeoman, which is the good workflow to integrate two work together ?
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You can move by dragging either end of the mirror. It's not entirely obvious, maybe an easier way to move the mirror would be helpful.
Exactly, I don't believe this is the case.
Most musicians aren't aware of this, but an interesting corollary of the circle of fifths is the Pythagorean Comma: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_comma#Circle_of_fif...

We generally treat Gb and F# as the same note, but if you actually count perfect Pythagorean fifths (frequency ratios of 3:2) in both directions from C, Gb and F# don't actually perfectly meet in the middle!
And we can criticize our government openly. As an American, I can say that the war in Afghanistan needs to end, the war in Iraq never should have begun, Obamacare is stupid, President Obama is stupid, taxes are too high, my Senator's incompetent...(I don't actually believe all of these things; they're just random examples of criticisms of government.) This is perhaps the most important part of free speech, and according to the article, the UK lacks these protections.

You can say every (equivalent) one of those things in the UK. What the UK has is restrictions upon threatening or inflammatory speech, so saying a particular person should be killed or die, that a politician should be raped, or that we should commit atrocities to reach an end. If one were to send a threat to the President, one would discover where the US line is similarly drawn.

Criticism is fine. Threats or aggressive malice are not. And most Brits, thankfully, believe this. All reasonable curbs on a continent where people were ripping each other to shreds in their millions within the past 100 years.
I am in favor of gender equality. Whatever you're getting out of my posts is your own problem.
RE Nazis:

In Germany it is ilegal to display the Swastika and deny that the holocaust happened.

Call of Duty sold very well in Germany, the enemies just didnt have Swastika's on and had green blood.
This is awesome. It's cool to see more people are hacking sex toys. Hopefully with all these cool hacks, it will remove the stigma. People have a stigma against vibrator is because they always imagine vibrator as a huge penis vibrator that they seen in porn movies.
The fact is many studies shown that size doesn't matter.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/all-about-sex/200903/the...
The first electrical vibrator was invented as a medical device and to stimulate the clitoris, not the inside.

I believe the world will be a better place when women can have orgasm as much as men do.

My startup, www.vibease.com, is helping couples to stay intimate even from a distance. We have a mobile App with long distance vibrator. We use Bluetooth and internet connection. Currenlty we are taking pre-order.
We try to bring it to mainstream market and it's not easy:
http://tech.co/vibease-vibrator-app-2012-11
There's also the little publicized matter of Rand's hero worship of a child killer[1], which fits her sociopathic "philosophy".

[1] - http://michaelprescott.freeservers.com/romancing-the-stone-c...
Yeah, I am more of a functional programmer and yeah, I sometimes let some ugliness slip in especially in looping in Python. At least there is none of this crap in production somewhere. :) n00b.

It would look better if it was in Scheme or Clojure, but that stuff's too scary for most readers. At least that's the story I'll maintain here.
Actually, yeah. The thermostat for gentrification is pretty finicky.

If the art scene goes well in an area, retail and restaurants will follow. Two decades later, the area is expensive and boring.
It's purely informational but it's information that is good for trafficking and not much else. If you're not a trafficker, you might prefer that traffickers are uninformed and fare poorly in such situations.

I understand that the information about how traffickers operate might also assist those attempting to disrupt them, though.
Indeed i meant i m not an female rights activist; i m all for gender equality.
Is this why the most pro-IP people conflate copyright violation with plagiarism?

In my experience, pirates don't plagiarize. They simply don't do it. Attribution is always preserved.

However, I've heard many times on HN that piracy means stealing a work and not giving credit. They rattle on about how terrible it is to have people out there removing your name from your work.

I know plagiarism does happen, but I've never seen a plagiarized work on the Pirate Bay, or Usenet, or any of the other places where you can download copyrighted material for free.
Where is the full Info manual?
> Ayn Rand, a long-time favourite thinker of mine

I think disclaimers are generally best put near the top.
Let's not forget that the first amendment isn't as absolute as some of these comments would suggest. Courts have placed limits on it. Also try threatening the life of your president, see how that works out for you!
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I personally use REST APIs (over HTTP/HTTPS) to surface all the backend capabilities. Then it doesn't matter how the frontend is developed.

In your case you would probably want to serve the content(resources) using REST. I am not particularly sure how this is done in Rails but it shouldn't be tough to have your objects serialized into json.
You would then write AJAX code in your frontend/client code to interact with the backend via the API.
There are two sides to this:

Either you have another skill that they need, or they just want a "generic (good) rails programmer"

Of course skills are transferrable, within a timeframe. So if you're trying to ship something in 6 months this may not be acceptable
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There are two kinds of interns: good ones and bad ones.

It sucks that the good ones will be gone after four months.

It sucks that the bad ones will be around for four months.
Yes, this is painful as is. Also, when I complete a level the entire frame shifts about 10 pixels to the left as the save button appears. Nice concept though.
What about `od -f`
The petrol (gas) refuel thing is the only thing that feels all that different from Hertz Gold (I think it's sometimes a 1-time fee -- I got mine free a few years ago).

My experience at CBR last week. Walk off the plane. Walk up to the Hertz counter. Wait 20 seconds for the 1 other person in the Gold line. Flash my license. Given my keys and the direction to the lot. Walk to the lot. Drive off. Would have been under 5 minutes from when I walked off the plane.
Neither is Stanley. We have the example of Stanley Ann Dunham, do we not?
Then you probably need consultant if it is only for a specific issue. Otherwise once this is solved you got bored to death employee, with skill set for which you are overpaying and under-utilizing.

Unless you need language guru, the languages known don't matter much. If someone can write a LISP interpreter in Haskell for 2 days I would hire her for a Java position even if she doesn't know what a loop is.
C and C++ are too high-level to directly represent a lot of useful things.

One of those things is multiple return values, implemented as a first-class part of LLVM since 2.3:

http://llvm.org/releases/2.3/docs/ReleaseNotes.html

Trying to fit this into C is painful; maybe it's easier in C++. You have to hope the optimizer on your compiler is really quite clever to get the same level of optimization the LLVM tools can provide with less effort because it is, as I said, directly representable in LLVM IR.

You also get things like memory use intrinsics, such as llvm.lifetime.start and llvm.lifetime.end, which help implement garbage collection by preserving information from the high-level code in the intermediate code. All such information would be thrown away in either C or C++ unless you do a lot more work.

http://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html
Yups, there is one. www.vibease.com

I'm the founder btw.
We help couples to stay intimate, even from a distance, by using mobile app and long distance vibrator.
We use Bluetooth and internet.
http://mashable.com/2012/10/26/vibease-sex-toy-app/
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I think what he is saying is that we can get lucky in guessing the correct hash even if we guessed the value wrong.

b can only be picked once, and we transmit g^b
Attacker then needs to guess a g^a that will cause hmac(g^ab) to match. So we might guess an incorrect g^a that still manages to collide and give us the correct hmac.

This apparently close to doubles our chance of guessing correctly? Depending on the properties of hmac this sounds reasonable, but still doesn't affect security much, as he says - it would still be 1/2^{16} - not likely to happen.
Vibease is trying to disrupt the sex toys industry and bring it to mainstream market.

I'm the founder btw.
We help couples to stay intimate, even from a distance, by using mobile app and long distance vibrator.
We use Bluetooth and internet.
http://mashable.com/2012/10/26/vibease-sex-toy-app/
Didn't happen to me either until I went to venezuela this year. I got shaken down at the border and the policeman stole 200 bucks while he was strip searching me.

I figured out after that the whole time I was being detained he was asking for a bribe (in a roundabout way, such that I didn't really understand with my poor sppanish skills).
> Call the customer and give them a reference/ticket number and ask them to call you back quoting that number.

I'm not sure what would that accomplish.
What would prevent someone else than me that they reached by accident from calling them back with the ticket number that they gave him when they assumed it was me?

IMHO everybody should have government issued keypair with public part easily checkable on government site.

When they want to confirm your identity they just ask you to sign something random with your key. "To confirm your identity sir please enter the following into your government issued identity card and read to me back what you see on the display of the card."
You can't just be 'double insured', insurance is usually on the license, not on the driver. So if I put another driver in my car he/she can claim whatever they want, the law here is that the license owner is the one taking out insurance. By law, as soon as a vehicle is on public roads the owner of the car has to have mandatory insurance.

I'm not quite 100% clear on what the situation would be if someone else would be driving the car and they took out insurance to absolve me (and by extension my insurance) for liability, but I'm fairly sure that just driving around with my license plate will cause me to be the party addressed for any injuries/damage caused using that vehicle.

That's why license plate duplication is such a nasty thing, you end up having to prove that it wasn't you that caused the damage/fines/whatever.

And of course, if they do get into an accident and supposedly their insurance pays for the damage I will still find no car on my return from a trip as well as having to deal with the aftermath of the damage and having a car that was repaired after an accident, which may render it drivable but will significantly impact the book value.

Bad plan.
Or, perhaps equivalently, the article is predicated on the supposition that there will be a single Big Content monopoly/oligopoly that will eventually just translate over to the digital realm.
> the British public found their posts offensive

For any given piece of speech, it's not hard to find someone who's offended by it. So that's a terrible standard for free speech rules, unless you want to have a country of silence.

> You've read into the article a problem that doesn't exist

You may have a point. Let's examine the examples:

1. The airport bombing comment is probably the easiest to call unprotected speech. Even on first reading of the article, I thought "That sounds like an actual threat...Let's see what else they have."

2. The comment about the soldiers could also be considered a physical threat, but it's more of a stretch; "I hope X dies and goes to hell" isn't nearly as strong as "I'm going to kill X".

3. I can't find the specific wording of the comment regarding the murdered children.

4. That leaves us with the poppy-burning; but it seems like this would be a clear case of protected speech in the US.

That's a grand total of one correctly classified instances of unprotected speech (1), one incorrectly classified instance of protected speech (4), and two for which the correct classification is unknown or shaky (2-3). That is, if you take "correct" to be "protected speech according to US law," which is the only classification of protected-vs-unprotected speech I'm familiar enough with to do this analysis.

The data indicate that the UK might have a systematic problem correctly classifying instances of protected speech, but you're right; that certainly isn't a clear-cut conclusion from the article.
I agree with you that there are a lot of people who simply refuse to engage with Rand's ideas.

No matter how much one dislikes an idea, I think one should be willing to understand and engage with it, especially if it's an important idea that has had influence (as some of Rand's ideas have, for example, her concept of "force").

I personally agree with most of Rand's philosophy, but that doesn't prevent me from being willing to listen to and engage in discourse with Marxists, Keynsians, and other schools of thought which differ strongly from Objectivism.

If someone really thinks their ideas are true and right, then they should have the confidence to see those ideas tried and tested in the real world, against all the alternatives.

They should count it as a privilege to discuss/debate their ideas with opposing schools (as long as everyone respects basic manners/decency), because doing so will deepen their knowledge and improve their ability to convince others of their ideas.

Anyway enough ranting. :)
Now a job like that I would strongly consider. :)
And I thought the Indian cases were isolated, wow.
Because Chile is working very hard on improving their police force and not reporting an attempted bribe can get a police man there into serious trouble. Really, don't do it. It's a lose-lose situation. Either you end up fighting those that are improving the situation for people like you or you end up arrested for a very serious offense.
Well, vibease is now alive and kickin' here, so there's a couple of other apps I'll mention:

- BodyHeat, by OhMiBod/PerfectPlum: http://www.ohmibod.com/app/

- Closer ToGetHer - http://www.getclosertogether.com/
I've had a lot of encounters with YC founders, most of them negative.

This anecdote well encapsulates the impression I had of a lot of them.

I'd really like to meet the better of the crop, because I can't imagine PG and Jessica (she's usually the expert on character and personality in YC interviews) are intentionally picking petty people.

I'm not the only person in the startup industry who's had this impression either. They remind me a lot of underqualified legacy Harvard kids who think they're god's gift because they snagged a status symbol.

Maybe the better founders are too busy shipping product to run into me :)
On the JVM and other platforms. And this version of Clojure/JVM; why wouldn't they run if they run now?
I think you misunderstand my intentions. What I meant is that one SHOULD have multiple clients/multiple jobs, and that doing so will be easier if one doesn't become too dependent on any one employer due to benefits, etc.
well, it is a correct observation that HR (and marketing) departments have the highest female ratio in pretty much any company.

let's look at famous examples:
Carly Fiorina? Marketing.
Brigitte Ederer (Siemens)? HR.
Meg Whitman? Marketing (started as a Brand Manager)

the cute moniker is unnecessary, I agree. the overall observation is correct.

i agree in particular with the fact that once HR takes over hiring from the team-leaders, the company has jumped the shark. one of the core tasks for a manager is hiring, ensuring his/her team is correctly staffed and has enough fresh blood to ensure senior people can move upward or away without disruption. if you don't, the Peter principle is in play.

overzelous HR is the ruin of a company because by definition HR has no clue about the core competencies of a company, no feeling for its customers nor products/services.
Have the names/urls of any? All I've seen lately is Vibease because they're coming to American competitions. Would love to know of more.
csense never said it was.
In enterprise, Apple is David. The Goliath in enterprise is Microsoft, and if Microsoft wants Apple’s market in mobile enterprise, where apple is the Goliath and Microsoft is David, I would like to know the weaker side of these Goliaths, so that I can target them, All Goliaths will have some weak point where davids can target them, I see hundreds of startup companies around the world playing the role of David.
Thanks!
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