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I have no problem with room-sharing, or even an in-bed cradle. Those have obvious benefits without some of the risks of placing a baby on a mattress next to you.
> Wasn't it Steve Jobs himself who said to President Obama at a dinner that "those jobs aren't coming back" when talking about high-tech manufacturing?

Interestingly enough, The Atlantic just ran two long articles about the return of American manufacturing: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/12/mr-china... and http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/12/the-inso... . Both are worth reading in full.

Clearly we're not going to get back to the 1950s, when manufacturing provided much of the U.S.'s employment base. But we're still substantial gains in the sector, and the belief that outsourcing always makes financial sense is disappearing.
A really hard decision, I think he is a man with brave heart.
This doesn't detract from your point, but I thought I should correct something just because there are a lot of overseas readers here who might not be very familiar with the US Constitution:

The Constitution does not grant freedoms to citizens. Instead, it delegates specific powers from the citizens to the federal government.
In maybe five to ten years, the internet will effectively split in two. There will be major, commercial service providers such as Facebook-type social media hubs, major news sites but there will also be an invisible internet that is everything internet used to be, and in addition to that encrypted, anonymous, and untraceable.

How it shows most prominently at the moment is file sharing. Setting the endless copyright debates aside, what happens is that governments and large companies want to interfere with the privacy of what citizens are doing with their own bits. They say copying is theft while citizens consider twiddling their own bits a private matter that's none of anyone else's business. The citizens don't understand that while it's de facto legal to form a sneakernet—the actual legal status probably varies from place to place but nobody has ever been sued for sneakernet filesharing because nobody else never knows about it—it's illegal to form a filesharing network over the internet.

I don't promote or demote filesharing per se: it's just the cutting edge where the future trends will show years before they land elsewhere and that's what it makes it so interesting. A marginal slice of file sharing has already moved to anonymous darknets but in a few years and after a few more bad copyright/freedom-of-speech incidents with bad publicity, there will eventually be a breakthrough and the whole filesharing activity will go underground en masse.

When the masses go for it, the capacity and availability of invisible darknets will raise in orders of magnitude. That means there will be other providers in the anonymous networks as well, websites and services. There already are some, from anonymous wikis, anonymous project pages to anonymous forums but currently those are playgrounds. That is not so in ten years: there will be a major "bazaar" going on underground. While everything is anonymous and untraceable, everything is also secure. An online bank could very well operate in the anonymous network because the traffic is already cryptographically signed, and users can enjoy strong authentication if they wish to or remain a pair of anonymous public/private keys.

At that point the traditional grasp of internet control is lost.

The institutions governing the internet and the copyright and whatnot are faced with a big dilemma: do they dare to ban and make illegal anything that's not specifically permitted on the internet and if so, how to go about it in actuality. Do they lobby for laws that only allow ISPs to let citizens connect to a http proxy that validates all traffic to be "approved"? Do they extend the charges for any use of the invisible internet that is deemed illegal, to cover all users of the invisible internet?

We're still in the shadowdancing mode but the stakes are going higher, and in at most ten years the problem of control versus anonymity will have come out in the public.

We better know what we want, at that point.
Why else Ireland? I highly think it was picked for tax purposes.
I wonder how many people who think it's important think that it's important enough to merit actually being said champion.
Facebook also has its Europe headquarter in Ireland. Something special about the laws there?
Yes and no. Sure, we have to fight bad laws. Here's the thing: Encryption is legal now, but what good is it if we don't use it?

We need to build and use technologies that respect human rights and we need to fight to make sure that they remain legal. One without the other is nothing. There is no point fighting to keep something legal if you don't have the technology and infrastructure to use it.
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Wait, are you saying that more talented people aren't going to bust their ass to prove themselves to you? Puzzling.
My initial thoughts are, I don't know if this is the right way to combat widespread warrantless search and seizure, although maybe it is. I'm not sold either way.

Let's say there were some massive breech of probable cause before billions of people used the internet every day. Maybe some king is issuing multitudinous search warrants to go and seize all postal mail correspondence within some large sector of the population. I'm thinking of something "old tymey" here.

Okay. Well, it seems to me, the 18th century version of Julian Assange would essentially argue that people need to start getting good at writing in and decoding cryptograms. What we really need is the 21st century version of James Otis.

I know, it's a very, very unfair analogy. But it explains my point. If this stuff that William Binney is talking about is really going on, wouldn't a legal or a socio-political (not sure if I'm even using that term correctly) response be more lasting and effective than having everybody start writing letters in the form of a NY Times crossword puzzle?
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Another reason to disable javascript by default.
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That's the problem, "authorized shop". The only reason you need to be "authorized" is to give Apple money for upgrading something that you own. It's a lock-in scheme.

Imagine having to go to a Toyota or Honda dealer just to get a battery upgraded, and that it cost 10x more than replacing the battery in a Ford or Chevy at a 3rd party dealer. The battery is no different, just the manufacturer.

Also, what if you don't live in an area with an authorized Apple store? I think there's only 2 Apple Stores in my state, and if I drive south, the next authorized Apple reseller is 4 hours away (I don't think they even do repairs). On the flip side, there are PC repair stores peppered in nearly every town.

That's like saying that the only place you can get your car repaired is 2 hours away, even though there are 3 car repair stores that repair literally every other kind of car in your home town. That's a BIG deal!
Does it seem strange to anyone that the whole book isn't available for free? This doesn't appear to be intended as mere entertainment. This is supposed to be about maintaining freedom . . . it seems like a case where you'd want to get your ideas out and save the day over earning money from it.
Arbitraging WHAT regulations? They use licensed limo drivers, who are already out driving every day. They're simply helping those drivers fill their excess capacity. Limo drivers have been driving legally, under as much or more regulation than taxi drivers for years. Why is national regulation being pushed now, to require (among other things) towncars to be booked at least 30 minutes in advance? It certainly smacks of "big bad entrenched regulators" trying to fuck over a sprightly new startup.

Maybe you can explain how advanced booking regulations for an already regulated industry that didn't need them ever before helps benefit the public good. Even if that were the case, does that outweigh the good limo drivers get from being able to make a better living? Most of these drivers don't own their own vehicles, they work for someone else, and are just trying to make a living. Requiring those hard-working drivers to have people schedule 30+ minutes in advance is taking money out of their pockets. It also prevents consumers from having a choice in how to get around, leaving them at the mercy of an often under-supplied taxi system. I can't see how any of the proposed regulation benefits the public, and I certainly can't see how it offsets the benefits of what Uber brings.

Tourists having a choice over a taxi or towncar doesn't hurt New York City's tourism industry. That seems like an absurd argument to me. I guess I fail to see how using licensed drivers who are already regulated, and who could be hired with or without Uber is a case against Uber.
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Now there is the refined argumentation I come to HNN for. Well done, son.
On the subject of annoying service stations/gas stations/petrol stations, the tirade that greets payment is now insane in New Zealand.
Do you have fly buys? AA card? Discount vouchers? Would you like any of these sweets that are on special? A car wash? I know that the staff are told to ask these questions, but if they can find a way to make the service more irritating, I'd be slightly impressed.
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Guess what Mr. CIO? One in five of your employees uses Dropbox at work
This post is short-sighted and simplistic. Worst in what sense? The decrease in equity is countered by the increased stability because the company has money in the bank.

There are people whose risk profiles make it unacceptable for them to join a company before it reaches a certain degree of stability. For those people, the second the company has closed a VC round might be the best time to join. I've hired people in that exact situation; they only made the leap to a startup when I was able to guarantee that we'd have enough money to pay them for a while.
One of my personality traits is that I don't like taking shortcuts. In fact, I hate taking them. I much prefer doing things "properly" and thoroughly. From painstakingly teaching myself programming to not incessantly 'cheesing' in SC2 to washing the dishes multiple times to brushing my teeth slowly.

I am often ridiculed by my wife, and I always wondered where I got this from. This trait is something I want to teach my kids, but I never knew quite how.

Until I read this article and it reminded me that I too did the Suzuki program, into classical violin after. I remembered practicing a lot - and I remember getting frustrated frequently.

I also remember the short burst of adrenaline I would feel, and the overwhelming feeling of accomplishment, when I get that 'trill' just perfect or when I perfected my vibrato.

Even though I have since put down the violin, I feel the same accomplishment when I tackle something hard (in programming) and I eventually figure it out.

I need to remember to thank my parents for insisting that I keep at the violin, even when I was very frustrated and wanted to rage quit.
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Your use of "but" is confusing me.
take it back to harvard, boys. this place is for conversin'.
As others have stated, this probably isn't the best way to do a survey. At the very least, you're going to have some bias from posting this on HN late at night (in the US).

If you want a more representative answer to the question "How do companies hire?", I'd recommend using Google Consumer Surveys (http://www.google.com/insights/consumersurveys/home)

You'll be able to survey a much larger audience, get more responses, and have statistically significant results. In addition, Google has a nice dashboard which lets you compare answers according to various demographic information such as gender, age, location, income, etc.
In light of evolutionary psychology, talent is a combination of domain-specific neural adaptations and illusions. We know from data mining and machine learning that more data equals better results. Since one example of machine learning is neural networks (i.e. you), we know that more data (i.e. practice) leads to improved performance. For example, we know that the brain implements certain cognitive adaptations multiple times in differing but co-adaptive formats. If you had four neural clusters dedicated to spatial visualization and your friend had only three, you would be better at geometry. But if your friend practiced a lot, he could repurpose chunks of his neocortex to use his three clusters and then some with finer heuristics, with the result of beating you in geometry even though you had more "talent" and potential at equivalent practice rates. Moral of the story: don't worry about talent, practice makes better, kids.
I suspect it is for tax purposes....the corporate tax rate in Ireland is 15% I believe - in comparison to 30%+ elsewhere in the West.
Faceted product search across multiple sites is broken. Try to find for example corner electric fireplace media units in white (furniture).
1. You get Googles own shopping results without facets
2. You get individual ecom sites with tons of false positives including discontinued items
3. If you're lucky you get to Google image search and work from there.
A job posting - not postings from a recruiter or third-party agencies.
Why don't you keep a drive per customer (in a bank if needs be) and upload it to Glacier for redundancy? Couple it with making a copy of the drive when you drop it in a mail for a customer, and you have two levels of recovery at any given moment, one - instant, another - from Glacier.
I learned some C++ as one of my first languages ever, about a decade ago. Since, I've used Python, Java, and JavaScript professionally. In my spare time: Go, Ruby, Haskell, and Clojure.

After changing teams about a year ago, I came back to C++. IMHO, C++ is the worst. By far. Without question. It's so bad I don't know what to rank as second-worst. Every new feature or quirk is tinged with horror. The latest example for me was: http://isocpp.org/blog/2012/11/universal-references-in-c11-s.... So was that HN piece about C++ pitfalls.

No, for me, it is the diametric opposite. The more I learn about anything other than C++, the more C++ seems like a big, creaking pile of leaky abstractions. It's like if you took the worst aspects of C and Java. And I struggle — earnestly — to imagine how people could actually be OK with it, let alone enjoy it.

But I have to use it at work. It's an industry-standard language. Some people like it. That's life.
Well, it's good to have details on the causes and effects of these kinds of problems, so we can better decide how to prevent it from happening more. Our efforts shouldn't be purely reactive, it should also be preventative.
the lack of being able to extend or define my own tags and attributes feels like a reduction in freedom to me ... but I guess it depends on your perspective. If you feel comfortable with browser companies and a small handful of ppl defining a rigid vocabulary for the world to use, that is your option; me ... I don't feel comfortable with that situation.

XML schemas are hard ... the xml suite of technologies certainly did not get it right the first time around, but slowly those 'hard' technoloiges get eaiser to use (either because of tooling or in XML Schema case we now have v1.1 with things like assertions that make validation a lot more useful and easier). In the meantime, I am certain that we will see every XML technology eventually will get regenerated and replicated within the JSON stack of tech.

Lastly, I agree that having a sanctioned vocabulary called HTML5 is a 'good thing' ... however saying that the world only needs one markup format is plainly incorrect, its akin to saying we only need a single spoken language; sure a lingua franca would make life (and processes) a magnitude simpler but hoping for this situation to actually occur is a real 'pipe' dream.

IMO, if a 'fallacies of data' type edict was to be handed down, then 'planning for homogeneity (lingu franca)' would be in the top 7.
> Wusstest du schon, dass Dropbox ihre Nutzer in 175 Ländern

Somehow 25 countries got lost while that sentence was translated into German.
> When the masses go for it, the capacity and availability of invisible darknets will raise in orders of magnitude.

this is predicated on the assumption that providers are not strangled by their balls by the authorities (who is in turn strangled by the balls by lobbiests/companies/vested interests).

If you could run your own routes with private equipment (such as a mesh like wireless network?), instead of having to sign up to an isp, then i see this as more viable a future.
You mean the NYT's map?

It's not; Texas has a disproportionately large subsidy per capita.
My mix is that I sell global, but buy local when possible, care for local friendships, talk to neighbors, and I am a member of several clubs. But thats perhaps a common Hanseatic culture.
Side by side, this is amazingly smoother than the OP.
note this post is from 2009 [edit -- now reflected in the title]--

I think the top comment makes a pretty solid argument

You're an entrepreneur, which means that your risk profile is high. Mine too! That's why we're leading companies, not joining them.

I look at our current economy and see instability everywhere, which has made me even MORE risk tolerant. Being in an entrepreneurial company that's trying to do something new and/or differently seems safer than almost anything else, but few people seem to share that perspective.

Most people just aren't cut out for the inherent instability of an early-stage start-up, and the lousy economy has many people clinging that much more tightly to what they know.
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There are similar differences (oversights?) in all of the translations.
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>I’ve met a lot of entrepreneurs, but even the smartest are usually barely on par, intellectually/analytically/etc, with average/mediocre hedge fund analysts (just from my own personal experience). There is a reason for this; make startups more compelling for smart people to join; value human capital at its intrinsic worth, and pay accordingly; after all, that’s what the VC money is for half the time, right?

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Funny how he writes it so much like Java. I see so many different styles with JavaScript.
At first I was wondering why a Chinese translation had been omitted, but then I realized the service was blocked by the Great Firewall.
Not once have I ever, nor can think of any actual common situation where anyone would ever type their password in to a search box. Not only that but you have to be on the attackers website so they could just save your password by forcing you to log in to view or any of the hundreds of other standard ways of acquiring a password.

And if you're searching for your password on a website listing passwords and all that is going to happen is your password (without a user name and no other info other then what is in the http headers) gets added to that list, this really isn't a problem.

So many if's its hilarious: IF you go to random unprotected website AND IF that website uses this AND IF you use that hot key AND IF you search for you password to "see if it's in the list" (what value does it give you if you saw the password? none.) then the 'attacker' can save a password that isn't tied to anything. There are already password lists of common passwords, this accomplishes nothing.

..and here comes the downvotes.
Aaaand that's the day I stop using it.
Violence is a valid perspective through which to understand all that a state is. This is true. The existence of the state is to provide mechanisms to regulate violence so that it can be directed in a moderately controlled fashion; this has been true from village chieftains to imperial legions to the FBI and KGB.

This can be a useful perspective, but it's rarely actually used to any intellectual benefit: people generally bring it up only as an excuse to dismiss the concept of statehood as worth exploration, because we've internalized the notion of violence as bad. It's just libertarian fear-mongering, and it drives away discussion of real issues of violence from the public arena into the private backrooms of government where we don't have a say because we act like a lynch mob when it comes up.
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Epic fail: "The messaging app has users in 250 countries".
> people don't seem to realize any price is being paid.

this hit the nail on the head, because the pain of the price isn't felt by the average person _at all_. It is only felt by people at society's margin, who may skirt the law at times.

Now, someone might argue that this is actually a good result, because this will prevent laws from being skirted at all! If, or when some form of revolution is required, that necessarily entails breaking the law (otherwise it wouldn't be a revolution). This means, by slowly seeping such privacy invasion laws into place, its like boiling a frog alive - the frog doesn't even know its being killed.

This is why you have to watch very carefully, any form of censorship, or measures that strip away any sort of right that a citizen is entitled to.

unfortunately, no one is going to care. i hope i will be dead by the time things turn sour (if indeed they do).
That's just the 1 billion Chinese in the mainland.
What about the 30 million living here in Taiwan and Hong Kong?
These numbers are mind blowing. So much for the fuss the GOP made about Tesla or Solyndra during the campaign.
The tax story in Ireland is incredible. The corporate tax rate is significantly lower than other nations, and often times, the government is willing to make special concessions, or give tax rebates for companies intending on making long term commitments (Amazon is best known for making these deals).
The Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands is an unincorporated territory of the United States, and its citizens are US citizens. (And I used to live there, as it happens.) Its relationship with the US is similar to Puerto Rico's.

Accordingly, products made in the CNMI may be labeled as "Made in USA" (subject to the same rules I cited above). But after the labor scandals of the 1990s, many well known clothing brands that kept their factories there switched to labels like "Made in Northern Marianas, USA".

Since 2009, the CNMI no longer makes its own immigration policy. [0] The islands are now subject to federal immigration law, and all provisions of the Immigration and Naturalization Act will be in effect there from 2014. By that date, the CNMI's workforce will be governed by the same laws as elsewhere in the United States and there will no longer be any real basis for controversy over its "Made in USA" labeling.

0. http://www.dhs.gov/commonwealth-northern-mariana-islands-tra...
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