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"What is wrong with America can be fixed with what is right about America." -Bill Clinton

The USA is not perfect I admit, corporations are corrupt, our education system is broken, legal immigrants are treated like crap and paid less than US citizens for the same job and our immigration system is broken except for the H1B Visa program that is often used as 'cheap labor' using 'temporary employees' from other nations.

To make matters worse politicians are in bed with banks and financial companies, as well as the RIAA/MPAA to pass laws on copyrights that take away freedoms, rights, and liberties to give these companies even more record profits and pay zero taxes.

These days you cannot even tell a Democrat from a Republican anymore in most cases, because both are corrupt, and both take lobbyist money from the same sources to pass the same unjust laws that violate the US Constitution.

But it isn't all bad, it can still be fixed, but we have to be willing to work to reform the system and get people involved and give control back to the citizens and legal immigrants, and take it away from banks, financial companies, lobbyists, the RIAA/MPAA, etc.

The Republicans have blamed legal and illegal immigrants which is why there is a lot of discrimination against foreigners, they have been made scapegoats. The Democrats have made it so jobs for legal and illegal immigrants will always be low, and that they be given lower position jobs at companies, and even deny them entry back into the USA to start a business even if they scored high in a university with a good degree and made the honor rolls. Unless of course they are willing to find a corporate sponsor for a H1B Visa for minimum wage or a little bit above it. The Immigration system needs a major reform and both parties have messed it up badly.

When you earn a college/university degree in the USA, you are no longer guaranteed a job or career. You can end up deep in student loan debt, because the cost of a higher education is always increasing.

When you work, the cost of health insurance has skyrocketed and your employer most likely picked the cheapest plan to save money. As a result most bankruptcies are due to medical debt by people who are working full time but do not have good enough coverage. Hospitals charge too much and it is a big racket. In the USA we pay more for health insurance premiums but get less than in most nations that pay a fraction of our costs, but get more than he are even promised to get for pennies on the dollar.

Everyone is good at blaming everyone else, that needs to stop. Someone needs to take responsibility and own the problems and start finding solutions for them. Non-profit startups can be founded to find the solutions to the problems the USA faces and fix the broken system and reform it.
Just nit picking but there are several places in the article that are incorrect such as

"The West Virginia legislature at peak times can have over 600 internal users and numerous guests accessing "multiple Web servers, up to eight simultaneous live audio webcasts, multiple SQL servers, and multiple Google search appliances located in the Legislature's server farms." Despite all this, the legislature doesn't even use a router but instead runs a cheaper Cisco switch... and it has never exceeded capacity."

It's pretty clear that not only does the author not know networking basics, his sources don't either.
The formal justice system is based on the Talmud. It's filled with "case studies" of edge cases that were used to set precedent of interpretation.
Asking subsistence farmers to split a couple days' casual labour worth of wages seems to me roughly equivalent to asking undergrads to split $100. Both might last a few days to a week. If someone offered me $20 out of $100, I'd be inclined to take it: that's a free burger and beer at the campus pub while I watch the game. As an undergrad, that's a big enough take for me to get over the insult.
>they offerred Swartz a plea deal that would have sent him to jail for three months

Why didn't he take that?
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Communes are a tribal configuration. Religion is a source of success because it lets people expand beyond tribal society.
Similar things happen here in Sweden. Peter Sunde, the public face of TPB was a activist fighting for less fucked up copyright laws etc. He got blacklisted as a Neo-nazi by Sweden's feds SÄPO.

Very sad, but not very suprising.
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I'm sorry about your shitty flight, but this rant does not belong on HN.
I had 9 months of intermittent practice prior to one month of more hard core practice. Its very doable.
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> Put another way: for self-direction to work, the culture needs to rank improvements as highly as novelty. Possibly higher.

Which it never does. At least, I have yet to experience or hear of a (software) engineering culture in which that's true.
Mashable links in HN, what has the world come to!
I'm curious how many pounds per sq. inch carrots require to chew. The article pointed to 4 as the magic number.

I wonder if there's a way to engineer healthy food to taste better without actually adding any ingredients. Maybe through bio-engineering or the like. Or maybe injecting them with air or drilling out little holes.
Google Has Killed Android (the Brand)
To take the plea deal, he would have had to admit guilt (Heymann insisted on it)

Summary: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/01/15/aaron-swart...
"See it through to completion" != "iron out bugs"
It was that + branding him a felon.
I would. An electronic intelligence with a profound understanding of anything would be interesting.

If I said that, in the next room, there was a computer with a profound understanding of TV shows - wouldn't you be interested? That would be fascinating.
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She was an engineer, very briefly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marissa_Mayer
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That is not the github. That project is "MuteTabs" which is different than MuteTab.
DuckDuckGo has the same top result.
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Another example of this can be seen in the Web Speech API (http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/demos/speech.html). You will need Chrome Canary in order to test.

I'm currently building a voice-to-text transcriber using the Web Speech API.
Nah, thats just DF Hack, it adds lots of plugins and functionality that the more advanced DF player starts hankering for after a while.

The base game with a wiki, a tileset, and dwarf therapist, will be accessible and fun for the average HN visitor.

The ERP aspect of it is for people who just want to reach that level of gameplay. I don't. I just mass produce my stuff and never run out of goods.
I always thought it would be nice to instantly learn a product's provenance.

An app that tells you where some product was made would probably go over really well in the USA. There are a lot of people who would pay more for a product if they knew it was made in the USA while the product next to it was made in China. It's probably quite difficult to get this information, though.
Ask HN: Why do tech companies demo using Macs?
shopping for a CRM app, I was struck by how many of them (read: all) use macs in their video/glamour shots.

not just CRM sites do this of course.

I get that macs are more hip than PC's, but don't most "real businesses" still use PC's? last time I heard macs were under 5% of the pc market.

Why do tech companies prefer to show their customers using macs?
The result for me is that there is no fear of death because there is nothing there, thus nothing there to fear. If experience returned again, that would be fine too. Basically it doesn't matter either way since nothing exists outside of this present experience.
Out of curiosity, is any of the chrome process isolation going to be going upstream to webkit or augment webkit2 isolation?
From Facebook to Microsoft: The losing battle against cyber hackers
Wasn't he though? In hindsight this still seems like a better deal as opposed to what actually happened.
Whoa!!!

The thread says that pressing both the steering buttons reboots the software(Read: The whole car).

This is purely WTF!
Indeed. The absurdity of that was explained by Peter Sunde himself in the documentary AFK (available for viewing here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTOKXCEwo_8 -- which I highly recommend as worth watching ).
Take a lesson from http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2012/12/...

Myself and several of my friends ended up buying that because of that article extolling its virtues. Design a product so crazy-good it can't be ignored and then get some media (not ABC, NBC, etc, but something like Slate that is respectable) to cover it. Obviously this is insanely difficult to do, but I think it is what you should try for all the same.
I have to thank whoever posted the first article about Anil Potti/Retraction Watch - I've found the site to be fascinating.

Will also point out that Anil contacted the owner of the site, Ivan, and claimed that he had no involvement in the original retraction request. http://retractionwatch.wordpress.com/2013/02/17/anil-potti-t...
T-shirt designs. Find a decent-sized fan community on Facebook and design a shirt that would appeal to them. Use Zazzle or - better yet - Teespring to print and sell the shirts.
http://spottedsun.com/how-i-made-money-with-teespring/

Mobile apps. Find some narrow niche, see what information you can find that they're likely to need, and roll that into an app (paid or ad-supported).

Affiliate blogging. Start reviewing some line of products on a blog and get at least Amazon associates as an affiliate. Alternatively, you can pin items to Pinterest if they have some visual appeal.
I began to write about Toyota and Admiral Rickover's "Nuclear Navy" cultures, but then stopped.

I'm not sure if cultures like Toyota or the Nuclear Navy can be considered under this heading, as they mostly worked at a procedural-improvement level, rather than a product-improvement level.
Probably not but I do not know anything in Ruby. I feel like C++ or Java is something everybody can read (a lot of people take them in University). My personal opinion.
While I'll be glad for the audio indicators why not just mute every tab by default? Any user interaction on a page would unmute that tab.

Can I also get a bandwidth/data transfer rate indicator per tab too?
>>Your example is exaggerated and also

No,

This is the normal trend here in India. And unfortunately lives are cheap here. Its not like in US that you can sue people, in other parts of the world things are a lot more different. There is practically no regulation in countries like India.
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> Good developers realize that no work is beneath them.

We're into No True Scotsman territory here.
Great news. An indicator for CPU usage would be great too.
Hey Canonical: I just tested Ubuntu for phones and I'm sold
Tech/web companies and employees are usually in a bubble where everyone uses Macs, so people easily forget that Macs only make up a minuscule portion of the overall PC market.
I am pretty sure you can install anything you want on the Surface Pro, and from any source you like. The Surface RT is locked down, but not the Pro as i understand it.
"5% market share" might be roughly true on a global scale in terms of unit sales, but it doesn't tell the whole story. For example, Mac OS X is used for about 15% of desktop web traffic in the US:

http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-US-monthly-201211-201301-bar

Among certain groups it is higher; for example among college students, software developers (especially web developers), graphic designers, and advertising agencies. So part of this is that the companies producing the web sites you're looking at are simply using images of the computers they happen to be using.

Apple is a well-liked brand with a public image of luxury, polish, usability, etc. Companies probably want associate themselves with those qualities in their own marketing.
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No, my argument was 'hung up' on the use of emotive language instead of well constructed, well reasoned, and well supported arguments.
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I would imagine Valve making more money from Steam now than from their own games. Remember they sell a lot of third-party stuff there and take their cut on those sales.
Cart before horse problem framing.

GOOD programmers know a lot of things. Put them in an environment that saps their initiative and they do 1 of 3 things: Leave, succumb or adapt.
The $99/year is mostly just away to filter out some of the noise from their review queue and tech support I think. I don't think the revenue from it matters at all to apple.(i'm sure if they thought they could get more quality apps by dropping the subscription, they would. You can still dabble with iOS development without the subscription.
>The value proposition is that rather than trading your privacy and your attention for a free service you'd rather pay and retain ownership.

If that's the value proposition, than it's a terrible one. There is nothing inherently different about App.net that would protect your privacy or guarantee you ownership (of your tweets?). They can try and argue that position while they are tiny and inconsequential but it will ring hollow once (if) they get big.

I think there's potential in a service like App.net, especially if they cater to their audience (developers and start up culture in general) and are willing to go for a steady organic growth. Developers are a great group to target because they are fashionistas and they love to tie themselves to services that increase their 'street cred'. Now that GitHub is mainstream, the time is right for 'the next thing'. If App.net tries to be Twitter with a better EULA they will fail.

I've been sitting on the sidelines and looking at App.net, and never pulled the trigger on a subscription, but I may check them out now with an invite. I really hope they do well. There's potential.
An article on a Microsoft-owned website that Microsoft is cool? Pardon my skepticism.
NBC.com hacked, Google Chrome and Facebook block the site
A simulation is just a way of finding out what the current model predicts (maybe... assuming things like roundoff and truncation error didn't mess things up).

What if the current model is wrong?

An experiment in the real/natural world is the only way to find out if a model (or its simulation) is wrong. You have to ask nature.
I agree about mixing correlation and causation. I don't think Valve's model should just be blindly applied to everyone. But it does offer some hope as a kind of alternative style of corporate governance.

I also stand by what I said about Google and Microsoft. I know people give Michael Church a hard time here, but from my own friends I've heard anecdotes that confirm his sentiments regarding the amount of bullshit that goes down there. Sure, it's a good company and people are happy - as long as they play the politics game. I'm sure a company-wide "index of satisfaction" looks good on the HR handbook, but when your manager blacklists you without your knowledge and prevents your transfer or promotion, that's kind of shitty.

Same thing with Microsoft, which is known for its legendary corporate bureaucracy and political in-fighting. And Apple, which is by all accounts a very high-stress environment to work in.
> everything works when the money is flowing.

Don't we have examples of financially successful projects with various problems? A growing number of employees may bring in communication inefficiency, for example. Now this probably won't undermine company success, and from the point of people at the top it may be all good regardless.

For other values of ‘all good’, though, I'd argue structure and organization matter.
Will The Internet Write The Next Best Picture?
Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach. Those who can't teach administrate.
It's the difference between being a distributor vs being a creator.

Steam is the most critical part of the company for their future.
Here is a comment from reddit on this same device:

"Researcher in EMG systems for control here. I actually hadn't come across this device before, though.

It may look like futuristic wizardry, but everyone and their mother has been working on EMG signal classification algorithms for prosthesis and the like.

The video is definitely a farfetched depiction of what it's like to actually use the device, but its cool to see stuff like this being put out there for people to throw their money at. I wouldn't be surprised if my PI ends up buying a couple for the lab, actually."

http://www.reddit.com/r/electronics/comments/198bnv/shut_up_...
Apple Wobbles as Mobile World's Walls Come Down
Never having been through a similar situation, I cannot say what I would do if I were in his shoes. I believe that he didn't believe that what he did warranted decades of jail time. I believe that the prosecutor believed that his crimes did justify jail time.

But your statement reflects two facts: that he did end up committing suicide (not known a priori) and that he chose not to accept guilt when he didn't believe he was guilty (and I fully suspect you've never been in that type of situation at the severity of the Swartz case, so it's hard to definitively state that you would just take the jail time)
As others have said, he would also be branded a felon, which in the US is enough to ruin most people's professional careers - not to mention a host of other very strict restrictions.
I think you can do better than Rush Limbaugh's favorite right wing advocacy group to back up your opinions.

Here's a study that puts the numer of Canadians using the US healthcare system at about 0.61%: http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/21/3/19.full.html
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DOJ Admits Aaron's Prosecution Was Political
Google Glass Is As Much About Working With Our Past As Our Future
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If you think ostensibly "flat" social structures can't be gamed in stunningly unpleasant ways, then I have a bridge to every 1970s anarcho-syndicalist commune in Brooklyn for sale.
I wish I had more money, and spoke/read Russian. :(
http://www.npr.org/2013/02/19/172373123/older-tech-workers-o...
The bug indeed seems to conclude it's impossible until Flash is eradicated, though disabling Flash in anything but the foreground tab + click to play will probably make it moot. (Apparently Safari does exactly this)

There's alternatives such as Shumway.

Also, in my experience lack of Flash or it crashing is seen as a way bigger problem than nasty tabs, as of now.
Apple's Oscar Ad Puts iPad Apps in Spotlight
May I have an invite as well? my email: danprime@gmail.com

Thanks!
Whoa!

In my country people who have never been to school or even know what a school is, ordinary farm labor workers or daily wage workers involved in construction work. Or people who work as a push cart vendors or name any low level work(Which probably you don't even know in the US exists) perfectly cook their own food and feed themselves.

But somehow in the US you need to go to Stanford to learn how to cook!
I think you are mixing up high volume pump training with HIIT.

If I say I swim, but I actually bareknuckle fight with other guys. Would it be correct to call this "swimming"?
Kind of weird to just rename an activity.
Regarding empty stomach: http://examine.com/faq/is-it-better-to-do-aerobic-exercise-f...
Google's Epic 'Year in Film' Video Features Oscar's Best
Followup to Non-Nullable Types vs C#
Global PC shipments were ~350M last year. Samsung alone shipped 215M smartphones
Steam wasn't a popular service when it first came out. Many people hated it. It grew in popularity slowly, partly because Valve and Gabe knew how to engage the community and released stellar games. That and it turns out a digital distribution platform is a good idea.
How does something like that even happen? Do they have laws like in US with their "associated forces" thing? Peter Sunder didn't do any infringement himself (neither did TPB, but let's just say that's a grayer area for now).
Because I am just a couple of hours commute from some of my workmates now I do head into the office and do the social bit sometimes.

But when I worked for moto I spent years in teams I never, ever met.

I wouldn't want you to be under the impression that the social bit is necessary for a good effective team nor good effective work.
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This would make for a great device to pair with Google Glass. Minority report here we come! :D
Samsung Homesync Combines Google TV, Media Server Running Android Jelly Bean
I wonder how his crime would have been reported/perceived in the US if he were a citizen prosecuted by his government in China or Russia... I image it would've involve a little swap of s/ro/er/
Or JRuby + TorqueBox if you're looking for a stable application server.
He wasn't guilty. Why would a prosecutor give someone an option between 30 years and 3 months - unless they know they have nothing to hold him on, but think they may get lucky and just accept the 3 months period and "admit he was guilty"?

Either he's a dangerous criminal who deserves 30 years in jail, or it's nothing, and the only reason they ask him to accept 3 months is because they would look foolish asking him to accept anything less than that (like say weeks or days).
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Doesn't Rails lock you into certain patterns more than just about any other back end framework?
There is needless damaging going on. No screening and a retarded or no progression at all. With bad technique.
If it would be just useless training, that would be ok. Most Fads are like this.
But this actively harms people : see high rep box jumps and Achilles tendon ruptures, kipping pull-ups and SLAP lesions and high rep Olympic lifts and broken bodies.
Short term results by pushing hard and resistance training for the first time in their lives. Then long term failure.
Next mission - man on mars!
Ask HN: What's Your Personal Website Stack?
Hello Hackers,

After reading hacker news for awhile, I've seen plenty of nice blogs, often on peoples' personal websites.

I would like to make a personal website for my resume, portfolio, and also to write blog posts.

In googling what tools / platforms to use, you get loads of advertisements and unhelpful articles.

So how have you set up your personal website? How do you host it? Do you use wordpress or other types of content generators? (I'd like to keep a separation of my tech blog posts and my rants, do any tools out there give you a nice blog platform with organization, maybe tags or something?)
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So can AK-47s.
Similarly the BeOS platform morphed into Palm OS 6 (Cobalt), which only ever appeared in sample quantities from a phone OEM. (This was well after Palm spun off their OS business, but before PalmSource was acquired by ACCESS)
Aaron wasn't most people though, and it's not as if his profession was one that would be ruined by a criminal record.
How does this compare to the optical image stabilization on Nokia Lumia 920?
People just call clean, whatever they like/think is beneficial. Everything they deem harmful is unclean.

So it's useless.
Regarding Crossfit: There are some very valid reasons I think very badly about CF. It has amazing marketing and can offer a great community (though cult-like). But harms a lot of people long term > see comment above.