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In both LA and SF it's pretty much already like that in my experience; LA especially it's traveled by word of mouth - probably because driver's are so desperate to escape the traffic hell.

However, I tend to favor Google Maps unless I'm anticipating significant traffic because Waze tends to pick "over-optimized routes" (i.e. 5 extra turns to save 30 seconds). Which is great when you're trying to escape traffic, annoying when you're just trying to get somewhere normally.
You benefit immensely from society. To expect you to pay some portion of your income to help that society function is not unreasonable, and extensive healthcare is consistently one of the things people in most developed societies see as one of the top priorities for society to spend that money on.

I'd fully support your right to opt out of taxes if you also opt out of each and every benefit society otherwise provides you.
>Building apps any way makes them cachable. I don't get it. The app could be 50mb and the browser would still cache it.

That's just plain false. Not only do the standards play a role in what is and is not cacheable by default, but browsers and (to some extent) users also play a role in deciding what is and is not cached.

>Why? And why would you get bonus points for making it 700kb or less? This isn't 1983. Worrying about bandwidth, memory, and processing power (in user space) is no longer relevant. Instead, worry about scalability, cross-platform compatibility, code practices, etc, etc.

Bandwidth matters. The Web is not South Korea. Even in the US, broadband penetration in only 68 percent: barely over two-thirds.

Processor power matters. The Web is not gaming rigs. With the death of Moore's Law and the rise of mobile, the average Web-enabled device's processing power is actually falling, not rising.

Memory matters. See above; the same applies.

No, this isn't 1983. It's also not 2003. Keep up.
One of the reasons I went for a Synology is that you can run the CrashPlan client on the Synology itself. It's unsupported, but easy to do and has worked well for me.

http://pcloadletter.co.uk/2012/01/30/crashplan-syno-package/
If you worry about parking on the street then you can't afford the car.
I can imagine you can just offer to donate to a charity of their choice instead?
Waze is incredibly powerful if you're in a city with many users / high-density of cars. If Instagram can be worth $1B, I can certainly see Waze being worth at least as much. They have both users and awesome technology. Also, it's really hard to get mapping right (as Apple found out), so if Facebook wants to enter this space, it would be a powerful jumpstart. (also, the social aspects of Waze might tie in nicely with FB).
What OS are you on, if floppies are convoluted?
Ask HN: Selling virtual goods for bitcoins, what do I need?
I have a simple idea that I want to create a website for buyers and sellers of virtual goods (in-game currency) for bitcoins.

What do I need to learn to get something like this up and running? I'm fairly good at Ruby and I know basic Javascript.
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I sincerely hope this guy kicks the door in at the heart of this financial industry in-crowd fortress.
One third of the US audience is not a "weird contingency"; it's basic awareness. Developing only for the highest of the high end is not good engineering. Get your head out of the cloud.
As a word of warning from someone who's tried it, do NOT try to run iPhoto/Aperture off of a NAS. These apps assume local disk speeds in the way they operate and NASs do not fit that assumption.

In fact, since I bought my NAS, I've yet to find a good use for it. Disk access is just too slow through the embedded CPU.
The first claim -- that older programmers are more knowledgeable -- is obvious and is not unique to the software industry. This is true of pretty much any profession: the longer you do it, the better you get at it and the more you learn about it.

The fact that there are few older programmers is also not very surprising. This is still a pretty young industry and historically, the demand for programmers has been pretty low. Also, until very recently (the last 10-15 years), advancing in one's career meant moving away from technical into managerial roles.
Creative might not be the right word, but it's the simple case of "doing" vs "consuming".

If I remember rightly, Jobs was adamant that people wouldn't want to organise their playlists on an iPod, so that feature was never added.

This isn't an isolated case though, it was a his vision of how he intended these devices to be used by consumers.

This vision means every device has a particular purpose, which ultimately means you'll need to buy a Mac too.
Wow, thanks for the breakdown!

Do you represent any of the parties named in this? I think the answer is obvious, but thought I should ask anyway.
> the IMDb rating (4.8)

Well actually it reads

> Ratings: 4,8/10 from 53 users

so I do not think the population is big enough to be relevant.
The question is: Does fast trading provide a net positive to society?

Real investment decisions - as in, decisions of which factories to build, which products to develop, who to hire, and so on - are made on a time-scale of weeks or months. Having the stock market react on a sub-second time scale certainly has no effect at all on those decisions.

To gain some perspective, consider if trading operated on an hourly-auction type system. The stock price would react slower and in a different manner that it does today, and that could change the income distribution among traders. But honestly, why should anyone care?

When it comes down to it, there is no upside to trades going that fast to anyone outside of the myopic circle of professional traders. Even those professional traders only have an upside as long as they participate in a vicious arms race. However, there are downsides.

One downside that many people argue is that the resulting distribution of income is not just, because HST firms suck a revenue stream out of the economy without building anything real.

The more important downside (in my opinion) is that HST sucks intelligent people away from sectors of the economy where they would positively contribute by developing and improving directly useful technology.
Hardly impressive - fairly pathetic really. Observe:

http://androidandme.com/2013/04/smartphones-2/archos-reveals...

http://www.androidforcheap.com/cell-phone-android-phone-c-58...

http://www.pandawill.com/mobile-phone-c1/android-os-phone-c5...

etc. Just Google around for tons more.

Generally better in just about every way, and running a real OS that can run real apps.
So Nokia finally built the feature-phone of the smartphone-era:
cheap, long battery life, good durability (probably) and incredibly ugly.
When you are young, you can make risky bets with your retirement investments; not so much when you are older when you should be preferring safer bets instead.

I would think that the same is true with career management, especially after you 30 something and have a family to worry about.

But to be honest, the amount of age discrimination in our industry has me really scared about getting older.
there are good reasons to want a unique key per site (avoiding linking across sites), and most of the problems with x509 (aside from it just being lame) are due to UI/UX in browsers, especially legacy desktop browsers, and lack of good support elsewhere. You could even get away without CAs (or where site = CA) for the client cert problem, too.

It's really not an open crypto research problem; it's design and software engineering and entrepreneurship/marketing.
Are they really benchmarking their multi-million $ computer against a 600$ laptop?
It is not surprising that the cost of care can vary wildly when the customer cannot possibly know the cost of care before purchasing it.

Even the healthcare professionals can't estimate the price of care before providing it, because it depends on the outcome of things like surgery and reaction to treatments which cannot be predicted. So there's no way to tell the patient beforehand that their care will cost x amount. In addition to this the customer often doesn't know what they want and has no basis for making an informed choice before seeing a doctor. This is fundamentally different than (for example) selling products in a supermarket where costs are known up front, shops can vary prices and quality, and people can shop around. So the benefits of patient choice of hospital and treatment etc are questionable.

Other countries spend far less using a single-payer system with comparable or better outcomes than the US according to the statistics on life expectancy and expenditure per capita on healthcare, so IMHO the US should have more and better regulation of the healthcare market, not less. Cutting out the insurance companies completely would be a good start, as at present they run a racket extracting billions from the US tax payer for questionable results.
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You could say that, but Nokia had very similar designs (albeit with a couple more buttons at the bottom and a hidden keyboard) before iPhone. When iPhone4 came out I remember thinking how familiar some of the details looked.
That's great advice, succinctly put - wow.

So, I can't wait for the rest of the "terrifying experiences I learnt from". More !
I think there was a quad core 1080p Chinese phone for $160, too. Considering these are running Symbian, that's a lot less value for buck compared to an Android one, even if the price is "low".

EDIT: This one iOcean X7 - quad core 1.2 Cortex A7, 1080p screen, PowerVR 5XT (1080p video support), 2 GB of RAM, 13 MP camera. Now that's impressive. And it doesn't look too bad either:

http://android-sale.com/iocean-x7-phone.html
http://xkcd.com/399/ ;)
Indeed, the first one is good, but second one - Starting at: $219.00 + it's a no name. the same about the rest of them. archos' interesting though. but no, asha 501 is not pathetic at all
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It depends whether you are mid-contract or not, I'd have thought.

If it's the end of the contract, that's easy - don't accept their calls, don't go on any interviews they arrange etc.

If it's mid-contract, then it's trickier. You could either:

1) Leave and find a new role
2) Tell your agent that you know what their % is, and you want a raise or you will leave
3) Explain to the company that they are being over-charged, and see if their legal department will fight the agency to buy you out so you can contract directly or via a better agency.

Not sure that any of these guarantee success...
of course, there are a lot of them, but what about the quality of them ... ?
It's certainly honorable to want to give rights to animals and it wouldn't be a "wtf" moment if they declared they wanted animal rights (or chimpanzee rights in that case) based on current human right.

But granting human right to chimpanzees is not saying animals have the same rights than humans. It's saying chimpanzees are humans. We can debate on how apes are different (if at all) with humans, but we should not forget that what NZ government was basically saying is that they're not different.
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Seems like a better "Facebook phone" than the one on Android.
But usually crime must be crime in both countries for extradition. The problem is that it is not required for extradition between member states of EU in case of rape, but definition of rape is still very different between countries.
"Seven Bridges of Koningsberg" would nicely complete the trilogy.
I think everyone forgot about the 3 strikes law here.

None of the big ISP's enforce it AT ALL.

I've heard a couple of small ISP's kick a couple of people off back when it was first introduced but since then there's been nothing.

Considering most of my friends here all torrent everything off The Pirate Bay (They don't use private trackers :p), I don't think I've heard of a single person I know get in trouble.

Telecom NZ would see that enforcing that law as a cost to them (they are pretty anal about spending money on things other than marketing), so they would probably not do anything until the government takes them to court.
"Especially after you 30 something" Ouch! That's not old! :) (am i old - oh noes!)
> Where do the middle age programmers go?

Why nobody acknowledges that there weren't all that many computer programmers thirty years ago relative to today?
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Think of the difference between a namebrand and a white label.

If you get a bland cheap Chinese android phone, everyone will know it and you'll lose face. An Asha is a bit more classier, well designed, higher quality, still very affordable.
Sorry, my bad on the 2nd link, I pasted the wrong one. It was meant to be the 'cheap phones' link from that website. Here it is:

http://www.androidforcheap.com/cell-phone-android-phone-c-58...

Those devices are better specs, cheaper (some are under $50), and run a real OS. The third link is the same, with better specs and well under $99, so I'm not sure where you're coming from here. Asha 501 seems very pathetic to me at least.
would you buy it? :P
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These are not running Symbian. From the article:

> Nokia Asha 501 represents the first fruit after Nokia bought Smarterphone, back in November 2012. And maybe thanks to the Smarterphone software, Nokia has managed to pack so much inside a tiny, 3inch touchscreen device.

As for the iOcean, I can't find a review about it anywhere on the web in English. Kind of risky.
A nice, cheap, small phone with dual-sim? Isn't this just like every other Asha phone they make?
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That's a really cool project.

On one hand, I feel like it's wasteful to do stuff like this digitally, with FFTs, rather than with analog filters. That's a whole lot of transistors to do something that could be done with vastly fewer with an analog approach. On the other hand, the digital approach is more flexible, almost certainly lower power, and not much more expensive. The rise of tiny chips that are great at DSP, partially driven by mobile tech, is really exciting. It'll be great to see what it's going to lead to in future.
Normally, you (the contractor) is quoted a rate of £xxx/day, and the agency's % is on top of that and normally unknown to you.

You typically sign a contract with the recruitment agency, who has a back-to-back contract with the end employer. The contract basically just says you will be working at employer X for Z months.

There will be other legalise about intellectual property, confidentiality etc but that is the gist of it.

The flow of a job opening is normally that a hiring company will send the vacancy details to a shortlist of preferred recruitment agencies. These agencies will then submit CVs of candidates on their books back to the hiring company. Then the interview process etc starts.

To answer your specific question: agents can represent multiple candidates (a database of thousands) and a wise contractor would not rely on just one agency (my CV for example is probably with ~10 or so).

This is specific to the UK market - other markets may vary.
> So why not just do all the trading in the place where the authoritative copy is stored? That would certainly seem to be more efficient from the perspective of minimizing the overall social cost.

And what if trading on that exchange will stop for a couple of days for technical reasons? What kind of problems can that create to stock of large company, that can be traded only on that exchange? Or what, if the whole exchange will go out of business? Or decide to charge arbitrary large trading fees?

Competition and diversity is generally a good thing. Tend to increase efficiency and minimize overall costs. That's valid for exchanges as well.
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Not really. If I'm in a probation period then I'm employed by that company. If it doesn't work out then I'm back on the job market.

What this is talking about is compensating you for doing a trial as part of the pre-employment process, in addition to the standard interviews. If I was looking to change jobs I'd still be employed if it didn't go so well.
You are correct. Australian copyright law used to be 50 years after the death of the author until the Australia-US free trade agreement a few years back. Now, thanks to our good friends at Disney it's 70 years like the US. However, stuff that had already passed into the public domain (Eg George Orwell) at the time of the agreement stayed public.
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I accidentally deleted the original submission.
I'm not so sure about that. For example, this phone:

http://www.androidforcheap.com/a7100-tv-wifi-smart-phone-and...

Without a careful inspection, most people will have a very difficult time telling it apart from newer Samsung phones, and it runs far, far better than the terrible Symbian OS.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx2ueazLvXI
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It might not be astoundingly pretty, but ``incredibly ugly'' seems a bit of a stretch.
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The energy comes from the Sun's heat through the massive water vapor movement in the atmosphere creating the highly charged clouds. The cosmic rays just trigger the release of this potentials. So, at the end of the day, just doing solar power is more efficient.
I also think this is a good idea. If I was asked to spend an afternoon solving problems that aren't theoretical 'how do you sort an array of a billion integers' type then I wouldn't want to do it for free.

If it gains traction it might reduce the crazy interview only questions from circulation.
I like the overall message of the post, but slightly disagree with the statement that measuring business people is more difficult. It's just different (in terms of criteria and methods) and that's where the difficulties come from. Especially if you aren't the business person.
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Also, recruitment agents are "employed" by the candidate and they will often say during negotiations "that the more you get paid, the more they make".

However, this is subject to the same issue that Freakonomics highlights vis Real Estate agents and house sales.
All of those phones are pieces of junk.

If you are comparing specs, the Asha loses. If you are comparing size, design, build quality, reliability, etc...then there is no competition here.
Price is about more than just cash.
Indeed, it is running on a modified version of the S40 platform.
Great work on the look and feel of the portal. Looking forward to read your story on the blog.

Not sure why adsense at my place of work blocks your blog for the reason: Not allowed to browse Anonymizer category.
I'm assuming the title of this submission is sarcasm?
Nice read Bemmu. Are you going to develop something for the Rift?
Bonus: you get a second heart attack when you see the bill.
+1 to that. And, you won't be paying 100$. This is that type of phone you'll get for free on your carrier with a basic plan
I always log out of my Gmail account when I am done reading my e-mail, as well. Until recently, when I've come across several people who stay logged in all the time, I thought that was the 'normal' use pattern. Then again, I'm old and "back in the day" you always logged out of an application/system when you were done.
HFT machines don't get to know about regular orders until it is too late to preempt them. If an order takes liquidity, the first sign of it that an HFT machine will see is the trade executing. If an order adds liquidity, the HFT machine will see the order appear on the book. Assuming that the venue uses time priority, which nearly all of them do, once the HFT machine is aware of the order it cannot get "ahead" of the order because the order has already received a timestamp that is lower than the present timestamp.

There may be some very minute portion of the industry that actually dedicates a lot of time to trying to predict specific actions of other market participants, but this seems like an awful idea to me. It would be much easier to try to predict the future price so you can avoid accumulating a large position in the wrong direction (as a market maker) or grab a big position in the right direction (as a speculator). It is also pretty easy to perform arbitrage, although this corner of the industry is harder to break into, since it requires more in the way of pricey hardware and data services and less in the way of strategy and predictive power.
A fragment from "Modern C++ Design" by Andrei Alexandrescu:

Designing software systems is hard because it constantly asks you to choose. And in program design, just as in life, choice is hard.

Good, seasoned designers know what choices will lead to a good design. For a beginner, each design choice opens a door to the unknown. The experienced designer is like a good chess player: She can see more moves ahead. This takes time to learn. Maybe this is the reason why programming genius may show at an early age, whereas software design genius tends to take more time to ripen.
Ask HN: Would You Use This?
Over the last decade, I have had a string of failed startups. The one successful business I co-founded was sold for $64 million, but my co-founder screwed me out of my $12.8 million stake. All of this has left me financially and emotionally devastated. I have decided that I will never again bother starting something unless I can verify that there would be actual customers for it.

I am thinking of creating a service where you can sell introductions to your contacts. If I need a contact at company X, I search for people that have contacts there. I let the people that have the contacts know what it is that I want to pitch to their friend, and if they think their friend would be interested, they introduce us for a fee. LinkedIn charges exorbitant rates for sending Inmail. The idea here is similar, except you get a warm contact and most of the money goes to the people actually providing the valuable contacts instead of lining the pockets of LinkedIn.

Would any of you use this as a buyer or seller?
Yes, but look at more features, read the article and you'll see
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There is also the endorsements, which LinkedIn can use to measure how well you know the person.
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Isn't discrimination against the elderly a known problem in almost any profession that does not directly involve leadership roles?
Ryan, there's some truth in your assertions BUT this is not ONLY Symbian. It's MeeGo + Symbian on the core + Smarterphone that Nokia has acquired = new Asha platform software.
The exchange could trade in rounds, e.g. permanent auction mode, where orders get matched only ever minute.
To be perfectly honest, I have seen quite a few Chinese no name Android phones and I have never been impressed by any of them. On paper, everything looks great, but the reality differs a lot: stolen design, bad build quality, poor screen resolution/contrast/responsiveness, slow, under-performing battery, etc.

The 401 is not pathetic at all. It includes everything people from emerging country needs: a nice design with robust material, a solid battery life, and an OS good enough for Internet, and social network usage.
Ah, I've seen that phone for real (my office is in Zhongguancun). Its a piece of crap; all the Shanzhai phones are actually. In Chinese they have a saying: 便宜没好货，好货不便宜, you get what you pay for.

What if I wanted to buy something for 7-800 kuai that wasn't a knockoff or a cheap piece of crap? The Asha promises "less" in terms of specs so it can offer more in other areas. Reasonable trade off.