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What you already know, but need to be reminded, is that there is not one, uniform "Microsoft", who has the power to allow or disallow something. Even in the highest levels of the corporate hierarchy, it takes a great deal of effort to influence the direction of the ship (never mind intentional steering). In the case of OEM shovelware, there were quite a few people who worked very hard to get rid of it. However, Dell alone has substantial influence over this decision through their sheer volume of sales of Windows. When you consider existing contracts, OEM motivations, and internal politics, it's no longer that incredible that this preloaded nonsense persists. What's incredible is that the concerted effort to regain control of the ship doesn't seem to be having much effect.
It's unfortunate you removed all the primary subreddits (or degree > 75), it makes a lot of the networks confusing (the gaming network, for example) because they seem to only show niche topics.
See http://golang.org/doc/articles/wiki/ for a starting point.
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell[1]

It made me realize that the people who exceed in some field aren't only smart: they also rely a lot on their experiences. For example, most hockey players are born in the first part of the year. Why? The deadline for young hockey leagues is January 1st.

Or take Bill Gates. His mom started a programming club for his school, back before computers were easily accessible, meaning he had programmed a ton by college.

Or take the Beatles. In their early years, before they were famous, they played daily 8 hour shows.

I've found other people like this: Bode Miller (a great skier) had parents that owned a ski hill, and lived at the area. He grew up on skis.

Malcolm Gladwell mentions a "10,000 Hour Rule." Once you do something for 10,000 hours, you're an expert at it. You see this even in college classes: students who don't try don't do well. Students who do try get good grades.

So when people say, "Oh, you're so smart!", I replace it with, "You've had the experiences you need." Yes, you do need to be smart, but that's not where the base comes from.

[1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outliers_(book)
Brilliant. I can donate $100 to get it updated and as a PDF.
I don't think I'd classify the EFF as a hacking group.
I left 4 years ago and haven't looked back.
Oh, so it's not so much that buying someone a drink is a bad idea, but that it's the only way you can ask them out on this site?
He's doesn't elicit nearly as much sympathy as someone like Aaron Schwartz, but it is pretty fucked up that he's gotten a harsher sentence than people who do things like, I don't know, gang-rape a 16 year-old girl.
I don't disagree that the 2nd Amendment is now incorporated, and I'm actually not a proponent of gun control. My point is that talking about how it's a "Constitutional issue" is, while technically true now, also a little misleading, in the sense that the Founders would not have considered state gun control laws to be a Federal Constitutional issue.

The whole process of incorporation has been a modern attempt at redrawing the boundaries of federalism to address things the Founders got wrong. The most decisive revision was with regards to slavery/civil rights, where the Constitution was revised at the point of sword with the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments. A lot of other things have come along for the ride (from free speech to abortion), but all of that is rooted in a modern understanding of what states can be trusted to do.

Consider a hypothetical where 90% of the population was in favor of state-level gun bans. If you held up the 2nd Amendment in opposition to that consensus, you'd be in the position of arguing that states should be constrained in a way that neither the framers nor contemporary consensus contemplates them being constrained.
What you've described there boils down to two core concepts:

1) Curves of supply and demand. If your demand outstrips your supply, increase your prices until you lose ~50% of the pitches you go for, on the basis of price alone.

2) Sell. Sell sell sell sell sell. Don't worry about your capacity today. Worry about your capacity tomorrow. Give N month lead times for commencement (people will live with this if they want you badly enough), take a deposit, and use it to hire.

It's a bit of a razor's edge to run, as if you're not careful you'll find yourself under-resourced, delivering late, and fucking your reputation in the behind with a broomhandle. If you are careful, and you model out your resource needs based on past performance, you can anticipate your resource needs to fulfil your demand, and you'll grow like a whale on steroids.

I like obtuse allegories.
It's called indirect discrimination. Just because the social concention of "whoever first suggests the date should pay for it" might seem gender-neutral, in practise that leads to men paying for the vast majority of dates since men are the ones who are making most of the propositions.

As it's extremely difficult to fix the gender balance of date propositions but a lot easier to fix the paying model of dates, I suggest that everyone should adopt the social convention of "everyone should pay for their own drinks/meals at dates".

In fact, here in Finland the norm pretty much is that the bill is split, even though men still make most of the date propositions. The latter gender inbalance is a lot harder problem to fix.
I think the problem with UDP is all the people who think that NAT is a perfectly valid firewall/use case and not a hack.
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Where do you live? You can't assume the 300,000,000 people in the USA all have the same drinking and/or dating customs.
shabda - this is great. i'm going to try this out and contribute some more graph types over the next few weeks.
> we have political opposition groups targeted for audits

What happened was the IRS decided to ask extra questions for groups attempting to register as charities but suspected to be engaged in political activities. If, as you say, they were "political opposition groups" then the IRS was completely correct in reviewing their applications; they didn't qualify to be charities.

Why do "political opposition groups" deserve special tax status? Why shouldn't the IRS enforce the law?
Nothing that I know of, unfortunately. The comments on In The Pipeline blog are decent if you are looking for pharma-biotech.
I'm very aware of the common narrative. In Canadian politics, the left acts very much like the right does in the US -- hysterical stretches of the truth that would make Nixon blush, so long as it achieves the goal. There is zero ability to have a rational discussion about the Conservative party with these people because everything has to fit in laughably binary buckets, every actor turned into a caricature. It is embarrassing.
the United States federal government often does shitty things in the name of national security. the U.S. foreign policy has been pretty nasty over the years as well.

HOW-FUCKING-EVER...you really ought to be careful to make a distinction between those specific policies and practices and the rest of the United States as a whole. We have 300+ million people and we don't all agree with this stuff in lockstep with the factions within the federal government that do it. The fact that you're reading an article in The New York Times (the "paper of record" in the U.S.) that is calling out bad behavior of the government ought to give you a clue that you're painting with too broad of a brush.
"Maybe my memory's failing me, but I can't think of a similarly-sized press surveillance operation by the Bush Administration."

Read up on Mark Klein's whistleblower case. It wasn't just press surveillance - it was the origin of surveillance of everybody.

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/04/70619
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It wasn't a competition for "realistic photos" it was a competition for real photos. Photojournalistic work. The difference is important. A photo can look as "unrealistic" as can be, as long as it's real, it's OK.

So a picture doesn't have to "exhibit realism" to win such a competition. It just has to be real. If it looks uncanny, all the better.

The line is draw at actual image manipulation. Compositing people in, changing a face, removing elements etc.

As for color adjustments and light fixes, those are sometimes frowned upon, other time totally accepted in journalistic work. Anytime a photo editor gets a jpeg from the camera RAW, some work of that kind has already been done. Including the camera letting you pick several options, from sharpening to color balance (and more traditional stuff like bokeh, depth of field and shutter speed, each having it's own artistic effect. Does a 1 sec photograph of a running river look "realistic"?)

I've seen pictures made on an iPhone with stuff like Instagram in Afganistan/Iraq by photojournalists that won many awards, despite looking totally unrealistic with regards to neutral tone/color coming out of a camera. E.g:

http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/iphone-photos-afgh...
> since it's the ultimate check on an out of control government.

Realistically, a bunch of pea-shooters stand no chance against the US military. This holds true whether it's Americans or hired sub-Saharan mercenaries driving the tanks.
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That same objection to government funding of science can be applied to everything the government does.
the IRS should enforce the law. they should enforce it equally. It appears as if they were a bit too selective. Their reasons for auditing were well justified, but they aimed those audits at a very specific group of organizations.
What is your Nuuton project about ?
"but most of all don't become too cozy with our leadership."

News has become a celebrity sport, and it's too late for "too cozy".

https://www.google.com/search?q=washington+correspondents+di...
If you're too busy to get a date, you're too busy to go on one. Relationships are hard. Even purely sexual ones take time and effort.
There is no such thing as "valid or invalid opinions". There are only opinions you agree with or disagree with, or (mistaken or accurate) statements of fact that the speaker is inaccurately calling an opinion ("The moon is made of cheese" is not an opinion, even if the speaker states that it is. Additionally it can be said to be false).

CmdrTaco's opinion ("Lame") is an opinion, not a statement of fact masquerading as an opinion, so it is neither valid nor invalid. Most reasonable people would strongly disagree with this opinion.
I started with this. http://tour.golang.org/

Then I went through those. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5365401
I recommend using acct to monitor the server in addition to limiting the vendor's user. If something happened, you would have a very clear picture of all users' actions in addition to some statistics about system health.
Echoing gyardley and knowtheory, this is not even a particularly partisan issue. Most of these groups represent existential threats to the national Republican party and its "establishment" members, such as ex-Senator Lugar, who is now spending more time with his family after getting primaried in 2012.
> The ARM branch mean is possible to do iOS dev on it?

No. You can compile for ARM + a platform (i.e. Linux, BSD) if you want to run Go code on an ARM device. Think RaspberryPi or Beaglebone running an ARM port of Ubuntu/Arch.

Writing Go code targeting iOS (or Android) is a whole 'nother ballgame.
If you're making a list of the most tyrannical Presidents ever, you'd have to put FDR near the top of that. And his reputation has survived.

Obama is a progressive. So are history professors. His legacy will be fine.
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Why, are you arguing against it? This is an authentic photograph, there are no two ways about it.

The only alterations are light (dodging burning) and color.

As far as the subject matter, place of scene, people etc, it's all genuine.
...But not Karl Rove

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plame_affair#Karl_Rove
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A popular actuarial textbook like "Actuarial Mathematics" is extremely specialized (especially to life insurance) and would only relate to the 3rd exam (MLC) and beyond. However, the first two exams are much more generic to statistics and finance respectively.
Non-profits, not charities; many of the 27 types of 501(c) organizations are not charities. Here we're talking about 501(c)(4) groups, which are explicitly allowed to engage in politics, with limits. See this for more: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5698931
Not necessarily, you can get the HDR with most image editors from a single image nowadays.

E.g:

http://digital-photography-school.com/correcting-and-creatin...

http://www.topazlabs.com/adjust/
> using logs that can be JOINed to actual data tables as necessary is pretty easy

Can you give me a concrete example of how you would use this?
Why don't you try contributing something "of much higher quality", then?
As a U of MN alum, I am horribly disappointed that this is about Go.
This is really well done! I would recommend putting the defaults back in and playing around with and finding a good value for "remove connections that have less than" using a number based on a percentage of the posts in sub instead of an arbitrary 8 connections.

For example, remove connections from /r/programming to subs that are cross referenced from /r/programming less than 5% of the time.

Again, very nice!
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I'd much rather assume derpiness than malice.

If we assume malice, well, that puts all kinds of interesting moral burdens on us, right? Better to assume agents mean well than that they are actively hostile--it is much easier to reason about.
Why protect the guilty "Spacer"?
> If B1 and B2 are really incompatible, then yes, there's a problem

It's not just incompatibility at the package level. Allowing them to simply coexist in the `GOPATH` ecosystem is problematic. It isn't technically difficult to offer a package tool that can handle different but compatible versions of a library, but it certainly increases the complexity of the system. The simple directory structure of `GOPATH` and its correspondence with import URLs would be lost.

> In order to get truly reproducible builds

Yes, if that's what you need then you'll have to pay that price. But not everyone needs that. For software I release, I only pin dependencies when they have a track record of breaking or don't update frequently enough for my purposes. In practice, it's pretty rare.

> If B1 and B2 are really incompatible, then yes, there's a problem; but not being able to solve the problem completely in all cases doesn't mean we need to throw our hands in the air and not even try to handle the simple cases.

That's ironic because that's exactly how I see the `go` tool. Package management is extremely difficult to get right, so instead of throwing their hands in the air, the Go devs put out a tool that is simple to use and has proven to work very well in practice.

The fact that the `go` tool is so simple is one of the reasons why I love it so much. If and when I need to be 100% confident in my builds, I'll happily pay the price to make it so.
They could have chosen almost anyone -- a university president, e.g., or even, god forbid, someone -- anyone -- with a PhD.

Or maybe a petroleum engineer with an excellent CV and a long list of successes, most recently on environmental efforts (CO2 recapture).

This is the same garbage that has people ranting about the credentials of federal ministers (hey wait...you did that as well) when the position has never, ever, in the history of Canada, demanded specific skills for the role, and instead is a leadership and reporting position.
Very true. I noticed this with an iPhone app I developed. It was a sports app and I manually updated things like results and tables throughout the year. The app sold well at 99¢. As it was a sports app and required regular updating (not to mention the feature updates I regularly put out) I decided to create a new app and charge for it again the following season. It had some new features but the basic functions were all still there. The number of horrible emails I received was crazy. A lot of people got angry, ignored my explanation, and told me they would use a competitors app (fine by me). But I was genuinely surprised by a few emails personally attacking me and telling me to 'fucking die'. I did this for a few years and the solution seemed to be doubling the price. Revenues didn't drop away but the pathological customers certainly did.
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Most of the comments here are decrying the death of freedom, but isn't a subpoena the lawful and ideal way for the government to go about this sort of thing?

Is a leak of classified information not supposed to be investigated?
It's not strange at all. If the AP's sources just disappeared, the word would be out to any future sources/marks that the AP gives up sources...but if the big bad government did this rare, but effective overreach...the spooks can still terminate the leak and the AP has plausible denial.

The CIA wants to maintain the AP's ability to lure in more leaks in the future.
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HackerNews is pretty flat and still usable to me.
The compilation step completely defeats the point of rapid prototyping in Node.js. I'm really used to just modifying my .coffee files to get the resulting .js files compiled instantly and transparently to me.

Closure does a great job in static analysis. It's not obvious, but Clojure's library is HUGE and has to be pruned of unused resources.

On the other hand, it's not very convenient for the developer because Closure's job takes a LONG time. I guess this is where this project comes in.
I'll probably get buried but, here's what I'm going to suggest. Don't deviate from the price too much. I'll tell you why. You're competing with pancakeapp, buggenie, bugify, redmine, bugkick, mantis, Zoho (on some level) and many more, including some of the cheaper hosted basecamp clones. And I'm already considering buying yours. Your pricing is great. And I appreciate what you're doing.

I wouldn't go more than $69 or $79 if you raise your prices at all. If you have future build plans you can always charge for the next version upgrade or specific enhancements. If you want this to be the product you work on and support, try to charge what you can to sustain yourself and grow, but you're going to turn off a bunch of freelancers at some $295 price point that people are suggesting on HN. Somebody said, "for businesses of any size the difference between $250 and $45 is negligible." Um no, These same people (thousands of comments worth) are royally pissed about the Adobe Cloud pricing and are looking for alternatives.

I wouldn't even consider it at $295 price and many others wouldn't either. Why? Because I can get a proven system for many months or permanently at that rate. And for the FOSS ones, I might even become a contributor or leverage the community for enhancements or plugins in those cases.

HN is full of people trying to charge more and a ton of them are going to fail or become irrelevant. Basically your product is for freelancers, not enterprise. That's a fact, luck of the draw, however you want to look at it. Enterprise might trickle in after enough freelancers are rocking your system. Enterprise use Mantis, and that's free. Why should they be turned off by a low price. You might even find small businesses you didn't think of using you product that will be more attracted to your price. There are other things you can do, like try to get bundled with something else, or offer installation service at a rate.

Sell it on your own if you can using Stripe or some other managed provider that isn't taking so much of a cut. Or don't sell it exclusively on codecanyon. you should be making the majority of the money, a lot more than half.
Why does it ask to store something on my computer?
It's always "complex" when it's our (the US) government involved.

When it's the actions of others, especially official enemies, it's usually regarded in pretty straight forward right/wrong terms. For example, for those old to remember, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the 80's was recognized for what it was, pure aggression.

Our military actions abroad? Well, it's complex, nobody's perfect, we all make mistakes, we had the best of intentions, etc, etc.
Your project is probably ripe for a kickstarter. Go for that too!
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Hello,

iam building an iOS app for faster responses to jobseekers & employers alike .it does the following:

- Searching of jobs from indeed,etc( Employers/Recruiters can also create their jobs on this app)

- let users follow jobs ,which means that they are interested in these jobs ( as jobseekers) or can help with similiar jobs (as recruiters).

- Enable users to chat with each other insider the app

- enable setup of a quick meeting if users are close by.

What iam struggling with is the incentive scheme for recruiters to follow jobs ( besides the fact that they can get a new source of leads).
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Do things. Do things that bring you into contact with other people: namely, working with colleagues, rather than customers. (So a soup kitchen counts, but being a solo consultant doesn't.) When they invite you out for doing stuff, join in. You can back out the second time if you don't enjoy it. Get to know as many of them as you can. Share your interests; listen to theirs.

You'll run into someone interested in you soon enough.
Chile is an interesting example because it is one of very few areas where US action saved a large number of people from death. In case it matters, I'm against interventionism and I'm Canadian, but I've visited both Cuba and Chile and even the nicest parts of Cuba are worse than the sketchy port city of Chile.

If I were Chilean I wouldn't be outraged. And many of the Chileans that I talked to were not. I think there are better examples of misused American power. Like encouraging war between Iran and Iraq, arming Mexican drug cartels, invading Canada under the auspices of Manifest Destiny, Japanese internment camps, slaughter of First Nations. Intervention in Chile was wrong, but it can also be used by neocons as a banner for effective Real Politik thinking and outcomes.
For how long do you keep the information?
If this passed the companies they tax would just pass it on to the consumer. e.g. Apple products are regularly claimed to be much more expensive in the UK but it's mainly due to VAT.
Do folks have experiences to share on validating the idea without giving it away? Isn't there a risk that the if you tell people one of them will take your idea and run with it?
> There's almost certainly near no magical evil council sitting atop it all scheming about how to wring profits from other countries at any cost

You're evidently not familiar with the concept of lobbying.
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I'm not so sure. I think he's done some good work. But he's also on the precipice of having a whole generation of young idealists getting the shaft when it comes to the price of healthcare next year - if a new congressional report is to be believed.

Disclosure: this is my submission from earlier today on the topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5702248
Karl Rove was not a federal government employee when Obama assumed office.
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If you don't think there's the equivalent of an evil council, you need to read up on Kissinger.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_wor...
So, the Iranian revolution was right? The installation of countless dictators was right? Guantanamo is right? Torture is right?

The US's moral compass was thrown overboard decades ago.
You write this as if the comments you originally wrote aren't right there in the thread.