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I think the issue described here is real. Truth is, today IPOed tech stocks tend to go public much later than previously in their life for many reasons. Look at PayPal. They went public with a $20M revenue run rate, growing 50% Q over Quarter.
Today, private investors with $50-$250M rounds and secondary offerings where founders/early employees take money off the table completely wiped out the opportunity for consumer investor to make money out of tech IPO Companies. Funny enough to see that A16Z (or KPCB) are some of these late stage funds (even though they are stage agnostic, they also invest late stage)
My apologies. I didn't know it was a technical term.
Ha! How about that. Thanks for the link.
Or people could append random query parameters, HN would have no way of detecting that http://example.com/?foo, http://example.com/?bar and http://example.com/?baz points to the same article.

No need to change anything on the webpage.
> The past 20 years have been pure bliss now that the burden of communism has been cast off

The past 20 years were directly preceded by 70 years of the USSR. If modern race relations in the US can be blamed on slavery and Jim Crow, both of which have been dead for longer than the USSR has, then Russia's modern problems can be blamed on Marxism and Leninism.
There is the military ?
Click "Export to StackOverflow", then you can save the image.
Yes, I am a pilot, albeit not an instrument rated one. Are you telling me you don't do anything? Do you bring a book to read instead of monitoring the instruments? You don't talk to ATC, you never have to make a decision regarding a route deviation? You never take into account weather information and make a decision underway on whether to press on or to find another place to land?
Roswell Game on Google Homepage
As people who have been filing F.O.I.A requests for any personal information the NSA may have gained access to and stored without their permission will tell you: you won't succeed. I think the N.S.A spying program is here to stay, people eventually will give up complaining about it and move on with their lives which is what the Government is betting on will happen.

Considering the amount of money that has been undoubtedly spent on this spy program while the unemployment rate rises, taxes are increased, food and fuel keep on getting more expensive I doubt the Government will just give up control that easily especially when you're talking of potentially billions already being spent on this state of the art spying program.

All asking the Supreme court to prevent the N.S.A spying on phone calls will result in is getting yourself added to a priority N.S.A watchlist.
Not convinced it's driven by morality. Consider every video game you've played. It holds your attention, interest and effort when you work for your rewards. Then when you find an "infinite money" cheat code, you spend 30 minutes going nuts and then do something else, never to return to that game.

We're hardwired to have a produce/consume balance.
I once read an article that taxing all the rich by a %100 rate won't help the govrnement run for more than a couple days. I don't remember the link, but it'll be helpful if someone could.
Racing Google To Bring Driverless Cars To The Road
All your storage clouds in one single place
Interesting idea. You'd only need to be able to detect the presence or absence of 8 compounds to get the 256 unique states though. Makes it a bit more doable :)
http://ecommons.library.cornell.edu/bitstream/1813/80/34/str...

http://ecommons.library.cornell.edu/bitstream/1813/80/35/str...

http://ecommons.library.cornell.edu/bitstream/1813/80/36/str...

These three lectures by Hans Bethe are really interesting to watch and gives you a historical perspective on the development of Quantum Physics. Given his age, the delivery is a bit slow, but it piques your interest in the subject.
The SSDI is based on a self-reporting mechanism. If you acquired the birth certificate of someone who had never acquired a social security number or whose death had not been reported, it shouldn't be in the SSDI.

Thus, while it might be hard to verify whether or not someone is in the index, there are many people who are not in said index. Consider: why does someone's death get reported to Social Security? So someone else can claims the death benefits. There wouldn't be much incentive to do that for a child.

That being said, the older you are, the harder it would be to explain why you never had an SSN, making this much harder to pull off today.

Update: That being said, it appears that the US switched to a national data collection system in the 1990s. It's the NVSS (National Vital Statistics System, http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/births.htm) which will track the births and deaths for you.
Looks like whoever posted this got around the repost limit by appending a '?' to the end of the url. Someone should fix that.

Yeah, because we should never, ever be subjected to the same content twice. After all, this is Hacker News, not Hacker Olds, amirite?

(Sorry for the snark. I have been reading Hacker News for several years, and I don't recollect having read this article before. I enjoyed it, I upvoted it, and I'm glad it was reposted.)
The Morals of Grabbing Free Content From the Web
I'm not suggesting the government's sole function is to print and hand out money and call it a day. There are other methods of taxation and spending (income tax over basic income amount, or directly spending money on infrastructure, for example) that could reign in an overly inflationary economy.

The current method of injection of money into the economy via debt is broken, benefits mostly banks, and requires that a percentage of people continually go bankrupt due to lack of available cash in the future.

Basic income is an alternative means of monetary expansion that would fix this.

Not that you have to inflate with basic income, you could simply redistribute wealth. But that requires people decide who takes how much from whom, and is ripe for favoritism. Inflating via basic income is the most egalitarian method I can think of.
I think it depends on the tone of the Allahu Akbar. There's is a "this is breathtaking" tone (much like Oh my God) and a "Fellows, let's praise God" tone. I would say that chanting or shouting that phrase corresponds to the latter case.
I love it when I get to see first-hand how other people have made great things. I really appreciate the author opening the code up for Photographer.io.
Emberpress.js
The Top Free-to-Play Monetization Tricks
Great a new micro-framework for the worst collection of bad habits ever.
Speaking as a dad, I hate taking my boys to the playground for the same reason.

As a single dad, I never experienced that weirdness.

It might be a type thing. Kids, dogs, and moms love me. (But not ex-wives.)
What license number? Making an interstate license request is one thing, but all of the following are acceptable:

- State-issued driver's license

- State/city/county ID card

- Student ID

- Government employment badge or card

- Prison ID

- Military ID

So if you're creative about how to obtain other ID, surely you can be creative about how to obtain the above?
> Adjusting numbers on paper doesn't take into account for primitive human behavior.

No, but treating humans like humans gets us to behave like good humans. Even in our own country we've seen murder rates go down year by year, with few anomalies, as we've cleaned up things like child abuse and spousal abuse and so on.

Primitive human behavior used to include bear-baiting and beating children bloody for not being able to recite a Latin passage correctly. Is it any wonder that reducing that has lead to fewer people who have no real compassion?

> You can't take the human out of the human. And this plan for giving away money or housing or food (which has already been tried numerous times) is dead on delivery.

Except in all the countries where it's worked for decades, right? Is the Nordic Model a fantasy, then?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_model
Add the ability to collapse comments without needing to install the threadify greasemonkey script. It makes comments far easier to read and browse.
> homes that cost 10x your annual wage

Well, welcome to Europe.

> $18,000 a year health insurance for a family of four

> student loans of $150K+

Nope, not Europe after all.
Basically the whole conversation turned into a men's rights/anti-feminist/heterosexist maelstrom. Somewhere in here some guy defended the claim that china was a matriarchal society (in the sense of having few problems with sexism) and then turned around and complained that stay at home dads are discriminated against.

I guess it shouldn't be terribly surprising because our industry is uniquely filled with people that are both highly privileged and more . . . limited on the empathy front. But it is sad. Hopefully, fifty years from now this conversation will be an outlier rather than the standard occurrence.
Spray paint graffiti generally isn't used by independent criminals. It's usually gang related. Or used by an artist (But they'd spring for the good stuff, and aren't really doing any harm).

You can get spray paint for $1 at the dollar store. It's crap, but it's not like you're using to rust-proof your patio furniture. You can even get "used" cans at some places (like pawn shops). Considering the age restriction on purchasing it, I'm guessing either A) people turn a blind eye to that rule B) it gets shoplifted, or C) Old gang member member buys and distributes it.
> Paul Graham recently wrote that the next big place for startups to disrupt is in startup investing.

Startups are experiments in efficiency: Who can solve a problem for a large (or valuable) market the fastest, with the least friction, and the highest margin? As pg's pointed out, it's all about growth, and that comes from applying efficiency to a place nobody's thought to do so yet.

The long-term impact on the world doesn't factor in to it at all, initially.

My reading of that essay was that there's a lot of money to be made, quickly, by solving that particular problem.

Of course, the argument could be made that by addressing inefficiencies in the communications between early-stage founders and investors, you are giving more opportunities to more people to make the sorts of changes you desire - people who would not have otherwise had those opportunities to build things like that.

These ideas aren't necessarily at odds.
If you want to get fancy, add a little bit of style. It goes a long way.

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Nothing like it will be built again because a) successive British governments over the last 30 years have buried their heads in the sand over energy policy[1] and b) we as a country don't do actual engineering anymore. Both a and b mean that our energy future likes wholly in the hands of France!

[1] Say what you like about Thatcher, at least she had a halfway coherent energy story.
I can't believe you were downvoted.
The page content's hash or any other blueprint (an arbitrary regex match) could be checked against for resubmissions. For convenience, if resubmission should be detected, the original post could be topped on the frontpage nevertheless, because old material may as well be worth revisiting for several reasons -- I for one had missed this article before, and enjoyed it reading greatly now.
Snowden releases information about Australian Intelligence gathering programs
Yes, the lobbying is advocating for corporatism, and it's done by capitalists. I'm not conflating the two; I'm saying that it's in the self-interest of an established capitalist to replace a free-market capitalist system by a corporatist one.

This is hardly a new or leftist idea; it's actually an obvious result of the incentives at play, and it's a fact that anarcho-capitalists have used as an argument for the elimination of the state (in order to eliminate lobbying).
The only thing that should be interpolated is rendering. Pathfinding is part of AI, which, like physics, is part of the "business rules" side of the game, and therefore should be running at a constant rate, which has to be tuned to not eat too much CPU time on slower computers and defines the minimum specs for running the game.

If you don't care if everyone's opponents are equally smart, you can always glance at the clock each time through the loop/level of recursion and cut off the pathfinding if it's taking too long. If you're planning all of the routes through a map (at least on a macro scale - hierarchical, highway-like pathfinding saves a lot of time if you can stand the occasional quirks of its behavior) at runtime, you might be able to set up a system that steals a few cycles whenever there's time left over while the previous area is being played and then only blocks if it still isn't done when needed. But at that point, why not compute those paths really ahead of time (at map build) and then load them in as part of a map file?
Google's internal spy system was Chinese hacker target (2010)
You're really surprised that citizens of a country expect to be treated better by their own government (which, in essence, is the expression of their own will) than non-citizens are? For examples of this, see literally every society that's ever existed in the history of mankind.

That's not to say that any of the things you mentioned are ethical or that I agree with them at all, but it's not too difficult to see the difference between being victimized by an external force (which is essentially just garden-variety "humans are shitty"-ness) and being victimized by an entity that is supposed to represent you.
While that would probably work to some extent, it doesn't really solve the mentality of violence or outright ignoring Constitutional rights. (Assuming people have money to dump, which is not usually the case)
Sometimes a story that explains a name can help spread it - provided it's funny, interesting or an otherwise
memorable viral vector. TSO might not qualify.
Whew, that was a close call. Still shaking. I can't believe I almost read the same thing twice.
If that's the case, why does the Nordic Model work so well?
Honestly, I got no clue what you all are talking about. Never had problems or felt weird looks in the play ground, never got compliments for changing nappies or anything like that. I think most people are used to dads taking care of kids these days, and I am not even living in some inner city sophisticated place.
As evidenced by your 'hug request' anecdote, it seems your time could be better spent AFK in general and learning how and why people interact with one another. For example, hugging is a spontaneous gesture (aside from greeting/farewell hugs) meant to convey a feeling of connectedness between two people. It sounds like you are actually suffering from feelings of alienation and in your confusion, projecting these feelings onto society and the YC/HN community at large. Furthermore, increase in the use of prescription antidepressants is only a correlation between time and prescription antidepressant use. That is to say, it doesn't prove that people are more depressed nowadays.
Your conclusions don't convince me either:

> social problems that are technologically based, like "how do I send a file bigger than 25 MB

I don't think most people would agree this is a social problem.
CFIT used to be common, but it's not anymore on commercial flights thanks to GPWS. There's not yet been an accident on an airplane equipped with EGPWS.
Actually you can do much more with this trick, I made one free tool called Writability - http://www.vcarrer.com/2013/01/writability-write-in-your-bro...
Yes, these are very subtle. For example, floating point computation has different precision depending on the machine.
This might lead to small differences in the game state, which grow over time (chaos theory yay). It is really hard to hunt such bugs. The fix might look like this:

- double result = x * y * z;
+ double tmp = x * y;
+ double result = tmp * z;

The intermediate value x*y is rounded to double precision afterwards, whereas it had machine precision before.

(disclaimer: second hand war story from OpenTTD, might not be entirely accurate)
Dude, do you even hear what you are saying? Women being required/pressured to stay home and look after the family while men gather political power and control the flow of resources is one of the hallmarks of a patriarchal society.

For example, Western societies in the past, and, to a lesser extent now, were like china in this regard, and are almost universally considered more patriarchal as we go further into the past. If you consider china matriarchal, you mean it in a different sense than almost anyone talking about gender politics ever.
Future of Startup funding
Well, my personal pov is that for certain prototyping requirements component systems are actually a good fit because they make it easy to rewire thinks quickly and to easily plugin/replace strategies (as in strategy object). In this regard it is ver yrelated to the DCI pattern (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data,_context_and_interaction). Also, components/systems fall much easier into place when using a functional programming approach.
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Now we get into ship-of-theseus arguments. What counts as the "same" article? 99 percent? 51 percent?

What if you resubmit a blog post that's picked up 150 more comments since it was last posted? How would HN tell the comments apart from the article text?

What if someone submits a blog post that heavily quotes another article that's been submitted, in the process of rebutting it, and ends up being a 80% match?

What if you include the full text of moby dick, in a display:none <div>? What if the page loads the text of the article with javascript? Would the HN submissionbot have to render CSS and javascript?
The future of healthcare – video
Thanks! Hopefully it'll help people out a bit if they're starting off with Rails 4 too, as this was built initially on the 4.0.0.rc1 release.

It should inspire me to polish up the test suite too; it's very lacking right now!
Now all it needs are Vim keybindings.
There's something that feels really dodgy about this site. Apple haven't announced anything and the supposed budget iPhone they're showing looks an awful lot like their Android based "Basic Bear" phone...

Apple I doubt will be entering into the "budget" market any time soon. They can just sell their previous models at a discounted price instead of potentially tainting their brand with "basic" versions.

Apple are all about the build quality and aesthetics and given the amount of cash they apparently have in the bank, I would say their current strategy of selling expensive phones and computers is working. Nokia on the other end is going for the budget market because the likes of Apple and higher end Android devices ate into the space Nokia was once the king of and the budget space is all they really can compete it, Apple have no reason to currently compete.
I'm not sure what the goal of this leak is anymore. Snowden is completely fucking himself over while diverting public attention from issues that have the best odds of an immediate fix -- the surveillance of Americans.

I think he simply wants Americans, and the world, to know the truth about what their governments are doing, and doesn't believe that the best chance of that happening is staying within the bounds set by US law. He probably believes the best chances for pushback on privacy lie outside the five-eyes states, because those states have been co-opted so completely by their intelligence services. In the UK for example, every secret communication of every politician, judge and public servant is now available to those services.

Binney in his heart still believes the US government can be reasoned with and negotiated with and it seems you agree with him. It appears Snowden has decisively broken with that point of view and sees it at somewhat naive (probably after seeing what was done to Binney and Manning). As to treason (in a broad sense as betraying his country), I think that depends on whether you believe he's exposing wrongdoing or not. If he's found extensive wrongdoing, it's impossible to make that public without damaging the US in the short-term, but in the long-term, he may believe what he does is in the interests of the US. I certainly agree with him.

Sorry, non-Americans: the Constitution doesn't cover you guys. But we need to protect ourselves from our own laws first before we can help the rest of the world.

Personally I think we should try to move past this sort of parochial patriotism and look at this issue as one which affects the whole world. If you accept the argument that foreigners may be spied upon, and anyone having contact with foreigners, you're accepting that anyone who does business outside the US or has contacts outside the US is a potential surveillance target. That probably covers almost the entire cosmopolitan US population nowadays. So much for American privacy. You also accept that states like the UK and Canada will be allowed to take every bit of information that passes through them and pass it back to the NSA, because that data is now 'foreign'. By the same argument text messages in the UK are all swept up, because they pass over the border for technical reasons apparently.

Of course the only country and legal framework we can currently work within is our own, but it is inconsistent and ultimately futile to view this as a struggle for rights in only one country, because the network which we're objecting to is global in scope and global in ambition.

Perhaps more important than the difficulties of separating foreign from US data is the damage this attitude causes to the standing of the US in the world - if this deepens the perception that there is one law of US citizens and another for everyone else, why should other countries treat American data and persons with respect?
I'm not sure what you mean. This thing is not a transmitter, it piggybacks on existing waves by modulating their reflections - that's the whole point of the paper. It won't have to compete with a WLAN.

Presumably range can be increased, specially if the principle is adapted to use that WLAN's 2.4ghz stronger signal instead of VHF.
My point is this: people are, essentially, paid not to vandalize. Don't buy paint and pocket that money for being a good citizen. Yet they go and do it anyways.

The idea that they will suddenly change their lifestyle after being given some unconditional stipend seems to be in a direct contradiction with the observable behavior of vandals.
Very cool. Much easier to get working than powerline, imho.
There's also MeteorJS (http://meteor.com/) and others...

For the most part combining pub-sub (Redis or others) with a comet/websocket solution (socket.io, SignalR, etc) and and data entities (backbone, angular) that can be used with such a backend (observer) pattern isn't too difficult with the tools available.

Unfortunately there are a lot of options for each part of this, and getting a "right" solution is hard.. there are the auto-magical solutions like you mention, just the same... years of .Net dev make me leary of "magic". I prefer using the most mature/maturing parts and building something useful, like legos.
Don't cherry pick. Student loans, though a new idea in the UK, are rapidly inflating in price. Not to the astronomical levels of the USA but heading in that general direction. Care for the elderly is a growing rapidly also. I don't have any close family in that situation but I there are extended family members who are and the costs are comparable to the figure quoted - though I don't have exact figures.

So, not so different after all.
That would be nice indeed. Let me also know if you find something! :-) Thanks.
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If that's the American attitude, then Snowden is certainly a hero for all of us non-Americans.