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Corrective upvote for your previous post since I agree that the level of interest to most HNers is roughly the same as if the leak had occurred via a different medium (calls to mind the Chicago Tribune's famous gaff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewey_Defeats_Truman), but I strongly disagree with the second part of your post. This is an extremely rare occurrence--where a faux democratic regime that everyone knows to be authoritarian but which makes the effort to pretend to have elections (unlike, say, China's government which directly states that they don't like the idea of elections where the populace votes) accidentally reveals that its elections are indeed rigged. Many of us find it fascinating, and that's why it's at the top of HN. If you don't find an article interesting, I don't get the point of sarcastically criticizing other users for upvoting. There are plenty of articles on derivative startups that hit the front page of HN every day, but I don't think you typically ask on those threads, "How is that in any way novel or intellectually gratifying?" Just accept that each of us finds some highly voted articles interesting and some not.
Maybe the official in charge gets promoted later on. We're more concerned with the developer(s) that screwed up.
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> Obvious miss - "8. Plan a trip – but don't take one" ??

The "but don't take one" part seems unfounded. This is closer to the point:

"One study found that people who just thought about watching their favorite movie actually raised their endorphin levels by 27 percent."

I've found myself feeling good just thinking about something fun or exciting I plan to do. Little things, even just a particularly interesting book I was going to read. Or thinking about parts of a fun side project.
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"This is about design education, and above all else, the idea that design is fundamentally about how something works, not how it looks." This cannot be said enough. Much like when you have to relearn how to see the world while learning to draw, you have to relearn how to think about problems while learning to design.

Do not confuse graphic arts or even graphic design with product design.
Thanks for explaining, that was quite thorough. I don't understand the distinction between intrapersonal and interpersonal here. Are you essentially saying at least two people have to agree upon something before it's a right, either legal or n/h? But that can't be, because although you can take away my food, clothing, and shelter, you can't take away my belief that I have a human right to those things (i.e. I deserve them), regardless of whether or not anybody agrees with me. Or does it have to do with morals being about my behavior with respect to others, whereas n/h rights would be about others' behavior with respect to me (and others)?

I do understand that it's the absolutists who harp on about n/h rights, I'll try to be more careful about that in the future. It is somewhat absolutist of me to believe that everybody on the planet deserves food, clothing, and shelter in that it's a belief that applies universally, but I won't go so far as to say that you should adopt my beliefs simply because it's somehow incorrect for you to have other beliefs, nor do I expect that our laws will ever satisfy this ideal.
No argument there. And of course I don't know anything about the situation in that country.

I suppose I was just ranting in sympathy with the poor programmers who have to try to do their best to keep up with all this.
http://research.microsoft.com/apps/video/default.aspx?id=177...
"In other words, we are seeing a systematic effort to destroy the most open communication system of the computer age."

I think you are severely overblowing this issue. If the web can survive through Sony implementing Rootkits as a form of DRM, I think the web can survive this.

"Those of us who want to use free/libre software will just be SOL if we want to watch mainstream entertainment (legally)."

Linux users are already shit out of luck. I don't need to speculate about that this means for Linux and the web, because any decision, W3C or not, would have left Linux users shit out of luck.

Finally, I'm only concerned if this means anything at all for the web. Frankly, Netflix was never going to support a platform they couldn't add DRM to because Hollywood wouldn't license content to them if they did.

At this point DRM is a legal formality to Hollywood, despite whether it works or not. The reason I brought up the TWC/CBS issue was to highlight how bad these contract negotiations can go. For example, a studio like Sony will syndicate Breaking Bad to AMC. In the boilerplate clause, part of the syndication deal will say "online distribution for this content needs to have DRM for 10 years", meaning until 2018, if you watch Breaking Bad online, there will need to be some form of DRM. For a network like AMC to argue this point, there would need to be huge monetary value for them because Sony will then use the no-DRM clause to demand more money from AMC. My point is whether or not DRM is actually effective, has nothing to do with the user and everything to do with sweetening contract deals for more dosh at this point. And nothing - except a mass migration to 100% open systems - will change that point. Despite what we all believe Hollywood isn't stupid, and I doubt most of these studio execs believe DRM is actually effective, after all TPB still exists.

Now, given that Hollywood has been massively lucky in that 1.) TV/Film piracy is not nearly as popular as music piracy and 2.) Piracy hasn't forced Hollywood to give up on DRM, and that Hollywood was never going to support 100% open systems anyways - what does the w3c decision actually mean for the web? Netflix is unlikely to drop support for firefox, and any other open system didn't have the means to play Hollywood content anyways (legally). Just like how the WHATWG stepped around the W3C for not playing by their rules (even though the WHATWG's rules were better), the Hollywood will just step around the W3C rules if this didn't pass. However this did pass, and now has the overall direction of the web actually changed?
I have been quite pleased to see T-Mobile continuing to provide AT&T and Verizon with some competition. I sampled T-Mobile for a couple of months with their $30 unlimited data/text plan and was pleasantly surprised with the performance in the LA area - on a Nexus 4 (without LTE), speeds were generally better than on AT&T. The only reason I finally went back to AT&T was for rural coverage, as I do enough traveling that this was an issue. Were it not for that, I would have gladly stayed with T-Mobile.
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The root issue is that this requires some weasel-minded logic:

"In case of conflict, consider users over authors over implementers over specifiers over theoretical purity."

The author (and those who voted in favor at W3C) considers DRM a benefit to users, because it enables them to watch "premium" content. But this is a logical fallacy: users want premium content, premium content requires DRM, therefore users want DRM. No, it does not imply that at all.

However, if in your mind you are thinking "they would be worse off without the content so it's all for their own good" then perhaps that makes some weird logical sense to you.

You should be careful if you find yourself in a position of authority or implementation, creating anti-user systems "for their own good", all the while inventing excuses in your head why it's actually a good thing. It's quite a dark path to be going down.
You sound like me. I currently work in healthcare doing non-patient-care stuff, and I'm learning programming when I'm not working. My days are normally boring and steady-paced.

When my boss asked me to temporarily pick up some slack and new responsibilities, I immediately surged into action and got some praise. I was feeling productive, so I built a few things when I got home even after doing 10 hour days.

If someone asks me to build something for them, it gets a fair amount of attention right now (mostly because I'm trying to break into programming/webdev), and occupies my thoughts. When I have no demands, I'm pretty meh on projects unless I think I have a good idea.

I simply need an external demand to operate productively. I think I would end up ignoring any productivity programs.
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Call me old-fashioned, but I believe if you're going to fix an election, it should be done with lots of money and empty campaign promises! The public must be involved. Not in a meaningful sense, just as pawns in a larger corporate agenda.
The way I interpreted it was:

Boy, it'd sure be nice to work for a company that
did not have the attitude "we work hard and play hard"

i.e. they think the games industry exhibits this trend.
So they are basically indirectly funding open-source work on internet critical software, seems like win-win here.
Yeah because a low payed govermnt programmer has a huge amount of choice. A dicator ship depends on few people to survive and in general all jobs are somehow connected to goverment. So everybody is more or less helping the goverment.

I would probebly work for the govermnt too, fixing elections or censor data. That for my skill the most efficent thing to do. Would I feel good? No, is it better then starving or doing hard laber? Yes.

So what would you do? Is your does your moral values overpower your will not doing hard laber?
SA is South Africa for anyone else who is wondering.
The still have that plan - http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/prepaid-plans it's just a bit hidden.
(Assuming you are familiar with this climate) Would you say that Seattle is out?
I continue to be dumbfounded that intelligent people would call this "free". The degree to which marketing has invaded our everyday lives is astonishing.

It's not free, you're paying a monthly fee for it.
This is huge. I recently spent ~$200 on AT&T's $30/120MB bundles on a two-week trip to Europe. I thought I was getting a good deal, too. It's fantastic to see the market shifting slightly in favor of the customers.
>If T-Mobile wasn't in a distant fourth place in the US market, or if they'd been acquired by AT&T we wouldn't be seeing this, nor would we see Verizon and AT&T introduce their own versions of T-Mobile's JUMP program.

I'm not an economist, and I haven't looked into the details of the cell phone market in depth, but here's a possible alternative opinion. I'm not asserting that this is the case; just wondering if it might be.

Would T-Mobile be able to treat customers as well if they were more popular, or are they only in this position because their ratio of customers to cell towers, spectrum, and other capital is lower? And if the latter is true, isn't that an inefficient use of resources, which market forces (i.e. the merger) would have corrected if not for government intervention?
I had to drill into the PDF linked from the article to learn that SA (in this case) refers to the Republic of South Africa.
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To amplify this a bit, in binary the relative and absolute errors are within a factor of two, but by a factor of up to 10 for decimal. IBM actually used to use base 16 on some hardware but the rel/abs error disparity of factor 16 hurt and it was eventually abandoned.
Eh, flat design isn't particularly new. And I really don't understand the mentality of sneering at things that have gone out of fashion.
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It's not just a technologically absurd decision, the resulting expense is a terrible injustice for the children of South Africa.

The Evil Empire never stops. The next time you hear someone blather on about the Gates Foundation, tell them about this story.
How do you know what's the situation in that country? Are you from Azerbaijan?
I'm not even sure you're going to be able to find that plan anymore. [EDIT: dangrossman's right, they still have this plan on the "prepaid" side, but you have to dig a bit. If you're a brand new customer to T-Mobile, you're not exactly going to stumble on it from the main page.] The website really looks like they're bumping everyone up to the $50+ plans, which is sad, because they owned the value data plan territory for a while.

Case in point, I'm currently paying them $25/mo for 1.5 GB of high speed data. No contract, BYOD. I originally thought I needed "unlimited" data, but found that if I just avoid videos until I'm around wifi (which I'm around way more often than I thought I would be), then I never touch the limit.

So how's the $50 per month for 500 MB high speed plus unlimited everything else compare?

Ting offers 500 MB for under $20 / mo, and you can even pay-as-you-go to save money, or cover overages at a reasonable rate. For $50 per month, Cricket gives you 2.5GB of 4G speeds per month, falling back to unlimited 3G speeds, 5GB for $60 or 10GB for $70. Neither are BYOD, though, which can be a deal killer.

T-Mobile had great pricing, but now they're just normalizing with the larger players like Sprint and AT&T, drifting away from the bargains offered by the mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs), probably pulling the whole market upwards.
Delphi… Delphi? Delphi?!?!
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The short commute is nice, for sure, but you can't just uproot and move at the drop of a hat. There's a (not so) secret trick I use to deal with my long commute: public transportation. I live about 30 miles from my work in the city center and there's a commuter bus park and ride that cuts out my need to drive entirely. The benefits I've found so far:

- I save a ton of money I'd otherwise be spending on gas.

- By not having to worry about actually driving in traffic, I've found that I'm not stressed and in a bad mood by the time I get to work.

- I have time to myself to read, work on side projects, or take a quick nap.

- I stay on a consistent work schedule

- I get regular morning exercise by walking from the downtown bus stop to and from my office about 5 blocks away

When I tell people I take the bus, they're usually surprised and tend to ask "Well...how much longer does that take?". The response is always the same: "The same amount of time it would take to drive, only I don't pay for gas and I'm not stressed by traffic". Honestly, I'd recommend it to anyone.
that rules out San Francisco northwards, then, and certainly much of Western Europe, surely?
Have debated moving to SV but Boulder sounds interesting. When you say "smaller" do you mean the ecosystem, " vibe" and talent is just as strong as SV just with fewer people, or do you mean it's on the right track but still not comparable to SV?
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That's not a planet... ;)
% cat /tmp/tmobile_countries | sort | pbcopy

Aland Islands
Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina
Armenia
Aruba
Australia
Austria
Bahrain
Barbados
Belgium
Bermuda
Bolivia
Bonaire
Brazil
British Virgin Islands
Bulgaria
Cambodia
Canada
Cayman Islands
Chile
China
Christmas Island
Colombia
Costa Rica
Curacao
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Easter Island
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Estonia
Faeroe Islands
Finland
France
French Guiana
Germany
Ghana
Greece
Grenadav Nicaragua
Guadeloupe
Guatemala
Guyana
Hong Kong
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Iraq
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Jamaica
Japan
Kenya
Kuwait
Latvia
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Malaysia
Malta
Martinique
Mexico
Moldova
Montserrat
Netherlands
Netherlands Antilles
New Zealand
Norway
Pakistan
Panama
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Qatar
Romania
Russia
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
Sint Maarten
Slovakia
South Africa
South Korea
Spain
Sri Lanka
St. Barthelemy
St. Kitts and Nevis
St. Lucia
St. Martin
St. Vincent & the Grenadines
Suriname
Svalbard
Sweden
Switzerland
Taiwan
Thailand
Trinidad and Tobago
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Turks and Caicos Islands
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
Vatican City
Venezuela
Vietnam
Zambia
made me as angry as I have ever been in my life

Wow - if the author has lived a life where software limitations are the greatest injustice experienced, then I am truly jealous.
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My bad...I only realised a few minutes ago it could be South Australia (and definitely a few others) too...
My apologies. The killer fund issue has been dealt with, and we're tackling another issue that has been preventing some pledges from going through. I understand the rationale to look at other sites that do crowdfunding. Fundfill is specifically focused on rewards and bounties, and therefore doesn't have a particular person who will automatically win the money, as kickstarter and indiegogo would. This is designed to encourage the the auditing of TrueCrypt. All problems with this have been on Fundfill's side, and the lack of previous funds is because we are currently in a pre-startup phase. I understand the concern about using a site that doesn't have thousands of users on a regular basis, but I ask your patience as today's experience is already improving the site for future use.
Why so we can launch missile strikes to help free them from the oppressive regime run by a mentally deranged leader?

- No. So we aren't guilty of taking important events within a country and to a country as of little importance except in how we contextualize them through our own American lens. You know, the stuff of foreign policy hawks always interested in meddling in other nations.
Fixed now ;)
> Just like the Supreme Court should be representative, and Congress should be representative.

in that case people who have not studied law would be on supreme court bench along with people who did. and people who have not won the election would be representing people with people who have won the election.

> that you can hire X without sacrificing quality, because there are thousands of eminently qualified candidates.

generalizing women with X above, implies there are equal number of qualified people in all groups, no matter whatever the ratio of the groups are.
Godaddy auctions is huge too and they recently bought Afternic which was either the largest or 2nd largest domain reseller in the world. I own a handful of short, higher level domains and as they mentioned they're worth a lot less than you might think if you're not actively getting offers on them. Looking at those names, to be honest I wouldn't think they would be worth a whole lot.
If this involved Apple, the article's headline would be "Apple using forced student labor to build iPhone"
I am not sure that it is true. I think that linkedin is a the main job-search engine in Silicon Valley. Would be extremely interesting to get similar data from linkedin.
I am really having trouble understanding how anyone could choose Delphi without some sort of corruption going on.
"thanks to the one child policy--practically have a surplus of young men."

How does that follow?
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Dunno about podcasts, but IMO the fastest way to build powerful webapps is brandid.github.io/parse-angular-demo
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Is it wrong to use an old WP Svbtle theme, even though Svbtle updated it's design. I'm thinking about using the design with the big circle.
That still happens, with a basic income.
He had "railo" highlighted... I think he knows that it's not literally ColdFusion...
Turbo Pascal was the standard when I was in high school (matriculated in 98). No idea what has been used in the interrim, although the article makes it look like Java, among other things. If this hadn't been the case, I could understand Delphi, but it makes very little sense now.
Wow, but that is some very stealthy work.

T-Mobile isn't exactly going out of its way to let people know this exists. It's not featured in the way you do for a plan you envision as the future cornerstone of the business.
Just wanted to take the time to ask: If you want anglophones to read up on operational security, and perhaps adhere to such tenets as prescribed in your articles, why are all of your sites plaintext and not secure?

Another tidbit is that they mostly seem to be listed under a subdomain of your namesake, meaning that a person perusing your blogs would still reveal that they were reading your work, even over a secure connection, since the subdomain is communicated in plaintext to resolve the dns lookup.

When writing about paranoia at the nation state scale, these details become important, because you're ostensibly educating english-speaking users on the black art of skull duggery.

A subdomain is a good way to ups fame, but it would be slightly better to engage in forbidden discussions of this sort, with a free blog platform that offers HTTPS service, and urls identified by solely the /uri?query=string, with respect to the domain, since the non-domain portion of the URL is wrapped in SSL's encryption.

;) ...otherwise, maybe some nation state now has a list of readers borrowing subversive literature from the public library, no? And so many of them showing ycombinator as their referrer! What a seedy little hotbed of intelligencia!
Ostensibly, VZW and AT&T enjoy certain economies of scale above and beyond T-Mobile given their significantly greater customer bases. T-Mobile has a perception of shitty service, which means they have to spend a metric shit-ton of money buying spectrum and building out their LTE network.

Take a look at T-Mobile's their most recent 10-Q filing. Their EPS is actually negative: http://edgar.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1283699/00012836991...
You can get unlimited data plans in Europe for 10-40 euro per month.
I think the piece does a decent job of laying out the advantages of being responsive in this way: you're creating an opening for referrals, you're increasing the chances of your rejection pool transforming into a future hiring pool, and you're building a positive reputation. I also suspect that there might be some positive effect on the actual hiring process -- someone who knows they're going to have articulate their decision might be more thorough in the process of making it. I don't know if it's a decisive advantage, but it seems reasonable enough.

The part I'm curious about at this point is if anyone has actually gotten good at eliciting this kind of feedback during/after the interview process.

Usually, it's better to just move on to the next opportunity, but as I've said elsewhere in this discussion[0], I occasionally come across a job that I know I'd like to be able to apply for again if I don't get it, and in those cases, I try to send follow up notes asking for suggestions to become a more competitive applicant.

My response rate is 1 out of about a dozen or so.

It's possible this is actually pretty good considering the facts on the ground (people are busy/time is scarce, that's why they're hiring, and nobody wants to open themselves to legal threats).

I'm just wondering if anyone has learned to do considerably better.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6524750
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I switched with the iPhone 5S. Off-contract too.

I rarely leave the city, so the lack of coverage in rural areas doesn't bother me. In NYC I have to say I've noticed a small improvement in reception over AT&T - buildings where I've been dead in the water before now have some connectivity.

So far so good, this new announcement is just icing on the cake, especially as a Canadian expat. It used to be that when visiting home I'd inevitably wind up with one helluva phone bill, and that's just with extremely minimal texting and calling just to herd cats.