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Code2013 - What programming languages have you used this year?
I was merely asking because this did not align with my experience of Citibank in the US, so I was wondering whether it was a foreign division of Citibank.

FWIW, I'm a Tamil-speaking Indian American. I am aware of the fact that not all of India is the same, but I think the cultural norms do have something to do with this incident.
An Interview with Paul Graham: Hackers & Painters 10 Years Later
Arrington didn't literally twist and reshape jwz's sentences, as pg's were. Even still, it's hard to see how Arrington metaphorically twisted anything jwz wrote. From the article:

He's telling you the story of, "If you bust your ass and don't sleep, you'll get rich" because the only way that people in his line of work get richer is if young, poorly-socialized, naive geniuses believe that story! Without those coat-tails to ride, VCs might have to work for a living. Once that kid burns out, they'll just slot a new one in.

Would you name some other ways to get rich with a reliability approaching that of starting a VC-funded startup?

The VCs may be in control, but at least it's a game that can be played. I'm not sure how it was disingenuous of Arrington to cite evidence of how hard jwz had to work. His point was that startups are hard. Jwz didn't seem to refute that, nor provide any hope of potentially escaping a lifetime of working for other people without doing a startup. Startup success is rare, but it seems more frequent than most of history has allowed.
First time I attended, I agree with this statement.
"I think it's insane to require people to make their private signing keys available, for example. I wouldn't do it. So I don't think the GPL v3 conversion is going to happen for the kernel, since I personally don't want to convert any of my
code."

He's spoken out against it personally - he cleary _doesn't like it_.
>>the line workers had the ability to fix the problem

But not the authority.
The same thing happened in New Orleans after Katrina.

Personally, I would have no problem with this as long as they logged the seized property correctly and provided means for the owners to retrieve their property at a later date.
Bomb sniffing dogs are more effective at a fraction of the cost.

But really, if someone wants to destroy a plane, they're going to be able to destroy a plane. The question is not "should we try to stop people from blowing things up?" The question is "what are reasonable and effective means to stop people from blowing things up?"
> Would it be fair to conclude that any setup that requires ID is a suppression scheme?

It would be fair to conclude that any proposal which increases the burden of doing a thing is intended to prevent and/or discourage some group of people from doing that thing.

If there is no strong evidence that there some significant problem with people who are wrongfully be doing that thing that the particular scheme is well-designed to solve, it is pretty fair to suspect that the intent is to prevent/discourage people who are rightfully doing it, and, whether or not this is the intent, and whether or not there is a real problem in evidence that it might solve, it is reasonable to question whether any effect, even incidental, of preventing/discouraging people who are not wrongfully engaging in the targetted act is a substantial enough negative side effect to reject the proposal.

> What you're claiming is that ID requirement and voter suppression is the same

I think there is more than sufficient evidence to conclude that the actual concrete voter ID proposals that are actually being made are either intended as or draw a significant portion of their support from people who view them as voter suppression schemes, and that, intent aside, their primary effect would be as mechanisms for voter suppression.
The problem is that those tests probably DO have cultural or gender biases. GP was pretty specific about the fact that only SOME intelligence tests have been shown to be effective and free of cultural and gender bias. So then we're back to my original comment.
It seems like once complete (more polished and easier to "get running") it might be, to casual users, more portable than tent.io regarding user data.
Yeah, if we just ignore the products themselves (which may sound sarcastic but I genuinely think is valid), this guy's pumping out more completed projects over the past year than almost anyone posting here's done in their lifetime.

That, alone, is huge.
I like the "wearables" response also.

>When asked about the shirts, Google said that they "are very interested in Microsoft's latest venture. The wearables market is becoming very competitive".

This could be taken as a reference to Google Glass. MS and their vendors don't seem to have anything near ready to show to compete with Glass, but apparently they're on top of the T-shirt game.
Let's all remember why the TSA was created; solely so the Bush administration could buffer the economic impact of their shit economic policy and the effects of the terrorist attacks that group of feeble minded simpletons played right into. It's a make-work program, plain and simple.

Let's also remember what genius methods and techniques the "terrorists" used to hijack some planes....they "smuggled" some box cutters on the plane. .... The END ... FIN

I bet you if any one of you put a plastic craft blade, you know, the marker sized ones with the break away blades, in your carry on bag you would not be stopped or discovered; especially if you placed it with the blade on edge to the image.

Here's a tip though, never, NEVER ever will another plane be hijacked by anyone else using those means. Not only did the "authorities" finally secure the cockpits like it had been pleaded for years prior to 9/11, but I can guarantee you that anyone even attempting would be ripped apart by the limbs. I, for one, don't care if you were able to smuggle a middle-earth battle axe on the plane; you will be dead within seconds of pulling some shit.

That being said, I'm not quite certain if it has gotten any better, but just relatively recently it was still rather easy to access the runways and bays. Just saying, the phantoms we are fighting might get "genius" and pull of a "highly sophisticated plot" that my seven year old could plane and execute with just a tablet computer at their disposal.
> The real criminals would cover their bases. So by its very nature, a sting like this one produces perverse outcomes. It over-selects for innocent bystanders and petty criminals, and filters out the savvier criminals who are actually the locus of the problem ostensibly being combated.

In the Milwaukee operation that inspired this bit of investigative journalism, it turned out even worse than that. The career criminals quickly recognized the undercover agents for what they were and proceeded to con the !$@%$@ pants off of them. The whole operation eventually fell apart when the agents got looted, including having the weapons stolen from one of their cars while it was parked at a completely different location.

There was absolutely no benefit to the community from this. The agents baited a bunch of sometimes clueless folks who mostly weren't anything worse than your garden variety juvenile delinquents into committing crimes serious enough to send them to jail. So they created an acute increase in the crime rate, which then permanently decreases the ability of members of the community to secure gainful employment, thereby also creating a chronic increase in the crime rate, expanding social burdens on the community, and reducing the community's economic productivity overall. This in a city that's already completely falling apart both socially and economically thanks to >50% of its African-American males having prior convictions. In return for the pleasure of getting to do this, they supplied the local street gangs with free weapons and, briefly, a convenient source of income.
It sounds like the DMV staff you encountered were bigots. I would report them. Get the local media involved. Offer to wait while they call the police since having a fake passport is a crime.
It's not just division by 2. Most compilers will convert any division by a constant into either a shift (powers of 2) or a multiply (all other).

But there are lots of oddball compilers for CPUs, DSPs, and other embedded quasi processors you've never heard of. Many don't really optimise at all.
I believe it's only 2gb without images, 9gb with, but I may be incorrect.
If I recall, writing no boilerplate code was a big deal in python once...

And while 2 lines are not worth my rant, writing those 2 lines again and again all the time, is.
The self employed pay 15.3% of gross income to FICA and Medicare taxes. This amount cannot be avoided (no tax breaks). Employees pay roughly half this percentage. It's also very easy for the newly self employed to see the money rolling in and spend it. One has to be disciplined enough to set aside enough for taxes in a separate account.
Everyone should have a secure, single identity card in any modern developed nation that can be used for identity verification. One card. Federal and State governments can assign privileges to the card (driving, medicare etc.). Even expand it so the card can be used to verify credit and debit card authenticity etc. That's my dream, but right now we are stuck in firmly in 20th century-modes of thinking about ID.

I'm long past the point of caring about the Government having some database of where I go or who I transact with. They seem to have been able to already figure out how to do it without my permission so let's just make this whole tracking thing transparent now.

Practically speaking, getting an ID in the United States right now is not difficult. Why do we keep excusing people from having a basic mechanism to prove who they say they are? If you cannot handle getting and maintaining an ID maybe one ought not be able to vote because you're just not responsible enough to handle it.
There's no evidence of widespread terror campaign in US airport and yet TSA grabs my balls each time I fly, and NSA collects my phone calls. There's no evidence of widespread harm from drugs like marijuana and yet thousands of people are jailed for mere possession of it. There's no evidence of gun bans be effective measure of crime control and yet cities like Chicago and Washington insist on it. There's no evidence RIAA and MPAA are seriously hurt by piracy and yet we have DMCA and almost had SOPA. There's no evidence copyright extensions are necessary and yet we have Mickey Mouse protection act[1].
There's no evidence of US being a criminal wasteland and yet you may very well commit three felonies every day[2].

If you really want to go into "show me the data before you make the law", you're waking up way too late. It's not a conspiracy, it's called "federal government".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Bono_Copyright_Term_Exte...
[2] http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405274870447150...
Bitmessage is for any messaging system. You can broadcast (twitter), send private message (email), or start a channel (IRC). The key in bitmessage is that to send a message you have to do a POW according to the size of the message you are sending.

Even then you still have massive data bloat problems, which I dont see DHT alone solving.
> First, the TSA itself has admitted that there is no evidence of terrorist plots against aviation in the US[0].

This is like saying that we're seeing fewer and fewer occurrences of tuberculosis, therefore TB vaccines are useless.
I'd rather have been me, 10 years ago (i.e. 25yr female) applying to an accelerator. Looking back however, that me needed an incredible amount of guidance regardless of talent and I'd think it's a million times easier to get productive work out of a me-now. In that sense I don't need an accelerator like YC at this point, more guidance and mentorship on how to get past the post-startup phase. And that's perfect for a 38 year-old anyone.
There's plenty of rapid iteration in the Python world, and as far as I know, there is no fundamental disagreement with the concepts behind rapid iteration. Development still occurs in the open, but releases are well-planned and well-versioned such that backward incompatibilities are clearly billed and rarely introduced if not necessary. Pyramid is an exemplary Python project that has very rapid development but still respects compatibility concerns.

My opinion is that Python projects are simply more likely to have more mature release processes because Python is more likely to be used by mature engineers than Ruby.
> On the upside, due to the $8M contract, lots of people were able to work and earn a living.

Yes but you have to also consider the opportunity cost of that $8M. Were the incidental benefits gained worth the cost?
This isn't necessarily true. Its fairly common to have an S-Corp (or LLC filing as S-Corp) dodge a significant chunk of the self-employment tax by paying a lower salary and then shareholder distributions for the rest.

Balance is important here as the IRS watches these situations closely, but any decent accountant should help someone down this path.
This seems a bit naive. No ping/pong, no mention of what happens to messages in transit when the connection drops.
Does not even back off. I like the idea of offering libraries that provide some abstraction over standard libraries, but what's the use if it's just the most trivial solution that's unusable for any production situation?
> But really, if someone wants to destroy a plane, they're going to be able to destroy a plane.

Unless we have measures to prevent them from getting on the plane in the first place, and since no bombs have been going off on a plane for quite a while, isn't that a sign that the security measures are working?
Sorry to break it to you, but bomb sniffing dogs are not really all that great at sniffing all means and methods for creating and delivering "bombs". And dogs don't make corporate and political parasites billions of dollars. How do you expect the exploiting class to live without tapping into citizen tax supported corporate welfare profits?
It was my father in law, not me.

And of course they were bigots. That's the point: there are a lot of bigots in the US.

He thought it wasn't worth the effort to report them, and frankly, I kind of agree. Who wants to spend years fighting in court, maybe having to spend their own hard earned money, and maybe having to deal with the bigots' friends on the police force harassing them? Especially after they just started working a new job?
>Of course, you'll say sexism in the industry really doesn't exist

No, I say it is rare, no more common than in any other industry, and goes in both directions. But debating what I say rather than a strawman is too much effort right?

>you've been ignoring some of the most[2] recent[3] incidents.[4]

None of those are examples of misogyny. If you do not understand the meaning of the word, you can use a dictionary to find out.

>It just makes you look like a jackass, and you wouldn't want that, right?

I don't mind if a histrionic sjw with a victim complex thinks I am a jackass.
> "...is he paying that much more in taxes than he would be if was just a salaried employee at a regular company?"

Not quite. Some taxes are paid by the employer, and some taxes are withdrawn directly from your paycheck. When you are self-employed, you see exactly how Uncle Sam gets both sides of the action.
If there were a box that said "share your data" that you had to click, I cannot imagine the users who would click it. Further no one was ever told that the value proposition of DigitalOcean relies upon a complete and utter lack of data integrity.

That is a dishonest angle. It is not in any way how this has been sold. Further you don't get a discount for choosing not to scrub, but instead essentially get tricked into it by the magical law of defaults.
"Don't have one" and "can't get one" are two entirely different things. How many of them don't have one simply because they have not needed one before and will just go get one (like most people) now that they'll have a need for one? As a fairly poor college student without a car in a new state (Arizona), I managed to locate a bus schedule and a DMV and make my way to the DMV and get a state ID. And I did it without internet. I'm no genius. I have confidence that a lot of people can do it too.

Side Note: In California, ID cards are $27. Or $8 if you meet income requirements from a public assistance program. Or free if you are 62 or older.
Report them? To whom? Follow the chain up and you're likely to find a Republican governor and legislature who think the DMV staff were doing exactly what they were supposed to.

If the local media even covered it, I'd expect their angle to be the suspicious brown guy who was prevented from infiltrating our political system by heroic DMV staff.
I'm not sure there's any substance to what you're saying. The comments on here certainly don't reflect the attitude you've suggested they should.

I obviously can't speak for anyone but myself but for me the reason not to change has been that there's a critical core of libraries that weren't ported over. Now the list isn't looking too bad and it's probably time to make the switch. It's taken a long time to get to that stage, but was always going to.
Show HN: embedcurl.com - Pretty curl commands for your web site or blog
Hey all,
As a CEO of a growing startup I don't get to code as often as I like and when I do, I try not to annoy my team with my terrible code :) So to scratch the itch, I've built some of side projects related to what our company does. The latest is embedcurl.com

I see a lot of API docs and blogs posting curl commands that are really hard to read and I figured I could make them easier to read and add some niceties like easier copy/paste, tooltips on flags, etc. They also gracefully degrade if javascript isn't enabled back to a <pre> element.

The parsing is done in Python with shlex and argparse (thanks to my co-founder Frank for helping with that part). We're running this on our production infrastructure so it should scale just fine.

My friends at loader.io have already integrated it with their API docs: http://docs.loader.io/api/v2/put/tests/:test_id/run.html

I'd really like your feedback, especially if you enter a command that doesn't parse correctly.

Thanks!
The Art of Strategy: Or How to Fight and Lead Better
"then use technology to change their voices so every voice sounds the same"

Right off the top I would say I don't like that for the simple reason that you can't tell confidence (and I will assume that is a factor) or even how full of shit someone is if you disguise their voice.

I do negotiating over the phone, in person, and by email. I dissect each and every nuance to try and determine what is under the hood. I've had good results with that. I make money that way. To me how someone sounds is important on many levels. If you are going to do this, why have them speak at all? (Not suggesting this.)

Along the sames lines I've had a theory for a long time that it is much harder to tell if someone is truthful if they have an accent (even american from a different regioin) that you are not used to because you can't tell nuance like you can with an accent that you know.

Bottom line is hiding the voice, for the purposes of getting diversity, is not the way to go. Especially for decision making that takes into account "the team" and/or "the individual" and not just the idea.
Was there something I said that implies that consumers decided everything? No? Okay then.
What's wrong with treating everyone equally?

Does that mean 'do the same thing to everyone'? 'Equal' treatment can easily result in very unequal effects. For instance, if you put a staircase at the door to the classroom, everyone is being treated equally if they are all expected to go up the same staircase, even though that means some people can go in and others (people with crutches/wheelchairs/etc) can't. For another example, lets say public schools started charging every student the exact same fee of $10,000 per year: that would be equal treatment with a clearly unequal outcome, because some students started out in families that can afford the fee, and some didn't.

Also, advocacy is not 'restricted to women' - but there are a lot of people who feel it is valuable to spend their time and effort on programs for women. There are also programs for black teenage boys, for inner city kids, probably for Africans (and African-Americans), that get less attention. If you feel that you can see some disadvantaged group you'd like to advocate for, go ahead. If you feel that you don't want to advocate for anyone, also go ahead. But it doesn't make sense to say that because you don't want to advocate for a group/any group, or think the effort is not worth it for you, then everyone else has to agree not to do it either. (And besides, in many cases obstacles for one group affect other groups, so it doesn't have to be duplication of effort but shared effort that can be applied more widely - eg: increasing awareness that not everybody is likely to have a USA traditional-geek-boy-in-highschool background helps interviewers learn to avoid questions that rely on an assumption of that shared background, which helps everyone with non-mainstream backgrounds like women, homeschooled kids, and foreigners).
Nice. Keep at it. Following a project through to the end is very difficult and you've done it many times.

Learning a game engine and implementing it is not a trivial task so don't get discouraged by the people saying it's not a big deal.

The important thing now is to make progress with your skill. Do not become stagnant and be content with knowing the game engine. Start doing things from scratch and see where that takes you.
That hasn't been my experience. After I settled in here people eventually approached me and said they were afraid to talk to me about anything not work-related out of fear that I'd take something the wrong way.

I think men are less concerned about their ability to tell rape jokes and more concerned that anything can be blown out of proportion and taken to social media. This sort of stuff can ruin lives and I think THAT is why many men walk on eggshells. In this case, people went after pg without even hearing his side of things, and a quick browse of Twitter leads me to believe that even though he's stated his side of things people are still unwilling to change their stance on this. Instead, they'd rather be pissed off and label him as part of the problem.

In some cases what you said is probably true, but based on what I've seen they seem to be a minority. I don't think your average person honestly thinks that rape is okay, even if they find humor in rape jokes.
Haiku meets 9th processor
Lately, everytime I search for something on Amazon, it will appear on other websites as well. It is probably Amazon doing it but it is annoying, to the point where I know log into Amazon using private mode.
Credit card security is broken. Here’s how Bitcoin could help fix it.
I think the biggest difference here is that he has actually shown the world his work....
"The brochure in question dates from 2007, suggesting capabilities may have advanced even further since then ..."

Naaah. I'm sure they have been sitting around patting each other on the back.

On a side note, here's bone. Ever hear of Black VPN? ;)
I think pg is very influential in tech and he has missed several opportunities to speak out for the powerless being abused.

I think this is made worse when he runs Hacker News, and lets that platform be used in a very similar case to defend himself.

My original post references "First They Came" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...) That's not to suggest feminist bullying is anything close to Nazi Germany, but to suggest we all have moral duties to speak out for the powerless and abused.
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