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regulation and heavy taxation of drugs is ineffective, unjustified and will have bad outcomes.

Alcohol is regulated and taxed. Tobacco is regulated and taxed. Decongestants, cough syrup, and spray paint (not a drug, but a problematic retail good) are regulated, if not uniformly taxed.

There are limits to effective regulation, yes, but that's no reason to throw your hands in the air and abandon all of it, which is what you seem to advise. You're continuing to misrepresent my statement (I'm not "ignoring" positive effects, I am capturing negative externalities). And you've dodged and avoided the matter of personal responsibility as I've iterated it several times in accruing those negative externalities to those on whom the responsibility for them lies.

Why in your scheme of things should the cost of social ills be allocated to all while the benefits accrue only to a select few? That's precisely the same situation as exists in much of the present global financial markets where financial gains are privatized while losses are socialized. This generates marked adverse incentive and moral hazard problems. In some circumstances (but not all) the mechanism of that has been government action, but the point is that regulation and action can have the effect of capturing or socializing externalities.

My argument is that the capitalist market system works best when both profits and costs can be appropriately allocated to those on whom they are attributable. There are many cases where this requires significant intervention in market mechanisms, usually where boundaries of property (e.g., public health, pollution, broadcast of authored works) cannot be otherwise readily determined or enforced.

There's a reason Libertarianism remains a largely prepubescent pipe dream. It's a fantasy world.
Ask HN: Do you run a SAAS app?
It would be interesting to see how many HN readers develop and run SAAS apps, and whether they are side projects or your primary focus.

And, as this is HN, what tech does your app run on ?
I have only watched "Solyaris", but I believe I can say that Tarkovsky is one of the greatest directors who ever lived. I read the novel after watching the film, and while the film missed a few of the core themes of Lem's masterful piece of sci-fi, it still was able to capture the essence of the planetary being that is Solaris.

Stalker has been on my watch-list for quite some time now, but I haven't got around to watching it. Maybe tonight?
It requires positing an extraordinary degree of ignorance on the part of Google to support the contrary view. After all, people have always had the option to use their real names, they've simply chosen not to - presumably before making the change you'd make some attempt to look into why people would choose that way.
Dltrrr - like stuff by not deleting it
So, why is it possible to have XML files reading arbitrary stuff from whatever place again?

XML is data. If your application needs to send a request for reading a file through XML this should really be explicit, not relying in a "permission happy" XML library, no?
That article doesn't make any sense. I have to read each paragraphs two or three times and take mental notes to deduce who's who and who's doing what to who.
I can imagine this being extended into entertainment in general. Watching a scary movie (i.e. Blair Witch Project) from the point of the victim would be terrifying! Being one of the luge runners in the olympics would be thrilling! Not to mention the adult entertainment industry; now you don't have to just watch things happen, you can actually participate.

I think like any technology it has multiple uses, good & evil; its up to us to decide how we use it.
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The worst part for me is Bill Simmons apology in Grantland[*]. With phrases like "we definitely screwed up", "moving forward", "we appreciated the dialogue", it reads more like a server-outage postmortem, rather than a somber response to the death of a person.

Also, the article 2769 words too long, which is about 2700 too many.

http://grantland.com/features/the-dr-v-story-a-letter-from-t...
There seems to be an implication that Google somehow obtained this information and added it to her account automatically, while this might be technically feasible I'm not aware of any actual claim that this is the case.

Much more likely is that the user entered her real name when she signed up initially and just forgot about it (how many people here can recall what details they gave to MySpace or Yahoo a decade ago?)
Wasn't the "New system check framework" already in 1.6? I remember seeing warnings about BooleanFields without defaults.
That screenshot doesn't seem to indicate to me that any change to any outgoing identity is to happen. The only thing it tells me is that I can use Hangouts to send SMS.

I haven't used android in a while, so you still might very well be right, but the screenshot you've posted as an example doesn't tell us anything.
When I see a comment like this, it makes me reflexively stop and look back to see if the commenter is trying to make a joke, or is really so dense and petty that they're trying to make this an issue.
Has the theme of a product ever wanted you not to use it?
At work, our QA really hates spiders, so Testia Tarantula http://www.testiatarantula.com, which we use makes him uncomfortable. So we did this: https://twitter.com/awjre/status/426286163716874240
Yes, the heavy handed Facebook login is one of the main reasons I don't create a Quora login. Why oh why did OpenID have to fail? :(
Except that isn’t true! your G+ account is only created by you and only shows what you want it to.

That is just another one of the inaccuracies in that post that are stated as fact.
No incentive to keep black people out of first-class. They do have an incentive to price discriminate: charge people more who would be willing to pay more. Likely outcome: lower fares for economically disadvantaged groups.

This is insanely naive. Do you really think that rich people don't pay a premium for "exclusivity"? And who, pray tell, do you imagine they are trying to exclude?

[0] http://www.wired.com/design/2013/08/how-segregated-is-your-c...

[1] http://jezebel.com/5985110/new-york-fashion-weeks-models-are...

[2] http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/macy-hit-class-action-sh...

[3] http://valleywag.gawker.com/harvard-study-black-people-get-s...

[4] http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1934432

[5] http://valleywag.gawker.com/racial-profiling-newest-trend-in...

[6] http://qz.com/149342/the-uncomfortable-racial-preferences-re...

[7] see p. 4, http://ccrjustice.org/files/Report-CCR-NYPD-Stop-and-Frisk.p...
This thread started with:

"It's pretty crazy that you need to use the same credentials to "buy" a $0 app as you have to remotely lock and wipe your iphone and mac."

I'm having no trouble remembering the context. Why are you?
I had a couple of GeoShitties/Geocities websites around 1998 or so; I never bothered to check if they were in any of the downloading projects, but that article was some interesting nostalgia as I was certainly one of the younger people on the internet at the time.
Not necessarily. Imagine being alive for a million years, you might just be bored enough to create this kind of simulation, where you believed it all to be real. Complete with twisted robot overlords, last ditch battles, and awesome fight sequences...
This article is riding the anti-Google+ bandwagon, as you mentioned exploiting a very complex, highly nuanced tragedy to try to bolster page views. It's just as unfortunate to blame complex societal issues (like the acceptance of transgenders, criminal backgrounds, educational history, etc.) on a technology or software product, as if Google Hangouts carefully considered the ramifications of a male versus female name and decided to "out" the user maliciously.

Cue the sardonic "don't be evil" scare-quotes that inevitably appear.

Though I don't know if I'd go as far as blaming the user -- it is possible the system had two or more identifiers and confused them. Indeed, the core purpose of Google+ is as a simple aggregation of disparate identity systems across Google's properties and apps, so such conflicts are a virtual inevitability. Hangouts was upgraded, to much cheering, specifically to aggregate SMS and IM functionality, so if you were living a different life on both things might get complicated.

It's extremely hard to hide or change the past. It was hard before the internet, and has become effectively impossible now. It is almost irrational to expect to transition to a new life and an entire legacy of breadcrumbs will disappear, especially while trying to hold onto some parts of that prior life.
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Working is too compulsory. But as a result you will not have any money and life will be difficult.

> But you can't use Facebook AND demand wages from Facebook.

That seems backwards. It's when you use Facebook that you create value for Facebook and Facebook makes money off your work.

> Can I demand lost time wages from http://wagesforfacebook.com/ because the text scrolls too slowly?

Yes you can. But as you did not create any value for wagesforfacebook.com, so it would be weird even as a political statement.

I think you have to understand that this is not really a serious demand. I'd guess no one behind this campaign actually expects wages for using Facebook. It just tries to shine a light on the fact that we are all working when we're using "social media".
Can't we disable G+

Can't we force Google to disable G+? For example, Google has been know to be trigger happy and thinking art works were porn. Or just put an obviously fake name on G+ and let it fall on the "Real Name policy"

Or just quit Google altogether, there. Maybe create then a new account on Google with a fake name.
You should not feel trapped. Programming, more than most sectors, grants you the liberty to choose your next job very freely, and to ease your mind about quitting your previous job.

Because: if you are good, people will fight to work with you. So be good.

Then, if you dislike your job, just stash some money and quit. Your savings will easily carry you for the few months you might need to find a really interesting job.

* * *

To sum up:

- You "love programming", so you should enjoy doing it for a living, as long as the project is interesting

- There are lots of interesting projects out there

- Regardless of whether the project is interesting, you will be well-paid

So my advice is: be well-paid for a while, and if you are not interested in the project, just quit. There is plenty of other fish in the sea.
Once SMS is turned on you get a message on top of the screen informing you what identity will be used, can't seem to find a screen shot of that (probably since people don ' way to publicise that info).
Nice try, google employee.

Even if people don't have a google+ account (even if they don't have a gmail account), do you really think google aren't building a profile with as much personal data as they can collect?
This site says there are 34 states where you can be fired for being transgendered, and 29 were you can be fired for being gay [1]. It gives a map showing the later.

[1] http://www.upworthy.com/29-states-can-fire-you-for-being-gay...
Google created my G+ account automatically. I removed everything from it, but it is not "only created by you".
This is what happens for all wars after reddition: Suddently all local soldiers who did lawful things can be charged for having done illegal crimes. Humans are responsible for their actions, perhaps in the limit of the constraints they were held under. Blame the US for using the vocabulary "war on terrorism" and the NSA for being a military branch. If power turns over and it is deemed illegal, there can be a mixed between penalty and pardon for those involved until the country heals.

The upside is, it's most probably democracy which is winning today.
Asked today to elaborate on his reasons for alleging that Snowden “had help,” Rogers, through a press aide, declined to comment.

Typical unaccountability from one of our elected public servants. How about letting your constituents know the truth?
Move to a tech hub in Europe, given you speak English then London would be the obvious option (Berlin might be another option if you want to work for startups). There's also other countries in Europe where you can study post-grad CS in English (e.g. the Netherlands, Sweden, etc.).

If you're interested in getting into the job market there's plenty of tech companies in London who are willing to hire people straight out of university. It might be easier to get into big companies (as they're more willing to provide training and pay for flights, hotels, etc. to bring you over for interviews) than smaller startups though.
Estonian IT security chief: "I don't want to use American encryption anymore"
Some Ideas Don't Require A Kickstarter
It's always easy to blame someone else, especially if that "someone" is already being hated on by a lot of people.

Google only knows as much information as you give them [edit: is publicly available or can be bought from someone else]. Using a mobile OS that integrates many services from Google, without doing proper research on what these services are allowed to actually do and then blaming Google for using the data, you agreed to let them use, is just wrong.

People just started to forget: Everything comes with a price. Whether it's money, viewing ads or providing personal information, in the end a product is never truly free.
Freax wasn't it?
So's privacy intrusion.
So your anecdote says you had one experience and hers says she had a different experience. Whose are we to believe as authoritative? Is it not possible that software has different results for different people based on a wide variety of settings, most of which are not visible to the end user?
Also the sheer level and scale of integration of Facebook with, well, basically life. Globally.

Also one has to keep in mind that the Internet itself is also constantly growing and evolving, and today it is nothing like in times of MySpace.
Making an Indian agency work for your startup
Which is why unemployment is lower than in Europe.
I don’t' care what goes on your phone, I just care when the facts are misrepresented.
What is special about this? Am I missing a Portal joke again or are we finding a 10-year-old technique funny today?
As opposed to the fork and "holy-hell-everyone-roll-back-quick-reverse-that-double-spend" that happened with Bitcoin?
URLs you can laugh at!
And yet there was a fork with a minor point upgrade. Did anyone see the fork happening?
"Negligent with other people's lives due to unexamined privilege" is a subset of evil.
Alternatives :

- send your resumé to uk/ireland/switzerland to get a good paying job where you can sharpen your skills (it's easy to relocate inside Europe)

- start your own business if you're living at your parents AND if you feel like you can be an entrepreneur... focus on international users (so you can host your company somewhere else easily later). It's only risky to start a business if you have something to lose. If you're living at your parents', there's basically no risk.

- get a job, save AS MUCH money as possible, learn as much as you can. Do it for 1 or 2 years, then leave to a sunny paradise (in asia?) where you may want to become an entrepreneur.

But do yourself a favor: don't expect others to be your only chance. YOU are your only chance.
Crunch mode definitely happens in the UK too. (I will leave it to others to decide if the UK is in Europe or not...)
No, but google will do all it can to link them.
Have faith in patience. Good things will come. Stick with what inspires you. What I took from university, I took from two excellent professors out of dozens -- they are who matter (and I did not study CS). Don't grasp for "getting out," dive deeper into what interests you and see what happens naturally. Get involved with a community; open source, hacker meetups, etc. You will know where to go soon enough.
Can we stop with the nonsense "they have comitted no crimes" line? They have violated orders by FISC and overstepped their boundaries in many cases before the FISC, then lied to it.

So of course they comitted crimes, it's just that the punishment (or due process) is nonexistant.
In some countries like Spain, you don't have a right to decide what your (legal) name is. Your parents are required to register your father's first surname as your first surname, and your mother's first surname as your second surname. You may only change the order of your surnames, and there is a specific legal process to do this.
That is not the same thing. An ad targeting secret profile is different form a public G+ profile.
mo cheol thu a phc!
I thought I had two separate accounts for YouTube and Gmail. Not anymore. I used my Gmail address to register an account with YouTube. What prevents them in the future from buying some company, and link those accounts because I use the same credit card or some other supposedly unique identifier?
It is NOT true that I can avoid opening a Google Plus/Facebook account, and thus protect my privacy.

Google/Facebook has been striving to integrate the public account with many important services. Google/Facebook are a monopoly/very dominant in email, social networks, navigation, smartphones, etc. Some online services already require a Google/Facebook account. Your social media account determines your credit score[1], or can get/deny you a job position. This is going to get more widespread.

A social media account has become mandatory, and the law should step in to protect our privacy and safety.

[1] http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230477310...
I used the last one - http://tokn.co/6szkpy57

I wasn't very satisfied with purchasing a popular 3rd party podcast app in the past, but this one looks promising.Is there a syncing desktop app in the horizon. I imagine that would make this app more enticing :)
It isn't "offended" to be outed amidst transphobic people, it's "endangered". I wish we lived in a society so safe it would only be "offended".
This isn't true for your public profile. Whatever you share on google+ is what you, youself, put on it.
It doesn't share the sex they can deduce you have, it shares the sex you entered yourself. Same with the name and everything else.
created 15 minutes ago

But to answer you, so the casual reader does not get confused, you get a Google+ account when you use gmail or youtube or pretty much any other google service.
Recalculating the newsroom: The rise of the journo-coder?
What's up with the Poles? Is it a thing?
Just curious, asking as a Pole.
Bitcoin Has Arrived in Vegas, But It's Still Far From Mainstream
> We pick the shortest, most direct route.

Eh, no. I'm sure they try but more often than not my YouTube is streaming from Amsterdam according to http://redirector.c.youtube.com/report_mapping, I live in Stockholm and have a 250 MBit connection. So instead of blazing fast speeds I get buffering like I'm on a modem.

I've found no way of reporting this issue, my ISP did not know either. I worked around the issue myself with hundreds of lines like this "74.125.163.38 r1---sn-5hn7ym76.googlevideo.com r1.sn-5hn7ym76.googlevideo.com" in my router hosts file. This finally made videos buffer pretty much instantly.
There are lots of options - but it's up to you to make them happen.

* Speak to someone. I know you feel like you're alone - but you're not. Find a local tech group and speak to the people there. If you're feeling really down, speak to a mental health professional. It's a great feeling to get something off your chest.

* Find a job in London - or any other UK city. You seem to have good written English and you're a European citizen so shouldn't have any visa issues.

* Start your own consultancy - either work for small local companies or use oDesk and bid for work.

* Take a "day job" and concentrate on your passions in your free time. Grinding away in a Java shop may be dull - but could provide you with enough cash to start an interesting side project.

* Finally, don't worry about starting small. My first job out of university was driving a truck and delivering PCs! A bit shitty, but it provided a springboard to all sorts of interesting work.

Good luck!
Europe isn't a country. It's a region with both strong and weak economies. A regional average of unemployment rates is invalid and useless for any meaningful statistics.

US: 7.3%

Strong economies in europe:

UK: 7.5%

Germany: 5.2%

Denmark: 6.7%

Norway: 3.1%

Weak economies in europe:

Greece 27.3%

Spain 26.7%

Italy: 12.5%

You can't average countries with completely different governments and economies to produce a regional figure, just like an average of the US' and Mexico's (4.25%) would be equally meaningless.
http://spaaaccccce.com/Space_wanna_go_wanna_go_to_space_wann...
Google only knows as much information as you give them

Google also knows all the information anyone else gave them.
> I got the idea that although you can use jQuery, it is an anti-pattern and not guaranteed to always work. At least from what I could find in SO and blogs.

Only jQuery haters say that. jQuery is totally compatible with Angular,and Angular ships with its own jQuery lite, replaced by jQuery when available.
The only thing you need to do is wrap jQuery calls into a directive. I use jQuery and plugins all the time with Angular, never had a problem ,as long i dont call jQuery from a controller , only in directives.
It doesn't have to be intentional to be evil. But,

1) The decision to require a full name and gender was intentional
2) The decision to merge multiple accounts under the Google+ umbrella was intentional
3) The decision to automate this merging was also intentional.

I've myself been caught off guard with Google storing my search history on one of my customers' Google account because I forgot to log out after managing their AdWords account. Stupid me, right? But just as with Facebook, they've lost my trust. I'm not alone, and I think it will come back to bite them in the end.
You're not missing out on anything. The joke is a lie.
I would not betrust anybody with my money who forced me to have a Google/Facebook/whatev account.
The tech protests get personal — and ugly
I have studied in Italy too and, even if I didn't have a big passion for programming as you did, I see your point.

Apart from English University, think also about coming to study in Denmark, in particular where I'm studying now, at DTU (Technical University of Denmark).

Here the Startup scene is very vibrant and the University itself is very keen on the entreprenurial scene, with a lot of possibilities for student that want to open their own companies.

On the other side, the lectures are very practical, so you could apply your bachelor background in more close-to-real-life projects. You'll also work quite often in groups, as in a real job, and the bureaucracy does not exists. You call the teachers by name, they answer emails (!), you know the date of the exam since the beginning of the semester, and you have a variety of courses you can choose from, creating your own personalized study plan.

Aaand, student jobs are quite easy to get here for Computer Science students, and the wages are quite good, even comparing them with the high cost of living.

Think about it ;)
Correct. Only 17 states protect against gender identity discrimination in the private sector. The Wikipedia article has a nice map of what is protected by state: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_employment_discrimination...

Attempts to prohibit discrimination of sexual orientation and gender identity at the federal level (the same as sex, age, handicap, race, color, religion or national origin) via the Employee Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) have failed since 1994. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employment_Non-Discrimination_... for details.