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Yeah, I think there's a better way to alter democracy than outlawing political speech for everybody except approved major parties.

> Require candidates to provide clear answers

And the enforcement mechanism is...?
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It's all well and good to use the word 'democracy' in a casual way, but if you're going to write a long article about it, at least define what you mean. Democracy (strictly defined) between two wolves and a sheep is much different than democracy between 150,000,000 million wolves who are going to have to manage without murder and robbery.

A popular vote can only work where divisions are minimal. That is, where it isn't "wolf vs. sheep" or "lord vs. peasant" or "taxpayer vs. tax-eater", etc, etc. There are lots of ways to divide people, and it was only for a brief period, in a few countries, in the past few centuries when such divisions didn't cause authoritarianism.
That bit is good. Fixing a bug that has haunted you is even better. Everything I've ever made is pathetically simple, so I can't imaging how good it must feel to fix something that is actually complicated.
Is there a method to import a TTF or OTF font to start from? I've done a lot of work on a personal font I use, but I'd love to see how it plays out in Glyphr. Recreating it from scratch seems like a big ordeal.
That's not as bad as I was expecting. I was once working with a startups infrastructure (>100 servers) and it was near 20k/mo (mostly reserved instances)
He wasn't really trying before. It was a joke. To me activities like the RSA speaking are political activities. And they do not simply represent Colbert's personal views. This is probably the extreme edge of the leftish faction that still has influence and is connected to power. It is extremely critical of existing power and yet stays within "mainstream" parameters. If that group can see a realistic path towards political office that would provide more influence than the TV show and is likely to succeed in Colbert's person then he will be encouraged and quite possibly actually pursue a political office. That's my outsiders guesstimate of this.
It's actually pretty easy. You just don't pay your bill at the end of the month.
During slavery African Amercians were bred to be better stronger slaves.

Do you have a citation for this? I've been on the internet for 20 years and this is the first time I've seen anyone claim that slaves in the US were bred for characteristics like work dogs.
"Market: the state of trade at a particular time or in a particular context" - Google definition.

29% of operating systems sold today are XP?

29% of computers sold today are running XP?

When the article says "market share" I think that's misleading, there's no money or trade involved in people using an old thing. It's more indicative that such people are not willing to spend money on computing, than indicative that they are willing to spend money to stay where they are.
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Ah, so this is what the Bitcoin burglars have up their sleeves. Sell the bitcoins for pennies on the dollar in trade for clean identity information.

They're really going to clean up.
Seconded. If you want people to be honest about their employers, tying it to the one place employers are almost certain to see it is a little daunting. I understand if you want to make sure they're actually employees of the place they're talking about, but (a) you should say that, and (b) what's to stop me from faking my LinkedIn?
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Data visualization showing 24 hours of metro activity in Seattle, over 12k trips
Sounds like the analogies of Seattle being the San Francisco of the northwest (or vice versa) are correct... we have the same issues with bureaucracy, progress-fearing residents, etc. I actually thought I was reading the Pando article from a week ago (http://pando.com/2014/02/25/having-being-burned-once-before-...), and someone just did a s/san francisco/seattle.
They might provide by paying for it rather than hosting themselves
This seems to be mostly their CDN bill. Not sure, but I don't really consider a CDN as part of hosting fees, more of a general infrastructure fee.
stem is a bit wooly.

i think of the construction, driving/motor and manufacturing industries as being part of STEM and that covers a significant portion of men - several of the most common modes of employment for men if not all of them.

i could be wrong, but i am skeptcial - is this not a common interpretation?
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Can't confirm for ERA but this is standard practice for accelerator programs. 500, etc. do this.
Is it really outlawing all political speech, or limiting the amount of influence the wealthy have over the body politic?

Political speech would still be permitted, politics would just cease to be the playground of who can wield money better to who has the better ideas.
I don't think i can agree with "random". Anyone going for maximum branch coverage would find this problem. Also every point is where validation never breaks... until it does. It's like the apple openssl bug - trivial to find, provided anyone actually tests the code they release, trying to exercise all code paths.
Neat concept....keep in mind that culture and fit can vary from person to person and you're going to have a range of experiences. What's important is organizing companies based on their culture so people can match themselves better.
I submitted this because I just realized it's been half a decade since this was written, so if it's true then we should be able to see some evidence of whether or not Apple actually made a mistake. Has the essay turned out to be true? Mistaken? Or possibly true in the future?

And if Apple made no mistake, then what does that bode for the future of programming?
It's a term of art reserved for those who are domain experts on a given policy matter or subject who are granted control over that area. Chairman of the fed would be a good example. It doesn't have to do with technology so much as technique.

Generally the more blatantly a role requires domain knowledge, the more likely it is to be given to a technocrat as opposed to left for political debate.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy

A technocrat can technically (heh) be a full-time politician, but the idea -in a nutshell- is to limit a position of power to people with relevant education.

Example, you'd require a medical degree to be a Minister of Health and Care Services.
The problem with democracy is that without solid rules in place it can lead to mob rule. Furthermore, politicians don't always put the people first, often we just vote in temporary dictators...

And spontaneous 'revolutions' like in Egypt and Ukraine don't always fix the problem - often it just leads to the most violent and vocal opposition becoming the next mob to rule...

Democracy is impossible and dangerous without the rule of law...
While one could probably knock a couple thousand bucks off that if one cared to (which is probably penny wise and pound foolish but invariably comes up in HN discussions of hosting costs), the amazing thing is that hundreds of thousands of people worldwide are able to use core infrastructure which costs less than the fully-loaded cost of a single billing clerk in your local municipal water department.
nice dude. you have an email list?
Near my house the power runs on poles through a wooded area. Every year, when the wind blows, trees fall on it and take out the power. Sometimes twice a year. They're always out there replacing broken poles and pulling new wire.

I call the power company up now and then and suggest they bury the wire in the section. Or sometimes I'll suggest to the linemen as I pass them putting in a new pole. They get rid of me with some excuse they made up on the spot, and nothing changes.
I'm not sure if PHP will ever really "go away", for the same reason bicycles won't "go away" just because motorcycles exist. PHP is insanely easy to start using, and while maybe the average person isn't capable of getting it up to highway speeds, not everyone needs highway speeds.
Yeah, IBM is extremely weak on UX and design overall. I got accepted into the beta and once you're in it's no more intuitive. I will say that I'm pleasantly surprised they were able to put something like this together though - I wasn't sure what would come of their Cloud Foundry / OpenStack announcements last year.
> There's been several reports of SF landlords kicking out tenants from rent controlled apartments to lease out rooms on AirBnB.

That’s the opposite scenario of the one describe initially.

> Until recently, AirBnB fought tooth and nail against paying hotel taxes.
> I think safety regulations

You appear to be conflating taxes (that do nothing for the end user, if increase budget pressure on safety and service) and safety -- and ignoring the fact that what is generally actually enforced are quotas. There is no significant taxes on taxis for instance: it's in every case I’ve heard about a self-enforced tacit price for recommending someone for a licence once you quit; the actual tax exist, but is generally negligible.

> while those regulations exist, you cannot simply outcompete other players that are forced to follow regulations you avoid.

Actually, if your service include a reporting tool, the HUGE and unquestionably largest addition of both AirBnB and Uber, but before them eBay, you end up having to follow far stricter practice that include service, and that, unlike regulations, can adapt.

Price control, quota, safety regulation, user reports… if you confuse those, you end up presenting a false dichotomy between two ways of organising a service.
i'm not talking about aptitude and i hope i didn't give this impression. desire to do something does not make you inherently better at it...

maybe i miss your point, but 'impetus' as classically defined is nearly equivalent to the newtonian concept of momentum and yes - the common sense there does make sense. the usual real problem here is that vaccuum is not something we experience - so the idea that the natural state is to be 'at rest' is common sense but misleading - one can of course argue that the presense of air and the resistance it gives is also common sense. its a wooly term.

when i use it here what i mean to say is that imo its blatantly obvious.
Yes.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/02/18/world/europe/k...
Why is a $49 product front page HN material? I think a lot of people are clicking and upvoting thinking this open source.
"Right now I find programming tedious(just following directions--exact directions). I'm a very novice programmer, and that is probably the reason?"

I would say that your current experience with programming is probably more a reflection on how much what you are programming actually interests you. You might be able to think of programming like painting; maybe you are painting a picket fence and find it to be the most boring thing in the world, or maybe you are painting a bunch of robots blowing each other up on a canvas. Some programming is dull and tedious, some programming is exciting and vibrant. Some people just don't like painting, and prefer pottery.

Can weed help? That seems plausible to me. Weed can make a shitty movie seem better, maybe it can help you enjoy your programming work more.

If you want to try that out, I recommend a sativa strain, not indica.
This is great, and I love how they got some UI things exactly right, such as zoom with the mouse wheel, and pan with the space bar held down, including visual feedback for the tool switch.
Google has a large office in Kirkland (near Seattle). I hope that means Kirkland is on the short list!
Good democracy depends on a well informed populace who are not wilfully or selectively misinformed by newspapers like the economist when the politicians the people have placed their trust in country bent on subverting and emasculating the democratic system.
And that is what has gone wrong with democracy -- the ability to buy power with money. So long as that is possible, democracy will always have a half-life.
I remember watching a documentary about exactly that use for LSD. I don't remember the name of the docu. but I found the following link:

http://news.sciencemag.org/brain-behavior/2011/06/lsd-allevi...
Not just Zapier. For example, as far as I can tell, Zapier doesn't support either Drupal or Netsuite (neither is on their list of apps), but this page exists: https://zapier.com/zapbook/drupal/netsuite/
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Their model definitely doesn't fit the industry way of doing things but I give credit to the Lightbank guys for putting something different out there and standing behind it. They have a track record and are investing a lot of their own money. Also, I think they saw how effective their approach with Groupon was and this program may be something where they are trying to replicate what they did there.

That said, this program isn't a fit for me so I don't plan to apply.
> democratic system is better than any of the utopian non-democratic schemes

Those aren't the only two choices though.
> Same with Female HR workers. Women make up a massive percentage of HR departments from 72% to 90% and have an interesting habit of discriminating against "unattractive men" and "attractive women" in their hiring practices.(I'm not saying men are perfect just showing that everyone's human)

I think people tend to overrate how much influence HR departments have in the hiring process, at least for tech jobs.

After the screening process, where "attractiveness" does not really come into play, technical interviewers usually have much more weight in the final decision (in my limited experience, at least).
good balanced approach. I like the suggestion to ask for a review after something good has happened.
Thanks for the link. We think it is difficult to see from the point of view of our users. This guy proved quite the contrary. One of the best stories I've ever read here.
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Additional coverage at Polygon: http://www.polygon.com/2014/3/3/5467718/broderbund-museum-of...

They did a nice feature on ICHEG (the International Center for the History of Electronic Games) at The Strong last year: http://www.polygon.com/features/2013/6/25/4452894/the-strong...

And of course, a direct link to ICHEG: http://www.icheg.org
Well what's the point of the Democratic Peace theory anyway, since there are a great number of non-democratic countries all around the world, holding nuclear weapons or other extremely harmful weapons - Democracies going to war with Autocracies carry a lot of dangers as well.
actually my source is very flimsy - its a chris rock sketch i saw a few years ago.

this is perfectly believable though considering the often inhuman treatment of slaves.

googling this matter reveals that its popular enough to appear in the auto complete, gets mention on the wiki page about african american slavery and even some counter arguments:

http://quinxy.com/politics/why-slavery-didnt-make-african-am...

so its not clear cut i guess... although its interesting that there is a furore or knee jerk reaction against things like this. i don't really get it...

i especially enjoyed this bit from his article though: And while some slave masters did engage in eugenics their efforts were ineffectively crude, being incredibly limited in scale and inexactly uncontrolled. Further, even with a more controlled and widespread eugenics program, 250 years would not have been enough time for major genetic differences to emerge.

he seems to have some basis for this assertion so it is probably fiction - but its judging from the internet presence its a relatively common myth.
Yes, this seems quite reasonable considering the scale it handles.
Agreed. I'd still like a response from my initial email.
So... political speech is permitted for Rupert Murdoch and G.E., or whoever owns NBC now, but not... who?
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> which costs less than the fully-loaded cost of a single billing clerk in your local municipal water department.

To be fair, a lot of maintenance value goes into the software that is never quantified. Broken software breaks hard, not partially, so maintenance is even more crucial.
All of Howard Chu's analysis in that thread is great, but he didn't discover or report this bug. Reading that message should make it clear; he's talking about sloppy string handling and bad APIs, neither of which has anything to do with this bug, which was mixed-up return code semantics in an internal, static function. Look later in that thread for some other pretty sloppy code he tears apart, though.
This is true, but why do these differences change so dramatically when you cross national borders? Specifically, Men have a higher variability in IQ in countries that have higher gender inequality. To me this seems to indicate that it's an issue of culture and the way men and women are socialized, not something biologically inherent to each sex.

Not related to IQ, but this study debunks the variability hypothesis in regards to mathematics performance: http://www.ams.org/notices/201201/rtx120100010p.pdf
Creating a secure voting system based on pseudonyms (for granting anonymity) looks like a relatively easy task. In fact, for me it looks like the only way to make a secure and anonymous voting system (even paper ballots aren't completely so).

The problem is what will make the government follow the people's decisions?
I'm ambivalent about having to consider blowback from conversations like this. For me it's less about the content or the topic, though and more about the emotional content. I don't think you should get flayed for expressing an unpopular viewpoint, but I don't want someone's emotional content, or outrage. I want information, conversation, and counterpoints. I don't think being purposefully evocative leads towards changing minds. I think it tends toward polarization. I'm in it to figure things out and learn, if I can, and to help other people figure things out, if I can do that. Mostly I just want productive dialogue where I get to pat myself on the back for trying to be a better person ;).

And yeah, I definitely think it would be disingenuous for someone to say or imply that we haven't made a lot of progress in the last hundred years.

That being said, I'm on the side of the gender and ethnic fence that has largely benefited from discrimination in the past, so I try to be relatively sensitive to it, especially since it can be so subtle and hard to spot.

One example: http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/press/press_release... (this is ethnic, not gender discrimination)
Exactly. Instead of giving a binary choice, there are other ways a country could be run. Churchill was from another era.

EDIT: Besides, Churchill was only a proponent of democracy when it was going HIS way. We have now seen communication cables between FDR and Churchill during WWII, where Churchill implored FDR to go to war against the will of the US Congress. You can't have it both ways.
And let's be clear, that the link between dietary cholesterol and blood serum cholesterol is not established. The idea of low cholesterol foods is therefore dubious, at best.
I'm a big command line fan, but vi/emac/nano are not word processors. They're text editors.

You might be able to get close if you are using them to edit Markdown and running it through Pandoc (especially if you add in a non-commandline PDF viewer). But still.

WordPerfect 5.1 - now that was a curses/command line word processor :) I don't know of a modern equivalent though.
It always baffle me how little people here talk about DurandalJS (that uses knockout for its bindings). It is a nice alternative to angular... and it uses knockout which is awesome. If you like knockout, you should really take a look at it.
I was watching Freakonomics the other day (well, part of it, anyway), and they were talking about how the Japanese police will only really investigate crimes when they have a clear chance of getting a conviction. Take that as you will, but it seems to be that even if there's an investigation, that doesn't mean that anything will necessarily come out of it.
Two weeks is pretty standard, three weeks is the top end of normal. Anything beyond that for a first year employee is considered generous. The no-policy thing doesn't seem to be the norm in my experience, but I've certainly seen it. I consider it to be a major red flag when interviewing with a company.
That have been tried. That it's better than anything else that's been devised is far from clear.
yep at the bottom of the post. thanks!
I have to say, Chrome screaming and falling over and begging for mercy at the sight of their icon listing page doesn't really bode well.
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> How do they have the balls to do this kind of shit? Makes me want to vomit.

The larger the organization you join, the more divorced you are between decisions as a person and decisions as the organization. Sure, corporations may effectively be citizens, but they sure don't come with the ethical constraints and responsibilities that individuals do.

Not all ethical decisions are directly beneficial for the individual, but multiply that times hundreds of thousands of people? The good decisions get lost somewhere between the PR department and the accounting department.
At a glance, this looks like AWS being used like a dedicated host, which as demonstrated, isn't exactly cheap.

There's no spot or even reserved pricing, just a bunch of on-demand instances that were up 24/7 for all 28 days in February.

Seems like a genuine dedicated host, reserved instances or an architecture that leverages the elastic in elastic compute cloud would be worth considering.
Lurker here. Why is there so much pessimism in this thread... ?

I'm not familiar with all the font libraries out there. I use Font Awesome right now, and quite frankly it's nice for being free, but has limitations in other regards(like only being pixel perfect in multiples of 14...etc) It seems like a great alternative to what's out there (Different details at diff resolutions, internal colors being changed).

HN confuses me more and more every day. Upvoted to #1, but 99% of these comments aren't constructive.