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I'm a little curious about how the bill got to $100k. Were the payments going unmade for months while you continued to do work for them?

I usually asked for biweekly direct deposits when I was contracting with startups, and I made sure to add that to my contract as a clause. If the money stopped, so did the work. But I never had anyone pay very late, and if they did it was quickly remedied with a phone call.

Now, as the cofounder of a startup (http://uphex.com) who uses freelancers regularly, I make sure that my freelancer collaborators know I'm serious about paying on time. I carefully lay out how and when we pay invoices, and usually pay far in advance of when we need to, in order to build up trust. To date, it's worked very well.
As things constantly change, especially in post secondary education, I think it's important to look at the landscape objectively. If you know what direction your want to take your life and career, a university isn't always the right answer, and it shouldn't be the default.
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My main problem with mobile ads is that they often completely break the user experience.

Why not make ads analogous to print: just (arguably) beautiful photography with some text on it and place them within the article where it makes sense. I never felt bugged while reading a multi page article in a magazine, when it says "continue on page 43" and got interrupted by a full page ad.

But no, mobile ads have to be huge in size, animated – or even better videos (because everybody has a unlimited data plans now, yeah), block scrolling and or slap you in the face after you already started reading.

Just nobody seems to care about quality of advertising on the web and mobile. A lot of big companies still focus on their traditional channels and pay a few bucks extra for the web/mobile part of the campaign. The Advertising Agency assigns the implementation task to the intern who knows a thing or two in jquery. And in the end the IT department of the newspapers just copy & pastes the code in without testing.*

A company would most likely never send a smelly alcoholic to sell their product on the streets. But they to that on the web.

*This paragraph may sound harsh, but this is how i often felt, when I was working for a big online newspaper responsible for custom campaign implementations and development.
Is it Google closing this, or Lenovo, now that the sale has completed? It seems to me that the agenda has changed now that it's changed hands.
I want to know one thing. Will it be illegal to point a laser pointer at them?
When you examine the topic at a level beyond "it's theft", you may conclude that imaginary property is unsustainable in a world with private communications, decide privacy is the more worthy goal, and view those corrupting justice to preserve dying business models as the crooks.
+1 for sharing it github (although git sucks ;)
have you actually read the glimpse of heaven article?
the tone of your comment made me suspicious... :/

i have basic, z80/x86/pic asm, forth, pascal, c, rebol, bash, awk, ruby, js experience. i've seen the game of life live coding demo a few years ago and also played with j while it was still closed source. to put it into perspective, im only 38yrs old.

after reading this glimpse of heaven apl article, its vibe hit me so im circling back to apl for the 3rd day already. i find it fun and elegant. the the keyboard layout is not an issue either; ⍳⍴×←=⍺⍵⌈⌊ were all very natural after a few minutes.

i would say, u would benefit greatly from learning apl.
it's definitely not the past.

just have a look at the nile language for example: https://raw.github.com/wiki/damelang/nile/socal.pdf

bret victor wrote a nice interactive visualizer for it in js: http://tinlizzie.org/dbjr/high_contrast.html

cool shit is coming up and you will be left out if the only thing is c++ which you are comfortable with...

also it sounds quite heart breaking how you discount your grandfather's work...
kinda disrespectful... and you are even wasting his time left on earth by recommending him to learn python? just spend a few hours with apl and it should be clear to you too why did he say python sucks. maybe try to implement a bit of his code in python or on a spreadsheet. that should be quite informative (and probably transformative) too.
Sharing is at worst a victimless crime. At best.. well I don't know about best but I'd say something about living in the future where we have the technological means to give people anything they need or want. That if something is wealth. And progress.

Thievery is an inappropriate description of making copies.
"the notion that some have more than others is considered inherently unfair seems to be a new phenomenon"

the notion that some have more than others happens amongst the 99%, but the notion that it's reasonable for the owners of companies like Wal-Mart and McDonald's to profit massively while refusing to pay a living wage, provide health care, or even follow basic employment laws is a growing problem that did not happen to the same extent in generations past [since employment laws were established, of course].

The notion that the people making the money are "earning" it while people doing actual work are "greedy" and "should try to get a better job if they aren't happy" etc.. is incredibly unhealthy and it is political propaganda fed to members of the 99% with a proclivity for consuming it, paid for by members of the 1% who much prefer that there is infighting amongst the various worker classes over who has a bigger house or a nicer car rather than to see that the entire system rigged against us is keeping us from living the natural lives we could all be living. you can only get someone to work a job selling a snake oil dream if you give them a taste of it and underwrite a sense of entitlement that encourages the belief that people who aren't succeeding are simply not trying, rather than the truth, which is that they aren't going along with the lie of the game, and the rest of us (self included) and our obsession with the trappings of the game keep us from living in the true reality of the world with the rest of them.

It's very beneficial to these oligarchs to remind us that, while yes, there will always be someone starving and they might just be right outside your doorstep, if you buckle up, save up for your children's college, their doorstep might be a little further from the poor.

and isn't that what it's all about, after all?
A non issue really, all you need is a filter in your backend that removes dots in gmail addresses before saving to database or querying for records. That's about 4 lines of code. It's the developer's job to know about edge cases like that and make sure it is properly handled.
I made no claims about democracy at all. I made a comment about police being accountable to elected officials and another about the futility of protests in this particular instance.

The police are accountable to elected officials. If there is the sort of significant abuse this comment thread is full of, there will be popular outcry.

The futility of protests and outraged posts on social news sites is nought to do with democracy. The police are popular with the majority of Americans (This is a post about a US city), and so if a minority of people object to tools police use it is futile.

HN is rife with police hate and outrage but we have a very professional police force filled with good people who do a good job protecting our security. If you doubt it, try other countries that don't have what we have.

It's the libertarian streak of the average HN reader. If there's anything inconsistent it's the libertarian who wants personal freedom to the extreme but also a quality of life they are used to in a western democracy.
If you just mean explaining latency and not the difference between ethernet and wireless there are lots of physical instances of latency.

You want hot water from the tap. If you haven't used it in a while or have poorly insulated pipes it could take seconds or even minutes before hot water starts flowing through the tap after you've turned the knob.

Traffic. While a section of highway (say a 3 lane x 40' section) may see 30 cars every minute, a particular car that just started 60 miles away and traveling at 60mph is still going to take an hour to arrive. Even though tons of other traffic is going through constantly the particular vehicle (message) is still in transit.

Echos are probably easy to explain this with, and are directly analogous to the sort of ping-pong, back-and-forth that network communication uses. You shout out a message and it can only travel at the speed of sound. It'll take seconds to cross the ravine and the same time to return to you. Shout 10 messages and 10 messages return in the same order all delayed by the same amount.
In this case, I think it shows that technology (Amazon's distribution network) is playing a large role in how business works nowadays.
The deal will close later this year according to the WSJ. It's still owned by Google.
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Sure, some people just want free stuff, but a lot of people just think treating digital copying like violent crime is an unacceptable excess of the laws the copyright megaliths have lobbied for over the decades.
> "So how do you explain that you lied before?" (silence)

Given that the email they showed does not represent a change to their story (that they never received an emailed concern from Snowden) I'm not sure that it's obvious it was a lie.

After all, Snowden's question was purely procedural, not a pronouncement of wrongdoing of any sort. The most action you'd possibly expect to be taken as a result of that email is that NSA's internal training adds a footnote to the hierarchy of authorities slide.

> Was anyone at the NSA ever punished for lying to the public or Congress?

The man who lied to Congress is the DNI, not a member of the NSA, and his testimony was a designed sandbagging: He could be charged with an actual crime no matter which answer he had given, so I'm not surprised that the DOJ isn't racing to proffer charges here, especially since the Senator asking the question both already knew the answer, and knew that he could have given the answer to the public directly, if he wished, since he has Congressional immunity to his comments on the Senate floor.

The NSA itself doesn't talk to the public as a rule, so it would be hard to convict members of them of lying in the first place. Their public statements are clearly designed to be at least technically truthful.

So I'm concerned then, that this has all become a giant echo chamber: People are fed information and use that to confirm that which they already believe, even when the evidence actually presented is contradictory. I know you're probably trying to vent more than anything but I don't see as a possibility that many people here will be changing their mind any time soon.

And I say that as someone who changed my mind; one of my highest-voted comments here was in support of Snowden on the occasion of the first story that popped up, before it became clear that the story being presented wasn't the same as the story as it actually was.
It's not really a smartphone factory though is it? It just assembles the custom casings.
I was chosen by God, so you would be advised to look at TempleOS and ask yourself, "Maybe, there's a reason he did it this way?" Give God and I the benefit of the doubt and seek enlightenment.
Maybe most of the original ones were contractors.
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That is why native ads are becoming popular in mobile. Think about Facebook ads in your news feed or Promoted Tweets. They don't break the experience.

This is early days yet but more and more app developers are catching on the trend. Tango and other text apps are other examples.
I'm going to upvote this, but it was a muddled bit of rambling. In parts I could almost feel the author pull his punches in a sad effort to try to make as many people happy as possible.

The key problem is this: whatever a university is, it's too expensive for the ability of the average student to pay back. That means it's a bad deal for both the student and society. Paying for more of it is just going to continue the spiral.

I have a different question. We know that training for future jobs is a requirement of some post-secondary institution. That's just a given for many fields with the complexities of modern life. So what about a good, solid, liberal arts education? The one thing that universities were supposed to be masters of for centuries? The one thing that allows each of us to participate in and enjoy life to its fullest? Where does society go for that?

We can't go to the universities, because we'll end up in a long, pointless argument about what the purpose of universities are. And, frankly, there's a lot of jumping on the bandwagon going on at most institutions, just google silly college courses.

Can we offload that to local tutors? Teach online? Is there some delivery mechanism for a liberal arts background that we haven't considered yet?
Ask a mathematics professor to remember all the random formulas that kids are force fed in highschool trig. You are as likely to get a blank stare as an answer. Are they the "slow kids"?
There was no complete denial. Does anyone really believe the NSA said "We promise we have never received a single email from Edward Snowden"? He'd probably have to send dozens of emails every day in the normal course of his duties.

The NSA did put out a complete denial that he has raised an actual issue with the agency's conduct of their intelligence programs, and this email doesn't contradict that line one bit.

There may be such emails out there (Snowden claims there's at least one), but this isn't one of them.

I mean, otherwise NSA wouldn't have released it.
Why is time spent so important? Results are what matter. And where is outdoor? A billboard has minutes of time spent.
I think he likes math because it's consistent. E.g. if I prove that some natural number "x" is prime in decimal, then "x" is also prime in binary, ternary, octal, etc. Counting "x" in a different base doesn't change the symmetry. Likewise, arriving at a theorem via different proofs just describe the same mathematical object in different ways.
Hey, so I had posted the above primarily because I've been trying to get a routable IPv6 address for a while, and haven't been successful; I've repeatedly asked Comcast when my CMTS would be IPv6 enabled, but their techs have just said "try enabling IPv6 on your computer and see if it works", they haven't been able to give me a schedule or even tell me if it was supposed to work yet.

However, just checked last night and discovered that they'd added a new feature that would tell you when your CMTS was IPv6 ready, and it turns out that they've finally upgraded me. I could finally switch off my tunnel and use a real, routable address. Woo!
Unfortunately, tac isn't cross-platform. On systems with GNU userland, you can indeed use 'tac', but that isn't available on BSDish systems (including FreeBSD and Mac OS X), where 'tail -r' is what you want instead. And likewise, 'tail -r' doesn't work on systems with a GNU userland, because the tail in GNU coreutils doesn't implement -r (according to the maintainers, because reversing the order of lines in a file is completely out of scope for what 'tail' is supposed to do). I don't believe anything in POSIX will do this cross-platform in a straightforward way, because neither 'tac' nor the '-r' option of tail are in POSIX. That leaves you with the options: platform-testing if/thens, or rolling your own in an awk/etc. one-liner.
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> we are less well off in several respects compared to my family in childhood.

Yeah, my grandfather never stepped foot on a college campus, yet he could support four kids and a housewife, own a summer house on a lake with several boats, own a winter house in Florida, upgrade his huge RVs regularly, retire with a large pension at 55, and live a life of leisure for more than 30 years during which he mostly played golf.
Income mobility in the US hasn't changed.

Yet the number one wealth predictor, having wealthy parents, is more true now than it was fifty years ago.
Sunde was tried and sentenced. He's been on the run since and hasn't served the time. Are sentences from trials ignored in role model countries?
I wouldn't have much of a problem with this if they specified the "narrow and prescribed" uses (and they seemed relatively tightly defined). One wonders if they've actually decided on those uses internally and not shared it with the public, or they haven't even made specific decisions there. Neither answer is good, really.
this is why i installed thunderbolt nics, cuts down ping by over 50 percent and actually increases advertised broadband speed depending on your host
.. but apparently the police haven't uncovered any evidence, and refuse to let him free because of fear of him tampering with evidence.
His trial is scheduled to september, so basically the danish police has nothing on him (or they would just get the trial over with), and use some bogus claim to keep him in custody.

So no, scandinavian countries aren't the worst, but they certainly aren't bright shining stars either.

-- another dane.
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> How do you regulate the regulators?

That's politics. Democracy requires things like accountability, transparency.

If the government has huge authorities that are almost completely opaque to scrutiny, that's a democracy problem.
Maybe this would be one good thing coming out of Heartbleed: It's easier to design (and more importantly, get people to implement) mitigations for actual disasters that have occurred and can be tested against, than do to the same for theoretical problem areas.

If we can get more libraries and implementations to be better engineered with the lessons learned from Heartbleed then that at least reduces the problem surface a bit.
Would you care to be explicit about the censorship to which you refer? Can you give specific examples and back it up with concrete data? Personally, I'm not sure what you might be thinking of ...
I know Justin.tv and Twitch.tv are related, does anyone know if this policy will also reflect twitch?
I posted this Ask HN earlier today. Thanks for the useful comments.

I have decided to not use a self signed cert.

Another question: any comments on CloudFlare's auto SSL support on paid plans? $20/month does not seem too much for CDN and SSL support.
It's the correct British spelling - http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/fulfil?...

The author lives in Netherlands so he uses the UK spelling 'fulfil' instead of US 'fulfill'.
... Then an attacker MITMs the bank with a self-signed cert, and strips the "don't allow self-signed certs" header. Such a header would be literally useless.

HSTS already allows self-signed certificates, if the certificated is validated out-of-band.
I think the biggest factor enabling the Surface Pro 3 to replace a laptop is the 12-inch screen. The 10-inch display on the first two generations was wonderful, however I always felt it was a tad bit too small for getting real work done.

Although it's now possibly large for a tablet, it's nicer to use than the first and second generation models since it's lighter and thinner.
It's weird of you to say that given that the Surface RT has the artificial limitation of only being able to run apps from their app store.
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I'd like to recommmend Touching the Void, an amazing mountaineering/survival story. Was also made into a movie that the author of the book seems to have favorable opinion of.
Broadly speaking, as it goes down a conductor it has to build a magnetic field, and as it does so the increasing magnetic field creates an electric field that opposes the motion of the signal.

Roughly.
Yes, I agree, Sex and the City was a deeply problematic and sexist program!
I wish I had saved a link or a reference to a story I once read about some very interesting small houses being used for temporary housing at some European university (I think it was in Europe). Something had happened that made it so they could not use one of their big housing units for a couple years, so they brought in these small houses.

They were ridiculously small, somewhere around 100-200 sq ft I think, but looked quite livable. They were split into two rooms. The smaller was the bathroom. It had a toilet and shower. There was no separate shower stall--the whole bathroom was the shower.

The other room was the kitchen/bed room/living room/dining room. The bed, dinning room table, stove, and couch all folded out.

You could reasonably comfortably have 3 guests over for a study session or to watch a movie with you on your flat screen TV.

These things looked comfortable enough that I wondered how they were going to get the students to move back into the housing unit when it reopened.

There's a lot you can do in a small space if you are clever.
30cm/ns is the speed of light in vacuum. Coax has a hight refraction index, thus electricity moves slower in it.
What you're proposing is a bit counter to the current European trend. That doesn't make it wrong, just thought I'd point out that the countries that do have the strong vocational systems you're talking about seem to be having second thoughts about them. Many European countries have traditionally had dual-track higher-education systems, with strong vocational programs as one of the two tracks. But in the past few decades employment and earnings figures have diverged greatly between the two tracks, much more than used to be the case. Today, the university graduate clearly earns more, by a bigger margin than was the case in the '60s-'80s. As a result, there's some worry about the future viability of the vocational system, and some movement towards increasing the proportion of students who go to university.
Most of the top stories here end up on another site I visit, but here we have thoughtful discussions on the topic even if its controversial where over there it devolves into religious wars, stupid jokes, and trolling within about 5 minutes. The difference is not the stories, the difference is that the moderation system encourages a different kind of discourse.

or, if you prefer the low quality version:
Yes. Next question.
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Laptops were supposed to kill the desktop, but they're still around

Nice comment. I'd add one thing, which I wrote more about here: http://jseliger.wordpress.com/2011/10/09/desktop-pcs-arent-g... : people still like desktops because they're really cheap. In terms of dollars per megahertz (or most "dollars per X" measurement one might want to use) they're the cheapest way to get the most bang for your buck.

They're also easier to repair and upgrade. Most people probably don't, but the option is nice.
Weight does change around the world, mostly because at the equator you are farther away from the centre of mass of the earth than you are at the poles, but also because of local gravity anomalies.
It's mass that never changes, so maybe we should all get an inertial balance for our kitchen!