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I used to serve Cleese meatballs at a local market. He's as funny in person as he is in his work. I don't think he can help it. I'm glad more people are getting to experience it, no matter the reason.
>> "A quick read of your other comments on HN showed me that your also racist.."

Yeah that's won the argument. Why not label people as communist or socialist next?

No one is really persecuting you. Paying a bit extra tax/insurance is hardly in the same category as what Turing had to endure with chemical castration etc.

Life is about discrimination. I'm discriminated against because I didn't go to a posh school. Because I'm not a woman. Because I wear glasses. Because I'm not big+muscular. Because I don't know any famous people.

Retirement age is 5 years older for men than it is for women. Men die earlier than women.

Either you can whine about it, or you can get on and enjoy life. Life is far too short to spend it trying to change the minds of people who don't want their minds changed.

Having said that, I have no clue why this is on hacker news. Flagged.

Just my 2c, YMMV
He's right, but probably not for the reason he thinks he is. There is no reason the church should be forced to marry homosexuals if that is not part of its religious theory; the church is a private institution and can do as it pleases. Likewise, however, there is no reason that the state should codify "marriage" under the law, homosexual or otherwise. The proper state of affairs is fully-legally-robust civil unions for all, with some backed religiously, and some not. Trying to make the church recognize gays in order to get them rights under the state is just the absolutely wrong order to do things.

And I apologize in advance for my continuation to this inanity, because this entire thread is so completely the opposite of Hacker News.
I don't have an answer, but I doubt you can prove its the most fiscally effective solution.

I'm sure there's been studies on the costs of doing this. These are just off the top of my head.

1 - finding and sending them home. This will be huge. There're not all from Mexico, not always an easy/cheap trip. Cost of finding them will put cost pressures on local law enforcement. Cost to detainment while you send them home. Some you won't be able to prove to the receiving country that actually is their home which increases detainment time, sometimes indefinitely.

2 - lost low cost labor would increase business costs resulting in inflation and business failures. This may also be huge. Its an unknown economic shift.
I am explaining to you that you are trying to call a steak a cake. The biological nature of your preference is irrelevant.

You want to redefine marriage, but by the current definition there is no inequality. You are as free to marry as anyone else.

Your desired redefinition is stupid for two reasons: 1) The obvious biological and social dynamics of heterosexual reproduction. 2) The entire first world has shared a common definition of marriage whereas those places with weirder norms are all shit holes. It's a proven institution and fucking with it is a dangerous slippery slope. This is not about mean religious crazies who want to make you sad. There's a lot more at stake when you go tinkering with this stuff.
And send every single California farm into bankruptcy?

"Those damn illegals" are pretty critical, in real life.
One of the most touching things I've read in while..

The author evokes life's tragedies in simple but nuanced manner.
http://colorstreamapp.com/
Of course we will. Everyone is afraid of being labeled a socialist. Or a communist or a facist since they are all used interchangably now.
If California wasn't subsidizing the South, then they wouldn't have the fiscal problems they currently have. In 2005 alone, Californians paid $47 billion more to the Federal Government than they received in spending.

Considering California's annual budget is $100 billion, Californians could lower their taxes by almost [Edit] 40% and avoid their budget problems if they stopped subsidizing the red states.

- http://www.taxfoundation.org/research/show/22685.html
- http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a5_S...

[Edit]
A link to CA's budget: http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/pdf/Enacted/BudgetSummary/SummaryC...
I know it's possible, because I did it a few years ago. As I recall, I installed a plugin.

Unfortunately, that's all I remember - I haven't used Eclipse in several years.
http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/Dim_STAT

<quote>
All STAT data are collected from standard Solaris or Linux programs (vmstat, iostat, etc.) or some special (like psSTAT for users/processes activity) and saved in MySQL database. Collected data are accessed via Web interface and can be presented in several manner (interactive or static graphs, text, HTML tables).

dim_STAT can be used for On-Line monitoring one or several hosts on the same time. As well, data may be easily post loaded from output files of stat commands and analyzed in the same manner. At any time collecting from new stat commands may be added to the tool (via Add-On interface) and enlarge your view on application workload, RDBMS, your personal STAT program, etc.
</quote>
In a word, greed. In a few more words, people failing to understand, tolerate, care for, and stand up for each other, especially people different from them.

Greed wasn't just invented. Ditto for the rest. A scientific explanation requires that the dependent variable Y be a function of the independent variable X, if X is claimed to be causative.

Another thing I dislike about statements like this is that the speaker always comes out smelling like a rose. That may not have been your intention, but there it is.
> send every single California farm into bankruptcy?

Bollocks. You're repeating industry propaganda. Some farms on the margin may go, but so what.

How about silicon valley takes a hiatus from frivolous social apps and make some good fruit picking robots so nobody has to do it? It wouldn't make business sense now, but post deportation it might.
> "You load the illegals on boats and drop them off at a home port"

And the receiving country is just supposed to take our word for it? "Hell, he sure looks Guatemalan!!!"...."Dear China, We are sending you 50,000 'orientals' on the next 3 OOCL container ships, they have no passports but they sure as hell don't speak American." Yeah, this will go over well with all our trading partners.

> "In the case of Mexico you take them to the far south, not just over the border."

I'm pretty sure Mexico won't go for this.

> "get the illegals out and seal the borders"

Have nanotech magic-growth fences been invented and I didn't notice? Precisely how do you plan to do this? Oh I know, hire cheap Mexican labor? Or maybe bring over some Chinese to build the fences like we used them to build our railroads?

> "Nobody making less than $90K should be let in this country to work"

Aren't immigrants making over $90k taking $90k jobs away from people already here? Or do you mean we figure out what our real skill shortage is and manage it much better than we ever have been able to?
Yet is also true.
Fuck. I never had the chance to meet Dan, but he gave us extensive feedback on our w2009 app. Of all the YC folks who responded to my cold emails asking for feedback, Dan went the furthest in terms of writing several rounds of very lengthy and thoughtful critiques of our application, giving me his cell phone number for any questions, even putting in a good word with PG for us.

In our correspondence back and forth, he always struck me as an incredibly intelligent, humble, and generous guy who would do anything to help others succeed. He closed one of his last emails to me with this:

Be sure to keep me in the loop. Few things are more gratifying than seeing casual acquaintances & friends make money doing what they love. As always, I'm just one person - do what your gut tells you.

This is so senseless, and I'm having trouble understanding it. PG said it best: the world is a poorer place without him.

Rest in peace, Dan.
>> "especially the ones that were most convicted about how futile it is to write Java without Eclipse (or at least, one of the big three IDEs) - convinced me to give it another go."

I've been writing java for about 10 years and have tried an IDE once or twice. Horrible experiences.

Most of my code has been written using jedit/textmate. Syntax highlighting is all you need really.

Personally, I'd advise you go back to using a text editor. The myth that you need an IDE to code java is just silly.

Go back to the command line+text editor.
What would Mexico or China do about it? Nothing. Be realistic. The US still comes from a position of strength (for now).

> Have nanotech magic-growth fences been invented and I didn't notice?

The border was fairly tight for most of US history. Don't pretend this is a technology problem. This is a corruption and lack of will problem. It could be solved in short order given the will. As I alluded to, Ike responded to a growing problem and effectively dealt with it in the space of about three months. It remained solved pretty much until the early 70s.
"The law, in its majestic impartiality, forbids the rich and poor alike to sleep under the bridges of Paris"
I recall reading the anecdote at the first link. Without looking I wouldn't have remembered it was from Dan, or even that it was about Ticketstumbler, but I would have recalled the story.

That would happen over and over if I (we) were to sift through Dan's comments. He was such a selfless YC'er - we've gleaned so much from his activity here - but time tends to muddy the origin of ideas. It's like we know what we've learned, but we don't always recall where we learned it. I think it's for that reason I'm reluctant to read through his old stuff; I know I would discover Dan as the origin of so many thought-provoking entries we've been so fortunate to count on across his time here.

His was a tremendous contribution. The impact of this loss is equally so.

To his loved ones and family, to Tom, to my fellow news.yc'rs, I'm sorry.
anyone know how this compares to wuala's scheme?
My personal favorite are the Templates in Preferences > Java > Editor > Templates

Ex: type in sysout hit CTRL + Space and it will convert sysout into System.out.println();

In regards to shortcuts, the ones I use most are:

CTRL + ALT + UP/DOWN to duplicate a selected block of code and paste it above/below

CTRL + D to remove the line

ALT + UP/DOWN to move the current line up or down

On a related note, has anyone found a way to CTRL + Tab between opened documents?
Extra marital
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I hope you just wanted to turn a phrase and can actually see how facile that is.
AB Principle: Quick way to check if what you are doing is worth it
Please, all gays, stop bitching about equal rights. You DO have equal rights. As you don´t have the right to marry other man, I don't have that right too. The only difference is that I don't need it, nor I want it. Because it is not Natural!

Of course, it would be perfectly feasible economically and socially to provide for the opportunity of same-sex marriage. But is the where the humanity should go to?

Edit (4:51am EST): I am not hating gays or anything. In fact I have friends that are gays. I just don't support their cause at all.
Money in CA is allocated more in ways that benefit politically powerful groups, rather than what is most efficient for the public as a whole. The public sector unions are the very worst. It's incredible how long it takes them to repair a road or build an overpass. They literally worked on the overpass at CA-237 and I-880 for 7 years. Unreal.
You Can't Do What You Want By Doing Something Else
>Science agrees. It has been scientifically proven that the brain and the hypothalamus is gendered within the first trimester of a pregnancy and that the gendered brain may not match the body's gender due to androstendione, a stress hormone similar to testosterone that binds to receptors that testosterone should have bound to creating a female hypothalamus in a male body, creating a third gender class - males, females and homosexuals.

I believe this has been discredited long ago. Some googling finds

"Although clear sex differences were evident, Swaab, Gooren and Hofman (1992) found no differences in the size of the SDN of the preoptic anterior hypothalamus between "gay" and "heterosexual" men, contrary to what the androgen underexposure theory predicts. Dorner's (1988) contention that "gay" men have a female hypothalamus was not upheld."

http://books.google.com/books?id=PzDKr-qCdTAC&pg=PA127

The article referenced is

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v378/n6552/abs/378068a0...
AskHN: ideas on final year project related to networking security ?
i want to do a final year project related to network security . any ideas which are feasible?
"VCs have a responsibility to get returns for their investors, not fix the government's fiscal problems."

I realize this isn't what you were getting at, but its a good place to make the remark.
Its every American's responsibility to pay a certain amount of time and effort into ensuring government is run well. If your dance card is too full with making money and no time left over to watch over your government, it catches up with you. I'm not singling out VCs here. It is a general problem for an economy to be structured so most do not have time or inclination to pay attention to governance maintenance. There is a second problem which generally only applies to wealthy and/or well organized groups which is the inclination to "corrupt" governance in their favor. Both these problems have reached critical effect.
I guess it depends on what you want to use Twitter for. I use it mostly to see what my friends are up to, and I don't follow people I don't actually know. News I can get from feeds (and I tend to be picky about those, too).
Big? Perhaps.

"Unlike anything else"? That's a grand claim. The net's seen some real craziness in the past.

I remember when AOL was valued at $166 billion. MSFT was around half a trillion dollars at one point. It's unlikely that Facebook will come even close.
Because micropayment requires me to do at least 10 actions with the hidden thought "is this secure?" whereas blocking ads is more around like three actions.

More important, when I pull out my credit card, this is exactly the same action than when I buy for 300 € worth of stuff on a web site.
I would like to see meaningful data on how both "The border was fairly tight for most of US history" and how "Ike" cleaned things up so efficiently.

You may be able to solve your fence problem by having extremely strict laws punishing U.S. citizens that engage in employing illegals. I doubt any other approach would work.

I also don't know what the economic impact of losing the gray/black market labor would be and how long it would take to recover from it the changes.
It's not so much the DBMS that doesn't scale. It's particular data access patterns in combination with particular requirements that don't scale. RDBMS alternatives do little more than educate me about that fact
To be fair, cloud storage is a huge step up in terms of reliability for small to medium size startups where the capital necessary to roll out their own hardware and people necessary to maintain that hardware is not within their budget. A lot of startups resort to very risky setups because they can't afford increased reliability, and Amazon and Rackspace seem to solve that problem. For a larger company, it makes more sense to expend capital on reliability because they can afford it and they want to hold the ax when something bad occurs.
Yeah, I'm sure that's an action that would basically pay for itself.</sarcasm>

I can think of no greater economic nightmare than a nice racially motivated witch-hunt against the states most-exploited worker class.
Gold has no intrinsic value either; its value is barter value, what other people believe it's worth.

Fiat money is no different; its value is barter value, what other people think it's worth, which includes how much they trust the issuer not to debase it.
I live in Spain, like California:

1) We are frontier with way less developed countries. Africa-Europe frontier.

2)We have good climate all over the year.

3)We got in debt for buying houses. Tens of years of loan debt were given to the government in the form of taxes. E.g, you got 35 year loan and paid right now 16% taxes.

4) The government got used to spending the money, thinking ill will last forever.

5) People stopped paying loans. They had the same money that before, taxes grew because debt grew. Today we have millions of unsold houses.

6) Government spends way more that come in. They don't want to stop spending so they, as an state, go in debt too.

7) Government is in trouble. We are near 20% unemployment rate, gov is constantly trying to lower the official rate making statistical tricks, like not considering unemployed those that don't work but go to a employment class.

8)To be continued...
And that (this entire thread) is why we try to keep politics and such off Hacker News.
First off, the South wasn't always "red" states and you would do well to not permanently brand an entire state as such. Georgia's current governor is the first Republican to hold the spot in 130 years!!

Now you point out this $47B overcharge. And what happens to the great California economy once the U.S. is developing economic cancers all over the rest of the country due to lack of funds? Who's left to buy the iPods? Like it or not, Cali is part of the U.S. All for one.

Seriously, if your looking for root problems, not fanning the flames of bubble economies is a good start. I've never heard of a bubble that ended well. Paying attention to state governance to not allow the spending to get this out of hand would help as well.
I don't know if these are techniques rather then hotkeys, but I actively use the following (Note: I'm not really a big fan of IDEs, but use them professionally to conform to my work environment and Eclipse, while somewhat bloated, is very pleasant and gets better with every milestone).

Debugging:

Learn the hotkeys for stepping in (F5) over (F6) out (F7) and continuing (F8), I get super frustrated watching people click on the icons. Really helped the transition from debugging with the likes of gdb.

Conditional Breakpoints are a revelation.

Remote Debugging is great (I've been able to debug remote java processes, Lotus Notes (yuck) instances, Eclipse workbenches (for plugin development), Remote Perl Server Code (with E-P-I-C and Padwalker)... Eclipse's debugger interface is amazing.

Text Editing w/ Java and CDT:

CTRL+W : close active editor

CTRL + Space : Autocomplete (mentioned earlier)

CTRL + SHIFT + O : Organize Imports (Finds classes that should be imported, removes excessive imports, etc...probably one of the most justifiable reasons to use an IDE for Java development)

ALT + SHIFT + J: Add Javadoc in context

CTRL + SHIFT + G : Does a search on the highlighted text's context (i.e.) a method name to show where it is used.

F3 : Navigates to selected context (Method, class, variable, etc.)

CTRL+SHIFT+T : Presents Dialog for searching through Types (works in most perspectives), i.e.: Searching for a particular java class.

F4: Show the Type Hierarchy (subclass/superclass information)

Import & Export wizards are your friend (Creating java jars, exporting projects to archived zips).

Eclipse can be used to track history (kind of like your own personal lazy SCM). If you make a mistake you can right click on a file and perform "Replace With > Local History..." (this may need to be enabled in preferences). You can also Compare to history well.

Tasks : The 'Mylyn' plugin is great for GTD and Task management. I was a bit apprehensive at first, but it's pretty incredible, especially if you are a nut about keeping organized. You can create tasks, and assign your current work to it, and it will track and remember context (what classes you used) as you work on that task. Mylyn also interfaces with Bug Trackers like Bugzilla and JIRA.
I knew it would get downvoted but somebody had to say it. Please don't stop downvoting. I want to see at least -10 on my score :)
This isn't completely correct. It does work if the counter-suit claims are valid and encompassing - sanctions in the legal process can provide significant leverage, especially because the "patent-trolls" are heavily involved with patent attorneys.
I know how you feel mate. Just hold on and share a nice moment with someone. Often, that's enough to bring back the zest for life.
Private sector jobs include all the minimum wage stuff which have no benefits. Even Steve Jobs only makes $1 a year, those types of pay packages skew the results as well. It would be more interesting to see averages segmented by job categories.
I started programming as a young man on Visual Studio programming in VB and C++. There came a day years ago where I had to work with a text editor and a terminal on an AIX system and was surprised at how little I knew in terms of compiling, building, and programming in general (how is a class structured again? What packages/headers do I need to reference? What directories do my files have to be in? Why isn't my code running?). I think it's important that those who code exclusively in IDEs step back every now and then and understand how these 'auto-magic' functions IDEs provide work. I've now spent years using IDEs in addition to my own custom environment (I switch back and forth between vi, gedit, and textmate (when i'm on a mac) and make extensive use of sed/awk and other CLI commands to do custom activities that IDEs certainly cannot provide).

IDEs bring a lot to the table, but I can't help but agree with you in that it can be a horrible experience, especially to those who are accustomed to having complete control over everything in their environment. I think it's great for getting things done efficiently, but developing exclusively with them can bring a close-minded view of how things work.
The very concept of the "American Dream" is individualistic. Individualism is ingrained in our culture. We are all taught to think for ourselves, and thinking for ourselves usually winds up being thinking about ourselves for most people.
That's an incredibly simplistic worldview that is expressed here.
Instrument Landing System
Our gov isn't too great at estimating costs. The ongoing Iraq war was initially estimated at around $60 Billion or so. Current estimates have it at $3 trillion.
i'm thinking that the Subclipse plugin (http://subclipse.tigris.org/) provides this. I've used this in the past, but through http.
there seems to be a stigma regarding the act of seeking counseling

God no - there is a stigma associated with various things that cause people to seek counseling (justifiably or no)- but this sure isn't one of them.

I'm very sorry for all involved.
You have to be more specific than that. These days information security is a huge field. Network security is a misnomer since almost no one works on "network security", which is about protocols not applications / operating systems.

I'd suggest being more specific about what sort of project you're interested in. Will you be doing original research on the size of botnets (you and everyone else in the world); maybe write a tool for something, I'd suggest writing a real webapp security assessment tool. I hate doing web app assessments. Another thing that would be really useful would be collaborative information sharing during a pen test (I've put a lot of thought into this one and could give you more pointers)...

If you want to play it safe, just write another fuzzer. Everyone writes fuzzers. Or you could write some VoIP security tools.