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WTF? Woman should be more worried about what is said behind their backs then men? Are you saying when someone is a jerk to you to just take it? Being a man, you know that's not how we roll so why should a woman do anything different?
Speaking as a former 14 year old boy who went on all sorts of embarrassing shopping trips with my mother (and sometimes 4 younger sisters), I would say the reactions other people had were the least significant effect. The most significant effect is that as an adult, I'm can walk into the maxi pad section and find the ones that meet the required criteria. If I ever have a daughter I need to take bra shopping, I can handle that. Developing confidence and competence to do those things is way more important than the reactions of other people.

If a female founder conference helps women develop confidence or competence, or helps connect them to customers or investors or future employees, good for them. Those benefits will last a lot longer than whatever silly (over)reactions people have.
One more reason to encrypt every bit we send and to use voip instead of the PSTN/Cellular voice.
Valid point. I'm not sure what "participate" really means though. Do Google Express customers have to provide their loyalty cards? Does Target get all of the data they'd get if the customer shopped in store or through their own delivery service?

It would be silly to imply that Google's customers don't see any benefit as they're obviously getting some revenue and data.

But it would be similarly silly to imply that Target participating in the program doesn't mean they're concerned about it and not looking for ways to handle the customer's experience end to end.
Which is... every philosophy that exists?
Reminds me of this quote from the Mythical Man Month:

"The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.

Yet the program construct, unlike the poet’s words, is real in the sense that it moves and works, producing visible outputs separate from the construct itself. It prints results, draws pictures, produces sounds, moves arms."
Many of the steps seem reasonable, but I couldn't follow some of the associations:

E.G.

"The first large proton synchrotron was the Cosmotron at Brookhaven National Laboratory, which accelerated protons to about 3 GeV (1953–1968)."

directly to:

"The stated purpose of the one-party state was to ensure that capitalist exploitation would not return to the Soviet Union and that the principles of Democratic Centralism would be most effective in representing the people's will in a practical manner."

Very entertaining.
> For a start, I'd say that just about every EU citizen is aware of it.

They know it exists, they don't know how it works or why (unless they run a business).

> Plus, prices in shops have to show VAT-inclusive prices to end customers

... which is exactly what I mean by "hiding it". You'll hardly ever see "€ 4.00 + € 1.00 vat" when going through shelves; you'll always see "€ 5.00". You have no idea how that price is calculated, what is tax and what is not, until after you've paid -- and even then you'll see an aggregated total, so if your basket included stuff that was taxed in different ways, you'll likely never know. Which nobody cares about, because we don't know how VAT works, for us it's just a random pricing element like the cost of materials. Except it's not: when it's said and done, it's a tax on fixed-income employees who can't justify a VAT return.

The american approach to sales tax, which seems complicated and "magic" at first, is actually much more transparent.

> Secondly, it's not regressive because the more goods and services you buy, the more you get taxed.

Nope. It's regressive because it's flat rate. A millionaire buying a dishwasher will pay the same amount of tax as a regular joe buying the same dishwasher, in practice penalising the poorest of the two. That's the definition of regressive taxation.

The theoretical notion that this is evened out by millionaires buying dozens of dishwashers versus joe's single one, is just that: theoretical. In practice, it does not happen: consumption levels are basically the same across most of the population.

> If I buy a luxury yacht, I'll end up paying more VAT than someone buying a toy boat.

If you buy a luxury yacht, it's likely not owned by you; it's owned by You™ Ltd, and filed as asset for this or that reason. You™ Ltd will diligently file its VAT forms, of course, and in the end it will get that VAT money back. Of course there are rules and enforcement etc etc, but in practice that's how it works for everything but the most outrageous items.

> rich individuals may well try out all kinds of tax avoidance schemes but that's not a problem specific to VAT

No, but VAT makes it trivial to game the system in practice, which is why businesses are fine with it. Note how there are constant attempts at abolishing "pesky" laws like inheritance tax or stamp duty, which touch very few individuals but are hard to game; whereas VAT involves everything and everyone but it's just accepted as part and parcel of doing business, because in the end it's paid only by fixed-income n00b employees who can't justify a VAT return.
They are starting with 25k SKUs. They have the potential to have infinite SKUs in this program, while brick and mortar stores are limited to shelf space.

That being said, it might make sense to keep the selection artificially small for multiple reasons.
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Ask HN: Advice on founding startup during PhD?
I'm in a CS PhD program at a decent school. My eventual goal is to launch a start-up. I'm also just getting by financially (I support my family).

I know of people who've launched a startup after their PhD, but anyone have advice on how to launch one during?

Reasons:
- money
- want my ideas to come to market quickly, not stagnate in conferences forever
> Further, any philosophy that includes axioms limits the value of logical reasoning.

On the contrary, as logical reasoning in any particular system of logic depends on the set of axioms defining that system of logic, any philosophy which does not admit any axioms likewise does not admit logical reasoning, and any philosophy which only includes those axioms necessary to support a system of logic can't lead to any conclusions other than those that constitute the description of the system of logic. In order for a philosophy to have interesting consequences, it must have substantive axioms.
> when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing

This part alone shows how much superficial BS this is.

You cannot produce anything without using the earth's resources. They do not naturally belong to any man.

So it's either "take what you want, by force, and fuck everyone else", or we find some peaceful way to share those resources amongst each other. Preferably without terminally destroying them for future generations.

Yes, the latter is done through a huge variety of intricate social constructs, and all of them are corrupt to some degree, because such is mankind.

But the only society in which you do not need permission from your fellow men is one in which the majority of the population has the status of serfs.
I think it is a bit sad so many people see programming as pure magic. A programmer should not, in my opinion, see itself as a wizard doing tricks.

Maybe see yourself as a modern magician instead: you have to work hard, you have to do the tough job, you have to know every tiny part that can go wrong during the show. Only then your work will appear to the audience as a great piece of wizardry.

Never fool yourself!
Imagine you're an early stage startup. You have a handful of overworked, stressed-out engineers trying to ship v1.0. You don't have the time or resources for a dedicated Ops team, so you go with AWS (I think this is a great use case for AWS or any public cloud, btw--it just makes sense at a really early stage startup).

You ship your product, get some customers. Fast forward 18-24 months. You have grown enormously, you have lots of customers and revenue projections and expectant investors.

Your (now much larger) engineering team has gotten used to AWS conveniences and leveraged a lot of them in the development workflow. Your architecture consists of several layers of ELBs, you have painstakenly set up autoscaling and deployment via Elastic Beanstalk. Your server backups are AMIs. Your data lives in RDS (analytics in Red Shift). Your webservers use Elasticache. SQS is the backbone of your asynchronous job workflow. Customer email traffic goes through SES. Etc.

Now your AWS bill is something like $25-30k/month. You're at the point where the pricing differential between real hardware and AWS is getting big, and it will only get worse over time.

Now management has to make the hard choice:

- Build an Ops team capable of architecting, constructing and deploying new infrastructure on bare metal

- 3-6 months of work to go from design to final cut-over

- Risk some business interruption in the changeover (downtime, unexpected problems) and slower development iteration until the engineering team gets used to new tools/ways of pushing code out.

or

- Continue on AWS and eat the bill as cost of doing business.

This is vendor lock-in at the most basic level.
Do you know in which part of the phones this is supposed to be in?

In every cell phone? Without more details I call BS on this. It might be possible, but stating that every cell phone has it, sounds unlikely to me. I don't think it is part of the GSM specification, so what would be the reason that EVERY cell phone (Also non-GSM phones) has it?
I agree - I have Black Sun Empire I keep for when I need to power through and focus.
I am not so sure it's generational as I assume you are on the younger side... Forty-five here and I don't trust people in suits to much (or really religious people).
Really? Dude can blubber oblivious sexist things about "even playfields" but answers have to be something new? What is there new to say about the same old sexist narratives? Nothing? Right, so basically the guidelines just enforce sexism. Good job, that's exactly why I despise Hackernews.
Rand set out to create an anti-Marxism and she succeeded... in creating a dogmatic totalistic philosophy that inverts Soviet-style fundamentalist Marxism.

Never fight against-- you inevitably become that which you fight. (to paraphrase Nietzsche)

Like Marx, Rand was far better at criticizing than she was at proposing a solution. Both proposed scenarios with a big hand-wavey "magic happens here" step in the middle followed by a utopia.

I also have to say this: Rand's admiration for big business and for "captains of industry" was obviously coming from someone who'd never actually worked in the high corporate world. Your average executive is almost indistinguishable from a Soviet apparatchik, and corporations are internally not terribly unlike Soviet bureaucracies (especially big ones). The number of real executives who at all resemble Rand heroes is something you can count on one hand -- and interestingly most of them don't espouse Randian-type ideology. Most seem to be either apolitical or slightly to the left.

Some of Rand's ideas are interesting and well stated. I think she's worth reading. But a lot of her politics sounds really archaic now that we're almost 25 years past the cold war. Today's totalitarians are mostly ultra-right-wing theocrats, strong men like Putin, and neoliberal state-capitalists who are attempting to create a kind of high-tech feudalism.

The fanatical totalistic version of socialist ideology is dead (that's a good thing-- one down, three or four to go). I'd personally take European or Canadian style "light socialism" over Iran or Singapore, thank you very much.
While I expect you are correct, the USAF recruiting film specifically pointed out that cell phones aren't permitted in secure areas because of that maintenance mode.
A quick google search shows that some cameras can be activated without that little LED coming online.
What do you mean by discussion about software? Is the readership primarily programmers or is it software end-user discussion? Having a clear idea about your user base is step one, and I think that should be easy for you.

How many uniques per month are you seeing?

Have you considered video? You'll need to find that balance between user-experience and monetization.

Like someone else mentioned, you might want to consider looking into a proper Ad Server setup where you can then tap into the programmatic ad exchanges/networks and get more bang for your buck. DFP Small Business may be best - it's free up to XX million imps and you can manage AdSense through it as well.
Don't forget the time you spend commuting to said brick-and-mortar store. Who wants to waste 45 minutes driving to and from Target, only to wait in line listening to screaming kids? There are only so many hours in a day.

I'll do my best to support my neighborhood hardware store, but I'll definitely delegate many purchases to Amazon Prime delivery if it means saving a trip to Target, Best Buy, or other big box store.
Please! Seriously.

what you're describing isn't photography, but graphic design. That's fine, and of course people are free to corrupt their images as much as they want, but we really don't need another app for this, there are already hundreds of them and they all do the same stuff.

As for the OP suggesting these are works of art, yeah right.

These move photography away from being an accepted form of art, not towards it, these filter apps take photography more and more into the world of cheap throw-away effects. There's nothing new here, nothing that creates any real artistic value, it's just pixel pollution.

Along with t clarity slider in LR these apps are doing so much harm to the reputation of photography in the art world.
I don't know.

I don't think the Air Force would just make something like that up. It's not just a USAF policy, not to permit cell phones in secure areas. I know lots of people with clearances, none of them are permitted to bring cell phones into their offices.

I applied to the Cyber Command in the Summer of 2008. What kinds of phones were in use at the time, in the United States?

And the video did specifically say "every cell phone".
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The first goal is increased payload delivery and second goal is for manned missions - the CARE module is also part of the test which would be the space capsules ISRO would use.
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It generally has a pale yellow color, but varies from deep yellow to nearly white.

...

In telecommunication and radio communication, spread-spectrum techniques are methods by which a signal (e.g.
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I'm a State actor. I can hire detectives that will go through the blockchain and monitor your traffic, and I'll likely get a fair approximation of how many bitcoins you have. Or you can just tell me when asked, as a good law-obeying citizen should do.

This is how all tax works, btw. Income tax is nothing but a wealth tax limited to wealth accumulated over a certain period. There is nothing impossible about it.
It is much more the latter than it is the former, but I would classify it more as a cautionary tale in many ways. That is, the "good guys" don't really win.

For comparison, Fahrenheit 451, 1984, Animal Farm, and Brave New World present cautionary examples in a fictional context, but can still be seen as political works in their own right.

This is not to say that you'll enjoy the book (it is a long book, and anybody who has read it will remember the 70-page speech by Mr. Galt, even if they ended up skimming much of it) or even agree with the philosophy; often it seems that well-intentioned approaches that result in disaster by the "bad guys" (e.g. job security measures -- nobody can be fired) are disastrous only because they are taken to an extreme (e.g. everybody gets paid the same).

As for why I would recommend reading it, I grew up in the 80s, and I feel like the view I got from reading most casual fiction of the time and even from my early education was that communism (especially Soviet-style communism) was as valid an economic system as capitalism, and in the future imagined by scifi authors, the USA and the USSR were side-by-side in the conquest of space; and that much of the anti-communist sentiment, and the Cold War itself, was more of the Dr. Seuss "Butter Battle Book" argument over which side of the toast should be buttered, or pointing out specific leaders of the USSR (like Stalin) as being aberrations, rather than an indication of problems with the system of governance. Reading Ayn Rand (and later, Goldwater's Conscience of a Conservative, and various works by von Mises and Hayek) gave me a more complete view in a lot of ways as to why the Cold War happened (even though most of those books postdated the start of the Cold War significantly), and how McCarthyism could have existed in a country that to my young eyes seemed extremely tolerant to controversial ideas.
> These cameras typically have a light that powers on when the camera is in use.

Yes, typically, but sometimes not when used by parties who want to obscure their use of the camera [1].

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/12/18...
Hmmm, the situation has changed since when I wrote that. At the time there were a lot of grayed out comments that were pretty neutral. That's great news!
Yes, there are all kinds of ways to do that.

But typically you see stuff like:

for ( i = 1; i < 10; ++i ){
DoSomethingUseful( i );
DeterminateProgress( i, 10 );
}

So each iteration of the loop, the bar advances by one-tenth its maximum length, without regard to what DoSomethingUseful actually does.

Chalk it up to lazy coders and tight-fisted bean counters.
@dang, what are you suggesting I didn't follow? I don't see your point. Just because I think these me-to apps are a stupid waste of time is just my opinion, some people will share it and some won't, but why does having that opinion violate your guidelines. Maybe you should read them, or be specific about what you're objecting to.

I was respectful, I respectfully think this app is worthless. I suggested alternatives, like not applying filters and taking better photos. I presume you believe me to be gratuitously negative. First, don't use adverbs, second it's not unwarranted, we just need to stop making more of this shit.
I don't think anyone was arguing that adopted children are any less meaningful than biological children, but if a 60 year old business owner adopts a 40 year old manager who works at his company that's really not the same thing.
This confused me, too. The record officials must have discovered an older hotel?
Signaling System 7 (SS7) is a big security problem. It's the packet-switched control network for the phone system, and it has very little security. It was designed in 1980 to be run only internally between phone switches.

The main function of SS7 is call setup. All the switches along the route get their switching commands over SS7, not over the circuit-switched channel. (That went out with SS5, the old audio-tone based system). Call setup is preceded by "translation", turning a destination phone number into a route. That's done with query messages over SS7.

This allows outsourced wiretapping. Verisign offers this as a service for telcos, so they don't have to deal with law enforcement themselves.

http://www.verisign.com/static/001927.pdf

Verisign, which also runs much of the US SS7 network (http://www.verisign.com/stellent/groups/public/documents/dat...) is well placed to do this. All they have to do for a wiretap is to have the translations for a source or destination number reroute to a wiretap point, which then records while forwarding to the desired destination. As an SS7 provider, they already have all the call metadata.

Vulnerabilities come in because more parties now have SS7 access. Cellular roaming and VoIP to landline routing are managed over SS7. So a large number of computers other than dedicated telco switches now have SS7 connections. A break-in at any of those points has wiretapping potential.
That seems like a good policy even if most cell phones were immune to hacking.
As an avowed Libertarian, libertarian, and fan of Ayn Rand (but not a self-identified Objectivist), even I think this is off-topic here. Granted "intellectual curiosity" covers a lot of ground, but I struggle to see the relevance of this piece to a site named "Hacker News".

All of that said, I'm just happy it isn't the flat out hatchet job I expected. When the mainstream press mentions Rand, it's almost always to portray her as some "Wicked Witch of the West" caricature, and to misrepresent her philosophy so as to marginalize it.
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There is nothing wrong with adding a little fun and imagination to anything in your life. I don't know how many people fool themselves, versus viewing things with a particular narrative (magic) for enjoyment.
It's not something you can assume, but sorting the keys is sometimes a desirable feature in a JSON serializer. (Just like pretty-printing is.)
A great book, full of interesting ideas and implications of software development carried on over millennia.
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I second Ben Rich's book. Kelly's own book, "Kelly: More Than My Share of It All" is worth a read too, if you can find a copy.
I haven't been in that exact position, but I've certainly started a startup instead of looking for work. In general, it's really really stressful. You're pulled in two directions: wanting to save money, and wanting to spend it.

On one hand, starting a company takes money. Lots of it. And some of those expenses just can't be avoided. On the other hand if you're living off a nest-egg all you want to do is save as much money as you can every month. I ended up getting stuck in a "I MUST release this product and get paying customers this week or I'm screwed" situation, and that's just not a good place to put yourself in.

In the end, I ended up taking on part-time work to pay the bills and subsidize the costs of my startup...and my stress level went way down. If you're in a situation where nobody wants to hire you, I'd say just keep lowering your bar until you get a bite. Just get any job. Once you land one, you can keep on looking passively, and upgrade to a new job as soon as you land it.
How do you know that those policies aren't in place to prevent a person from knowingly recording sensitive data with their phone? Was there anything indicating that it was specifically for the reasons that you gave?
The Civil War.
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I think the biggest draw for Ayn Rand and her works is that there are very few "role models" for fiscal conservatives in today's political environment. Most Republicans are neo-conservative warhawks that only pay lip-service to fiscal conservatism. Very few of them represent the older, Eisenhower traditional-Republicanism, who feared the Military-Industrial complex and understood fiscal conservatism. Even the "tea party" conservatives are mostly anti-intellectual, anti-tax, social conservatives. Fiscal conservatives are usually intellectuals who have a wide range of social beliefs and do not fit in with that crowd.

Ayn Rand's Objectivism aligns well with fiscal conservatives and capitalists in a way that is hard to find elsewhere. I have met a lot of people who are pro-capitalism fiscal conservatives and they seem to have fallen through the political cracks. I see very few politicians or public-figure role models who appeal to Capitalists.