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I used to work and live on opposite sides of the US-Canada border (for around 1.25 years -- I was too lazy to apply for the pre-screening to get to the front of the line... plus when it gets backed up on those bridges you still have to get through the lines of cars just to get to the pre-screened booth). So I have a lot of experience with Border Patrol (at least on the Rainbow Bridge -- I avoided the other ones since I figured they would be nicer at the one most tourists would use).

Canadian Border Patrol:

* Very professional

* Demeanor ranges from 'stone cold' to 'polite and pleasant' (in some cases 'warm' too)

* Once had an asshole of a Canadian Border Patrol guy that said my story was 'confusing' and that 'it takes a lot' to confuse him. (In a total, "I'm talking down at you because I'm a law enforcement officer that needs always project authority" sort of way)

* I once was in front of some people that got turned back from the Canadian border (one of them wasn't a US citizen and was trying to use a Driver's License as ID to cross the border) and at no point did I feel that the border people were acting like assholes to the couple trying to cross.

US Border Patrol:

* "military police with a chip on their shoulder"

* One time I had a border patrol guy get pissed at me because he accidentally set off the car alarm (he asked me to hand him my key fob, and he pressed the f-cking red button on it).

* One time I had a US Border Patrol officer try to crack a joke with me about a recent local suicide (it happened at the casino I worked at). It was in total bad taste... and I'm someone that finds humor in crap on 4chan /b/. I just kinda nodded to get through the border (and because the casino didn't want us talking about it at all either).

* One time I was almost pulled out of my car because they confused "I work at the casino" with "I won at the casino." The guy asked me how much money I had on me, and got pissed off when I told him, "I dunno, maybe $5 in change." (The odd thing about this was that he and his 'partner' were wandering around through the mess of cars backed up over the bridge going into Canada . They were US Border Patrol Officers, why are they patrolling the people going into Canada?)

Overall, I've only ever had my car searched 2 or 3 times (all by US Border Patrol as a US citizen). (One of those times I kinda agreed with the search even though they told me it was a 'random' search. I had gone across the border to deliver a present because it would be faster than shipping it. When asked how long my stay in Canada was I replied, "about 20 minutes." The reply I got was, "You've been randomly selected for a search. Pull around to the spot over there and take this slip with you."... At least they could be honest and say that I was suspicious...)
You have the perfect right to just point and say "you were supposed to do that", while losing all of your data.

The rest of us will be quite happy to ensure that what we think is happening, actually is.

It's akin to a pedestrian getting hit by a car and then saying "I had the right of way". Yeah, maybe so, but now you're in the hospital breathing through a tube.

Those of us who checked for traffic before crossing the street are at home watching TV.
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Ok, so check my shit out, I think you will either love it or hate it.. Either way I don't care I just like to ramble about dumb shit on the internet!
It was an April Fool's joke. Nickb is definitely not Paul Graham.
Do you know him well enough to knock on his door? Or do you know any of his other friends or family who may better be able to get in touch with him?
I don't doubt you, but why do you think that Nickb has an email address with Barnes in it? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14482
It could be a manual exception. I doubt that Google has the time to track down all Tor exit nodes or work ISP IPs and flag them as 'not spammers or bots.'
I posted a solution here (http://bit.ly/4AGCju) (to get back the images), but looks like nobody likes it. May be that was a bad way to approach the problem.

Anyway I am looking forward to more news on how they are going to resolve the issue.
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That is a wonderful question. Who is Louis Gray anyway?

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I just would have used "b" to go backwards by words instead of characters. It's not optimal, but much more natural.
> Yeah, but what kind of jobs? Building something new?

Look at the job data. It's publicly available. This is how statistics work.

> I know of about 4 big new projects happening in this city using Rails. I don't know about other cities but i assume....

This neither how statistics work, nor facts.
You can argue as long as you do it in the context of complying with police orders. The law has been this way for literally millennia. And it's totally publicly available information.

Why are American schools so bad?

Why does the media fail to teach anyone anything?
You voluntarily gave up your national sovereignty, which is a voluntary loss of freedom.

There are other good things in life besides freedom. I'm not saying the EU is a bad idea. I'm saying that when the UK joined the EU it gave up a good number of freedoms it previously had - admittedly those particular freedoms were not considered valuable. Such as the freedom to control trade.
I'm not surprised (at least for people trying to hire online) because I've never seen crappier job descriptions than those on the Web these days. Nobody leaves a phone#, they expect CV and won't answer the simplest preliminary questions by email. They ask for outrageous qualifications for the stipulated wages and positions. Very slipshod descriptions of the work, next to no details about the company ... and most of their websites tell me that they're strictly amateurs. That describes 85-90% of what I'm seeing.

It's has to be harder finding someplace worth replying to, when they act like they don't really care, than it is to find good people. Very few who are advertising positions know how to pitch a job.
Yes. I'm no fan of oversimplifying things.
Deflation is a good thing. It means the cost of living goes down.

As long as you have a fungible currency - a liquid currency - deflation is a boon.

Everything should be getting cheaper as technology advances. The only reason it doesn't is because of the influence that codexon has been trying to explain. The currency game is zero-sum. It was designed that way. It's one giant pyramid with the BIS at the capstone.
You'll have to scroll up to see his point. It was related to how the title of article was aiming at the possession of currency rather than the possession of wealth.
That is currency... the far majority of currency in the world is "electronic".
I disagree that hn's is the worst. Slashdot has a fancy system because the signal to noise ratio is so low there. Even reading at the maximum post "quality" level of 5 there is a lot of spam, off-topic banter, lame humor, etc. In comparison, I find the S/N here to be orders of magnitude higher. I think the reason that is so is that the HN system encourages certain behaviors which lead to better discussions whereas the slashdot system is more of a passive filter on a noisy feed, which is inherently a losing battle.

In theory I have a slashdot account that's about a decade old, I have forgotten the password and no longer use the email address it's attached to. I haven't bothered going to extreme efforts trying to recover it (e.g. searching out old password lists I have written down somewhere) nor have I bothered creating a new account. Discussion on slashdot is just not worthwhile, at best it's like trying to have a conversation by yelling across a boisterous lunch room, at worst it's just spitting into the wind (which tends to be the average case). There are so many better alternatives out there now it's really not worth the time to visit anymore.
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While what you say is true, it is a non-sequitor.

In reality there is not a fixed amount of currency, there is a printing press pumping out more dollars and the dollars are given to someone who then lends them at interest to someone else who then uses them to buy a trinket.

As the printing press makes more dollars, the value of each goes down, and so the wealth of everyone in system doesn't actually depend on how much currency they hold but rather the order in which they receive the more recently printed currency. The wealthiest are defined by those who receive it first. It is a pecking order. Whoever receives it last actually doesn't have enough to buy food because by the time he receives the currency, it is already too worthless to be used to compel food from the other members. He either abandons the system and lives off the grid, or starves to death.

So while in theory currency does not have to be a zero-sum game, our modern implementation of currency is indeed a zero-sum game.

And I say currency specifically because, as everyone loves to point out, basically anything is technically "money" as soon as it is traded.

P.S. Note that both pg and this fellow had the same people signing the checks - Yahoo. Yahoo is pretty high on the pecking order because it has always had excellent access to investment bankers who in turn have excellent access to banks who in turn have excellent access to central banks who printed the new batches of money. The closer you are to the central bank, the richer you'll be.
Yes it's quite sad how I had to repeat myself 3 times. At least you understand :)

What I don't understand is why when anyone here sees the word "zero-sum" they rush in to talk about Paul Graham's explanation of wealth creation regardless of what the subject is.

And sadly I've since then lost 5 karma from people who like to jump on this "wealth is not a zero-sum game" bandwagon.
There isn't a lot to compete on, and trying to make a table that has a lot of green checks under for our features while the competitions has less checks or "limited" features seems a bit silly.

There is a larger minimum quantity, but when you look at it, you might want to have archives for your backup as well as synced up backups, so you'll need a bit more storage, and the space can get used up pretty fast.
The "system" wouldn't break. Google might break (in reality, they'd just find some other way to make money). And I'd shed no tears and move on to something else.
Might just make more sense to club with: http://www.meetup.com/Hackers-and-Founders/ ?
Many of the rural Japanese prefectures will give property away for a song just to get you to live there. My previous job (technology incubator in central Japan) had a deal with the government where we got housed in the apartments normally used for government employees. My rent was $20 a month -- which "skyrocketed" to $60 in my second year.

Think of it as the modern Japanese analog to the Homestead Act.

It makes excellent sense to the prefecture: they have the property whether someone is living in it or not. If renting it out (free to them) induces one professional at the margin to live there, they get roughly ~20% of his wages in taxes and much of the remainder gets spent in the prefecture.

P.S. If any of you want to start a startup in Central Japan, and have some way of finangling your own visa, I can give you the forms to essentially make you ramen profitable for two years by government fiat.
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No, what I am saying is that trading currency for goods, like stocks, is a zero-sum game. The pool of money stays the same (barring the fed printing more). Why is this so hard for you to understand?
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> They deserve deference because somebody has got to secure our borders in this day and age, and like it or not, this is probably the best way to go about doing it. I'm willing to live with my feelings getting hurt if it means people aren't able to drive bombs over the border.

Have you ever been to EU? Or somewhere else? How it is, that these guys are able to act professionally, non-emotionally and secure the borders without acting like assholes?

This is not either-or situation, border guards can do their job without intimidation and beating people.

(The US border is in fact the worst one I ever went through. Makes you think.)
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You're in the right. My apologies.
or nickb having a giggle with an alias account - harveyl
I wonder if that is generally true, that the most successful people are the least likely to appreciate their success. Seems to make sense per what you write - these people are likely to be successful and driven because they are insatiable. But, if you are insatiable that means you can't be satisfied, and don't appreciate what you have.

Ironically, it is the more satiable people, i.e. the less driven, who often envy the successful.
The beginning of a "section"? "Fh" will move to the previous occurrence of "h" on the line your cursor is on.

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Makes more sense than you realize. I went to a very liberal college (Berkeley) and sometimes it was hard to believe the sense of entitlement among the students.

This was most pronounced in pedestrians: they ignore traffic lights and j-walk at will. If you ever spoke to them about it, they would give you something along the lines of "I am an earth-saving pedestrian, you are an environment-killing driver of a gas guzzler- ergo I always have the right of way.

Not everyone was like that, but a good percentage of people were.
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I saw this on superuser too (http://superuser.com/questions/82036/recovering-a-lost-websi...), i'm assuming it was you. fairly clever solution :)
I never said deflation was a bad thing. although I agree that the current fiat monetary policy is fucked, calling it a pyramid scheme is naive at best.
I think the real reason we have so much neuroticism in our culture is that we don't believe there is an accessible realm of objective, real value. We think that everything we find pleasure and meaning in is merely physical, thus doomed to elimination. However, we yearn for unchanging meaning, and can never find satisfaction in these transient distractions.

Seems that instead of focusing on things like therapy and medication, we should try to find an absolute source of meaning that actually satisfies us. Something like a more reason based approach to dealing with neuroticism, identifying the actual root and trying to find its solution, would be much more effective. But, I've never heard of such a thing. Instead, it's all about regulating ourselves and trying to become normal, though since no one is normal there doesn't seem to be such a thing.
I especially like how he (the blog's author) addresses the issue of modern pseudo-anonymity.

Although many bloggers, myself included, are not technically anonymous, there's still anonymity for someone like me in the fact that there are literally millions of blogs and similar websites out there. Mine has garnered--as I type this entry--a grand total of 33 unique visitors.

This quote is from the actual post that got things rolling. Here: http://kom105.blogspot.com/2009/12/fake-hogs-real-pigs-and-m...

I am much more interested in what real people have to say than Journalists these days, one of the reasons I like HN and other sites with user generated content so much.
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It's so easy to disappear on the internet. _why and nickb being the two most relevant to this community. It seems like someone out there would know these guys in real life and would tell us if something was up. Or is it that easy to disappear in the offline world as well?

Whatever the case may be, I hope he's doing well. I'm very curious as to what he's up to these days (and _why for that matter), but only because they're such interesting souls to share the journey with, and it's a comfort to have such people in the world.
I like it, need to indeed do what he says. Am waiting until I get deployed and actually do my part in the military, then out I go.
Did you hear the one where the police dog was literally chewing on the arm of a guy, and when the guy tried to escape from the dog he was charged and convicted with assaulting a police officer. The dog being the police officer.
Makes sense, especially since he seems quite in with the financial sector.
No it is not a pandemic:

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# an epidemic that is geographically widespread; occurring throughout a region or even throughout the world

# existing everywhere; "pandemic fear of nuclear war"

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If you want kids to master English better, don't ban slang words. That would be hiding the symptom. Encourage them to read books instead.
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When I clicked this link, I was thinking, "Snark, that's exactly what I need some more of."
Is there any way to make the scroogle pages not so.... Ugly?

I much prefer the look and feel of normal google results but would obviously prefer the scroogle version.
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Here's another paper that talks about these sorts of attacks.

http://crypto.stanford.edu/~abortz/papers/timingweb.pdf

The suggested defense (which the authors implemented as mod_timepad) is to quantize the response time to 100ms or so, so that it is more difficult to extract meaningful information. However, this requires server-side implementation, so it's not very useful for clients who are trying to protect their own browsing.

One option (albeit a performance-degrading one) would be to implement the same quantization in a local proxy. You might even be able to just plug mod_timepad and mod_proxy together.
Pricing is hard and getting the right time-period for a monopoly on an idea is no different.

And then the Patent Office profits by awarding patents putting the negative externality burden on those in the field of the patent to "fix" mistakes.

For a man of his historical importance Jefferson had a lot of questionable ideas (owning slaves, blaming banks for his debt, monopolies on ideas, and I don't care much for the speeches I've read of his either).

Louisiana Purchase turned out all right though.
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In my experience there are plenty of police that don't even know the law. I used to carry around a copy of the the Florida statues, the same version that the police have in the trunk of their cruisers which they could refer to if they actually gave a shit and did not just want to harass cyclists because they are having a bad day.

They make stuff up all the time. It's shameful. Before you get all "Oh, you must be one of those jerks!". I would like to say that by not getting pissed off you can spontaneously create a relationship with a law enforcement officer and actually get them on your side.

This actually takes a tremendous amount of self control, which we are not capable of at all times, since we are all fallible humans. However in most cases law enforcement works for us, we pay their salaries to protect us (sometimes from ourselves) not to abuse us.

The circumstance of being a non-citizen at the border is of course different but in a larger sense is the same. If you anger your neighbor enough times then they will seek a remedy through a higher authority.

The solution is using the law. Every time government agents abuse their authority they must be sued, if there is to be law then it must be the tool we all use. If there was abuse of authority in this case then there is a legal remedy to be sought.

I don't want to live in a police state. I have some personal responsibility, as does everyone else, in preventing that from happening.
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The newmogul.com registration was renewed on the 14th of October, I don't know if nickb used a corporate account or not (the registration suggests he did, listing an 'inc' as the registrant), but either way it is a sign there is at least some stuff active:

Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: NEWMOGUL.COM
Created on: 13-Oct-04
Expires on: 13-Oct-10
Last Updated on: 14-Oct-09 <-----
Agreed. Be polite, contrite if necessarily, to LEOs to get clear of the situation. Deal with the injustice later, unless you are ready to go all the way and do it the hard way.

Schools are bad because school funding is flawed. All the metrics and standardized testing cannot fix a broken foundation.

It's not the media's job to teach. It's the media's job to generate the most possible advertising income.
I founded a consumer internet start up in 2006. We use perl for everything. Haven't regretted it. The CPAN is just so awesome. Anything you want to do is already done. Over the last 3 years the perl community has gotten stronger and stronger with better tools, more modules, etc. Perl5 has regular release schedule and get faster every time.

That's my experience. Do whatever works for you.
I mean it mostly theoretically: In my case I work at a company with a multiple billion dollar market cap, several thousand employees, and I have 4-digits in stock/options (and lately that's been a generous estimate).

I was the ~100th employee, so to some extent I feel allegiance, but I'm also salaried well below market rate for my skillset (part of that going to work early for a company thing).

Also, regarding per-hour: The salaried people are often the ones "getting screwed"! I grabbed my work-life balance by the horns, but some of my coworkers were not as fortunate, and they rightly make the argument that if they were paid by the hour they'd be making 50-100% more per year than their salaried rate. One of the sweetest stories I know in this regard is a guy who went from helpdesk to system administration -- he refused to take the official title change so that he could stay salaried. He'd have to take a 30-40% pay cut to switch.

As it goes, I'd prefer to have even _more_ fine grained control over my destiny: If I could work 80% as much and make 70-80% of the salary, I'd think long and hard about it. A lot of other people might not want to make that choice. A coworker of mine would rather be on a half-time program with reduced or no benefits (and is brilliant enough to merit the inconvenience to the organization). We can't do that because of the inflexibility of the business world, but collectivism would play directly against that goal.
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