walexander

I'm not sure this debate is likely to go anywhere, but what exactly is wrong with people thinking they are better off than they are, or aspiring to be?

If people don't want help, why force it upon them?

Disclaimer: I love Android and 100% of my slates are running it. I love that it's free. Check my profile, it's all I do all day.

I'm just calling out your "Joe the Plumber" reference.

Related to that, most of our debt is owed to the federal reserve, which just makes up money out of thin air for us anyway.

Could the federal reserve theoretically give a forbearance on interest payments? The debt owed to the public and international financiers (China,Japan) is fairly insignificant compared to what's owed to the Federal Reserve, and could probably be paid.

What happens if we pay everyone except ourselves?

I'm fairly certain there is no crisis. They'll come to some last minute deal, as always, after they've done all the theatrics for MSNBC and Fox.

Terrible article, in my opinion. The thesis is not supported in the slightest. This was just an unfocused rant about the new TLDs and a quick upvote grab by putting a trendy jab at free markets in the title.

What are free markets making worse here? He agrees that participants should be allowed to buy and sell TLDs at whatever they are willing to pay. How is that not free market? He suggest we fight this buy not paying for it. How is that not free market? His only complaint seems to be that the price is ridiculous, and ICANN should be "better than that".

The price of something is what someone will pay for it. If you don't have a problem with people choosing what they will pay for, then you don't have a problem with free markets.

Complaining about confusion for users, cell phone towers dotting the landscape (?), and that some other people would spend their money on something else (free market), do not help your claim that free markets make it worse either.

Yeah, I personally couldn't believe he had people copying entire articles into their paper and simply let it slide with a lecture on how to source articles.

I've always tried to agonize over drawing some unique conclusions from a variety of source material. Looks like the more efficient method would have been to just reword the wikipedia article.

All of the stories about education bubbles, unemployed graduates, etc, seem to make a lot more sense when you see data like this.

That's not necessarily true. Lot's of people can "talk the talk" with a highly embellished resume and land a job.

As a result of the cheating, grade inflation becomes worse and a possibly highly able candidate with a 3.4 GPA may completely miss the "GPA filter" on a resume sorting algorithm for a cheater with a 3.6.

In fact, I did look at the article.

When I thought of a computer notebook doing this, I was envisioning a keyboard on the bottom like any other netbook.

I suppose in the tablet sense it might be possible.

I'm sure someone could, but why would they want to?

A rectangular form factor for display has been the standard for decades. All applications, save for some desktop widgets, are shaped accordingly.

Putting rectangular designs on this would waste lots of space at the corners, and I don't see a ton of developers jumping to go support a triangular display for their UIs.

If that's a criteria for you when looking for an employer, then that's your choice, but I personally would never expect such a thing.

The last time I had to interview (being an engineer), I was sent 7 resumes on a Monday for interviews being conducted on a Wednesday. I checked out any links they put on their resume, apps in the appstore, etc. If they did not feel they could be bothered to tell me about something, then it will remain a mystery to me.

Did you not have your previous work clearly listed on your resume? Why would you expect, say, an engineer who just got FW your resume an hour before the interview to go google you and stalk your twitter feed?

Instead of responding to your parent directly, i'll just add that this is exactly why I prefaced my post with "I believe".

That said, I'm not implying we have built in instructions to go create a townhous. Simply that there is possibly a driving force that compels us to create, then a reward for doing so.

I believe some of us have an intrinsic desire to build things. Just like birds build nests and bees build hives. Some of us have a desire to build and are probably rewarded with some chemical brain fix as a result.

At this point though, we've simply changed the medium from sticks and mud to Python and Minecraft.

Well, I chose "Windows Laptop", since I primarily use a Win 7 laptop physically. My actual development, however, happens inside a VNC window on a remote Linux box.

Did you actually read the WSJ article, or just the rebuttal to it?

The actual article mentions almost everything he does, then focuses on wage increases as worsening the effect. This blogger decides to focus on 55+ employment, which he already wrote about. How is one pre-conceived narrative and the other not?

> Statistics and correlation are not meaningless.

Granted. However, in a post about how correlation between unemployment and minimum wage is overstated, I feel his defense should be more rigorous than: A) Irrelevantly point out Bush was in office, and B) Simply post another correlating statistics.

Where are the statistics to suggest that people 55+ are taking all the minimum wage jobs? Why does this author mention "Bush" four times?

The blogger is editorializing worse than the WSJ here (not that the WSJ article was much better). Essentially all of the counter points were mentioned in the WSJ article up front, then they focused on minimum wage worsening the effect.

I'm not necessarily agreeing with WSJ on this one, but this guy's article is just as meaningless.

It would be useful to aggregate some of this based on a, say, 25 mile radius. I think separating Cambridge from Boston, for example, obscures some of the data here.

I believe I've personally had more issues with misclicks on the honeycomb buttons as there is not as much of a clearly defined delineation between screen and softkeys as with the screen and capacitive buttons on my smartphone.

I supposed this depends on the design/location of the capacitive buttons, but speaking for myself, I haven't really had the issues you mention in your post.

>Holding Nintendo Accountable

>volunteers for Defective By Design assembled the cardboard bricks (and had some fun doing so!).

They are fighting DRM by sending Nintendo... bricks?

Wearing pink shirts wont get Bush thrown in jail. Wearing teabags off your hat wont get Obama impeached. And sending bricks will not get DRM removed. Protest culture in America is a hobby and will not be taken seriously, as a result.

You want to stop DRM, you have to stop buying things that have it. Most people will not consider it enough of a deterrent not to, neither will most consumers even know it exists.

HTC removed locked bootloaders because a large number of power users decried it, along with a large number of competitors offering similar devices. Nintendo is the only game in town when it comes to Mario. It's great to send in emails complaining about it, but the only thing that's going to stop them from putting DRM out is a necessary public outcry (not going to happen - you need every 6 year old to care), or just them just figuring out the futility of DRM (which i'm not sure the statistics on).

One note about your website: I recommend enabling the controls on that jQuery scroll widget for the iPhone. Having the screen scroll away while i'm checking out the UI is a little annoying (and then having to wait a full cycle to see the screen again).

Other than that, I certainly remember keeping tabs on my roommate debts and loans during college, but it was never much of a chore and didn't bother writing it down. I guess some people may need this more than others, for example people with lots of outstanding buddy debt, but I can't see it being a huge number.

What are your plans for expanding this? Simply keeping it as is and doing one thing well? It may serve to function better if it helped those key users manage their debt, using burn down charts for a game effect, or something. Maybe tying it into a mint account (is there an API?) so it can show up on top of their personal finances? Maybe just adding a tip calculator/bill splitter typical app functionality, so people can get rid of their old one and encourage them to download this?

I'm not sure what the answer is, but at a glance it seems far too niche and not much room to grow.

What are with some of these comments? This is not a story about a man who lost his 401k value.

This is about seeing the end of the road and realizing the greatest things you've done you can never do again. Here's a man who is considered by some the greatest american writer (words of my freshman year english prof), who felt like he would "never achieve what he was capable of"(paraphrase).

See:

http://www.jayebee.com/creations/incompleteness/incompletene...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86x-u-tz0MA

/me rolls eyes

As didactic as that comment was, I suppose I could have said grandpa. I did use grandma, however, because I don't personally have any grandpas on my facebook, and in my own experience (and evidenced from this link) there are many more grandmas than grandpas on facebook:

http://www.kenburbary.com/2011/03/facebook-demographics-revi...

Even then, however, I disagree that saying "grandma" in such a context is really that damaging. Maybe there's some point to this, but it seems unnecessarily politically correct to me.

Grandmas use facebook. Grandmas use skype.

This is an excellent pairing and will make it even harder for Google+ to get the non-HN crowd types off of FB. Great play, i'd say.

Is there an android client? Why is this better than any other contact list?

I know there was a post about how products don't need a homepage, just give an email form, but realistically I'm not likely to ever give my email out if I have that little information about a product.

I had a paid internship but would have gladly done it unpaid if I had to. I interned at a big name place, so YMMV, but I can say that senior year when I was looking for jobs _no one_ cared about what I did in school and _everyone_ cared what I did at that internship.

You are not going to work there to do slave labor, you're getting bullet points on your resume, mentorship from senior engineers, as well as taking in the business environment which you've probably never seen before.

I hope no college student who can't find another option has decided to stick his nose up at an unpaid internship because of this post.

Anecdotally, a project I worked on involved evaluating some encrypted file systems on linux and encFS (on FUSE) was at an order of magnitude worse performance than kernel solutions.

Not to say it could never happen, but the tradeoff on performance is just no where near worth it right now.

I guess there is a significant risk of the result being found in the States' favor so that they don't directly challenge the law.

IANAL, but it seems like the Supreme Court would very likely rule in their favor though. Quill v N Dakota is a very similar ruling and when looking through the notes I found this:

"As we noted in Heublein, Inc. v. South Carolina Tax Comm'n, 409 U.S. 275, 280 (1972), in enacting § 381, "Congress attempted to allay the apprehension of businessmen that `mere solicitation' would subject them to state taxation. . . . Section 381 was designed to define clearly a lower limit for the exercise of [the State's power to tax]. Clarity that would remove uncertainty was Congress' primary goal.""

Since this was downvoted, i'll just clarify that I was not being facetious, so hopefully the comment is not being taken as flamebait.

Really, the cheerleading is a legitimate reason to do YC, apparently.

I wouldn't at all fault you guys for taking advantage of the coverage. I'm just wondering why the HN crowd decided to give free advertising to a small incremental update.

This does give a compelling reason to join YC, though: plenty of cheerleading around YC startups.

I hate to be that guy, but hasn't Kayak had this feature for a really long time?

Hipmunk is great and all, but I fail to see how a travel site adding an icon is relevant to the HN frontpage.