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The bomb feature could very easily turn creative play time into a traumatizing event for a child. I second the labelling of the buttons. With that being said, amazing product!
I've used GoDaddy and am extremely happy, their able to issue certificate WAY faster than other registrars, and usually you can google "GoDaddy SSL Coupon" for some easy $$$ savings.

Just make sure you're buying the correct cert:

1. Single certificates will allow you to secure ONE domain.
2. Multi / UCC Certs will allow you to secure usually 5 or more.
I am with you Shred team - this is a ridiculous and unfortunately all-too-common occurrence. Startups are difficult enough without all the lawsuits etc.

Here is a thought, why don't you just freeze on that old code-base and start afresh? I work with video extensively and know what you are doing can be done using open-source components and it shouldn't take much time. I can volunteer my time & coding chops to help out a fellow entrepreneur
"Quirky brought more than 400 products to market in just six years." - from the New York Magazine article.

That number is absolutely staggering. I would love to see what their internal product development was like.
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Nice! Not sure if you are still looking at the the thread, I know Gitlab allows for fully remote (yep, I've read the manifesto :D ) but would you be ok with someone working from Sri Lanka? Time zone differences being main concern?
Very fun, thanks for making this and open sourcing as well. Maybe as our kids get older they can start checking out the source.
Proprietary is the wrong word, as it is open source. The right word would be "immature", as meteor is an entire tech stack that hasn't been battle hardened by years or decades of other software that currently exists in other tech stacks.

The other piece is the meteor stack is designed to be hosted by meteor. Sure, you can, in theory, run everything yourself - but I haven't seen good case studies of that. What do you do when your app blows up and suddenly the hosting costs of meteor is too much of an overhead?
Yes, it would have been nice to have DTrace in Linux a while ago. But the reality is a bit more complex than it might look.

Many people I know haven't been aware that Linux has had in-built dynamic tracing capabilities for years, with ftrace, kprobes and later uprobes. These are much more difficult to use (which is why I wrote some front-ends: https://github.com/brendangregg/perf-tools). But if you really cared about performance, you could use them. So it's not that Linux has been completely missing out; It's been missing out on a some specific features (eg, in-kernel aggregations and variables), and a nice interface.

As for attempts unabated to reinvent DTrace: FWIW, that's not really the genesis in the case of bcc/eBPF. Extended Berkeley Packet Filtering (eBPF) was developed to create virtual network infrastructures. Things like this: https://www.iovisor.org/sites/cpstandard/files/pages/images/... . It provides a kernel virtual machine for executing sandboxed bytecode. As a bonus, it can be used for system tracing as well, to do custom capabilities that ftrace/perf_events was missing.

There are too many tracers for Linux already, so I'm pretty glad that eBPF is getting integrated into the Linux kernel, since it should stop discourage anyone inventing yet-another-linux-tracer, since the kernel will already have a powerful tracer in-built. We'll no longer need new tracers. We'll want front-ends, like bcc.
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That can be done -- there is a claim for malicious prosecution. But you have to win the first case before you can bring it.

The other alternative, in the current case, is to ask the court for sanctions.
Visit the documentation for MailChimp, Constant Contact, etc. They all have recommended implementation patterns, usually HTML or JS snippets. Parse webpages looking for pieces of those snippets.

Do the same with the most common WordPress plugins for those platforms.
On a somewhat different note, it really bothers me this douche is bringing down the Turing name.
The fatal flaw here is that most people who are currently employed have specific policies prohibiting them from doing work-for-hire for 3rd parties without permission. Add in clauses that make everything they do the property of their employer, and this concept really hits the rocks.
When operating at scale, you will, once in a while, have corruption. Even if you use ECC RAM, once in a while you'll have a double bit flip. And it doesn't look like Backblaze uses ECC (https://www.backblaze.com/blog/storage-pod-4-5-tweaking-a-pr...) despite good evidence that ECC is necessary (PDF: http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co...). Even if you do have ECC, you'll once in a while have a bad NIC that with HW offload that will corrupt the TCP stream silently.

This is all rare, but it does happen. This is why the GCS team wants to know if you are seeing corruption on file upload as it might be some bad hardware failing in a non-obvious way.
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Most taxes that merchants and consumers need to worry about at the time of transaction, such as sales taxes in the US and VAT in the EU, are strictly proportional to the value of each purchase.

I don't think Taler is meant to help you do your taxes at the end of the year.
>Bitcoin and others will never succeed because they are too friendly towards illicit behaviour.

I doubt various governments can do a whole lot about it, which means it's likely to succeed eventually.
Unix was insanely successful in its day: an indication is that when Richard M. Stallman decided to create a Free Software operating system in 1984, he chose to call it "GNU" for "GNU's Not Unix".
Well you are on ycombinator.com
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Palantir-considered-evil
Farming is often in the raster world as opposed to the line/row/text/vector world. Some of things in Postgres might be huge. Farm data sets could easily be only adding a few thousand rows a day, but the objects associated with each row could be several gigabytes. Meaning that the size of the data is bigger than so-called "big data" but the row analysis tool set looks more like your "regular data." However, there's a lot that goes into the raster analysis that's a whole different beast.
In the US, the loser doesn't even always pay the legal fees. It depends.
What is fun is that the 2GB memory modules use different x16 4Gbit DRAM chips. Interestingly, I hasn't seen any DDR4 DIMM/SO-DIMMs based on x16 chips, not even 8Gbit ones. Are they really not allowed?
"Liberal" has many definitions depending on who you ask, so your definition may very well be different from that of the authors.

Having said that, this is a GNU project so I would have preferred "free" to "liberal". A payment system consisting entirely of free software, perhaps.
No, but the prevailing myth is part of what a previous commenter referred to as the area becoming the new Wall Street. All the carpetbagging MBA types I'm acquainted with who would've gone to NYC/London in the go-go mortgage bubble days are here now. It's the logical place for a talented young person with hustle to go and try to get some.
I doubt it, the risk and rewards don't add up. An elaborate multimillion dollar scheme, just to short stocks is risky and requires a lot of things to lines up. Most of which are outside of his control (A tweet by a viable presidential candidate) .

I think he is just a douche that thinks he is way more clever than he actually is.
Depending on your position in the company, an employee may still have leverage in their technical experience or client relationships. I imagine such an employee may sign a non-compete that explicitly prevents forming or joining a competitor or professionally engaging or joining a client.

Chances are though, these terms are already part of their original employment agreement in some way (as allowed by the relevant laws in the state). That said, non-competes are court-tested and the business may not be interested in expelling more resources to prevent competition when they could just make a new contract not tied to their employment.

The so-called "Gardening Period."
Can you explain why you feel it's a shame? We write a lot of Clojure at FarmLogs but there is certainly a time and a place for it.

We handle iOS push notifications with Ruby, a lot of data and image processing with Python, and even run .NET/Mono in a few areas. Our stack is very diverse and we do a really great job considering what the best technology for a particular problem might be.

Clojurescript is certainly interesting, but I wouldn't consider it a shame that our front-end isn't built with it. I love programming but at the end of the day you gotta remember that code is really just a means to an end.
Leaving the US would do little beyond increasing the cost of litigation and making said founder look more like a fugitive. Tradesecret law and IP law generally is pretty universal. And you can still get sued where the alleged theft/taking/wrong took place. A default decision (ie you don't show up) by a US court will be enforced in Canada, Europe or most anywhere else.

As for free markets, while IP law does create monopolies, the theory is that many protected innovations would never be brought to market without some promise they won't be replicated.

For below: Independent creation is not theft and so the laws do not apply. Copyright and patent bar independent creation, but not tradesecret. No doubt countless production secrets have been independently developed by competitors. When one trys to patent something, these come out of the woodwork as "prior art". But independence is a very hard burden to prove. Any communication from one firm to another, especially the movie a knowledgeable employee from one firm to the other, destroys any notion of independence.
> ...but right now we're focusing on building stuff instead of playing with languages

Which is exactly what's so compelling with regard to ClojureScript and say Om or any one of the React wrappers out there: you guys already use Clojure and ClojureScript and its libraries are incredibly pragmatic and designed for "real work". CoffeeScript would seem more like language play than ClojureScript, but of course I'm speaking as an outsider. :)

Also if you haven't already, take a look at David Nolen's recent talk on Om Next[1]. Personally if I were using Clojure on the backend, I'd be pushing hard for it on the frontend too.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByNs9TG30E8
The case you cited in your last link could have been decided after I read whatever it was I read. It could be that it's pretty hard to make and keep such lists as trade secrets, or maybe what I read referred to just a list of customers with all that other information, but I remember it being pretty definitive, and, generally agreeing with your initial points, startling.
I'm getting really sick of whatever ridiculous justifications people make for using adblockers. People use adblockers because it's more convenient for them. If most crimes were as easy to commit as an adblocker is to install, we would have a lot more crime. When installing an adblocker nobody is actually thinking about all the revenue sites they visit get. None of these arguments are going to have any effect on adblock usage.

As for all those sites that exist because of ads, they'll either find a way to make ads unblockable (not hard if the ads are served from the same server as the content, making it impossible to differentiate them), find a different way to profit, or go bankrupt.

And, as long as I'm ranting, please stop saying "I disable my adblocker for sites that deserve it" as though there's something charitable about it. Companies aren't charities. If you don't let them go out of business, the thousands of others who don't care enough to disable their adblockers for them will.
Most of those sites frown on paid submissions.
You think they failed because they didn't give _enough_ of the money they received away to the inventor?
They did a StackShare blog post [0] and podcast in February talking about their stack, and it makes for a pretty good read. About Hadoop specifically, it doesn't show up on their StackShare page [1] anywhere.

[0] http://stackshare.io/posts/how-farmlogs-is-building-software...

[1] http://stackshare.io/farmlogs
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this guy needs to be careful.

1.) people reading this won't pay attention or understand the fine detail
2.) non-compete clauses etc. are there because learning on the job gives an advantage to starting up after leaving.

should have researched legal precedent and played it safe imo. waited two years and set up somewhere geographically remote from the original employer...

i hope this plays out well. as much as there was some naivete in this enterprise i don't think there was any ill intent, and this really is a bit of bullying... the only sad thing is that the bullying might be legally justifiable given the circumstances described.
It seems pretty obvious: You're giving up using one (great) language, which you already know, end-to-end. I can't think of a good reason to do this, especially when an entire UI revolution is being led, right now, in ClojureScript.

What possible reasons could there be for giving that up?

(See my other comment below as well.)
I disagree. I think it's great that you want to push for individual privacy, but I don't think everyone in the industry has a responsibility to push for what you want. Everyone gets to choose what they want to advocate for.
Many of us will be there this year and will probably be in our borderline-offensive green shirts so please do say hello!
You'd be surprised at what you can do with PostgreSQL. Also, there are also some really exciting new ways to handle data pipelines using Docker and tiny applications (see Pachyderm) as opposed to classic approaches like HDFS and Hadoop.

Not everything needs to be in an enterprise grade multi-node C* cluster to be big data!
New iPad (iOS 9.1) was 3.6 seconds ahead. I disabled automatic synchronization, set the clock manually and then turned synchronization back on. Everything looks fine now, with only +/- 0.044 seconds error.

Too bad i don't know if turning it off and on again would have worked too.
> Which, in practice, includes the OS of a laptop or the firmware of a router, as discussed in the article.

The article is continuing to imply that the FCC is explicitly banning alt firmware for 5GHz WiFi devices. That is only the case if the module manufacturer fails to come up with any other way of getting their device approved. I don't see anywhere in the regs where banning alt. firmware is a goal of the regs.

Given that this also means a brave new world of region-locked/region-specific 5GHz WiFi devices, and the added compliance burden for integrators ("host device manufacturers") trying to use modular transmitters that rely on host device manufacturer controls to achieve FCC approval, I am hopeful that this will change the way that WiFi manufacturers lock down their radio firmware - and that is exactly what the FCC wants.

The situation where a modular transmitter places additional avoidable test/conformance/approval burden on the host device will also be a PITA for manufacturers, not just end-users.

Check my other comment here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10256905
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There's an OpenRisc in-browser emulator which seems to give you a more functional linux:

http://s-macke.github.io/jor1k

The cpu in /proc/cpuinfo is OpenRISC-12 @ 20MHz ;)
Way to take his point completely out of context. Tax evasion doesn't get you killed, but resisting arrest for tax evasion just might end up with you dead.
Amazon offers interconnects with reduced transfer costs: https://aws.amazon.com/directconnect/

A real deal breaker is if you need to use an EC2 server to proxy the upload for any reason (content validation). The transfer into EC2 is free, but it's 9 cents for each GB out (18 months of storage cost).

@brianwski - any suggestions here?
Perhaps French thought is no longer the toast of the anglosphere, but its specter still haunts modern society.

The Enlightenment was founded on two contradictory values: (1) Reverence for reason (2) Dogmatic adherence to 'liberal' values. In the name of the former, French thinkers devoted themselves to the latter with disastrous results.

Myths like human perfectibility still muddy our thinking. And 'natural rights' remain hallowed, even among atheists, who seem remarkably unconcerned about their accompanying metaphysical baggage.
A desktop is a big item to lug back and forth between a dorm/apartment and home. I tried this last year with my desktop; this year I skipped the hassle and left it behind.
Personally, I'm not a big fan of CoffeeScript and it's something I brought up when I started, but at the end of the day you can write good and bad code in any language. I've watched that talk and found it really compelling, but I'd sooner get rid of Backbone than change languages. I've been following Dan Abramov's stuff pretty closely, the refinements in Redux seem to take the best parts of Om and Flux.
The death of French intellectualism & thought is overplayed.

One needs only tune in to French TV or radio stations to convince herself that France's obsession with public intellectuals is alive and well.

This is the country where, a year or two ago, a well regarded historian committed suicide in Notre-Dame de Paris as a political statement; and where Bernard-Henry Levy and Michel Onfray are best selling authors.
Can you give an example or two of what you got? I'm just curious to see some examples of what Quirky made, especially the more trivial items, like you described.
Thanks, but they obviously put all of their fine work into the Gnome front-end and using a different spin doesn't get you any of that. The number of customizations that need to be installed and maintained between updates to make this OS X-like abomination usable is ridiculous.
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Sorry for asking here, but does anybody know of a web page where you get to see someone's drawing and then you write a caption for it, then someone else will have the caption open on their monitor and they get to draw it, and on and on? It was fun! Then I lost the URL...
In practice, mass surveillance is a great tool for corruption and control (e.g. blackmail, market manipulation, following ex-lovers, trumping up charges, crafting threats of violence), because the people placed in positions of power have insufficient checks to prevent them from abusing their access for personal benefit or for cementing corporate / government institutional authority. Ubiquitous electronic surveillance makes many types of authoritarian abuse much cheaper, and thus changes the possible scope of control.

The same folks who are in favor of unlimited surveillance of the public tend to be opposed to public access to their own back-room decisionmaking process, and in favor of censoring embarrassing information in the name of “security” interests.

The “hacker ethos that information wants to be free” is going to run up hard against majoritarian attempts to scapegoat, shame, change, or destroy the different or weird. The life in a small village full of nosy neighbors which you mention was normal in the past was also a life of social conformity and harsh punishment of nonconformists. There’s no a priori reason to believe it would be different in a higher-tech society.

“Violent crime could be virtually eradicated”, except in the case of police corruption, which is in many places endemic, and which ubiquitous surveillance makes only more alluring.
> Thus, 1789 was not only a landmark in French thought, but the culmination of the Enlightenment’s philosophical radicalism: it gave rise to a new republican political culture, and enduringly associated the very idea of Frenchness with novelty and resistance to oppression.

Resistance to oppression ? Meh. The very regime that created the Declaration of Rights also created the Terror and send hundred of thousands of innocent people to the Guillotine, and started a genocide in Vendee. Ideals did not live up to the fact - when it came to action, Danton and the like were all just like their former masters, violent and without mercy.
It's likely everyone will have lost interest and shut the thing down in 200 days.
Bernard-Henry Levy is a clown and viewed like that by many french folks as well.
Print out and hand it to them in person. Hand written in pen isn't needed but email is way too impersonal in my opinion.
The question doesn't ask for company, job title, and salary it just asks what you'll do at the job. He says you just tell the company what you want to do, how much they pay you, and the job is yours.

The author actually bars discussion of those 3 topics--so you never tell him any of them.

That being said, my answer was obviously meant to be snarky. The questions is silly and most people will lie about it. If you are trying to determine whether someone will tell the truth when pressured to lie, it's a good question. If you want to find out how good someone is at bullshitting interviews, it's a good question.
After reading Peter Diamandis' write-up of Quirky in his book Bold I figured it was God's gift to inventors. Guess their strategy wasn't quite on.
> But it is nothing compared to the reality without taxes

Technology has come a long way in the last 1000 or so years. I suspect that there are new solutions to the problem that you describe. But they don't get explored because the State has a monopoly on violence and is very resistant to change.

Most of the time that's a good thing as it means that things get screwed up only very slowly. But it also tends to prevent things from getting better, too. Only the most egregious problems get solved.
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Yes, this is what everyone keeps forgetting. The same folks who were for Freedom and self determination went off chopping heads like crazy right after that. And yet the "Revolution" is still celebrated, while it's a gross apology of Murder as a whole.
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I tend to agree with you - I'd like to see an NSF-style grant system where promising drugs are taken all the way from blue-sky to market. There they should be sold at-cost, where "cost" includes licensed production as well as amortizing the cost of development for the drug (or the average total cost of the the whole pool of drugs) over say 25 years. Apart from these issues there's simply a lot of diseases that <1K people get worldwide, and nobody in their right mind brings those to market unless they can steal your wallet. It's a case of utter and total market failure in all respects.

The thing with marketing is that it's a win-win for the person doing the marketing. Direct-to-patient marketing has real-world returns (ask your doctor today if the purple pill is right for you!) and a rational player will put money into that investment until returns no longer exceed costs. However on the whole it drives up costs for everyone since people who don't actually need it seek treatment, and then get prescriptions. Regardless of anything else you do, you just need to outlaw direct-to-patient marketing. It's a perverse incentive and we're the only nation that allows it.
I suspect this may significantly depend on the quality of your handwriting. I'm just old enough to believe that handwritten is more polite in theory, but in practice I'd probably send an email, or print out a typed letter and then initial it.

They can't tell if I was being nice if they can't read what I wrote, after all :)
@Rezashirazian, I agree on the D* part. If it isn't a ploy then he is a real egomaniac. As for the tweet from a presidential candidate, I wonder if that would have been tweeted if it was not campaign time you know . I applaud the political strategist for pouncing on the opportunity though.. Well played.