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My position on both issues is consistent. You do not have to support some crazy intelligence apparatus to realize that Wikileaks is whacked. It's not an either-or situation. The intelligence and secrecy thing is extremely bad and something must be done immediately. AND Wikileaks is an awful thing and the operators probably should be arrested and imprisoned. Both of these things can be true at the same time.

Pakistan has been playing the double game all along. It's not new information.

But see, your entire discussion is about the political content of the leaks. My discussion is that the system is broken and lets go fix it. Your discussion is all about this particular thing that makes you so angry.

It's like Assange has managed to troll the world's media, interjecting a whole load of noise. Trolls are great because they drop content that is so emotionally laden to the room that the room is unable to process it. If Assange had leaked information just as important but not as emotionally-laden, say something about nuclear secrets or something, nobody would care. But now we have to go off on a multi-month conversation about the Afghan war, which is very important, no doubt, but has jack-shit to do with the process of having some website dump secret docs. You are all being terribly distracted here.

Let's say he manages to end the war without killing more people (about as likely as him becoming Santa Claus, but I know this is the feeling). Next year we have the same systemic problem of too many agencies. And we'll still have Assange.

Hell, it's almost like he's feeding off the problem, not solving it.

You have to ask yourself the serious question -- am I supporting Assange because I am angry at the intelligence agencies, secrets, and Afghan war? Or am I supporting him because of what he is doing, his business model? It's the guys who do things you'd like to do, with goals that you share, that you should be looking the most circumspectly at. Always suspect people and news reports that agree with your worldview.
Are you thinking of making it a literal clone of Dragons Den, as in with video?
> Another group of people stay on government assistance because they realize that paying for daycare, rent, etc. would add up to more than they make.

FWIW I've seen that happen in France: the social safety net tends to be pretty strong, but the transition from that safety net to its absence is anything but smooth. I'd go as far as to say it's pretty abrupt.

A decade or so ago, my parents started employing a domestic worker to take care of laundry, sweeping, that kind of stuff. First one was a professional, second one was somebody who'd been "on the dole" for a long time and trying to get out of it (single mother, in her 40s, two children). Went swimmingly early on, but a pair of quarters in she realized she had gone above some kind of cut-off, and as a result she didn't qualify for some govt assistance as well as e.g. government-sponsored holidays for her children. That added up to at least twice what she actually earned.

She decided to tough it up and keep trying to climb out, but I'd have understand dropping out: when you start making efforts and all of a sudden your standard of living drops sharply, it's not exactly worth it.
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Most of the time I spent looking was before Amazon existed, but thanks for making me feel old. 8-(
Proximity to the teacher was the biggest influencer rather than proximity to the student. When the teacher was further away (in some simply on a phone) the subject would more frequently refuse, more so than when they were in close proximity to the student.

Proximity to the student shouldn't be ruled out, after all it would get a few more people behaving like they really should, however its these screening people's proximity to their bosses that is the biggest influence on whether they treat a person with humanity or not.
Google should have run Wave as a startup, instead of just an experiment with a new real-time collaborative communication tool. If Wave were done by a startup team, probably it'd have been a different story. The team would be fighting and keep making noises, hustling their butts, and in the end, the product would probably have a higher chance to survive.
As I second to that in principal, I do also have my doubts. India, China and the other emerging economies do have some drawbacks regarding quality of life (some more, some less): infrastructure, legal system, existing and/or arising environmental problems ..., just to name a few. Most western countries still have advantages of location, which might get more important in the nearer future. Just some thoughts ...
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This site is made by the same guy as brandcurrency.co.uk (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1563441 - "Marketer rakes £25k Profit I'm So Jealous I'm Giving Up Developing Apps"). I noticed because the video on this website stops after a couple of minutes and asks for a payment the same way as his "Outrank negative reviews on Google" video.

http://webwhois.nic.uk/cgi-bin/whois.cgi?query=brandcurrency...

http://webwhois.nic.uk/cgi-bin/whois.cgi?query=hackersden.co...

For me it seems he (username HNer) wants to make money with his Flash video payment service (karsa.co.uk), which aborts videos and asks users to pay for resuming.

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=HNer

There was an interesting discussion in the techcrunch comments about the security of this karsa solution, where the author failed to address the security concerns: http://eu.techcrunch.com/2010/07/20/karsa-flash-payer-offers...

Edit: The last paragraph is incorrect -- I've mistakenly attributed the techcrunch comments to karsa, but apparently the security concerns were about a competitor.
Yes most certainly with video if possible as this would make it so much more entertaining for others watching. I'm pretty proficient with Flash and online video having a background in this area so code should be no problem and with the use of skype combined with pitches which the particpants create anyway to pitch on their sites, I'd expect it could all be done very elegantly.
So what is the compelling government interest in the case of, e.g., mortgage subsidies? The common justification I've heard is that home ownership is more likely than renting to generate positive externalities (e.g., homeowners are more likely to improve their communities).

If increased probability of positive effects is sufficient rational basis for government acts, then it is very easy to come up with a rational basis for supporting straight marriage (but not gay marriage) based on positive externalities generated for children (e.g., straight couples are more likely to have children than gay couples).

I came up with a rational basis given only a few minutes of thought. I'm now a bit surprised that the judge couldn't come up with such an obvious rationale. It's almost a if he was making a political decision rather than a legal one.
Agreed. It's why I said my example was comparing apples and oranges and one can make stats say anything.
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Thanks d4rt.

What about collection of different applications which is inter-dependent with each other. Each application must be communicable and extensible with less pain. That's what in my mind for enterprise right now..
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In the brave new USA, you can tell they are lying when their lips are moving. They can make claims like this, that the machines' scans cannot be stored, with no basis in fact whatsoever and suffering no real consequences for the lying. I wish this were the only recent example of this sort of pathological lying by the government's corporate mercenaries.
The payment app is located here: http://karsa.co.uk

I just put this up quickly as an example. It could use any Flash player as we all can decide.
>> "You'll be heavily influenced by these devices, and it'll be just a matter of time before you stop thinking for yourself and let the device think for you"

I'm pretty sure people have said this about every technological advance.

I believe the reality will be that we can stop thinking about useless wasteful mundane things, and spend more time thinking about things that really matter.
Hardly any money in that, assuming it's even legal, and don't governments (quite sensibly) keep all that in-house anyway?
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I think the reason for Wave's failure is simpler than most posts here suggest. Wave was just way too complicated as an end user tool. It is a technology wanting to be an application. I hope it can live on as a technology underlying real applications.
That's probably the issue with the JS standard they discuss here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2010/07/16/how-ie9-platfo...
It's easy to slow a page to a crawl using complex CSS selectors.
Ironically, the NYT's web design was led for the past few years by Khoi Vinh, whom they hired from the Onion.
I don't think the tech is the problem here. It's the people. It sounds a bit vague without having some credible people signed up to it.
There is also a movement to using "neutral" countries as locations to arbitrate serious international commercial disputes as an alternative to normal litigation.
I watched the video and it aborted after a couple of minutes asking me to pay. Why are you doing that on this website?
Is that a bulletproof vest he's wearing in the picture in the article?
I agree. I would also like to see evidence that porn actresses were sexually abused.

I suspect this idea of 'porn stars were all raped' is a way to claim that porn isn't normal, it's a way to claim that only people with stunted and retarted sexualities do porn. That 'normal' people don't do porn cause it's 'unnatural' ("Look only mentally damaged people do it!"). I suspect that people propagate this idea because otherwise they'd have to look at themselves and say "I actually wouldn't like to work in the porn industry", much easier to claim that you're normal and healthy.
I am sure you will be happy if Obama spent all tax dollars in making sure world doesn't end in 2012 (after all, it could wipe out humanity as a whole) than fixing health care, education and so forth. I am not against space exploration or anything, I just believe saving lives today is far more worthwhile than worrying about the black-swan type disaster that could happen.
It had marketing. I'm sure you've heard of Paul Graham. His (well known in certain circles) name carries with it some marketing. I found this site during one of my visits to his essays site.
The whole "episodic content" and/or DLC model wasn't very prevalent in 1999.
What would be cool is if you had a RFID ring and the RFID reader was in the handle to the keg so you could skip the swiping of the card step.
No he doesn't; when he sleeps, he's actually lying in wait for his enemies.
the video in the page can be seen here in full (at least from the UK): http://www.bbc.co.uk/dragonsden/entrepreneurs/lisamarshall.s...
A very small niche worry about things like this.

And rightly so. Have you seen Erasing David? http://erasingdavid.com/ .
I've been at this startup long enough that it's no longer a startup. Originally, the 'developers' were expected to handle everything IT-wise. I had minimal skills in some areas, but it was enough to get the job done and keep the company working.

Now that we're bigger, I keep wishing that we'd divide responsibilities and have SysAdmins that are responsible for servers and their maintenance, and programmers that are responsible for creating code. I've seen so many projects get off-track because programmers are asked to do sysadmin work and end up being late on their official work. And of course, everyone gets pressured for being late then.

Startups need to be nimble and just get things done. That means that many jobs need to get done with only a few people. But once you're no longer a startup, you need to start treating everything like a big company.

I love working for a startup, but working for a company that tries to act like a startup is painful.
Can you say a bit more about "lawyering up"? I'm not sure what you mean. Do you mean specifically to call a lawyer, or imply that you have one... etc. Thanks.
I think the 'pitch and feedback as entertainment' could work well - we see plenty of video feedback and blog posts about what people thought of their pitching experiences anyway.

To be even remotely appealing to the sorts of hackers that might apply to YC it would have to be a little different from the BBC TV show though; the key features that make the show entertaining are investors being rude about bad ideas and the wrangling over huge equity stakes because they're not allowed to do any real due diligence.

P.S. your cousins did pretty well; if their patent for the watering mechanism is as broad as suggested they might want to ask questions about it's applicability to industrial sized greenhouses as well...
All the criticisms about the underlying technology and business model aside: if you do nothing else, please hire a copywriter.
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Another day - another article on outsourcing. This is not particularly new or newsworthy i think. All kinds of grunt work across different industries will move to cheaper locations , its just inevitable.
I was just about to ask if you've built the app with django. :)
From the article:

"Employees at legal outsourcing companies in India are not allowed by Indian law to give legal advice to clients in the West, no matter their qualifications. Instead, legal outsourcing companies perform a lot of the functions that a junior lawyer might do in a American law firm."

Given that they're not giving legal advice, I can't see them assuming the risk of professional negligence claims.
I believe it was not fought yet. Nevertheless, you (I am not American, or better, I am European, born in South-America) owe everyone that gets killed in the wars you fight that, at the very least, their sacrifice is not in vain. And you owe that to both sides.

The fact the other side won't honor this ideals is what separates you from them.
It's certainly one way to deal with spam and abuse.
Although quality of life in the whole of India or China is less than in the West, quality of life in a well-defined portion (e.g. city area) of these developing countries will often be competitive, e.g. Dalian in China.

As for infrastructure, I recently rode on the recently completed Wuhan to Guangzhou high-speed railway, cruising at average speed of 330km/hr, now the fastest railway in the world.

India beats China regards reliability of legal system, though many Shenzhen-based ventures use Hong Kong for legal activities. And of course India's internet is more open.
so this is the comment you made about your own product ?

>"I have paid the to see the last part of the video and it is a legitimate technique." (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1563693)
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The problem with utopian ideals is that they are often open to abuse by immoral individuals. We should be careful we don't make ourselves more vulnerable in our quest for efficiency.

However, I doubt that it's fear of insurance companies (by which I assume you mean medical insurance) that is holding back society from totally transparent world. The EU has stricter privacy laws than the US, but also has universal healthcare.
And, BTW, do you have any hope recklessness, corruption and incompetency would be eliminated without being first exposed for what they are?

There is need for secrecy in war. But when this secrecy becomes a shield to protect those who should not be fighting (or commanding) it, for they are reckless, corrupt and incompetent, it's time to end it.

I am not for the indiscriminate release of information, but there has to be a middle-ground and organizations like Wikileaks provide it.
Email could have (and still can) save Google Wave
That's the same data every company has on me. But that sort of thing is limited. Google wants to mine my email, my photos, my calendar, and my documents. They also want to watch everything I read online via RSS. They want to dig into my voicemail on google voice.

That is an unprecedented level of intrusion that I'm not sure I want. It is the primary way they make money. So they are forced to dig ever deeper to get better analytics to more narrowly target their ads. The incentives are aligned with them becoming ever more intrusive in their data mining.

This level of data gathering makes grocery store shoppers clubs and Apple knowing what music and movies I buy pale in comparison.

Here is a thought experiment: if tomorrow, it was announced that Microsoft was going to start mining Outlook calendar data to target Bing ads, what would be the reaction?
>along with Seattle, Los Angeles, Düsseldorf and Berlin
So how is Düsseldorf, Berlin compared to NYC and SF?
Would you have moved to Berlin if blib.tv was there?
A bit of copy feedback...

"Although we do not offer the keystroke by keystroke functionality of Google Wave, WizeHive does have dozens of compelling features that allow groups to effectively work together."

This is like saying, "They're gone, and while we're not as good as them, we're not bad."

You obviously have your own ideas on how to help people work together - focus on that and not on implying you're a wave clone. Good luck with it, sounds like a big opportunity.
India seems to remain THE outsourcing destination for information-based industries, whether software, legal work, accounting gruntwork, securities analysis or whatever.
Seems like the last 4 yrs has seen a sudden growth in legal work going there which will no doubt transform that industry the way IT has been. Will Hollywood someday move everything to Bollywood, as Canada and NZ become more expensive?
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Seriously, this guy couldn't find a page template other than the cult classic behind 'How to get back with your ex', 'How to build a potato gun' and 'How to teach your parrot to cuss like a pirate'?

Having seen this in countless "information products" of ill repute, I'm already biased against his method.

Get a WP theme, yo.
I like the idea. I don't like your Flash player though.

The American version is called Shark Tank and I remember spending a night watching the episodes on Hulu. I loved seeing the ideas, the "sharks" interacting with the entrepreneurs (and among themselves), and the financial negotiation involved. And yes, I'm guilty of liking the dramatics, too.

A Silicon Valley version with technology-based startups pitching to real VC's who could invest would definitely appeal to the HN audience.

BTW, there was even a redditor that unsuccessfully pitched an idea on their show. (http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/aq2p2/im_going_to_be_o...)
> Of 16 M IPs listening on 443, 10.8 M started SSL handshake; of those, 4.3
M used CA-signed cert chains (slide 14). Thus, the majority of servers use
"invalid"/invalid/self-signed certs.

How many of these IPs listening on 443 are public web servers? I know of a lot of things that listen for SSL on 443 that aren't HTTP as 443 can get through firewalls easily. For all we know, there already exists an out-of-band process to validate those self-signed certs.

For example, I am one of these cases. I listen for SSL on port 443 using a self-signed cert, but all clients have that CA (and only that CA) pre-loaded.
Currency risk. Lots of Japanese do try to invest abroad (the famous 'Mrs Watanabe'), many of whom have been hurt badly by the recent currency fluctuations.
I don't get why you are being downvoted. I know game mechanics are hot right now but you are making a valid point. If we're not careful we're going to turn the whole internet in a giant skinner box.
i grinned when he started talking about derivatives to reporters
I was similarly surprised to read "three people work on [Facebook] photos, the largest photo site on the internet." (http://ow.ly/2k7ka)

My theory is that they have good managers that take care of all the BS and free their minds to get tons of work done :-\
"Most employees in the West are spoiled brats & deserve to be shaken a little anyway."

Many have been shaken a lot by the effects of outsourcing.
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In addition, it occurs to me that I've observed many sites that aren't security critical but seem to be running on a self-signed cert. For example, many mailing list archives seem to operate both on HTTP and HTTPS with a self-signed cert. As they are only hosting public data and clearly are happy to provide it without SSL as well, there is no security failure here.
There's a number of programmers who really seem to dislike exceptions: Joel Spolsky and Rob Pike among them.

This discussion always seems really weird to me, because I've been using exceptions for about 15–20 years now, and my experience has always been: 1) my code looks much nicer, 2) my code is far easier to make correct, and 3) exceptions give me no trouble whatsoever. Honestly, I experience 10x as much pain from the _for_ loop as I do from exceptions, for crying out load!

Maybe if I had spent more of my like working with particularly ugly Java systems, then I might feel differently. But when using C++, Lisp, Dylan, Schema, Python and Ruby, exception handling has always been completely painless. Well, in C++, you need to use RAII, and sometimes you need to write WITH-OPEN-FILE or File.open {|f| ... }. But this is an order of magnitude easier than making explicit error-handling correct.

In fairness to Go, exception handling is much trickier when you live in a world of lightweight co-routines. But again, Erlang seems to generalize things in a plausible way: Declare links between co-operating processes, and propagate failures across those links until somebody wants to catch them and recover.

It looks like Go is slowly moving in that direction. But in the meantime, writing Go programs always leaves a sour taste in my mouth—I really don't want error-handling code gunking up my programs like that.