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As I read the article (without having seen the actual proposal, and probably not able to understand the legal-ese if I had), you just would not be allowed to do that. You'd have to use some alternative to GPG, that has a law enforcement back door.
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Leave your phone near a CRT screen or loudspeaker, observe the noise right before you recieve a call.

The rest is statistics and probability. What's the probability of interference causing a fatal misreading in aircraft's sensor? Too small. What's the number of flights world wide? Too big. We would see a number of accidents if everyone kept their phones on all the time. As a death is one too many, it warrants the ban.
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You should be able to find companies that will relocate you. Look on the Joel on Software and 37 signals job boards perhaps. Perhaps focus on jobs in SF?
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Sorry if I missed it in the long obfuscated explanation but why? Why bother with DRM at all? Esp ineffectual DRM like theirs.
I don't see how a company could have prevented an employee from leaving voluntary.

The article states that the company agreed not to use the most aggressive recruitment techniques (cold calling) on each other, which sounds like a gentlemen agreement more than collusion.

Google states that they recruited from Adobe, Intel, Apple, etc., that's pretty easy to verify.
I love the game Jagged Alliance 2. It's a really really deep tactical strategy game... but it is absolutely ruined by quick-save. Many people play it with their finger on the save/load keys, saving after each turn, and loading if anything goes wrong, even to the point of reloading after a missed shot. What would be a really tense and strategically demanding game turns into a totally unrealistic situation where the "good guys" totally steamroll the enemy without a hitch.

I fell for it, and I played that way until the game became unenjoyable. Now I've been playing Fargoal and Demon's Souls, and various multiplayer games where you can't even pause, and it's a much more rewarding challenge.
My business right now is pretty small, but I can already think of 20 different businesses that I'll have to send a 1099 to. It's ridiculous. Business are going to have to start putting their tax ID on every bill they send out so all of their customers don't have to send them an email asking for it.
I'd love to understand this ideas better. Can you explain each of those components of your system? What is a "content based router"? The "security API"?
> purpose of DRM is to minimize piracy,

Oh, that depends very much. Some other reasons include limit resale/kill secondary market/otherwise control distribution, track users/usage, be able to force update/patches/deactivations/etc on users, your publisher is an idiot.
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"To get top performance, one must give up control"
Admittedly, 20 years ago the amount of effort and cost that went into the next level wasn't nearly as high as it is now. If all that work went into making a level, why would you actively try to keep the player out, especially if it might impact sales from people who are bad at games?

Not that I agree, but it takes way too much to make a good game these days.
whats the software you used for this?
while I was driving my car this morning I felt like to howl as a wolf full of energy, and the second thought was selling the sound (about ten dollars) to a small group of people. But I think that sound is not enough to convey the experience of vigour, it should be mixed with some music or strange sound. My question is: have you ever bought some sound that is suppose to activate your mental state beyong music?

Well, in case you want to hear a wolf hawk here is one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbCh_Stg2os but that was not me today.

In case you wonder what has this to do with the OP, the you are submitting too fast is the answer, sorry to be out of context here.
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Ok how about on airplane mode only so I can still read but not recieve any calls?

Also ban is a bit strong with how it actually works - I mean how do you really enforce that? The air hostesses go around do a quick look but they can miss things, also phones in hand luggage cannot be checked and people can forget it is on, the terrorist scenario I paint above... I mean I design controls for a living and this just does not seem that effective to me if the risk as you say is very low liklihood, very high impact.

Surely a real study needs to be done and if it is really a risk a more effective control like a jammer or electronic tool to detect when a phone is no be put in place.

Or are you arguing that most people turn them off because they get told to and that is enough to mitigate the risk?
Am I the only one who's a little disappointed?

Of all things he had to start another WP hosting company? He has the name and the money to do something bigger. I can't think of any motivation other than making money that went into this.

That being said, the staging area for testing changes seem like a really useful feature that I haven't seen in any other WP hosting service.
I find it hard to believe that a plane's avionics are sufficiently shielded to withstand a direct lightning strike, but one person's phone will crash the plane.

I've heard other explanations, too, such as the fact that too many mobile towers are line-of-sight at the same time, and the effective ground speed means you'd hop towers far too often and it'd mess with the phone system. Multiplied times the number of mobile-phone-carrying passengers in the air at any given time, I suppose it's plausible.
Another reason I've heard argued by a coworker is that they aren't banning electronics for the sake of interference, but for your attention.

If anything were to go wrong during a flight, takeoff and landing are the two times that they want you to be able to react with zero hesitation. If something goes wrong and you have seconds to react, the less things you're fiddling with the more likely you are to survive.
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That last one is an interesting point, any references to whether it has been tested?
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This is the paragraph where the research is described as a significant step in fighting terror, curing cancer, or solving world hunger.
What are examples of low skilled software development jobs?
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Not if his income was over $200K in the prior 2 years, and expected to be the same in the current year. The income level is an alternate, not additional, qualification.

And, perhaps he fudged some numbers, by inflating the value of something illiquid, to claim to be accredited slightly before he was.

As I understand it -- but could be wrong, IANAL -- this requirement isn't a matter of providing formal documentation to the government beforehand, but of asserting your status to the security issuer, perhaps with some documentation, and them accepting your assertion.

Only if things go south, and disputes/lawsuits begin, would the fact that money was accepted from non-accredited investors begin to cause liability and enforcement troubles for the issuers. So the issuers are motivated to ask for some documentation, but could also easily 'look the other way' or accept flimsy assertions in some instances.
So a commenter can go hipster meta in his or her writing with standard pronouns?
Great post... would also outlaw OpenSSH and OpenSSL (self-signed certs).
I've heard it summarized thusly:

The aircraft is most likely to hit something during takeoff and landing. Cell phones, laptops, and other hard, dense, chunks of metal plastic are, in fact, dangerous when they're flying toward your head.

It doesn't particularly matter whether they pose an electronic threat, policy would be the same.
In the sense that he recently bought a company whose product ended up contributing to his sudden death. Perhaps not truly ironic in the literary sense according to raganwald, but I believe most people would consider that to be ironic.

(Alanis Morissette certainly would agree judging by her definition of what qualifies as irony)
No, he just writes blog posts with titles like "The First Time I Changed History".

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=2539

That said, in the latter half of this post he backpedals and gives the "hacker culture" credit for being able to recognize his contributions, but still -- the title of the article isn't "On the openness of the RFC process in the 80s".

I don't know what to think about ESR. I disagree strongly with his interpretation of what hacker culture is, and how free software works, and personally I think it has taken us a long time to undo some of the damage he did to the discourse in both those areas. But he also legitimately influenced a lot of things for the better. Oddly, he seems to be unsatisfied with that level of achievement, and wants to be recognized as being a great statesman or visionary. If he claimed less credit he'd probably get more credit.
Same problem here.

I changed my default SSH port to avoid brut-force, do you think I'm going to trust anybody with an actual password ?
Lawyers and doctors professional organizations are more like guilds. But the IMechE, the BCS et al actively work against the best interests of their individual members! The IMechE at least has the basic function of granting CEng to those that need it; there is no reason for anyone to be a BCS member at all.
"The cost of an accident, should one occur, could be extremely high in terms of human life and the risk is completely avoidable in that no one absolutely needs to use their mobile phone in flight."

compare it to:

"The cost of an accident, should one occur, could be extremely high in terms of human life and the risk is completely avoidable in that no one absolutely needs to eat meat to survive, they can eat vegetables."
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8O9BCJ80&show_a...

FTA (emphasis added): "Existing rules require cellular phones to be turned off once an aircraft leaves the ground in order to avoid interfering with cellular network systems on the ground."
Unfortunately, no matter how many anecdotal examples (suffering from survivor bias) new media authors give to support "just make it remarkable," the graveyard of failed companies is littered with those that had distribution problems for incredibly good products.
He said the practice would repress wages. Absolutely nothing about leaving voluntarily. It seems pretty reasonable that an agreement banning the most aggressive forms of recruitment would have some negative effect on employee compensation.
Do you also think Heroku is boring because it's just Ruby hosting?

Taking the largest, most vibrant blogging (and now general website and for some CMS) platform on Earth and trying to not only make it awesome but contribute new features and plugins back to the world isn't big enough for you?

Finally, you should know that for me "doing something bigger" isn't a motivation. I don't have a need to "change the world" or somesuch thing. I want to do something valuable, something understandable, something fun and interesting, and yes of course also make money.
I haven't checked either of those, so I definitely will now, thanks. SF is on my short list. I really like the idea of going there, but a friend who has worked all over the west coast says I should try outside CA first, and go there if nothing else comes first. I hate just going off one person's opinion which is part of the reason I am asking these questions.
This is the problem with success, it has many different meanings and some of then are evil. When using technology to kill people it should be carefully studied what is the meaning of success.
I grew up in the DC area and moved to SF for a couple of years when a company hired me out there. They ended up paying for the move, the airfare for the interview, etc.

My advice: don't worry about the move, worry about finding a company you love. They'll inevitably ask you about relocating during the screening/interview and you'll simply say "yes."

In my case, I was looking for an employer prior to moving (so they'd pay for my wife and I to move there).
Hi everyone, thanks for the interest, Thimbl is not ready for public release, we are still working on it, so you'll have to patient. Regading why we use SSH: Because it is already available on your servers and is a standard, thus there is no barrier to getting started. Don't want to share "your" ssh password with some random website? No problem, how you implement access to your finger .plan files is up to you, create a special server with ssh service just for your .plan files, don't want to give your users shell accounts? creat a shell-less ssh service using something like conch or zope, etc whatever! Still not happy? Clone thimbl.net and run your own web interface! The point of using established standards is that everyone can do it there way. Thanks for the comments. With thimbl and thibl user can use any thimbl.net clone, and it make no difference.
This is Bret Taylor's Graph API - the concept simplified the API a lot, and companies like Freebase copied it for their own data. Too bad it is not working...
Spot on!

Here's much better analysis:

excerpt:

It's not just that their actions are shameful.

It's not just that these actions violate everything Silicon Valley represents.

These agreements reveal a profound insecurity about their ability to compete on free and fair terms with one another.

http://www.mercurynews.com/top-stories/ci_16167551
Wait, so you mean you have to actually understand your customers' needs to know what the minimum feature set is?

Shocking!
I'm glad I'm not the only one that feels this way about their documentation. I don't make Facebook apps all the time. I've made a couple. Each time a client has me make one I have to spend hours trying to gather info about whether a requirement is possible because the docs suck.
I was indeed sloppy and did mix various aspects, and argued ad hoc against the examples given; alas that's the fate of quick discussions such as this one where the wording of arguments is not double-checked :) I think overall though that we both understand each others underlying positions well. Generalized, my point is that the business case for these less-tangible aspects of website development is hard to make. I'm sure you agree with the overall sentiment that these aspects are only worth doing for a business when there's an expected positive ROI, so now all we can do is argue over at which point that break even point lies. So at least we can agree that it's not very productive to further try convincing one another :)
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It could just be me, but it seems that the sort of users who know and understand finger and SSH are not the sort of users who want to use a micro blogging service.
But if we wrote a Thimbl user information update server and asked you to run that on your own server, you would do that and consider our service as secure as sshd? Really? Our position is that you give as a standard remote login interface, that is ssh, how you implement that for your own finger users is up to you (see my other comment)
Why are people still discussing this? Start-ups don't grow on trees.
If there is something to be investigated it will, if there are any problems with angel financing they'll be known, meanwhile all this speculation is a waste of precious time.
I find it hard to believe that my tiny MP3 player could be dangerous to the plane's avionics, yet I'm usually told I have to turn it off before takeoff.
Do you have a credit card for that Sir Pantsy Higginbothom?
For a real challenge, do it without using your notoriety.

By far, the greatest challenge for any bootstrapped startup is marketing. Just from this blog post, tens of thousands of people will check out the site, blog and tweet about it, post links etc...

Obviously this is an advantage that you've worked very hard to gain and you must exploit, but you can't say you're standing in the same shoes as all of us other, completely unknown, bootstrappers.
All this is in early stages. We will have a proper "thimbl is comming page" soon! (and git repos)
Wasn't there a case not long ago where option holders got basically raped by the taxman? They were taxed on their options as if they'd been exercised at their peak value, but by the time they vested they were worth a lot less.

AMT I think it was called.
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That's not a compelling explanation, considering that you're free to keep your head in a John Grisham potboiler (as long as it's not a Kindle edition), or remain fully asleep at takeoff and/or landing.
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He was complaining that the format in Scheme (and in PLT Racket) doesn't have that CL feature.
Bizarrely, the first one really stood out for me (I came to the conclusion you did) but I didn't notice it anymore after that.
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I'm genuinely looking forward to watching this but to me it also demonstrates something about startups and silicon valley - who you are and who you're friends with matters almost as much as what you do. There's no way in hell he'd be launching with that client list if he was some random guy, no matter how awesome the platform was. The network effect of having the right early users increasingly seems like the dirty secret of the startup game. See: posterous.

Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with that, I'm not certainly suggesting there's anything unfair about it - people work on trust networks, it's entirely natural and utterly rational - but it does make it clear how important it is to network, get your name out there and build reputation.
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Ah yes, the old "one true way" argument. It is sad to such great foolishness in someone who has used git and darcs.

Perhaps you should re-read the koan without the assumption that it is saying "GUI is bad". It is really about the "only one way and that way is GUI" attitude.
I am of the opinion that there is no longer a need for server side templating languages and that they only serve to complicate the technology stack. With REST services, Javascript, CSS and HTML the technology stack for web development has become significantly simplified due to the fact that it is once again digestible. A designer can know HTML and CSS and provide designer services without having to know the intricacies of a back end technology (many times several) further they can graduate into JavaScript UI programming as they grow and gain experience. Finally they can grow into developing back end services. With modern web development the layers have become compartmentalized or black boxed to shield each layer from the implementation details of the others. This is a good thing because a new developer does not have to master "technology soup" to become the lowest level of proficient. With current trends in web development, server side UI frameworks make no sense. The take a longer development cycle and they produce inferior results.
BTW, if you want to be notified when there is more to see, follow us on twitter @thimbl (or me @dmytri) (or identi.ca or friendfeed) or join our facebook page http://facebook.com/telekommunisten

Thanks Hacker News! Nice to see this pop up here, even if I wouldn't have posted it here just yet ;)
I'd say the problem is people expecting that any new technology is revolutionary.
I'm curious if you're using Wordpress MU for this or if you've built your own system. I built an app & plugin installer (flooha.com) which could be used to build, install and customize any php app, so I have some experience in this area.

It's a smart move to limit which plugins can be installed, to offer a very short trial and to have no free plans.
Thanks for the advice. I think it makes sense, and I agree that I should focus on the job and not the move. I will add, I had a phone interview with a large website/company for finding used/new cars, and it sounded like the perfect opportunity (California), but in the phone interview I was told that they don't offer relocation because there are so many talented people in the area, they have no reason to pay to relocate someone there. This kind of rubbed me the wrong way, mainly because I am very passionate about my work, and I felt this position was perfect for me. I'm hoping this kind of attitude isn't the norm - I equate this to telling a current employee they are "replaceable."
Not to mention speech to text on Google Voice (usually laughable results) and translation (works a bit better, but breaks down hilariously e.g. http://groups.google.com/group/shibboleth-users/browse_threa... ).
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Congratulations to your new business! I'm sure it'll be successful and I'm glad that you're happy with it.

I'm not sure if I'd call WP Engine whipping out your dick and getting a ruler, though.
Not enough people are trying to take over the world. I would love to see some bigger ideas instead of startups described in terms of other startups that already exist or spins on something else that is marginally useful at best but perhaps has some potential for cash to be collected from transaction fees or marketing. People seem to be building a lot of social pyramid scheme 2.0 companies. Unless you are starting a religion that's no way to take over the world. Maybe I will be pleasantly surprised and a big idea slipped past me.
They agreed not to actively compete for each other's employees.

In my simplistic (possibly wrong) view;
If you look at employment as a market place, and individual employees as different commodities, it keeps the market price of employees (specifically the extremely talented ones) artificially low. In the extreme it would be similar to price fixing. This is good for Larry and Sergei and Steve, but not good for the rest of us.

They shouldn't be making any agreements about hiring practices. (Gentlemen's or not).
Thanks for the link, a few good quotes from there:

Now this I can definately belive:
"the report concludes that the primary reason for the ban on cell phone use in flight is that neither the FAA nor the FCC are willing to spend the money to perform conclusive safety tests. "

God flight attendant observations? Thats the evidence that is reliable? How could you isolate for all the other factors?
"However a few reports state that anomalies were observed to appear and disappear as the suspect device was turned on and off which would indicate a high degree of correlation."

"Degrees of correlation or confidence were not among the data summarized in the report."

"There is no smoking gun to this story: there is no definitive instance of an air accident known to have been caused by a passenger's use of an electronic device. "

This is my point - are we still in 1984?
"will exceed demonstrated susceptibility levels for equipment qualified to standards published prior to July 1984"

BBC report:
"most of the evidence is circumstantial and anecdotal. There is no absolute proof mobile phones are hazardous."

"Whether interference from small battery-powered devices should have any influence on electronic systems that should be designed to fly through lightning storms without failing is often disputed by critics of the ban."