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Telecommuting will shut you out of many of the most desirable employers (eg. startups, Google, FaceBook). You actually lose a lot in terms of communication efficiency and hence productivity, and most fast-moving companies are very aware of that. If you do get a job at, say, one of Google's remote offices, your project choices are much more limited than at the home office.

My choice was to take the good job, see the family, and put up with the brain-dead TSA regulations for the 3ish times a year that I fly home. I don't like it, but it's the path of least resistance that lets me arrange the rest of my life optimally. I suspect many other people make the same choice.
Relevant: American Airlines pilots are protesting the new measures - http://www.minyanville.com/dailyfeed/american-airlines-pilot...
Not sure why you were modded down, since several types of knives are illegal to carry around in public (not to possess on private property or to carry around well packed such as in original secure packaging though).

Flick-knives have been illegal since forever (in fact since 1959 according to Wikipedia - responding to the threat of "teddy boys"!). Locking knives that open under gravity and lock are also illegal.

http://www.bkcg.co.uk/guide/law.html
What do you mean soon? The US already holds people indefinitely - see Guantánamo. As to whether these people are innocent or guilty of anything, you might have thought or hoped that's for a judge to decide via a trial, but it doesn't seem to matter.
I developed a similar theory independently this week after learning about the loss of Feingold in Wisconsin, the only senator to vote against the Patriot Act.

One possible solution: extend TSA inspection authority to interstate RV travel.
The problem I am trying to solve is this:

Say you hire a designer to do a logo for you. They come up with 5 versions. How do you compare them? What some people do is literally print them out and hold them up - or tape them to a whiteboard, etc.

So the way I am solving this is, allowing designers to upload multiple versions to one place (my web app) and they notify their client. Their client can then go and easily compare the multiple versions of the design, comment on them and chose from there.

It's like Hot or Not, but for designs.

Of course, it will do everything else that you expect from a simple project management solution - like Basecamp.

I should also mention that this is not specific to designers ONLY, but I am starting with designers because that is a targeted niche that I think this will help. I imagine photographers/ad agencies and others can use this.

If you happen to have other suggestions for other niche markets I would love to hear them too.
> What you describe is the core of Marx's assertion that capitalism would collapse, […]

No "final collapse" is asserted. A concerted effort is required to bring its demise. (Nowadays this is attempted through peaceful means rather than the earlier revolutions.)
HTTPS using certificates signed by DNSSEC is coming. In fact, support for it is already in Chrome (although behind a command line flag).

If you want details, see: http://www.imperialviolet.org/2010/08/16/dnssectls.html

The current holdups are that .com does yet support DNSSEC (it should happen early next year), and that people are still figuring out what form the DNS records should have. At this point, it's likely to be a new (binary) RR type which doesn't have an RRTYPE code assigned yet. I just need to change Chrome to reflect this.
MySQL/InnoDB defaults to REPEATABLE READ, I believe. We started running into locking/concurrency issues in this mode a long time ago and found that for our uses, 99.9% of the time READ COMMITTED would work just fine. We now use READ COMMITTED as the default and switch to REPEATABLE READ only when needed. We handle about 100x more traffic now than we did when we were forced to make the switch.
That one was surprising, although in a general Republican-wave election I suppose a Democrat losing in a swing state can happen for various reasons. But I couldn't figure out who was actually supporting Ron Johnson (the new Senator). Just people who hate taxes? Libertarians were mostly not in favor, because Johnson had a really wishy-washy position on the Patriot Act, e.g. take a look at this RedState (conservative/libertarian site) analysis of his views: http://www.redstate.com/pompadour/2010/06/23/local-grassroot...

Or maybe that was actually the reason, because people take tough-on-terrorism as more important than civil liberties?
Symbolics also had developed a portable Lisp, but closed it. They developers then develop it externally, it was developed and sold as Lucid CL. Lucid CL was highly portable, but the company also did not survive.

Symbolics' problem was not that their software was not portable. Open Genera is a VM and ran on DEC Alpha, it would have been possible to port it to other 64bit machines.

But the business went away. The thing was too costly. It was also not just a Lisp implementation, but a portable OS. As an OS it simply did too much: own networking, own window system, ...

The reason why Franz is still around and Symbolics' is not, is not a question of portability - it is because Franz' Lisp is just a Lisp implementation and concentrates on that - where Genera / Open Genera is an OS, which simply does too much. Why run a TCP stack in Lisp on a machine which already has a TCP stack? Why run a window system on a machine which already has one? Plus the rest of the machine does not benefit from that. If the other software could use the Lisp TCP stack, but it can't.
You can also force banks to be more stable, by just not having any (government-supported) deposit insurance. And perhaps making them publish all their positions, maybe with a, say, 6 month lag, instead of government mandated minimum capital standards.
Do you force yourself to work on only one customer's project on any given day?
It makes a funny quip, sure, but there is really no way to tell at this point. Certainly most modern communists acknowledge that the totalitarian and undemocratic efforts in the USSR, China and elsewhere were misguided, to put it kindly.
Am I the only one that read the title of this post and immediately thought:

"BitTorrent Record Label - Oh my Gosh, that's BRILLIANT!"

Then was disappointed at the fact that it is just records for file sizes?
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Basecamp for Designers doesn't sound like a good idea. 37Signals won't be happy if you get rich.

Anyways, based on the problem you are trying to solve. Tell them the benefit. Something like
"Let your Clients choose the best"
or something like that.

There is feature (compare the diff versions) and then there are benefits (hassle free decision making for client - faster work done). Benefits sell.

To be honest, you can't make your USP alone - you can just try and give it a direction. Your users will define your USP. They might end up using it for entirely different purpose. Or might fall in love with USP.

So don't worry about USP. Just tell them:

1) What is it
2) What it means for them (benefit)
3) What can they do here
4) How to get started.
But the fraction of the traveling public that reads HN has to be minute. Seriously, what would you estimate the increase is in the probability of significant improvements to TSA policy, by virtue of this article being posted vs if it had been rejected as off topic? Even one millionth of a percent increase in probability seems high to me. People like to vent and posture, but in the moment of choice they'll almost always choose the most convenient alternative. Very few will file formal complaints, even among readers here. And as others have pointed out, the incentives for the TSA almost force them to be over cautious, so that they can survive if something bad happens.
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If it has a blade longer than 3 inches, then you need a 'good reason' to be carrying it in public. If not, then under normal circumstances (rule 7 applies) it's fine so long as the blade is capable of folding. A locking catch is fine, but a fixed blade isn't.

It seems safe to assume it's just the fact that you were planning to carry it on to a plane that made them unhappy.
from what I understand, the reason Feingold lost, was because Johnson outspent him something like 10 to 1, mostly from the 8-9 million he donated to his own campaign. This is mostly from seeing reddit headlines, so that may very well be bs.
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I am afraid you misunderstand me, I didn't intend for them to be treated as they treated middle-easterns, but as the blacks where treated in the south during the Jim Crow era, minus the lynchings (since this would put those who do this at the risk of prosecution).

The idea is that the agents will grow to hate their jobs and then quit, and to make it harder, much, much harder for the TSA to hire people.

Since being a TSA employee is job which you choose to get, and one from which you can quit at anytime, this seems fair.
Best example I've ever seen of something HN-worthy that someone new to HN might comment "why is this here"
Sorry to be a grumpy old fart about this article but it reeks of "I'm pimpin' my company on Techcrunch!" Start with a valid (in fact, valuable) assertion about simplicity in the enterprise. But follow it up with what?

>>>Look throughout your organization and find the areas where employees spend a disproportionate amount of time or run into problems on a specific set of tasks. Enabling technologies in these areas will pay huge dividends for your organization.

This is approximately like telling me that if I want to be in the Hall of Fame all I have to do is get 4 hits every 10 times out of bat. 40%! How hard can that be?

EDIT - I am grumpy because I own a business and beating simplicity into business processes is harder than getting my 6th grader to do homework.
The key phrase here is "political people," meaning people who spend more time and effort on political game playing than value creation. Such people destroy everything they touch, yet they have an uncanny ability to skate from thing to thing.

If I could snap my fingers and remove all such people from history, we would probably be colonizing Alpha Centauri right now.
The article (and others) is in regard to the very recently implemented policy changes by TSA in the past couple weeks. Otherwise I agree with you and haven't personally experienced problems in my frequent travel.
I wonder: can I claim to be gay and would therefore prefer to be patted down by a woman? Can we make this a standard thing to claim?

I would imagine that if they did not adhere to this request, then they would be guilty of sexual discrimination. I can equally imagine the scene if 95% of male travellers claimed to be gay and demanded to be groped by a lady 'for American values'. I cannot imagine that there will be that many women willing to grope a man on command.

Other things to try: not washing for several days before the flight, telling the patting-down officer to be careful because you have lice, feigning injury from an aggressive pat-down and rolling around on the floor clutching your privates, like a soccer player who's been roughly tackled. Air travel has been turned into a fucking circus; let's go along with it and have some fun at the same time!
"Posting political things here makes people feel good, but doesn't do one damn thing in the real world."

Again, I have to disagree with you on this. HN is where I found at about this issue to begin with, and I have already: 1. donated to EPIC's http://www.stopdigitalstripsearches.org/ , 2. begun changing travel plans, 3. informed a number of friends and colleagues (non-HN users) who have in turned passed it on to others. Clearly, there are "real world" effects.
In brief; a collection of anecdotes about the rapidly increasing number of PRC students at US universities at undergraduate level, with little in the way of structure.

Interesting points; The Chinese are going everywhere, including no name horribly expensive private colleges. They often experience culture shock and find the drinking and party culture not much fun. The native USAns' social circles are heavily race stratified, the Chinese often socialise very heavily among themselves, living in houses that are all Chinese for example.

- Britain and Australia got there first with the realisation that foreign students can be conned into going to third or fourth tier universities and paying handsomely for it.
- There is enormous money in preparing and "preparing" students for going abroad.
- Interesting snippets about some universities in the article; the University of Vermont was less than 1% international student until quite recently, Northwestern either needs money or wants to expand its brand, and Columbia like Stanford has an education programme.
Thank you kingsidharth.

What I was really getting at is, help me brainstorm about how to articulate the benefits I am providing.

You gave me some good ideas for starters. Have any more benefits I can use ? :)

Btw, I am not too worried about 37Signals getting upset with me. The market will decide. If the market doesn't think there is space for me, I will have to pivot :)
Hmm, I see. I don't know exactly how long it was, but it was maybe 2.5-3 inches. The fact that I was carrying a server, 20 liters of LEGO and a backpack with 3 laptops and another one with underwear probably made it look quite nonthreatening.
This is different than Flock (which was a failure) how?
There's some amount of problem solving and planning involved. But not as challenging as to implement the next distributed storage mechanism. I'm probably closer to done for that world. I'm not a research scientist.

I'm looking at the specific area: financial services (not trading, but more traditional than that: transactions, accounting, etc). I'd love to learn about finances more in conjunction with doing IT related work.
The fact that you aren't buying the e-book, but instead paying the fee for a very restrictive licence, needs to be made much clearer to e-book users.

This would mean Amazon and Barnes & Noble using the wording 'license this book' instead of 'sell', 'sale', 'purchase' or 'buy'; instead of a price, you pay a fee.

Nudges, and informed consumers, FTW.
I read that as 'steam processing', and was sorely disappointed.
In the same vein of passing scenes and celebrities, here's a beautifully written article by Gary Indiana that appeared in ArtForum in the late 1990s. Indiana, who covered art for the Village Voice back during the mid-1980s, summarizes his impressions of the East Village scene at the time:

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Crime+and+Misdemeanors-a057475...

(It's the best link I could find.) Substitute "developer" for "artist", "Brooklyn" for "East Village", and "VC" for "collector", and you get the same thing.
"A-level person" is really an attitude, not a personality trait. It means that you're engaged in the work, you're aware of all the relevant factors you need to consider to make a good project, you creatively and proactively seek out problems and solve them, and so on. Basically, that you're Smart and Get Things Done.

You can take someone who's C-level (just coasting) at one company, transplant them to another company, and they might become an A-level player. If someone thinks the work they're doing is pointless, they're probably not going to invest much effort in that work, regardless of how smart they are. Put them in a situation where they really care about how well the company does, and you might see very different results.

Conversely, you can take someone who was A-level at one company, transplant them into another company, and find they're suddenly underperforming. If there's a culture mismatch or they think everyone around them is a doofus, they're probably not going to do a good job.

I think that the article's point is pretty much right on, unless someone's job is specifically to sell to people in the Scene. After all, if they're engaged in the Scene, they're probably not engaged with their work, and that's really what being an A-level player is about.
Great, so everyone who has an Important Cause should post their stuff here in the hopes of getting money?

There are "real world effects" of pissing into the wind, too, but they don't really affect the wind much.
+1 for Flask. It very much gets out of your way. Interestingly it still feels like you have it both ways (batteries included but loosely coupled) as the series of extensions are high quality thin wrappers for good libraries - namely Babel, Fungiform and SQLAlchemy. For me this was a great introduction to these aforementioned libs.
Sweet.

Time to get one.
Did this person just win the Open Kinect Prize?
How strange, this was just discussed over on Reddit! A user posted about their library having new vending machines, people were discussing QR codes for nutrition and stuff, I suggested QR codes for liking remotely.

It's an excellent idea and will probably happen with the rise in smart phones, maybe blippy are in a position to do this, maybe they're already developing it!
Maybe Jones is not his real name after all?
ok, basically it takes an image, converts it to a canvas, saves that canvas data, detects the edges of the image in the canvas, outlines the edges in black-and-white, saves that black-and-white canvas data, too, adds an event handler that onmousemove (iPad: ontouchmove) substitutes a circular region of the "outlined edges canvas data" with the "original image" canvas data - puuhh - that's all. hope you like it.
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The MCAT actually doesn't measure much in the way of knowledge, just of speed. The actual questions are easy, and your score (after a certain knowledge/intelligence threshold) is solely determined by how many practice questions you've waded through.
On a slight tangent, I've added links to all the November Startup Sprint projects that I know of to my blog, on the sidebar: http://www.weddingbudgetbuddy.com/blog/

Let me know if I've missed yours.
Almost everything that I would do differently with the wisdom of hindsight comes down to one of two stories: it's something I could have started immediately but didn't, so I wasted time before starting it later anyway or never did it at all, or it's something I did start but then gave up on too soon or for the wrong reasons.

Put another way, it's not so much the missed opportunities I regret, but the opportunities I recognised were worth taking that I didn't then make the most of. Usually the delayed starting or early quitting was for some reason that seemed very important and logical at the time, but with hindsight just looks like ignorance, cowardice or laziness.

If there were only one thing I could teach my children, I think it would be how to act with integrity and be a decent person. But if I could teach two, I think the second would be that you can't follow every opportunity in life, but those things you do choose to pursue are worth doing properly.
I don't mind occasional OT (with compensation). Fact is, in where I live, companies can get away with lots of OT and not compensating them. I don't mind to go to management position late in my career. Not now, but maybe later.

Interesting things can have different means. To me, Google architecture (GFS, BigTable, MapReduce) are all interesting, but I have no desire to learn them for the sake of learning. Rails is interesting in the sense that I'd like to learn it, make a website using it, and take a poke at running a small business.

I'm also interested at the business of iPhone apps. I'd rather pay someone else to write the app than writing it myself. I prefer to focus on the operational side: making sure we have a website with good SEO and graphics design. Promote the iPhone apps and start making money (even with a low profitability margin).

But at the same time, I'm not a big gambler or a risk taker. Steady fixed income and experimental on the side is my sweet spot.

In short, I'd like to be able to run my own side business, be it iPhone apps or selling stuff online. That excites me more vs toying with various programming languages or solving hard algorithm problems. I prefer to talk with people than with machines. I don't mind to do occasional programming cause I like to build stuff. I just don't want them to dominate my whole life. I prefer not to be 40 or 50 and still hacking C, UNIX, Java, C# or Ruby for a living.
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What you're suggesting is idiotic. These are not dignified, middle-class jobs held by people who have much choice in life. It's work given to people whose entire lives have been defined by bad systems. Schooling, health care, criminal justice - at the low end of the scale they're all maliciously self-serving in a way that middle class people struggle to imagine.

If you think being a dick to people whose entire lives have been shaped by a series of collective 'f* yous' form society, then you deserve whatever 'secondary screening' they elect to give you. You really do.

And if you genuinely believe that every job is a matter of choice, that people are free to quit if they're at all unaligned with their employer, then you've lived your entire life in an amazingly sheltered and privileged bubble. This makes the image of you (essentially) spitting on the much less fortunate even more appalling. All you're doing is making them even meaner and more defensive - something that's likely to make life harder for everyone else having to deal with them as screeners.

I'm not defending what the TSA is doing. It's clearly stupid and awful, and I strongly suspect it's a product of corrupt back-scatter purchasing deals made by craven congressmen in exchange for campaign money and mindless votes. But taking out your anger on the luckless human fodder that these people have insulated themselves with is galacticly uninformed. If this is honestly your approach, just stop.
It's always possible to use a prepaid credit card to pay for those things, especially if you don't want your SO to find out...
We would love to bill hourly. We tend to work for large companies, and they need to figure out how much to budget, so we then end up saying, "this will take between 10 and 12 hours," and then being forced to swallow the costs when it takes us 14. And of course, if it takes 8, they win. If anyone has suggestions other than "just tell them it will take what it takes," we'd really appreciate hearing them.

Edit: Usually, just stopping when the hours run out isn't a good choice either, because most of the projects we have won't provide a partial solution. It's all or nothing. Example: converting data between two formats. We discover a quality issue when we've run out of time, so the converted data is unusable.
My project ties QR codes to Twitter, Foursquare, and Facebook profiles: http://www.getaquirk.com/ So you can scan a QR and easily follow, check-in, etc.

Currently debugging a change in the FB API that broke something. But still something to check out if you're into QR uses.
I haven't flown in a few months, and it sounds like from these articles that these pat downs are fairly recent (possibly in response to the printer cartridges?).
I otherwise agree with you. The security procedures I have been used to for the past few years were annoying because there was a rather small line to wait in, but I did not feel my privacy was breached during those trips through the security line.

However, these new pat downs (if they are as widespread as I am lead to believe) would be where I would draw the line.
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Also: DRM, a cautionary tale (unless I misunderstood what they mean by that - I don't know what did happypenguin.org actually offer):

"older backups bring brought online would end up with a number of users being unable to access their games due to copy protection issues"