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I think you're interpreting mine over-literally. I went on in the second sentence to make it clear that I was drawing a contrast with pay for 'the most basic labor,' so as to avoid confusion. Once again "what you do" is what distinguishes you from any other warm body in the workplace. The poster is not talking about opting to earn slightly less than he might in a variety of other popular careers, he's talking about opting to earn slightly less than he could get in an entry-level unskilled job.

In economic terms, his choice to sell his services below the labor market's lowest rate for doing anything at all has a significant opportunity cost, to say nothing of the fact that he still has overhead and so on. A person who gets paid nothing at all is losing money because s/he still has to eat, buy clothes and so on. A person paid the market minimum is making a very small amount of money after life's necessities have been paid for, which is why we don't think of burger-flipping as a profitable career choice. Anyone charging less than this is working for zero profit, unless they are lucky enough to have free rent, food and so on.

What do you call a business plan which does not acknowledge any need to make a profit? Would you invest in such a business?
Nearly half of all elderly Americans will experience poverty
Do you live in stark, utter terror of your government? Because they can do that. :P
And the transcript, in english:
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2010...

Interesting that "dictatorship" was mentioned 9 times in the speech, free* 9 times, and democr* 13.
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Every government claims to be operating for the greater good. Sometimes that results in tyrannies.

I think this discussion might just be getting lost in the generalities of such statements, though. Do you have a more specific point to make?
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I was out of school for 3 years before going back to pursue a PhD. It can be done, but you're going to have to put in a lot of work the first year getting back into the swing of academia, and even more if you're going back to specialize in something you don't already do.
They don't now...but they could easily do it in the future. There is no gray area here. What they did was idiotic.
Sure, a bit of state, but if you have a server designed to maximize connections you can handle orders of magnitude more than something like apache. Then you reach a point where being able to handle traffic below the absolute network-crushing level isn't very hard to do.
Me too. I can't understand having a startup but not being a developer.

Being dependent on others for your core functionality must suck.
The Pentagon Papers were manually put into the public domain when Sen. Mike Gravel (yes, that one) entered them into the Congressional Record.
Agreed. some of my projects are ~50% Javascript, but in fact most of that is jQuery, jQuery UI, canvas.js, json2.js etc.
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Useful for everyone, especially hackers.
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Would you mind elaborating on what types of things you are using Graphite for today?
Yes, but inflection points like the one we're witnessing now are sprinkled all through the past.
Most things are complicated. All I took from his reply was to say that protests have led to success in the past, and that the DDoS attacks are a form of protest (debatable).

I didn't see anything trying to belittle the fall of the Berlin wall. Drawing extreme conclusions like this reminds me of "Unamerican" arguments from a few years ago.
I have the V1 and RadarActive transceiver and iPhone app. The hardware works well, but I kind of wish the software was open source, or they at least provided a linkable library or plugin system of some kind (might be limited by iOS) since I keep thinking of neat things I could do with it. For example it would be nice to integrate it with the "Augmented Driving" app.

A public API for the speed trap database would be useful too. I'm not sure what their business model is, right now they just sell the hardware interface.

What I'd really love to see is existing proven radar detector manufacturers incorporate Bluetooth into their detectors, allowing apps to interface with them. Valentine will never do it, but Escort might.

FYI SignalActive (the company behind RadarActive) is based in the SF bay area (San Mateo I think?)
They have hit the front page of nearly every major news source with a story that cements the connection between Wikileaks and anti-social vandalism and hacking in the minds of the public.

Well done, Anon.

All they have done is make it harder to get accross the point that Wikileaks is a legitimate news organisation (like The Guardian and the NYTimes who are also publishing the cables) and as such should be protected as exemplars of a free press.

Their actions are harmful, narcisistic and juvenile.
Not using it for anything right now -- haven't had time to integrate the it into the stack at my new company. I miss it. ;-)

However, we used it for all kinds of things at my previous company: everything from incrementing a counter for every web request, database hit, cache miss, slow page (html generation time > a certain threshold), user action, what have you.
What Wikileaks is doing is called journalism. I wouldn't compare that to revolution, even if they are both rare these days.

What Anonymous is doing is an attack, and its only justification so far is the attempted suppression of Wikileaks' journalism. Suppression of rights like the freedom of the press are among the best justifications for revolution. So, while the current DDOS probably isn't the start of a revolution, it is the kind of thing you would expect to see in the opening stages of a modern revolt in an industrialized society, before things get to the physical violence.
yes, it's very very bizarre and it drives me crazy. We've tried 3 or 4 different things to fix it and nothing seems to take. Note that our attribution terms do require a link back primarily for this reason, and even the sites who attribute back to us totally legally still have this problem. It truly does feel like a Google bug, honestly. See related discussion at http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/5385/page-appe... . I'm all ears if anyone knows of a way to fix this.
I support Wikileaks. I support 100% free speech.

These actions seem very counterproductive to me.

* These attacks harm innocent people who are trying to log into PayPal to do their business.

* It pushes people on the fence with this whole thing towards the government's side.

* These attacks on businesses ignore the real enemy of free speech which is always the government.

* It makes it very easy for the talking heads to associate supporters of free speech with these actions and cast what's a very positive movement as a bunch of annoying lawbreakers.

Is Anonymous trying to do Joe Lieberman's PR for him? I can't understand this.
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Laser is exactly why a radar/laser detector network is useful, but yes, it must include laser detection capability. RadarActive (http://radaractive.com/) integrates with the V1 to do exactly that.
That makes sense. I will just have to take the initiative and compile it or download one of the unofficial builds.
Wait, did they choose to shut down because they weren't accepted to YC? I haven't applied and can't exactly put myself in their place, but I feel like the most successful people would continue to try to grow their company anyway. Or is there a bigger story here I am missing?

Edit: grammar
I think I prefer the first version. At least the conflict is obvious.

Developer A creates migration 20100604181252. Developer B creates migration 20100604181253. Developer B doesn't notice Developer A's migration: there's no way to know from the timestamps that there might be a conflict. Everything breaks.

vs

Developer A creates migration 201. Developer B creates migration 201. Developer B gets a handy notification that something has happened in the meantime, and gets a chance to patch the migration if necessary.
Look up information cascades.

We're doing something along a similar vein for LazyReadr. The idea is to merge news about the same story together, an important step from there will be deciding which is the authoritative source to display. Going from that to effective search isn't a large leap.
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I've been in this situation before. I did it all myself - it worked out OK. In hindsight, though, I'd advise a lawyer if you can possibly afford one as it could have gone horribly wrong ;-) (Others here have given better advice on that part.)

If you decide to go it alone anyway, you must first get a good feel for their true intent. It's like dating. Don't give it all up or get heavy on the first date. Keep things cordial and don't act secretive or defensive, but spend time talking to them and feel out what they're gunning for. You'll need some time after to reflect on things they said or impressions you got from their manner. The more people on your side who share in the talks, the better.

Like someone can detect a shady date even if they don't overtly do anything nasty, you should be able to sniff out bad intentions from the buyer. If they're just digging for information or yanking your chain, unless they're really smooth manipulators, you should get a bad feeling in your gut after the first or second serious talk.
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I'm kind of surprised this hasn't made the top of DU's list. Maybe it did, and got buried under all the WikiLeaks stuff before I could get over there...?
Good idea, but I have no idea who our account manager is at Google. Do we even have an 'account manager'? what do they manage exactly, we don't do any adsense. I'll try to find out. but I'm kinda skeptical this approach (serve googlebot one set of content, everyone else something else) is something that Google would actually want to encourage at scale on any site.
It seems I can't reply to messages past a certain depth so I'll respond to your latest comment in the previous one.

The design website guy's name is Aurelio, and the person you were responding to who had said he would accept slightly less pay for work he enjoys is Robinson. When you replied to Robinson, were you really addressing Aurelio?

Also, are you making any assumptions about how long it takes Aurelio to make a design, and what might likely happen to him after having developed a professional reputation and portfolio. Also, if he does 5 designs a day 20 days a month, 100 designs, and makes $1500, is that really nothing compared to $54 a month, which is more than 40% of full time workers in Brazil (where he lives) make?
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Interesting gimmick. Similar premise as http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/
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There are several radar/laser networks already.

* Trapster is the most popular one with manual reporting.

* RadarActive hooks up to an actual detector (Valentine One, considered by many to be the best) to automatically report radar/laser detections.

* Some of the high end Passport detectors and possibly others have GPS and trap databases, but not in real time AFAIK. You have to hook it up to a computer to update the database, so it's only useful for fixed traps like red light / speed cameras.

I hope the networks don't get too fragmented, because the real power lies in the network effects. You need a critical mass of users/detectors reporting for it to be useful.
Surprise?

An internal FBI FOIA tracker could solve this problem, but the project to develop it would probably cost $3 billion and take 5 years.
Joe,

We have a combination of random and sequential data access patterns. Our data fits really well into key/value data stores, such as Cassandra. We'd prefer to get 10k qps for random I/O, of course that's data-model dependent.

Our Data is currently in the hundreds of gigs to several terabytes, but is likely to increase quite a bit in the coming months.

If we buy hardware, we're definitely planning on testing SSD extensively.

The main question is about who to Colo or Rent from.
Then I think we're in agreement -- I wasn't trying to say that there was anything particularly special about this one, just that we're in one.
Interesting. Thanks for the info. This is definitely the kind of information I'm looking for.
The computable versions of AIXI have such enormous constant factors that the indirection of email->real-world is as less than a grain of dust in the Ganges.

That indirection's constant factor cost might matter for any feasible AIXI-inspired AI, but since none has yet to be created or even designed, it's hard to say...
Don't go there... V1 vs. Passport is like emacs vs. vi for radar detector enthusiasts.
Thanks, great idea for the reddit group.
About the same time you posted, I was using PayPal. It was working, but I did notice signs of slow response. I was able to do everything I needed. My impression is that the PayPal engineers are dealing with the issue.
Previous comment was explaining inflation doesn't help the poor, this is pretty non controversial. The transfer of wealth would be the fact that we bailed our companies that made stupid risks because they were greedy, and the only way to fix it was to give them gobs of cash. These gobs of cash are simply printed, contributing to inflation, while keeping greedy banksters employed. We saved the wealthy while subjecting the rest to inflation.
In CP/M the order really was "cp to from". So chosen to match the assignment operator in programming.
What a great idea and I would donate if Kickstarter used something other than Amazon payments (which is limited to US-users).

I wonder how much 'caching' the application will do and I hope there will be a project/file browser added in the future.
I would like to point out that popularity has nothing to do with software quality. I've found the > popularity == < library quality.

See Ruby: as it got more popular in the past decade, your chances of any random gem working in a production setup has approached 0.
Wow, lots of hate. I guess I'll be the first to say... Nice work JavaScript. Congrats!
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Here's a really simple idea.

Make radar detectors emit radar when a trap is confirmed.

Use case: Radar detector alerts you to what it thinks is a trap. If it is a trap, you hit a button and it will emit radar for 5 or 10 seconds to warns approaching motorists? The bonus is all existing radar detectors can pick up the signal.
Fabulous feedback rksprst, thank you! Couple of comments on your feedback:

- Currently you can only compare 2 items. (love the idea of more though)

- You can set your Swayables as private so they don't go for public voting, so you can send it to just 1 person or share on your social networks.

- Regarding items that don't have pictures - You can use any website or search any term to find an image, it's all automated, so if you do want to create a Swayable for "Africa or China" just enter those terms into our search box for Africa, then the other item for china and we'll show you image results.

- Agree with the natural and easy, working through a new revision now to make this more intuitive and better looking. The iPhone app is coming soon as well, so you can create Swayables on the go.

- Captcha, thanks for the feedback on this one.

- Thank you for the ajax tip as well.

Totally appreciate you taking the time to provide such constructive feedback, and for checking out the site...

- Lindsey
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my email is in my profile - i couldnt find yours
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This is wishful thinking at best and intellectual dishonesty at worst - you're thinking of just the IT people; what about the vendors who depend on MasterCard and can't process payments that they need in order to make payroll?

Should we just shrug and say "oh well - at least we're getting internet justice?"
LOL! Any designers out there?
Yeah, sorry I didn't make that clear :) PLT Scheme has become Racket... even though its still Scheme.

It looks to me like a lot of the core PLT guys were involved in the R6RS debacle, and didn't like what came out of the process so decided maybe they aren't quite an official "Scheme" anymore per R6RS. Oh the drama...
"Raising awareness" is what slacktivists say instead of actually doing something meaningful to whatever cause it is they care about it.
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I had never seen fiverr.com before. Interesting. I just tried them out, paid someone $5 to take a look at one of my sites and send me some feedback. I was honestly impressed with the comments.
Your ix has a GPS that automatically locks out falses after driving past them a few times. The V1 doesn't. It is also commonly accepted the V1 is more sensitive, but has more falses. This is why people will buy a 9500ix for in town, and a V1 for the highway.
Though it might seem that way, it was more that YC was a last straw. We think we had an interesting product and there were a lot of possibilities, but there were also a lot of other problems as well, some I wrote about and some I didn't. I definitely wouldn't let a YC decision have an impact on your business, but consider their feedback one part of many that you will receive while building your company, and react accordingly.
I'm with Rich. Thanks for the link.
Why so hateful?
PayPal was functioning for me about an hour ago. I was doing some ancillary stuff (generating postage) and it worked ok.
Funny. I totally forgot that Softlayer had bought ThePlanet. So, I guess the distinction is redundant.
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You should build something else instead of entirely stopping.
The biggest problem with getting lawyers involved early-on is that it's their purview to protect your interests above all else, including an equitable, workable deal.

It has been my experience that using lawyers too early will put ridiculous clauses in contracts that don't necessarily make good commercial sense or are even in the spirit of whatever negotiations you are trying to make.

Additionally, lawyers are expensive, especially early on.

My advice: sit down, talk with the other side, decide what you both want to get out of the deal, write a heads of agreement whilst reserving your rights (they aren't binding after all) so you both have documentation to ensure you are all on the same page then, and only then, get the lawyers involved to draft up an sale document based on your heads of agreement.

Lawyers are lawyers, not negotiators or entrepreneurs. Ultimately, they aren't the best people to represent you when it comes to working out what you are willing to accept to part with your baby.
By emitting with enough power to be useful, you get into the range that you need to have a licence.
And some of those people make scads of money with no repercussions when they do something like cut off a man's legal defense fund.

Do you honestly think a DDoS that lasts a day or two is going to cause Visa to have to downsize? What innocent people are possibly going to be harmed? Except for the poor hapless sysadmins over there, who are probably not getting much sleep at the moment.
Do you mean a random gem working within a Rails app? That's a bit different, Rails conventions have changed significantly. A random gem might be an old gem that used old conventions, doesn't mean it wasn't quality at the time.
Why so hateful again? Why go to a different part of the thread, where I'm talking to someone else, to call me stupid, dishonest, thickheaded, and intentionally immoral?

Is it because you think I posted something wrong on the internet?
Step 3: Cut with scissors the line scored by the "meat cleaver."

Sure, the method is not absurd. I was expecting something far more absurd or exciting, like opening a champagne bottle with a sword or something.

http://www.wikihow.com/Open-a-Champagne-Bottle-with-a-Sword
I recall being stunned when I first read the source to the
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Obvious question, but have you reached out to Matt Cutts yet?
There is some moral ambiguity here, SHOULD this sort of thing be done?

Can one in good conscience build and maintain a service that at it's core is about circumventing laws designed to save lives?

I am not condemning this and there are a lot of arguments you can make justifying it. But in all I would not choose to be involved it its production, just as I wouldn't work for a weapons manufacturer but I don't condemn my friends that do. (I can't say I don't get a little jealous when they talk about the drones they work on).
Not true. Timings are completely different if you take a method out. I'm not saying that the JVM is not doing any magic here - but here is a closure that gets method dispatch as fast as the host can provide.
I pity the poor sys-admins whose pagers are interrupting their late-night hacking. Visa & MC probably don't care at all (they're swimming in plastic money!), its the front-line guys that are feeling this the most!
Sounds like an interesting application.

Anyone have any idea what protocol this uses?

The only thing I could figure was that it's written in python.

I'm sure there are plenty of efforts similar to this. Any others deserving of mention?