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I just wanted to make sure to point out I was just one of five authors on the book. The others were Tom Enebo, Nick Sieger, Ola Bini, and our fantastic lead author Ian Dees, without whom there would be no book at all. They deserve as much (or more) credit for the book as I do.

And thanks for the kind words :) I hope folks will enjoy the book and JRuby alike.
Actually, even that isn't true. If a company were to take this money, and then never raise another round, they would simply have to pay the debt back, I'm guessing at a fairly modest interest rate.
Nobody needs to write another article about it. It has been profiled to death.

He used CDS to bet on the bubble collapsing and then bought gold, bank stocks, distressed debt, and bet on mergers to play the recovery.
I quit my full time job last August. As a Type 1 Diabetic it's pretty important for me to not let my group coverage lapse.

I'm paying $491.00 /mo for Cobra (10% more than what my employer was paying for my coverage). Because I live in California I should be eligible for Cal-COBRA which extends my coverage to 36 months total.

It's expensive but worth it. Taking the plunge to go out on my own as a freelancer has been one of the best decisions of my life.
This is closer to knockout.js than backbone.js.

Backbone.js does not depend on custom attributes inside the HTML, which makes it a little bit more modular than the "all encompassing" knockout and angular.
It entirely depends on your perspective - there's no objective criterion by which your ? makes sense. For me, I think any job in the financial sector has a pretty healthy "evil" quotient, but then there are plenty of people who would look at my job in defense and say that's "evil". It's all relative.
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Climbing mountains isn't foolhardy adventure. Success is getting back and the summit is only half way. Turning back is the part that takes courage and discipline, because the mountain will always be there. There's an inscription at Camp Muir on Rainier, at the foot of one of the glaciers,

Climb if you will, but remember that courage and strength are nought without prudence, and that a momentary negligence may destroy the happiness of a lifetime. Do nothing in haste; look well to each step; and from the beginning think what may be the end.

I don't disagree that maybe that's the type of person the traveler is, but I don't think mountain climbing is an apt analogy. Danger is always being assessed and never being ignored.
No, it simply means that the act of downloading source code in and of itself is not illegal.

Your intent, the circumstances and what you do afterwards figure in to the discussion as well.

You want to make it seem as though the simple act of downloading copyrighted software is illegal and I think that it is not that simple.

In practice the situation is complicated, and since there is no enforcement against downloaders of software that is illegal whatsoever anyway the whole point as far as I'm concerned is moot.
Interesting. What would it take to run this on a baremetal ARM processor? There are many embedded ARM processors out there and ones running linux are a small fraction of them. There is also no reliable scripting interpreter for baremetal use except Lua.
I'm pretty certain that if Google had people /automatically/ running searches for swear words, pornography, or BitTorrent sites they'd get a lot of people fired from their jobs (possibly even automatically ;P) and possibly even seized by the FBI.

Seriously: why does everyone assume that Google's autosearch result filtering is designed by corporations or those with overly chaste minds (I totally failed at coming up with a better word/phrase for this ;P) to mold the Internet in their own image, and not as a way to protect users from being unfairly beat down by those same interests randomly?
Part of the spark for the tunisian uprising was the revelations in the US embassy cables about the billionaire lifestyle of their rulers. Same in jordan.
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Technically, in this case when you are downloading from the torrent, you are also uploading which can be taken as distributing.
The best ideas in this framework would use sliding rewards. But they will never happen.

Take the HOV lane idea. Giving the top 1% access to HOV lanes is political suicide. But awarding hours for a special fast lane, linked to the infrastructure-based taxes you pay, sounds fairer. The family of 4 making $60K a year gets a few hours they can use when they need them, tax-exempt employees get nothing, and a CEO gets more hours than she can realistically use in a year.

But opponents would say you're giving advantages to those who are "ahead." Talented-yet-poor people have less time to strike it rich. It's a Catch 22 - you need time to make money, and money to get more time, and you have neither when you start anew.

This cuts to the heart of optimizing nations for the individual, versus optimizing for the nation as a whole. I'm not sure the answer is straightforward, or if the two answers are mutually exclusive.
This project would be more interesting to me if it could complete C/C++ by using the autocompletion features of the Clang compiler.
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A low-hanging fruit would be to retool Social Security to be relevant to the needs of more affluent contributors; they might feel better about paying in if they are assured a payout that might actually support what they would consider to be a reasonably comfortable retirement. As it stands, Social Security is pretty much a total loss for higher income brackets.

As for a power incentive, the only one I might envision is to create a public forum where the public and their representatives can debate how their tax money is being spent, and a user's "karma" or default visibility bonus on the site would be based on their tax contribution.
This is considered by many to be unfair because consumption inequality is not as large as income inequality.

Peter Thiel may be 10,000-100,000x richer than me, but I'd be very surprised if he consumes even 1000x more than I do.
> Why not?

You're asking the people who are receiving the money to make the rules that they get less of it.

I think it's fairly obvious.
right, less money to be made if people just ate much less and stopped smoking.
A good place to start would be to give them a quick read-through:

Angular.js Source: http://www.angularjs.org/ng/js/angular-debug.js

Backbone.js Source: http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/docs/backbone.html

[Edit]: Just skimming through, you'll notice that Angular includes a custom JavaScript parser for it's JS-in-HTML attributes (Knockout.js uses eval()), as well as things like Social Security Number validation ... and it's own version of jQuery, internally referenced as "jqLite".
An achievements system for taxes, you say? Do I get Gamerscore? :D
This already exists in California to some degree. The state offered a limited number of stickers to hybrid cars that allows them access to the carpool lanes with a single driver. The stickers were quickly exhausted and now cars that have the sticker sell at a significant premium. (see http://www.greencarreports.com/blog/1021405_california-hov-l...)

The value of these stickers has probably declined significantly since that article was written, as the stickers are only valid until July 1, 2011.

A few years ago, my boss (CEO) at my last company bought a Prius at a premium for this reason so he could use the carpool lanes during rush hour. The populist/progressive in me thinks that it isn't "fair" that the rich can pay for faster commutes, but the truth is that he probably created many times more wealth than the several thousand dollar sticker premium by having an extra 30-60 minutes of productive work every day.
That wasn't my question. My question was do you similarly decry those people for being "a bunch of babies"?
Without a doubt. Remember the Anonymous guys arrested by doing DDoS: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/01/two-real-gun...
Oversimplifying things a bit, these writers are saying that scientific objectivity is impossible. This line of argument tends to reduce the credibility of science in the eyes of the public, with negative consequences for research funding. This is a bad thing because, even if not "objective", science has singlehandedly transformed life for the better in the past century by reducing disease, poverty, manual labor, etc, and should continue to be funded.
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A convertible note is a loan, just one that you never expect to pay back.
Regardless of why he said it, it's the stated premise. Anything else is you making assumptions and accusations.
Asymmetric costs, asymmetric benefits. The market would just leak a bunch of info as different analysts show off.
You can follow Paulson's positions here: http://johnpaulsonportfolio.com/

From what I've read, the Paulson portfolio is broken down into several individual funds that were mostly long plays on US economic recovery. For example, some of his top performing funds this year were: the Recovery Fund (+24%, up from successful long positions in US financial institutions/major companies), the Gold Fund (+35%, initiated in early-mid 2009), and the Merger Arbitrage Fund (+27%, up from disparities within various markets during mergers).
Interesting idea, but already the reason we are so concerned about government debt when inflation is so low and the economy is so bad is that inflation hurts the rich, and they control the discourse. I do not think they would go for a superinflation senario like this.
no bid contracts, not going to jail when they commit crimes

I'd speculate that the vast majority of these benefits are given to government workers, not to the rich. Any government worker with a union has a no-bid contract (it's illegal for competitors to underbid him), and you can find plenty of videos on youtube of cops committing crimes they get away with [1].

[1] Occasionally they are disciplined with a paid vacation.
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It is very related. Google made span sites and splogs profitable (through their various add networks). Therefore they are the major funder of spam sites- even if they themselves do not promote them.
I just didn't have any.
Wow. It's like waving a red flag in front of the new Congress. Talk about a tin ear ...

EDIT: Here's the FlyerTalk discussion: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/travel-safety-security/117809...
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I doubt that YC has $15 billion in opportunities every year. They also focus on using their expertise and networks to help their startups, so having 1,000 YC startups wouldn't work.
This is pretty much the idea behind congestion charges (for example in London). New York City tried to institute them, but the State Assembly stopped them (basically suburban interests trumped city interests). It would have made a big difference in commute times by lowering traffic congestion and the nice thing is that those that benefit pay.
It doesn't, because there's no transfer of anything here (well of the work itself, I mean of no legal thing, I'm not sure what the exact name in English is - "property right" or something I guess). There is no right on the work that is transferred by someone making a home copy; it's merely explicitly excluded from being an infringement on the author's copyright.

So the person doing to uploading isn't transferring anything of legal substance (which, if he doesn't have any rights on the work himself, can't, as you say).
You're absolutely doing the right thing trying to figure exactly what's true and what's not. I've been through this multiple times myself and with several others. If you don't do it right, you could literally leave millions on the table.

I've written up advice to sellers in a couple of places:
http://www.askshane.org/daily-tips/how-to-sell-a-website.php
http://www.askshane.org/features/lessons-from-an-acquisition...

I'd be happy to talk to you more about this; feel free to contact me if you want to jump on the phone. There's a link at the top of both of those articles.
I have had friends who have kept a day job just for the health insurance...
Drones are much cheaper in a more important respect - human lives. When wars can be fought with machines, leaders don't need to pay as much attention to democratic will when choosing who to attack.
Has there been any talk about how Al Jazeera is getting their footage out of Egypt? I'm assuming they're probably using their own communication satellites, has the Egyptian government made any public comments about what they think of Al Jazeera reporting on this?
If there was no fast pass system and people were saying "I'm rich, I'm entitled to a system where people like me get to the front of the queue," then yes, suck it up.
In reality, fairness is not so much about the actual distribution of loot as it is about the psychology of how you feel about it. That's important to understand because the rich won't give up their cash unless they feel they are getting something in return.

I appreciate his attempt at a nuanced view of the subject, but I can't see taking your possessions under threat of violence as anything other than reprehensible.
The consumption tax doesn't have to be a flat tax. You pay more tax for a pack a cigarettes than a pack of paper.

Peter Theil makes about 200x more a year than the average person, but he doesn't have to consume 200 times more than the average person if all the items he wants to buy are at a much higher tax rate. They only way to avoid the tax is to not buy luxury items, and if a billionaire wants to live the life of a guy making 50k a year, let him have at it.
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This is actually a clever way to spread the word. I only say this because it got me excited to sign up. By hanging the carrot of "being one of the first to be invited" you tap into the human psyche. You start a pseudo competition for who gets to be invited first. This abstract promise can be a powerful motivator for some, and you only need some to start spreading the word before the snowball effect.

Is there an open source code for this? I'd like to do this for my startup. It would be ideal if we could save time from having to build it.
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Brilliant. A ponzi scheme for beta invites.

Seems pretty easy to game though.
Interesting timing - Just today I blogged about HTML5 and how it still doesn't fully address the needs of web apps - http://www.puremango.co.uk/2011/01/what-is-the-point-of-html...

Seems like there are a few projects filling this gap - backbone's been mentioned, there's also sproutcore.

XUL is a great little language but as I say in the blog post: XUL is designed to produce apps with a consistent look-and-feel. HTML is emphatically not (and shouldn't be).

It's tricky to design a web application language which doesn't end up with all apps looking the same.
"Sukey is brought to you by the students and supporters who formed the technical team at the UCL Occupation"

Brilliant! For those unaware these were the students who occupied some of the buildings at the University College London for about a month over christmas in protest at the education funding cuts. Good to see they managed to fit some hacking in there between fighting the university management trying to evict them and giving webcasted interviews to tv reporters.

http://blog.ucloccupation.com/demands/
Smaller UAVs might be hard to recognize among birds and other clutter. And you can probably apply some stealth technology to increase your chances of staying undetected.

As far as assasination machines go, an insect-sized UAV with a tiny dose of poison would be hard to beat.
That is a good point, and yes, if you were to download this torrent it would probably be wise to set the upload bandwidth to '0'.

As for whether or not it is useful, I can see only two parties that are potentially interested in downloading this code, the first are malware makers, I don't think they'll have any qualms about downloading it, illegally or otherwise, they're criminals already, one more notch on their belt will not make a difference.

The second are researchers that want to make sure that now that Kaspersky no longer has control over their code that there are no exploits that will be known to the 'bad' guys but not to the good guys.

If that is your game and you're a professional with a good reputation and you alert Kaspersky to any holes that you find you again will be operating in a 'gray' territory but I think the law would land on your side. Anybody else downloading this is probably doing it for all the wrong reasons.

Not that a competent security researcher would need access to the source to do his job.
I'm one of the guys behind LaunchRock. While we're not planning on open sourcing it, we'll be offering this in several forms.

One option will be to redirect your DNS to our servers while your launching the form. The other, and perhaps more interesting to you is an embedabble widget.
That's something that should be better normalized. Unfortunately, it varies sometimes based on the state and whether that coverage is required to be extended, but under a different plan.

I still think a single-payer system would be best for the economy overall. Decoupling healthcare coverage from employers should free up the market for people to switch jobs and take some risks that might otherwise be unthinkable. If the only thing keeping people working for a company is the healthcare, then maybe that company's practices actually have a negative net impact on the economy even though the balance sheets are in the black. Productivity, stress, and morale may actually be improved by a company with better work-life balance. It's worth considering the side-effects the structure of our society has beyond the highly visible numbers.
XUL isn't cross browser. Though a xul.js which allowed you to define webapps in XUL and it converts them into HTML on the client side would be an interesting project.
This would hit people with savings in cash (or bonds), i.e. the middle class. The rich tend to have assets (or foreign holdings) which should be largely inflation-proof.
This looks nice, but the time zone has to be set correctly for the user, CST means nothing for me.

Probably best to determine it with javascript, and then give the user an option to change if required.
I added the margin, just couldn't change the font.. ;)
We're doing a number of things to combat gaming including cookies, double opt-in and potentially some external email verification through a third party service. We're definitely, definitely thinking about it.
At what time, you are more productive?
This is not bad at all. I feel like the government should use game theory everywhere - for the poor they want to succeed and teach themselves, for the rich paying taxes, etc. It's proven to work in so many situations.
And I want to point out that it makes very much sense to have fines adjusted to one's wealth.

When speeding, you're endangering people's lives. There has to be some measure that will make you think twice about speeding the next time around -- if you know that the ticket fine will be a paltry amount to you (relative to your total wealth), that is no deterrent.
Taxing the rich (even more than they are already which IMHO is a lot) is just punishing success and rewarding failure.
One the size of a large bird could park itself on a glass window, then detonate a shaped charge that could send a jet of superhot plasma through the bulletproof glass and kill a person.
They need to learn how to make a readable web page before lecturing anyone about 'Lean UX'...
How about land ownership being allocated according to the size of your tax bill?
> Negative results sit in a file drawer, or the trial keeps going in hopes the results turn positive.

I can't say a whole lot about it (I am pretty sure I am still bound by agreements and truthfully it wouldn't be polite), but I once was employed in clinical trials and this line is a load of crap. I have seen trials stopped. Some came back, but it wasn't the same trial.
Very interesting. A lot to learn for startups and activists.
He will answer your email in a thoughtful manner, despite having no idea who you are and that it's 99% likely that the only reason you're contacting him is that you want to promote your widget.

That kind of infectious engagement is incredibly hard to come by - they guy just lives it.
A lot of the decline in lower-end taxpaying has been just due to a decline in how much money they make, though, so it's hard to do much about it without either: figuring out how the lower end can make more money, or actively decreasing the tax system's progressivity.

In the 1970s, the bottom 50% typically earned around 17-20% of total income, and paid around 6-9% of total taxes. Today, they earn around 11% of total income, and pay around 2% of total taxes. With no change in progressivity, sure, that should've been around 3 or 4% rather than 2%, but that's still not much. It's hard to tax income that doesn't exist!
sort of, but not really. the people making the rules - proposing and approving budgets - don't get the money themselves. They do get power by apportioning it out though.

BUT... if everyone had their relative power reduced equally by truly 'across-the-board' cuts, there would't be any real change in the 'my budget is bigger than yours' contests that undoubtedly go on.
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Sorry man, but that's just a huge pile of dumb bullshit. If the information is out there it's, as a thinking human, your duty to learn about it and improve your knowledge.

Information want to be free per definition. If some company fails to guard their precious secrets - well, game over for them.

Self censorship won't help anybody.
It depends a wee bit on how you got rich. Taxing the financial industries close to 100% wouldn't strike me as punishing success.
>how will this look if thousands of people submit reports at once?

This app will be used during specific events, not all the time. If there's a protest with many thousands of people involved, and this app becomes well used enough to attract thousands of reports at once, it is not unreasonable to imagine a good few hundred trusted, trained volunteers to crosscheck reports.

If you have thousands of reporters, you will be able to get hundreds of volunteer moderators. These are student activists remember :)
In Sweden many fines are defined in "dagsböter" or literally "day fines" as opposed to an actual amount. Basically one "dagsböter" is equivalent to one days wages. So the judge decides that you should pay 60 days wages, without actually have to take any stance to how much you actually pay.
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I don't use it much, but it means something like "performing really well."

"Those guys are really killing it" is roughly equivalent to:

"Those guys are really ripping it up."

"Those guys are really shredding."

"Those guys are cooking with gas now."

etc.
strange you ask, but i guess just like most will admit here, productivity is at peak for me in the cold hours of the night. It's like darkness brings with it some aura of heightened awareness and gravitation to creative work - code at least.
This point is more interesting and in the hn style than anything in the original article. Hn should have a easy way to spin comments into fp stories, as people that could probably talk a lot about health insurance can not be too interested in why some guy left google...
When the drones come marching in we'll have domestic drones (like those agile quadropters). They'll live and charge up on the top shelf, periodically taking off to photograph our stuff so it can be recognised and indexed. Easier to find car keys and books.

And maybe we could use them outside to clear the guttering (that's got to be worth $100 a year).