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What's it matter if you raise large amounts of $ - odds are the VCs have true board control or at least blocking power.
"Cloud" is the new "client/server." The "cloud" is the server and an app (browser, specialized app, w/e) on your computer (desktop, smartphone, w/e) is the client.

It's just that the server part is now [theoretically] a bunch of servers in different locations [theoretically] to allow failover. Theoretically.

And yes, I'm almost certain that's Google's problem with the Skype model: no convenient place to stick ads. (OK, sure, the client app could just get ads from Google, but if the p2p voice protocol works w/o Google servers, you can write a client that avoids the ads.)
You can get a surety bond [see 1817(c) of this law], which functions somewhat like insurance --- you pay percentage point premiums to keep the amount on file. This seems to be how most people handle licensing bonds.
OK - that's great.

In practical terms though, all they're storing is a key. The actual data is held elsewhere. In the same way, an entity tag on a cached object is like a key to identify whether the object has been modified on the server since the last time it was sent.

How would it be possible to spot that it was being used for tracking a user rather than just part of the normal functioning of the browser?
That's an interesting thesis, but can you name one good building material that you can't actually use to build a house? People talk about regulation in the US like it's hindering any form of innovation, but there is surprisingly little terrible regulation that's actually enforced. Which is not to say you can't point to regulation that harms individuals but rather it's much harder to find things that harm society over the long term.

PS: Not to side track to situation; we are talking about building materials and you can use a wide range of things including straw and dirt in the US so what's missing?
Ask HN: How can I network with all the movers and shakers at Silicon Valley?
Sitting here in Toronto how can I get the attention of the Silicon Valley Gurus.
Interesting. I just recently started using Pathogen, and it is a great improvement, but I do agree that updating plugins is still a chore.

How well does Vundle work in Windows?
And how does it organize the plugins?
What I mean is that this law which is intended to prevent fraud does nothing of the sort. All it does is guarantee that the people who commit fraud were able to pay the bond. What's the point? If they do commit a fraud, they'll probably steal much more than the value of the bond anyways. All this regulation really does is stifle competition, I'd eliminate it altogether.
You don't actually have to pay the $500k. A new business with no history (good or bad) might pay $25k to post a licensing bond.

I don't have anything to say about the 43 other states that want bonds to conduct money transfers in them, but some of the coverage here seems a tad breathless.
I was an education major for a while in college and have many friends and family who are educators, and I have to say that I absolutely hate when technology is thrust upon students and teachers without any thought as to how it will be applied.

A computer (or iPad or Kindle) can be a great educational tool, but there needs to be serious, thoughtful planning and training before these devices are put into the classroom. I like the idea of getting technology in the hands of kids so that they can experiment and discover (even more so with disadvantaged kids), but I think technology too often gets in the way in the classroom.

How many lessons would be more effective if a teacher walked though things on a chalkboard?

Addendum: I just found a PDF [1] outlining a iPad pilot program. The only tangible objective it lays out is creating an e-Portfolio. Look at all of the cost and effort required to get there! Perhaps there are compelling reasons to use iPads in the classroom, but too many proposals read just like this.

[1] http://www.ipodsibilities.com/iPodsibilities/iPodsibilities_...
If all this is true, I would have a problem with a co-worker who would stand up and lie. By starting the meeting by being "super supportive" while knowing along with co-conspirators that you were trying to kill it, a good deal of creditability has been destroyed.

Maybe I am naive, and this is how things really get done, but regardless of which side I might have been on during this meeting, he is no longer trusted.
Ah sorry I see your distinction, I misread model 2), thought you were referring to gmail/facebook in model 1).

Yeah if a company is tracking me which results in me gaining nothing and them gaining income, that is quite annoying, I'm not disagreeing that in that case it's wrong. But I still don't think you are harmed in a way that requires such a sweeping piece of legislation. These sorts of rules may land up harming the free services you refer to in model 2).

If there was a way to target just the companies in model 1) without interferring too much in the user experience of all web-users, I'd be for it.
So, basically, you're using the web.
They probably build robot cars because they are an artificial intelligence company.
Reading his LinkedIn:
"lead the engineering effort" ... "designed the Windows Service Management API and lead the engineering effort behind that"

This is quite typical of Microsoft program managers. You will quite often hear the above in addition to things like "I shipped feature X." If you were to sit in a meeting for feature X you'd see that it's usually dev, test figuring everything out and the PM writing things down with an occasional contribution. Yet come credit-claiming time it's "I lead, I designed, I shipped."
Google is Building Star Trek
Some of us are never going to be comfortable staying with someone we don't know, who isn't in the business of putting up folks for the night. Do you pay them ahead of time? Do you owe them social reciprocation? Should you offer to go to dinner/pay? Should you spend time with them? Will they expect you to? Will I fit in the bed (I'm 6'4")? Is there a coffee shop within miles?
Incredible rethinking, atypical of big governments.

This, for the US, now. USA.gov works okay. It could really be better.
That's just spin to make the architecture sound like a bad idea. Yes, p2p anything uses more of your upload bandwidth than any other means of communicating on the 'net. IMO, that's not "bad" because it keeps the tubes all decentralized and more capable of routing around damage. Like it's supposed to do.
I'm not suprised TheLadders scrapes results from other sites. Otherwise their database would be almost empty. Hardly can you find an employer willing to disclose salary and say this job is paying 100K and more.
AT&T, T-Mobile CEOs to defend mobile mega-merger
AT&T has touted fewer dropped calls and faster data speeds to entice consumer and policymaker support for its $39-billion bid to take over Deutsche Telekom AG's T-Mobile USA.
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Clickable: http://xenng.com

Thanks for your attention.
Sorry, not female, but I do work from home with kids. My partner's in school and I watch children during the day occasionally.

My work is mostly from one good freelance contract, and is consistent, which is great. As far as sharing a house, it requires creativity… I often work late or early in the morning so as to NOT have to work when the kids are up and active. It's really hard to get anything done programming-wise when the three (all girls) are up and about, so I often just play with them and clean up around the house when it's my turn to watch. I sometimes put on a show for them and then enjoy the half-hour's respite and get a couple quick work tasks done.

The biggest issues that I run into are:
a.) Not having a social life. Between kids and work, I get in the habit of not leaving the house, which makes me stir-crazy over time and makes it harder to work from home.
b.) Handling conference calls or work emergencies during the day. I try to limit my availability to mornings in order to avoid having to keep muting my mic in conferences.
c.) Again, the stir-craziness. Both my partner and I find that taking turns to spend time alone (i.e., I watch the kids so that she can go out and "have a complete thought" as Bill Cosby says) helps immensely in our relationship and ability to enjoy spending time together as a family.

We've decided that staying home with the kids is worth it and honestly, if I didn't freelance with flexible hours I don't know how it'd work. If you can afford to have either you or your partner work less, then it will give more time and flexibility for watching kids. One of the great things about working for myself is that it gives me control of both the workload and the work hours so that I can try to live a balanced sort of life.

Sorry if this isn't what you're looking for, and I sincerely wish you well in this.
Yeah, it's through eval() which is a questionable design decision at best. Regular expressions can be passed as objects in Python, too. Three functions is hardly 'innumerable'.

"Perl turns out to be better in all ways, the code is readable, concise, faster and powerful."

To each his own, I guess.
> All this law does is guarantee that from now on, only rich people are allowed to commit fraud.

So you're fighting for the little guy to be able to commit fraud too? FWIW the rich guy is not just risking losing the bond, but also going to jail. That's the threat, the bond is just so customers can get paid.
An unregulated market will spawn entities that provide the services it needs. This includes security and trust.

Well of course, how else do you think democratic governments were invented? The market created them.
As a non-female parent who works from home. If your intention is to take care of your 18 month old AND work at the same time, I'll say it's not going to happen.

In my experience, you really can't watch an 18 month old and work from home at the same time. It's the worst of both worlds. So, you'll still need some form of child care while you are working.
Remind HN: RTP Hackers & Founders this Friday  SplatSpace in Durham
Hey guys, this is just a reminder that the RTP Hackers & Founders meetup will take place at SplatSpace (http://www.splatspace.org/), starting at 6:30pm (Eastern Daylight Time), Friday May 13, 2011.

The old submission can be found here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2521615

The event can also be found at meetup.com: http://www.meetup.com/RTP-Hackers-Founders/events/17569181/

I hope you'll join us!
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I know it's a peril, you tend to know the thing you like best. I'm trying to address it by asking a guy who teaches the Perl course at my uni and other fanboys ;)
Clickable:

SplatSpace: http://www.splatspace.org/

Old submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2521615

Meetup page: http://www.meetup.com/RTP-Hackers-Founders/events/17569181/
I'm saying that the article is correct, and also that I personally only want to do companies that fall into what he calls the fairness category.

The article does not say that 50/50 makes sense if and only if you bring equal things to the table. That's an unequal split argument in disguise.

Out of curiosity, do you want a larger stake because you want more money, more control, both, or for some other reason?
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Same thing applies to Canada. It's full of information organized really badly. http://canada.gc.ca
A similar question could be asked for human languages.
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A commenter jokes "It's only a matter of time before we have to pay licenses to listen to the music we've already bought. What?! You think the music you stream over speaker wires and earbuds is free?!"

One word: HDMI.
My really cheap Nokia will do this, even if the battery is dead enough that the phone won't turn on normally.
This dude is a bit more than a designer: http://worrydream.com/VisualizingEdgeWeights/
But does PayPal getting a license mean that their actions towards customers have to change? Or do they just have to pony up some dollar amount to continue screwing their customers in the same way they always have?
Why doesn't a proxy work? Or is that all it takes?
Well, that, or it could also mean that the mistakes are the reasons none of his products are available on the market today, and therefore he can't show them off.
Typical Scot, blaming the English for the problems! ;-)

[NB I am a Scot]
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I'd guess he expected a 99% failure rate in exchange for a few highly polished gems that might be featured in a MacWorld keynote, or at the very least make it into a shipping product he could show off to his family and or friends.

I think anyone should be allowed to feel disappointed at a 100% failure rate over three years, no matter how many NDAs they signed.
Bingo, this is going to be a big field in the future. AI is outside the core competency of car manufacturers; they'll have to buy that tech from some one. Google's ad revenue could look puny by comparison some day.
I do. That site is so bad, I ignored the content and moved on.
I suggest Socrates is not an authority you want to invoke on this topic. If nothing else, because he was unjustly executed partly for contempt of court.

Also, while it's usually good to comply with the law, I wouldn't recommend completely delegating your ethics to the US Congress.
Ok, so the dude didn't graduate. But if this isn't a case of school-of-life, I don't know what is. Also, didn't he fly Airwolf once?
Really? It's now categorized under 'Malicious Web Sites'..
Where "ancient" is defined as: written more than six months ago or by people who have long since left.
The risk that the bond mitigates is not that your money transfer enterprise is a criminal conspiracy. It is that you are incompetent. The concern is that after the first or second instance in which you lose a 5-figure sum of money for a client, you'll pack up and leave town.

I think we can agree that's a far more likely scenario than premeditated fraud.

Incidentally: $500k is the floor of the bond value needed. It scales up to $7MM with transaction volume. Personally, I think they should uncap it altogether.
Can you please give some examples of real world applications in scala?
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"You pay. We decide."
It doesn’t pay to be the computer guy
Then your other company in California have to post the bond. The software has nothing to do with it.
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You can't create an alternative Skype client.

Protocol is closed and little progress has been made for reverse-engineering -- which I think would also be illegal, since the data is encrypted and then you're at odds with the DMCA (IANAL btw -- the DMCA grants a safe harbor for reverse engineering, but that hasn't worked out so well for DRM).

To my knowledge there is no alternative Skype client, not even for the IM part -- Pidgin has integration with the official Skype client and piggybacks on top of it. If you don't have the Skype client installed and running, Pidgin doesn't work.

P2P in this particular case is really not the freedom-giver technology that allows you to workaround Skype's servers. If Skype wishes to serve adds to you, or to track you, there's really not much you can do about it.
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Here's the thing: driverless cars right now presumably are less safe. Last I heard they could follow lines on the road and dodge witches' hats, but they can't deal with unexpected situations.

Human drivers may be crap (though a human driver not actively being an idiot can generally travel many millions of miles between serious accidents) but I think it'll take a lot of R&D before robots can match 'em.

edit: Really? I got modded down for this? Go talk to one of the engineers on the Google driverless car program about how long he thinks it'll be before driverless cars are safer than the median human driver on a busy suburban street.
I like his ideas about the often daunting task of fund-raising. He says it's "about building a vision together with people and building partnerships." Preach!
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Totally agree. An 18 month old can be classified as a "terrible-two" already. This monster can draw all your attention. If you're at home typing a email, you need to do it in 2-3 installments. Thus a nanny or something to keep it away from you (even just in the next room) while you're at work is an absolute necessary.

PS: I am a parent of a 2-years and a 8-month.
"I was shocked to find that iOS makes you enter a password before buying stuff - what kind of a PITA is that?"

On webOS (myself, wife, daughter) I had the option of requiring a password every time an app was purchased or just letting my 13 year old daughter rack up whatever credit card charges she felt like on her phone. I don't consider it a PITA to enter a password, I consider it a security feature. I am shocked that you imply that android does not have such a requirement and I feel further vindicated in choosing webOS over android.
> So you're fighting for the little guy to be able to commit fraud too?

Absolutely. Given that this regulation doesn't help with fraud, why not at least encourage competition.
Question: if you're embarrassed about the idea of the FBI knowing something about you, then why are you cool with the idea of the phone company knowing it?
tptacek: Perhaps it is breathless, but I think many of us find it interesting. States noticeably absent from Paypal's licenses:
New Mexico,
South Carolina,
Georgia (heavy banking industry),
Rhode Island,
New York (heavy banking industry),
and Nevada (heavy gambling).

I might put together a spreadsheet this evening if I have time.
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I have a female friend whom is a developer, mom and work from home freelancer - let me see if I can get her on here to give some information :)
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My son wanted to see some Wizard movie with Nic Cage in it. Through Tivo I forked over $2 and was informed we had 48hrs to watch it before our rental expired. We managed to do that. That was last month.

This month, I'm browsing through my Netflix immediate-watchable list and what do I see? Yeah, that Nic Cage movie.
Foursquare[1], Twitter[2], LinkedIn[3] and The Guardian[4] use Scala.

If you are looking for code examples, you can explore here:

https://github.com/languages/Scala

I have been using Scala lately for some personal stuff and I've really fallen in love with it.

[1] - http://www.scala-lang.org/node/5130
[2] - http://www.artima.com/scalazine/articles/twitter_on_scala.ht...
[3] - http://www.scala-lang.org/node/6436
[4] - http://www.scala-lang.org/node/7808
I see your point completely. I will say that the best camera is the one you have with you. The reason to buy a G12 over a d3000 is because you can literally fit the G12 in a pocket (although not the most comfortable solution) or in even a small purse. You can't with a d3000. It's something you have to always consider "Do I want to take this with me?"

I was not clear above in the discussion of image quality (got sidetracked with more or less irrelevant arguments about sensor size/dynamic range/etc.). I was attempting to say that image quality as a whole from the higher end point and shoots is on par with DSLRs for almost everyone. See here for a comparison with the 2 generation old G10 v. a $40k medium format rig: http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/kidding.shtml
How do I turn off those silly Google homepage logo animations?
I did for awhile, first for my local employer where my team was in the office and I worked from home, and then from a distributed company. These were both full time, and then I did part time for a different local company.

I had a nanny there watching my kid the entire time I was working. I did get to take little breaks to see what he was up to (and when he was younger, nurse him) and that's what was great about it. However, I really could NOT have watched him and worked AT ALL.

Taking care of a kid really is a full time job and you won't be able to get any work done if you don't have childcare there as well. Even the 1-2 hours you might get in a nap are easily taken up by cleaning up your messes, collapsing in exhaustion and, if you're lucky, checking your email.

If you CAN afford a nanny so that you're at home with your kid, then that is an awesome setup. It's the closest the thing to having your cake and eat it too, in my opinion.

And if you're feeling uneasy about your daycare, get your kid out ASAP! These little gut feelings are all you have, since you aren't there yourself. If you can't watch him yourself or get nanny, then at least find a new daycare. I used to work at a highly praised/awarded day care and based on that experience alone, I will never put my kid in daycare. Like I said, we were one of the better ones, because I've heard horror stories way worse than what happened where I worked. So... that sounds scary and I'm sorry but you have to trust your gut.
Is it telling that I can easily calculate my holiday pay but can't find anything on starting a business?
Well put olalonde!
...Nobody is suggesting that.
Google PlusOne (+1) Better than the "Like" buttons we already know?
Imperils? No. Leaves another possible angle of attack for hackers? Sure. But then, every feature does.

If you want to be safe, use Links on OpenBSD. If you want to browse the web in style, use Chrome and Firefox.
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Thanks (if it's easier, she could email jem@jemjabella.co.uk)
True, but I don't know about the "more than anywhere else" part.
Blue link vs. Red link vs. Banner: which one got 50% more clicks?
It's not about having enough money, but whether it is financially worth it. It's an ROI calculation that involves navigating several regulating bodies with what appears to be minimal payback. It certainly isn't a technical limitation.
Could this have anything to do with VUPEN's recent Chrome exploit?
Why be so cynical? Here is a company that has found such a massive golden egg that at least for now it can hire really really smart people to work on cool projects that may end up changing the world.
We at work (a 4 year college) are busy moving all student email to Google Apps. The move will also cover network storage we currently provide to students.

When evaluating our options we found that students didn't seem to care about Google Docs, Microsoft's online Office tools, etc.
Thanks (all input welcome really, not restricted to mums)

I was kinda thinking my mum could take her for a couple of mornings a week, and I know my partner's mum is eager to look after her on Wednesdays. I was hoping that + evenings would be enough.

Maybe I'm being totally unrealistic.
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Does ARIN have the right to approve all IPv4 address sales?
I think fairness and motivation is another reason, if your bringing a lot more to the table you want to feel that your efforts are being rewarded proportionately. It's not really about money as most of the time companies aren't going to hit it big, and I don't think it's really control either because the person with the minority stake is going to get demotivated pretty fast to if they are overruled on everything.
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Yes, they're about the same price. Once you kit out the DSLR with a lens that covers a comparable range as the pocket cam, you're at a couple hundred more. Plus you've got to carry two (possibly three) lenses around.