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The problem is one of real estate. Even in a moderately inexpensive place like Tucson, a studio is about 400 dollars a month. Split between three people, that's a little less than 150 a month. Food, at just above minimum, is 80 a month. (Food is more expensive in the southwest due to a lack of arable land.) Electricity should add about 10 bucks a month a person. Transportation will run 15 a month for bus due to subsidies. You'll be losing 3 hours a day to transport if you're unlucky, and the bus isn't wonderfully reliable, but let's go with it. (And a bike can cost more in repairs and you may just lose your job if you show up in the condition you'll be after biking in 100 degree heat.)

So, at your bare bottom essentials, you're looking at 260 a month, and hope you don't break an arm or have a life-threatening injury, because that's more money than you may make in a year.

That means, at a minimum, you would need to make ~3200 to survive. That assumes no crisis ever. And most importantly, that assumes no children. After all, you have no extra money for condoms or other birth control, and if you're raped, you have no money for an abortion.

And that's to live three to a studio eating a step above gruel. 3200 goes a heck of a lot further in India. We just can't compete.

But what we forget is that welfare isn't for the mother -- it's for the child. It's to make sure we don't have kids begging in the street rather than going to school, that we don't have emaciated children nutrient-deficient, lowering their IQs by nutrition -- no fault of their own. The question becomes, how do you make sure we establish a baseline for children so that those who have the ability to rise out even have a chance?
Brilliant that these now exists, it's taken far too long. We need more of this kind of thing in Europe.

Anyone know how they compare to 'standard' US terms?
A characteristic aspect of philosophy is to question essentially every assumption. You and I may find other things much more interesting, even if they require some basic assumptions, but that's another story.

Edit: I don't know why araneae's comments are being downvoted (despite my upvotes). His points are constructive and on topic...
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You're right, it's pretty theoretical at this point. But as Chris Dixon points out, most big ideas start out looking like toys: http://cdixon.org/2010/01/03/the-next-big-thing-will-start-o...
The Data Liberation Front is a good first step but providing content in the form of a zip file is pretty useless. True data portability is much tougher and probably isn't worth an investment from a company like Google if it were even something they wanted to do.

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A wise man (my advisor when I was doing my philosophy degree) once said something to the effect of:

There are two great mistakes you can make in philosophy. One is deciding there is no ultimate answer. The other is deciding you've found it.
Don't be ridiculous. The USD isn't about to be disintermediated. The Euro, maybe...but then by the USD.
I have adblock :)

But it's still a good initiative.
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That really isn't the case, that is the job of the tempo, a BPM speed set by the composer. The intended difference is purely that 3/4 groups quavers into groups of two, 6/8 into groups of three.
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This is exactly the kind of mentality that one should develop on HN (or if they want to get anywhere in the industry). It reminds me of a recent post I read that people aren't intrinsically separated into "technical" and "non-technical" people. If you have the patience and the will, you can become competent at either. :) Read/learn on!
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So, Google Hangouts are actually fun. They can also be made public. A rather interesting application of plus might be doing some conscious people-surfing, by talking to named strangers who make themselves thusly available.

There doesn't seem to be a way, however, to list all of the public hangouts currently open on the whole network. Relatively easy to fix (with some minor reverse-engineering). Gladly volunteer as a beta tester :)
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Sweet. Hustle it up.
It is pretty inefficient but I didn't have masses of posts to migrate so it made sense. If this were anything more than a quick and dirty script then a data store would be the best approach, maybe sqlite.
I wouldn't downvote anyone, but perhaps because it's a paradigm example of a particular strain of thought you see a lot amongst techie/engineering types with limited experience of philosophy, and a line of thought that doesn't stand more than a cursory examination.

You've already answered it with your neurons example. Someone else has pointed out that neuroethology will not touch on normative facts (although will presumably uncover empirical facts that have normative significance).

People have been predicting the death of philosophy for hundreds of years. It hasn't happened yet, and it is unlikely to, as there are always fundamental questions to ask (even though progress on them is difficult, if possible - but that's another question).
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So with:public in GWave, or the default threading in Friendfeed redux?
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That would be pretty fantastic as an extension that could provide essentially allow for "signed" Javascript.
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What I noticed in these 847 days I've been here is that HN's comments spoiled me. I now seek the same level of discussion on other sites and most of the time find myself disappointed.
This is much larger than the US only. Even when USD-nominated mobile payment would finally be introduced in the US, it will be a long time before it is accepted in other countries, especially emerging economies.

Also, merchants don't have to jump through any of the bank's hoops to accept Bitcoin.

A grassroots initiative like this can allow for global, low-cost, payments from your mobile phone, without needing to wait for slow banking innovation.

Right, it is still not a given that it will succeed, but it's much to early to dismiss it...
Yeah agreed. And their site doesn't seem to say anything either, other than they've been acquired by Twitter.

Looking at Google search results it appears to be social analytics. I guess they spit out metrics on brand mentions, retweets, compute scores or ranks on "buzz", and probably do sentiment too. But I'm guessing wildly.
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Yes but even the fairly niche demographic of HN extends to those with interests outside of social analytics.
Haven't finished your book yet (excellent work though!), but I've noticed that some of the startups interviewed no longer exist (Djangy and Blippy, specifically). Were there any indications during the interviews that the startups were going to tank? I'm asking because in your interviews, everything sounded fine. Then again, appearance can be deceiving.
It's distributed so it's probably hard to kill. Unless your the NSA or CIA and have tons of computing power with which you can just flood the market with rendering everyone else's bitcoins useless...

Seriously though, it seems like Bitcoin is really vulnerable to this sort of attack, no matter what "hardening" features are builtin to make mining harder. NSA can spend a week and kill it all off. Is there a way to block whole hash blocks that the NSA or someone else who might have a large chunk of the bitcoin market?

Still I wouldn't write it off so quick, it's the branding/legitimacy question along with traction among merchants and usd<->bitcoin that's holding it back right now.
The township knows I work from home because the address for my business license is my home. A zoning permit is required for any home occupation, even if it involves no business use of the home beyond having a computer there. That's on top of the annual business privilege fee and gross receipts tax. Being self-employed means a lot of hands in your pocket around here...
As a note: v0.5.0 is unstable. So just switch for hacking & testing not for your running applications.
I think the idea they're trying to convey can be summarized thusly:

lurk moar.
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That's NYT link. NPR == NYT?
I'm wondering about the tax consequences of perks as opposed to equivalent salary bumps...
Ask HN: Can an Internet start-up outsource development of their website?
Typical Type 1N startup personality (social transformer), the founders lack technical skills and want to focus on building the business. They have asked our agency to build the site (consumer-facing front-end with search, discovery and payment, customer-facing back-end for managing data) and do some of the marketing activities (like search engine optimization and marketing).

Is that a recipe for success? I was under the impression that an internet startup needs to build its own team of employees, including a team of web developers.
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Show HN: UK school search application
- WHAT -: UK school search database. Free text search by school name, address, headteacher's name. Free text search by location (lists all nearby schools). For those of you not in UK, there's a list of example searches, so you still can try it out. Also show crime stats in the area.

- WHY -: Offer a free search tool to everyone hoping that this will attract enough traffic and the list gets noticed. Moneymaking plan is to offer customised lists to businesses.

- HOW -: Backend is a Django+Tastypie application. Frontend is a simple jQueryUI script. API has throttling enabled to prevent data scraping. I hope it's tuned properly and "normal" users won't get throttled. DB is dual - RDBMS (for "static" data such as addresses, etc) and Redis (for crime stats, etc). Although I'm considering switching to MongoDB. Piecharts are simple, static GoogleCharts.

- WHERE -: http://www.slipperysnake.co.uk/schools-database/

It's a simple app, yet I'd like to know what people think. Any comments greatly appreciated!!
Clickable:

http://www.slipperysnake.co.uk/schools-database/
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That reminds me: I'm not sure if it's still the case, but I recall that the image decoding library written for Mozilla was called "libpr0n". Pretty high profile, and I imagine many people might consider it inappropriate.
That's like saying that math is obsolete, now that we have physics.
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I feel so proud of this news as I hail from the city of Trivandrum where the temple is located. @Alienz, $22 Billion is just the current market value of gold and diamonds that was found in the temple. If the antique value is also added the value will be many times the one mentioned here.

Out of six chambers one is yet to be opened. So $22 billion is not final !!!

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Another interesting paper on analyzing concurrent data structures. Seems to be simplified and easy to go with. Implementations included. http://resources.aims.ac.za/archive/2009/viateur.pdf
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I'm a technical guy, looking for an experienced US-based non-technical co-founder (or two). I'd also consider joining an early startup.

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I disagree with you on all of these, actually.

-The home does double as a place of employment, but this has had no discernible effect on the architecture and location of the home, or led to significant changes in zoning or travel patterns.

-Home-based shopping has indeed taken off, but manufacturing has not switched to a production-on-demand model (and Kickstarter has nothing to do with this whatsoever-- that's about seed funding.)

-Friends, peer groups and alliances are indeed determined electronically, but this has not (yet) led to "classes of people" akin to social class.

-Information brokers do serve as gatekeepers, but this has not become professionalized; bloggers (and groups like Wikileaks, Lulzsec, etc.) are amateurs, and have not developed professional standards or codes of ethics, etc.

In other words, Yogi Berra was right: prediction is hard, especially about the future.
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how is this possible? I don't know anyone who uses StumbleUpon... do you?
It is wrong on HN. On digg.com it might be ok. Why is your comment grey?
This is the rationale behind the RSA in France : basically when you're living on state aid and get a job, you continue getting the state aid, decreasing gradually as the work income goes up. The goal is to give an incentive to these people to actually look for a job. That sort of worked, apparently.
"rooms in a dormitory instead of housing vouchers,"

It's called the workhouse. The Victorians tried it. Read Dickens for example.
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Good points, but Beijing is the internet startup hub of China.
This is obvious, isn't it?!
Everything the user has access to can be manipulated.
Good point.

That's why I specifically defined each term.
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If you want freedom from stories being killed, sometimes without just reason, go to Reddit.

Just like how you join the Cult of Steve when you get a Mac and learn to stop asking too many questions, you join the Cult of Paul when you become an HN member and learn to stop asking too many questions. They're probably not going to be answered and will just alienate you from the rest of the community. Meta posts like this especially so.
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Where are you getting the 14MB figure? I see a blk00001.dat file on my PC which is already more than 300MB.

The latest compressed blockchain download available here at the time of writing is 280MB: http://bitcoin.bluematt.me/bitcoin-nightly/blockchain-nightl...

It is known that even PCs won't be able to handle the full blockchain eventually, let alone smartphones. Supernodes will be needed if bitcoin becomes popular. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Scalability

edit: I see now that there is indeed a 14MB blockchain file in the source: https://github.com/barmstrong/bitcoin-android/blob/master/as.... I suppose this is not the full blockchain, but just the block headers. This is described as "Simplified Payment Verification" in Satoshi's paper.
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To all of those you could reply "not yet, but we've come a long way".

I think we're still in the early stages of the "virtualisation" of the world, and those predictions will work out eventually.
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Does HN use client side verification for votes? Otherwise how did this get here?
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Very cool! I sometimes wonder what's so special about the concept of a 'symbol'. A stream of symbols make up a message. A message contains a thought or an idea which we wish to express. We definitely find it hard to communicate with symbols alone. It would be very interesting to find answers to

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Sometimes you can go too far in questioning everything to get any practical result.
It's a huge step in the right direction if you are willing to get out in front of customers! That's a pretty scary step for most techies.

You have to narrow down your scope to a specific market vertical. Get as specific as you can. Then you start getting customer feedback ASAP.

If you have several (or a lot of ) markets you can go after with your idea, then pick a couple to test.

What sometimes happens is you end up in a market that wasn't even on your radar because you talk with somebody about the tech you're building and they apply it based on their experience and, boom, you're in some totally out-of-left-field market that proves to be the lowest hanging fruit.

Find some competitors, then use LinkedIn to connect with some former employees, especially sales people. They will be perfect SMEs. Even if you don't partner with them, you can still pick their brain to get a better understanding of the market.

Next place to find your hustler would be to identify your best potential customers, then try to connect with one of the technical people via a back door channel (i.e. don't just call the company and ask to speak with them). This is a bit trickier, but still very valuable because you can cultivate a relationship with an inside champion (which makes the sales process much easier).

The hardest part (for me anyway) in finding a hustler is that you'll have to spend time working on your value proposition. Once you branch out beyond being the lone soldier, you have to figure out how to communicate your idea to other people. This takes time away from coding, which is always tough for any hacker. But it's an invaluable exercise.
It depends. If they are shooting for a "small business opportunity", as in: creating their jobs, and they position themselves as such in the market, yes, it can fly.

However, if we're talking high-growth startups here, then no. Read eg. Paypal Wars: half of the battles are fought online, with technological fire&motion; your run of the mill agency will not have coverage for that.
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Sorry, what? Client-side verification is categorically not bad. It’s when you don’t combine it with a round-trip to server-side verification that you have problems.
Words with friends really needs both, without client side it would be tedious for attempting a word, of course this could also cut down on people trying their letters just about every way they can until they get a word.
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Client side verification is good to prevent unnecessary hits on the server when the input is incorrect/incomplete , its not.. in any way.. a real input validation.
"Lower than survival? Please."

with no minimum wage limit, what is to stop pay dropping below the 'viable life' line, however you personally define it?

"People need a purpose. Something to do."

They also need money: to eat, to live, to feed their dependents, to transport themselves (to work!), to educate themselves, to clothe themselves and to warm themselves in winter. To medicate themselves. To participate in life.

"Crime like what you describe is evidence of desperation -- people are able to strip copper out of buildings because none of the neighbors give a shit, and the local government's policies make it viable for speculators to keep buildings vacant."

That may be why people get away with it. but people perform those acts out of desperation. because they need money to do all the above.

"Read "The Death and Life of American Cities". Poverty doesn't need to equal misery, and being provided with stuff doesn't equate to happiness. We forgot about that after World War 2."

Im not talking about buying them televisions. Im talking about being able to afford to take your daughter to the doctor, to buy yourself a book for school.

If you can so easily brush off the sodding huge downsides of poverty, I am going to go out on a limb and claim that you have never experienced it in its real form.

Poverty is brutal. It makes people hard, it makes people stupid and it makes them desperate.
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Client side validation is good for speed, however should not be trusted when sent to server. Server side validation is for validating such information to prevent issues. eg SQL injections.
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I think part of the problem is that most industrialized nations have pushed for high percentage of the population to have a college/university degree, while not considering whether the degrees are needed for the jobs that are going to be available. This means that there is a discrepancy between the supply and demand of workers and jobs and their education levels. People go to college to study something for which there is absolutely no demand, and end up unemployed, having used years of their life for something that didn't do them much good, and wasted a load of their own or tax payers' money.
- add child_process.fork

- add os.getNetworkInterfaces()

- add remoteAddress and remotePort for client TCP connections

I've been waiting for them to push these features out. (yes, I know you already have the address & port if you are a client).