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Do you know what Apple are using their much reported data centers for?

As far as I can see, all the iCloud related stuff ends up in Cupertino/SJ.
I'm the legal team for now. I've talked to a number of lawyers, and most seem to think that they can't do much more than what I have been doing. It makes no sense to waste money on them in any case.

Since I only got the go-ahead to continue operating outside of CA as of October 13th, I'm starting to think about building things up again.
We send our kids to Waldorf inspired schools. Most schools (especially public schools) give me a sense of dread, like a twelve year prison sentence would. The Waldorf schools have a warm, human feel that actually makes me a little jealous of my kids. I would rather my kids be raised as whole humans, not little test-taking machines.
With new jobs requiring increasingly more knowledge and skill there comes a point that it take longer to learn a new job then it takes for this job to become obsoleet?

Also, who is going to pay the bills while you are learning for your next job?

Innovation happens mostly during periods of abundance not during periods of actual scarcity. Innovation requires access to sufficient resources for experimentation and testing.

If scarcity really was the mother of invention then there would be no poor?
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Sure it can absorb a $30/month increase in fees. But if multiple service providers hit me with a $30/month increase then it kind of adds up. In other words, a price increase like this is ok as long as it's the only one.
Nah; the previous version of the article I linked was completely different. For some reason, the author felt the need to take it down and replace it with links to these other articles.
It was better in some ways, but IIRC the box model was the brokenest thing ever.
recent access logs with requests from VW still show IE6 :-/
I think we need an unconditional basic income for all?
Sometimes. But I know people who have it a lot worse than I ever have, and that quickly puts everything in perspective, while simultaneously emphasizing the importance of taking a stand on what matters.

It can be intensely frustrating dealing with some of the people I've dealt with, but all in all I enjoy roughly the same quality of life that many Valley billionaires do, even if I don't have the paper billions. In that regard I'm quite lucky.
I think we need more lobbyists, actually: the lobbyists should be the people.

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What about funding?

I know how police forces work because we contract to some of them.

The amount of funding required to investigate a crime is huge; where does that come from?

With multiple, competing, courts/police this becomes an expensive problem. It is infeasible to expect the suspect or victim to ultimately pay - for example any reasonable digital forensics investigation will cost the better part of £30,000 from seizure to court. And that is a lower bound.

Setting up a lab is non-trivial and costs millions - so either lab work has to be centralised or the funds would have to be found to pay for new ones. The former option isn't really an option, because you could end up in the problematic situation of two courts relying on the same lab for results in the same case (and calling the same people in as their expert witnesses...). This compromises the experts.

> Most people have some community resources they can access in time of need. If they have nothing at all, then they are screwed. But it's the same way under a monopoly of force.

I'm afraid this is impractical. Even reporting a simple robbery can be expensive for the police force (sending out an officer, sending our a scenes of crimes guy, doing at least the basic legwork to try and find the culprit).

In addition, one of the key roles of the police is as a deterrent. Who is going to drive down your road a couple of times if you notice a suspicious looking person hanging around?

Whilst I do "get" your theory and think that in a perfect world it would be interesting to explore. In practice it strikes me as more likely to satisfy the political ethos of anarcho-capitalism than actually help the public.
I think attitude presented by this guy is nailed here:

http://xkcd.com/774/
I posted this comment and deleted it because you shouldn't be funny on hacker news. Before I deleted the comment I got one upvote that encouraged me to repost it again. Then I got 4 downvotes so far, even though my comment managed to spark thoughtful exchange between some hacker news users.
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The problems that the author describes are real, but IMHO he attributes them to the wrong cause. They are not caused by efficiency per se; they are caused by the enormous increase in the productivity of Capital relative to Labour.

There has been a 'cold war' between Capital and Labour for almost 200 years now, and it seems clear to me that we are currently witnessing the final victory of Capital. As the author describes, it is now possible for one person to create an idea, build a widget (particularly if it is a software widget) and distribute that widget to the whole world, because of the vast amount of productive Capital that has been created and is available for his/her use.

As hackernews readers who work in great startups know, the power of a small group of talented and committed people is astonishing in the modern world - because of the 'force multiplier' effect of Capital.

So what to do? (and the answer is not to 'reduce efficiency' or eliminate public corporations, heavens)

The answer is that in order to prosper, you must become a master of Capital. You must be able to use all the wondrous force-multiplier tools at your disposal. If you cannot, if you are rather dependent on your Labour to earn your crust, then in today's world you are going to be a peasant. This might be hard to hear (although probably not for HN readers) but it is true.

Of course, being able to use all this Capital requires education, and so at society's level, the solution lies in massive boosts to education funding. It seems blindingly self-evident to me that in our Capital-dependent world, tertiary education (university or vocational) should be provided free for all, paid for by the state. In fact, education is becoming more expensive globally; this trend is extremely pernicious, is causing massive problems and should be remedied as fast as possible.

The cost of this education provision is irrelevant - it is an investment that will repay itself many, many times over - and in any case it is well within the developed world's grasp. The total cost to the US of the Iraq war is at least $2 trillion. How many college educations would that have paid for?
Somebody please explain to me what new browsers have that a car manufacturing corporation needs for its daily business. Flash games? WebGL? Or a bit lower, popup-blocker and google search field?

HELLO?

Obviously this entry is for unexperienced people of the IT, which neglect the fact that your stuff is only safe as long someone hasn't found it's weakness.

http://youtu.be/sforhbLiwLA

AND - CAN YOU BELIEVE IT, REVERSI!
I actually thought that there had to be some horrible shady money transmission story that inspired the law, too, so I looked for it. I couldn't find it. If you find it, please let me know because I want to know what it is.
Cool, I actually attended a talk about MapReduce hosted by Google a few weeks ago. Sadly, I have to say that this page explains it better than their engineer did, though.
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I think either way is okay. It depends on how you want to structure it. Most web APIs aren't entirely RESTful anyway. It is also important to note that a lot of hosting providers don't support other verbs than GET or POST (ie Low-REST) [1].

[1] http://www2008.org/papers/pdf/p805-pautassoA.pdf
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I thought the human angle of the piece was far overblown. The underlying story being presented is "Goldman Sachs raises prices and people starve as a result". I think that was mostly to add a dramatic point to the article. In reality it's a "look at how all of these pieces fit together, and here's how Goldman Sachs hacked the system" story. While hackers love that kind of thing, we're a relatively small market and a story with a spin about the evil of corporations is so in right now.

The reason people aren't reacting to human suffering is because we can see that it isn't a real factor in this story. We're talking about a small change in the world's supply of food here. It would be very difficult to image (or prove) that anyone actually died of starvation as a result of this. It's more like a loaf of bread that used to cost $4.50 now costs $6.00. That extra $1.50 can be enough to make an unpleasant life significantly less pleasant (believe me, I know), but I don't think it equates to the starving human beings.

tl;dr - Capitalism is a dick move. Don't blame the flaws in the system on the people who benefit from them.
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This post is a total flaw. It mistakenly confuses wealth distribution with wealth creation.

Let's say that, given the same inputs (raw materials, labour, capital, etc.), in 2011 an economy produces 100 with technology A and that in 2015 it produces 120 with technology B. Then this is a wealth creation of 20.

Now, how that 20 is distributed becomes the question. That is totally and completely detached from the efficiency gain passing from technology A to B. It has much more to do with how the State works and how society works. For example, in the Nordic countries, they somehow manage to redistribute wealth creation between the population (unskilled workers included). But I repete, that is a tottally different discussion.

And also, please use data. This post uses none. If it did, it would have seen the GDP per capita on a rasing trend everywhere from the start of the 20th century. Which basically means that efficiency has already improved a lot the life of everybody, rich and poor.
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1. "told by the advisor that if someone gets an advisor he cannot refuse their advices"

This is ridiculous. An advisor gives advice and does not dicatate. You can always fire an advisor (but don't do so out of personal grudge).

2. "supposed rockstar to be hired as product engineering manager is the son of the advisor"

In Silicon Valley (and general US business practice), this is called "conflict of interest" and is generally considered unethical. He should have "recused" himself from this topic.

If I were to fire the advisor, it'd be for #2 and not necessarily for #1 (for #1, I'd just have a good laugh and perhaps tell him that the era of Franco is over).

3. "I got a confrontation with the rest of my board (founders and advisor)"

However, you might ask why the other founders (not the advisor) think it's a good idea.

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At the risk of being down-voted by the HN-hive mind (this place is seriously getting as bad as reddit)...

There is a subset of developers in the valley who pride themselves on trying to build the perfect REST API. Arguing over things like PUT v. POST, laughing at people who have to use ?_method= hacks to get around corporate firewalls, and trying to pack as many query parameters into the path as possible. Things like this SO thread really get them excited, so its a magnet for upvotes.

The problem is, while technically correct, this is counter-intuitive to how you should be building an API. Unless you are going to be providing fully functional libraries in all the major languages, your number one goal is making it so damn easy your average contract programmer from Accenture (who often don't even know POST exists) could use it. Unless you have a compelling wealth of data hidden behind your API (Google, eBay, Amazon, etc.), or extreme user demand (Flickr, Facebook, etc.), you have to make the bar to entry as absolutely low as possible or you will never get traction.
Why would this be tagged [scribd]? I always thought that "scribd" would denote a link to a scribd.com page with the document, but this is a direct link to a PDF.
"For example, there is no way to stop any Mercedes after 2009 from automatically applying full brakes in an impending collision."

Which is sad.

From your link:
[quote]Brake Assist PLUS uses two radar systems. Both of these radar systems are very good at not only registering objects up ahead but also calculating the distance from these objects and their relative speed. If the distance between the vehicle and the registered object is so small that there is a real danger of collision, Brake Assist PLUS issues a visual warning on the instrument cluster display and sounds an alarm over the car speakers. While this is happening, the electronic system calculates the braking deceleration necessary to avert the collision. If the driver then hits the brakes, the braking pressure needed to bring the vehicle to a stop before impact is immediately provided automatically. Ensuring that an appropriate braking force is not exceeded gives those driving behind more time to react.[/quote]

A human would be quick to notice that the reason for why the car in front is braking is because of the impeding concrete wall. The computer however doesn't know that and would only brake in order to not hit the car in front and thus ensuring that both cars hit the concrete wall at equal speeds, great!
(I truly hope that it respects my choice if I really wan't full brakes).

What if there are slippery conditions? The collision might easily be avoided by changing lanes but changing lanes in muddy snow while braking could be suicide. What if I just started changing lanes when the computer feels like it needs to brake?

What if the reason for why the air-speed indicator is malfunctioning (reporting wrong, a complete loss of velocity is too easy to check for) is because the plane just flew into a flock of birds, it might be obvious for a pilot why the stall-warning was issued and the pilot might opt to to pull back the stick - just to avoid an collision...

Unless the sensors truly get the whole picture and the complete state of the aircraft/car (and I doubt we can do that before being able to implement a true AI) the pilot/driver must always have the last word. Assistance can be great, especially in cases where a human wouldn't have the time to react but you should always be able to override it.

The assistance should be clear and specific enough so that the pilot/driver really thinks twice before overriding anything (this requires that the pilot/driver respects the system). And if the pilot/driver can't handle the vehicle despite that then he/she shouldn't be allowed to drive it.
> recursion, despite it cleanliness, improves readability at a significant cost in memory

Tradeoffs like that are what highly dynamic languages are all about. You shouldn't be using Python (yet) if the natural expression of your algorithm is too expensive for your problem size (with today's implementations). Making your Python non-idiomatic and hard to read will cost you its advantages, and won't even buy you much time before you find yourself porting to Java or something similarly optimized.
Sure $30 may not be a big deal but what's going to happen next time? And the time after that?

What a terrible situation to be in. I sign up for a product, in part based on their pricing, and they bump up the cost knowing it'll be too expensive for me to move.

If this happened to me, it might be too expensive for me to move an existing product away from them but it'll definitely keep me from putting another project on the platform.

For the record, I'm using Recurly, so I'm talking directly from the point of view of an existing and paying customer.
With all due respect, and as much as I am tired of complaining, your first point is kind of absurd.

As for your second point: what or who are you quoting? My bio doesn't say that. I take great care not to say that.

For better or worse, people care about this stuff. That's why they made a movie. That's why Mark is speaking at Startup School. It's the sad truth that a politician will pay more attention to someone who demonstrates that they were involved in the creation of a widely-known enterprise. If you look around, you'll see that it's just not the politicians, either.
That's correct - Ruby is from Japan, Rails was developed by a Danish consultant working for a US-based firm. (He now lives in Chicago I believe).
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It would still not be a zero sum game since we could still be (a lot!) more effective in how we use the energy and the resources.
It's the replicator, not the transporter, that instantly creates any meal on Star Trek.
the [scribd] tag is actually a link to the PDF on scribd, the main headline itself is direct to the PDF.
There was an IE for Unix. So there's some HPUX boxes that could have been running some version of IE. I have no idea what version it got to. I have never met anyone who used it.
My Dad said to me once that at school his tutors said that everyone should prepare for a future in which they wouldn't be working.

I believe there was even some classes on how people might possibly entertain themselves in the future since computers would be doing everyone's work for them.

Have we really seen this? I think not. What happened was the computers just enabled people to do their jobs faster and those whose jobs were genuinely removed by technology have simply found work elsewhere.

Perhaps we are at a point where efficiency (read computers) are seriously putting people out of work. But the reality is labour forces are actually flexible and over time they adapt. New jobs will and are being created and as long as our labour forces remain educated enough and can harness technology to their advantage there will no problems.

It's those who are incapable or unwilling to adapt to the new world we live in that will fall by the wayside.
It would still be daycare for grownups.
I agree it's an old question, but the idea is to put up an interesting debate on HN, let people know what is the right way of doing things (in this case REST, which is a misunderstood topic).

We, as developers take some pieces of technology as granted, many of us might not understand the real use cases of usage of PUT vs POST.

I don't think HN is meant purely for "fresh news" but a place for meaningful discussions which matter.

PS: This was not a karma collection ploy by me. If I wanted karma I would go to reddit or stackoverflow. Not HN.
In some ways, the author has got this point right.

There is an inflexion point where the level of specialisation required exceeds the cost of acquiring the said skills. A couple of generations ago, basic literacy was all that was required to be able to operate machinery, read some instructions, etc. However, with machines providing leverage, it requires a prolonged (and expensive) period of study, followed by industry experience, before someone can be hire-able.

One example is Chinese construction workers in Africa. You'd think that construction is a labourer's work. But even so, it requires skills such as welding, and some level of expertise. An enterprise in Africa, especially a Chinese enterprise would find it expedient to import relatively more expensive workers from China rather than hiring locally.

The unemployed in the previous case would represent the throng of unskilled, who lack sufficient capacity to even bootstrap themselves into construction jobs.

Similarly in the US where basic education is already provided, increasingly, a university degree is the minimum level required for even a basic job. If a person's parents couldn't save enough, then we have a situation not too different from Africa where people are in no position to bootstrap themselves into a job, at a time when employers are declaiming skills shortages.
I agree, this post is a typical reddit post. HN should not allow people under a certain karma to post. This would prevent a lot of sh*t to be post. This would also maybe prevent some startups from launching their product on HN just because they know HN will drive a lot of people on their website.
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startups are indeed important job creators, and college isnt for everyone. however, in a general population, a successful startup entrepreneur is about as rare as a professional athlete in basketball, baseball, football, hockey etc. For the rest, a college education is by far still statistically the best way to a stable career and success. Would you tell all inner city kids to forget school and instead focus on being a pro-bball player someday? no - not because you dont believe a handful will make it, but because we know 99% of the rest wont. hence, this is a message targeted for the rare 1% talents, not for the 99%.
The owner of capital in a knowledge society is those who have information. The "workers" in the information industry are the owners of their own means of production, namely their knowledge.

So I would slightly adjust your answer and say, it's a matter of becoming the master of your own means of production which means. Educate yourself and learn as much as possible. Every time an employer fires you or you move somewhere else you are taking your capital with you (the means of production)

But I would caution against talking about education. It's not about education it's about knowledge. Knowledge which can be acquired in so many other ways than education. In fact I would say the less your knowledge is based on education the more unique your knowledge is and thus the more valuable you are.
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"Obviously this entry is for unexperienced people of the IT"

They are giving the unexperianced wrong information and making them misinformed. If they want to help the unexperianced, they shouldn't tell them that a secure experience can be guaranteed with IE6. They should encourage them to use modern browsers which are still regularly supported with security patches.
I know a guy who started Oxford at 15, so it's apparently possible in the UK as well.

He calls it one of the greatest mistakes of his life, though, so it sounds like mileage may vary.
Oh thanks! Never noticed that
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My first point was: You chose a highly regulated industry sector which was never going to be easy. And now you're complaining it's highly regulated and not easy.

I was reading your "About" page. You seem to want to paint yourself as a martyr who has had to fight people every step of the way to get the success which you apparently deserve - That everyone else is wrong, and that you have succeeded despite all these people standing in your way. I don't think that's a likable picture.

Also from http://www.thinkpress.com/authoritas/index.html

"While at Harvard, he invented The Facebook." - I mean wtf that's cringeworthy surely.

Hope you take this critique in a good natured way... If I were you I'd remove every reference to facebook, startup something new in an UNREGULATED sector, (eg not finance), and prove people you can be successful.
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