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I wasn't aware I was supposed to flag every DailyKos story (I honestly have no idea wtf that site is). So, i'm sorry for not doing that.

I resent your smug sense of superiority. I am a reasonable, logical person but I don't have a carefully structured and researched legal paper to present as to why the TSA's policies should be reformed. I just know they're assholes and they fuck with me for no good reason. Clearly this woman realized that too and she decided not to stand for it. The fact that she didn't do it well enough does not discount the action in itself, nor does it prove or disprove any other argument against the TSA.

Furthermore, by flagging this story with the reasons you listed you're basically saying the HN readership is so stupid that by reading this article it will debunk any other arguments they have heard or will hear. That basically you're protecting the brainless HN readers from the ideas presented therein, or are protecting people from reading this and forming a negative view of "valid" TSA arguments from "reasonable, logical people."

There is a deeper lesson to take away than just whether her argument was legally valid. For example, take the reasons that you feel are right and take a stand the way she did.
The customer paid his money, and he got no controller, just bullshit excuses and evasion and abuse. That gives him the right to complain. And he certainly started with a reasonable tone.

It doesn't help that Christoforo is selling the controllers off his ebay account, which says they are shipping from Massachusetts, while his 'company' claims to be in California.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/230687329514#ht_2193wt_1398

So a paid order isn't filled on time, but this guy has controllers to sell on ebay?

Makes me wonder if he's been diverting the controllers, i.e. stealing them, and selling them out from under the company.
>Activism needs to be reinvented.

No, activism is effective (see: GoDaddy, Arab Spring, Montgomery Bus Boycott), but it's hard and takes real work. It's the political system that needs to be fixed. Those lobbyists should not be out in the lobby. The fact that they have more clout because they are right there is the major problem. Saying we need to get boots on the ground so we can compete with lobbyists is to miss the core problem that we shouldn't need to compete with lobbyists. We should be able to email, call or walk into an office and have our voice heard. Our vote should matter more than money.

In the meantime, yes, we need to be active enough to change the political system, but changing activism should only lead to the larger goal of changing the fact that activism shouldn't need to be changed.
I really enjoy A.J. Jacob's writing. His books[1] are great, well worth the read if you need some fun non-fiction.

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Well I have been using haskell and clojure in vim for a few months now, but since most haskellers and lispers use emacs, I figured there must be a reason.
I strongly disagree.
I got the biography for christmas this year and finished it in two days.

Having never owned a piece of apple hardware due to its closed nature and being an open source supporter myself, I was quite surprised by the joy I got from reading this book.

The honesty used by Walter Isaacson to describe Jobs was really refreshing and not expected by me at all.

I was able to draw many conclusions from this book.
For example I do not think that there is the possibility of using it as a recipe for your own success as an entrepreneur, which might be the reason of why the hn community might be undervaluing this book.
It clearly shows that Steve had many unique character traits which made him successful after all.
Most of them were negative in my eyes.
Actually he often seemed borderline insane.
When thinking about the way he treated people, the way he manipulated people, the way he thought that he knew it all and used all of those techniques in order to make those things happen, I realized that those are character traits that lie deep within and cannot easy be emulated, if at all.

As a conclusion I might add that I really respect Steve and his family for allowing such a self critical biography to be published.
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I'm a startup entrepreneur looking for a live/work space among the like-minded peers in Mountain View, Sunnyvale, Palo Alto (something like Hacker's House or Tortuga).

Any suggestions/contacts?

Thanks,
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My uncle's factorization algorithms
How long does it take? I earn an hourly rate such that $5 is not a lot of my time - perhaps it'd be more efficient simply to send them $5.
I accidentally created an account during Android phone activation, as it was very unclear (already had one on other account and didnt want another). They could get up to 700k a day like this, maybe this is most of them.
Any guesstimates on how large the wormhole would need to be for it to be a doomsday device? Two estimates, one for a wormhole on the surface of our sun, and the other for its core. I'll try to post my results sometime later.

What about a neutron star? It's probably too exotic to consider how a wormhole would interact with a black hole.
If I could position both ends arbitrarily, a better approach would be to connect the planetary core with a black hole.
Clever idea to generate buzz while making an impact.

Edit, took a shot at it:

Is there something wrong with how you're running the scripts? My Python script seems to die saying:

No such file or directory: '/opt/puzzles/*.in'

But your example on how you're going to run it on the bottom says you will specify an actual file rather than a wildcard. Running it locally on my machine on all your tests results in this:

$ python test.py d.in > d_me.out
$ md5 d.out
MD5 (d.out) = c6dc722a7020baacebd876d4377065ad
$ md5 d_me.out
MD5 (d_me.out) = c6dc722a7020baacebd876d4377065ad

So I doubt it's a silent failure in my code.
Ask for money. If this model works for them (it seems to), then there's no reason to change it.

Also, by having "sponsors" you open yourself up to "change this article to be like this, or we'll pull our support from Wikipedia." This may seem like a far-fetched scenario, but unless you only use the ad revenue for extra income and don't depend on it at all, you are vulnerable (no matter how many levels removed you are from the advertiser).

It's also extremely difficult to have a steady source of income and not become dependent on it (like ads). My point being that even if they did run ads, they would have to still depend only on community donations if they didn't want to be held on the puppet strings of the capitalist dollar, which is a hard thing to do.

Note that I'm not against capitalism, but once you depend on it for your income, you and your free speech are at its mercy.

I completely agree with Wikipedia for not running ads. It would open a door that once opened is very difficult to close.
Oh but its just a google login, most people will have one. You need to measure views or posts...
That's pretty nice hardware for a watch.

It's surprising how locked down the initial user experience is. If it were $99 I'd probably give it a go. Looks like a fun little hacking device.

(oh...and it has GPS, good battery life, bluetooth, heck I'd love one just for giving me walkabout direction when I'm in a city!)
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Agreed if they are selling the ads directly.

They could throw Google AdWords up there and have the ads algorithmically placed.

They won't make as much money but they wouldn't have to beg.
I think they main reason the author 'puts' humans in ships is because of when the article was written - 2005. Simply put, drones are a new idea that hadn't really crossed many peoples minds until they started popping up in the military.

Beyond that I think it's a pretty well reasoned piece.
Google can try and play stupid as much as they want by reporting signups and not actives but I'm glad it isn't fooling the HN crowd.

Facebook long changed the game by reporting actives. Since, startups like twitter and foursquare have followed suit by reporting actives. It is very apparent what google's refusal to report actives means.
Not monetary per se, but how about time wasted due to the spam?
What if I control my own domain, and have to spend time fighting this spam?
...or 50 non-lawyers since it's small claims.
Is Tor really that important?
US Budget Simplified...Wow
Again, why does it require general purpose AI?

The two examples you cherry-picked are the furthest objects in our solar system. You've literally picked the outlying examples and made them the rule.

The same "problem" could be solved by sending a bunch of what are essentially missiles-carrying-missiles with algorithms that boil down to orders to shoot at any objects that are hot or fast moving or match certain radar signatures. This technology has been in place since the first heat-seeking missile... 1956! There are plenty of other solutions that do not require a general AI (such as sending command ships out).
It amazes me that gift cards are ever purchased by anyone. The only possible benefit is to the vendor, in every scenario, and this should be obvious:

- If you spend less than the card amount and don't use the rest, the vendor wins.

- If you spend more than the card amount, the vendor wins.

- If you somehow spend the exact amount on the card, the vendor still wins because they made you buy something at their store instead of a competitor's. Also, the card amount influenced the decision of what to buy, which wouldn't have happened when using cash.

It is also not only an unimaginative gift but a bad gift, because:

- You are compelling the recipient to shop at a particular store (a store that may not have what he or she really wants).

- You are probably compelling him or her to spend money that wouldn't have been spent otherwise, because the card may not cover everything (in this way, it's like a tax). And if more money isn't spent, the "gift" is worth even less than it was supposed to be.

- You are stating pretty clearly what you think the person is worth. If I receive something nice, I might not think "this is worth $5", but when I am given a gift card I feel "oh, they think I'm only worth spending $5 on".

It would be nice if people would just identify gift cards as a massive scam and start giving real gifts again (or at least get over the apparent stigma carried with gifts of cash).
I thought I would like it, and I do find some good content there, mostly blog length stuff. However I dont really want to blog on it, and prefer twitter for short stuff. I do see more g+ posts here too which reflects the good stuff.
Great link. I also read Sam Harris's Kindle Single, Lying, earlier this year and enjoyed that as well.
Ads that ask for money: the readers are wikipedia's customers.

Ads that make money: the readers are wikipedia's product.

Incentives matter.
leading into what may be a difficult election year, and dependent on money from Hollywood and unions (the big Democratic funders), this is an easy call.

There is no way that Obama hasn't taken the temperature on SOPA by now. Obama's most vocal liberal base will transform into an internet hate machine to rival the likes of the tea party if SOPA is signed. There is also the Ron Paul crew capturing more and more Democratic voters by the day, a signature on SOPA would be an incredible windfall for them in terms of people who would refuse to vote for Obama out of pure anger.

I don't underestimate the influence of these interests in Washington, but SOPA is really unpopular right now and getting more so by the day.
You should read the site guidelines before deciding that I'm commenting out of a sense of smug superiority and not out of general concern for the quality of the site.

I think you should also analyze the fact that this story got you so emotionally invested that the site guidelines didn't occur to you, and that you managed to feel threatened simply because someone questioned the story --- which, again, is pretty obvious vapid. What you're saying in this comment is, "The TSA is bad, so why bother thinking?"

That stories like this tend to have that effect on message board communities is the reason they're proscribed in the site guidelines. There are other communities where a story like this would find a more receptive audience, like Reddit Politics.
Google is reporting nothing in this case. It's some dude trying to deduce the user count from other information.
One of the best things about wikipedia, some might argue the best thing, is that it is free from all the conflicts of interest invited in by money changing hands in exchange for services.

This applies to all free culture, including the OSS world. It would be a tragedy to change it.

(Obviously in the OSS world, people do pay for services, but the important thing is you can always choose not to. Just as you can choose not to send money to wikipedia.)
Can someone clarify exactly what and from whom was stolen?
Sublime Text 2 is amazing! I'm using it now. 3 big shortcomings though:

* no color picker (I come from dreamweaver)

* no auto-completion of php functions

* the folders/project bar on the left is getting messy really quick (I think the dreamweaver project bar is pretty clear compared to ST2).
Probably the best example is Amazon. They were unprofitable for the first 6 years or so, using VC money (and money from the IPO) to increase their market share as quickly as possible. Groupon might be another example soon, if they don't get bankrupt, of course.
> Also, by having "sponsors" you open yourself up to "change this article to be like this, or we'll pull our support from Wikipedia."

Why can't the people who donate money do the same thing--that is threaten to stop donating unless an article is changed to their liking?
Maybe an interesting exercise, although the acquired "learning" of difficulty/challenges in shuttling large bulky items around without owning transportation...seems like maybe you should have seen that one coming?
I think you have a really good point about circles being smaller, a side effect of publishing only to certain circles will result in less updates seen, no matter how we try to slice it.

I find G+ posts to be generally of much higher quality, especially shared things.
Plagarist?
We're talking about civil court here. Money is what you go to court to get. What do you want the judge to do if you win? He's handling traffic tickets and landlord disputes... then he gets to you. He's not going to try to make up some equation of how much your time pressing the delete button on your e-mail client is worth.
The 3 hours doesn't include the research and preparations required to pull off this deal, so it's not a reliable number to be thrown around.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/12/internet-pawn/

Actually they do.

And a business doesn't need to get into YC or get VC funded in order for it to be a real business.
I'd like to point out that name.com (my current registrar) has been an EFF donor for some time already -- but I don't know to what extent.
I haven't downloaded the dump files yet, but from what I can tell, their entire db was stolen. Meaning, customers' names, emails, addys, credit cards, etc. But most importantly, they were able to decrypt the customers' passwords back into plain text, too...
They can...but the difference is that most people reading Wikipedia enjoy the fact that it's unbiased. I can imagine many more scenarios where a company/corporation would NOT enjoy this.

There are also many more readers of Wikipedia than there are advertisers. This makes gathering donations a more distributed means of paying their expenses.
Why Ron Paul is against SOPA
Well, they could do both. Adverts imply a non-impartial editorial stance so I totally get why they see that as the thin end of the wedge I respect that totally, which is why I'm happy to donate now and then.

Why not?
Never a good idea to publicly announce that your service is hacker proof.
REST is the "literally" of the web world.

I think they mean "RPC over HTTP API Design".
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These ads serve a secondary purpose of reminding people that Wikipedia's wealth of information originates by public knowledge. A lot of people tend to take knowledge for granted, and I personally feel humbled and grateful for Wikipedia from their ads.
They would undoubtedly make a lot more.

FWIW I find the current begging really offputting and irritating. More so than small relevant text adverts would be.

Online news sites run ads without worrying about impartiality etc. I don't see why wikipedia worries so much about it.
I don't think anybody's actually saying, "I'm looking for a place where I can sell my services at a lower price."

Here's what happens: No matter how you position yourself, billing $500 an hour to the zero prospective customers you (the general "you") have right now is still not very profitable. Most developers have about as much idea of how to find customers as they do about how to perform open-heart surgery. Connecting developers and clients is the one area where oDesk shines — and since it's the same area where engineers are weak, many can't help but consider it.
Also, sometimes it's important that there's a forcing function / mechanism of some kind that gets things to stay put.

Ex: Pens used at cash registers that are intentionally giant / ugly / unwieldy so you don't walk off with them. See here: http://karentl.wordpress.com/2011/06/25/design-artifact-plas...
I've heard this argument (mostly from Googlers) before. I don't buy it though, as I occasionally (rarely now) see friends post things and get zero comments. The same comments will get tons of comments on Facebook.

This thing has largely failed outside of tech circles and twitter style (celebrity) newsfeeds at the moment. Hopefully that will change, as I find it superior to Facebook in virtually every way.
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A bookstore isn't a scalable business either, but Amazon turned it into one. Do you really think there will never be an Amazon of pawn shops?
Right. It really is just asking for trouble. Especially when your "guarantor" is a well known script kiddie...
In essence, my argument is this: because at their core, they are an unbiased source of information, the less controlling interests involved, the better.

To generate revenue from ads is to "sell" a piece of themselves. Equate it somewhat to raising money from investors. They now have much more revenue, but at the cost of some of the control of their company. Ads certainly don't take away control in the sense investors do, but depending on the revenue from ads in any way is an extremely slippery slope.
This, I think, would be totally fair enough, but I think you'd get a disparity between the 'standard' and the implementation.

You mention arguments. In PHP, for example, you have `mkdir`, and `rmdir`, and all that. You supply the file or directory string as the first argument, and a limited subset of options as the rest.

In Unix you have `mkdir`, but you supply the flags before the name of the directory to create.

Further to this, it's all more verbose, so you don't set the `-R` (or `-r`) argument to true to make it recursive in the PHP equivalent.

So there's no real standard being implemented per se, and your JS function 'ls()' or 'cp()' is a JS function in all but name. When it comes to using it you still have to read the doc to figure out what on earth you're supposed to do with it.

filer.cp('myFile.txt', '/path/to/other/folder', 'file.txt', function(entry) {}, onError);

cp myFile.txt /path/to/other/folder/file.txt

I'm not seeing how function name familiarity reduces confusion. Because it's evident the arguments aren't the same, and you can't tell people to look at Unix man pages to figure out how to work a totally unrelated lib.
isn't ebay technically a very large pawn shop?

wasn't it bessemer that passed on ebay because a company with a marketplace for used goods wouldn't amount to anything?
Don't forget, if you create a Google account you automatically have a Google+ account.

I made a new Gmail account for my mom a few days, now she has a Google+ account too but I doubt she'll ever touch it.
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That's probably the best suggestion here. Not as easy to deflect something like that.
Avenger Controller guy tries to apologize.
You can't run ads that make money while at the same time expect people to believe you are completely impartial.
"Science works with generalization and taxonomy."

You still need to do the science though. Taking two examples and drawing general conclusions from that is just wrong. It's a case study of how B&J and Amazon have operated, which in itself is interesting.

But it's wrong to state that you either are a B&J-type company or an Amazon-type company, nothing in the article supports the fact that those are the only possible types.
As far as I could tell, Namecheap doesn't allow uploading of zone files (GoDaddy allows you to export your DNS settings in this format). It sure would grease the slide for Namecheap (or any other provider, for that matter) if they offered this feature.
Now I'm curious why you were ever their customer to begin with. Even their name and logo are enough for me to run far, far away. Were they much more "barebones" back then?
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