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In a single term: stakeholder theory. I do think there needs to be some balance; not necessarily along collectivist lines, but rather with some thought applied to the kind of society we want to live in, and the kind of fairness and justice we want to see in our lives and the lives of our children. So I am hostile to absolutist approaches to ownership and the firm, particularly since we are all only here temporarily, and everything we think we own, we are just renting.

In my view, capitalism is justified in so far as it motivates value creation and production that leaves everyone better off, in a just way, rather than as something which follows from underlying principles around ownership and control of capital. That is, capitalism is a means to an end, not an end in itself; and when this means turns out to be unjust, it should be changed and regulated, rather than treated as sacred.
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As I understand it, what usually happens to small-claims cases against large, well-funded corporations is that you win the first round, then the corporation appeals and suddenly you're in grown-up court and have to pay a lawyer.
I think Banks' The Algabraist got it about right.

In fact, that whole book is crammed full of good "things we currently believe to be true about physics extrapolated as far as theoretically possible" ideas:

"How do you navigate this thing?"
"Point."
"Point?"
"Yes, point. It's all about having enough power.
Fiddling around with calculations about DeltaV is really
just a sign that you don't have enough power."
Strange Loop 2011, "We really don't know how to compute", Gerald Sussman (http://www.infoq.com/presentations/We-Really-Dont-Know-How-T...).

That's not entirely fair though, insofar as I'm a sucker for a Sussman talk.

Beyond that, I'd have to say Sam Aaron's Overtone presentation @ Clojure Conj 2011.

At the moment, it strikes me that the obvious common element of both talks and speakers are their absolutely infectious enthusiasm for their respective specialties.
I know a gentleman who swears by oDesk, mostly as a billing/mediation platform for custom Twilio apps. I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole, but he charges enough to make it viable.
"It needs to be said that Google and Facebook are perfect, no-brainer advertising platforms."

Hindsight! When Google came to being, search engines were not so obvious. They relied on banner ads (declining CPMs). Overture was experimenting with the PPC model, but it wasn't remotely mainstream.

Facebook as well. Many people claimed that Facebook could never turn a profit with advertising. Users had no purchasing intent, suffered from ad blindness, etc. To some degree, they were right-- clickthru rates on FB are pretty awful-- but with 700M+ active users, it really doesn't matter. It was decidedly non-obvious that Facebook would be a gaming platform.
Right, that's the correct terminology in iPhone land.
What's the difference between a spaceship and a missile once you remove the human passengers and pilots?
Gild to donate $5 to EFF fo each coder that solves our programming puzzle
Alternatively this fork seems active and is functioning for us: https://github.com/pythonforfacebook/facebook-sdk
Already published an app, with over 3 figure sales.

http://www.bitsabound.com/GlutenFreeRecipes-Windows-Phone-7....
I think that you might be on to something.

After having been accused of being opposed to civil disobedience, your post gave me a way to express how I feel civil disobedience is supposed to work.

If a large number of people started opting for the alternate method of screening passengers, it would bring the process of screening to a screeching halt, yet all would remain well within their rights. If these people complied with the alternate method, without attempting to provoke or harass the TSA, no one would have been arrested.

If you can piss the government off, without putting yourself at risk, then you have mastered the fine art of civil disobedience.
The economist Lant Pritchett notes big ideas follow this pattern:

silly -> controversial -> progressive -> obvious

http://kottke.org/09/06/big-ideas-from-silly-to-obvious

Fred's post touches on the silly part. I haven't been able to find much more of Lant's model other than the slide Kottke links to.
Foxmarks/Xmarks and Delicious come to mind.
I believe it is well established in Star Wars canon that the drivers of the capital ships don't always seem to be the brightest guys in the fleet.
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Maybe, but my judgement is that while domains are relatively easy to move, various other services aren't.

It seems to me that the focus on HN and other sites is to move domains.

I'm not particularly up on GoDaddy TOS, but I imagine their not going to give refunds to prepurchased hosting. This would increase the friction involved in a total dump of GoDaddy. The customer would also have to allocate time to setup the new environments. Same with email, Dedicated and Virtual servers.

There are also SSL certificates. Again, I assume no refund, and the time it takes to gain and install a new SSL certificate from another provider would also increase the friction.

GoDaddy also provides alot of instant website tools. I'm not saying that SOPA opposers do not use these tools, but they tend to be marketed towards a non web savvy user that may not care/know about SOPA. This would reduce the effect of SOPA protests.

In summary I'd say that the tech savvy GoDaddy customer with a decent budget and the time to set up alternatives could dump all services, it's could be unreasonable to expect a total boycott of services from other GoDaddy customers.
Ask HN: Does your Facebook profile affect job seeking?
This question is for any profession or position. Does what you have on your facebook account at all affect who will hire you? Do potential employers have access to wall posts, photos, and friends lists?

I'm honestly just curious about how much of the information people put under "private" can get out to employers if they really want it.
I don't think melting is that big a deal. It's still the same amount of mass, only now it's molten steel instead of steel rods.
I'm for doing away with all other forms of civil court all together. Let's handle patents and copyrights and divorces this way too.
Fixed, thanks.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2011/0603/Political-mi...
Why won't you deal with it? Bad experience? On the customer or developer side?
Is it just me, or does the customer come off as a bit of an asshole that's creating/feeding about 50% of the dramma he is complaining about.
I always saw it as something that's not 'fair', but that helps the market win.

It's sort of the same as anti-monopoly laws. In a strict sense, maybe a company became a monopoly legally, by offering the best product and buying out its competition, and is acting rationally in the interest of its shareholders -- but now the market is powerless before it, so the government breaks it up, and the market has bargaining power again.

Most of the pragmatic policies that make our world work break down on a moral level when you look at them too hard. We're all just trying to do what works empirically.
I'm having the same reaction. I hate the TSA so much I avoid flying if at all possible, and indeed haven't been on a plane in three years. But making a scene like this accomplishes nothing. Or, possibly less than nothing -- if the onlookers thought she was a kook.

If, instead of doing this at the security checkpoint, she wanted to stand at the entrance to the airport speaking and handing out leaflets, she would be exercising her First Amendment rights, and I would hope they would accommodate her. (If they didn't, I wouldn't be surprised, but I would be angry.)

But what she chose to do was just pointless.
Many non-arabic Muslims have not read the Koran, at least not most of it. There are a couple of reasons for this:

Most importantly, translations of Koran are not equated to the real thing, i.e. a Koran in English is not the Koran, it's only a translation. This has historically been a handicap for the "common people" to have access to the book. This situation was also backed by the religious elite (although Islam lacks a religious caste like Christianity, there are still hodjas, etc. who are the ones who interpret the writings). Remember that the Enlightenment in Europe was due in some part to the wide access to the Bible in the vernacular languages, e.g. the King James' version.

Another reason is that, for devout Muslims, there are a set of rules that must be obeyed to touch the Koran, one has to be clean. So (theoretically) you can't just grab it, lean back on the couch and read it. In houses it is not placed with other books on the shelf but usually in a separate cloth cover, above all books. This reverence for it has the paradoxical effect of curtailing access to its content.
Why would space war ships be manned when we're already flying unmanned vehicles on earth? I think we've touched on a reality of intelligent species coexisting in the universe. Space war would consist of staying hidden and probably nothing else.

Plus, certainly people would be fighting over the planets or the technology (or maybe the amulet of Endor) so simply throwing comets and obliterating things wouldn't make much sense except maybe defensively or to help with a gennocide.

Terrestrial battles to take over usable land would probably continue to be the name of the game. Followed with setting up tonnes of drones and sensors for defense.
Well, now we're getting into the theoretical issues. For instance, if we develop wormhole technology, the ship could very well be there before the enemy can see it.

Otherwise, I just don't see interstellar space warfare as being that practical if it takes years to launch an attack.
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I'd say, odd are, that if you're just interested in throughput, the standard Hotspot GC without any options isn't going to give you optimal performance. I've found that, like gtani, mentions you'll have to spend time tuning to get the performance you want.

In a similar situation, I found that the Parallel Old was, by far, the fastest (throughput) collector.
Well yes, there are quite a few telescopes that constantly scan the sky for tiny changes. And it's not just the size of the ship, but the burning fuel from its engines as it navigates near our solar system.
I contacted one of the developers (Casey Muller) a few days ago when I noticed the repository had disappeared. I'm quoting from his reply:

"""This is pretty lame, apparently it was really out of date and we're having trouble finding the resources internally to support it.

For now we're pointing people here: https://github.com/pythonforfacebook/facebook-sdk
"""

Although I think the sudden disappearance wasn't a smooth move, I guess the community will have to step up and maintain the library. Nothing wrong with that, it was open source to begin with.
I'm on some little project for WP7 too. I think that more developers will adopt WP7 when they see it has a clear future. At the moment it's a bit cloudy, we still don't know if it will continue growing or not.

Anyways, being the first on WP7 is risky but can be very profitable. Kik Messenger grew a lot thanks to their WP7 app (the article is in TC, can't search for it now). There are few apps so there is less competition and you can get a lot of new users.
Nice thread! My favorite books this year were:

The power of Less: http://amzn.to/t4umWo . It discuss how you can simplify your life. It give many practical advices, and is good for all kinds of people. The message in the book is " be aware and simplify".

Brilliant, Crazy, Cocky. By Sarah Lacy, former writer fo techcrunch. http://amzn.to/vMJwhR. It show how the entrepreneurship and startups are going around the world. As a brazilian reader, I find the picture of brazil very accurate, so the rest of the world must be accurate too. It's a good resource for anyone wanting to understand and know the startup community in countries like India, China, Brazil, Indonesia and others.

If you want to write, by brenda Ueland ,http://amzn.to/w5gQyz: It's a nice book about the craftsmanship of writing. It's a bit 'philosophic' book, but also give a little practical advice. It's and old book, don't be amazed when it refer to the typewriter. And it's very cheap, only 3,99.

And to finish, time warrior, by steve chandler. http://amzn.to/vNBawK If you want a book to beat procrastination, and other modern plagues, this is the book. very practical advice, the book has more then 100 tips. Every should read it.

Thats my favorite books of this year, apart of the ones everyone has talked about, like Steve Jobs bio, Lean Startup, and others startup world books.
Assuming you don't want to jump platform, no: you can always invest more time and entrench your workflow even more in an obsolete OS version and miss out on all the new features to avoid a few annoyances and changes to the way "things used to be". In fact, screw this whole OS X thing, OS 9 is a proven OS.

Non sarcastic version: Apple's way is that of changing things and deprecating stuff.

Assuming you don't depend on a app that only works with a previous version, you have to have the latest version of the OS, or you get left behind.

There can be a slight annoyance to move things forward and adjust to some changes that each new OS brings, but you get improved cohesion with the whole Apple ecosystem, new features and APIs, usually performance improvements, and (most of the time) architectural improvements to the whole OS/userland/API stack.

The advantage is you don't get tied down by backwards compatibility. The disadvantage is that things can break between major releases --but never for too long.

MS Windows way is of maximizing backwards compatibility. You can still run programs made in, say, 1995 just fine. The benefit of this is less hassle in the "will it break" department. The problem is bloat and inconsistencies, because MS adds each new framework/feature not as a pervasive change but as an orthogonal addition. So, for example, they change the file dialog UI in Windows Vista, but tons of apps still display Windows 98 era file dialogs or worse. Or they have 3-4 different APIs for the same thing, and they support all of them, diverting resources from making the OS leaner and future proof.

If I was a business (corporate) I'd probably like the MS way more, as it's more dependable.

Regarding where I want computing to go, though, I like Apple's way more -- I can live (and work) with a little pain every couple of years better than we seeing things go unchanged for a decade or more despite better options being already available.
The problem is that GoDaddy CEO can issue a statement like that, but the company will go back on it in a jiffy if need be. The company simply has no ethic backbone.
I'd suggest being more specific than "US". Either name a part of the country, or, better yet, just name an income.
It wasn't a bash. I love MG's writing and I love a lot of Apple products. It's nothing more than an inside joke.
Dear down voter, at least tell me what you don't agree with. I was simply asking a question.
Another example of better discovery tool online is jinni.com .it uses semantic search to categorize movies and tv content. It really does a great job in discovering new movies.

And regarding the small shops and discovery: The web is flooded with sites telling us about interesting products. do you really feel a lack of interesting stuff to purchase?
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Assuming the corporation is fueled by money, it will need to weigh the cost of waging an appeal versus the expected savings in overturning the lawsuit (which is still not guaranteed).
You never know. I'm sure you could have a more "distributed leadership". I'm sure this could be accomplished with a clever enough application of paxos.
I find it interesting that there is no way for GoDaddy to get out of this one. They withdrew their support and... now what? I didn't think the mob was going to let them off the hook anyways, and it looks like they won't.

Not that I mind, I should have moved my domains a long time ago for dozens of different reasons besides the SOPA charade and won't use them again regardless of their stance on any legislation.
The European law also applies there, so the 2 year warranty was included anyway as far as is understand it.
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Bulk discounts begin at 50 domains. That's far from the average person.

(and if you have that many domains you can do better than NameCheap prices too)
Still only part way through and though I don't entirely agree with all the conclusions the thought experiment is proving to be fun.

This however is my favourite point so far as I had never really thought about it this way when watching popularized SciFi.

Another thing about motion in space is that changing your ship’s orientation does nothing to your speed and vector unless it is accompanied by firing your main engine, because there is no friction. This means that all those space dogfights where one fighter gets behind the other and the other one has to try and shake it like in air combat are very unrealistic. There’s no comprehensible reason why the pursued pilot can’t just turn his fighter around and blast the bugger.

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century TV series has just been ruined for me. Wait, no, it still had Wilma Deering, so all is not lost.
It's two things basically:

-You can do a full survey in about 5 hours with one telescope these days.

-Ships are very bright, don't look anything like stars and CCDs are very sensitive.

http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/spacewardetect.php has a good break down.
I once worked at a very large American company that announced that as part of the effort to hit the quarterly profit goal they would stop buying office supplies. The CEO announced that he he told the same thing to the European branch when he flew over there earlier in the week in the company jet.
I wish you could just give namecheap your GoDaddy credentials and have them move your domains properly for you. I am definitely not looking forward to figuring out GoDaddy's UI for all my domains.
I don't think the "hard drive" crash can be attributed to the new OS at all.

Not hibernating properly, maybe (still: why hybernating? Isn't "sleep" the default OS X thing and proper mode to use?)

Generally slow, I haven't felt at all. And it's hard to measure with just your "feeling" of "slowness". There are also tons of factors to contribute: use of new apps, a more fragmented disk (if upgrading instead of installing fresh), etc. Can you run a benchmark on the two versions and compare them?
> They send the sourcecode from the server to the client there is no time for a fully optimizing compiler.

The solution that the Dart VM and other JS VMs to is to compile twice: you do a very fast simple compile so that you can start executing code quickly and reduce start-up time. Then you find frequently-used functions and recompile them using a more advanced optimizing compiler. This is why many modern VMs have a "warm-up" period: code will get faster over time as it gets recompiled more optimally.
I have published several free games with ads for WP7. I am currently a student and making enough to cover my rent, and help me pay my tuition.
My most popular game:
http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/apps/24139b6e-e8a6-4c87-80...
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I seem to recall Facebook announcing at the beginning of the summer that they were discontinuing support for the Python SDK. I'll try to track down the relevant article.

EDIT - Relevant HN link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2737965
>I always saw it as something that's not 'fair', but that helps the market win.

The market wins when the price-fixing stops being worth the opportunity cost of increased sales, or when a competitor (new or old) decides not to play ball. Not when the government steps in to force things in a certain direction.

>Most of the pragmatic policies that make our world work break down on a moral level when you look at them too hard. We're all just trying to do what works empirically.

The uneasiness I feel at the implication that things can be looked at "too hard" aside, how can one actually justify the claim that this works empirically ("works" meaning, presumably, in this case, that a better outcome is achieved)?
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What language/SDKs one has to use in order to write windows 7 apps? Is the overall experience different from iOS/Android app developing? How do one test the apps?
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Yes, we (i.e., the YouVersion team) have been actively developing and releasing Windows Phone 7 versions of our app for just over a year as of now.

While I'm not authorized to reveal the percentage of our approximately 36 million unique installs (i.e., installs on unique devices) that can be attributed to Windows Phone devices, I can say that we're continuing to invest in the ongoing development of our Windows Phone app.

Our soon to be released, next version of the Windows Phon app will feature a number of enhancements related to features made available in the recent Mango update (i.e. Windows Phone 7.5).

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Short version: it adds nothing I need, positioning myself against the competition there would be certifiably insane, and the type of clients I most successfully work with would avoid me like the plague if I proposed working through oDesk.
Speed of light delay could be critical in space battles, especially when you consider that it goes both ways (sensor readings -> brain : decision making -> control signal). The real question is how smart you can make computers, if you can't make them as smart as a human then you need to have a meat-brain somewhere in the middle of the battle. If you can make them that smart then that opens up a whole host of questions on sentience and ethics.

Edit: Keep in mind that your manned "ship" might still be thousands or millions of kilometers away from the enemy and controlling a vast array of computerized drones. But when weapons are zipping around at 10s, 100s, or even 1000s of km/s the scope of the battlefield changes dramatically. You can be remotely operating missiles that are farther away than the moon is from the Earth and still be in the thick of it.
Fair enough. I'd say 80K for a 50 hour week (since freelancers are expected to buy their own health insurance, do not get any paid time off, so 80K is a very modest wage for a developer in those circumstances)

I realize a college student/single guy does not need all that much, but for a 29+, with a family, I think that's the minimum (again, with all the self-employment taxes, insurance etc).
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