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> 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.

I think it's really unpopular on HN and on websites with "tech" in the name, but is the general electorate even aware of the issue? I don't see much about SOPA in the MSM (admittedly the last several months have had a lot of news-worthy events).
Why is it that people automatically equate "Capitalism" with "doing whatever it takes to get your dollar", instead of "producing a better product than the competitor"?

If competition is essential to capitalism, and if "capitalism won", then why doesn't the author create a competing service? Certainly, if Wikipedia is doing something so obviously wrong, then it should be trivial to out compete them in the marketplace, no?

Ok, maybe the author doesn't have the time to put in the effort that would be required to create a competing service. In that case, maybe we can ask the nice people at the Encyclopedia Britannica to help? Oh, or maybe the people that work on Google Knol? I think maybe they could shed some light on how "capitalism won"...
There are people offering these services, for example Ebay has a Trading Assistant program.
Nothing is this article demonstrates a feature that doesn't exist in backbone.js. In fact, backbone.js feels much cleaner.
> No, activism is effective (see: GoDaddy, Arab Spring, Montgomery Bus Boycott), but it's hard and takes real work.

One of these things is not like the others.
This article suggests that the new iteration of the Facebook app for iOS is written mainly with Web technologies and the fronted runs in a WebView, which explains why it sucks so much more than the previous version. Has anyone else noticed lots of really sluggish content loading, occasional hangs, mysteriously empty panes, etc? While the app is polished enough to seem native (kinda), it seems to be an argument that Web technologies are not yet ready to be an alternative to native UIKit development -- on iOS, at least.
Would be neat to mix this with an animated list-insert/resort, like David DeSandro's 'Isotope'.
Is it wrong to think badly of an editor where it's up to the developers to add a colour picker when the users want one? Emacs has a simple colour palette widget available at runtime.
I was commenting on Talmand's scenario; take "three of the world's largest ships, put them together to form one ship and then placed it in a random spot somewhere within the orbit of Pluto; how long would it take you to find it?"

Using the formula in the "Refrigeration" section of the page linked to by Avshalom, the "maximum range a ship running silent with engines shut down" (assuming diameter = 500 m and temperature = 290K is about 500 million km, or about 3.3 AU. That's well within the orbital radius of Jupiter.

That's assuming the entire asteroid is at 290K. Pluto averages about 40 AU out, given a 0.056% chance that a room-temperature asteroid would be detectable.

I'm also uncertain about the reasoning in the page linked to by Avshalom. I think that assumes a 3K background, and I think you also think there's a big heat differential. However, the average temperature of the moon is something like -25C, and if an asteroid were closer to the sun, then the difference in surface temperature between an internally heated vs. sun heated asteroid is well within the errors in measuring the physical properties of the asteroid.

You can even work it out for yourself, using the equation at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_asteroid_physical_char... . I worked it out to:

166C at Mercury orbit: http://www.google.com/search?&q=(((1-0.1)+*+(3.827E26+watts)+%2F+(0.9+*+Stefan-Boltzmann+constant+*+16+*+pi+*+(0.3+*+150000000+km)**2)))+**+(1%2F4)

90C at Venus orbit: http://www.google.com/search?q=(((1-0.1)+*+(3.827E26+watts)+%2F+(0.9+*+Stefan-Boltzmann+constant+*+16+*+pi+*+(0.6+*+150000000+km)**2)))+**+(1%2F4)

5C at Earth orbit: http://www.google.com/search?q=(((1-0.1)+*+(3.827E26+watts)+%2F+(0.9+*+Stefan-Boltzmann+constant+*+16+*+pi+*+(1.0+*+150000000+km)**2)))+**+(1%2F4)

(The values for albedo and emissivity are not well known, so there is a wide error range in this calculation.)

Still, that's enough to show that the heat differentials inside of the Earth's orbit are not that big.
If it was worth taking seriously it also would have been much longer. Go read Sissela Bok's Lying: Moral choice in Public and Private Life then try taking Harris seriously.
Activism can be effective, but certainly not by default. Non-profit campaigns fail about as well as startups.

When I say reinvented, I mean that we need innovative ways to use technology in the advocacy space. Like you said, activism takes real work. Clicking "Like" on FB is giving people the false impression that they have actually done something.

Where we agree is that the political system is broken and that it is a much more important issue.

I've been fighting for a particular bill for nearly a decade (see my profile, if you care to know) and the thing that I've heard consistently, regardless of what season or year it is, regardless of who controls Congress, regardless of who is the President, is this: "now is not a good time to make the push, because the election is coming up." If there is ANY election in the next two years, Congress simply STOPS. In other words they are in a perpetual election cycle.

We make the push anyway, we inch closer, but fail (always due to filibuster and votes splitting evenly along party lines, regardless of actual stance of specific legislators), then we spend YEARS in the election cycle. I've seen this happen too many times...

I'm starting to think that all progressive organizations should drop their pet issues and focus on campaign financing reform first.
I use dvorak with vim, and having the hjkl keys in other locations has never been a problem for me. If you know vi well you probably don't even use them that much, as there are usually faster ways to move around (e.g. "b" and "w" to move around horizontally).
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Exactly. In the month of December, exactly 2 out of my G+ contacts made an update; and of them, only 1 updated more than once. Compare this to FB, where people add updates at least once a day or two.

I like how Google PR is working hard to spread the message, but I ain't seeing what they are selling. Don't get me wrong: I'd love to see FB have some competition. But G+ isn't cutting it as yet.
But that is the pawn business. Anything else is a different business entirely, e.g. being a second hand goods dealer.

Pawn shops can deal in second hand goods and often have the licenses for outright purchase (which may be where some of the confusion that I've seen from people originates), but that is not strictly speaking what pawning is.
Dvorak, mostly. Switched >10 years ago, but have nearly always been using qwerty keyboards at school or work, so I'm quite bilingual, as it were. Given the option, I'll take Dvorak, solely for comfort. Speed was about the same on both after a couple months of use, still is. I was on the Dvorak layout before I started using vim, but it doesn't bother me to use it as such.
I see. So you're blaming Google now for something you imagine they might do in the future. How could Google defend itself against your accusations?
My question is what happened the week of September 18th? That was when Google+ went from flatlining to a huge jump in growth, then followup growth. Anybody know? My guess is something to do with android pushing folks to sign up, or maybe them pushing it through gmail or google logins. Something changed and they restarted the growth curve with a big spike.
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Why don't you add your real friends to Facebook and/or remove your "friends".
Alright, let's go with that scenario for the sake of argument. What would be the casus belli?

If it's something like rare elements available only in the Oort cloud, the traditional colonial model would apply and the overwhelming interest in the Oort cloud would be in those very rare elements and not as some sort of refuge. Your Oort cloud pilgrims would have to be fiercely protective of their rare elements and to have gotten there first before the rare-element prospectors. The Oort cloud would have to be not big enough to satisfy both groups of people, and the Oort pilgrims would have to be stubborn enough not to move their replicator-colony to the Kuiper belt or elsewhere.

At that point, you can start to reasonably speculate: you have clear objectives on both sides at the very least. It becomes very hard to predict what would happen because we've stipulated so many counterfactuals that everything we know would be obsolete. Logistics, which has dictated almost every war in human history, would look totally different due to the fabrication technology, though limits to propulsion technology and the vast distances involved would cause other issues. The Oort pilgrims would have the advantage of locality--they could see and respond to any movements from the inner solar system within months while delaying or hiding their defensive actions until the last minute. But the fabrication technology would render pretty much anything expendable, and it might be feasible to turn maybe a few hundred Kuiper belt objects into a swarm of self-guiding missiles or something while the Oort pilgrims wouldn't have enough raw materials to really hurt, say, Earth.
IMO you shouldn't use stickers or a dvorak keyboard to learn a new layout, the goal is to touch-type, without looking at the keyboard. The F and J keys have ridges so you know where your index fingers should rest by just feeling the keys, and you should be able to find everything else from there without looking. Just print out a dvorak layout on paper and keep that around for a month or two.
Before the privacy stuff became a concern, I just didn't like the product. The whole symmetric relationship model just never really hooked me. It's not any particular philosophical hatred. I just never "got it" like others seemed to. I understand it, but it was never the sort of thing that I was constantly refreshing.

It wasn't very useful to me before the whole app platform thing, and after the app platform launched, it quickly became too noisy and cluttered.
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I think the spike you are seeing correlates to the transition from a "field trial" (invite-only) product, to a public product.

This is the blog post announcing open signups and it is dated September 20th: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/google-92-93-94-95-96...
Analogies aren't copies.
This is a quite excellent brain dump from a Twitter software engineer. Highly recommended: http://www.slideshare.net/aszegedi/everything-i-ever-learned...
Overzealous automod blocked my original submission http://www.examiner.com/video-game-industry-in-national/ocea...

Thought this might be an interesting case study in what not to do w/r to PR and/or responding to bad PR firms.

I definitely think Ocean is in the wrong here, but I'm not sure the PA response was correct also.
The OSS world isn't free from conflict of interest either - just look at the Merb vs. Rails thing a couple of years ago.
> the iPhone customer is asked to make a single choice:

It's amusing to look at just how complex the iPhone buying process has actually become. You have three different models to choose from, two of which come in two colors. For the newest model, you have three storage sizes to choose from.

But those are the easy parts. Once you've chosen those, you must then choose a carrier and a plan. In the US, there are now three carriers to choose from, none of which have anything like identical plans you can just price-shop. Each carrier then has a variety of options, from talk time (4 different ones on AT&T, I believe) to text messaging to data plans, and they can often be mixed and matched in various combinations. If multiple family members have phones it gets even more fun, as you then get into the various family plans.

Compare this with how the iPhone was originally: there was one model with a couple of different storage sizes, one carrier, and one data plan. You still had different voice and text messaging plans, but it was still substantially simpler than it is today.

The iPhone is certainly still much simpler to buy than its competitors, but it seems that the simple yes/no choice is too simple for the customers.
Assuming the author submitted this, the sentence starting with "On what planet is a customer" appears to be a fragment.
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I believe you are handwaving the problem away here.

Have you ever tried to go to a mattress shop and ask them about spring density, the gauge of steel used, and the spring layout on a mattress? These information is totally proprietary and the average salesman wouldn't know either.
It's remarkable that we refer to algorithms invented as "late" as the 90's as state-of-the-art. But sadly, it is so.
> No two democracies have gone to war, ever

That stirs up a whole new thing, detailed here: http://users.rcn.com/mwhite28/demowar.htm
Figuring Germany at 357021 sq. km, and "1 degree" to raise the equivalent of a meter of water by 1 Kelvin, gives 1.5E18 J.

If I did my math right, that's the energy in a 400 megaton bomb, or 17 kg of antimatter. The US nuclear arsenal is about 2500 Mt.

I don't think you'll be able to distribute that much energy so uniformly. Almost certainly you'll end up with all of it dumped into the surface, with people, land, and cities burned to a crisp. Only a few people in mines or deep valleys might survive.
Is it wrong I misread that as "The Steve Jobs Counter-Maneuver"?
Not blaming, but worrying about. There is plenty of software that can read Word's .doc files. Yet I store my data as plain text, as I imagine that the software will be killed or end-of-lifed in the future, even though I can use it fine right now. In the same way, I'd rather use a browser designed for an open, standardised Web.

Chrome doesn't have nearly enough market dominance for me to make accusations about it; I just want to minimise any future disaster scenarios.
I transfer domains regularly between registrars because the transfer costs tend to be cheaper than the renewal costs. I've noticed that the last character of EPP values tend to be minor punctuation ([,.] etc.), which is ignored whenever I double-click to copy & paste.

I'd be certain this is intentional since those characters are ALWAYS (20+ domains transferred over a period of months) at the end of the code, although I cannot fathom the purpose since at that point you've already paid for the transfer and aren't going to give up the money you just spent.

Anybody know WTF the registrars are playing at?
I experimented with backbone and ember recently, the integration with handlebars to do in place updates and the quite comprehensive observer / bindings mechanisms in ember look powerful and definitely needed for more complex applications

Backbone seemed to provide everything needed for reasonably simple one page javascript apps

But both seemed to suffer the same problem, they are quite monolithic, everything is build around the fact your app is a 'backbone' or an 'ember' application, they arent just libraries that provide specific functionality.

They both seemed to miss out really basic functionality that I run into all the time building these type of applications, the example here shows one of the problems, when I am not looking at the recent tweets, I dont want to be polling the data source, I havent seen a good example in either of how to properly setup and tear down views, I came up with something incredibly simple that helps, I will try and blog about it soon.

Also I find the general tone of the article pretty rude and condescending
Sure, it minimizes developer effort, but the end result of e.g. the iPhone app is very uninspiring and clunky. Compare it to a true native app like Path if this isn't immediately apparent to you.

(The use of the phrase "native goop" to describe the non-web parts seems telling. They don't seem focused on the end-user experience, but rather developer ease and (that old chimerical developer holy-grail) code reuse.)
Separate Qwerty sub-question: Why does every laptop mfr now put the Windows & Menu keys on the bottom row & Ins/Del on the top row? I use Ins/Del way more. And what genius put PgUp and arrow up on the same key, needing to use Fn? Overall, even if you are Qwerty, the mfrs do a lousy job at placing the rest of the keys well.
Points 4, 6, and 7 are a pretty compelling argument for electric cars, at least in cities (plus the shifting of exhaust outside the city).

I just find it difficult to believe that converting three times (electricity source -> electricty -> storage -> mechanical energy) is going to be more efficient than converting once (gasoline -> mechanical).
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Hopefully specialforces.com will do a full disclosure to their customers immediately. Every second counts at this point...
> when Google gets big enough [..] it's going to take Chrome in its own direction

Hasn't Google already taken Chrome in its own direction? Chrome includes lots of non-standard technologies like Flash, NaCl, Pepper, Chrome Apps, and soon a Dart VM. Google believes these technologies are good, but no other browser does, and not even WebKit.

Maybe those are good and useful technologies, that is a separate matter. I'm just pointing out that Google is already well in the process of taking Chrome in the direction Google feels is best, regardless of what the rest of the web thinks.
I let it cache a record, disabled the zone the record came from and left it to expire. It did. I won't deny that it could behave differently from different addresses, but based on the evidence available I'm sure you can understand why I remain unconvinced.
I got a few where people were mad that I simply re-listed their item at a higher price than they sold it for. I'm sure they felt duped for undervaluing their product in the first place. As binarysolo pointed out in this thread, some sellers feel they need to urgently sell their items, so they under-price. I'd could afford to wait for someone to pay my asking price.
Many utterances do not exist in an abstract world of truth or falsity, but imply an intention. This may vary with context. In a group therapy session, "I'd like to kick your ass." may reveal (previously) unspoken intentions and lead to a useful discussion. In a bar, late at night when everyone's been drinking it means more or less "and unless you can prove that I can't, I either shall do so or shall simply make you an object of contempt to the bystanders."

In some neutral situation (is there one?) telling a woman that you are attracted to her simply conveys a fact. Telling your domestic employee this may lead to her pushing the desk against the door every night before she turns in.
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I'd be happy to have the files hosted somewhere else, but don't have any other option myself.
"but if you are an arsehole you probably should be honest about it"

OK, but one might distinguish honesty and gloating, and suggest reformation as another alternative. Some people do change.
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I have a skills section where, for example, I would put:
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Code experience:
I can install and configure an IDE and fizzbuzz in C, C++, and Python. I can write most things involving basic data structures but I don't have experience beyond that point.

How do I list this? I considered maybe listing it under a section called trainable skills?
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I would say there is a good chance that a GSV would have no gravitas and that a GCU would have very little gravitas indeed.
It could make sense for some.
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i can see where they might be mad, but i can't imagine what exactly they would say that wouldn't sound ludicrous when put into words.
According to reams of empirical data prices with 7's or 9's as the last digit (e.g. $17, $49) tend to convert best. I would suggest testing prices between $7 - $11 as a simple, 'low hanging fruit' way to get started.
Stop freaking out about downvotes. They are literally just meaningless numbers on a website.
No my idea of a scalable business is correct: grow revenue without costs growing proportionally. Software is the perfect example: you write it once and (potentially) sell it infinity times. (Please don't nit pick my definitions unless you fundamentally disagree)

Buying and selling used goods is absolutely not that. You're talking about searching, inspecting, paying (cash), storing inventory, selling, shipping, etc.

And, no, eBay and Craigslist are not examples. They don't buy things. They are a marketplace and that's not what the original post set out to do.
>No two democracies have gone to war, ever,

India and Pakistan?
In my experience, many Craigslist buyers (especially of high-value / high-margin items) tend to be rather afraid of buying things on Craigslist, and would be unlikely to swipe their credit card with the seller's phone. Naturally this tendency will vary from market to market, and SF would probably be a good place to experiment with using Square in CL transactions.
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Fine, then:

tail -f logfile | json2line '%date %name %level %shortmsg' | grep expr

Machine-readable logs are a huge win. It's trivial to make them backward-compatible with the entire universe of existing-format log processing tools (including your mind). To put up make-believe barriers in the way is simply fear of beneficial change.

(To answer your question directly: The filter should be generic, and should allow you to specify simple format strings to be yanked out of top-level json fields.)