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Read up on the resource curse on Wikipedia, it is probably the other way -- too much natural resources stop development. (Except for Norway, which still have problems despite their oil fond.)
They have a blog post:

http://blog.uber.com/2012/01/01/take-a-walk-through-surge-pr...

Apparently the poster got a deal at 5x pricing, since their screenshot shows 6.25x pricing.

While the screenshot appears to meet minimum standards for informing customers, it's not really good enough. Let's see, 6.25 x 3.90 per mile x hmmm, let's see, how many miles, what if he takes the tunnel instead of the bridge, hmmm... This is, pardon my French, crap.

First there's a moral problem. Most people view jacking up rates on captive customers when the cost of service hasn't increased as immoral. (See for example Thinking, Fast and Slow by Kahneman.) The average person views this as price-gouging.

But even if you decide that yes, your business is going to operate that way and screw your image, making someone solve a math problem with a half-dozen variables in their head to have some idea of the cost of their ride is not acceptable. Uber's lawyers should look up cases where someone tried to bury a ("and then the cost increases by 900%") clause in a contract and those contracts get rejected by the courts. There's no actual meeting of the minds on the price of the service, and thus the contract is invalid.

Uber would do a lot better to add a surcharge: "Currently there is a $50 surcharge for New Year's Eve in addition to the regular fees. Continue [Y/N]?"

That's more clear, more legally sound, and probably slightly less likely to be perceived as price-gouging.
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In related news, expert violinists can't distinguish between Stradivarius violins and newer ones:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/deceptivecadence/2012/01/02/1444828...
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We're having a grand old time getting arrested and harassed in cold winter nights?
Not necessarily true. The largest costs (especially at small scale) are fixed - the vps/dedicated box/rack/EC2 instance.

Freemium models tend to scale price with bandwidth/storage usage, which would be the largest variable costs. Is serving a million users with barely any data really that hard once you have the infrastructure to serve a few thousand with lots of data?
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I'm looking at spending 2-3 months this summer interning at a startup around SF or the Valley. As a UK Computer Science undergrad (first year) it seems the J-1 visa is designed to provide for this.

Does anyone know whether this is a viable option and any major pitfalls to be aware of? Especially if anyone has done this before and could explain how they went about organising it.

Thanks!
I'll be interested to see an explanation for this, but the title is a little on the sensational side. I would say that Google's sponsored post campaign is closer to mildly intriguing than "jaw-dropping."
This is because there's nothing else to look at in Las Vegas other than the neons.
Actually, another commenter has pointed out that the government has started displaying ads on buses and inside trains.
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You're awesome for doing what your doing btw.
> end user should have ultimate say in what does and does not come across their computer.

They still will. ABP is proposing that it be a user-configurable option.
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this sorta thing is pretty religious, so i'm just going to note the following points:

1. i've known traditional print designers that have jumped headfirst into html/css/js/etc and many of them have left behind artifacts that still live on the web: blogs they've themed, mini web apps, random code snippets, their own web portfolios, etc. investigate these and see if they mesh with what's on their portfolio or what they claim about themselves.

2. formally trained designers have had lots of experience with critique (and, by proxy, one hopes, critical thinking). Lots of crit is bs, but i tend to favor designers who are thoughtful and can back up their work critically or be honest about their motives.

3. you can assign "design tasks" if you want, but you need to be clear about what you're measuring and how your questions elicits that. If you're having trouble picking a design task, try a classic system design task (let's design usb from scratch...) and then see what that measures and if you can find some analog in your own problem domain.

4. the process is not foolproof and you will likely turn away very qualified people regardless of your metrics.

5. be clear about what you're looking for: do you want somebody that makes stuff look totally sweet, or somebody that solves problems well, or a person that codes monday, designs tuesday, and then specs out a new feature on wednesday... be realistic about your expectations.

6. people interpret the term 'designer' in a bunch of ways. lots of people take this to mean: "i can think about user flow, use visio to make wireframes, etc" and others take this to mean "how can this look awesome." others take this to mean "i thought through where a menu tree went in an enterprise java application" and others take this to mean "i make graphics design, do you need a logo?" and some others are like the wolf from pulp fiction, they just fix underspecified problems and are good brainstormers. none of these are better than others, they all are useful for different reasons and end-results.

but what i'm saying is "you want a designer? why?" be honest about what specifically motivates your desire to hire a full time designer. this will make any interview you run easier to evaluate as a success or failure.
Also, Android opens all of this information up for developers via apis, so you can only imagine the plethora of great task managers available...
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My parents had a device installed that allowed the utility to cut off the air conditioning for some short period of time (15 min?) during peak periods. They got a discount whenever it was activated, but otherwise I can't see how it really was a net savings, as the AC would only have to run that much longer when it came back on. But I guess it does work to even out peaks.
The OS maps are lovely, and interesting for some of the subtle detail they include. I noticed recently (while using an OS map as a background raster for some much more detailed data) that the roads on the 1:25000 and 1:50000 scale maps are drawn with accurate widths derived from the more detailed survey data.

The source data the maps are produced from is also pleasingly detailed, they sent man to the remote part of Scotland where my dad lives to properly survey all new houses. Openstreetmap has that sort of data for central London, but not for anywhere like the whole country.
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Can you talk about your experience with those RF modules? I was trying to use those exact modules with a PIC24 microcontroller a few months ago but eventually gave up on them in favour of other modules because I was unable to get the sample code working (and google tells me a lot of people have problems with them).
I commented on the article in question about its lack of images on the iPad, at least!
Right now, right this second edit this post. Get right of the karma count and remove the rest of what you posted besides the IP of the hacker. Word frequency analysis + knowledge of your karma count will easily identify you.
interesting perspective of the futur of the music industry
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Serious question: do you consider it practically possible to live in an Individualist way in a modern city?
I'm not scared at all about the world ending 21DEC. What I am scared about is what people will do that week, how crowded (or empty?) the stores and streets will be that week and where I should (or should NOT) be parking my vehicle.
It's not my fault the East Germans chose the Soviet model so I hardly think it's fair to suggest I came up with a false dichotomy to prove a point.

One half of the country chose the soviet command economy model, the other half chose to pursue an Austrian model. One half did immeasurably better than the other half. Those are the facts.

You can compare and contrast post-war West Germany and Great Britain if you like - the latter made great strides towards a more socialist governance probably as a direct result of the largely increased Government functions during the war, and the rise of those who thought that centrally planned economies would do better.

The point of bringing up West Germany is that the country prospered as a result of the liberal economic policies introduced in the immediate post-war period, both absolutely and relative against their East German counterparts, although the differences were small in the early years. It would be foolish to suggest that this is entirely down to the policy choices - all growth from zero looks impressive - however, it certainly did no harm and a lot of good.
Believe it or not, there are entire industries that get a sweetheart deal on PCI compliance where companies can be certified compliant without actually complying with the rules. Think airlines and ancient mainframes that can't handle real disk or network encryption.
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Our landlord just told us that we need to move in a hurry, so we're considering selling a bunch of things to make it easier. Our office is located (at least for a few more days) near the corner of Junipero Serra and Page Mill Road.

Here's what we've got:

- (10) Aeron (B) Chairs of various colors: gray, black, teal, blue

- (5) All-in-one 6'-tall touchscreen kiosks

- (1) HP LaserJet P4515n printer (http://www.staples.com/HP-LaserJet-P4515n-Printer/product_740115)

- (2) HP LaserJet 2055dn printers (http://www.shopping.hp.com/product/printer/LaserJet/1/storefronts/CE459A%2523ABA)

- (1) Peru Jazz Beach Double Coil (Napa) Beige Futon (http://www.thefutonshop.com/Sofa-Bed-Peru-Jazz-Beach-Lifestyle-Solutions/p/656/2774)

- (1) Trade Show Display Booth

- (1) IKEA Coffee Table

- (1) Sony Trinitron WEGA 24" 24FV12 CRT TV

- (8) Dell 17" LCD Monitors with stands and VGA/DVI cables

- (3) Gateway 17" LCD Monitors with stands and VGA cables

- (2) 17" Black USB Elo Touchscreen monitors

- (2) 15" Black USB Elo Touchscreen monitors

- (2) 15" White Serial Elo Touchscreen monitors

- (4) Metal Folding Chairs

- (3) IKEA White GALANT tables with adjustable-height gray / chrome legs

- (1) Xerox Phaser 6180MFP/N multi-function color laser printer / scanner / copier / fax

- (1) Samsonite 6' folding table

- (2) 4' folding tables

If anything above seems interesting, let me know at aarong at thinkcomputer.com.
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On an unrelated note, if you're samsonjs on github thanks for having your dot config files commented and in a nice format for me to get a simple zsh setup.
I understand what you're saying. I hope you understand my point isn't, "This needs to be more like pop music." It's rather the simple point that this is perfectly fine amateur music, but not much more than that. Drawing any broader conclusions about the viability of direct-to-consumer sales of media content is inappropriate with this experiment.
err... what's the goal of the featured link, js.js? It's even worse--all of Spidermonkey compiled to llvm and then to javascript.
IMO they want to possibly avoid anti-trust issues in future when Chrome becomes the dominant player.

"Look we are teh small guys using plain old paid link marketing"
There are more websites with a PR of 10:
- http://www.usa.gov/
- http://get.adobe.com/reader/
- http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php
- http://www.europeana.eu/portal/
- http://www.hhs.gov/
- http://www.miibeian.gov.cn
- http://www.eua.be/Home.aspx
- http://www.universitas21.com/
Predicting DRM phoning home in 1997 does not seem startlingly prescient. Nor locked down systems; those already existed.

The only novel idea I see here is the point that copyright, which was originally a restriction on publishers, has now become a restriction on consumers. But that doesn't seem so dystopian. Everyone is a publisher now.
That is exactly what I thought when I read the article. Nobody seems to be mentioning the high status for teachers, high pay and selective intake.

Given that the teachers interact with the students more than anything else, and most people would agree that better teachers produce better students, the chances of this making material impacts on the educational outcomes seems quite obvious to me at least. After all, we're just talking about a variation on the old 'pay peanuts get monkeys' meme.

I'm sure if the average teaching salary doubled, the positions would be more sought after by young graduates. And if the positions were more sought after, there would be more competition and thus less problems with teacher performance.
http://www.betabeat.com/2011/12/30/rolling-fm-indeed-disband...
This made my jaw drop; it's such a smart idea. I'm sure the voltage regulators and diodes benefit from a nice atmospheric cooling too.
Um, I wasn't disputing the fact that Finland comes out way ahead of everyone else. I would have expected the phrase "...roughly the same margin that Finland outperforms the US..." to be a tipoff.

I was disputing the idea that the US and Norway are somehow equivalent. They aren't. The US does far better than Norway.

The exclusion of Asians, Hispanics and Blacks is not arbitrary - it is done because Finland, the UK, Sweden and the other nations discussed by Sanandaji have very few of those groups. Since there are strong correlations between ethnicity and school performance, this is necessary - otherwise we might confuse the effect of the school system with effects of the student body. He has another blog post where he compares the US to Asian nations and excludes non-Asian ethnicities for the same reason - Singapore and Japan don't have many Whites/Blacks/Hispanics.

The goal of Sanandaji's blog post is to compare educational systems, holding student body constant.
I'm unaffiliated with Janelia, but I did interview for grad school there a few years ago.

Janelia is basically heaven for neuroscience research. I know a lot of people who would give their left leg to work at Janelia as a scientist. There is some seriously cool research going on there. Janelia is also very interdisciplinary, from what I saw on my visit. Lots of CS people working with physicists working with neuroscientists.

The campus is absolutely gorgeous too.
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I saw an Australian company offering tokenising solutions for credit card transactions. Glancing briefly, they talked about replacing credit card number with "tokens" that can be stored on the customer's premises, while the actual card numbers are securely stored on theirs. To me it seems to be a sensible approach to reducing the attack surface or auditable surface. Is this what Stripe does?
You would be surprised how much people these mom-bloggers actually reach. I've been presenting on Mom-bloggers conferences, where the women are very eager to learn and large brands are lining up to get their attention and be featured on their blogs.

For every mom-blogger, there are a couple of hundred readers.
Just think about it and do the economics: For $40 you get a sponsored post, which gets read by a couple of hundred women. Higher ROI than TV campaigns..!!

This Google Chrome advertising campaign, or the sponsored post campaign, is executed fairly poor. You can expect Google to defend their actions by blaming the marketing company, firing them, and apologizing.
Not really. The ban doesn't apply to indoor ads so isn't applicable to the metro's trains or stations. As for the buses, they aren't displaying ads at all.
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"We even tried prescreening 30,000 secrets a day." and "99% of the secrets created were in the spirit of PostSecret."

Is there a point where even 30,000 quality secrets per day are going to be too overwhelming and better off screened somehow anyway?

I run sites with anonymous submissions and lose a lot of time screening some really offensive crap, but even with 30k decent submissions per year, I'd be keen to filter those pretty strongly. e.g., if there is no expectation from users that they'll see everything decent that they submit, just approve the first x and flag the rest for later or never. Will even the most committed reader have time to go through 30k a day? As far as I understand PostSecret, they aren't really localised and probably not categorised, right?
The book seems interesting. But Neoliberal economists, even though they talk a lot about free markets, have a very different world view than that of Austrian economists. One example: Neoliberals promote treaties like NAFTA that allow the free flow of goods and capital between countries, but don't allow the free flow of people between countries.On the other hand, Austrian economists would insist on the importance of also letting people choose were they want to live and work. Furthermore, despite its name, NAFTA is not really about free trade. NAFTA is a huge set of regulations.
I understand the .git search path, but I almost never use `git clean` in my projects (usually just `git reset --hard` or `make clean`), so I've never been too worried.

But your solution is definitely safer -- although I think you meant GIT_WORK_TREE, not GIT_WORKDIR, right? I'm going to switch. Thanks!

EDIT: Working nicely :) https://github.com/nixme/dotfiles/commit/64486fe25e6750567a0...
How'd you find those? Do you have a citation?
Did you have it positioned in the sun/on the dash?
US teachers get crap pay.
Does continual, and/or static, RAM usage/storage not effect battery life? I know it would be minimal, but I imagine it would be potentially noticeable.
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i dont have the scrolling issue you describe on os x lion.
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This is video of stoned ex-drug cop Barry Cooper explaining how police can make their dogs false alert:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J41K2XHpNnE

And this is video of a cop doing it:

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Having spare capacity to handle peaks is very, very expensive. Entire plants sit idle 90% of the year.
Even if you exclude the presentation side of map making most utility companies have a small department whose job is simply to maintain the landbase data, getting updates from multiple sources (developers, local authorities, etc.) converting and sanitizing that data, and making sure it's all there as a reference for the engineers so they can plan how to wire up a new estate and connect it to the existing network. There are various national (and international) spatial data initiatives to come up with standardized data models for all of this to make these processes easier, but I think that may increase the appetite for data. I know of applications pulling together hundreds of such sources, and I think they are going to become more common.
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I feel your pain. I've done so many different things I don't know what I am any more, so I can understand how it's hard to find someplace where people are looking for people like you.

I feel like I'm the inverse of those crazy laundry-list job ads. But maybe someday I'll find someone who needs a sysadmin-like person with a strange hybrid CS/math/science degree who has used too many languages & OSes to keep track of, even things like CAD scripting for a CNC machine, and who has managed to successfully troubleshoot weird, proprietary, undocumented systems used in a glass cutting & tempering operation, and has been called to act as a substitute factory supervisor, first aid provider & even help the maintenance techs on occasion.

But I don't know a soul who wants any of that, and I'm not quite sure what to tell people that I am any more. What do you even do with skills like mine? I guess I can at least take comfort in being currently employed.
And signs are also limited to a max of 2 or 4 square meters, depending on the size of the storefront.
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super cool! it would be even more cool to see the arduino hooked up directly to the android so there was no separate computer involved and it was totally autonomous. even still, this is cool, thanks for sharing!
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IE9 lags way behind in HTML5 compatibility. IE10 will get over 300, but as you can see Firefox and Google are racing ahead.

http://html5test.com/results.html

Google Chrome	16.0 =>	373

Mozilla Firefox	9.0 =>	330

Opera	11.60	329 =>	9

Apple Safari	5.1 => 302

Microsoft Internet Explorer	9 => 141
- No standardized tests (except one)
- Individualized grading by teachers
- Less homework and days of school
- More emphasis on creative play
- etc.

No, I don't think "equality" is the main thing we Anericans are overlooking. We're overlooking freedom. Trust in people and children to be curious and learn, and let them be free enough to do it. So many of the big bureaucracies put in place here in the US to "help" education just legislate the shit out of schools and regulate everything. Yikes.
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Very interesting model where everyone (apparently) can set a hotline to give advice and make some money. Some folks you can reach are: Eric Ries http://clarity.fm/#/ericries , Dan Martell http://clarity.fm/#/danmartell
And before I here anything about "Anerican" I'm using my phone so I can't go back and adjust the typo...
We had a lot of trouble getting them to work at lower frequencies. As soon as we switched to 915Mhz though, it all worked like a charm. Our guess was antenna problems.

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How much do these provisions of the NDAA really matter? They are still trumped by the Bill of Rights, which clearly forbids indefinite detention of citizens without trial. (The Sixth Amendment, in particular.) And the Bill of Rights can't be superceded except by a new amendment to the constitution. I still wish these provisions weren't there, because they seem insane to me, but I'm wondering if they're really of very much practical consequence.