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As for the deep revulsion of being surrounded by tons of people, you're right, you have that right to feel that way. Personally, a crowd of 50,000 people is still easy to walk through, but even 1,000 people trying to leave a big sports event in their cars at the same time is a total nightmare taking an hour+ and during that whole time you are completely stuck in your car. I left a soccer game in Tokyo that was at a completely absolutely full stadium, and when it ended the huge mass of people slowly and orderly filed to the nearby train stations and we were on a train (packed) heading home within 20 minutes, at full speed.

It would be lovely if we could choose which lifestyle suits us, but most of the cities in the US do not provide ANY option for someone who wants proper high-density, so to exercise my "freedom" to live in a pedestrian friendly high-density city involved leaving the US entirely.
This is of particular interest to me because I'll be starting my full-time job hunt early next year (or even earlier because I get neurotic about these things), and I really only want to work somewhere that understands the appeal/necessity of "work where you want/when you want/on what you want".

How do I filter potential job opportunities on that criteria without being rude to anyone? I don't want anyone to think I turned them down because I thought I was too good for them or something, but the reality is that in a world where workplaces like GH exist, there's no reason to work somewhere that doesn't "get it" yet (and maybe never will).
While a very small handful of hardline libertarians would think so, I don't think there are "many" Americans who claim to want a "truly free market" to the extent where behavior like that described here would be legal. My guess, if it were polled, would be no more than 20% support for these kinds of collusion agreements being legitimate; certainly not a majority in support. Americans generally don't consider the unrestrained "truly free market", full of blackballing, price-fixing, insider trading, monopoly leverage, retaliation, dumping, racial covenants, and all the rest of the late-19th-century fine business practices, to be a legitimate part of the American form of capitalism.

Even in the libertarian-leaning tech community, you'd be hard-pressed to rustle up majority support for Microsoft's 1990s-era OEM strongarming, where they retaliated against suppliers who shipped competing operating systems like Linux--- which would be perfectly fine behavior in an unrestrained free market.
The page doesn't work hard to sell me on the idea.
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I will not say their tech is great - but they are an open and hungry company that does like to make partnerships, work with startups and they do have larger deployments outside the US.

EPIC, Cerner etc are all going to stonewall against DrChrono.

At a minimum - they should look at the robustness of the system. While the implementation may suck, the fact is that openvista has a hell of a lot of thought hours into it given it is based on vista.

Hopefully someone at DrChrono REALLY knows what is needed in an EHR.

Hell - they should be actively trying to poach employees from the big guys, as well as going after med CIOs (except for some who are all ego, but I can't call them out here).
Ignoring the way Megaupload was taken down and focusing on fault - am I wrong in believing that there is no case against the FBI with regards to end users files? Wouldn't the actual target be Megaupload themselves (regardless of current situations) since they are the ones responsible for hosting, and thus "losing" their customers files?
Agreed, this frustrates me immensely. Fortunately both Chrome and Safari have good built-in Developer Tools that let you disable that style (it's set on the <body> element, btw).

The font size is not a design decision. It should always be the READER's CHOICE.
'S what I just said. From your link: "It [French] was used in the law courts of England, beginning with the Norman Conquest." If the average person habitually used legal terminology the way they use words like, say, "toilet," the Frenchness of those words would be completely inconspicuous.
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It's not cars that are the problem. It's cars that are usually 3/4ths empty that are the problem. Full cars are comparably good to other forms of mass transit.

The solution is called "jitney transit". It is illegal due to taxi medallion laws. So the real problem is special-interest groups (such as taxi cartels)—and a political system that encourages their formation.
I hope not--the back button really makes it all possible.
This is why I feel so out of place in the vast majority of american suburbs today. Standing in any public space, if you look at roads and parking lots as dead space, it seems as if half the total space surrounding you is just nothing. It isn't beautiful, it isn't usable, it is just empty space that soaks up the landscape, carving it up all to make it cheap for someone to drive, but making it impossible for someone to walk.
This would be interesting if the meta-language weren't JavaScript. By choosing JS as the ML, you lose static typing and type inference in the compiler and severely restrict the target platforms and future growth and metaprogramming.

I would love to see a formal specification for the language mapping Roy's syntax to a subset of JS. It would also be nice if the primary implementation were written in OCaml or Haskell. Both of these languages now have very reliable ML->JS compilers and support algebraic data types allowing you to precisely model your object language.
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Most of that is due to college being an incredibly efficient social filter. The odds of a social interaction between Yale student and another being worthwhile (so to speak) are an order of magnitude higher than a Yale student and non-Yale New Haven dweller.
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I'm waiting for an announcement from RideJoy - it's like AirBnB, but through cars. I couldn't imagine the potential liability of strangers hooking up online only to drive together...
This piece doesn't address the issues brought up in the original article. Your dry cleaner is a 10 minute drive away? Surely there is a more efficient way to make that same journey that won't involve an "over engineered" car with a massive possible range. Certainly you don't need four passenger seats when traveling to the dry cleaners. Thus, you could probably get by with a smaller vehicle or a smart form of public transportation to accomplish the same task (and reduce the amount of space used for parking lots).

I think I am putting more thought into this comment than Isaac Sukin put into understanding the original piece.
Rapidshare learned it the hard way and now there is no waiting/captcha.

Mediafire is even better: Big download button, no waiting and multiple downloads.
I assume their traffic is likely cyclical - students finishing semesters and taking off to remote places for the summer. I would expect it to come up a bit in December, again in March, then peak up again June through July.... then coast back down.
Appreciate the feedback. No one likes blocking signups, myself included.

Trouble is, the app can't serve the user without having his or her email address on hand. I suppose I could rework the process so the user can give an email address after seeing how the interface works.

For those curious, the emails it sends are simple lists of links, sorted by keyword.
Online booking engines can be easily customized to handle over-booking. The issue I'm looking at is that online booking engines don't have accurate (and real-time) supply picture today. If this was available, it would become possible to make reservations without the need to get confirmations from the provider.

Take sites like froomz.com or venuecricket.com, for instance. They are online marketplaces for renting spaces. They have many small-time providers renting out there dance studios or workshops. If such providers exclusively use the booking engines provided by the froomz/venuecricket, there are no issues. But if they also use Outlook to handle offline reservations, then keeping it in sync with online booking engines becomes a big challenge. You might end up booking venues only to receive a failed reservation several hours later resulting in extremely unhappy customers who will likely write bad reviews about the site and the venue.
I do that in NYC with bikes (buy winter, from people who made impulse buys in summer and have nowhere to store them, sell summer, to people making impulse buys.)

I think the NYC market has so many constraints and peculiarities (plus money!), its rife with these kind of opportunities.
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The biggest mistake here is that it's now impossible to use text to explain what each button means. I'm afraid that with a lot of apps there will be features that do not map to an obvious icon, leaving users with the dreaded old "Mystery Meat" navigation.
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FBI: "We just closed a bank."

Clients: "And our money???"

FBI: "Sorry, they were laundering money so all your/their money is ours now"
For the record, the downvotes aren't to be mean. We just don't want this turning into a Reddit clone and/or fill the comments with run-of-the-mill comments you'd see on any PHPbb forum.

No, I wasn't one of the ones who downvoted you and no, I'm not trying to be mean. There used to be times I wondered why an innocent comment of mine was downvoted and thought I'd just let you know instead of leave you hanging.
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For day to day coding, I don't think they're that important. But if you're building/extending/supporting a framework that hundreds or thousands of developers may use, it's good to have clarity on these issues.
Megaupload has been captcha-less for a while, and from time to time without a waiting period.

Some hosts are really bad. It can be hard to find the proper thing to click with 12 different 'Download button' ads and the real one is tiny and hidden in the bottom right.

Even though I have a dropbox account I still use a similar site to megaupload (mediafire) for most times I need to link someone a file. What I really miss is drop.io that Google poached and killed.
I bike commuted in Mexico City for a year and it was excellent. Also, the public transit is great; it's just that lines 1, 2, and 3 of the Metro and 1 of the Metrobus are badly overcrowded and need to be expanded with quadruple express tracks and higher frequency automatic train control systems.
I'm sure you're right, but I thought it was a worthwhile lesson on being prepared. It's a quick read and gives actionable advice.
I have a similar dilemma. I have an idea for a startup that would disrupt a 1bil(US$) & 4bil(Global$)a year industry. I personally have earned over 100k in this industry.Of course, I lack the technical skills to get it going myself(started CodeYear.It is also difficult when you have a great idea, capital you're willing to invest but lack the technical skills to get it going.
The humor is playing on an inclination to laugh at things we don't understand, which seems counter to the hacker ethos. Software is hard, and there may be deep reasons in the dynamic type systems that cause these languages to work like this, or there may not be, but either way this type of thing is interesting and seems to demand some further explanation and/or justification. I find it interesting but don't get the humor. Perhaps, as you implied, I'm just too old.
Yerp, in this economy, I can see loads of folks willing to pay for your expertise in this. Make it an online class, teach folks over the phone.
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Note that this case is being brought by private plaintiffs; only the government can bring criminal cases, and it clearly has chosen not to do so in this case.
As a practical matter it means that I, as a Software Engineer, will now have to think long and hard before I submit a resume to one of these HR departments with a history of informing current employers.

We can bet that a good many job applicants asked "I don't want to make waves at my current job, but I saw your opening and it looked like such a great fit... So would you please keep my application confidential?"

What were they told in response by the hiring HR departments?
Sukin is using "over-engineering" to mean multi-purpose, which isn't what Edwards is saying.

When the Edwards article uses the "over-engineering" term, it's in the context of a long-distance vehicle being used for a short-distance, mundane errand. Edwards is simply contending that the "average American sedan" with the specs he gives is, by its very design, supposed to do one thing and one thing only: go on road trips. Citing multi-purpose items like computers or calling out more people who use machines against their designs (Sukin's example with Jeeps) doesn't refute Edwards' argument.

Cars Kill Cities makes a fair point that the frequent short-distance commute is a misuse of the "average automobile," done so at the expense of large cities and even other motorists themselves; the fact that it's convenient is what makes it so problematic.
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Congrats Ryan. You rolled up your sleeves and made it happen.
"Learnt"...shudder
Github is a very, very special company, and there aren't many companies out there that operate this way. Unless the organization as a whole adopts the philosophy you're looking for from the top down, this kind of freedom usually doesn't exist.

I think a good start is to begin early and search for companies that fit your criteria, then find ways to demonstrate why you would be a good employee to those companies directly. Don't go through the normal channels; find a way to stick out and be seen before you even apply.

Best bet: contribute a ton to a high-profile, well-known open source project that will stick out like a bright, shining beacon of light to your potential employers.
Neither the Torrent Freak article nor the Pirates of Catalonia[0] page say anything about suing the FBI— only submitting a complaint against the agency.

[0]: http://megaupload.pirata.cat/

edit: I've realized the first step to suing is filing a complaint. However, no where on the Pirata site does it say they're suing, so I'm skeptical.
I saw this earlier and thought it was pretty cool. I like the idea of sending stuff into the atmosphere. I'm curious as to what the repercussions of something like this are though. I'd guess that there are laws or international conventions on controlling air traffic.
And another order of magnitude in assembly.
It sounds like you're pointing to a definition of "free" that doesn't include exceptions for incitement, classified information, etc.

It's a nice principal, but unworkable in the real world.
I wouldn't consider it unless it compiled to coffee script first.
Have I been pronouncing "wat" wrong all this time? I just assumed it was like "what" but ... not.
In your experience, does the BNR guide translate well into iOS 5 and Xcode 4.2's ARC?
Great Question.

Yes it does!

But I am not using Storyboards.
So if you work on a civilian aircraft, which is later repurposed for a military use, why would you be "devastated"?

That part makes no sense to me - since it's nothing to do with the engineer in question, and they had no part in the decision.
I was replying to the new roads part of

>Why not build new roads solely for the use of buses?
Your business being based on strong personal relationships with people/businesses local to you is the first one off the top of my head. Strong geographical ties (family, etc) of the founders/employees is second.

YC probably wouldn't be interested in funding such a startup, and rightly so for them. But there's loads of startups that aren't YC's niche, all of them swept away by your statement I quoted.
> Similarly I got mad at a grad teacher recently when he would not make our last lecture a review

Huh. A graduate course that ended with a review would feel really weird to me. I've never seen one or heard of one, and when taking a course never asked for a review, or saw a classmate ask for a review. (My direct experience is with graduate courses in mathematics at three universities on in Mexico, one in Canada and one in the US.)

Edit: I just realized I'm not sure if the phrase "grad teacher" means a teacher of a graduate course, if not, disregard my comment.
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It actually sounds pretty reasonable. The article says they've been operating since 2009, have 300 programmers paying $100 per month and the city wants them to have a fire alarm, sprinklers and compliant washrooms. There are pretty good reasons for these codes to exist and for them to be enforced.
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Thanks for your kind words. In reality I was somewhat headed in that direction. I started a tech business out of my garage about 12 years ago. Self funded. A manufacturing business. Based out of the US. Tough and capital intensive. After moving out of the garage I grew it to the point of having, under one roof, just about anything you'd need to design and manufacture quite a range of products: EDA tools, lab, prototyping equipment, fully-stocked Haas CNC shop, etc. Then 2008 happened. Long story short, we were not ready for the financial test that the economic downturn brought forth. After twelve long years of hard work the business went under. So, yes, I am basically broke.

The problem with launching a robotics business is that it is very capital intensive. And, if it happens to be about humanoid robotics the potential for revenue is fairly limited. Most real humanoid robotics is still in the research domain. I don't know if I am interested in making toys. Maybe I should consider it. Still, making physical products is capital intensive and there's a very long delay between investment and revenue generation. Unless doing something relatively trivial the runway required is orders of magnitude greater than for, say, an Internet startup.

My guess is that there is no way to get into humanoid robotics research without a degree. Even if one wanted to explore SBIR funding opportunities you need the legitimacy that degrees provide.

I don't know everything. In fact, I am keenly aware of just how much I don't know. However, constant learning is a way of life for an engineer. And that's exactly what I've been doing my whole life. This, for me, seems to be one of those "if you can't beat them, join them" moments.
No I definitely would use the collaboration part. Google Docs does collaboration very well. I was just saying that your product doesn't offer anything new or different without the transfer and simulate features.
I concur. The back button is the single greatest feature of Android. I do not understand why they're removing the menu button. Personally, I think it's a terrible decision for all the reasons listed here; however, the greatest feature that Android had over iPhone, period, were multitasking and the back button. Both of those features did, and continue to work hand in hand to make it a pleasant experience.
There's a grey market in "zappers", which are POS devices that keep two sets of books automatically. Lots of small retail businesses rely on this type of tax fraud to stay in business.
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Exactly, it's not foreign workers that have taken all the blue collar manufacturing jobs, it's robots.

Everyone seems to be worried about China becoming the manufacturer for the world, but as technology progresses manufacturing will move closer to the consumer.
Now if only they could kill the "Do random thing" (back) button as well
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the US isn't particularly friendly to capital intensive businesses. Specific factories will get local tax breaks, but you'd never see something like that for airlines.

I wish i could remember the reference, Fred Smith (the fedex guy) laid out a really clear argument why. The effect is, you just don't see that many long-bet kind of investments. What's intel's threshold to pay of a new factory? 9 months?

I think stuff like they mention in the article - biotech, nanomaterials, etc - will be fantastically more expensive here in the US. we don't have the structure for that kind of risk.
The links at the top don't work.

I started to sign-up for the app. I gave it permission to track my location, but when it asked me to create a username and password I gave up. I don't know what your app does. I didn't read your tiny collapsed copy. You had thirty seconds of my time and you lost it.

Sorry if that's a bit rough, but that's what went through my mind as I used the website. The idea might be great, but you have to make it easier to use. Maybe get rid of mandatory signups?
University of Illinois keeps coming up as a good option. Frankly, I am not sure about some of the "easy" programs out there. For example, there's a BS in CS program out of the University of Atlanta that costs $12K for the entire program. A superficial look of at the program gives me the idea that it might just be a waste of money. For reference, UofI cost about four times that much.
I am not a lawyer, but as far as I understand, that civil recovery depends on if anything was recovered to return. If, for example, the servers were confiscated, and no one has given passwords to access the servers to retrieve content, then Civil Recovery is not possible. This would still leave Megaupload as the entity who would get sued. If civil recovery is however possible, then there would be due process and retrieving X amount of files for X amount of people as well as supplying burden of proof that they are indeed the legitimate owners of said content, then this would be a lengthy process that could be surrounded in bureaucratic red tape for a while - and still such a lawsuit, especially at this point in time would not do anything.

I am not arguing if the whole thing is right or wrong, nor am I arguing that the law is right or wrong - but from my understanding this is correct. If anyone can clarify my possible misconceptions then that would be greatly appreciated.
I don't think a load balancer is really necessary. I weathered being front-paged on HN for several hours just fine using a 512 Linode VPS. It was a pretty stock-vanilla nginx + PHP-FastCGI + mySQL server. Hardly broke a sweat.

I think you should probably look into the configuration of your server, rather than throwing more hardware at the problem.
Guess all you want, and I'll do likewise. My guesses are based off the fact that virtually every one of my fellow Americans I talk to don't understand why we have antitrust laws in the first place, and think the government getting involved in these matters is bad, right up until it bites them in the ass personally. Then, of course, it's witchhunt time.
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> The humor is playing on an inclination to laugh at things we don't understand

I think is simply laughing at absurdity: the gulf between intention and actuality. We have quite a bit of that.