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Paypal once froze my account too (it had about $3000 in it then). I got it solved over the phone in about a week, but the customer service was really really hard to work with. And here's an anecdote:

When I called the customer service for the first time, gave them a few details, up until the point I was from Romania.. their (clearly shocked) reaction: "Aaah, you're from Romania ? Let me redirect you to our India office". WHAT ?!? Are you kidding me ? Romania was in the European Union back then already, and I was already assigned to the Ireland branch of Paypal (an email about that was sent).
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I considered naming it that, but ultimately decided that the fact that it's written in CoffeeScript is irrelevant. It's a JavaScript library; it's meant to be used with JavaScript (which of course implies that it's meant to be used with CoffeeScript), but it happens to be written in CoffeeScript.

And there is every possibility that it could get rewritten in JavaScript. Or it could be rewritten in something else that compiles to JS, if something comes along to which this task is well-suited. The implementation can change, and the name should remain appropriate. What will not certainly change, however, is the environment in which this is intended to be used.

Hope that makes sense.
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Because you can't spy on what the user is typing in the mail or text message composer views on ios.
What 75% or so (according to your article) who aren't mentally ill? Also, how many of those mentally ill suffer from paranoia in the first place. After all, mental illness takes many forms.

Is this different from hiring someone to spin a sign (which I've heard nary a peep about)?

I don't think so.
You're right. I'm sorry. It IS exploitative. We should take away their wireless transmitters and all the money they made from donations and services, stop paying them $20/day and go back to not giving a fuck about them like we did before we read the article.

Just saying: If I was homeless, and someone paid me $20/day + all tips and donations to hold onto a wireless transmitter. I would be ecstatic.
I thought the idea behind the United States was that there wasn't supposed to be a single point of authority big enough to be effectively lobbied by whoever wants to twist the law for their own gains badly enough. If one state failed people could just flock to another one. You'd get redundancy and also competition between governments to keep things sane and efficient.

How did you guys manage to ruin that.
Yes, that's true, but I feel that the nearest neighbor and linear modes are useful even if they do clash slightly with the name. You'll note that the default configuration does, in fact, produce a smooth function.
> Following that line of reasoning shoudln't we be even more wary of e.g. universal suffrage and civil rights laws?

Far from me the idea that "younger" laws and institutions are suspect. I was just arguing that (unauthorized) reproduction of ideas and designs has been around for a long time, without being perceived as immoral. As you show, various interest groups have sometimes tried, and even succeeded, in legally banning certain forms of it. But it was never seriously accepted that duplication is somehow morally equivalent to theft.
Does it? Or does it simply raise the floor? I'm not aware of many businesses who go out of their way to hire excess capacity, no matter what it costs.
A little beside the point, but you have one of the best marketing sites for a HN project I've seen in a long time.
Great to know the most widely used software with probably the biggest development budget comes down to the personal preferencs of the boss.

Bill's influence on MS software was dwarfed by Jobs's influence on Apple's HW/SW.
This is one of the very few fair reasons to use facebook. However, I would have liked to see the explanation in the website (why only facebook?) and a stronger wording telling what you will and won't do with facebook. You're saying "We won't post on your behalf" but you don't say anything about what you will do. You might not post on my facebook, but you might be looking through my messages; that kind of thing is unfortunately the hallmark of facebook itself. Without an explanation, a facebook-only site looks very fishy. (heh)
Why wouldn't you look in Atlanta first? I'm sure someone is there.
It's not a job. A more accurate comparison is being paid $20 a day to wear a t-shirt as a sponsorship deal.
You're right, but I think you miss the point of this article.

The point is that one could store in his brain all the information needed to pay and receive any amount of money, without needing any extra storage device.

Because this money is Bitcoins, and because they are not stored anywhere, it technically means that all your money, all your wealth, resides in your brain - hence the title "Brainwallet".

This is a fascinating thought experiment, but not an assessment of the most secure way to store money.
It's a sad state of the world when those that comply with BS are considered smart.
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Cool idea, chrome/ium bookmark manager is definitely a pain point. But I can't tell, is this a local extension, or does it upload bookmarks and stuff to your server?
This was my exact view as well. Especially since I've learned a few languages since I first learned Python, and I just don't understand why they didn't take the opportunity to implement more good features from other languages.
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And then how do you determine how much to pay each artist? You have the same problem with programmers, but at least its not as pronouced.

I think artists should be paid by endorsements - like the old times, when barons would pay an artist to create a work of art. Only now, we can have people from the internet chip in small amounts. I.e., an artist proposes some art, and those who wants it can promise payment. Once the art is made, an infinite copy can be created, and every and anyone can access it.

So what incentivizes people to pay that initial bit, i hear you ask? Some people, especially fans, don't mind paying it. And that is where the value is extracted from.
+1 for the OS X app. I definitely know less git-savvy types that loathe having to use the Github just to access the issue tracker.
what if they were being paid $20 a day for being tables

Actually, people that wait tables in most states make less than $3/hr base pay, which is about $20 a day. So yes, we already have people that make $20/day base pay + tips.

The article also states that they were allowed to accept donations, so the $20 number is probably quite low and I suspect they came away with quite a big more than that for each day's work. Minimum wage is about $60/day, depending on where you live.
> The question comes down to how much Joe blow WOULD have paid for avatar.mp4 had his only option been to purchase a DVD, wait and rent it, or watch it at a friends house.

So how do you answer that question. I would argue that many a Joe blow would have payed exactly $0.

I used to see a lot of free movies because my friend worked for the local movie theater. And there were a good number o f movies after which I wanted my "free" back. Yes a good amount of media is so close to garbage that the cost is negative (they would have to pay me to watch).

So assuming that pirate copy = a lost sale is a ridiculous argument.
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For others curious, this story is also told of King Solomon. This isn't where I first heard the story, but here's a reference:
http://www.freeplays.org/scripts/KingSolomonAndBaker.html

The [short] story as a whole is also worth a read, in my opinion.
A curved display (let's say, spherical) centered approximately at the "primary" observer's eyeballs whose pixel elements all subtend equal solid angles would (a) lead to weird unintuitive and hard-to-program-for locations in their most natural expressions the further you wandered from the center-horizontal or center-vertical row/column of pixels; (b) make it very hard to those whose eyeballs aren't smack-dab in the center of the sphere to make an intuitive mapping from their distorted view of the screen to something that makes sense.

A flat screen is best for general use.
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Yes, its called latent/induced demand: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand
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Better called, evil control structures. These macros add little value and makes it harder to understand the code.
Are t-shirts really analogous to currency? Generally they are only transferred once (from the company to the individual) and usually if they are worn they'll lose all further transfer value.
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People are fussing because the guys are homeless. If the mobile hotspot-wearers had been the usual crowd of imported booth babes, no one would have blinked an eye.
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I've always believed in "Quality of Life", over "Quantity of Life". And reading stories like these gives me hope for the planet. I'm not sure we can handle 10 billion people living off of it simultaneously. Just look at all the problems we've got with only 7 billion and the upcoming food and resource shortages.

Smaller populations living great full lives is so much better than massive populations living terribly. Economically, investors don't like shrinking populations because they make their money from growth and consumerism, but environmentally this is wonderful news.

Looks like, in its own way, nature is starting to balance things out once again.
People waiting tables for less than minimum wage is also wrong, and a result of lobbying.
If it's that minimal, I'm not against it.
> "I get how certain spammy "social" games have conditioned us to feel nervous about app permissions and we don't want to ever let Minefold get like that."

It would help a lot if you said as much on the site itself :) Also, the permission-to-post can't be turned off at the permission prompt - I'm unsure if this is a Facebook thing or if that permission is flagged as required. Might be worth looking into.
An introductory text - thank you, but I've taken microeconomics in college. After carefully considering both points of view, I tend to rather agree with Smith, for the following simple reason. Suppose the more frivolous uses of water were somehow restricted. (There are cities that do pass such regulations sometimes.) Its marginal utility would increase, but its price would most likely drop, due to lower demand. Alternatively, consider that blood plasma and many life-saving medicines that have no other use are still cheaper than diamonds.

In any case, let's go back to the original issue. And, for the sake of argument, let's agree with the marginalists. Aren't all the marginal values and costs for a digital creation, which can be easily replicated millions of times, practically zero?
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>Yahoo has 4x the number of employees of facebook

Yahoo also manages a lot of content and editorial work, which is not in business units that would matter to facebook, and would be ripe for disinvestment.

>They would probably have to be run as they are now, by mostly the same org structure, which isn't at all like the more organic growth that Facebook has chosen so far.

Spun off and sold.
A lot of people give a fuck about the homeless, you're just projecting. They are human beings with lives, friends, and families.

I'm pretty sure that they say that they would feel a certain way if they were in your position too, and it would be just as speculative.
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Hmm. They also get to feel they helped someone, get to talk to people, get told thanks and perhaps greeted with a smile. I'd welcome that too compared to being ignored or worse..
The biggest obstacle there is the lack of setuptools/distribute integration. It's easy to run 2to3 at install time when your source distribution is python2, but there's no support for going in the other direction.
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No. It's everywhere. In fact, #Facebook is now trending in Twitter/India for its downtime.
Yes it does. A priori, P("freeeedom") << P("freedom"). This decreases the probability that an attacker will stumble across your passphrase using anything other than a pure brute-force approach (more on that below). Further, though not completely what you're talking about, English has huge amounts (~50%) of redundancy in its structure. It's a tremendously easier problem to attack the passphrases with knowledge of the statistical structure of English, if that's actually a good assumption to make. For example, the prior probability of an unknown word in a sentence being "freedom" is X, but when you know that the three preceding words are, "I went seeking", the probability of the unknown word being "freedom" becomes Y > X. Beyond misspellings, reordering words (say, German-style verb inversion) might also be effective in thwarting this compression while still being easy to remember. [1]

If you want to brute force your way through, sure, there's no difference in the example sentences given. Brute force is a totally ridiculous proposition given the length of the secret involved [2], though, so you're banking on people preserving language structure to aid in memorization to constrict your search space. Otherwise you're basically screwed (not that you aren't basically screwed anyway if the sentence is really not derived from literature and 10 words long).

[1] For more, this is what you're looking for: http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/ms/what/shannonday/shannon1948.pd...

[2] http://xkcd.com/936/
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Oh dear. Thanks for the heads-up; this is sort of unfortunate since (as far as I know) HN doesn't provide any other way to be notified of comment replies.
> I think people at Yahoo have made peace with the situation or have a strong reason for staying there.

I've said it before, but I'll say it again: The ones with a "strong reason" to stay at Yahoo would be those on H1B work visas in the green card sponsorship queue. Because if they find a job elsewhere, the whole process restarts. A strong reason, sure, but IMO not a good reason to stay.
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> Agreed, sadly, none in the filesharing camp has offered anything even remotely resembling morality. You tend to see something along the lines of "I'm not talking about morality, I'm just giving you reality etc" (followed by "want some of my cash? dance, bitch!").

How about this? Without copyright we could make the collective cultural works of mankind instantly accessible to every internet-connected person in the world, all the time, for free. Every book, every film, every recording. Would this be a good thing or do you think we should shutdown libraries as well?

If you think I'm being hyperbolic read-up on Google Books and Google Library. It's depressing the damage these laws have already done.
OK, so based on the following spec:

> It is recommended that the reference pixel be the visual angle of one pixel on a device with a pixel density of 96dpi and a distance from the reader of an arm's length. For a nominal arm's length of 28 inches...

It would seem that the reference pixel is simply 1/2688 of the typical distance between your eyes and the device. If a device is meant to be used at half the "arm's length" distance (14 in), the reference pixel on that device would be only half as large. If a device is meant to be used at 3x times the distance (84 in), the reference pixel would be 3x larger. Much easier than angular diameters.
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Ask HN: Leaving a critical project for a better job (more money). Wise?
Background: I'm currently working on a critical project at a tech company. The work is good but the salary is less than satisfactory/comparable (I didn't really negotiate - my mistake + personal reasons). I've a job offer from another company that's willing to pay me 30-40K more than what I currently earn. My manager (who knows nothing about the offer) told me that I'll only get a 10K bump after my level-up (which happens in the next month or two) - typical company "policy"...And even if I negotiate, there's noway they will match a 30-40K bump (fact, not a rumor from grapevine).

So, is it wise (or rude? - bridges will be broken) to leave a critical project (that will go live in the next 3-4 months) for a way better salaried job given that the current company would never match a huge salary bump from the offering company? Is it wrong to be selfish and not think about the greater good of the team/project/company?

Also, the offering company prefers that I join within a month or two and they can't wait for more than 3 months because otherwise I'd have seen my product go live and then switch jobs.

Would love to get/hear some advice/opinions. TIA.
10 billion human beings is nothing, especially when you consider that we absorb more energy from the sun in one hour than do humanity use in one year.

Resource isn't much of a problem either if you consider nuclear energy and asteroid mining. Currently we either don't exploit it due to the political environment, or can't exploit it due to technological limits.

I would argue that the food storage and resource storage are a result of institutional and societal problems. That is, war and corruption done more than enough to incite famine and other ills while undeveloped markets disrupt our ability to distribute food and other resources to those that need it the most.

Plus, there's something to be said for humans as the storage of knowledge and expertise. Humanity built entire civilization based on division of labor and specialization, not on the back of a few genius. The more people there are, the more genius we have.

Remember, we barely can absorb the energy of the sun for our own use!
trying to advertise on yahoo's display network was, for me, an exercise in frustration, contempt and (ultimately) resignation
I agree. You can't really criticize someone for selling, maybe they had to do it.

But it really does make you pause the next time you decide to commit to a new company. Today I got reminders in my email about how SimpleGeo and IndexTank will "sunset" their services within the next month after their acquisitions last year. I knew it was coming, but after having to spend all this time removing them from my app, I'll be a little more wary going forward of using third parties in the things that I do.
Is acquihire just a Silicon Valley concept? Where I'm from, a big company is probably gonna offer you a massive salary rather than buy out a product with no potential.
Hey! What's with all the down-voting in this thread? I understood HN was a place where down-voting was reserved for trolls, not disagreement ... and "good" down voters explain reasons not immediately obvious.
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Probably the reporter fault, but this sounds like he has no clue how the system even works for real
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> So assuming that pirate copy = a lost sale is a ridiculous argument.

This seems like a ridiculous counter-argument to me. You are basically trying to say that because a pirated copy is not exactly equal to one lost sale, then it's not an issue at all... forgetting the fact that the ratio doesn't need to be 1:1 for money to be lost. Let's assume, for the sake of argument, that "100 pirate copies = a lost sale", on average. That's still a lot of lost sales in the grand scheme of things, and that's a very conservative number.

As a sidenote, your anecdotal evidence is just that-- you got lucky having a friend with connections, most people without said friend would probably bite the bullet and make the purchase if they couldn't get it online. Let me inject my own anecdotal evidence for a second: before the internet, I remember renting a lot more movies than I do now. The internet has cut down on the amount of money I give to these organizations, fact.

And finally, whether or not Joe Blow got his money's worth is irrelevant, so who cares if you wanted your "free" back? The argument about value has little to do with the economic stance, unless you're trying to say, "it's ethical to steal if what you are stealing is crappy". I'd disagree with that statement too. I think most sane people would.
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I stopped installing at the request for "your data on all websites". I didn't see anything in the privacy policy that explains why and how far "my data" travels. Could you explain that a bit more?

Otherwise I'd love to try it out - I periodically bemoan the suckiness of bookmarks.
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Amazon also gets to subsidize their AWS business with their primary business: retail logistics. Organizations that do hosting as their primary business do not have this luxury.
Best practices is a useful tool for developers to switch their minds on to real problems. I don't want to think how to align vendor-specific styles, whether to use a class or ID here, whether to create IE-specific stylesheet or not.

While I can disagree with some points, I don't think it makes sense at all to express the disagreement. OP explicitly claimed that it's his best practices (not universal truth), and I think it's a very valuable thing to share anyway.