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> that's how you get Marxism

Is it a disease? :)

Did you mean communism?

> Information, quality assurance, and good management are all scarce

I acknowledge that. Read my comment below - these skills are picked up on the go by startup founders, the same way those in a cooperative could. Professionalism is unrelated to having one head or twenty at the top.

> For instance, most programmers are content to work for the Man

Most workers in any field are "working for the Man*, not just programmers. The adoption of the agency model varies across the economy, but is less common as you go higher (think doctors, lawyers, architects, etc). We could get into a yearlong discussion about distribution (or concentration) of wealth, but I don't think this is the place and I'm not that qualified.

> I think you're being down voted because all this is probably common knowledge on a forum for smart, startup-minded hackers.

Isn't almost everything common knowledge in a community like this? I don't think that's the reason, downvoting for simply disagreeing is becoming increasingly common.

> When you talk about "extracting surplus-value" there are prominent members of this community who do that for a living.

So? I'm not picking a fight or attacking anyone, just musing on capitalism. Is it taboo? I'm sure they don't feel the need to justify what they do.
Can you still edit the post title? It's missing an important question mark.
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> I'm thinking it must be more profitable making a decent profit while losing clients and cleaners, than taking a smaller profit and retaining clients and cleaners.

Can you explain the difference in profits? Why would there be smaller profits in retaining clients and cleaners? I'm missing something here...
Yes, but by all accounts the GPU on the RasPI is more powerful than the Panda.
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With the "new iPhone" / iPhone5 around the corner. We shall probably see NFC and everything.
With the $100B in the bank, Apple seems to be a safer place to stash your cash than most "Banks".

If Apple would start a bank, would you get an account?
It's practically unusable when not in an environment with X11. I had to use it on a Windows system and any text would have incorrect letter-space. Every letter would bleed into the next, it's a typographic nightmare. You could use Arial Unicode MS to get a somewhat acceptable result but that won't support bold or italic text cleanly.

I'm not quite sure but I think the fix isn't even part in the 0.11 release. One has to compile wk himself to get it working.

When this issue is resolved this will be perfect, though. It has great capabilites to render footers and headers and JS-based output (in my case Highcharts). For the time being you can't even switch to commercial systems - ActivePDF, for one, has the same issue in the latest release.
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I don't see anyone bring prosecuted for the "weapons of mass destruction" lies that led to the deaths of many thousands of people, so I don't think having evidence is too important.
@rodw: This is exactly the kind of feedback that we needed. Thanks for that! We will definitely try to work on most of points that you've raised & try to address that. Build Iterate Build Iterate it isss! :)
I imagine initially both sides would be happy to treat the relationship as contractual. It's a great way to start when you are not sure of demand, and the cleaners you employ have other clients anyway (I'd say that makes them definitely not employees unless and until this is their main income). The ones who have now quit other jobs to work with him are of course de-facto employees, and he'll have to treat them as such long-term.

However He sounds like he would be happy to treat them as employees long-term anyway (if they agree to it of course), but then that's a good problem to have, and really starting with employees from day 1 would have made this far harder to get off the ground, so he's gone about it the right way, he just has a steep learning curve ahead.
Read comment below for my take on that. I'm not blaming anyone or saying it's morally wrong, just exploring a different arrangement.
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The value he is providing is a booking service, dealing with complaints, etc, no more, no less. Turns out lots of people value that quite a lot; almost as much as the cleaning itself.

I don't think you can really argue that this adds no value to the transactions - he is finding these cleaners more work than they would otherwise have had.
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That seems to be a qt problem, as far as I know. I think a saw somewhere how to recompile qt to get a more robust solution. The issue tracker of wkhtml is quite helpful here.

An easy solution could be to just use extremely short URLs as these seem to affect the space used by wkhtml as well. But that was just my solution for a 200 page output. In addition, if you are using HTML footers or headers, try not to give them any parameters, if possible.

Edit: I can't find the best entry at StackOverflow (I remember there must be a Python based solution as well), but this might be a good overview:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/633780/converting-html-fi...

Some of those are commercial.
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Thanks for the heads up.

I mean, I noticed that I received some downvotes for a comment I made on a particular post:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2849016

But nothing that justifies a ban. I am not a troll, let alone a recurrent one. Not to mention that the practice of hellbanning is highly unfair and misleading.

Any clue on who I should contact to clear this out?
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Aha! Ever heard of a thing called Siri?

Siri is shifting importance from 'search' to 'finding information' + many other things.

Google knows this damn well, 'search' and 'finding information' are really two different things. As things move on from text based search. Voice based, image based search are really going to be very important in the future.

No doubt apple is being perceived as a threat.
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That's not what I meant. There is a gap in knowledge and economical power (and probably willpower/culture too) that "prevents" the workers from setting up their own business or marketing themselves more efficiently, it's not directly related to the division of labour.

btw I have a Communication Studies/Advertising degree and work as a front-end developer, so no, that doesn't sound easy to me ;)
Keep with the good job!
You'll probably need to start a new account, unfortunately – there doesn't appear to be any protocol for being 'unhellbanned'.
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I believe the idea is that Apple encourage apps which forces data into proprietary silos rather than leaving it on the web in forms that might are potentially more open.

It's a fair (though hardly killer) point but if he was really going to push it that hard he might need to explain away Google's own app store, the second largest one on the web I believe.
I used wkhtmltopdf in a previous project and found it to be extremely reliable and easy to use. I was extracting the HTML mime parts from incoming email, converting them to PDFs with wkhtmltopdf, then converting that to a PNG with ImageMagick and displaying the PNG to the user in a web browser.
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Also, Oracle needs to be paying retroactive benefits to the interpreted assembly languages that are used to convert Java to machine code. It's only fair that the creators of these languages receive the full benefits of their contributions.

Time to scramble and find out who owns all of the millions of languages in the world, computer, spoken, symbolic, memespeak, they are now going to be traded like the stock market, and they all go IPO when a law declares them copyrightable. I wonder who owns sign language?
There's a big difference here from what I see.

A) These lies came from the government. I know, this shouldn't make any difference, but sadly, it does.

B) The WMA case you mention is different - there is no evidence in that case, indeed. However, there is evidence that illegal files are hosted on the MU servers. Unless, they decide to delete it.. In which case, it'd be the same, agreed. And even if there are illegal files on the server, the US government has a law in place that should protect them from this kind of bullshit - they can force them to delete the files with DMCA notices - if they don't respond to them, then they're in fault...
FWIW the GitHub JavaScript style guide also recommends that you don't write JavaScript _at all_, unless you can't help it.
Based on the situation my ex went through, to retain the clients and cleaners they would have to take a smaller cut from the hourly wage they charge the clients. I'm not sure if it applies in his case, it depends on what percentage he is taking.
Reading back on my previous post, it doesn't make much sense haha.

Edit: I'm mainly talking about my experience with absolute domestics. They took something ridiculous like $5 an hour which is why they had these issues.
Do people really use Siri (except to demo it) ?
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Show HN: merging RTS and web strategy gaming in new blend - Nebula 44
We have launched our startup: MMO strategy game that can be played in your browser. Not very unique from first sound, but the fun hides in the gameplay which tries to blend RTS and web strategy genres.

Feedback on the site design and game impressions are very welcome!

Some of game features include:

* Powerful trading system that allows people to exchange in-game currency (creds) for game resources.

* Real-time real-world based movement system that allows players to interact while travelling, making our game akin to classic RTS genre. This also allows interesting gameplay possibilities like piracy or embargo.

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Thanks!
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They where using the filter, map, reduce technique well before they introduced the MapReduce framework.
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Hello,
We are a small consultancy company base in Turkey as two developers, one mainly focusing on the front-end development and one for the backend. We are both CS graduates and we both have a few years of cooperate experience under our belts.

Lately, I was thinking if we are working for a very low hourly rate:

It's been about 10 months since we are working for a US based startup and in total, they pay us $5k per month.

If I make a calculation, say we both work for 10 hours per day for 20 days per month, it makes $12.5 per hour (we even work WAY more than that, it's like 15 hours, even weekends).

Also consider as a company we pay taxes (%20 of the income), rent (about $1k) yet life cost of Turkey is not cheap, probably about %25 lower than NY.

Please note that we are not developing some poor php script, it's a complex business model and we use modern tools that some of the successful US startups are using: Django, Backbone.js, postgreSQL, Redis, memcached, deploying to Amazon AWS and many others. In addition, we did many non-technical assistance such as fixing flaws in their business plan, written scripts for their video intro and several others.

I will be glad to hear your input.
There's also a second option — adaptive posterization — that reduces PNGs by ~30%. Useful for images that are too "colorful" for 256-color RGBA.

WebP is a fine format, but establishing a new format on the web is really hard. There's a graveyard of better JPEGs, and after 16 years since PNG was published, GIF is still alive and well. http://ycombinator.com/images/y18.gif

The web has strong preference for "good enough that works everywhere". IE6 was enough to discourage devs from using PNG, nad you won't see Google's WebP in IE or iOS anytime soon.

Nowdays you can decode WebP with JS, but size of a JS decoder and CPU time to run it will most often offset any savings from the format.
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The title is disappointingly misleading — the actual features of command-line clients, i.e. auto-completion, variables, output-formatting are left out in favor of comparing SQL dialects for the most basic operations.
Why wouldn't a bag of sand or gravel work similarly? It's less viscous but pouring gravel into a hole and covering it can't take that much longer.
An algorithm that we developed and academia thinks is not going to work (Google). If academia thinks your algorithm is a good fit for the problem them that knowledge is public, well studied and been executed upon. (Google used secrecy, designed new systems and engaged in many partnerships with data centers initially to make their algorithm work at scale)

Actually this isn't why Google succeeded as a business. Sure, that made their search work, but the key was that no one else cared. No one realized just how much money Google was making from search until it was too late - and by then Google had built a classic two-sided market which is excellent protection against competition.
We haven't considered exactly this, but single sign on login is on its way.

Thanks for the idea!
I don't know as I don't own an iPhone.

But the concept itself is frightening to Google. It can enable searching when you are driving, taking a shower or whenever you can't use your hands to search. And a great deal of people come into that category.

And it can be a big thing in the future. And going by Apple's reputation they can leverage it to some amazing things.

Imagine a consumer Apple TV. TV's can't have keyboards but they can have a mike. Imagine finding information through speech. That can really be a killer feature, searching and finding information by just talking through a TV connected to the Internet.

Now this is just tip of the iceberg. Siri can be disruptive in almost device/scenario where a keyboard is not a practical source of input. Going by how small things are getting, Siri is the thing of the future.
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Cleaning a one bedroom flat in one hour to a standard that people will pay well over $100 for is a specific skill set.

Building, marketing and running a company is a different specific skill set.

How is that not division of labour?

> so no, that doesn't sound easy to me ;)

Presumably a lot easier than building a vacuum cleaner.
'My own son can get quite frustrated after performing a lengthy series of computations to solve an algebra problem, only to be told that the answer was wrong due to an arithmetic error; I am sure this experience is common to many other schoolchildren'

This frustration is largely due to the fact that such a useful lesson for life is generally neglected, skimmed-over or outright deliberately denied in order to satisfy the ideologues of 'modern education'.

Thus many people are way too much surprised that being right is what matters, not the amount of effort it took to get there.
Well, actually filling the pothole is simpler and cheaper. A hot patch costs around 1,900$ and lasts a reasonably long time depending on what caused the problem in the first place it can literary be 10 years before the problem shows up again.

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They probably mean this: https://www.facebook.com/help/?page=116481065103985

It doesn't look like the Google+ APIs provide anything even slightly as comprehensive, for now.

Of course, what Brin is complaining about isn't that Facebook won't give your data to _you_; it's that they've been reticent about giving it to Google.
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While that might or might not be viewed as a threat, it's nothing to do with the "open web" one way or the other.
His CPU: i7, 2.8 GHz
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He does a test and finds that his CPU is 5x faster. 2800 MHz / 600 MHz = 4.67, so his findings match the documented instance speeds and yet he is surprised.

His pricing math is all wrong. Instances live 15 minutes after the last request and you are charged for that. He claims that the amount of work he can do on his i7 CPU for one hour would cost $8 on App Engine. Taking into account his researched 5x faster speed, one hour would result in 5 hours on App Engine, 5 hours + 15 minutes after the requests would mean 5.25 hours * $0.08 = $0.42, which is far less than his $8 statement.
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1 Record all conversations with them.

2 Only talk to journalists from Proper organisations.

3 Only talk to journalits with domain Knowledge.

4 Only talk to journalists you and ideally other People you know trust.

5 Know what "Off the record" means and ask the hack which this interview is.

6 Also if you're an employee know where you stand legally - get Authorisation - Still wish BT had let me do the post to alt.2600 that BT's press office asked me to do.
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Not to mention that Prince XML has excellent support for CSS paged media (margins, page breaks, headers & footers, etc). Contrast with the printed output of any major browser -- they're all quite disappointing.

It would be nice if that $3800 included free upgrades to subsequent releases, though...
The problem may essentially be that Brin is now too close to the whole situation to see the problem as it really is, that in his head what's right for Google and what's right for the internet are too closely linked.

Obviously there are two things here regardless of who you are - what you think is "good for" the internet and what you think is helping and hindering it. Brin's view is predicated on a particular view of the first point - what's good for the internet which is (for obvious reasons) very similar to Google's own view.

But any view on what's helping and what's hindering has to be viewed in terms of what you actually see as good for the internet.
sigh If I had known about this a week ago, I could have avoided a whole lot of hardship dealing with Require.js + node_jasmine + NPM... three complex things that were never really meant to work together. But I can see this as being really groundbreaking, kind of sidestepping the whole AMD vs. CommonJS protocol fragmentation and offering NPM as a way to distribute code meant to be bundled for clients!
They probably mean Motorola's extremely aggressive behaviour; the two high-profile Motorola suits aren't defensive, in that Motorola sued first. The Apple one was initiated long before the Google acquisition, and is thus nothing much to do with Google (though Google have said they'll continue to look for the frankly insane terms Motorola wants); however, the Microsoft one was initiated during the acquisition process; it'd be normal for Google to have some control over litigation at this point.
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I didn't say it adds no value, but that's a lot of assumptions.
I like to run ArcticStartup as neutral/transparent as possible. People are able to find out my relation to TenFarms from my LinkedIn page anyhow.

In the end, writing about news that are favorable to me aren't necessarily favorable to the startup industry in general.

Integrity builds trust and traction.
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I think vast majority of the people in this thread believe the "open web" thingy is just a marketing ploy.

Google is no more Open than Facebook or Apple.
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It starts up an instance for a minimum of 20 minutes, so you will be charged for 20 minutes whether you generate 1 RSA key or 120.

Still, I'd also love for the price to come down.
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I've been looking at Node recently and I'm struggling to get my head around the run both on server and client methodology. I understand why it's useful to define model classes and include the file in both places, however I don't really see how this extends to the rest of the app. This tool seems to imply that you join all the modules of the app together into one file, which you can then include on the client - but surely there'd be code that you don't want included in this (like the server-side of websocket communication)?

Does anyone have any articles that can help me to fill the gaps?
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