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It is on topic - Google has the exact same openness issues that these other companies have, and yet Brin fails to mention this.
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Listening to public radio this evening and On The Media had a story on the word "hacker." Going back to the earliest use of the word, how it has morphed into different meanings to different people. So you think you're a l337 H4X04? It's still worth a listen!!1.
One of the main reasons why middlemen exist is trust.

When two parties have to deal with each other but cannot trust each other, then you need a "neutral" middleman that can be trusted by both. The internet will only force middle men to move there too, but the function of a middleman, not the way he works, will be needed as long as you have problems to trust someone else.
They don't have to take the surplus jobs he is finding them.
Ah - Project Habakkuk, wartime Britain at our lunatic best - 2 million ton unsinkable aircraft carriers immune to 1000kg bombs:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Habakkuk

I've always assumed this gave Iain Banks the idea for the aerial battles fought over gigantic icebergs in Use of Weapons.
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As long as defaults are "honest" (i.e. not pre-selecting extras), sure. It's a balance though: it gets really tiring to go through pages and pages of upsell attempts whenever I buy a computer from certain vendors.

The real trick, I think, is to take some of the minor elements people would expect without really thinking about it, and turn them into explicit extras. It devalues the base price a little, but the gains are worth it in many cases (like here).
Also agree.

For an example of a specific circumstance consider theorem provers, because the proof is usually too large for a paper publication. The Archive of Formal Proofs (AFP) [0] is a repository for Isabelle proofs, which my collegues use. They submit a proof to AFP and write a paper about the results, where they cite the AFP publication.

[0] http://afp.sourceforge.net/about.shtml
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"a search engine can help you find great ebooks, and where a simple payment system can let you buy them"

You just described Amazon. On top of that, they have the recommendation engine, public wishlist, affiliate program, and allow you to buy all kinds of other products via the same UI.

It's going to be very, very hard for any competitor to become attractive enough for customers to matter. I don't think even best-selling authors can just ignore that factor.
You'd have to squint an awful lot for the evaluation to fall out that way. I'm a contracted software dev. I'm going to run down a list of questions from the IRS. Mentally score which ones sound like a cleaning laborer.

I have business cards, a personal website, and a professional reputation. My clients ask for me by name.

I do not submit applications. I do not respond to advertisements of employment.

I often have discretion to have work performed by subordinates selected and instructed by me, not my client.

I receive negligible training from customers.

My work is often evaluated by myself or not evaluated, because I am more competent as to the details than my clients are, this being why they hired me to do it. If there is a checklist, I wrote or had substantial input on the checklist.

I work at hours I pick or by mutual agreement. I routinely do not tell clients when I start or stop working.

If a problem arises with my work, I will ordinarily be the first person told about it.

The services I provide for my clients are largely not their main line of business. They do not invoice customers for my work directly. They generally have no employees who do substantially what I do, this being a major reason why they would hire me.

There is a written contract in place between me and each of my clients, often with contentious custom language in it.

I routinely incur expenses in the course of my business which are not reimbursed by clients.
Listening to public radio this evening and On The Media had a story on the word "hacker." Going back to the earliest use of the word, how it has morphed into different meanings to different people. So you think you're a l337 H4X04? It's still worth a listen!!1.
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Best line I ever heard about NDA's (not mine):

"If you are capable of broaching your NDA in a couple of sentences, you had nothing NDA'able there in the first place."

I heard it at an entrepreneurship panel in 2004, so I don't remember the speaker. I think it might have been somebody from Broadcom.

Interestingly, the people who (misguidedly) asked me to sign an NDA are usually receptive to this explanation when I tell them why I won't sign their NDA.
Which just means that the paper was incomplete.

The more interesting question is, how we can check a paper for completeness. I fear the answer is to try and implement it, which is costly for doing it in the peer review process.
Please, someone, tell me how to fight this stupid tendency to see sexism everywhere?
What if the picture was of a guy in shorts? Would that be sexism too? What if the said guy was black? And gay? Would that be rasexomophobia?

How long before we start to censor any depiction of a human everywhere?
Destroying "sexist" art?

Picture has nothing to do with the app? Who the fuck cares? Let's just all cut out all wiring in our brains that makes us to pay attention to one of the "four Fs" and die out.
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Equal rights/Discrimination/Peoples biases exists in the actual world. All of it. Your 'world of politics' is not seperate from your world.

I'm sorry you find this tiring.

And although it's good that you think about your own interactions with the people in your team, it worries me that you use the word squabbling. That word to me implies that you don't think the subject being discussed is actually important. It is.
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The feature in question is intended as an error correction for those cases where the programmer accidentally left out newline. A misguided feature maybe, but it's clearly being abused by intentionally leaving out every (or most) newlines.
It's possible if he does everything right. But the presumption by determining authorities seems to be in the 'employee' direction, so it's very easy to slip up.

Does he tell them when to work? Employee. How to do their work (a checklist)? Employee. Provide supplies? Employee. Do they wear a 'Maid In Black' uniform? Employee.

If he were a matching service, it might be easier. But, he's extending his brand/guarantee/monitoring over the service, so he may have to thread-a-needle to win any challenge that a regulator or (perhaps more likely) disgruntled contractor raises.
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I agree that the presenters probably just didn't think. And somebody said something at the end to try and make them think.
That's a red herring. Google could easily have asked them to desist from this policy while the acquisition was closing. Executives at Motorola know who their new boss is going to be and are acting accordingly.
I would disagree with the post. Kickstarter doesnt change the field of consumer electronics at all. The products created would usually not have been made but for the pre-sale funding available.

I would also disagree that these items can even be considered consumer electronics, they are widgets at best and really destined for a large consumer market.

Kickstarter is a great platform but like the instagram sale recieves too much hype whenever something big goes up.
So the fuse has burned out, but the fire's already burning. Ah well.

At least some good has come of this, even if it did come with the baggage of a massive Internet Argument.
> misogynistic engineer that hates women

Maybe he loves women, and that's the reason for having picture of one?

> such discriminatory practices can get deeply rooted.

Just to clarify—by "discriminatory practices" you mean that it is bad there was only picture of woman, not the man, and hence males are discriminated against?

Really, guys did you even stop to think about what is sexsim, what is discriminatory?

What is the vision of your ideal society: genderless, bland, wrapped in burkas?
I'm not sure in what way your comment is a reply to mine. That is the "little" I think it's adding to the economy (matching demand/offer), yet it's just a misbalance of information and/or power that shouldn't need to exist.
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All they seem to be being "accused" of is not giving data for free to Google to sell advertising against.
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I notice that to, figured the community was just piling on more to the current top stories. Diversity is a little down, I assume new submissions are still rising, just less being seen.
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Yes. The government agency is worse.

Ask yourself this: Whom is this agency over-sighted by?
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Yet another leftist provocation. Is HN politicized?
Sure, I just get the feeling that you're lucky to find such jobs (jobs where you can do what you love and still love doing it).
The 'patent troll' CSIRO is funded by Australian tax-payers and any money they make from patents is rolled back into research.

You may not like the outcome, but it's hardly fair to put them into the same category as one-person corporations who buy patents with the sole purpose of suing over their use.
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It's almost ironic to see start-ups participating in a VC sponsored popularity contest with Google and Facebook being in the jury.

Please, don't be rude on me for any irony, I just needed humorical relieve! :-)
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Brin acknowledges that the data is valuable. It belongs to other people. Google makes enormous revenue from it. Perhaps it's time for them to start paying for it.
This article[1] about senior telegraph officer Jack Phillips seems to paint wireless as a success and responsible for saving those that were picked up.

[1] http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-titanic-...
it's an election times, you have your votes to make the difference. why show any surrender. use it to stop this bill. If republican is behind this then vote for them, so did with the dems but if both of them inside then just vote them out. As for the presidential election, push to all the candidates in which running for the primary and the one who now incumbent. Vote for the law from one of your party; then you're history.
what I truly meant is that you have to power right now. so use it. if any of the presidential candidate party supported this bill, tell those presidential candidates either the challenger or the incumbent; that the support from the people who love the freedom is lost forever for them and their party should any of the candidate party member who sit on the congress or senates support this bill. Against it then we'll support your candidancy; is just that plain and simple. Truly there's no need to black out the net. Please shared this to every one that love the freedom ASAP.
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He's not playing golf all day: he did design and commission the scheduling system he now operates, and provides ongoing advertisement and management.

From what he says, it looks like he gets $40 to $60 per job, whereas cleaners get $15 to $30 per job -- they work in team, so it's $30 to $60 in total (it's all pre-tax, from what I understand). Not a terrible arrangement, to be honest, especially in the Land Of The Free From Socialism; apparently this is much more than what they used to make when a big company exploited them.

I do agree however that the IRS will kick the shit out of him if he doesn't switch to proper employment asap, and that's how it should be: it's all fun and games when things go well, but when hard times come (and they will come) the workers should get some protection.
My biggest problem with releasing code is that it people will expect support.

I released some code that only compiled on visual studio 6, with a specific version of a fairly expensive library. I got several emails asking for a mac or linux version, rather an update for more modern compilers.

Personally I would have preferred people just reimplement the code from the paper. I suspect for them it would be less work.
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Yes, and private messages should remain private (and hopefully searchable). Balkanized data isn't necessarily bad, and there are lots of shades of grey there.

As two examples, though, if the only way to search Twitter is Twitter, and Twitter won't let you search for tweets older than a week or two, then you're out of luck.

More hypothetically, if most people used Wordpress for blogging for the last 15 years, and Wordpress didn't allow indexing by search engines, but only searching on Wordpress.com, we would not have the internet we have today.
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It's worth noting this log entry:

> Aug 11 2009: Development moved to git http://github.com/antialize/wkhtmltopdf
A detailed checklist that the cleaners have to meet sounds like supervision to me.
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next up sue the power company who's electricity facilitated and enabled copyright infringement... the land holder who harboured copyright infringes... then the local government who provided services to copyright infringer's... then the state government who knowingly collected revenue and who who turned a blind eye to the actions of local government thereby facilitating copyright infringement... all the way up to the federal government who can sue itself ensuring that this lucrative little enterprise of the copyright legal mafia stays on the taxpayer funded gravy train... protecting American jobs!
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Of course customers don't mind one way or the other. Authors do; they'd rather keep 100% than 70% or 30%.
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> the presumption by determining authorities seems to be in the 'employee' direction

Note that this is not done on a whim: these laws and interpretations were introduced because employers were systematically exploiting workers, hiring them as contractors just to work around their established rights.

And it works both ways, really: having a clearer set of rules reduces the risk for costly litigation when something happens.
I'd just like to say, thank you very much for the heads up here. This looks SERIOUSLY cool and seems like it would solve all the niggling issues we've been having with mobile web development. Can't believe nobody else here has jumped on this
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Do you have anything to back that up? (especially the assertion that they "are acting accordingly").

My last look at the agreement[1] the last time this came up did not come across a provision for that sort of thing (especially before it was even approved by the justice department), but it's been a while. In the meantime, Motorola's board certainly can and will act as the want, good ideas be damned.

[1] http://sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1495569/00011931251122580...
I know, and I don't mean to put down his effort (as I said below, there is some value added). But they are just being exploited by a smaller company - it's the same.

edit: what is with downvotes lately? This is not a contest, feel free to join the discussion.
Ah, thanks!

And, now knowing of -no-remote, I've managed to find http://kb.mozillazine.org/Command_line_arguments
First impressions can make a huge difference. Especially in the case of the spatial organization of things, they set the frame we use orient ourselves in a broader context.

I should have mentioned that I'd noticed the inclusion of scale-change settings the first time around. But I have strong sense (based in part on years of research in the area) that allowing parts of the environment to change scale arbitrarily (at least early in the user's interaction) will hurt their capacity to form a veridical and long-lasting representation of the organization of space.

Of course, I've never done anything close to this in awesomeness; no doubt there are trade-offs of which I'm unaware.
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Also MSDN Academic Alliance. Almost every MS product except Office is there for students, for free. That includes Visual Studio, all Windows version starting at 98 (including Server editions), XNA, and much more.

Edit: Now I see that it's probably the same thing. I'll leavy my comment here though, if anyone else was familiar with MSDNAA.
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The workers may not be any good at marketing or any of the organization and running a business stuff, they are probably happy just to stick to the cleaning and get a constant stream of jobs given to them.
Keep in mind that 4.x is an almost complete rewrite, too.
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This is just like receiving grocery store ads in the mail, is it?
What is even cooler, is the fact that SE have open sourced the code! http://code.google.com/p/stack-exchange-data-explorer/
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I came to node from C so the syntax was pretty straightforward. I wanted a fast framework and was considering cppcms but, the amount of libraries already present in node made me tried it.

The framework is very powerful and we can push code very fast using it so no regrets!
If this data is so valuable, and Google makes enormous revenue out of it, why shouldn't they pay for it?
That's exactly what my last sentence is about. The extraction of surplus-value comes from having an economical/power/knowledge advantage: in my pretty ideal world the workers should have enough of those skills, or the ability to subcontract them.

If everyone was well educated and had the means to set up a business they wouldn't need someone else to seize the opportunity for them. The whole startup spirit is that of getting down to build a business, learning as you go, and I think the same applies to cooperatives. It's joining forces with your peers.

And this is just how most startups are born: two or more co-founders with a fair split, employees get equity etc. Why is this different?

I'm happy working a job right now too, just dreaming.
How does Mc Donalds and others run their franchisee and get away with these ?
Franchisees do not have their own websites (its run by mcd). They have uniforms, clear checklists for employees of franchisees and most of the other points that is mentioned here.
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I'd say the distuingishing factor is that you have multiple clients. A maid, who is only working for one "agency", looks fishy.

At least, that is the main argument here in Germany.
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But what if the results depend on some buggy function? Then it would all be bunk, and nobody would notice.
Elected representatives at national level; elected representatives at international level; law enforcement; employees (through various levels of whistle-blowing); and clients.

I might not like the laws under which the various agencies (GCHQ; MI5; MI6; etc) operate, but at least they appear to be mostly legal.

Compare that to recent UK scandals where some reporters appear to be out of control and operating mostly outside the law.

(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/)
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> To whom it may concern,

> Yes, this source code is a total mess. Good luck getting it to compile - I had to take out lots of things to make a source release possible.

Well that sounds promising for a release. Good for seeing the idea behind the code though and then write your own tools I guess.
All of them are built into Play Framework, fwiw.
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This is a pretty good product actually for those that have small businesses. Wouldn't you rather receive a flyer in the mail than have a dodgy flyer guy putting it under your car windshield?
Royal Mail (UK) has offered this for years and it's certainly less irritating than the flyering of takeaway menus and such I'd get all the time in SF.
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This Red Hat video (Truth Happens) is very appropriate: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXDsRoc6MGo
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I don't think Steve Jobs learnt from school to be a successful entrepreneur. He instead probably learnt from life, and from the experiences and mistakes he did.
Steve Jobs was unique and try to emulate him, and more simply be like him is a big mistake in my opinion.
I really think we do not need another Steve Jobs...we, instead, need someone even better than him :)
Because the law for individuals and companies is different. In this case, the franchised companies are companies in their own right, and they have employees. Franchised companies usually (?) have a licensing contract with the mothership, not an ownership arrangement. MCD does not 'contract' the franchise employees - that would be trouble. In the redditor's case, that's exactly what he does, down to giving them uniforms.
Entirely unrelated, but I'm really hoping linen goes the way of pinstripes.