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Well said. I'm actually shocked that a community of entrepreneurs would take the position that it's OK to demand access to a company's competitive advantage in order to compete with them.

I'm not sure if it's a sense of entitlement fostered by all the seemingly easy money around tech startups or simply sheer laziness.
I'm not nervous. I'm _upset_. For two reasons.

First and foremost because you make wild assumptions and accusations. They don't give a shit about users? Have you talked to the Craig? What about other employees? You are throwing a company under the bus because you don't like its design and don't like them controller their API. I hate their decision with respect to PadMapper, but I reserve doesn't give a shit about users for Monsento, tobacco and alcohol companies. You aren't their only user, you might not feel like they don't give a shit about you, but any grander statement is just big meaningless talk.

Secondly, as I originally stated, because you think Craigslist owes you something. They don't. Deal with it.
Thanks for the vote for the Living Spice Rack! I didn't even think about the medicinal angle.
The point that the morality of debt is based on the fact that it's a promise already appears on page 4. Similarly the very last paragraph, begins "What is a debt, anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence..."

And so on. Might want to read more than "chunks" of a book before lecturing the world on what's not in it.
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First of all, the grass wasn't even genetically modified. The grass (Tifton 85) is a hybrid between two other grasses [http://www.tifton.uga.edu/fat/tifton85.htm]. Secondly, even if it was, this headline is absurd. It's a widely-used strain of grass, used on this plot for 15 years, so the suggestion that the genetic modification is somehow responsible for killing the cows is absurd.

See also: http://www.examiner.com/article/gmo-food-hybrid-poison-grass....
hope everything's OK there.

A lot of violent people are, sadly, quite sane and otherwise fairly rational.

I'm quite sure a relative wasn't just misunderstood, but needed a bit of help when she heard voices, didn't want to stay in her apartment because of the spirits, withdrew all her money from the bank because the people there were conspiring against her, and wandered the streets of NY late at night.
You should complain if you really want to, that's part of the market force.

I think perfect market choice is a funny idea. Why would anyone assume the market would function on such a limited plane of understanding, that all you had to do was poll people, you could trust their verbal response, and decide that's what the market should do?

People very often do things in contrast with what they say, even what they believe consciously. There is so much more at play than what people would "vote" for in the sense of a "perfect market choice".
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Yeah, you nailed the core of the problem. Banks don't so much "control" the money (most of such bonds flow to mutual funds and ETFs), it's just hard for average citizens to participate in the process. Large issuers have set up direct shops like http://www.buycaliforniabonds.com/
Technically, yes, you're correct. But since this is the interaction between users, owners of the service and owners of the 'proxy' service (all humans), not a JSON protocol between Python and JS scripts, there's something beyond just pure technical contract issues. If we go to the HN drinkup and I borrow a $20 from you to get a taxi home, technically I don't owe you anything, as there's no signed IOU (not even a verbal contract if I omit 'until next time'). Non technically I'm an asshole :-)
as someone who grew up on a farm, we knew that driving cows or sheep (4 stomached ruminants) onto a hot alfalfa field can kill them from cyanide poisoning (used to call it prussic acid poisoning in the old days), so this is nothing new.
Just scaremongering media
Hard to use, you need to exchange "real" money to use it - you can't just link up your bank account like on Paypal and start using it right away.

Transfering money is suppose to be instant and easy with bitinstant.

You either need to totally trust a 3rd party provider with your money (and if they lose/steal it - that's your problem) or run a clunky and slow application on your computer which requires several GBs of HD space (faster, lighter apps are coming)

For the main client, this is defintely a problem. There's already bitcoin clients that doesn't relies on downloading several GB of the blockchain.

Slow, a transaction can take 10-20 minutes to finish (which means that you can't get instant order confirmations/digital product delivery like people are used to when paying with Paypal/Credit Cards).

There's a company called ringcoin that provide instant confirmation service for bitcoin.
Hey "Dave5314".

In which thread did I offend you and why can't you just reply there using your real HN-account?

I'm afraid your cry for "open dialogue" doesn't work so well when you plant it in a seemingly random thread using a throw-away account...
That entire article is moot because (a) we're not on the gold standard and (b) it fails to account for risk. But I'll humor you and prove the article illogical two different ways.

Assume we were on the gold standard. The amount of gold in the world is limited. Most importantly, it does not grow exponentially with our economy (which is in fact the product of two exponentials -- population growth and technology growth). A gold standard is therefore deflationary in nature, meaning that the value of 1 oz of gold grows over time. This means that on the gold standard, interest rates would be FAR lower (probably even 0%) due to the inherent "interest" built into gold. However the article assumes both a gold standard (in the first paragraph), and moderate interest rates (5%). Therefore the article is inconsistent and illogical.

Let us instead limit our scope to risk-free loans (e.g. T-bonds). Take risk out of the equation and interest rates simply counteract inflation, meaning that the buying power of your loaned money remains constant. However, the article assumes both risk-free loans (since it does not account for losses due to defaults), and that one can purchase absurd quantities of goods with interest compounded over several years (which is not true if buying power remains constant). Therefore the article is inconsistent and illogical.

Furthermore, you did not state how this relates to the first half of what I quoted -- something about SWAT-team enforced standards. I am still utterly in the dark about the relevance of this to monetary policy. (Wouldn't any policy, e.g. gold standard, require some form of law enforcement to keep people from robbing each other?)
then leave and don't use it. No one owes you anything people have free choice to use whatever services they want. If you really feel a company owes you something and isn't doing what you expect don't use it.
both parties would be craigslist and its users in this case. Which craigslist does allow users to post their information where ever they want.
Further, the production cyanides by plants as a defense against herbivores is a natural phenomenon. However not sure it's ordinarily seen in grases and it is curious that the levels were apparently high enough to cause toxicity in the cattle.
Normal copyright gives an author a "bundle of rights" that they may license how they want or declare to be in the public domain. Even if you classify the GPL as "copyleft, not copyright" or "legal judo," I don't think it works opposite of the way that normal copyright does. In a world where everything was public domain it would still be possible to circumvent GPL's source code distribution provisions.

There is one part of copyright that might run counter to the GPL, however, and that is the right of an author to reclaim copyright after 35 years. If the right applies (i.e. not a work legally classed as work for hire) it cannot be revoked, even by the author, until the 35 year term is nearly over. This right is generally a good thing, but might be a bit messy or disruptive if someone who wrote old UNIX IP decides to try to reclaim their work.

Unfortunate or not, intellectual property is a term of art at this point. However, connotation can differ from denotation, and it often does in law.
I take it you're an exceptional salesperson.

But the problem with your argument is that most people aren't exceptional. "Most people" is the very definition of normal. And normal people deserve a living wage, especially if they're working for the most profitable company in history.
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once you post it on craigslist it becomes their data. That doesn't stop you from posting the same data to other sites. Craigslist doesn't offer this service but you can freely post your data to other sites, but by no means is craigslist supposed to offer the data that you gave to them to other sites.
Interesting... does the heat increase the cyanide production? It's been quite hot in texas lately.
For years, I have been saying "In C, an array is a pointer, an offset, and a prayer."

Looks like I might have to change this.
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Not really. Allocation and deallocation for a system that does not support object movement (and hence compaction) is inherently non-trivial. In most modern GCs allocation is bump-the-pointer with TLABs, you can get cheaper than that. If the first generation GC is a copying GC you pay absolutely nothing for collecting a dead object. Compare that to explicit allocation/deallocation schemes.

The biggest problem with GC however is not the cost of allocation/deallocation but the fact that it's pretty hard to make GCs incremental at a very fine-grain level.

Java, btw, at least with Hotspot JVM, does escape analysis, that will allocate non-escaping objects on stack. Heck, these objects may even just end up in a register (with unused data members discarded).
Doesn't evolution itself already imply this?
I am talking from a positions of deep ignorance, but I think the hardest part is diagnosing a misbehaving synapse.
I came here just to say say the same thing. RSS please and thank you!
Wow, just wow. I was born in the USSR and I feel "comfortably" at home now.

> you might not feel like they don't give a shit about you

May I, nevertheless? Thanks in advance!

What's the difference between CL and Monsanto (Philip-Morris) in this context? All these companies sell something which is legal and have a demand. Users pay for the goods (seeds, listings, cigarettes). Users appear to be happy. Users want to get some extra value out of the goods/services (put the PadMapper on top of CL, breed their own seeds from Monsanto modified plants, dunno about cigs, though :-)). Oops, lawyers abound! Now Monsanto owes something to farmers, but CL doesn't owe anyone anything. Hmmm. You're throwing Monsanto under the bus because you side with farmers. That's okay. But who told you that you're absolutely right?

I can easily deal with CL not owing me anything - I don't do anything on CL.

Please, calm down.
I guess I disagree to some extent. Insurance is designed to protect you from rare but catastrophic losses. It's not (originally, anyway) intended to step in and pay for reasonably forseeable expenses (routine health care, for example).

A contributing reason that health insurance is so expensive is that people have been using it as a way to only pay 20% or less of expenses they know they are going to have.

By the way, if you buy your own insurance, and you have kids, or want maternity coverage, you pay more.
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I didn't mention it because they are small and I doubt many people have heard of them, but it's Trampoline System.
That has nothing whatsoever to do with adult stem cells.

Did you miss the part that was talking about embryos or what?

Update: try this http://www.catholic.org/international/international_story.ph...

If you think the Catholic Church is opposed to adult stem cell research, you're simply misinformed.
Paper B is not selling ads, nor are they making money from them, they provide them as an alternative means of access to the ads from Paper A.

Advertisers are still paying paper A, so there is no loss of revenue.
Add floppies to the list too!
I only use wired Ethernet on my laptop at work, so I would look for some kind of Thunderbolt dock if I got one (like the Belkin one coming out in September [1]). They're really pricy at the moment though so I hope we see more competition leading to cheaper devices in the Thunderbolt device area soon.

1. http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/05/belkin-thunderbolt-expres...
4x AA is only a 15-20% hit when you're talking about MSAA: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/535?i=455.488.456.492
I've gotten to where I don't have any particularly strong attachment to brand names. I've used Windows all of my life, but just recently ordered a Mac. I still like both operating systems a lot (and would like to experiment with Linux as well). I suppose a decade ago when I was 12 I may have made some disparaging Apple comment, but now it seems juvenile that anyone would spend a lot of time debating these sorts of things.

Then again, I spend very little time shopping for clothes or reading about cars so maybe this is just a product of being less social than most.
Even if it's fair, that doesn't mean we have to willfully help them do so.
So, if not an adapter, what exactly do you think he meant by "dongle"?
Why the references to legislation?

I presume that is what we are talking about, when people here complain that nobody has been able to defeat Craigslist and that Craigslist ought to die (in so many words).
That's interesting - Turns out there are a lot of grasses/clovers that can cause cyanide poisoning:

(See Table 1-1, second page)
http://www.ivis.org/special_books/knight/chap1/ivis.pdf

"Plants Containing Cyanogenic Glycosides
Cyanogenic glycosides are substances present in many plants that can produce highly toxic hydrogen cyanide (HCN) or prussic acid. Specific plant enzymes released when plant cells are damaged when chewed, crushed, wilted, or frozen, hydrolyze the glycosides to cyanide. At least 2000 plant species are known to contain cyanogenic glycosides with the potential to produce HCN poisoning [1-6]."
In a discussion with my first post degree employers it came up that one of the reasons I got the was the fact that during the interview I was quite open about things I was not sure of, and asked the right questions to help guide me to the answer.

You should never feel a question is stupid, or feel stupid for asking one. If someone makes you feel that way, and you can, find a new situation!
Do you understand the concept of "monopoly power"? It sounds like you do not.

I, personally, save several hours every time I look for an apartment by using padmapper over Craigslist. Aggregated, that's human lifetimes of time saved every year by padmapper.

UI isn't about round corners and fancy color schemes. It's about using computers to automate repetitive behaviors. Newmark's defenders tell me what I really want is to waste my limited lifetime clicking manually through entries on his shitty site. But no, I really don't.

Fuck Craigslist. Seriously.
Most comments are interpreting this as a 'death to hackers' message, but it seems more likely to me that it's a memorial to Steve Jobs.

I would think that apple employees designing something like this view themselves as a part of hacker culture.
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Not all games support MSAA, however yes it's much more GPU friendly.
Some more science (guess CBS News skipped this) http://www.merckvetmanual.com/mvm/index.jsp?cfile=htm/bc/210...
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Absolutely. You'll likely need to use a thermocouple though.

Something like this http://www.adafruit.com/products/270
and this http://www.adafruit.com/products/269 play nicely together. Hook the sensor up to the Arduino, have it print out the values when you want them, go to town.

The only draw back is that you'll have to run the thermocouple into the refrigerator and seal it. Most electronics are rated to about -40C, so unfortunately you won't have a nice wireless solution.
The right tool for the job is anything that gives you the power to get shit done.

Maintainability is secondary if you can't do the job in the first place. Think about it.

I think that using Haskell in the industry is somewhat irresponsible if you live in a third world nation like Chile. You can't find haskell hackers here! You create maintainability problems!

It is clearly not my fault to be intelligent, know some haskell and live in Chile. Can you blame me?
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Great for those who work for non profits who take care of people. Not so great if you work at the cult of Apple to get people to buy expensive hardware.
Agreed. My argument was perhaps a little strong. Craigslist is far from a monopoly and people can and do successfully list their apartments in all sorts of places.

I do think there are web companies who could really do some anti-competitive things that we should watch out for. Facebook is probably the most capable, or maybe Google if they went off the deep end and started holding companies hostage through their search. The argument still stands, I think, even if it doesn't justify intervening on behalf of a company that wants to improve Craigslist search.
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Not to mention that an apple store employee has to have significantly less knowledge than a best buy employee to be just as helpful. In the average best buy employee's department, there are probably a couple hundred products that they might receive questions about, plus a couple thousand more products that don't really require knowledge, like cables or cases. An apple store employee has to know apple's entire lineup, which by my count looks like less than 20 products (not counting variations or configurations).
They are having a drought so the levels are up.
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This story resonates with me. My mother is bipolar. Growing up she would be fine for a year, then gradually become more active and paranoid and spendthrift, then be hospitalized for several months, and then start the cycle over. In 2008, she drained and overdrew the joint checking account that she had helped me open when I turned 18 and flew abroad, costing us much distress and thousands of dollars (she was kicked off one homebound airplane for causing a disturbance). She was finally hospitalized long enough to recover.

But in 2011, when she had another bout, the hospitals refused to hold her for more than a week, and she was returned home only to be a nuisance to her landlord and a weirdo on the street. The social worker said to ask the police to take her to CPMC or St Francis (private hospitals) who will be more likely to hold her for long enough to recover instead of SF General, but since then she hasn’t been an imminent threat; merely a loud, paranoid insomniac who can’t get anything done.

It’s very difficult to reason with her regarding her illness, which she denies when she’s manic. I don’t know first-hand the facts of her police mistreatment or landlord interactions or whatever she happens to be angry about, so I can’t convince her that she’s wrong. Oh, and she refuses to take her medication because she’s convinced that they will ruin her liver. I sometimes wonder whether a smarter, more introspective manic person would be able to deduce logically that their paranoias are irrational and rein themselves in. But alas, her poor concentration and temper hare never allowed her this power.
It has everything to do with them: there's no such thing as an "adult" stem cell. There are only differentiated and undifferentiated cells, and "embryonic" is a useful description only insofar as it describes the source of origin of an established cell line. The techniques that those quotes were concerning don't destroy embryos -- they turn differentiated cells into undifferentiated cells -- but that's enough to trigger the objections.

Said another way, there's no fundamental reason that "adult" stem can't be converted to an "embryonic" state. And the quotes above illustrate that once you do that, you run afoul of the opponents. The religious groups don't want to prohibit "embryonic" stem cell research; they want to prevent anyone from doing any sort of science that they perceive to be in violation of their notion of human-being-ness. Science doesn't support the distinctions that they're making, and therefore, the conflict is unresolvable.
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I've had a lot of problems with the bay area Apple Stores, albeit not the Cupertino one.
Please, let's remember that the mentally ill aren't 'evil alien[s]', as the author describes her father. People considered mentally ill are those who generally have emotional and/or cognitive irregularities, be they subtle or strong. That still makes them human.

I recognize the need to expand involuntary commitment laws to include evidence of recent events beyond the past 15 minutes of an interview. I agree that something does need to be done about dangerous people in general, regardless of whether they are mentally ill or not. This is a problem that needs restrictive and supportive measures on many fronts.

However, most mentally ill people are not dangerous. The author's use of circumstantial stories, instead of statistical evidence strongly distorts the reader's understanding of a typically mentally ill person. In her story, almost every mentally ill person she mentions kills someone. But as the author says in the end, the mentally ill are statistically less likely to harm another than to be harmed by someone else.

I think that some of what the author hopes for is a good idea, but if people could be forcibly treated for mere delusions or minor symptoms, then that also includes the huge percentage of normal Americans who believe in or claim to have seen ghosts. Do unusual religious beliefs count as insanity? Are your political views ever considered 'irrational' by someone else? What happens to free thought and religion?

The problem with creating laws that chip away at civil liberties is that these laws can be abused or stretched to cover people who are in a 'grey area' and aren't a real danger. Those in power can take laws and apply them according to their personal preferences and values, at the expense of those who do little harm.

I think it's a good idea to have involuntary commitment laws only for the rare dangerous cases that exist. But in addition to that, human support is needed. Treating people well and showing gentle empathy will help win them over to the side of those who are trying to help. In the end, let's not harm the large majority who are closer to the middle of the grey area, and aren't dangerous.
Nice hack!

If you don't want to build your own it's worth noting that you can also buy USB-thermometers relatively cheaply on amazon, they're around $20 bucks.

We've had good success with the ones labeled "TEMPer" under linux. Don't forget to buy USB extension chords if you want to place them at a distance of the machine.