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I feel like more insight is being generated by those comments that point out how correlated this guy's personal judgement and financial advisory performance is likely to be.

Also: he got the conviction expunged. The people with "nearly indelible black marks" don't have that option.
Here's an even better explanation http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/08/06/why-is-apple-ditching...
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I think it's fair to say Stripe solved 4 problems. i) The time it takes to get a merchant account. It is only 24 - 72 hours unless something really goes wrong through other channels but with Stripe it's immediate. ii) The probability you'll get a merchant account (not a slam dunk for startups but 100% with Stripe?) Many developers hate dealing with financial institutions and then getting turned down is a bit humiliating. All of that's removed and iii) A great API/documentation that people love (although a few others have that) and iv) Pricing that is very simple and straight forward.

In return for doing all that work for you their fees aren't as competitive as other alternatives. That's fair given the work they do.
That story is interesting because it highlights what is often an enormous gap between people who are "pretty good" and people who truly excel. At times it feels like an impassable chasm.

As a similar example, when I was younger I used to cycle a lot. I would go out 4-5 times a week and would cycle as far as I could and as hard as I could. I got to the point where it became frustrating to cycle with any of the people I knew because I was so much faster that I could not get a reasonable workout if I went at their speed.

So I figured it was time to take the next step, so I signed up for the youth category of a regional cycle race to see how I would fare there. I remember seeing my competition, who were kids about my age but they had turned up with dedicated vans (embossed with sponsorship logos), support crews, carbon fibre bikes and personal trainers, the works. Many of them were actually the sons of pro cyclists.

So I line up at the start and when the gun goes off everyone plows forward, I manage to keep up for a while by working hard and feel pretty good about it. Though after a while it becomes obvious that they were really only just warming up and one by one they start to drop me until I'm stuck right at the back of the race.

This put me off cycling for quite a while, because it seemed like the choice was simply between dominating everyone or losing.

I sometimes think programming and computer stuff can be similar, everyone knows a kid who is a "computer genius" but in reality that can mean anything from knowing how to re-install Windows and fix basic computer problems to someone who hacks on the Linux kernel for fun.
> Google Now is quicker because it does the voice recognition locally on the device rather than having to upload it to a remote server.

It does not. It uploads to a server and does the recognition there, and it doesn't work unless you're connected to the internet. Some functionality (I'm only aware of "Call X") works if you install offline speech recognition, but nothing else.
Your wire framing and app planning work don't fall in the category of creating things that have never before existed and never been done before. That was the quoted line from Russell Kirsch. The MS line parroting, that is just defensive fanboy bait. But whatever rocks your boat. In any case, it is what it is, a consumption device.

Had you gone with being able to edit html, javascript and css on it, or even code and compile java on the AIDE app... but no, it was an attack that you had to counter with an anedoctal. It's like textbook dumbing down consumer bs galore over there. But the guy in the article, he gets to be the parrot...
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Thinking critically about the story, I have trouble getting past the narratives playing through my head about people who's lives truly were ruined by our drug laws, while at the same time overlooking the spectacularly bad judgement evinced and clumsily covered up by the writing in this story.

I am specifically not litigating the wastefulness, inefficiency, or injustice of our drug laws.
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Extend your time window just a bit, and the number increases to 3:

- Mars rover

- Higss boson

- First commercial docking with ISS
I've often wondered if it's possible to actually get to a place where you are receptive to learning from the experiences of others without having to experience the mistakes yourself. Perhaps it's this thing that people call wisdom :)
>He did straight-up break the law, deliberately

There are so many laws on the books this is virtually guaranteed to be true of everyone on this site.
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Or more likely, "we chose not to renew our license".
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This might interest you.
http://www.biolitestove.com/campstove/camp-overview/features...
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It's now possible to play YouTube videos without Flash, so the dedicated app is no longer a necessity to watch YouTube videos on iOS. With that in mind, calling this "war" seems a bit over the top.
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I should add that Team @datadoghq is on IRC in #datadog on irc.freenode.net

Don't be shy if you have questions when running pup.
There are much more sympathetic stories about people's lives being ruined by drug laws.

May be. But those stories don't make this story "light". He still had his life destroyed, for what? Some lame laws, and some inefficiency in the system?
I'm one of the co-founders of LaunchBit. @jhuckestein, feel free to ping me if you have specific qs about the campaign you're thinking of running. If we're not able to reach the demographic that you want to reach, I will definitely tell you. Obviously, we want to make sure that our advertisers are successful, because it's easier for us to retain customers than to get new ones. So we've turned away advertisers before if we don't think we're a good fit. elizabeth [at] launchbit
Hopefully they don't delete it from Apple TV too.
I was just developing with headless gem [0] in a new open data project [1] (shameless plug) and I found this "issue".

For the record, I come from a hardcore Linux background (no Windows in my home ;)

Nicely handled by Apple, instead of permanently remove it and leave no trace, they shipped a "xstub" binary, symlinked all the binaries in /usr/X11/bin to it and make it show a clear way to install XQuartz.

IMHO, it is not a big deal, as some already pointed.

[0] https://github.com/leonid-shevtsov/headless

[1] https://github.com/qomun/pipar
I feel like you're not seeing the comparison I'm drawing here.

The doctors who are being screwed over by our drug laws aren't breaking the law. They are the victims of an error prone and occasionally capricious effort to suppress illegal narcotics dealing by unscrupulous doctors.

This guy did break the law, did it knowingly, and got caught in part because he displayed poor judgement in dealing with the police and prosecutors.

I am not saying "do not have sympathy for this guy". I'm saying, "meter that sympathy out in comparison to people who have truly been ruined by capricious drug laws".
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Physician, heal thyself. You're objecting to the story because the subject is not maximally sympathetic, and because his life was only semi-obliterated. Drug prohibition exists purportedly to protect people from the harmful effects of drugs. The subject was harming no one, including himself, and yet his livelihood was taken away from him. It should not be hard for you to see that this is a travesty, even if worse things happen to other people.
Interesting- I had read the exact opposite. I stand corrected.
> I was surprised that the protagonist was so unsympathetic;

Well, that's the point. When you have a doctor sorting something out for a very poor, dying, patient who is in immense pain most people are going to agree that the doctor should be protected.

So let's move down the scale of sympathy, and see if we can still get people to agree that drug laws are causing more harm than they solve. Because if we want to change drugs laws we want to talk about the majority of drug users, not about obscure edge cases.

So, we talk about a man with a small amount of an illegal substance; having broken one law (speeding); in a car with a friend with drug paraphernalia; having spent time with other drug users; who admits to trading (him saying "I was going to give it away" was stupid, he should have said he was going to flush it.) - now we have someone pretty unsympathetic.

We ask how society benefits from him finding it harder to get work; from spending all that time and money pushing him through a system; from him taking resources that could have been used on more serious addicts; etc.

With no previous convictions, and no evidence of drug misuse he could have been asked to be available for random drug testing for a year.

It's not as if he was working with machinery, or driving vehicles, or working with children. Drug use among bankers isn't going to end up with a factory on fire.
Square has a good solution built on node & mongo called cube (http://square.github.com/cube/).

To build custom UIs they wrote javascript libraries Crossfilter (http://square.github.com/crossfilter/) & Cubism (http://square.github.com/cubism/)
Give me a break. Carrying around one of the most famously illegal prescription narcotics is not the same as "the 502 and 1/2 federal felonies you can commit while making orange juice for yourself in the morning".

Am I violating some federal law somehow as we speak? Perhaps, but I am not aware of which one. This guy was fully aware of what he was doing.
Buy a prepaid SIM and tell them you want $25/1gb of data. They might force you to buy a $25 rate plan that goces you some minutes and texts. Dont turn on celluar data. Connect to wifi and go to APNChanger.com

Use the wiki to look up your GSM carrier's APN settings.

Using APNChanger's manual entry option, enter the correct settings and install the APN. You may now turn on cellular data. If it says you're not subscribed to a plan when you try to load a website, turn off data, uninstall the APN and repeat, paying careful attention to the APN settings - you typed them in wrong.

At the end of the month, set your data plan to auto renew and make sure you have enough money in your prepaid account so that it does. You'll be charged a few cents for texts and calls if you make them.

You also may have to cut the SIM down to fit in your iPhone.
It's faster, especially on 4.1, because Google has better technology than Apple.
@patio11 Thanks a lot for mentioning me in your blog again. I was wondering why there was a spike in my visitor log.

I would love to do a redesign for Appointment Reminder if you're interested :)
If you buy a phone unlocked (as I did from Apple) you can put any SIM in and it will work flawlessly.
Know of course that the DoJ can rule whatever it wants; the DoJ does not have total authority over state prosecutors. Recording the police in states that don't condone it can still get you in a lot of trouble.
Drug laws are bad.
Since HiRISE appears to be more of a "scanner" than an instant-in-time snapshot, I was curious why they had to pick a specific second to take a "photo", instead of just scanning across the likely region. It seems that the answer is on-satellite memory: since the images can't be transmitted anywhere near real-time, they have to fit into the 3.5 GiB local storage. That limits the 20,000-pixel wide "scanner" to recording 126,000 pixels along its trajectory before running out of memory, with a long pause for transmission before it can start recording again.
I had too :(

However, it's easily the best phone I've ever owned. I much prefer it to the iPhone, too.
Thanks for the question. We stopped focusing resources on Likealittle about 6 months ago to focus on our mobile app (what is now Circle www.discoverCircle.com). We believe that in order to give ourselves the greatest chance of being successful, we need to fully focus on one product so that we are thinking about it day and night and not diluting our resources. We think of Circle as a product in the same general space as Likealittle was (location based interaction), but with a much broader appeal and larger possible end game. I knew I was going to spend the same amount of time stressing, worrying and working hard no matter what startup I had so I want to do the idea that I am most passionate about and think has the biggest chance of changing the way the world works. Likealittle felt like sugar water to me... We learned an incredible amount about community management, viral marketing, and communication with our users through Likealittle and use those learnings on a daily basis as we develop Circle further. Btw, on a side note, I do think there is a market for anonymous location based chatting & flirting and if the community is well managed, somebody could run a successful site doing that. If somebody is extraordinarily interested in it, I'd be happy to let them know the "recipe" to get the initial takeoff on a college campus and may be willing to hand over our code if of interest.
Even the article points out that his life was not destroyed.

In the headline.
As one of the co-founders, I can tell you that click fraud and bots are certainly issues with many ad networks. This is something we think about a lot. We try to pre-empt this by writing algorithms to not count clicks of known-bots. But, people are always coming up with new bots, so it's impossible to apriori block every bot. So, we are constantly retro-actively checking clicks to make sure they are legit. For example, if a publisher yields more clicks on a given campaign than we predict, we'll retroactively take a look through a series of methodical checks and in many cases will do a series of manual checks. And if we find a bot or a ring of folks trying fishy things, we'll retro-actively rectify the situation, so the advertiser doesn't pay for those clicks.
Why is everyone so shocked about the idea this could lead to suicide? After reading this, if I were him, it would be downright appealing. (I am not him, to be very clear. Please don't send help).
People make mistakes. His mistake was to have friends who took drugs and gave him some.

We don't know if he took drugs himself.

Was that mistake enough to warrant the results?

What have I gained from him going through that?
I looked at Datadog, but they still suffer from the same malady everyone else does: inspired by Cacti and Graphite, they use a flat namespace for metric names (e.g. interfaces.eth0.pkts) and host is the only supported dimension you can query against. Unfortunately, none of the monitoring and analytics startups I'm aware of have support for arbitrary dimensions you can query or aggregate against (host, interface, disk, datacenter, etc.).

Without some understanding of the dimensions of the data, it is very difficult to compose dashboards or aggregation rules that have arbitrary filters or can update automatically when new components are added.

I really ought to elaborate in a blog post someday :)
And third point necessary here: because U.S. banks don't have any other reasonable inter-bank transfer system.
I really like this article from Tony Wright which offer good advices.

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Because SPDY has well known flaws (let's call them design choices) for example in caching. There have been many discussions in HN about these topics.

Also, because there is no such a thing as "SPDY" what you are referring to is "SPDY 2 as implemented by Google Chrome and almost fully documented by Google". SPDY is a work in progress. If you want a real deployment to be possible, you need to have at least a fully documented basic core that has been discussed openly, not just an implementation from a corporation subject to changes whenever internal pressures require it.
Aren't they really the "Anti-Stripe" more akin to Dwolla? Banish Credit Cards altogether? Also, I heard there were changes in European direct deposit/ACH laws (the approach Gocardless takes) that will allow them to be European, not just UK, very soon.
We don't have enough of the story to know how harsh the sentence was, and James's mistakes started long before his interactions with the authorities.
The biggest takeaway from this story is that expunging items from your record does not effectively happen anymore. Private data companies pick up this info (before it is expunged) and retain/report it forever.

If this incident happened 2 decades ago, the gentleman would probably have gotten his stock broker job back.
Ive noticed at a couple hackathons that Ive been to(including Disrupt and AngelHack) that a number of teams came with projects that were either already prepared and they just added a feature on top of them or they were already half-done and were completed at the hackathon.

Furthermore ive seen people communicate with remote teams at Hackathon.

Both of these I see as sort of cheating, not unlike doping in sports, since idea of the Hackathon is to show what can be done in 10-20 hours of hacking.
I actually use it a lot for watching subscriptions.

However, it's in bad need of an update (it's ugly as sin). So I won't complain if Google releases a version on the App Store instead.
As far as I know, it's a competitive field and the number of people working in it is limited by the number of positions.
From my point of view, those are a series of very simple mistakes that anyone could make. He even made half of those mistakes under bad "professional" advice.

The whole "war on drugs" is absolutely crazy, by the way.

For what he did, he didn't deserve one percent of that punishment.
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On a similar note, I like to periodically clean out my shell history by dropping commands less than a certain Levenshtein edit distance from earlier commands[1]. Looking at the removed lines would probably produce further ideas for optimizing commands; I'll have to try it next time.

[1] rudimentary script: https://github.com/decklin/bin/blob/master/hprune (haven't bothered to add real option parsing or make it efficient; for shell histories of thousands of lines you probably want to up the search depth to something in the hundreds)
What they are really whining about is not being able to find talent at a cheap price. That is a problem not just for startups but for everyone.
That's a sweeping and unqualified statement. I'm very happy as employee #1 at a very early-stage startup. I'm learning more, and faster, here than I could hope to anywhere else. And not just engineering know-how. I'm getting a de-facto business-school education. On top of it all, I'm having a lot of fun.

The risk is "maybe didn't maximize earnings over n years". The reward, regardless of the startup's success is "learned a lot, enjoyed myself a lot". That's reward I get no matter what.

EDIT: Additionally, I applied in the fashion of #3 (from the article).
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On the iPad at least, I prefer using the desktop version of youtube.com. It works better than the app, and more videos seem to be available due to inane restrictions on "mobile" video viewing in the app and mobile web site.
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> Isn't marginalia

Marginalia was never intended as a system for writing longer form docs... but truth be told I don't know what "longer form doc" means. User manuals?

In any case, Marginalia is trying to fill the "code-reading" space rather than the API and user-manual nitches. For the latter case, I've been experimenting with another tool.[1]

[1]: http://www.github.com/fogus/trout
Unfortunately you need a SSN and EIN.

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You're prescribing a bandaid solution to what is a much deeper problem. The reason you're avoiding a search is to prevent the system from screwing you over so deeply and completely. Where does this leave individuals like those in the original post?

Correct me if I'm wrong but your opinion seems to be that because he didn't know his right you can't feel sorry for him. This suggests to me that the punishment for not knowing the law is being subject to the law in all its ineptitude.

You're solving the wrong problem. What really concerns me is that you do it with such conviction.
Guess this is because no other country has that level of expertise of space program like US.
Will you do any CPA deals?
Draz is right; let's flesh it out a bit.

One answer is: Value-added features. The open-source product does X, but the product from a vendor does X + Y. This is a tempting business model for vendors because you can build feature Y once, then sell it over and over with relatively little additional cost per sale.

The other answer is: Trained talent, continuously on tap.

If you're a company and you use an open-source product internally, there will be times when you want the advice of an expert. Something has broken and you need help finding the problem. You want to improve performance and you want advice on how. New features have come out in the open-source product and you need someone to explain what they are and how they might benefit your company.

What do you do? You can look for free advice online in forums or IRC. But the best advisors don't work for free very often. And those who do work for free won't prioritize your request for help over all the others that flood these kinds of forums. Your company may have tens of thousands of dollars riding on this. You would happily spend many extra dollars to get a definitive answer now. You need a well-connected matchmaker to help you connect your big check with the appropriate talent.

You could look for a well-regarded consultant. But identifying the good ones and testing them takes a lot of preparation. Even if your address book has been primed with the contact info of the best consultants, they have backlogs. Just getting them on the phone may be difficult. Worse, what if trouble strikes and you call the consultants and find that they're all booked up, or retired, or they've switched to consulting on iOS development and abandoned your platform?

You could find or train a brilliant expert in your open-source tech and then hire them full time to sit around waiting for the need to act. But that's awfully inefficient. And then the expert gets bored playing Tetris all day and gets hired away or goes off to found a startup, and you're back on square one.

Enter the support firm. They'll sell you "support contracts" (pay advisors/troubleshooters by the hour, with a minimum number of hours per month) or "professional services" (pay the developers by the day, week, or project for larger-scale projects than are given to "support". Either way, you get folks who meet a minimum standard set by the support firm, and who often have the ability to escalate questions directly to the experts who built the tool in the first place.
A. I agree that there are much sadder stories about how drug laws and poverty put people into situations where they have no other choice.

B. He is not the 1%. If a 1%er kid got pulled over with a bunch of drugs in his pockets it would be a totally different story. He would probably not consent to a search because his lawyer would have already told him not to. Even if he had consented to a search, the cop probably would get a call from the sheriff, governor, attorney general, etc.. telling him that the kid should be let go. Even if the kid was arrested, a team of lawyers would be searching for loop holes and connections to the DA to get the case dropped. Even if the kid was convicted, the lawyers would appeal. And large donations would be made to the election campaigns of govenor,DA, etc.. to try and get a pardon or retrial.