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This is an extreme example which lacks any depth of insight. It would be like me arguing; why don't governments print loads more money and we will all be rich as my reason they should not print anymore than we have today.

To stay on the money analogy; we want governments to print THE RIGHT amount of money. If they print too little the economy will suffer just as much as if they print too much. This is the same as a minimum wage. If it is too low it damages things like consumption and quality of life. Too much and it is damaging competitiveness etc.

I would suggest the best answer to this whole debate is in empirical data. Look at countries that have similar economies low AND high minimum wages and see what works best on the majority of case.

Also personal views weight this argument. My lean on this is argument is that a country should be run to give the largest amount of people the best quality of life possible. If you have no problem with a large poor/rich gap you could easily argue to keep minimum wage down.

Also Germany doesn't have a minimum wage but has legally enforced collective bargaining. Companies don't just pay what they think people are worth. Your example is not really givings the full story by pointing out there is no statutory minimum wage. Their government has employed a different system to ensure wage levels meet workers needs and is nothing like giving companies carte blanche to pay poverty wages.
I've got no argument with, "If... you find yourself about to say “But you shouldn’t want to do X” for any value of X, you should be nervous." When he nearly proposes repealing HIPAA (which might be a good idea for other reasons!), however, he's in the weeds. If there is a disagreement between the real world and your protocol, your protocol is wrong.
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We still have people who argue over whether Han shot first, whether Kirk or Picard would win in a fight, or whether they'd be on Team Edward or Team Jacob.

In such a world, I'd like to think that something as absolutely chilling as the military using deadly force against an American citizen without trial, based just on some assholes's say-so, would at least have warranted a comment. But I'm willing to bet most hackers who saw the movie were much more annoyed by the inaccurate "hacking" scenes than they were by the F-22.
I have found Coinbase to be pretty convenient for buying and selling bitcoins.

For how to keep them secure once you have them, I recommend simply doing some research. Coinbase provides a basic wallet and if I remember correctly, they cold store most of their coins offline.

Blockchain.info is another good option for a basic wallet. It's simple with a good amount of features. Your wallet is also decrypted in-browser and not on their server so they don't store compromising information.

There are also concepts such as a paper wallet [1] and a brainwallet [2] for extreme security. A brainwallet is basically what it sounds like - a way of storing your wallet in your head.

[1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Paper_wallet
[2] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Brainwallet
BitCoin trading at all-time high
If it doesn't work in Firefox you're probably not following standards. Why?
> do it all for fun not because you want to 'improve' yourself

Some skills/knowledge aren't fun to develop, yet it's worthwhile to keep learning them, so what you're saying sounds to me like it'd result in skipping some important things.
Thanks for the advice Im currently taking courses at codeacademy so I can have some basic understanding I love this community people are genuinely eager to give good advice I appreciate it.
Deliberate corruption is still corruption. As for your comparison to MPEG audio, I feel that's symptomatic - high-frequency components are perceptually negligible in audio, but stand out in video (until the stroboscopic effect). You wouldn't want to use the same encoder for both.

The Gibbs effect is absolutely due to discontinuities not being gracefully handled by a Fourier transform. Luckily point samples from a continuous function don't have to worry about that like a fully defined discrete function might, which is why I expect people want to define pixels as the former.
Please... People don't hire teens when the economy is weak because they are less reliable than adults. In the late 90's, fast food places were desperate for anyone -- they would hire folks willing to work as little as 4 hours a week!

The sob story about the impact of minimum wage on companies is bogus. I was an asst manager in high school for a bakery/cafe... 20 employees, about 23000 hours of work each year... A minimum wage increase amounts to $25-30k a year, not a big deal.

Wal-Mart is another great example... You have like 300 employees at a store, probably 3 million man-hours a year. So a minimum wage increase amounts to $3-4M a year -- peanuts for a company where average revenue per employee is $200k.
One important change this year. Tickets are no longer sellable or transferable. This is a change from previous years.
jailbreak + nitrous. problem solved. :)
> No one is accepting Bitcoin as payment and then holding on to them in order to buy something else or pay their workers.

Brewster Kahle at archive.org gives his employees the option to be paid in bitcoin received by the site.

> As a long term (or medium-term anyway) store of value, Bitcoin is really quite useless for the time being.

That's quite incorrect. Bitcoin has proven to be an excellent tool for buying low, waiting for a price rise, trading some of the bitcoin for gold, selling some of the gold and buying more bitcoin with the proceeds.

It's a great tool if you're willing to learn how to use it.
Hmmm....
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Analogies generally compare specific similarities in two otherwise unlike things.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_Analogy
Looking thru the links now good stuff Thanks I appreciate you.
dave, I tried :-)

Honestly it doesn't work. It's not sth that's filling a gap. They have Twitter/Facebook/IG (very few are still into Orkut :P) blah-blah. So, they just won't use it.

It's not everyone who hates those farmville updates, spam links etc (like me or many others). Most are just fine with it. AAMOF most of my friends enthusiastically re-share those bs videos(some are not even videos). Taste for a minimal and clean experience is sth very scarce.

All this happens on desktop, in a browser. Not in the mobile app. Mobile app just a link for them(and for me too) to look at sth new and very interesting(if there at all) and then use the app extensively on the desktop.

Actually I am not very positively hopeful about apps like WhatsApp either. It's not uniform. Hell, I would rather chat with GTalk everywhere - both desktop and phone, rather than WhatsApp on phone and then Gtalk on desktop. I love the idea of keeping messaging/chat separated from mail but it needs to come everywhere.

Only apps I successfully converted many in my circle with are Dropbox, Astrid/Any.do, Evernote(maximum)/SimpleNote(because of the very good Windows app Resoph), WhatsApp, Pocket etc - because they filled a gap more or less.
Hmmm. Interesting....

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[Authorea consultant here] This feature is quite exciting. Using JS based plotting capabilities like D3.js will allow users to do two things at once.

(1) Provide dynamic figures to represent data that is normally ineffective in static form and (2) provide the code and data that was used to create it. This helps others reproduce the results from the data to figure form, which is a feature that is definitely missing in PDF publications.
It uses the sandbox feature for an iframe in html5. It doesn't seem to be supported yet in Firefox. Although if it is I'm sure someone will correct me.
They enable their children to not be malnourished.
This is interesting...

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Filibuster the way it's used today is a dirty hack. But Sen. Paul is actually using it legitimately by standing and debating/speaking instead of just declaring 'I filibuster' and going home (implying that he would speak forever but doesn't need to since it's merely a formality). It's actually the most refreshing political action I've seen in a while. They're talking through the night, live now: http://www.c-span.org/Live-Video/C-SPAN2/

He vows to speak as long as he's physically able.
That's why if you go to a restaurant in Australia you have to serve yourself - certainly nobody will be coming to your table to help you unless you're paying at least $50 per head.

Whether that is right or wrong depends on the observer. But it is true.
I use Path regularly to stay in touch with my close friends I think the interface is beautiful. My Facebook has a ton of people on it, including many relatives whom I feel bad turning down but basically do nothing but share quotations and cute animal pics. I use couple to communicate with my fiancé and I use medigram for work. I've found it useful to actually separate groups of people into different apps, be it personal or coworkers, since each app is tailored to how i would like to share information with those people. Also makes it easier to go back and find previous messages from a certain individual.
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Interesting. You openly admit to gaming HN by having people on you team vote on your submissions. Though I think it might not benefit you because this site has voting ring protections. Not knockin on you, because I do enjoy discovering about your posts on Twitter. Just making an observation.

Also, few people here have as much game as she does.
They're pretty different use cases. Upverter is about circuit layout for the purposes of making PCBs; CircuitLab is for simulating, especially to better understand timing, analog stuff, etc.
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Why not just use rabbit?
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"Synchronization of concurrent, related, mutable data structures" is totally clear to me.
Fuel pumps and efficient energy homes
>>who are sophisticated quality and privacy-conscious internet users

Well, then.. you just said it :-)
This doesn't work on my computer. Do I need to have Javascript installed? How do I do that?
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As if the courts never struck anything down or ruled against the government. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_landmark_court_decision...
yeah, i think the assumption is that you are also on a conference call at the same time.

but i get your point, having a little quick chat thing integrated with screenhero would be good if you aren't also on a voice call.
I'd like to go, but I am working at a seed stage company and don't have $900 to blow on conference tickets. Sadly, I'm not a student now either. No breaks for poor programmers?
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Labeling sure is a tricky business. There are certain lines you cross in life though-- you get locked up, you live the rest of your life as an "ex-con" to most of society. Speaking for myself but I think also many others in this community, if you troll, whether you are later considered an "ex-troll" or just a "troll" doesn't matter, you trolled. It's an egregious offense that was foolishly committed and they will always regret it now, as they should.
I think fair use makes it legal point blank. DMCA can't override it (DMCA contradicts fair use directly). But this can be open to interpretation by judges and etc. - would be good to hear some clarification from experts.
Accidentally commented instead of replying.
http://www.constitutionproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/0... is an excellent summary of the (lack of) legal basis for the Korean war.
That's not how capitalism works.
Uh, what? Australian citizen who gets back home every few years here... again, huh?
> You haven't answered the question on the morality of bombing Peenemunde (the V2 construction facilities), over 700 Polish civilians were killed in one bombing alone. Do you have an answer?

Was that ever a question? He was replying to your points.

The implication that I was drawing from the line of argumentation is that if you can find it moral to carpet bomb whole cities during WWII then you should be able to find a moral justification to bomb specific aggressors in 2013, especially given the insanely higher risk of collateral damage during WWII.

The converse would then apply: If you can't find it moral to ever have collateral damage occur in 2013 then you shouldn't be able to find it moral to have been done in WWII, as the atrocities during WWII were of horrifyingly higher orders of magnitude.

So the question wasn't for him; it was for you.

Even if "suspected terrorists" had the 10 metric fuck-tons of asterisks that you say should be there, there would still have been much more accurate planning going into each military operation in 2013 than there was in 1941-1945 (and probably by an order of magnitude). I'm presuming that you found at least most of those WWII bombing attacks could be justified as the grim price of war; what is the difference now? That would help better clarify your position.
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No, that used to happen to me almost all the time. My habits only just recently adapted to it.

It's funny how ubiquitous unfeatures are that when we're treated to nice features we unintentionally sabotage them. We have to unlearn the former habits.
Squid handles external http requests that are made from cloud code.
Yep. In fact, many users expect you to go into their account to see what they are seeing or what they are doing wrong, at least our customers do. It's the same data you can access in the database.
Why don't you ask an adult black male about the ever increasing power of the government and whether or not he should be afraid:

According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) non-Hispanic blacks accounted for 39.4% of the total prison and jail population in 2009.[43][not in citation given] According to the 2010 census of the US Census Bureau blacks (including Hispanic blacks) comprised 13.6% of the US population.[44][45][46]

Or the fact that 1 in 10 people in the U.S. are currently incarcerated in the prison system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_St...
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/race/news/2012/03/13/...
But the programs in mac suck - consider xcode (or x-crap). Random crashes, a stupid paranoid public-private key environment (for iphone dev and the horrors of code signing), groups that don't 1-on-1 map to source folders, etc.

Also finder sucks compared to windows explorer. :)
Saw it somewhere online (probably Facebook) last night, and figured HN would like it.
Use a modern browser.
I don't think being mobile only is Path's problem. Plenty of social networks like Instagram and WhatsApp have flourished without a webpage. For most people, Path doesn't offer anything they don't get from Facebook, or Twitter, or Foursquare, or Instagram, so they stop posting or checking the app.
>The legislature created the law in question and has no so far seen fit to amend it.

The point is we could encourage them to do so.

>You would make a selective prosecution argument under the equal protection clause, but you would likely lose as other defendants with fewer resources seem able to navigate the trial process even with public defenders rather than counsel of their choice.

It's not even necessarily selective prosecution. All defendants face the same calculus. The trouble is that paying for and living through years of trials and appeals is arguably a greater penalty than going to jail for a few months. Even if you're totally innocent you can rationally be better off pleading guilty than proving it in court. Even if you win you don't get a free ride in a time machine to undo all the hours and years you had to spend to do it.

>I think access to the courts is sadly lacking in many respects, and would be quite happy to see Congress give the courts more money even at the price of higher taxes.

I don't think it's a money problem. It's a scale problem. We prosecute way too many people. Throwing money at it might provide a certain level of improvement, but it does nothing to address the root issue that so many people are committing crimes and have to be prosecuted. In cases where the crimes are legitimately nefarious, the money would be better spent improving social and educational institutions to the point that future would-be perpetrators are better able to find work or other satisfaction in their lives and don't turn to criminality. In cases where the "crimes" are violations of existing law that cause no real harm to anyone, they should be made trivial offenses or taken off the books entirely so that resources wasted on prosecuting them can be used for some better purpose. If we can significantly reduce the number of people being prosecuted, the amount of resources spent on each side of a trial can be increased and it will still cost less money overall than it does today.
To piggyback on, the AUMF also explicitly mentions that it is the Act required in accordance with the earlier War Powers Act. They really leave it crystal-clear that the AUMF is very much intended to give the President the "Commander-in-Chief for a declared war" powers that Congress is able to grant.

It's horribly over-broad and open-ended, but Congress has only themselves to blame (and they can rein in the Act if they wish as well, or at least make the President try to veto it).
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You can make them yourselves with Open Street map tools, good satellite images and Amazon Mechanical Turk. :)

Of course, you should definitely ask some of those map providers first.
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I think it makes sense on Google where that's all you're going to do (more than just a common use case, it's almost the ONLY use case, probably like five 9s).

I don't think it makes sense on Amazon. A typical amazon user may browse around and explore outside of search. Maybe most of the time they will search, but there are no doubt other use cases like using the fancy nav. It's even possible that they want to encourage user's the browse around a bit instead of finding what they want and leaving right away.
Looks great! One quick comment - the links on the left hand side of an article should only take up enough space to fit the text for the links, so more space can be dedicated to the article.

Ex: https://www.authorea.com/users/1/articles/483/_show_article

Otherwise, it looks great - I'm going to be starting to write my thesis soon, and I plan to try this out.
This is 2013 - these issues that the author states are very non-existent. I've used Ubuntu (before their switch to Unity and Amazon search) and Linux Mint and am happy with my experiences overall.

What the author misses is that it is unprincipled to use closed ecosystems like Apple since it helps to support them. Vote with your wallet.
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Can I ask that same adult black male whether they'd want to be alive in America in 1963, 1943, 1893, and 1863?

It's true though, that stupid gub'mint is getting so intrusive. Why, I'll bet pretty soon they'll be putting up propaganda posters telling us to save animal fats from our dinner, or actually (gasp!) rationing food like we were a bunch of Commies!
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The underlying assumption in your argument is that when someone who is not on minimum wage earns an income, whether through profit, dividend or earnings, gets reinvested rather than 'spent'.

OK, I'll go along with that - most people invest their excess earnings above a certain level.

But that's where your understanding breaks down. Those 'investments' are not money stuffed in a mattress. Mostly it is kept in financial instruments or directly in businesses or properties. Each one of those investments is making people better off, whether by employing minimum wage workers, building houses for people, or delivering services - whatever - but it's not stuck under a mattress. Even if it is put in a bank account as cash, the bank then takes that money and re-lends it out to seomeone else to finance a house, a business, a car - whatever.

I'll agree that tax cuts to the poor are an excellent stimulus - as long as they are replaced with commensurate reduction in public spending. It is far better to cut the tax rate for a low income earner and let that earner decide what to do with the extra cash, than to take it as taxes and have a beuracrat decide what to do with that persons cash.

Of course, cutting taxes for every income level is the best plan overall, as long as you cut government spending at the same time. And for most governments, that means cutting welfare spending. If you let low income earners keep more of their cash, then you spend less on welfare.
Picasso never said that. Jobs misquoted. But the real quote from T.S. Eliot is better: “Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is torn.”
I don't think they are really the bad guys. Just that it is a lot easier to advocate a jump in the minimum wage when it doesn't effect your payments. They would be the good guys for having these better wages in the first place.
Scale all the things: 'Setup a caching layer (Memcached, Redis, Varish)'...if only it was just that easy.

Prep for scaling should be something like;

1. testing to see when you'll need to
2. monitoring so you know when
3. planning before you reach date / time from #2 how you'll do it
4. implement
5. test you've done #4 properly
6. release
7. repeat the whole process

Work out a methodical way that makes sense. "Setup a caching layer" is not that.
Start out by sending dummy data as fast as you can. Once you've sent a few TB you can be relatively confident that it's going to a terminal instead of a file (which would have filled up the disk by now). Then you can start slowly sending the real data.
The thing is, he's asking the Executive Branch to do Congress' job for it. If he wants to see constraint's on the President's authority to take military action, then he should introduce legislation to either curb the use of drones or amend the AUMF, which currently grans the President extremely broad authority.

Since 2001 the stage has begun to be set for widespread drone and autonomous warfare, free of pesky human flesh and the laws that constrain it.

The civilian casualty rate from drone warfare is an awful lot lower than other kinds as far as I can see. It's a distinct improvement on aerial bombardment.
What do employers really want from college grads?
That's more of a consequence of low wage levels in general.

As a counterexample: Singapore doesn't really have much labour protection nor minimum wage laws to speak of.
You honestly find the demonstration in this link to be too many steps? It takes less than a second to navigate. Literally.
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Tried them. It says:

"Sorry, the maximum number of purchases on Coinbase has been reached for today. Please try again in 24 hours. We'll continue raising this limit over time."

These sort of security and reliability concerns are certain to hold bitcoin back. Granted they also represent the opportunity, as surely they will be resolved.
You can message anyone you share a common friend with. For a network that considers itself personal and private, I believe the user should be able to choose who has the ability to message them.