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> What is the demand for a medium of exchange?

People accept a medium of exchange in exchange for their goods and services because they trust that they can later exchange it for something they want.

The "demand" for a medium of exchange lies in direct bartering being inconvenient, because whoever wants something you have, might not have something you want, right then and there. In this case, instead of a trade not happening, you can just accept a medium of exchange, and use it later to get what you want.

> Why not just use monopoly money, or acorns, or lumps of clay?

If people knew they could exchange lumps of clay for goods and services, they would accept them as payment for goods and services.

> What drives the citizens of a country to use the currency issued or authorized by that country's government?

That very same government?
Is there transactional noSQL database?
Was he also asked by his employer to take down his "final year university project" that this was supposed to be? That sounds a little bit incongruous to me. Or was the "final year university project" also somehow related to his job output preceding in the creation of said final year project?
Even IP created outside of work?
forked. thanks
I suppose the key question is what came first - was code that the creator was exposed to whilst in employment incorporated into Chart.js, or was code created by the creator incorporated into projects at work.

Clearly in the former case, the employer would have a more legitimate reason to express concern than the latter. However, in any event, as other posters have identified, there could be very positive PR benefits from supporting the open sourcing of the project.

In any event, the main justification for retaining the secrecy of a project would be to maintain a competitive advantage however, the extent of the competitive advantage is dependent on the complexity of the code and the ease with which equivalent functionality could be reproduced independently. That's a subject which I would be interested to hear more on.
>Overtime doesn't apply to white collar workers.

Not necessarily true. Its a big can of worms that I suspect an employer might not want to pry open.

http://www.flsa.com/overtime.html
http://www.flsa.com/computer.html
I agree.

I think I'd be more interested in articles that told me how to recreate a feature from a product, rather than a guess at the whole product.

For example, something that tells me what potatoes to use (or how to cook them, or what oil and heat to use) to make fries could be more interesting. Especially if it went into some of the science of food. (So, in the fries example, what the starch granules are doing and how that affects taste, or what the oil does at different temperatures, and how that affects mouth feel.)

This isn't a plea for molecular gastronomy either.
Someone proposed chewing gum as a way around this. This gives the jaw some exercise as well.
I spent 10 years doing CC processing for high-risk sites. So, I feel for the challenge you have ahead of you. =)

That being said, do you differentiate on the type of fraud? Fraud is not fraud. I guess my question revolves around real fraud (stolen cc data being used), and friendly fraud (me charging back a transaction fraudulently claiming I never received a service). I'd be curious to know if you are handling that, and how. Is it merely a case of asking the people using your system to rate a particular transaction a certain way and putting into the pool of data to be processed? Or do you do something more?

Also, you mention skipping verification steps. Do you do things to recommend specific extra steps, or do you just provide a score and then let the client figure it out? For example, a score of 90 might be reached in different ways. In some ways, you an automated phone call could alleviate much of the concern, while it in other cases, it wouldn't. I guess the question really comes down to whether you provide guidance on which verification steps to take.
Agreed, but he's based in the UK, so the 'we own all your IP' thing doesn't apply here. On company time yes, in your own time I believe not. Your own time would not be "in the course of his or her employment."

http://www.ipo.gov.uk/types/copy/c-ownership/c-employer.htm
It's good in the sense that it's not clear there's a better alternative, but there is a painful point with a significant part of the market using a crippled design and losing value -- just to make the market segmentation possible.

If there was some other way to do the market segmentation: those who derive $X of value from the chip pay $X, and those who derive $Y pay $Y, without the crippling, then more economic value would be derived.

An example alternative for this approach could possibly be funding such developments with income tax. Then everyone can gain from the benefits of an uncrippled product, and the income tax already approximates how much value you gain from the R&D. This introduces a whole host of other problems, of course, but it does solve the crippling problem.
We're just in the process of nailing down the venue, but aiming for the end of May / start of June (essentially once we've managed to do some more testing and integrate some new data sources).

Without giving too much away (I'll get shot by the press team!), its a single API covering all modes of travel in London and surrounding areas, mostly for the first time, think fares, enhanced accessibility options, geodata etc.

Drop me a mail and I'll get you on the invite list if your interested.
10% would be on the low side for either a recruitment agency or, to run with the Ari Gold analogy, a talent agent. 15% would be more realistic, although I see recruiters trying to charge considerably more. Unscrupulous recruiters often will try to hide how much their cut is from their freelancers.
Fabrice is a 2 time winner of the IOCCC http://www.ioccc.org/winners.html#B.
Obfuscation is more than enough to protect the code. You need only to make the cost of ripping it off greater than or equal to the cost of creating it. IP is so much more than the code. It's the concepts, the graphics, everything.
Speak to them and get an exemption, even on a case-by-case basis. Those ideas need to not die out, and you might find that being able to give life to them makes you simply a better employee.
More importantly, this is UK-based employment, and consequently, unless specifically available in the contract, overtime would not generally be available in this scenario.
"That's true if and only if he didn't continue to refine and contribute to the code after entering employment, and specifically, didn't use it at his place of employment."

The same could be applied in reverse: if he wrote a considerable part of the code before entering employment and did use it at his place of employment, what does it say about the employer's right to use it? Or is it "since you're working here now, we can use all you ever wrote exclusively even if you didn't license it to us"?
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He turned down 1 million (by Microsoft for his audio software) before that, so it's not so unlikely that he would turn down a similar offer.
Linode's 8GB($319) plan to Digital Ocean's 4GB($40) plan and we were seeing a 10-12% increase in performance for large queries.
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We do have a similar rule (with similar origins), but it has to be contractually asserted, and it would only apply to portions of code integrated into a larger 'visual work' - mostly it doesn't come into play outside of contracting.
What if that's the other way around? He wrote something for himself and at later time was hired and did some work for company and that work was based on his previous work that he had all copyright for.

Wouldn't company had no right to use the code that he wrote for them because it would mean infringing on his copyright, or copyright of his mom if he sold the rights to the original software to her?
Two things that actual banking and travel industry experts told me in 1995: "nobody will do banking over the Internet" and "nobody will book travel on the Web".

The reasons they provided sounded completely plausible - but turned out to also be completely wrong.

So I'd be careful about "experts" dismissing ideas based on their incorrect assumptions.
Oh man, that is some serious proliterian rage.

I have to wonder: why is it that someone thinks they can retroactively demand overtime pay for work that wasn't agreed in advance?

As a contractor, I really don't understand this attitude.
The IP of my final year (UK) university project belongs to the University not me, and not to the company that was sponsoring me for my final year.
They have no reason to. The initial (mis-spelled) sale will net them their expected revenue, and by allowing people to flip goods at a profit they are now also sharing a piece of the (regurgitated?) cake. Same item, double the income... and at what price? Developer hours? Not at all!
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I haven't looked in detail at how this works - but what is the Fraudster has JavaScript disabled or disables the http requests to Sift Science?

How do you gather data in that case - can fraudsters not just go "under the radar" ?

Maybe there is more to this than the techcrunch article states which is "Businesses can integrate Sift Science’s technology by copying and pasting a small snippet of Javascript code to their sites, the company says."
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Hi All,

(http://www.mistrics.com/) I made a project that helps in documenting Academic projects and sharing them with teachers. It also provides facility to ask questions. Students needs to simply create projects, after that just create task and documents under it. Also inviting others into team and so on....

In Indian colleges this process is all manual right now. And I am trying to get this process online.

I am not getting any traction so far. Any clue what's wrong with that?

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Unless an employee contract says otherwise, the default copyright position is that all work done is part of "work-for-hire".[1] There are a few reasons for this, and Joel Spolsky covered them pretty well.[2]

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_for_hire

[2]: http://answers.onstartups.com/questions/19422/if-im-working-...
My mistake - I always thought 'chiclet keyboards, named after the gum' referred to the rubber-mat keys that are truly horrible to type on, when it refers to the style of contacts (rubber mat, but can have hard plastic caps).
Someone found the company further down; linking to comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5400190

EDIT: Many people have pointed that its not the correct company.

EDIT2: http://www.expert-24.com/ seems to be the correct company, and seems more plausible to have IP problem with chart.js (don't got lynch them, seriously!)
Perhaps the cleanest and most polite thing people could do with this would be "keep the API, completely rewrite the implementation, throw away the original".
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Hollywood agents are capped at 10%, Hollywood managers typically are more like 15%. Agents are "forbidden" by California law to produce projects, though that line can be awfully blurry. Managers can't, in theory, directly negotiate contracts. In theory.

A lot of talent ends up with both a manager and an agent, each with their own percentage.

Toss in an attorney at 5+% and you can see how the Hollywood money really flows.
I think if they were added on both Android and iOS, they would sell much better. I know many, many people that are fan enough to shell out money for these games, but not fan enough (anymore) to get a dedicated console, portable or otherwise, myself included.
Presumably that testing is catered to the specific children the teachers are teaching, rather than testing that is catered to some kind of national standardized performance metric.
This is great! To make it even more quicklook-like, what I'd like to see is an option to:

* change keyboard combo to Spacebar (I never use it while browsing anyway)

* on keycombo press, open the link the mouse is currently hovering over, without needing to actually click the link

That would make it even better for me, but it's already looking very useful.
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>This statement is content free. "Different" is sufficiently general in this context as to be completely useless.

Please allow me to be more specific. Western European and North American governments are not, in terms of quality of leadership or structure of administration, tangibly different from many governments not present in those regions. Further, seizure of land is not unknown in the US.

If the government isn't particularly different, is it some quality of the people present in those countries that makes you so confident that they wouldn't take physical property?

>Which is true by observation. Governments in first world countries are demonstrably not doing this.

That's an interesting point to make because prior to this instance, governments in the developed world didn't take 10% of deposits, either.

>I don't understand the point you're trying to make here. This conversation has nothing to do with electricity or what defines a person to be "better".

Well, your response to my prior statement about the assumption that social and governmental changes are brought about along with technological changes was "if you say so."

This is generally something people say when they don't agree, but can't or don't want to prove their point. It's a tactic used to undermine the argument of the opposition without presenting a defined counter. I was responding to that.
My takeaway from the presentation at Clojure West is that Pedestal is a generic perception library, and rendering UIs is just one of many things it will be used for.

Also, this is very alpha stuff, so many of the details are yet to be worked out.
The golden decade of neuroscience?
Without a specific licence there would be an implicit contract that the employer could use the library for any projects that Nick has used the library on.

If after Nick leaves they would be on shaky ground if they used it on other projects that Nick hadn't worked on.

IANL but that's my understanding of the law in the UK.
Given that it's not a currency according to the government, you probably don't need to pay taxes when you earn a profit in it. When you receive goods and services in exchange for it, you may need to take those as income (since you didn't pay for them) and pay real taxes on the dollar value of that.

There are probably ways bitcoin could survive without being convertible, but there would be major inefficiencies.

In general, currencies must be convertible to other currencies to be widely accepted. You can't deposit foreign currencies that are not convertible because there is no value to a bank.
why is it that someone thinks they can retroactively demand overtime pay for work that wasn't agreed in advance

They shouldn't. They then also have no duty to supply that work free of charge to someone who never agreed to its creation. (Which is what he was willing to give by open sourcing it btw)
also, an after-event pub announced before and in between the talks so that people can hang out later on.
I'm not a lawyer, and the rules get messy - I'd need to do at least a few hours of research to answer you with any confidence. The type of stuff you're talking about is not addressed by the code itself, it's tangled up in case law, which is the reason that lawyers go to school forever.

Personally, I would write that 'previous work' as a library, open-source it, and then use the library at the company later. That's clearly safe.
Pitch your tent where it's dry
Those limits are certainly not correct, I have taken out around $2000 in 3 withdrawals within 5 minutes in one ATM (SEB) earlier this year.

The SMS payment change was not due to the new EU directive, it was due to the telcos wanted to change it. SMS payment from anonymous prepaid cards were already not possible.
I completely agree.

I normally skip many of the presentations in order to talk with people outside.

The whole point on these events for me is to find good hackers or business guys to work with, I can sit coding or watching biz/tech presentations the other nights in the week. :)
This would restrict BTC to the black market though.

The black market would be a niche use and probably a sustainable one but nowhere near the size of mainstream use people seem to be hoping for. If (for instance) the US government decides the businesses can't accept it, online or offline, then it would severely limit the growth potential for BTC in the US.

In some ways I'm surprised someone hasn't already gone after the exchanges for allowing people to convert back and forth between BTC and then gamble with it.
See also The Body Shop and L'Oreal.
I'd like to see this in the UK, i've always said one day i'd start that kind of agency. This is a great idea.
> A contract's a starting point for negotiation, not something set in stone. If you don't want your side projects owned by the company, then ask for the clause to be removed/amended.

The problem was also that we had two legal documents, the contract, and the "house"-rules. The contract just stated that "The contract refers and includes the house-rules".

It would require a lot of rework for them to rewrite my contract so only the part about ownership of code was amended, but all the other house-rules still applied.

It was my first job after finishing school, and the place was nice, and I figured it wouldn't be a problem, but I was wrong, and it kept irritating me.
Yeah, many places will offer you exclusions on pre-existing work and offer you the ability to add to the list of excluded works later on. As long as you're not working on anything that's competitive they're usually fine with it. I won't take a job that won't allow me to keep working on my own projects.
Thank you, yes, I forgot so many things. And most important, where is the test suite for this? I'd expect at least 80% line coverage and would like to see a coverage report to dive down into the specifics. Additionally, it would be nice to have some performance numbers as a base line for sizing, and timing of each method.

Further, what's the license on this? I'm afraid even if it's LGPL I can't go near this.
Im comparing with google's detection systems, and I got a question.

Google search detection system that identify a real user from a bot has always failed when the user travels through the Tor system. Thus, it looks to me that any machine learning system, even those produced by someone with immense amount of data, will always have a high false-alarm rate. This is also obvious if one look at gmail when it wrongly mark legit mails as spam, and at IDS/virus market. How will Sift Science will deal with the issues of false-alarms, and how should website owner act regarding the score. Should they automatically follow the score given, or just flag suspected users. What is the suggested best practice? If its a webstore, should they block, delay, or just observe the transaction?
If they want it, they pay. If they don't want it, don't pay, but don't get it either. Isn't that how you work as a contractor too? And doesn't that apply regardless of whether the work was agreed on in advance?
Recruiters for contractors in the UK generally take 20%, i've caught agencies try to take more.
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It doesn't say that, though -- he perceives "wisdom" as senselessness and something with no "eternal meaning", in contrast to the simple pleasures of daily life, which (apparently unlike wisdom) have supernatural approval and eternal value.

That's not helpful. True wisdom doesn't ignore physical reality. It doesn't deny basic pleasures; it illuminates them. And it's the only way to find sense in the world -- directly, not just mouthing the words provided by a human authority.
> or using knowledge I'd gained directly from working for them

I wouldn't be comfortable with that. If you have gained knowledge on Redis, you should be able to use Redis in a personal project. It would be different if you had developed a super secret ranking algorithm that you later re-implemented in another project.
Even more interesting is moving from running 7miles to pi miles
I'm hooked on this entire site now. Nice find. There's a bunch of good stories here. Is this a Hacker News reader who made this site?

Keep it up please if you're reading this.
As a contractor I have said this to my client. I did it because he was a 20 years old student and I felt responsible for him.
He went on with the project though. Yes, it was a failure.
They may be a very good employer.

This may have been uncomfortably close to his closed-source day-job.

Without details we don't know.

And eventually everyone moves on. Company loyalty is dead.
Got any references for this so I can do some further reading? As someone starting to learn Objective C, I'm mainly being told to use @synthesize. I did a quick Google for links about it not being required. There are some saying it might possibly be automatically added but then there were also a lot of responses saying this is still not the case & that @synthesize should be used still.
Interesting. I see a need for an adapter library and maybe some runtime configuration settings to choose your preferred, underlying fizz-buzz library.
Not exactly true, they are already approved for the financial service provider law and still have to abide by it (see for example Tele2 http://fi.se/Register/Foretagsregistret/Foretagsregistret-De...)
Every employment contract I have had (I'm not in the US and, I think, neither is crazysaem) has had rather a lot to say about copyright and IP - not all of which might be enforceable in a court (I have had lawyers look at contracts).
Fair point re the autism point though worth noting that she was talking to someone who was autistic and writes about it publicly (she replies to Maty in the comments below the piece on this).

Regarding the photo - agreed she needs to be sure she's not catching innocent people in shot and should probably be clearer who she is referring to.

One small thing (which I'm guessing was actually just you being brief rather than anything more):

It's worth noting that (I'm pretty sure) that she didn't label anyone as sexist.

She accused several people of behaving in a particular way supporting it with a detailed account of things she personally witnessed. That seems fair enough.

But she also seems (correct me if I'm wrong) to stop short of extrapolating that out to saying they're sexist. Many of us will have at some point said something, knowingly or unknowingly, that was racist / sexist / homophobic but most of us would deny being racist / sexist / homophobic. One doesn't necessarily extend automatically from the other and it's good that she didn't try to do that and stuck just to what she knew.
Your jpg is 404 ;)
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From their "About" page: "Our success has been down to reputation"
Have you ever used eclipse or netbeans? Those feels an order of magnitude slower than pharo. I consider pharo a small and fast environment compared to other "IDEs".
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