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> I lived in communistic country, trust me workers were exploited much more in the communism than in capitalism.

I don't trust you on that point. I would agree that countries that claim to be "communist" exploit workers far more than workers are exploited in modern mixed economies like those in most of the West, of course, but that's somewhat beside the point of the discussion. First, because no one claimed anything to which that is directly relevant, and second, because, while the modern west is often called "capitalist", it bears little resemblance in economic system to the system in the 19th century whose critics (notably, Marx) coined the term "capitalism" to refer to, differing from those systems largely by having adopted, on top of the old capitalist system, a number of reforms, many of which are straight out of the Communist Manifesto.

> The revolution of workers against the communistic rule is ultimately this what destroyed communism in the Eastern Block.

Sure, largely. That doesn't make it any less true that the exploitation of workers under capitalism was the source of Marxism and a proximate cause for the adoption of many policies that were part of the original Communist program as near-universal policies throughout the developed world by Social Democrats/Democratic Socialists, and that the same dissatisfaction was a less-proximate contributor to the "Communist" revolutions of Lenin and his ideological heirs.

> If communism was so great for workers why they were the ones who lead the revolution against it in places like Poland?

I don't recall anyone arguing that "communism was so great for workers". Arguing that capitalism being so bad for workers was one of the causes of the development and spread of Communist ideology is not equivalent to arguing that Communism, as implemented by Lenin et al., was "good for workers". It does not even require the weaker claim that Leninism was better than 19th capitalism for workers.

> Communism is much more worker unfriendly system than capitalism. So, yep, you got it opposite.

Well, except that you are the only one who is arguing about the topic of whether Communism is more worker friendly than capitalism, on either side.
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delete the code, take down the site

name them in a blog post about this topic

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Here's the thing: you can always take the risk of building a product in the frontier. But the web is no longer the frontier. You can estimate the size of your market in two weeks, spending a few thousand dollars. You don't have to build a product from scratch; in fact, you could build a whole webapp running on S3 and connecting to pluggable services.

Is this a waste of our best and brightest? Frankly, I don't know. But how many brilliant, young entrepreneurs got burned out after a catastrophic failure in the old model and never recovered?
I live in a loft with 30-foot tall ceilings– curious about how they would sound :)
How's this techcrunch worthy?
> I would not want to spend the majority of my precious time on earth with something I do not like to do. And of course I think other people shouldn't either.

The world does not exist to provide you with enjoyment. If you can make a living doing what you love to do, like many of us here, that's a fantastic added bonus but realize -- it isn't the nature of life to be able to do what you enjoy 24/7 (or 8/5). This is why we have hobbies and relationships and recreation.

The expectation that life will be working 9-5 at a job you love then coming home to a dream version of your domicile of choice and a wonderful spouse/partner/dog/cat and spending your evenings drinking tea/coffee/wine/beer/whiskey debating politics/technology/art/music/literature while gazing over a picturesque sunset/oceanscape/bikini model/forest and sighing gently over how great everything turned out -- that expectation destroys happiness. Life plays out roughly according to the choices you make and is colored by luck. You can change your level of fulfillment by adjusting your expectations or working harder/differently or both. This might sound a little eastern, but what I think we need is a dose of gratitude. You're (probably) alive, (possibly) healthy, (presumably) not living on the street, (hypothetically) employed, (likely) have one or more people in your life who love you... be grateful. I expect this point to be misunderstood, but note for the record this is not the "things could be worse!" argument. It's exactly the opposite argument: "look how good things already are!".

So you work a job that isn't exhilarating? So what. Your job isn't your life, your life is your life.
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Also, python people might be interested in https://github.com/gabrielfalcao/HTTPretty or (bias disclaimer) my serializer on top of requests+httpretty https://github.com/kanzure/python-requestions for the httpetrified decorator. It loads and mocks an expected response from a json file in your tests/.

There was a service called requests.in or something that acted like httpbin, except it gave you a unique url to query against to view multiple requests over a session. Does anyone know where that went?
Can you really build efficient/reliable mass transit systems and other related services without zoning?

I agree that some part of zoning is pure conservation (skewed towards status quo and the interests of the majority of current owners) whereas no-zone is closer to plain economical interests and favors individual cases.
Maybe because batteries aren't keeping up.
The link is that sex (even gay/lesbian etc sex) is not a sin, what people like sexually is not the business of their employeer, and if we can accept people doing parades for the right to fuck each other in the ass or similar, we sure should be able to accept people reading the word "porn" on a website at work.

That's the implicit link. The explicit link is that LGBT advocates and activists have frequently defended porn and freedom of sexual expression through it, too.
> And many of them aren't thrilled to be merely subsisting. They want more, but they don't know how to get it, and they don't really own the responsibility for doing so anyway.

If you mean by that "aren't willing to do anything -at all- to achieve, well, anything really" then I agree with you.

> My hope is to be able to make a decent living (say $50,000/yr) working 25-30 hours a week so I can spend lots of time on my own interests and with my family.

That's certainly achievable I would think. However, be prepared for a lot of rejection. 40 (not 60) hour weeks + actual effort (dare I say it ... drive) is not just a requirement at startups.
Just because something is socially accepted, doesn't necessarily mean it is a good thing nor something we - as a society - can live with for eternity. Many things we would deem completely unacceptable today used to be socially accepted.

And numerous times, these acceptable items have been but mere phases in popular availability, until people realised, 'hey, why are we ruining human interaction?' and then it became unacceptable again.

People are already talking about - and have for a long time - the problem with smartphone use and social etiquette. Personally, I try to avoid my phone as much as possible whenever I am at a dinner party or visiting family. You know, be polite and show some goddamn respect.
Ubuntu also already has an app store (Which does support paid apps).
Obviously the Maximizer Maximizer is just another potential foe for the Paperclip Maximizer to seek out and crush in its infancy. (Sound brutal? It isn't; if you pull it off right, not a single paperclip will be harmed.)
I never really used this Gmail design in the first place, I'm in love with the "basic HTML" version which you can choose as default interface.
Friction stir welding; same thing they are using at space x to get rocket prices way down
I prefer to run my own local test server to return mock responses. I built this little project, that you can install using NPM: https://npmjs.org/package/apimocker
It's intended for sandbox development as well as automated tests. There's no UI, but you can return whatever data you want. The features are pretty basic right now, but it works well for most tests, and it's easily configured on the fly.
It's just speculation, but I think Google is pushing indirectly for more cloud based storage utilization and getting OEMs on board is a way to do that via shrinking storage size (it's a trait with many of the new phones on more than just Samsung).

At the same time though, that clashes with the carriers limiting monthly alloted data more than any ever before. However, the carriers are probably going to push their own "cloud" solutions that won't use data that applies to a user's data cap.If that is the case, there will probably be some sort of clash between Google and the larger carriers in the near future where something will have to give. Probably goes with Google's recent venture into the wireless access realm[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5110076
For those apple-phobic, how much does the HTC1 16GB have available?
In fact, this would be a meaningful comparison - a battle of the Android skins as it were.
The problem is that, unbeknownst to them, consumers received a stuffed cookie from eBay from some random website having no awareness of anything regarding eBay at the time. It's only because these consumers just so happened to visit eBay on their own initiative within 30 days and performed specific activities that an affiliate payment was generated. Had these affiliates not even been involved, there would be no change in the behavior of the consumers; they would have visited eBay anyways and eBay would therefore not have had to pay out any commissions.

I agree with the rest of your analysis. Someone who was incented according to affiliate activity likely did encourage this, even if they suspected or had knowledge that it wasn't above board.
I see that the default "What's your time worth" has been lowered to $50 an hour from the previous $100/hr.

But they still pretend that you are saving time by not stopping for gas, and ignoring the 6-13 hours it takes to recharge for the 99% of customers for whom all their stops are not at a SuperCharger stop, and also ignoring the time spent driving out of one's way to find a charging station.

Accounting for that time, let's call it 100 hours a month since this whole page at Tesla is about making up numbers, at the new $50/hr, adds $5000 a month to the cost.

As long as Tesla is going to account for time one spends or loses as a result of refueling, the proper way to do this is to take all the time into account. Cherry picking one aspect of it is not honest.
Part of the problem is that people these days have fewer children, closer together. Before, say, 1970, people learned parenting because there were lots of both much younger siblings and large families with lots of uncles/cousins living close by.

Now families are small and geographically spread out, so people don't have lots of exposure to younger children. This means they don't get as much practical experience at dealing with kids, which makes them do stupid things, listen to stupid advice, or fall into groupthink.
A few things I would’ve done differently at my first startup.
I knew a guy who got a perfect standardized test score, went to a pretty nice, selective college, and then got in some trouble there for making napalm. Not like felony trouble, but trouble.
"Good cooking takes time. If you are made to wait, it is to serve you better, and to better please you." -- From the menu of Restaurant Antoine, New Orleans, quoted in Fred Brooks' The Mythical Man-Month (1975).
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This is pretty out-there speculation. I find it very difficult to imagine a meeting at Google where they collectively agree to increase the Android footprint in order to "increase Cloud storage usage".
Although it actually ruins the game for the majority of players? And usually because of extremely poor coding by the eve devs?

I remember when the BoB/Goon war was going on and Goon exploited the terrible design of the alliance/corp system and shut BoB down. No rollback from CCP. A massive war between thousands of players, perhaps even 10s of thousands of players over in seconds not because of any skill or battles but meta gaming completely outside the game by 1 player.

How much fun would 'legalized' aim-botting be?

That is Eve Online.

Eve is a game full of potential that it consistently fails to deliver on. And the 'stories' you hear are usually down to allowed griefing executed through exploiting poorly thought out game mechanics. It is hacking at its essence, but Sony Playstation password type of hacking, not the kind it's fun to be on the receiving end of.
Are you replying to the right person ?

I don't own Bitcoins. And if I did I would never, ever host them on a Linode server.
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NYU Image Classifier Demo - Uses a Deep Neural Net, Trained on ImageNet
Previous discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5621680
Grant argues that current projects for the elaboration of >"Montevideo Plus" criteria for statehood are -- while legitimately attempting to infuse statehood with considerations that better reflect changing normative standards

Basically it is the convention plus the state be democratic - but this has already proven to be a failure in international law as a result of Afganistan democratically electing the Taliban and Palestine electing Hamas. So to my original reply I stand firm that the convention applies but more practically it is "standing in the international community" that is the norm of current international law (as of yet to be codified) and you can be sure it is not democracy as your referenced article suggests.
> discourages her from experimenting with anything ever again

Maybe that's exactly the desired result for the sort of people who choose a bureaucratic career, and maybe it's exactly such people who decide her fate.
If anyone is interested in an alternative to the usual RTMP servers (FMS, Red5, and Wowza), I highly recommend EvoStream (http://www.evostream.com). Compared to the alternatives, EvoStream is much more efficient. I believe TinyChat published a whitepaper discussing their transition from Red5 to EvoStream, which resulted in a decline in the number of required servers.

EvoStream is a highly scalable streaming media server written in C++ based off of the open source RTMPD (http://www.rtmpd.com). The commercial company, also called EvoStream, is a relatively new startup and they do great custom work for those not familiar with streaming media/RTMP.
collaborative web based TeX: sharelatex.com, writelatex.com, spandex.io.
I'm not sure what you mean by "conceivable" and "metaphysically possible", and I don't see a resemblance to p-zombies. Could you elaborate?
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And surface parking can readily turn into underground parking as part of the building construction.
Why not just root and CM the G Note? Anything samsung-specific that stock android won't work with?
Previously posted:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5646300
Building technology actually has advanced at a really good pace and most construction has been significantly automated. Most homes and buildings go up amazingly fast due to a lot of prefab and modular designs as well as a lot of process mechanization. The guys you see on the construction site today are usually doing more assembling rather than "building."

The conceptual 3d printed type homes are interesting but they are limited in scope in that seismic and load issues require materials and configurations that are not per say printable. (In other words you would likely not want to live in a 3d printed home in SF).
No end to disease, sure, but what about specific ones like Malaria, AIDS, or Alzheimers?
Very big fan of Weebly! excited and impressed about this, and apparently a few extra eCom features in the pipeline (that would save me using Shopify for the store component of my site)... I launched my business www.dataGO.co selling SIMs cards for overseas countries (initially just as a test idea)- was blown away with sales, and next thing I know I'm in SF and doing partnership deals with online travel players! wouldn't have been possible otherwise- thanks David and co..
they don't do a lease because they would lose the tax incentives
Not the OS footprint, just reducing the internal storage size of devices (such as the Nexus 4 is only 8gb and 16gb while the Galaxy Nexus was 16gb and 32gb). There's a number of other current devices out there with a similar trend, such as the HTC Droid DNA (with only 16gb). Though it doesn't apply to every device, since the HTC One is 32gb and 64gb.
Tax breaks for the middle-class are a fantastic way of breaking that positive feedback. The problem is that they need to be sufficiently large to make a noticeable impact.

The other alternative is government spending, a.k.a. stimulus. If we start working on improving our national infrastructure, those projects could result in a lot of jobs.
Home-made Google Glass clone (using MyVu display)
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I remember learning about that type of scam a long long time ago in the first MMO I played. It's fairly basic by those standards.
I really can't muster much support for your indignation.

I can't help but think that the hats actually add to the game, by allowing players to choose a semi-custom look for their character while playing, making a specific character easily identifiable.

Your reasoning make it sound like you're just upset that they took something that you had been accustomed to, and changed it. I note how you didn't mention any stats, or even a hunch as to whether most players liked or disliked the hats.

Additionally, you cast the players as "addicted", and Valve as somehow taking advantage of their addiction. Let's get this straight. The players aren't addicted to TF2 (even if you somehow proved they could be addicted to competitive FPS muliplayer, there's plenty of alternatives), and Valve isn't taking advantage. To do so they would have to be preventing play unless people bought something, which they aren't. They simply provided an additional, fully opt-in set of features.

Finally, if you don't like playing with hats because it ruins some behavior you had come to rely on, find other people that feel the same way and start your own server and enforce a strict policy of exactly what's allowed. That's done often in serious competitive play anyways, isn't it?
This is why:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse-square_law

Anyway, if you actually wanted to seek other planets, you would need a HAL-style computer, sperm and eggs on ice, and an artificial womb. Then, life could realistically spend thousands and thousands of years traveling in space. If this is even possible then I suspect one or another lifeform would have done it by now. Since they apparently haven't, I doubt there's much out there. Fermi's paradox really.
> That said, ask the people who laid your sewer pipes, built your building, pave your roads, how much they enjoy being out at 4am in the rain and snow working.

I do not think that you can compare those kinds of jobs with modern jobs.

Modern jobs require intensive training. Sometimes studying the subject for multiple years only on a theoretical basis.

This does not work if you do not like what you do, in my opinion.

I myself have tried to obtain a degree in a field that I did not like.
I failed miserably.
It eventually made me depressed, something I do not wish upon anyone.
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Actually it was the Newton that made Apple loose so much money. It was never profitable with an average annual loss of 1 billion USD. But if it wasn't for that loss, Steve Jobs would never have been requested to be a consultant at Apple and turn himself into the CEO later.
What a horrible title. Had to read it few times before I decided I don't understand it. Why are some word capitalized and some not blows my mind. I won't even bother reading the article.
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Your history here of US UK monetary relations leaves a lot to be desired. If you want a better sense of how it really worked go back to Keynes vs. Harry White at Bretton Woods, or before that with Lend Lease, or before THAT to the defaulted/forgiven UK Great War debt and the modified gold standard of the 1920s.

Bluntly, you seem to pick and choose facts that support your view of unsustainable debt and impending doom. Neither is the case. We have China "by the balls" as much as they have us. I see your "gold" link in your profile. That explains your POV nicely I think.

Edit:
Also it seems like you're confusing interest rates at the Fed discount window with yields paid in US debt auctions.

Edit Again:
I just read your "how the bubble will burst" parapgraph. I'm sorry man but you really don't have a grasp of how this would work. First, what on EARTH do you mean when you say "Treasuries are at an all time high?" Bonds have a face value and a yield. The yield is currently at possibly an all-time low. So maybe I'm missing something, would be great for you to explain because this sounds like whole cloth to me, like you're repeating something you heard somewhere.

Moreover, every seller needs a counter-party. How exactly do you think the market works? How is China going to sell all of their debt? Sell it below face value? That hurts China, not us. I think you lack an real understanding of how this works, man. Now maybe you mean their foreign currency reserves. They could try reducing that, flooding the forex with USD. But of course the Yuan is pegged to the USD (via a "basket" where USD is predominant). So Chinas own currency would sink as well. And it's not like they can snap their fingers and create a free market Yuan exchange. But OK, so they dump their USD for what? Euro? So it drives up the value of the Euro. Guess who doesn't want that? ANYBODY IN THE EUROZONE. Do you think Germany -- who exports nearly as much as China every year -- wants the cost of their goods to skyrocket in the US? No. So simple, the Eurozone prints more money and buys the USD from the chinese. In the grand scheme of things, Chinese holdings of USD aren't nearly enough, not NEARLY enough, to really disrupt global forex without nearly universal global cooperation.

Look, I'm done with this thread, you can go ahead and have the last word. But I really feel like if you're interested in these things, you should actually study the macro economics you're trying to discuss. I trained as an economist before becoming a software engineer 15 years ago and most of what I'm talking about can be learned in a 100-level Macro class.
There's a new VICE documentary on it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCYglCDgpu0&list=PLDbSvEZ...

I try to go to FloatLabs in Venice as often as I can, it's always been awesome. Don't eat before you go in, it just makes for a better experience. Sleeping in the tank is the best sleep I ever get.
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The companies who enthusiastically picked up NeXT machines by the hundreds did it because the development environment was a decade ahead of its time. However there weren't enough of those companies, so NeXT was forced to reverse-takeover Apple and from there take over the world.
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I've done this exact thing for images for a site I was building..

Most will say know but others are very willing and will even sign a release. It's much cheaper than purchasing photos from a stock photography site and much more fun.
Many actually - they just don't realize they are in most ways conservatives.