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Yes, a VC is looking to unshackle the middle class, thank you! Someone is looking out for the US middle class, Scott Kupor, managing partner Andreessen Horowitz apparently.

Barf. Who is dumb enough to swallow this? Sounds like an echo of Bill O'Reilly's "I look out for the little guy".

You tend to hear this term "middle class" from on high a lot, as it means absolutely nothing. What is the middle class in the middle of? Apparently people with income of $200k or over, or assets of $1 million+ are not middle class in his definition. Excluding worth of primary residence of course, which he neglected to mention. I guess this means doctors are not middle class. They must be in the upper class - a doctor is in the same class as Alice Walton, who inherited $26 billion. What is the dividing line between the middle class and the class under it? What class are janitors in, middle, lower? Class used to mean ones relation to production, but that doesn't fit into the kind of babble people like to put out.

To the big point of why this is nonsense. If you look at the Survey of Consumer Finances done by the Federal Reserve, that 4% of Americans he speaks of are the ones who hold the majority of stocks, the majority of bonds and whatnot. Just look through one of these Federal Reserve papers and you'll see that, other than primary residences, this top 4% own almost everything. Outside of primary residences, the next 5% to 20% swallow up pretty much everything the top 4% does not get. Which is not much, relatively. The bottom 80% have virtually no wealth outside of primary residences.

The idea that the median American will benefit from investing in VC is ludicrous. The median American does not have the money to invest and benefit from this. Stocks, dividends and profits are a weapon against the median American. They are dependent on the stock owners, the small top minority, getting the lion's share of the wealth created by the median American. If American workers had strong unions and most of the created wealth in corporations went to wages, not dividends, this would hurt the owners of stocks. The weaker the median American is in this equation, the better the stock does. The median American is all about wages, the crumbs of VC he might pick up are almost nothing. He has no money to invest, so even if his shares go up 20% a year, it amounts to very little.

Obviously, this is yet another thing to benefit the very wealthy. But to sell it, people have to say it's for the middle class. Whereas the middle class, whatever that means, is actually hurt when the wealth they create at companies goes to profit and not wages. It is coming out of their pockets - they create the wealth, then it goes out to heirs like Alice Walton in the form of dividends. Or payments to limited partners from VC. And the like.
The linked study goes into much greater detail: http://jonahberger.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/ViralityB....
No, of course I'm not saying that. I'm saying all those decisions could be automated, not that they have been. Except for ATC communications, all the information I use to make in-flight decisions is already available in digital form. All the engine parameters are digital. I get en-route METARS via XM. I have an WAAS GPS coupled to the autopilot. The only thing standing in the way of making my aircraft completely autonomous is a throttle actuator and the right software. And no, writing that software would not be trivial, but neither would it be impossible.
I wasn't suggesting that people abusing the system would be a reason to not implement it. I was just expressing disappointment that it wouldn't be able to help them.
>we as a country don't do actual engineering anymore

...is that really true? The UK is currently home to Europe's largest civil engineering project (Crossrail), my hometown produces Trent jet engines and designs wings for all Airbus aircraft. And there's the cars that are both manufactured (BMW, Honda, Toyota, Nissan, etc) and designed (Jaguar, Aston Martin, Land Rover, McLaren...) here.

The engineering we do has changed, and maybe there is less of it than there was forty years ago, but it's a bit hyperbolic to say we simply "don't do" actual engineering.
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I had a problem in flash where iterating over a dictionary, order being different on different platforms, so updating all the game objects would happen in different orders.

But it always worked on my computer!
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> Why should being an officer be a lifetime career?

Because it's an occupation that takes training and experience to do well?

But by all means, if you want a bunch of untrained newbies running around with guns and the legal standing to use them on the citizenry, your idea's a great one.

The problem isn't police using their guns. It's the Blue Wall of Silence when they do.
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Exactly my case.
I have this web scraping based on scrapy and I was dealing with some big json files.
I'll try it for sure.
There are ~2,500 institutions in the U.S granting bachelors degrees, and you're happy to make sweeping generalizations about all of them.
Why not, though? Assuming a democratic government represents the interests of it's voters, apparently a significant fraction (ok, at least one) of the population would be interested in paid 4 month vacations.
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There's no question of "morality" here. The government just wants the monopoly on gambling.
Why would anyone want karma? Really interesting.
People have always used air quotes to show they're quoting someone's exact words, and also when they're being sarcastic and making up a quote. It's just hard to tell when people are being sarcastic in text.
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You've heard about the black box, right? That has all the information that they need to figure it out. I admit that video is cooler to watch than some squiggly lines of accelarations, roll and pitch, though
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I don't think that just any virtualized hardware is safe fundamentally or anything, I just meant it as a practical option instead of multiplying machines. Obviously trust, as I wrote, can't enter the equation. But if you are sure (in the mathematical sense) that the virtualized machine cannot be doing anything but running tangential software and relaying your info without the possibility of decrypting, it seems safe to me.

Obviously if I'm wrong let me know, but I just meant it as a general alternative to people having their own entirely isolated physical server, local or remote.
Assuming that having a clue about legal responsibilities of hiring supervisors is the most important skill of a boss :-)

I think it is good if somebody is honest. And his reasoning actually seems sound.
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I don't think that Spideroak would just decrypt your data if someone said pretty please, but the fact is that they retain the ability to do so if they are legally obligated to. It follows that they may do so if they are not legally obligated to, though I don't mean to imply that they would (and I don't think I do in the article, sorry if it comes across that way). It does mean that they can decrypt on command, though. If they have access theoretically, they have it practically, in this case. There's a difference between them and other cloud services but it's more like the difference between varieties of apple than between apples and oranges, I think.
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This illustrates very well why you shouldn't become a slave to the money. Earning more money won't make you happier. Spending more time with your kid might.
Agreed, StandardFuture. This is impressive, but TV channels and signals are owned by TV broadcasters. So:

* Not only the FCC, but the NAB [National Association of Broadcasters] will be on this pronto.

* So, consider either:

___o Allowing the FCC to retain a channel for a few years of ambient backscatter experimentation and evaluation (funding a set of transmitters for a while, experimenting with what transmitter signal structure might allow wider ambient backscatter bandwidth and node-to-node distances), then offer it as a tax-supported service ( as with GPS ), or sell it, else

___o Having the FCC allow an interested private owner of TV channels privately experiment with ambient backscatter engineering as proposed (locally, multipoint-piggybacked over 8VSB TV), develop the technology, then license it.

* In no way am I intending to cast aspersions on the authors' achievements here; instead I am very, very impressed! It shows indefinitely durable (battery-less) RF networking having practical applications drawing only half a microwatt for 'transmission,' carrying a general purpose programmable microcontroller on board, using a passive method to modulate an ambient RF signal with a man-made signal below the by the intended (TV) signal. And using analog components where they give significant power advantages, while retaining programmability sufficient to support a networking stack. Wow.

Disclosure: I work in support of the Broadcast TV Industry

Edits: (1) Tax-supported is not 'free' (2) Clarify that ambient backscatter is multipoint, 12 orders-of-magnitude lower power, and distributed, in contrast to the single point of origin of the 8VSB TV transmission
>Phil Zimmerman

Did you maybe mean George Zimmerman? That would be a more topical example of media stupidity.
I think the error in your comparison is that "the democratic consensus" is certainly not what produced PRISM and the rest.

What I suggest in the article is little more than civil disobedience, in a way. It's refusing to supply an apparatus we never approved with information we never released. Since they can and will take it from us without our knowledge or consent, we have to make it impossible for that to happen before we can have a reasonable parley, you know?

Obviously we're not quite at the Gandhi or King level of disobedience (it would be rather hubristic to suggest it), but it's a similar principle in action, perhaps a bit more preemptively.
The 'Search' tool does a particularly good job of uncovering resources in posts on specific topics. I just found YC startup Hellofax from a search of HN posts by searching 'faxing'.

A wiki would be nice though- with a place for HN/YC sourced apps for any given solution.
...can be blamed on Marxism and Leninism.

Well yeah, you can blame it. Doesn't make it true. Of course a country can't magically be divorced from what happened 20 years ago, but the point behind my sarcasm was it is exceptionally naive to assume Russia's problems were caused solely because it was nominally communist.
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> Arguably the most significant among the changes was the 2001 move to decimalization

Wow, the claim that the ability to trade stocks in dollars and cents, as opposed to dollars and fractions, is one of the most significant factors in creating a "hostile environment" for IPOs, because then the minimum potential profit is 1 penny. Essentially re-iterating that stocks are merely trading vehicles, and that underlying value isn't responsible for movement in stock price but rather the mechanics of trading.
Yes, that's a literal translation. We say many similar things in English to express shock: "good God", "my God", "God almighty", etc.
Depends on whether or not the states check it for validity and my knowledge is so out of date that I can't say if they do.

You'd have to avoid any SSN which exists in an illegal range and you'd want the first three numbers to be consistent with where you claim to have applied for the SSN (usually the state where you were born - fewer questions). See also: http://ssa-custhelp.ssa.gov/app/answers/detail/a_id/425/~/de... and http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ne/topic/resources/basic/ssn.htm...
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I disagree. I — and others — have used query parameters to submit links to Humble Bundles, for example. New Bundles are launched regularly, and the broader HN community tends to have useful things to say about the titles in any given Bundle, and to appreciate the heads-up to their existence.
Although I agree in a way, you already have limits to your freedom that you have agreed to tacitly. The differences, for instance, in the technology (from GPS to tanks) allowed to the military and to the citizenry. It is codified, explicit, and everyone seems to agree that it's okay. It's certainly a limit on your freedom, if you want to speak absolutely, but if you don't think it's reasonable, that's a difficult point to make properly.
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And Pike! :)

I really wish this little language had more publicity.
"Hate taking them" was the wrong phrasing. I should have better said "I hate that I have to dread running into someone new when I take them, because then I have to do the I-actually-have-a-legit-reason-to-be-here-dance". The area that I live in isn't very communal (mostly due to weather!), and I don't tend to run into the same people frequently. Seeing new faces is common.

Being recognized alleviates the concerns, absolutely. Once you're known, it's fine. My issue is that the default assumption many moms seem to have about men is that they are dangers until proven otherwise. I think if you took your kids and camera to another park where you weren't known, and were taking pictures without playing Obviously Engaged Dad, it might be quite different. Being Visibly Dad "proves otherwise". No such expectation applies to my wife.

(Your boys are adorable, btw!)
I think Larry Lessing said recently that the Internet amplifies power. That means that yes, individuals have much more power than before, but at the same time, the governments have also exponentially more power (once they get how to use it), by spying on their citizens and then using that against them.
Examples or counter-examples? I.e., are you saying that the public should have been allowed to invest in Groupon and Zynga earlier?
So perhaps that's an issue with the UI not clearly showing which CA is verifying the identity, and alerting you clearly if an encrypted email is using a different CA than prior ones.

Depending on the client you're using, it shouldnt be too hard to prune the trusted CA list to only include providers you choose to trust. If you want, only include your CA and remove all others.
Yeah, I think constitutionally speaking there is implied a level of trust in the government and legal process — hence words like "reasonable." I thought that since trust doesn't seem to be an option any more, we have to go beyond what is guaranteed us by the constitution (to little effect in this case) and secure it by other means. That way the constitutional rights are not an ideal to be aimed for, but a ground floor at which to level out.
The author makes no secret of being a Marxist. Just read a few of his other postings.
Couldn't agree more.

Was just going through the Gemfile, and I love how he broke out the gems in the various categories - from debugging, to databases, to search, to caching to everything else.

It just makes the code so much easier to read and understand.

As a result of this repo, I looked into Slim - but the official docs are awful, so I won't be adopting that any time soon.

But this app is very interesting to read through.

You can tell a lot of work was put into this.
Technology, not policy, has always been what limits the degree of government surveillance.

Concerned private citizens need to start using technology too. They need to learn about encryption and products to protect their privacy.

Of course voice yourself to your government but don't expect them to roll over and say "Okay, we'll stop".
One thing stands out, how do they address noise? Is Backscatter somehow different from an unintentional noise or interference? If this is all low power it would mean the impact of noise or interference will be high and it will only multiply with the number of devices using it nearby. Is there a risk of it becoming something similar to tuning to an AM radio station while traveling in a remote area?
I seem to recall that, measured by value in real terms, the UK does more engineering than ever. Just because it's a smaller part of the economy and doesn't support as many unskilled people doesn't mean it's not happening.

On an unrelated note, some of the social issues we complain about these days seem to be a direct consequence of the off-shoring of manual labour.
"Freedom is dangerous" is certainly one of the major themes in play here, and I actually cut a bit relating this (the knife and hammer thing is the remainder) because it was getting a bit too philosophical. I'm glad you (and certainly others) heard the echo and followed it back to the sound.
The data denies it. Number of IPOs fell 90% in the two years preceeding SarBox, and increased afterwards:

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> What, the Internal Affairs division just doesn't exist?

In fact yes. Many police departments do not have "Internal Affairs". Where they nominally exist, they are rarely staffed by a separate group of people, rather "internal affairs" work is handled by the same people as everything else. The same people behind the same silent blue wall...

Hollywood depictions of "Internal Affairs" are largely a "Hollywood thing".
Rather than (or in addition to) apologizing for a Quora link, just add ?share=1 to the end of the URL so that none of the sign-up call to action or answer blurring appears.
I'm 'out' - this site in my opinion is going to fail. No revenue model? Why are people entertaining this as 'bigger thn google' are you kidding me.
These "techniques" are incredibly frustrating to discover for all the gamers who are not likely to fall into these traps. Granted, those are the ones being actively filtered out of the user base for the most part, be it through choice of subject matter or game mechanics - but since these things have become so widespread I became wary of trying out new games in the App Store in general.

The last time I made an in-app purchase was for Elder Sign: Omens, a very simple game of chance that I like primarily because it reminds me so much of the fun I had playing the Arkham Asylum board game. Anyway, they offer a straight deal: a fixed sum (no intermediate currency) for additional content. That's it and I feel comfortable and justified buying that even though it's not a challenging or elaborate game.

I would never buy stuff if a game uses any of the shady tricks described in the article, but what's really poisoning the pool for all game developers is my increasing unwillingness to invest time into games that I don't already know in order to avoid that sort of disappointment. So what they're really doing is ruining it for everyone in the long run.

Maybe straight-up, no-tricks games should have a seal or something ;)
Slim is a bit weird as their old documentation (which I learnt on) was miles better than the current lot. I'd still recommend it though, and feel free to ask me any questions if you do give it a go as I've been using it for at least a year now.

I've only recently started organising my Gemfile like this as I was really struggling with redundant gems lying around. I'm glad you like it :D
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I find the drip-feed of information a really interesting choice, though I'm curious of its efficacy versus the wikileaks style dump.

It keeps the news alive for a longer period of time, sure, but it also means fewer eyes are looking over it and connecting the dots between various different pieces of the revealed information.

Wouldn't it be better if everything was revealed at once, and the various investigative reporters out there all got to go through it independently and write up a cohesive summation of the results, instead of this two-three page exposé per day?
Same here from Germany, I can listen to the first song just fine, and then it goes silent.
I also miss a countdown tick sound (e.g., 7-min.com), which is very helpful for exercises on the floor.
Not for a long time, I suspect.
This is just straight up magic to me.
As opposed to looking professional even when the attire is uncomfortable or at least not the most preferred.
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Can someone ask for my domain name? What is ‘intellectual property’?
Say that while searching for your next best domain name you discover a small treasure: a very popular brand has not registered the relevant domain name (e.g. google.com—yes, I know how ridiculous it sounds, but it’s just an example). So you rush and you make the registration.<p>Deep down you know there’s something wrong. However you’re the one who registered the domain name anyway. You may it sell it later to Google and get some money. It is yours now.<p>Once upon a time on the Internet when things were unorganised such a move could work and it did work sometimes. But not anymore. Now it all comes to trademarks and intellectual property.

Intellectual property refers to one’s own rights. It includes copyright and patents. So if someone has registered a trademark, according to the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy, she has also the rights to use it and to protect it on the Internet too. “To protect” can mean a dozen different things but most of the times it is pretty simple: for example, not letting anyone use a trademark as hers without permission. Of course nobody would claim Google as his own brand (except for the real owners), but it could happen to less known brands. “To protect” also means to prevent people from the systematic abuse of the trademark, which is something that could obviously hurt the brand. And the list goes on.<p>So registering the particular domain name doesn’t make you the owner of it. On the contrary you enter the dangerous zone of cybersquatting, an action of bad faith which aims to exploit the goodwill of a trademark which belongs to someone else. In fact the relevant American law of Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act has been designed for preventing actions like this. The particular law was enacted in 1999. So if you have ever heard a story of someone who acquired a domain name of a famous brand and then sold it to the owner, it must have happened before 1999.
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