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> - don't build anything but a small web app the way the knockout examples demonstrate.

Have you any code samples written like this you can share? I'm just about to start a large (for Knockout) project and it'd be great to start without making the same mistakes.
It has always been a loaded issue, and it has never been clear-cut. Think of it this way; whistleblowing is similar to spying in many regards. Perhaps the most important differentiator- intent- is neither a perfect defense nor easy to prove.
I'm not sure this is what I'm talking about, but thanks for the interesting read.
Ahh, Wordpress. You have my deepest sympathies.

If you don't mind my asking, is there some key feature of Wordpress or its plugins that holds you to it? I'm always interested to hear why people stick with it.
Have civilians ever been tried in US military courts?
Kudos on your startup.
This is a lesson that business need not sound glamorous, it's all about finding someone to pay for it. With scale, it looks like you can make it work and keep the prices reasonable. Do ignore the negative comments and good luck!
I could barely get a signal as a Mtn View resident. I'd regard this as just a publicity stunt.
Oh I surely have missed it. Thanks so much for telling me that!!
According to Snowden it was co-written by Israel and the US.
OK, but your original link didn't include that particular scare-scenario (either in the linked comment or followups).

So this "you-could-lose-your-house-by-using-WTFPL" FUD indeed originates with DannyBee.
The NSA would love it too.
You're focusing on the negative.

What if you found out that their goal was to reduce the total number of washers, dryers, and irons in the United States? What if washers/dryers/irons are extremely inefficient and that by reaching scale PRIM reduces consumption?

It's a longshot, I know, but try to be a little less negative.

In India, these services already exist but have no mobile platform.
It's true, when you break apart the business model, it is a 3rd party delivery/courier service for a niche market. This is not sustainable and has no barriers to entry.
Oh I see, I assumed it was compiled into the main binary, but in fact it's an external library that's only loaded when opening the document, right?
For starters, I had to pay for the replacement card...
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2874/8988666085_0749d7fcea_b.j...
Right, because these founders have clearly spent less time thinking about operational costs and margins than the 5 minutes you've had to think about it.

And they definitely couldn't be doing something clever to increase profits.

They must not know anything about "actually washing clothes".
It's laundry. Not terribly difficult from an operational perspective. Differentiation is the challenge, and this company seems to be doing well in that area.
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> not because there was some imminent threat to his life.

Treason does actually carry the potential of a death penalty.

Based on poor state of the current US legal system, I too would have run.

The last decade has seen the US legal system turned into nothing but a rubber stamp and puppet for the government.

The founding fathers would be turning in their graves.
Be careful what you wish for, Google is now one of the biggest spenders in Washington [1], $18.2 million on lobbying in 2012. Needless to say, big business in the tech sector will have plenty of say in the future (if that was ever a worry), but, as always, civil liberties will continually need to be fought for.

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/4/4394234/google-eight-bigges...
A pretty awesome idea!

I wonder how the competition with the wash and fold at the corner near me would work?

Not having to walk it over seems pretty nice though...
On the plus side, he doesn't have that 18 month non-compete. A current SDE would have to flip burgers till 2015 if they want to work at Google.
I personally detest it. But my bloggers are comfortable with it.
>We actually have the technology to implement this right now, with video cameras, monitors and hard drives.

Jeez, this sounds really fun to build and exhibit...
Brother seems to have picked up where HP left off about a decade ago. I bought my wife one of the low-end lasers when she started law & grad school. She ran through about 10k pages/year (she'd even print front/back/upside down to "save" on paper) which was about 1.5 cartridges. It doesn't jam, it doesn't make noise except when printing, although it does take a few seconds to warm up from sleep.

I think we've been on the same cartridge since she graduated several years ago. I usually two-bag consumables, so there may be a really sludgy unopened cartridge in a closet.

Had it been expensive, I'd say you get what you pay for, but I don't think it was over $300 or $400 at the time.
What if we could turn carbon dioxide into electricity?
For sure, I didn't mean to downplay how important tools like Docker are, just that it may not be as revolutionary as the shipping container.

I think some other comments above make a better argument about how the full power of containers has yet to be realized.
I believe this is an older policy even preceeding the AppStore. There aren't many iTunesU courses for Android even (last I checked there was only one by GSVU).
At what point can one give a post a minus 1? :/
Not since Ex parte Milligan (1866), AFAIK: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_parte_Milligan
I'm confused by all of these start ups that appear to be trying to disrupt TaskRabbit. From my perspective, Prim seems to offer the exact same service that I can hire via TaskRabbit so will have the same overhead cost structure (tech, marketing, etc.) but limited revenue opportunity (only clothes washing vs. any task). My TaskRabbit does my laundry and then also does whatever else I want. She does the laundry at her house, using idle equipment that she already owns.

What am I missing?
It's not really a reach when you realize how things like this really occur:

It got emailed around or something, and someone who was close enough to a WH staffer or DNC person saw it, and send it along.

They asked their boss what to do, and the answer was "just change the website".

It's not like there was some ordered plan of "first we'll change this, then we'll change the transition site". It's clearly a reactive move to someone noticing, and they didn't expect it to blow up.

The reason it blew up is equally simple. Somewhere in the forward chain, someone was close to sunlight, and sent it to them.
The original story was going to be "obama promises things about whistleblowers, breaks his promise", but once it got removed from the website, the much juicier story of "obama revises historical promises" came along.

This is how a lot of things in DC get noticed.
There are hundreds of staffers and DNC people and what have you.
They also likely have a fairly low degree of separation to someone who would notice this, ...
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Have military prisoners ever been subjected to torture while awaiting trial?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/10/bradley-manning-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_Manning#Detention

It doesn't matter if he's tried in a civilian or military court, if he's tortured or otherwise subjected to inhumane treatment and if he is not likely to receive a fair trial then he should flee.

Edit: typo
Has Obama even called Snowden a whistle-blower? He called him a hacker, and his tone of voice has always been dismissive and implying treason.
Never, upvotes only. And it's just a joke, relax.
"I was one of only a handful of employees who didn’t need their work checked before pushing it to live status..."

This is poor practice no matter who you are.
I love FedEx/Kinko's printer drivers for color work. Laminate, bind, etc., and have it delivered or pick it up a few blocks away. It's a good half step between "low-fi" and "trade show presentation".
It is fascinating. Imagine if we did detect a radio signal from intelligent life elsewhere. What sort of reply would we send them? I imagine it would be every sort of reply imaginable, as everybody with access to a radio telescope gave it their best shot. I expect a lot of new radio telescopes would be constructed also.

If we don't receive any such signals, then finding life elsewhere is going to be a long, hard slog. It seems we don't yet have the energy/technology levels required to get a probe to another star within a reasonable amount of time (100 years travel time, would perhaps be reasonable? Could any of our equipment last that long?) Self-replicating space probes that could exponentially explore the entire galaxy seem to be right out of the question, at present.
I've been planning to switch to Google for a while now (both as a consumer and as a dev).

The lack of apps had been a valid issue for me, but thankfully the Play store has mostly caught up the AppStore. I'll still have an Apple device (stability, better camera, etc) though.
That's not really a useful definition. More specifically fascism elevates the interests of the state over the interests of individuals. While similar to communism in that regard, fascism uses private economic production rather than state ownership of production. So hallmarks of fascism are things like state-granted monopolies to specific companies, organized cartels, and heavy handed industrial policies. Fannie Mae, U.S. Farm programs, and subsidized green energy loans are little slices of American economic fascism.
It wasn't sarcastic, it was a realist based comment pointing out the fact on how much we focus on our country's automation before moving on to other countries. I agree, eventually, after solving our digital divide issue, we'll worry about real problems. VCs invest in these services to bring what rich people had for years to the masses, and that is a maid and servants to free up your time to do what you really want to do. The economic recession has allowed numerous of people willing to do your laundry, these people picked up on that, I wonder what's next. Will there be a service to wash my dog?
@Sujan done! =)
HDMI supports 7.1 surround. I'm not sure what kind of setup you have where you get sound from your TV to your sound system, but you can buy an HDMI splitter for something like $10 that will give you an optical audio signal and a video-only HDMI signal.
I'm sure it'll make money since it's exploiting the lazy. The folding is a nice touch, but it's essentially useless since it puts unwanted creases and wrinkles in clothes. They aren't following tag instructions, either. Based on this, here are the steps that are actually useful:

1. Separate white clothing from non-white clothing.
2. Place white clothing in washer and add soap.
3. Place white clothing in dryer.
4. Place non-white clothing in washer.
5. Remove white clothing from dryer.
6. Place non-white clothing in dryer.
7. Remove non-white clothing from dryer.

That's all they're doing for people besides giving them a little soap. It's about 5 minutes of work, so around $300/hour if they're efficient, assuming one bag per customer. This is a scam YC if I've ever seen it.
I feel the same way. Dislike. It just never seems to do what you want it to do and things don't quite interoperate. In a previous life I could draw something in Visio and copy paste that into e-mail (Outlook), make a graph in Excel and copy that as well. Communicate; you know. In gmail you can try inserting an image but more often than not it comes out as gibberish and forget about any other form of interop.

There's no reason why you couldn't do everything within a browser but we don't seem to quite be there yet.
Benoit is doing a great job contributing to CouchDB. He also moderates the CouchDB community on G+: https://plus.google.com/communities/112687873154936256826
What kind of shitty bank do you have?
Thanks for pointing out what CSRF protection is meant for and I certainly agree that I should have used better wording. However, aren't the attacks mentioned (upvoting or similar from another site) protected by same-origin and http-only cookies? Otherwise, a malicious site could use the same techniques mentioned in this post to first obtain an fnid token and then make the same requests.
+1

Like the concept - it would be a great help. It might be a bit difficult to scale, considering that you'd have to price the PRaaS for startups, who don't always have enough funds to spend on PR..but you should give it a shot.
The cool thing about Angular is that it introduces a pretty unique way of building applications. What people don't seem to get is that it isn't mutually exclusive with jQuery. You can use Angular and still pull in the full jQuery library for your directives. What you'll find, however, is that you don't really need much more than the jqLite library that ships with Angular. The "Angular Way" alleviates the need for the more involved DOM functions in jQuery.
Armchair psychology at its best
I know that downvoting hurts (no sarcasm), but just try and remember that they're internet points. If you took out "although your snarky tone is lame" and "I don't find it necessary to belittle the effort here since" you would have been fine. Complaining about downvoting is also against the guidelines, even though everyone does it now and then.
You can call it boldness, but at this point I'm not sure how you'd distinguish it from an extinction burst[1], or "getting while the getting's still good."

1. http://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/07/07/extinction-burst/
HostVirtual http://vr.org $10/month, 512MB, 10GB

BuyVM http://buyvm.net/ $15/year, 128MB, 15GB

I've had great service with both of these.
Yes. The big laundry scam.
Record your terminal
A Chromecast running Android used to exist, but then Chrome won
Huh? I don't think it is anywhere near as bad as Facebook, for example.
http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/prim-co-...

I hope they fold better than his shirt expresses.
If they base their company in California they won't get discounted rental space but if they move to a city where they have incentives they will.

I mentioned HCs and ECs as a way to save gas. They can have their own solar charging station, completely becoming independent until Tesla releases an e-truck.
He isn't going to be charged with treason.
It's certainly not an uninteresting or invalid scientific result, but the interpretations tend to get a little overblown. This is an unfortunately common theme in neuroscience, especially recently.
Let's say I'm an entry-level freelancer who bills out at $100/hr.

It's 5PM on a Wednesday. I need to do the laundry because I have a client meeting tomorrow and they usually look at me funny when I wear crumpled tee shirts that smell kinda funky. I could do one of two things:

1. Work for an hour, generating $100, and spend 20% of that getting someone else to do my laundry. (Plus, I get to drink beer when I'm working at my desk, and I don't get to drink beer at the laundromat.)

2. Do the laundry.
If I'm not mistaken, he was responding to the question of whether he would put pressure on China to extradite Snowden, and he basically said that he wouldn't scramble jets or start wheeling and dealing for a single case of a 29-year-old hacker suspect.

Reading this in the context of what his actual powers and responsibilities are in this case, it seems to me like he was diminishing the crime, rather than rallying for a witch-hunt.
Here's the new and surprising take-away:

"In other words, roughly 15 percent of all suns could, in principle, be hosting a place suitable for life as we know it. "
Location has heavy influence on prices.. look at other professional services even inside US.
Doctors / counselors / lawyers etc.. everyone's prices depends on location.

On the other hand you cant say about quality. Ya India has lots of crappy developers, but that is just because there are way to many developers. Good ones dont need to market themselves too much and hence most people would have never heard about them outside their circle of clients.
"The next time a VC ignores your success converting potential clients and only wants to discuss how you plan to drive traffic then I suggest you find another VC."

Thank you Andy Rachleff for this. I was worried that we are doing something wrong. Unfortunately from our experience it is not only VC's who just looking at growth, but many angels as well.

Even YC and other accelerators are all about growth now. Before we submitted our application for YC this summer we got some alumni feedback. The main theme was: "YC is all about growth, why didn't you grow much over this year?"

We talked to some investors and same thing - "what about your growth?".

We are consumer web company with huge addressable market (>50b) trying to create new type of product. We spent a year iterating to make sure that our customers love what we offer. We measure this by repeat business. Our iteration cycle is about 2 weeks - if we tweak something, we need about 2 weeks to see if there is change in repeat business. For our complex product it took a lot of time to figure out main features.

We figured out what works and have our prototype website serving our customers. We have revenue and repeat customers - some stick with us for a year now. We thought this would be good time to get into an accelerator to tie loose ends before we step on growth pedal. But it looks like you either have to be already in growth stage or one of 0.01% ("... super young, well-connected, Stanford CS or EE, worked at Facebook early..." [1]) to get interest from accelerators these days. I don't blame them - there are so many applicants that they have pool to pick 0.01% and growth.

What surprised me was that no one ever asked us if we figured out value proposition and what we need to do to get to the growth stage. So far we funded our company from our savings, but it looks like we'll need about 3 more months of runtime before we can cover our cost and start investing in growth. Instead of some smart investor getting good deal on pre-growth company, I lined up a consulting gig that will bridge our runtime, even though it will distract me from getting ready to growth stage.

[1] http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2013/07/16/ring-the-freak...
Your browser will automatically send any cookies it has for a domain when it is instructed to send a request to that domain HttpOnly cookies included. The thing preventing the malicious site from getting knowledge of your SID or your fnid token is the Same Origin Policy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same_origin_policy. If it wasn't for the same origin policy, I could just grab your HN sid from any website with plain JS on the malicious domain.

A CSRF attack is the equivalent of blind-firing a gun at a domain, and the browser "helps" you by automatically attaching your cookies to that bullet. Depending on the situation, you usually don't get a response back. Here is a good preso from when CSRF was hot back then which explains the attack scenarios: https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-dc-08/Willis/Prese...

Throwing CORS into the mix complicates things a bit but that relies on the site that is being attacked to explicitly allow calls from the malicious site or use an Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * which in itself is a security vulnerability. More details on CORS: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/HTTP/Access_control...
At least they live in a place not ravaged by war. I feel bad for the people stuck in war zones.

At what point do we stop with the one-upmanship and accept that we can feel bad for people on various levels?
So quick question, what happens if I stuff that big to it's max? Most places charge by the pound and by the type of clothing, is there any economical issues involving that?
Would you mind providing some citations for your idea that Psychopaths self-deceive? From what I've read the better Psychopaths are masterfully in control of their web of lies, that it's easy to believe what they say because they don't suffer the remorse of neuro-normals. And that it's more likely for the neuro-normal person who lies compulsively to believe their lies.

I really don't think it's helpful to classify Obama's behaviour as psychopathic. It demonises him instead of taking a practical, accurate look at his behaviour. It seems as useful calling someone "evil" or "a nazi".
The ouch is that the Obama Administration has been hyper aggressive in attacking whistle blowers and leaks of all kinds.

"The Obama administration has already charged more people — six — under the Espionage Act for alleged mishandling of classified information than all past presidencies combined. (Prior to Obama, there were only three such cases in American history.)"

http://www.salon.com/2012/02/09/obamas_unprecedented_war_on_...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/16/obama-whistleblower...
Judging by the pixels on their site, they likely used Google AdWords remarketing: http://www.google.com/analytics/features/remarketing.html

If you used the same computer from work that you used at home, you were cookied from work when you initially visited the site. Then when you were browsing the internet at home, the ad that was served recognized your cookie ID as the same visitor who visited the site and they can purchase that impression and serve their ad.
Netflix streaming playback is ~1.05x the speed of DVD playback
8 hours is an office day that includes getting coffee, bullshitting with colleagues, breaks, "professional development" (ahem.. reading HN.. ahem).

Real productivity of an 8 our day is more likely in the range of 4 to 6 hours. But you still put 8 hours on your timesheet.
"What's interesting is that the estimate of planet incidence is seemingly much higher than originally postulated by the Drake Equation."

I always assumed that the estimates there were purposefully low to show "Hey, even with all these low estimates, we should still find something, right?"
Let's say I'm an entry-level freelancer who bills out at $100/hr. ...

1. Work for an hour, generating $100, and spend 20% of that getting someone else to do my laundry.

I know you're just an entry level freelancer, but $25 is actually 25% of $100.
Certainly not. I barely use facebook at all.

It used to be a fun way to keep up with friends. Nowadays it's morphed into some hideous shadow of its former self.

Modern facebook is just a platform for my middle-aged aunts to post the chain letters and other bullshit that used to get thrown around in e-mails. That's it.
A day rate does not imply any number of hours. It implies a day spent on client A that is not spent on client B.
You shouldn't hotlink someone else's JavaScript
Explain how and by what the Oakland protesters are motivated to protest.
This is what I get for trying to make cogent points about articles an hour after I've read them. Leaving my comment unedited to better bask in my own shame.
We've always been at war with whistleblowers
Yes, but for that reason I always prefer when things use ctrl as a modifier instead of alt. So I wouldn't want to do more alting.
Until their is a security incident...
Sounds like Erlang. (You ship a copy of the Erlang VM emulator ("ERTS") with your Erlang application "release", and upgrade the release as a whole, rather than upgrading just the application code.)
Hear hear. It hurts the _job creators_, the only people who matter!
Aren't there multiple projects in existence that will run various types of applications on a tiny OS or hypervisor?
You're only right if he would be doing laundry every hour.

Let's say he works 8 hours a day for $100/hour. That's $800 a day. For 5 days a week, that's $4000.

Let's say he does 2 laundry a week, that's $50 which is 1.25% of his salary.

No brainer.

rdouble: thanks. I hope I can learn from your "expertise".
This seems awesome -- I wonder if there's a market in offering this as a perk for employees, either just doing normal pickup/etc. at home, or letting smaller startups offer onsite laundry dropoff/pickup as a perk. It would kind of suck to take your clothes to work if you took transit, but if you drive, throwing a bag of laundry in your trunk and picking up a bag of clean clothes on the way home would be easy.