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Just pointing this out, Telecom is part of the info sector and they've been lobbying forever.

I would say that google, Facebook, Microsoft and apple (prop 8) all lobby in some form. I mean Marissa Mayer had Obama over for dinner during the height of the campaign (she was hosting a fundraiser with her husband).

My point is this: we don't need more lobbyists so much as we need leadership. Zuck tried and has likely failed. In recent years I've started to think Ron Conway might be an interesting candidate to consider; he certainly holds enough sway in the valley.

Food for thought.
Color laser printers are surprisingly cheap.

The don't make photo-quality prints, but it's good enough for casual pictures (posters, flyer, etc).
Hey Mark,

It turns out with CouchDB you can use other view languages. Some common ones are Python, Coffeescript and Erlang. It is extensible.

For example in some cases we found the Python viewer from the couchdb python driver package was faster than JS in some cases so we are using that.
The universe never does anything just once.. black holes, gamma ray bursts, supernovae, planets, and yes, life.
Have you forgotten that everyone does this as it's the cheapest way to provide accurate location service on mobile devices even if you have AGPS?

If you don't want your SSID or Wifi public, disable SSID broadcast in your AP and turn on WPA2. The biggest threat to you isn't Google slurping up your SSID/Mac Address, it's some dude standing stationary outside your house capturing everything you do.

If you want SSID broadcast but don't want to be indexed, add "_nomap" to your SSID and Google will ignore it. But Skyhook, Apple, and others probably won't.
Thanks both of you! That's what I am going to do. Get a theme and rebuild the landing page.
IIRC it's not due to random instabilities, but rather due to the no cloning theorem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-cloning_theorem
I do not -- never heard of it.
From my perspective outside the States, there is already government support, which is the full-court press US ambassadorial staff have been running in Australia and New Zealand to categorise privacy and data sovereignty laws as unfair and illegitimate anti-competition laws whose sole purpose is to prevent companies like Amazon gutting the local IT markets.

I imagine they are running the same line in Europe.

I wonder what Amazon's relationship with the US government is like?
Sure, they're actually impressively short, but are we saying that all software devs must understand the state of IP law and its associated terminology and pitfalls?

As an unfortunate side note, none of the licences you listed have any terms relating to patents, (unlike the apache licence, which is considerably larger) which is one more tangled-web that a dev has to think about.
Come on, Xuwen. You run a laundry service. Your shirt should not look like it's spent the last week on your floor. The guy with the faux hawk is wearing a shirt that looks how I want my shirts to look. The very least you can do is use your own product and show why it rocks, and that means wearing a freshly cleaned shirt.
You make a good point -- it's possible the inverse happened (people I've contacted have given LinkedIn their email access). It's just the fact that the matches I've seen seem so coincidentally close to when the emails were sent that makes me suspect.
Very interesting background in the last link, thank you. Informative comments in a discussion, in response to a question, are also often my friends.
Do any of you think it would it be useful to have a site where it would be possible to donate time to different campaigns on certain sides of issues?

Imagine if you had a place where you could donate engineering time to a campaign for someone who voted to defund the NSA, or donate your time to the campaign of someone who is running against a rep who voted against it.

Think... a marketplace where you could donate your expertise, be it engineering, SEO, SEM, design, etc to campaigns on the sides of issues you care about.
Same as my response to dangrossman -- that is a possibility I hadn't considered, but the timing of it (it seems to happen within days of contact with that person). I guess it could be purely coincidental.
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I've used Prim, and had a great experience. I was surprised at how much the bag weighed by feel, but I didn't weigh it. Basically we filled a 13 gallon kitchen garbage bag the first time, which was about 2 loads of laundry if I were to do it myself. Fill a kitchen size garbage bag and weigh it...
Sounds like an excellent loophole for a company to keep its health insurance costs low, too.
Yet another startup that caters to the 20 something tech crowd with too much disposable income and too little free time on their hands. Do people in Silicon Valley ever leave spend time outside Silicon Valley?
"This service is maybe $5 more expensive than taking it to a wash & fold yourself..."

Which means the price might not be sustainable once the venture capital funding runs out, and would have to be raised to cover the company's real expenses.

Think about it:

- Prim is probably paying as much as anyone else would for the laundry services. (Why would a well-rated laundry service give Prim a discount from their usual rates? A laundry business probably has pretty slim margins, and a good one probably can get plenty of customers without offering discounts.)

- Can the extra $5 pay for the cost of the person who is picking up and delivering the laundry (a truck driver probably gets much more than minimum wage), the fuel and maintenance of the trucks, insurance, office space, computers, etc. and still provide profit for Prim?
http://blog.lob.com/post/55544977604/the-art-of-a-3-letter-d...
There is a significant stratification of unemployment levels based on education. http://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_chart_001.htm shows last year's breakdown; how that interacts with U6 is not immediately available, but is worth considering. Just a thought.
Are you talking about this rare earth hypothesis?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_Earth_hypothesis

It's been a decade since I read the book but IIRC very little of it had to do with whether lots of planets exist. In fact they assume microbial life is abundant but argue against complex multi-cellular life being very common.

It's a fascinating book ("Rare Earth") but even without their arguments, I'm curious: why would one assume that planets equal civilizations?
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i think what you're saying is, eventally, OS/kernel/root gets folded into the "application" context.
This sounds like a good problem to have! Your compiler must be blazing fast. Does it remain so fast with full optimizations turned on? Thanks for the answers.
AKA rubber hose cryptanalysis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber-hose_cryptanalysis
How is this not just a clone of Dapper?
Every few months for the last 10 years (or so) another non-profit crowdfunding site pops up. Some make it, some don't. Here's a list of ones still here:

http://www.kiva.org/
http://www.donorschoose.org
http://www.globalgiving.org
http://www.networkforgood.org/
http://www.razoo.com/
http://www.jolkona.org/
http://www.givedirectly.org/
http://www.groundworkopportunities.org/
http://www.pinkdingo.com/
https://snoball.com/
http://benevolent.net/
http://startsomegood.com/
http://www.crowdhoster.com/
https://www.crowdtilt.com/
http://www.betterplace.org/
http://www.crowdrise.com/
http://www.givengain.com/
http://justgiving.com/
http://firstgiving.com/
http://givemeaning.com/
http://www.vittana.org/
http://www.thekopernik.org/
http://www.change.org/
https://www.myc4.com/
http://www.jantaloans.org/
https://www.nadanu.com/
http://www.seethedifference.org/
http://www.stayclassy.org/
http://www.causes.com/
http://www.giveforward.com/
http://www.jovoto.com/
https://www.fundraise.com/

And here's a few of ones now defunct from my bookmark list:

http://www.jumo.com/
http://www.wokai.org/
http://www.pinkdingo.com/
http://www.actionatlas.org/
http://www.jantaloans.org/
https://philanthroper.com/
http://33needs.com/

Watsi is doing great work so I don't mean to detract from it, but they are not the first crowdfunding for good platform, nor the first in the medical space. Much like the startup world, the non-profit space is full of organizations that failed to gain traction and sustain their operations. I personally hope Watsi is here for the long haul.
Also, the simple point that it was simply grossly overvalued when it initially went out. It's probably stabilized at a "more reasonable" price.
At Tonido, we got a following mail from a customer a week back.

" We are sorry but recent developments and news in regard to the NSA PRISM program and the Patriot Act have made us decide no longer to use any cloud solution developed or hosted by a US company. You can remove our information from your database."

Even though, Our Tonido software is a self hosted one and totally orthogonal to Google Drive or dropbox in principle and in operation, we do get the shaft unfairly.
What I'd like to know is how the hell do you get a 1 letter domain, like x.com? They're the only company I've ever come across with one. You would think it would be worth it for some highly funded startup to pay the premium a 1 letter domain would command, because it certainly would be novel and attention getting to be something like z.com.
To your second point - I think you're right, but I think that pattern - the productization of existing technology - is a very powerful, positive thing. And picking the right abstraction, so that it feels - as you put it - brilliant (a view I share totally), is not trivial.

Also FWIW, on giving credit: https://twitter.com/getdocker/status/357983297114079233
I'm not thrilled with EFF's response. I don't necessarily think it's hysterical, but it certainly reads as a bit too extreme an interpretation, injecting unverifiable malice where legitimate interest in protecting people and prosecuting criminal activity likely resides.

Are there no other laws on the books state AGs can rely upon to facilitate investigation and prosecution of alleged criminal activity?

How exactly will holding one actor liable for the actions of a different actor increase the desired ends of further protecting and decreasing underage/illegal human trafficking?

How ought one defend the principle that service providers (and other third parties) are going to be required to interrogate everyone who posts an ad, violate their privacy, and work for free as surrogates for the criminal justice system to cover their ass? That burden seems awfully high.

If the goal is to stop underage sex trafficking, what is the argument for spending public time and money prosecuting alleged facilitators for the actions of those who are trafficking, instead of pursuing the criminals themselves, helped by the existing laws at investigators' disposal?

Are there not enough statutes criminalizing trafficking and other unwanted activity that can be enforced?

Do you find no problem at all with the letter stating that sites like backpage.com "have constructed their business models around income gained from participants in the sex trade"? From the standpoint of language, that sure appears to be playing rather loosely with words, suggesting that these business exist to facilitate sex trading, rather than recognizing they have constructed their business models around income gained from people placing classified ads, and that service is being [ab]used by sex traffickers, arguably against the providers' desires.

However, that is not the same as assessing whether this is a warranted change that ought to be made.
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Yep.

Back when I was preparing to take an honours year, I wrote an circulated several project proposals. One was to explore the argument above with a constructive project -- writing a blog[1].

An example I gave for the inner platform effect was the Wordpress file wp-cron.php.

It gets called on every request made to Worpdress because WP has no other way to arrange for scheduled tasks to be carried out. So you get a performance hit and your scheduling relies on stochastic sampling. Oh, and it stops working very well when (as inevitably happens) you slather Wordpress with caching.

In an OS-up design, you just delegate this to cron.

Or plugins. In a standard current design, these can't be isolated. In an OS-up design, you can can make them standalone programs with separate accounts that can't reach into and interfere with the core code. No more broken sites from a PHP error in a hastily-installed plugin. Similarly, you can control their access into the database (instead of having a shared login that all code running in the application shares).

And so on, and so forth.

[1] I'm happy to forward copies of the proposal. My email is in my profile.
I have the suspicion that transcripts are distinctly forbidden =P
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I don't understand why you'd want to minimize profit just because of tax liability. Even if I paid 60% in taxes, I'd still be better off keeping 40% of a higher salary. What's the rational?
I used these guys for some fliers the other day and they were actually really beautiful. Very approachable and great customer service. I highly recommend them!
As fellow (hopefully that's a safe assumption) an outsider looking in, I have to agree with this.

It also just generally frustrates and disappoints me that so many brilliant young developers and entrepreneurs spend their time fixing textbook first world problems instead of addressing the poverty, disease, crime, and unrest which still plagues the world.
An unfortunate name in the light of PRISM revelations.
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I really liked your take on viewing a repetitive task as a way to improve and relax.

Another nice thing about a repetitive task is that it is perfectly predictable. You know exactly how long you should take because you've done it before and can expect very few surprises.

Much unlike any sort of difficult debugging or implementation which can be unpredictable, although enjoyable.
Though by that time, with their customer base, they can guarantee bulk economical washing machines directly from manufacturers, discounted rental space, and hybrid or electric cars to further cut down costs.
Sure, there are some interests that run in the opposite direction.

But domestically, the amount of power Silicon Valley and tech centers across the country hold in Washington is not commensurate with their economic and cultural clout. Certainly it is time for that to change.
Same here. Why can't people talk with concrete examples instead of this high level vague stuff. This thing is for do devs - explain it like so.

The analogies are pointless, they don't convey anything to me.
Next, we'll see the return of the milk man and we'll almost be in time for living just like exactly a century ago. These are not fresh, new ideas.
Sorry that was a new shirt taken out of a box before we took a last minute photo. None of my other shirts were like that...
The "solution" to sniping is only in eBay's hands; either sealed-bid auctions (which they effectively are today) or a policy of extending the auction one hour past the last bid.
I'm the same way, although I went with Hushmail. I still use Google for search but I no longer have a Google account.
"Well maybe once everything in our country is automated, we'll have time to worry about others' automation, digital divide, and poverty."
Here's a question: where can I get a VPS with a large amount (multiple TB) of not-necessarily-fast storage? It seems like someone out there should have a SAN-backed VPS, yet I've had trouble locating one.
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I had this idea, though I envisioned hardcases with RFID tags and a laundry robot that read them -- But nice to see it was a good idea.

And yeah, it's a solution to a first world problem that only really occurs to 20 something tech crowd people, but, in the end, there's a market, and they're serving it. Simple as that.
Don't talk about planets within 20 light years, we probably haven't even found all of the stars within 20 light years!

See http://science.psu.edu/news-and-events/2013-news/Luhman3-201... for proof that we found stars THIS YEAR within 6.5 light years of us. What else is out there? We don't know.
Very first paragraph of website:

"We closely modelled Zipkin after the Google Dapper paper"

http://research.google.com/pubs/pub36356.html
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The people saying "raise the prices" don't realize that the scarcity of the restaurant is an asset in itself. Restaurants become famous for being impossible to get a table at. The chef is more respected by his or her peers and the media. Newspapers write articles about the restaurant. The restaurant's cookbook starts selling more copies on Amazon. The chef is invited to an interview on Food Network. None of these things happen if they raise the prices until there's no excess demand.

Ferrari also has a long-standing policy of manufacturing "one fewer car than the market demands."
Reason for downvotes?
Off-topic, but a fun way to take this to the next level: if you have your own domain, you can set mx records with the same priority at different services to randomly scatter your incoming mail. You can then pull them in with pop3 with your mail client or getmail with something like Dovecot to provide a self-hosted IMAP interface.

You get the added benefit of having automatic fallbacks if one of your mail services is down.
But how would this be noticeable from the regular fraud that occurs?
I used to fly RC airplanes back when I was in high school. I've been out of the loop for 20 years now... are there good sites to re-engage the RC world and/or get into FPV?
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It's a common sentiment on Hacker News, where highly complex markets are reduced to incredibly simple single-variable, Econ-101-stye supply/demand curves.

That's a strange phenomenon I've also noticed, since posters here usually have the opposite instinct in any other field. Most systems end up complex and difficult to model by simple rules, unless you restrict your model to a specific range of parameters or behavioral regime. Do you want to know how increasing or decreasing pressure affects fluid flow? Most knowledgeable people would immediately say that it depends: does the pressure change impact the flow regime? If it stays within a flow regime, there is one answer. But if it changes from laminar to turbulent flow or vice-versa, the answer may differ. What initially seemed like a simple relationship has a confounding factor of macro-scale regime-switching.

But in economics, HNers feel somehow confident just giving a blanket answer without analyzing the situation. Price and demand of restaurants are linearly related; raising minimum wages increases unemployment; etc. Blanket statements they'd never make in an unqualified form in fields they actually know about, somehow become fine in a field they haven't studied. Nobody seems to feel the need to inquire, well, is it a simple relationship, or can changes in a parameter change the operating regime? Very strange.
Same here, looking to join your quest.
In an ideal world there would be out-of-the-box setups, that one could just smack on any linux based host for something like that. Ideally (amongst others) also a non-logging vpn setup also for self-hosting.
If it's a LAMP app, then not really.

If you have tables with TEXT fields, MySQL up to and including 5.5 will perform certain joins with on-disk tables no matter what you tell it to do and will ignore indexes you create to prevent that on-disk stupidity. This behaviour is independent of engine.

Being I/O choked on Linode is why I moved to DigitalOcean.
Are you qualified to assess the linked comment as "FUD"? If so, how?
Metacloud seems to be one if the quietest yet best players in this soace
Are you trying to sell this to businesses as an employee perk or just DTC right now?

I'm guessing most employers who offer this service have people bring their clothes on site to be picked up (anyone with experience please weigh in). Your angle is to eliminate that piece, so that may be a good selling point.
What insights could you get from your data?
"How can I step away from this work without completely leaving them in the lurch?"

A. Announce a date in advance that you'll be leaving. That will make the contractor serious about finding a replacement. Let the contractor know that if they can find a replacement before you will help get the next coder up to speed.

If you're nice you can make that exit date a reasonable amount of time to find and train a replacement.

Also there's nothing wrong with actually saying that you didn't expect a 4 month project to turn into 4 years.
Hatin' from the mid-west. Listen, I don't know about you, but I despise doing laundry. Their pricing is actually cheaper than the laundry mat down the street from me here in SF. It is a win! Plus, I get the tech; SMS when the driver is in route to pick-up and deliver. Time is critical for people working here, and shopping (InstaCart), chores (TaskRabbit/Exec), and now Laundry (Prim) are things I am willing to pay for.

It is true developers/entrepreneurs might have more disposable income here in SF than other cities, but we also have a startup for anything you need. I like the ability to pick and choose what I am willing to pay somebody else to do. Startups should make people's life less shity; I'd say Prim accomplishes that.
Considering that they mention a service in Los Angeles and the very specialized and expansive market in NYC (that serves WAY more than a privileged 20-something tech crowd), your characterization seems a bit unfair.
Unlikely. And I believe that the issue is that some politicians still have an old school boy mentality where nerds/geeks are somehow lesser than them.

Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) famously said "Bring in the Nerds" during SOPA hearings. He then continued to call people in technology nerds multiple times. Youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrrj9Wc2L84

Rep. Mel Watts (D-NC) made it a point in his opening statement during the SOPA hearings to mention that he "is not a nerd" and therefore doesn't understand the technological parts of the bill. Youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6x1sYYqKLY

Until congress starts to realize that nerds are not basement dwellers, and instead are pop culture (Facebook, The Internship) they will continue to roll their eyes at any sort of lobbying.
For this article why is CNN using a picture titled "nate silver fivethrityeight monster"
Lawyers contacting you to ask if you're willing to relicense would be an amusing way for it to backfire, though.
I just automatically hit escape or press cmd/ctrl+r to try again; works 95 percent of the time
Hence, I mentioned if you're worried about commits failing (not a major recurring issue that I've seen but possible), the n you do two separate transactions.
The first comment, while maybe a bit "snarky", is still very relevant and right on point. The first line of your response is why you're getting down voted. Little bit of snark > calling a comment lame.
I did not mistake the tone of the write up. I was simply trying to vent my frustration at this type of research.
Whoa, that's awesome! Thanks, I didn't know about that before.
I'm confused.

Purple Tie does laundry at $1.69/lb (10 lb minimum, so $16.90 minimum) and also does pick-up at home.

How is this better?