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I can think of something more powerful than code.

All the hardware that enables code to do anything.

Code lives in an ivory tower. It's pretty easy to build something productive in that kind of environment, but then thinking that your productivity in an ivory tower will be matched in the real world is just ignorant.

To demonstrate this property, consider iTunes, probably one of the most key pieces of software today, responsible for distribution of many types of media across the globe while paying authors instantly, at a small cost of freedom for both parties.

Now write that code on pamphlets and drop it from a plane over Africa. Pay close attention to what happens. If you look close enough you'll notice not a god damn thing happens that is not related to the physical medium being re-appropriated for productive uses. They won't reverse engineer the code, they won't abstract away the key business principles and build a new prosperous Africa, they won't learn how to program either.

You see, Africa has no need for a digital distribution system with DRM. They don't even have a network capable of carrying it's data to 99% of the population. Even if you set one up and gave away iCrap to every African, you'd never recoup the astronomical costs selling copies of bits.

The thing SV needs to realize is they are not the first coders and they are already surrounded by code, at the level of societies, religions and governments. These coders are much better because they've been dealing with inconsistent platforms for hundreds of years without the benefit of virtualization layers or government-enforced standard protocols.

Sure, you can generate the same kind of code that runs governments and religions from a computer, but you're forgetting the fact that that computer exists inside the system of government.

As soon as you remove the government, your hardware gets stolen by people with better hardware, your software gets stolen by people with better software, and your communications data gets mined by deep packet inspection, extracting value just like an invisible tax or inflation. That last one was a joke, you need government for that.
So yet another magic bullet doesn't really work. Maybe one day we will learn that it is not the process that matters but the people. Good people will work with a good process that looks a lot like agile, but if you cram that same process down the throats of a random group of developers then you are going to get random results.

The details of the methodology don't matter. If you look at what http://semat.org/ is proposing for the standard engineering methodology for developing software you will find that it IS agile, but it is not specified down to the nth detail and more importantly, it is extensible and adjustable so that any significantly sized project can build their own compliant methodology and process within the SEMAT framework. That part is so often missing, where the developers themselves discuss how to go about building the software, and management listens to them and defers to the developers because they are software engineering professionals.
Before you have an aneurism remember that a Chinese developer has less than 1/10th the living expense and other costs incurred that you do.
I think you've summed up the goal of this PR piece.
How do you know government intelligence agencies don't have that sort of hardware already?
...spending a lot more money on the city's unionized labor.

I must be misunderstanding something. Aren't big public works projects a pretty reliable method for achieving this goal?
> The national debt is a bullshit non-problem.

Can you elaborate? I ask because debt (along with domestic snooping) is at the top of my voting criteria right now -- city, state and national.
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I think you are missing the core intention of the landing page - they want new users to sign-up with ease. Once a user has already signed up, they are more likely to click a bit deeper to find the login.
A significant number of these people and those mentioned in the sibling comments here are not CEOs (if you seek out their job title carefully) and/or don't have startups.
Why should he be ashamed? These people are traitors to their country, pure and simple. What makes it even worse is they're not even politicians - a group of people the public already sees as 'out of touch' or 'not of us' - they're our own friends and neighbors selling us up the river. I'm not about to 'take up arms' against the TSA myself or anything, but if I were on the jury of this LAX shooter I would vote to acquit, pure and simple. I completely agree with his motives, even if I find his methods a little coarse and distasteful. I'm shocked and a little ashamed that more citizens haven't taken this course of action upon themselves, but whatever.
The best solution to that would be to ask them. Dear friend, what is a good time to call you? Between X to Y UTC? Sure that works by me too.

With a common time reference, you wouldn't need to map between time-zones.
Except Koodo, Virgin and Fido have always been owned and operated by the big three, just targeted towards customers with smaller budgets. It's just the illusion of competition.
Apple’s iCloud Keychain: It works, but with frustrating limitations
Prior to teaching myself to program I hired off of Elance and what I remember most is how helpless I felt. I had no way to verify that the code the client wrote was any good. I worried that I'd pay the first 3 of 4 milestones and then the developer would flake out on me because the last milestone would take 10x as long as the first 3 combined. Or I'd pay all 4 milestones but have no way of noticing huge bugs that would surface later on. I had no idea what was technically challenging and what was simple. All I really wanted was assurance that the money I was spending wasn't being wasted.

A lot of people are getting upset with the client for making the "unreasonable demand" of not paying for the app until 10 days after acceptance into the app store. But that's what the client wanted and more importantly that's what they both agreed to. That's what matters most to me. If you agree to a condition you later regret agreeing to, suck it up and consider it a lesson learned. Don't hold hostage the client's deliverables. That's just wrong.

In any case, as a freelancer, if a client presented me with that particular milestone requirement, I'd see it as an opportunity and price it in. I'm in a much better position than most clients to determine the likelihood that their app gets approved. I'd research the idea, calculate the risk of it being rejected, add a premium, and adjust my quote accordingly. I'd probably present the client with 2 bids, one where I shoulder the risk and the other where he does.

I wonder if there's a business to be had there - providing a sort of insurance against apps being rejected from the apple store.

For those wondering, I paid 8k for my web app (over 10 years ago) only to later realize that the core functionality was faked.
I'm a bit torn here since I feel like a good review was part of the expected "payment" to the developer (reading in between the lines suggests he accepted a lower payment in exchange for a good review).

Is it against the site TOS and sketchy? Yes. But then the author is just as responsible as the developer for agreeing to such an arrangement. But it becomes understandable that the developer would withhold the product if he had not yet been "paid" in full.
I for one like the idea of people being able to hire whomever they like for whatever reasons they like.

Let the bigots expose themselves and be punished or not.
The internet is a utility, like electricity and phone (mobile or land line.) When you are dying of anything, electricity might not help much either. I don't have numbers, but I'm guessing that most people in the areas he is interested in aren't dying, they are just poor. When you are poor, any utility which you can access for free is helpful (this assumes that these internet programs will be useable and widely available.)

When you are going hungry because you have ran out of food, then you might not even have the money to call or text someone for help. A free internet connection gives you a way to reach out to others when you can't afford other methods of communication. Free internet might allow you to do some sort of internet micro job when you can't afford your own line or an internet cafe. There is also online education.

Of course, you still need to be able to purchase devices to access the internet. People find a way to purchase things that are helpful though. There is a lot of poverty in the Philippines, but many people are able to buy a scooter. As tablets get cheaper, more people will be able to afford them. Free internet access would definitely improve lives here.

ETA: Of course, Bill has great experience with the sort of problems he is trying to solve. But I wonder if he has tried to live the struggle of a family which isn't starving, but simply regularly falls short. I would like to see him run a household of 8 with a budget of a few dollars a day and an occasional problem where money might not come in for a few days.

ETA ETA: The Philippines also has a lot of money coming in from remittances. Having the option to fire up your tablet and make a free call to a relative in the U.S. to send money is hugely helpful.

ETA ETA ETA > “Fine, go to those Bangalore Infosys centres, but just for the hell of it go three miles aside and go look at the guy living with no toilet, no running water,” Gates told the FT. “The world is not flat and PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs.”

Yes, but soon that same person might have a computer in the form of a smart phone or a tablet. Again, that computer would be much more useful when he is able to access the internet for free.
Or you could go the cheapest and easiest route and get a silencer, as mentioned in the article, clearly most people don't care who hears them.
This is misleading. The majority of the site's features work correctly in any browser I tried. The page highlighted refers to a feature used to fill out the PDF application in your browser. If the application doesn't support your browser, you can download the PDF instead.

This appears to be a stopgap until online enrollment is implemented. The copy is badly written and should be fixed.
60k a month in revenue for a painting app and people act like I'm crazy when I say its time for Apple to create an iPad with a digitizer, as if no one wanted to paint on an iPad.
Yes, the amount of sugar that you consume when eating fresh ripe fruit and vegetables is safe. It's not a lot, but when you don't drench your tastebuds in sugar, even a small amount of sugar in the food is detectable and very pleasant to the taste.

In North America such baked products are hard to find commercially; you have to make them yourself. But in Britain you can try Tunnock's Milk Chocolate Coated Caramel Wafer Biscuits to understand what I mean by a baked good with very little sugar that is not sweet but is still pleasant to taste.

If you have a Polish or Russian shop in your city, you may be able to find some imported products like this, since in the Soviet Union, they were not flooded with cheap sugar products driven by monopoly producers and advertisers. Therefore Russia still has a lot of baked goods that follow traditional recipes that you would have found everywhere in Europe prior to the 19th century.

And as I said before, you can live quite well with no baked goods whatsoever and just eat fresh fruit and vegetables.
"or not"?
No need to exit the solar system, just ram them into the moon. I've heard that spaceX wants to get it down to about $500 per pound to orbit in the near future, and according to Advanced Inorganic Chemistry: Vollume II (found on Google), it costs about 200,000 dollars per kilogram for earthbound atomic waste disposal. Other than the danger of the rocket crashing back to earth, this sounds very reasonable!
Lots of incorrect sites, and no way to differentiate http and https.

Lists that weibo is blocked!
http://www.blockedinchina.net/?siteurl=weibo.com
You are making the classical mistake, equalizing Marxism to the political scene executed by the Soviet Union..

The marxism is much more sophisticated and deep; I think maybe trotsky could make a better socialism.. but even than probably away from the Marx vision

But you know, politicians will always think about their own selves in the end of the day, no matter what they say, as long people believe in them..

So, in the day we have real altruistic people on power, things might change for the better... Socialism requires a much more sophisticated politician type.

But let me make clear, that i dont defend pure left or pure right.. if nature teach us something is decentralization and and micro-management..

If a government has the tendency to concentrate power, its like a dead body to the crows... it will seduce only the people with fetish for power, and control over the lives and destinies of others..

Thats why the history of world politics has been a greek drama where the weak(and sadly the majority) always lose in the end
If it's so good for business why does he think we need a legal structure to punish companies that just hire whoever they want?
State corporatism.
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> One does not 'invest' in a currency.

Someone in Venezuela putting USD under his mattress isn't investing?

> What kind of currency has fluctuations +109% in a less than a month's time?

A new currency that emerges out of nowhere, in an emergent fashion, such as bitcoin. You don't think gold prices fluctuated wildly in ancient Sumeria when gold was first used as a currency?

> All great hustles have that. Madoff did it with the 'mystery' of the stock market. Ponzi did it with the 'mystery' of the then still recent international stamp post delivery system.

Yes, and Uncle Sam with the USD.

That said, I agree with you it is bad for people to extol the "smartness" of investing in bitcoin- It's impossible to predict future prices of a commodity that is speculated upon. People should instead simply explain the value that bitcoin has to offer to the world.
Yes, easiliy confirmed. This is the NYT headline.

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I remember playing on the PLATO system a few times as a single-digit-year-old. My parents were grad students at UIUC.

There was a game called ANTWAR. You would be shown an army of enemy ants in a rectangle in a certain number of rows and columms. The trick was to multiply the rows and columns and choose the size your army to be exactly one more ant in number.

They don't let kids hang out in datacenters anymore. But kids have more interesting games at home anyway.
Interestingly, we seem to be preparing longer and longer for our careers. Perhaps we'll eventually work a handful of days in our lifetimes, but spend 30 years preparing for that moment.
China is also not internally very harmonious, which is why the Chinese military is focused mostly inward rather than outward.
I don't see the FDIC picking up the tab on lost wallets any time soon.
Yeah "Silicon Valley has an Arrogance problem" not the Banks this rag is a mouthpiece for that created the worst economic collapse since the great depression and then held the American people hostage for Billions of dollars in tax payer bailouts.
Robots won't replace the human need to exploit finite resources and other people for personal gain. Which is why I think complete replacement of human labor by robots isn't likely to happen, even if it becomes technically possible -- because the entire reason for displacing human labor with automation is to remove the need to pay more people to do more work, entirely a capitalist means to a capitalist end that doesn't make sense if the rich don't keep getting richer, or if there's not an economy to take advantage of all the efficiency in all the automation.
I'm not sure if he would qualify on the exact metrics mentioned, but certainly in the general sense: Fred Wilson, http://www.avc.com/
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It's nice to see that the Economist is finally channeling Marx.

Such trash.
Yes, I think most of us probably have the experience of the friend (sometimes a friend of a friend) who has a "fantastic idea... just write the app and we'll split BILLIONS OF DOLLARS".

It's amazing how many of those fantastic ideas don't survive the counteroffer of them paying me my normal rate and then keeping all the money themselves.
Craig and Mark are owners of companies or sports franchises (or own large amounts of equity in them), but are not CEOs. I'm not aware of the CEO of Craigslist, Jim Buckmaster, blogging. Nor am I aware of 2929 Entertainment's CEO, Todd Wagner (co-owned by Mark), blogging.

Also on some of the other folks listed in sibling comments, like Richard Branson, I'd be very surprised if he were the one posting on the Virgin "blog" under his name. Just as executives and politicians have speechwriters, they also have exec comm and marketing staff to write blog posts.
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I built constellational.com two days before November began, hoping it would help me write. It's just a blank canvas. The url updates itself as you type. You can send a different version to different people or bookmark the latest url for yourself.
Just because I want something to happen doesn't mean that it must be so.
It is a concern. It says to me the applicant is all about accelerating their personal income growth while the company is just a stepping stone. I know they will be looking for a new job the day they start. My feeling is, if I can milk them I will, so they need to be good. But our system takes time to master, so prolly not even gonna be an interview.
While I generally disagree with the sentiment, his observation for the subset he's talking about -- "world changers", e.g. Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Zuckerberg, Brian Chesky, Drew Houston, etc -- is correct.
If you take the economic theory behind bitcoin seriously, then it's easy to see that its deflationary nature implies an increase in value over the long-term regardless of ups and downs. Buy (or mine) and hold is then a good strategy, the main concern you ought to have in your calculations is bitcoin being killed by a government or a competing service that offers the same and better benefits that using bitcoin does. Very different from SatoshiDice.
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That's probably an idea that would resonate with lots of people with strong libertarian leanings here on HN and in Silicon Valley. However, like many libertarian positions, it's out of touch with reality. This isn't an issue that the invisible hand is going to fix.
It will probably break under the slightest load though; clickable: http://Constellational.com
posting wikipedia articles isn't news
I would have said "an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal with Tim Cook's byline." Nothing indicates that he wrote it himself (though he may have reviewed it before submission).
It says google.com isn't blocked:

http://www.blockedinchina.net/?siteurl=google.com
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There are great tools that interface R with BUGS that may be worth checking out.

I would highly recommend getting this for the shelf: http://www.amazon.com/Analysis-Regression-Multilevel-Hierarc...

It's one of the most readable books on data analysis I've come across and does a great job presenting both frequentist and Bayesian techniques with tons of R sample code.

There are a lot of advantages and nice things in Python, but I do think folks tend to toss out R a bit too casually. Each tool has areas they excel in. I don't even do particularly complex analysis, but have run into areas where Python is woefully lacking in fairly common (social science) models.
why do people post wikipedia articles as news?
"Truth comes anonymously or posthumously, and I'm not dead yet."
Who's that a smart bear guy? Jason Cohen of WP-engine? He blogs all the time.
Things stop being funny over time. There's no reason to be concerned. There will always be a next funny thing, and there's really very little you can do about it.
Thanks remixz.
While it would be a safe stance for Starbucks to publicly take, it is less so for Apple which has a much more diverse customer base. It would be better for Apple's business to not take a position in these issues.
Apple did the dame thing basing OS X on unix kernel. Google is just following the lead. The only part that the OSS community was fooled on was the hypocrisy of Google
Why do you hate wiki? Many people don't know this exists, it's interesting and disruptive. This could be a great startup idea too.
On the other hand, the neolithic revolution, the rise of agriculture, were responsible for accelerated human population growth, and with that, the rise of the city states (and later states) needed to deal with the resulting population densities. People in cities were more free to specialize, leading to art and technology advancements.

Welfare via the state is probably as old as Rome, and probably much older than that.
Great game! Keep up the good work!
I mind Lisp meetups to be astonishingly good: http://lisp.meetup.com/

I imagine meetups for other languages are proportionately as good relative to how little they fall short of Lisp as a language. :)
...perhaps be fleeing to Europe and continuing their career in film?
Lots of it is applied at province level, as I understand it. There is not 'one firewall'. That's probably why this site gives you a result for five different provinces.
If possession of a card determines whether and how much one eats, then in violent environments we would expect some to eat a great deal and others to go without completely.
Military industrial complex, big pharma, carbon/energy complex, insurance, big finance. what else ?
"Tone" opens up a very ugly discussion I don't want to have here.

I don't know if Paul Graham is at fault for this, just to be clear about it.

Let's say he were. If he came out and said, "This is my message board, and therefore I assign personal penalties to the posts of those who oppose my economic interests", I would respect that.

What I can't respect is a silent personal penalty. That's ridiculous.

I've had this suspicion for months-- and I didn't voice it at first, because I don't much care-- but it's the latency difference and the looking into position of historical posts that made the case strong.

Why is this important? Why is it interesting? Because if I am being personally penalized, that means that the establishment is threatened by people like me who speak the truth about it. That would be a really positive sign.
That was also the Marx prediction, lets see if he was right..

Its not just economics, but also the human nature; we have to change the way we see and interact with the world, resources, other people..

The "Use everybody, everything, and profit whenever you see a chance" mantra is a social cancer, and will end badly for everybody.. even the ones running the show and laughing of everything
I think he's largely correct beyond just VC-backed companies, though he did seem to go back and forth between "personal" blogging and company blogging. On a side note, I found his definition of success to be typical of an investor: If you get them a return, you're successful (oh, and "changing the world" means getting them a return). Pretty boring definition of success.
Also, each Chinese ISP is quite different in what is blocked: even if their are some popular givens (facebook, youtube, twitter), there is some flexibility with respect to imugr, wikimedia, and Google PLUS.

> I met many people in China who hated Google services because they were so slow and/or defective--due entirely to the sabotage.

If you call up your ISP and tell them you can't get to Facebook, they'll tell you it must be Facebook's fault. The government won't admit to blocking or interfering with these websites...the GFW technically doesn't exist.