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The founder, Dave Asprey, actually could not be more relevant to this community. He was the first person to sell something through the internet, and made 6 million dollars when he was 26 by selling his company Exodus Communications. Since then he has worked for several tech all-star companies and today leads a publicly traded cloud computing security company as Vice President.

http://www.linkedin.com/in/asprey

That resume doesn't lie.
I dunno, I'd rather see an AC-130 H/U/J/W or an Apache in the air above me providing continuous support rather than a few strafing runs from a fast moving A-10.

The A-10 can get to the scene faster, that's about it.
My accountant did not think it qualified as capital gains. I guess the IRS has a specific designation for what can be considered for that.
I started with the Big Nerd Ranch Objective C book (http://www.amazon.com/dp/032194206X), then my job paid for a week-long class put on by Big Nerd Ranch. I can highly recommend both. I learned a ton and watching the Stanford iTunes U course on iOS development makes a lot more sense now.
Those are good rules to live by, Peter.
Quite frankly, the first one is the only one I believe in, but then again I'm from a country far, far away and all that.

Meter broken? Happens. Curb paint faded? Doesn't apply here (That's something that works a little different), but I have a hard time seeing that being a _common_ reason. Really. Common sense and remains of paint would probably be enough. Missing signs: Seems to be too big of a deal. In my world there's no way you can hand out tickets without having signs in place. You'd be contested again and again even without this service and would stop that behavior - or put up signs. This is not a temporary failure or a result of decay.

And then there's the 'meter times unclear' or 'other' part.
Again, if this is trying to fight unfair tickets I'm a huge fan. It just doesn't look like that and the comments here seem to be mostly 'Yeah, where do I sign up to get that ticket removed'.

I .. park where I'm allowed to park, search a parking spot if I'm not sure OR (last time: 2 weeks back) risk a ticket and pay it if I get one. I guess I lack the empathy for people that have a different way here..
I know personally that Europa is actually pretty high on Charlie Bolden's (and other NASA HQ folk's) as well as academia's radar, but has thus far lost out to other programmatic/political necessities.

NASA has a very hard time devoting resources to planetary science and exploration programs when key legislators continue to earmark NASA'S budget for (what are essentially) jobs programs in their own districts. SLS has shaped up to be a perfect example of that.
You seem to be changing what you're saying. You previously said:

> more people would die off between 50-65 than after 65

And that is clearly untrue.

Yes, someone who's 65 is more likely to live to 85 than someone who's 50. That's extremely obvious once you know that 1) people occasionally die and 2) people don't come back to life after they die. The closer you are to an age, the more likely you are to reach that age.

I'm getting confused as to what sort of point you're trying to make. You originally seemed to be saying that there's a spike in mortality around ages 50-60. Now you seem to be saying... well, I can't figure it out.
The author's reasoning is fine.

"If you find your testers splitting up functions to support the testing process"; he's condemning splitting the function for that PARTICULAR rationale; he's not universally condemning splitting the function.

Of course it's a false choice. He's not saying you can't have both. He's using it as an illustrative example that if you're making the code more complex just to make it more easily testable (see prior point), then you're choosing the wrong thing to do.
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So, a prediction - stealing coins will always happen. Maybe no one will break your cryptography, but you will never close off all side channel attacks.
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By judiciously ignoring some social rules, you can simplify your life.
A commit should be like UNIX tools: should do one thing and do it well. If the commit is adding hell lots of new features, fixing bugs, and doing heavy refactoring all at once, it's way too much.

When developing say a new widget (or heavily extending an existing one), you can develop basic functionality, commit, add bells and whistles, commit, and some more stuff, commit, send for code review, do the fixes, commit, ask for re-review maybe, and then squash the commits into one commit if needed. With DVCSes like Git it's extremely easy, and reviewing smaller commits is easier than having to go through a behemoth (of course it always depends on your particular situation).

I sometimes tend to open half-baked pull requests to ask for quick early feedback if I'm doing things the right way, and what to be careful about, and continue developing in background while the more senior person takes a look at the code.
Oh good. Delta.
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>The only story of relevance here is that Digital Ocean has a line in its TOS about not allowing "harassment or embarrassment", and they will enforce it if you do indeed harass a guy.

I think you are missing the real relevance here; that DO will use their own discretion to determine if your content is worthy of dissemination. You're right, it was terrible journalism, and a thin story. So what of it? Why should DO concern themselves with the content that isn't breaking any laws? What, precisely, is "embarrassment"? It was a no-name blogger posting a non-story.

>This is not something that we should endorse on Hacker News.

The fact that you say this explains a lot about why you have your opinion on DO and how things should work, and why I have mine. If this story is getting upvoted, it's getting upvoted. There is no "we", unless you're trying to curate opinion and create an echo chamber.
Instead of writing something down "What's this for?", go ask the person "What's this for?". I have recently become a primary reviewer for our operating system work (device drivers for SAN storage, VLAN networking, init scripts, custom rpms, etc) which involves a whole lot of bash magic and linux system stuff I do not understand. What I do is go ask the guy to explain to me the basic concepts and/or specifics of the change if I don't understand it. That way it's at least possible that an error will be caught, and when I have to go make changes in that area I will have some idea of what I am up against. Code review is a great time to learn more about what you don't understand, and for more eyes to see dark parts of the code. It's also a good chance for the guy to wrote it to go "hey, that's weird..." when explaining it to me, and realize he missed something important.
I'm currently in a similar situation. I'm in New Zealand under a job search visa. I've been promised a full work visa so I'm sticking with it no matter how much I hate it. It's pretty hard finding a new job with my limited skills and my not being a local resident.

I try and find the time to build up my skills which is already a source of much anxiety. I came from a LAMP background building websites as a freelancer before I went off to University to make it official. Coming out of Uni, it's like I'm starting from scratch. Go, Dart, a plethora of frontend tech. It's enough to make me insecure.

I've become very frugal. Heck, I don't even have health insurance. I have a tiny shoebox apartment kitchen so stocking up and cooking is pretty difficult. I tend to wait for the supermarket deli to do its clearance in the evening. Half price off all sandwiches!

I've also been diagnosed with chronic depression so it's not like things were so great even before the job. This leads me to what the author said on 'Changing your environment'. I've developed a lot of bad habits and while I've attempted CBT, a lot of the time I just go back into that cesspool of depression, of eating copious amounts of terrible food, sleeping all day and putting off all work. I could have a better job and still end up the same way, I'm aware of that possibility.

Another thing that I keep telling myself is this is a job, it's work. It was never meant to be fun and games.
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Upvoted for the elegant use of "BFG."
i could see it being helpful in some cases because of the varied thoughts and conversation can make you think differently about a problem; and a little alcohol.
"You can change your circumstances at the job, but that doesn't make the senior-managements behavior any less toxic?"

Too true, I was in the situation awhile ago of being checked-out at a bad job. I realized that I needed to turn around, despite really positive feedback from the management about improving performance, it did nothing to improve the management's ineptness. Most of my proposals of even basic industry practices like using Git to manage our code base, and switch to using a CSS framework were met with smiles but resisted.

The company inevitably self-imploded, largely due some egregiously bad management decisions. I was laid off, but at least I had gotten used to a workflow that made my skills more marketable...
Fair enough. The badge does go away though when your list has either no items or all items are crossed off. But I could make it an optional setting in the next update. Thanks for the feedback!
Second shameless plug on this page: if running your own linux kernel or BSD is really important to you, http://prgmr.com can do that and we have out of band console access so you can debug why it's not working (I was having problems with that when I was checking whether some linux+xen bugs were also present on ec2.)

At this time we only support xen paravirtualization(PV) though, which almost, but not quite, all major distributions have. Notably we can't run 64-bit freebsd right now because they only have HVM support. I'd like to change that but it needs more testing first. Here is a partial list of distributions supporting xen: http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/DomU_Support_for_Xen Really any linux distribution with a modern kernel can be made to support it though as support has been in mainline for a long time now.
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look for an offshore highrisk merchant.

what will most likely happen is they will hold 25%+ of your revenue for 30 days and release it periodically. once you meet certain thresholds those numbers will increase / decrease based on charge backs and other factors. hit me up if you need a referral.
A broken meter is a valid reason in other cities?

Huh. Every parking meter around here specifically says if it is broken you can't use it. People are ticketed accordingly if they park there.
In which case he has no reason not to say 'why yes I am that international man of mystery!' and milk it for all the gains its worth, eg TV interviews and speaking invitations and so on. Lots of other people have done this sort of thing, and there's nothing illegal about it, just a social cost if you're caught out. It doesn't make sense to argue that he's shunning the media and seduced by fame at the same time.
Does this mean, if that portion of our genome could be removed then cancer would not be possible?
Don't you think he might just have built this opinion while working for the government ? Sometimes having an insider look might makes you more knowledgeable.

And even if this opinion is widespread and stupid, working for the government doesn't make your opinion more or less valid, because every voter is the same. Anyways it's just an opinion, and I don't think it has a lot to do with bitcoin anyways.

It's not like anyone is seeking political advice and opinion from this guy, that's not why he's famous, so why bother ?
Its simple. It costs half as much as equivalent providers for their VPS. Or less than half in the case of AWS. And it actually works even though its so cheap. No matter how rich you are it just doesnt make sense to pay double or triple.

The question is, do you really make money on $5 a month servers? I don't know if they actually are. The costs are for support people and now large numbers of engineers.

The thing is with that much funding it doesn't really matter if their income is greater than expenses. They can continue for at least another few years regardless. During that time sane people who just need a VPS will take advantage of it.

My recommendation for DO's business model is simply to set a precedent and make it a policy that if you pay only $5 then you don't get any kind of free support. That is the only real cost that sticks. So I suggest having a few different monthly support options available starting at zero support for $0 and up. That is the main business issue a provider like this has is the conflict between the desire to provide good support and the need to keep unit costs low. And the solution is to separate support out. The main challenge to doing that is sort of a cultural/expectations/marketing issue.
Steli and I just chatted about this one, and I love it.

I help make YesGraph, a referral recruiting tool. We're just getting started ramping up sales, so something like referrals that keeps the new leads warm is wonderful. Plus the marketing message that we are all about the referrals writes itself.
Nice to see IBM getting in the game with some tools that aren't dauntingly enterprisey
We have mostly the same principles but have come to different conclusions. The semantics of midnight are indeed what is important here, but midnight does not qualify as a zero. Zero implies identity for some addition, and there is no addition for which midnight is the identity. This is because midnight does not even support addition: you have to use timedeltas if you want to add times. Timedelta 0, then, is the proper zero, and should semantically be falsy in languages where zeros are falsy. Midnight, on the other hand, should not be. (The entire notion of falsiness is terrible and should crawl off somewhere and die, but that's beside the point.)
He is absolutely relevant to this community. That doesn't make him a dietitian or a source for scientific conclusion. Nor does it make everything he puts onto paper relevant to this community.

And he's clearly got something to sell with this whole Bulletproof thing.
Way to ignore the last sentence of my comment. I consider the guess to be separate from the process of elimination that precedes it and sometimes obviates it.
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The problem of 1 not being prime could be easily solved by having a separate term, say "noncomposite" or whatever you like, that means the set of the primes and one.
Exchanges are a thing of the past, use a much thinner intermediary-layer such as localbitcoins.com (only mediates, doesn't hold fiat).
The standard of proof in minor civil infraction cases is weak. If they find they don't need to get proof, I'm sure they won't. I recently read of a town trying to get their parking situation in order and they found that 30% of their meters were broken.
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If you're wealthy and live in the US, your chances of being the victim of a kidnapping or suchlike are very low.
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I find it amazing to see how cheap that price tag is for something so technology worthy.
> In other words they're basically doing a paper denial-of-service attack on the courts, which as they do not have the capacity to do all these hearings, simply default to halving or nixing the ticket. Personally, I think it is vile.

As someone who has had to deal with both illegitimately issued traffic and parking citations, I think its brilliant.

Traffic tickets and parking tickets, for the most part, are for revenue and not safety. If they were for safety or actual enforcement, the punishments wouldn't be so heavily weighted towards fines.

Anytime technology can stick a wrench in poor government, be it incompetent civil servants, or poor policy, I'm all for it. If you don't have the capacity to provide hearings that are allowed by law, don't issue the citations.
I'm curious because this suggests that Satoshi was maybe at the Bitcoin World Conference and Expo in New York, which was in August 2011.
I think the real story is how Satoshi unveiled the elusive Newsweek reporter. I didn't realize those were still around! /sarcasm
As a federal/state contractor myself. That's what happened to me. My job has driven me to a libertarian viewpoint over a period of years after seeing inefficiency and wastefulness of the organizations I deal with. This is across many state and federal departments.

And I do make an effort to push them toward more cost effective technologies and processes but the sad truth is they don't want to hear it because they prefer to waste money on oracle licenses and aligning text on reports nobody will ever read, than have their budget reduced.

There really ought to be incentives/bonuses built in for employees in govt who can successfully cut their budget and perform the same job at the same level of quality. We would instantly see a drastic reduction in the cost of our government.
I suspect they make a fair bit of money from people like me, who are lazy and/or have full-time jobs, and have commissioned a server or three and never actually use them.
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"If you have a pass through entity of some sort (S corp, LLC, etc) you can avoid paying payroll taxes on distributions and also avoid double taxation."

What you're talking about does not apply to LLCs, it is a special situation only related to S-Corps. Generally speaking, pass-throughs such as LLCs all distributions are taxed as self-employment wages, except under certain conditions.
I'm not talking about a change in a single day. The change in question happened in late December, so I do have SOME data.

If I lose sales for two years and then EVENTUALLY get a bump, that's two years of network effects and word-of-mouth that I've missed out on.
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Never seen a case where referral sales makes more sense than at YesGraph :) Excited to see the results you guys are going to get from implementing this!
> not because of an artificial power like legal authority

This is like saying "natural" foods are inherently better (or alternately, that processed foods are inherently worse).

There's nothing inherently wrong with "artificial" power as it may very well be superior to the idea that shit will just "naturally happen" and whatever will be, will be.

Militaries since the dawn of history adopted artificial power early, not because warriors around the world somehow converged on the same artificial Kool-Aid, but because organized armies were much more effective in combat.

This is not to say that "command & control" is always inherently better (and indeed modern armies tend to practice German-style "centralized planning, decentralized execution"). Likewise the free market is a fairly widely-acknowledged success story as opposed to a planned economy.

The point is rather that "no artificial power" is not a selling point or way of winning an argument on its own. On its own, it's nothing more than a suggested policy option, like saying Ethernet is better than Wifi or that CLI arguments should start with / instead of -.

The effectiveness of such policies can only be determined in light of all the evidence of each case in question.
Wow, this is my city! What you found is military airfield Kulbakine, it is functioning (I hear/see jet training flights from time to time).
In the United States, presumption of innocence implies that if the defendant pleads innocent, it is upon the parking authority to prove that the violation described in the ticket actually happened. Parking authorities tend to overtax their resources for such niceties (on the assumption that most people who are fined will plead guilty and pay the fine rather than burn personal time showing up in court); when an innocent plea happens, it may not even be worth the resource investiture for the officer who issued the ticket to show up to plea.
Thanks. I do remember using that one or one similar in maybe Fall of that year. I believe the first ones actually downloaded the entire Blockchain which was maybe a gig or two at the time. The one I had became unwieldy enough that I eventually just uninstalled it.
I enjoyed Europa Report (It's on Neflix [0]) thoroughly I and I feel compelled to link this invigorating (2007) talk from Bill Stone [0].

0: http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/Europa_Report/70276016

1: http://www.ted.com/talks/bill_stone_explores_the_earth_and_s...
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emanating from LA is a court challenge that may decide that parking penalties are excessive. This would be a statewide ruling (it's in the state courts IIRC). If, say, parking tickets were curbed at "treble damages", wouldn't this hurt this business' model?

http://laist.com/2014/02/26/local_heroes_are_taking_la_to_co...
You've identified two classes of customer for this app but speculated, without evidence, that most of them fall into only one of those classes.

Ironically my objection to this service is essentially the opposite of yours. I see this app as imposing a middleman's fee on something that, in a perfect world, citizens would be able to perform themselves with the same probability of success. Contesting an illegitimate parking or speeding ticket is a fairly straightforward matter, but in my (personal) experience, unless you bring a lawyer to the courtroom your arguments will simply be ignored. In my area, the courts do not even keep records, so you can't use the judge's blatant dismissal of your concerns* as grounds for a mistrial on appeal.

Maybe I'm not understanding how the service works, but I see this service as simply a specialized and cheaper lawyer replacement. Maybe that's progress since you can actually save some money if you win, but you're still paying a more powerful entity in order to get respect in a court of law.

*I've literally been told by a judge, "stop speaking now, your turn is over" seconds after showing that the officer didn't use a LIDAR gun correctly per the manual, and upon cross examination didn't even know the type of device he was using (Me: "Were you using a radar or a laser based device on <date> at <time>?" Officer: "I was using the device the department issued me." Right afterwards: "Me: If you don't know what kind of device you were using, how can you know the effective range of the device?" Officer: "I believe it was effective and accurate when I used it."). The judge repeatedly referred to it as a "LASAR" device...
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Even if you download the app, it's not clear. It has an "Availability Check" and you enter your ZIP Code, then it puts you the waiting list. Which is the same whether you put in a Bay Area ZIP or a Bumfuck USA ZIP.
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Indeed. I once had a small claims lawyer brag to me that while defending an expire-meter ticket, he was able to prove that the township had failed to conduct state-mandated Bureau of Weights and Measures calibrations for years. Tickets issued in that time were retroactively canceled.
BigV is awesome, even if I might be slightly biased ;)

That said there is the same problem there, if you specifically want access to more cores you pay for RAM you don't need - since the two are linked, more RAM == more cores, as you step up the numbers.
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