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I just spent the last two hours thinking of stuff I could potentially make with this. I wish I had a spare $5K.
A competitive market of third party providers on a peer to peer based social media platform can be both easy to use and impossible to censor. Censorship resistance becomes just another thing on the shopping list for third party providers, those that can do it best get the largest amount of users. The more censorship becomes a problem, the more value there is in services that resist it.
Yeah I know you can find pg quotes about this. Does that make it true? If that's the case then you win.

However, if you want to use reason, it is clearly the case that under this view then the voting and karma is a misnomer and little more than a way to stifle dissent. It's good thing, I think, that most don't hold this view.
Of course not. It's pure speculation. But it was an interesting read.
TOR is effectively blocked in China, the only way to use it there is to setup a private obfsproxy somewhere abroad, but I believe it's beyond an average user skills.
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>virtually no supposed 5x or 10x programmer makes even 2x more. If people are really 5x, why on earth don't I see $300-$500k salaries?

Small sample size. These types of developers are very few and far between. I worked with one that I keep in touch with and he is making somewhere between 400 and 500k at his current job. His output of good code was pretty amazing to see. He did manage to produce the work of 5 average Bay area engineers consistently.
> C++ is mostly an extension of C (there are some subtle differences like changes in the type system), so I also recommend C before C++

Never ever do this in 2014. It is the path of writing unsecure code.

Modern C++ has better, more secure, approaches how to write code.

Leave C like coding to legacy code.
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In terms of who would have won and who would have lost, it's far worse than you might suspect.

I actually would have given Steve the disassembler for free, just to see where it might lead. It wasn't that much work, not much more than some of the coding tests companies ask for these days.

Or maybe I would have asked for a few hundred bucks. Not much difference one way or the other.

Suppose Steve then asked me to join up with him and Woz. I'd just read some crazy business book that said people shouldn't have stock in companies because you can't really influence the outcome of the whole company. Instead you should just get paid what you're worth, and the best way to do that was to be a contractor instead of an employee.

How exciting that would have been - I could have been Apple's first contractor!
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> Does that make it true?

It makes it true that it's the site policy, yes.
Ordinary people do not do their "shopping" based on censorship resistance, and they never will. You're thinking like an activist, you need to think like an apathetic layman, because that's what the vast majority of human beings are. They simply do not care about the same things you do, and you can't force them to until their lives are directly impacted.

If you want to help ordinary people get around censorship, go help the Tor project. It actually works, because it's compatible with human nature. It provides a simple, largely transparent tool that people can insert into their existing, normal habits, and it provides a basis on which the technically sophisticated can build even better tools in the form of hidden services that users can interact with exactly as they interact with their existing, non-resistant tools.
I normally just lurk, but I signed in just to upvote him. Still laughing...
One possible fix would be for Prosecutors to have a karma rating and each time someone is found not guilty of any charge it brings them down a notch. At a certain point then they would have their law license suspended for a time.
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As somebody graduating from high school in a bit, I have to ask: what would you do differently today? It seems to me that, as somebody who can do comp sci reasonably well, that's my best option right now.
Those type of job postings don't go on Craigslist. The few people with those kind of skills just decide where they want to go and apply there.
Also, email and IRC were available before HTTP/HTML, so people were definitely able to communicate over the Internet, in realtime or otherwise, even before they were viewing Web pages.

Indeed all those sites mentioned are just manifestations of an idea that is really independent of any "progress in web standards", and had someone thought of the idea 20 years ago, they could've just as easily (or maybe even more easily - because of the relative lack of complexity back then) set up a site for it.
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This is just trying to treat the symptom: the issue is not that we try multiple things at once, its that that becomes a real option when we have too many laws. As mentioned below, I think no one has a real issue with someone being tried for 4 murders and 1 rape. Seems totally reasonable to me that if they only find him guilty of 3 of those murders justice was still served. If prosecutors were only operating under a much smaller and more well defined and understood set of laws, they simply wouldn't be able to over-prosecute. Its harder easier to find any given person guilty given 10 laws vs given 1 law.

Just look at the situation with traffic violations: most cops will tell you that if they want to cite you for something, they can find something to cite you on. The solution is not to come up with clever tricks where they lose points if they cite you for too many of these, or citation 1 disqualifies citation 2 or whatever, its to just limit the number of traffic laws so that police are only capable of acting on real issues.
Don't just vote me down. Give reasons. Critique my arguments. Critique Searle and Nagle, whom I cite. (You have to have read their corpus first.)

Voting my comment down without giving any reason or justification proves my original point that nobody can stomach the actual evidence that I have raised, and which Searle and Nagle have also raised.

You are not yet ready for the Kuhnian revolution in AI which must eventually take place, and you will be on the wrong side of it.
Very cool if it works but I'm not convinced by the video. I already know all the applications where this can be used, how strong carbon is, how easy this machine is and only fantasy sets the limit blaha etc. Show me something you've already created and how good that is instead of pretending to try to break a pencil sized object. Was the bike fork made in that machine or just a general example of carbon fiber? I couldnt find the speed of printing either.
"1 - virtually no supposed 5x or 10x programmer makes even 2x more. If people are really 5x, why on earth don't I see $300-$500k salaries? [...], it would be an enormous win for employers"

Some reasons you don't see higher salaries:

1. It's very hard to measure the difference in programming ability directly. Good programmers also tend not to realise just how much better they are, and are generally unwilling/unable to demand higher salaries (not because they're programmers, but because most people by default aren't good at these things.)

2. Good programmers tend to cluster around good companies, one of their advantages being that they're surrounded by people at their level. Think Google, Facebook. Over there, if everyone is as good as you but making the same as you, then you don't feel there is a disparity.

3. Some programmers DO make 300-500k. You just don't hear about it.

4. More importantly, some people make 300-500k in roundabout ways. E.g. some great programmers work as freelancers and make that amount, because that's one way to solve the problem of companies being unwilling to pay so much more.

5. Some programmers with more business-fu start consultancies and startups, making lots of money that way in a non-obvious way.
The article is flawed.

In Europe we could always buy mix and match SIM cards with mobiles since the early days.

Just how you get the mobiles is different.

In some countries you can choose between paying the full price or having a kind of virtual contract, which means you get it cheaper but it is locked to the operator for two years. After which you get the code to unlock the mobile.
But in those cases the sim is still tied to some provider who is managing the agreements for roaming.
Hopefully not. They should just use CAS.
All I know is from my own experience, and that experience is that I have recruiters calling up at least once a week and a few more via email looking for software engineers. I never got that kind of attention when I was working a cash register in retail, and my friends with liberal arts degrees certainly aren't getting it either.
> The more censorship becomes a problem, the more value there is in services that resist it.

That is, normal people can be negatively affected by state actions and censorship too, at the point that it is a problem, why would those ordinary people not do their shopping based on censorship resistance?

> If you want to help ordinary people get around censorship, go help the Tor project. It actually works, because it's compatible with human nature. It provides a simple, largely transparent tool that people can insert into their existing, normal habits, and it provides a basis on which the technically sophisticated can build even better tools in the form of hidden services that users can interact with exactly as they interact with their existing, non-resistant tools.

This is decent advice, but just serves to make my point all the more; Censorship resistance is becoming a problem in Turkey, people start using Tor. If the aforementioned peer to peer based social media platform actually existed, they would start using whatever service best evaded the censorship they're railing against now via Tor.

Since we have Tor already, why bother with such a platform? Because despite Tor, the platform itself could be hijacked and Tor would not assist in censorship resistance in this scenario. Twitter might be happy to tell Turkey to get lost when they start making demands, but what if you're trying to evade censorship from the US government or entity with similar level of power? This will likely become an issue in future, having platforms that are immune to hijacking is a good way to address it.
Thank you for saying that, and I think you're right, we probably would. Woz just seems like a really nice guy, personable and interesting and fun to be around.

I've bumped into him once or twice over the years, most recently at the Homebrew Computer Club reunion, where he gave a great talk full of enthusiasm.

Woz was a breath of fresh air after Ted Nelson's keynote-of-sorts, which was interesting enough but so sad and bitter! (Anyone who was there will know what I'm talking about.) I suppose I can relate to that, as someone who's never had the kind of success I could have imagined for myself.

But Woz reminded me that no matter what happens in your life, stay cheerful and enthusiastic and never let yourself become a bitter old person.
Suddenly buying up any potential competitor at any price doesn't seem too crazy. Give them no options, then they have to pay!
it was undergrads. and there were six of them, to be fair.
> we have a problem with finding enough good people

I'd love to see one of your job postings. I'd bet at least one of the following is happening:

1) unreasonable academic requirements

2) unreasonably broad list of required previous experience

3) unqualified HR people pre-screening and discarding resumes

You need to be willing to "kiss a lot of frogs", i.e. do phone screens and onsite interviews, of people who might generally be suitable. Then be willing to hire not-quite-perfect candidates who are willing to learn and are willing to work hard.

> How confident can you really be after interviewing someone?

I've seen an increase in contract employment postings. That might be a way to go. Start someone on a six-month contract. You might find some takers. Not everyone is ready to "get married" after a single days worth of job interviews.
They're having a live demo[1] at TechShop in SF on Monday (3/24/2014). I'm thinking about going.

[1] https://markforged.com/mark-one-demo-san-francisco/
Or he could... just... I dunno. Use cash. If cash = empty, then no more purchase? Because clearly the guy can't handle his finances using debit cards and keeps on overdrafting his account.
Would it make sense for high-karma users to be able to endorse dead links?
Exactly. "Roadable aircraft" is the common term, and it makes sense ... given how easy it is to acquire a drivers' license, do you really want the same people flying a plane?

Here are some actual specimens, in production (google search any of them and you'll find neat videos, too):

Terrafugia Transition ...

http://www.terrafugia.com/aircraft/transition

It's flown for years, runs on super-unleaded, and with folding wings can park in most people's garage. It's been to Osh Kosh numerous times.

Their upcoming TF-X model looks interesting, though I fear it may be so complicated that it'll have a harder time reaching market.

ITEC Maverick ...

http://itecusa.org/maverick.html

Ever see / hear of the movie "the End of the Spear"? The protagonist has a heart for helping * people living far from civilization, and one way is with (what I call) flying dune-buggies. Also been flying for years, in production, and quite durable.

http://mavericklsa.com/

* actually helping, by the way: providing knowledge, medical assistance, eye exams & services, dental exams & services ... all in a non-profit / volunteer fashion.
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I once worked for a German company that would pay me by bank transfer. It's a lot cheaper to send international transfers around the EU now, but then fees were high and transfers took quite a bit of time. So I went out to Germany, set up an account at DeutscheBank there using an uncle's place as a mailing address. Got my debit card, used it to get cash from the DB ATMs in my country.
about 10% of the dead links on the new page are actually rather intersting, but I end up having to search for them on Google. Sometimes the filters miss good stuff, eg I found a good long-form article on Buzzfeed last week but it was killed automatically upon submission. Well, can't win them all.
> It is the path of writing unsecure code.

Why? If anything you will learn more about the types of bugs that lead to security issues, and thus gain a better understanding of how to avoid them.

I feel like "security" is the new "think of the children" phrase these days.
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i get it, twitter is 140 characters
It kills me... Time.com of all places says my Facebook posts will reach "less users". I suspected I might reach "fewer users".
I invite you to waste your time. I'll not be wasting any more of mine on this absurd thread.
If you want a bifurcated benefits distribution program, where BI and "conventional" taxes exist side-by-side, to see which program is more effective in an open competition, then telling supporters of BI "you not only have to pay the taxes you already pay, but you also then pay beyond that for BI" would handicap the results in favor of the existing "conventional" taxation system. I personally think advocates of BI are committing the Soros reflexivity mistake, which pretty much most of the field of economics sins against as well. Without a near-free energy source, I doubt BI works over the long-haul. But that doesn't mean when someone advocates testing BI by telling supporters to dig into their pockets even deeper after they have paid taxes they currently are liable for, that I will idly stand by and let that pass for a fair challenge. Operationally, unless there is some strong way (like via DNA) to identify benefits recipients of one system over another to avoid double-dipping and similar negative externality behavior, I don't think side-by-side systems are actually feasible.
My biggest fear is once dictatorships/governments become aware of the ability to sidestep their bans, they'll begin blocking websites such as torproject.org. Keep in mind this traffic spike is because people who don't normally use Tor, started using it (i.e. they downloaded it). At that point I think we'll begin to see an arms race between the public and government which might finally bring us to decentralization of the Internet - or complete censorship.
This is true with movie plots.
Fair enough, I don't care enough about social media to build such a platform at any rate, I just don't agree with your assertion that peer to peer systems involving key management are a lost cause.
I know you're joking because of the twitter 140 character limit but accessing twitter directly by IP address won't help much. The govt can easily block a specific IP. So knowing the IP helps when DNS is down but, in the long run, it's not too helpful when someone is trying to block a site.
> Assuming there aren't illegal anti-poaching agreements, market forces operate in SV the same way they operate in the finance sector to drive up salaries of talented employees.

Um... did you even RTFA?
Well, for one he also tried to push his co-founder out of the company while he was sick in hospital. If he wasn't a sociopath at the time, he sure acted like one.
Please state the salary you offer, the location of your company, whether or not you pay full relocation, and the skill set you are looking for.
Thanks! We added a privacy clause stating that we store LinkenIn data. We are using python/django on a linux server from DigitalOcean.
From my memory, having read an article by someone who knew:

The prosecutor can try again later, but must mention previous failed attempts to indict.
Here's an example: http://consumerist.com/2013/10/22/bank-of-america-stops-over...

Most big banks have done this for a while and only recently abandoned or are abandoning the practice. I anticipate a large class-ation suit and payout within the next few years, because they took this to wildly abusive levels. For example a few years ago I went out one day and made 2 small (<$10) debit card purchases, passed an ATM of my bank and made a cash deposit, and then made a larger purchase an hour later (which was why I had deposited the cash, as I had a low balance). Chronologically this was all good, but thanks to transaction re-ordering I got hit with $105 in fees (#35 x 3).* I got it reversed, but the sad fact is that for a long time the transactions shown on your account and your available balance were treated as fictions to be re-arranged at the bank's convenience if doing so would yield fee income.

* eg for illustration, though I don't remember the specifics:

a. starting balance $30
b. debit card -$10 = $20
c. debit card -$10 = $10
d. cash deposit +$60 = $70
e. debit card -$65 = $ 5

Which all looked fine at the time (eg checking recent transactions and available balance at ATM following deposit), but 24 hours later the transactions had been reordered from smallest to largest and my account looked like this:

a. starting balance $30
e. debit card -$65 =-$35
A. Overdraft fee! -$35 =-$70
d. cash deposit +$60 =-$10
b. debit card -$10 =-$20
B. Overdraft fee! -$35 =-$55
c. debit card -$10 =-$65
C. Overdraft fee! -$35=-$100

I wish I were making this up, but sadly not. I was just lucky enough to have the smarts and time to go into a branch and browbeat a manager into getting the charges reversed. However, my understanding is that millions of people have been ripped off by this trick in recent years.
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Silence those with opinions that are not popular. Even if their points are valid, censor them. how many innocuous comments (ones that may not be quite worth an up-vote, yet add a sprinkle of thought) will be lost forever? In this scenario, all those comments who were left at 1 point now are never heard. Casual users (which must make up quite a large percentage of HN) will not be readily heard.

Those comments with even an air of controversy will not be approved because if it ends up with down-votes, that will go toward the approving member's record and may end up getting them banned eventually.

Controversial points and less popular opinions and facts will never be seen to counter. PG, you are building a Censorship wall so that controversial or unpopular comments now don't even exist to refute/debate. There is a reason that anytime you take away people's free speech or expression, they eventually revolt.

Why do comments that are not mainstream have to go away (as in never be seen). Why not engage in debate about them. I never understood this. Sure I can see censoring comments containing personal threats or vulgar content, but this is ridiculous. Keeping information from someone's eyes just because one group does not agree with it is censorship.

Honestly, the way that disagreeable comments are handled now are quite refreshing and are one of the reasons that HN is so popular. Anyone can post their opinion. If people don't agree with it, they can engage in civil opposition. If it is inappropriate, they can down-vote.

Perhaps the biggest reason for not pending comments is that you are going to dramatically change what shows up here. You have members of one group (or classification if you will) who are very active and will all have 1000 points, this group now is the voice of HN. Those who post more occasionally, post late, or don't pad their numbers by replying to the hot thread (rather they create their own which drops 3/4 down the page) now have a limited voice. Other groups likely have many differing opinions than the over 1000 class, they now have no voice. You see, your over 1000 (certainly the minority of your members) mostly all have common opinions, ideologies and viewpoints about things. This group now has the power to silence those others (though perhaps even larger in numbers) groups.

I would have liked it if you ran a poll before coding something like this. A last minute pseudo-courtesy notification shows just how much HN is really all about you and does not really belong to the people who actually own it (the public). Without us, you've got and idle server. No stories posted, no comments, nothing. Your totalitarianism attitude put a bad taste in my mouth.
Yeah, I was already wondering how they were going to reconcile that particular speech with whatever nuances of the prize rules would be required to keep people from giving a speech like that one.

It gets weirder when you consider that a) an AI could have plausibly (though not likely) have generated such a speech in answer to a real question (for example, "discuss a flaw in the TED program", and b) no one rejected Watts' talk as unacceptable, though they probably would have if an AI had generated the same talk.
I think you may be getting confused about why NPM took investment. When they say 'scale' (if that was the reason why they took investment), they may not mean scale as in the cost to scale the technology, but rather the costs to scale the business, hire more people to get more development to get more customers, etc. etc. I'd be surprised if NPM has a huge hardware costs.
Yes, just the other day I was thinking how cool it would be if the software industry worked more like the auto industry.
What line of work is he in?