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Mind adding your email address to your profile, or a throw-away email? Or just shoot me an email (email is in my profile).

I've been down this path before and would love to chat and am happy to provide any help or guidance that I can. I have no "golden" answers FWIW, but I do know the positives and negatives, and have even been to Federal court WRT scraping. :-)
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Also worth mentioning: as long as you're scraping facts and combining them in a novel way, copyright law is much less relevant.

This opeartes in what I consider a legal grey area. Don't make it obvious that you're scraping, only scrape public information, transform the results, proxy your requests, all contribute to lowering the legal profile (which is my only concern, as I feel I am acting within my own ethical limits).
It really bugs me that people consider some languages ugly or harsh. It seems like an extension of xenophobia and racism.
http://codinghouse.co/#!partners

Don't list those companies as "partners" if they just allowed you to tour their offices one day, unless your intent is to receive a C&D from Google.
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Wow, I had no idea Salesforce had negative GAAP earnings since inception. I assumed they were making a killing as they are SaaS. I guess they are going the Amazon route and plowing everything back into the company to grow top line.

If this rumor is true I'm guessing MSFT sees the opportunity for some serious cost synergies/reductions. At a $46B market cap that would seem to be a lot though!
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Perhaps because it's constantly hacked and used to spread malware.
At least from the article, it sounds like the current Charlie Hebdo team is also opposed to it...
Please stop spamming this.

You've posted about it three times in the past 4 days, and 5 times in the last 25.

Only one of those posts contained anything different: a post asking for advice about an obvious trademark & copyright violation w/r/t your logo. Advice which you seem to have ignored, so far.
The purpose of the SAT is to be a unbiased barometer; say what you will about it, but everyone takes the same test. Unfortunately, a 4.0 GPA from an obscure high school may tell you very little about a candidate.

I don't know how much admissions officers care about 96th versus 99th percentile, but if someone has an otherwise amazing resume yet ranks in the 40th percentile on their SAT, that's a bit of a red flag.
And, even with all the scrutiny, Seattle police are still showing up to peaceful protests in full riot gear, seemingly randomly beating the shit out of people and pepper spraying with reckless abandon.
As someone who grew up on "a few acres and a big garden" but currently lives in town, I'd say there's a pretty big difference there.
Why do you and other coding bootcamps pretend to be anything else than intensive web development courses?

Another coding bootcamp called "Hack Reactor" is claiming to be "The CS degree for the 21st century" on the front page and on another page they write "Become a Software Engineer".
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+1

Microsoft, IMO, gets business needs at a pretty hard wired and basic level, unlike Google or Apple. Their core audience and financials is B2B - consumers are, IMO, a sideshow, and likely have been since the early '90s.

I'm not a huge MS fan, but I am pretty sure that I feel much more comfortable using MS services for my company as opposed to Google, whose customer service is legendary.
It's not a great system. But...

1) If they are making it up themselves, they can be sued.

2) If they are frequently wrong, day traders shouldn't listen. (And it's day traders, not long term investors who pay the price when they're wrong)
No false flag. Please things are bad enough without inventing strawmen.
People have started rumors and profited from them using options in the past.... and been prosecuted for it.

Don't know what percentage of people who try it are successful and what percentage of those get away with it, I just know charges have been filed in the past.

Anyway there's more profit to be made from other people's delusions. (EG: I knew in 2001 there would be a housing bubble and made money between then and 2007 from the bubble. I called the end of the bubble a year early but close enough.)

I could tell you such a delusion right now but you wouldn't believe it... the best, most profitable delusions are widely held, until they aren't. In 2007 everyone thought house prices always rose. I can't tell you how many times I got downvoted on hacker news for claiming there was a housing bubble.
Yup, the OPs meal was almost 1500 calories.

When I was an idiot, I used to eat a lot at McDonalds. I had such a high metabolism that I could just burn off the calories without even trying, then when I got older, that didn't work any longer.

It's pretty easy to blow past 3000 calories if you eat more than 2x at McD's.
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Anecdotal, but Mark Zuckerberg was (and may still be) committing code at Facebook very recently. Some of us actually love programming for its own sake.
my thoughts exactly. whilst i don't care about Salesforce's CRM, i wouldn't want MS to put their hands on heroku. Once MS bought one of my favourite companies (Rareware, now Rare as part of MS Game Studios), effectively they killed creativity. I'm not saying that MS is necessarily evil, all I'm saying is that I've seen this once and I have been really disappointed.
If you are more focused on tasks than chats you might like trello.com or even just workflowy.com. I wouldn't say they are Project Management tools, but they can help the processes go forward.
It's a small thing, but I'm so glad they renamed it to "Nim". Its prior name carries such a negative connotation, while just shortening that gave a name that's cute and simple.
Why is ignoring robots.txt a bad idea? The information's being made publicly accessible...
Try being poor and eating for a month on whatever you have. You learn to be a bit less discriminating.
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I thought that all NASA technology was open to the public... Isn't that how SpaceX started?
What about a basement dwelling loner singularity? Gauss was a loner, and I'd have faith in him.
I've heard very good things about Hack Reactor as well

My first impression of them is dishonesty.

They claim to be "The CS degree for the 21st century" which is simply not true for an intensive web development course.
That domain was infact donated recently and is now redirecting to iojs.org.
> How many people really want a custom radio front panel?

It looks like they finally decided to focus on this one product which I think is smart because my guess is "way more than you think". Customization may be difficult to make but it is very easy to sell.
It's a good perspective. My concern is mostly about biodiversity. GMOs as designed today are about monocropping and chemical dependency... they're a vendor lock-in scheme wrapped in productivity enhancement.

Globally, productivity isn't our big food problem. Sustainability is. But the best solution for sustainability is probably the opposite of GMO - protecting heirloom varieties and local crops, using crop rotation and low-till techniques to minimize soil damage, and thinking about farms in terms of centuries rather than years.
I'm pretty sure that finding the right place could have a huge impact on the success of this project. Maybe even having a group of 10-20 "tech" families willing to relocate to a small town could have enough power to negotiate with local government.

Thanks for the info!
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That was a pretty short period of time. It was released in 2003, and acquired by eBay in 2005.
Still, compare, say, "Mac mini, iMac, or Mac Pro?" to the set of desktops available from Dell. Apple has lots of options, but they generally stick to consistent branding of a couple of core product lines.
Actually, the entire LAMP stack is just a couple of notches below Wordpress, and Wordpress is a LAMP product. Could be Wordpress is just the most hated LAMP implementation...or because Wordpress is so hated they hate LAMP too.
"Billionaire" might be a stretch but there's plenty of people in tech that wouldn't need to work at all if they didn't want to. It would surprise me if Torvalds et. al would have to wait for retirement before they didn't actually _have_ to work.
From reading the article, it doesn't seem like either of them feel a shadow.
I would like to know how far you got with the product. Even if it's incomplete, I think I would rather judge this on how far completed to beta launch you guys were.

I signed up a few weeks back and was interested in seeing what the product would look like.
The Foundry is spying on us, I wonder who else?
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> * There are lots of industrial products which need heavy customization. Offer on-line ordering tools for such products as a service to industrial sellers.

Yup. This definitely should have started out as a B2B play. Industry will pay an arm and a leg for customization for lots of random parts. Use the cash to build the foundation of the biz then go after the finicky consumer market later.
I think getting sued is really dependent on the size of the company you're scraping vs. what kind of 'business' you're cutting out from under them. There's a number of sites like https://gripsweat.com (mine) that are important to collectors/niche users but are basically to small to bother with otherwise.
I can't speak as an actual Salesforce user, but I did do a Salesforce integration for my company a few years ago - integrating Salesforce into our backend systems. It was quite a painful process.

The documentation is dense and somewhat difficult to follow - I ended up spending a lot of time reading forum posts to get a grip on how to use it. The API at the time was also SOAP/XML, with all the fun joy that comes with using that (although, in fairness, it looks like they now have a REST/JSON API too).

The API limits are also draconian, resulting in all kinds of code nastiness to stay within the usage limits. In our case, because of how things are stored in Salesforce and how the API is constructed, it might take 5+ API calls to update various parts of a single Account. We ended up batching changes and sending them every hour or so, and just had to tell our sales folks that info in Salesforce may be delayed up to an hour.

Not to mention, from a UX perspective, it feels like the 00s never ended.

We later ended up switching to Zurmo with a very heavy amount of customization. It ended up making more business sense to bring it in house and pay someone to customize it for exactly what we needed than to sign another Salesforce contract.
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The hack, though not stated, seems to be visit coursera and start learning or start machine learning :) which is a current course by Ng.
And from the developer side, integrating with Salesforce is a pain. They have 50 different ways of doing the same thing, and you have to do it a certain way under certain conditions. There's no unification in their APIs.
It's almost certainly someone affiliated with Salesforce (perhaps one of their new investment bankers). There are only a handful of firms large enough to buy Salesforce, this is a good way to gauge interest. SAP, IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle are about it.
People are vilified for breaking the law. Wearing a blue shirt doesn't change that.
Raising $250k from your close network should be very easy for anyone hoping to be a founder. If you can't get 10 people to write a $25k check, you should reconsider founding a company.
Love the concept and camera, the software needs some work. Watching someone slowly scroll around as in the video is pretty laughable for a tense and potentially life threatening situation.

But I think they have all of the "core" stuff they need to build better software. I wonder what the bottleneck is? I mean is the software only able to receive 3 of the sensor's feeds concurrently, and the slow scrolling is so that sensors can be switched on/off? Ideally it should just jump to any motion or use face recognition to bounce to interesting parts of the room.

The biggest competitor I see to this is drones. You can get a near real time video drone now for under $2,500 which is both small enough and stable enough to fly through an open doorway (but maybe less subtle, assuming that you think this ball-cam is).
I was similarily disappointed by the AMA. It didn't reveal anything new and just sounded like someone selling deep learning technology.
Getting closer to $2,000,000 these days.
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I guess it is impossible to say for sure, but I feel like if I had billions, I would still want to farm commercially – just with much nicer equipment than I have now. Something like 30% of farmers are 65+ years of age. I would suggest it is not because they cannot afford to retire, especially with the price of land these days, but because it is something they love to do.

Anecdotally, a neighbour of mine made millions with the sale of his company (not tech) and then started farming with those proceeds.
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Wordpress is a legacy blogging system that comes from the same era of big bloated web apps as eg the various infamously slow and bloated php forums.

The average wordpress theme will have over 10,000 lines of html, php, javascript, css in it.

Wordpress itself has continued to massively expand for no apparent reason. 10,000 lines of code in 2003; 20,000 in 2004; 30,000 in 2005; 40,000 in 2006; 60,000 in 2007; 90,000 in 2008; 120,000 in 2009; 140,000 in 2010; 150,000 in 2011; 160,000 in 2012; 230,000 in 2013; 300,000 in 2014.

It's like the Spruce Goose of cms. Yeah it'll fly, but it's ridiculous.
Looks very cool. I'll definitely give it a try.

As a huge fan of Sunvox, Radium looks quite appealing.
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Right, that's useful context, I couldn't make heads or tails of that article. So once you have that list, anyone got a clue what you should do with it?
If the network is split into AB and CDE, then only CDE will be able to reach a quorum. If a client is on the AB side of that split, no consensus algorithm could guarantee freshness on a read. LogCabin clients will continually retry until they can talk to a functioning leader (and clients can put a timeout on that) so that you get a guaranteed fresh read every time; other systems could choose to return a stale result right away instead. It's up to the implementation, but I strongly recommend people not do stale reads by default.
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So interesting!

I would love to do something like this
Isn't the whole idea of requiring probable cause to prevent abuse of power? If we fully trusted the police then we wouldn't bother with any of this stuff. We'd allow police to search people at any time for any reason. But we don't trust them that far, so we put limits on what they can do. They can't do some searches without probable cause. Others require a warrant.

The line shifts a bit in the case of imminent danger, because we prefer to take more of a risk with the cops than the criminals in that case. A smell of marijuana doesn't indicate a life-threatening situation so we're back to the whole abuse-of-power bit for why the police can't just search people entirely at will.
One of the few postmortems that actually may be fairly accurate. Yes, the pitch deck is easy on the eyes but terrible at piquing investor interest. I still wasn't quite sure what the product was or why so much energy was being spent trying to create a picture of 10 years from now.

Focusing on 1 (or 2) promising products was definitely the way to go. A customizable wifi radio that plays a podcast, Pandora or Spotify sounds kinda cool.
While I deeply support a culture of skepticism (in the proper sense of the word), I bristle at the subtle bias implicit to the phrase "extraordinary claims". Depending on one's pre-existing beliefs, for instance, the idea that life evolved without a creator might be considered an extraordinary claim, while others would perceive the existence of an unperceived life-creating entity to be extraordinary. I prefer the simpler, unsexier: "Claims require evidence."

That said: while I can't substantiate the specifics of OP's claims, there is sufficient evidence at least for the plausibility of false flag attacks by US agencies [1] [2]. While this doesn't tell us anything about more recent events, it's sufficient that we shouldn't be too quick to denounce the idea as mere paranoia. People who work in government and military institutions are still people, and humans are capable of rationalizing all sorts of horrendous atrocities.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_flag#Project_TP-Ajax
The problem with the SAT is it mostly judges what you've learned, not how well you can learn. If we're going to have a test for college, it should judge your future potential and ability, not just how well your high school taught you.
The more you have to jump through hoops to get the data (or hide that you're getting it or that you're the one getting it), the more it sounds like doing this for the wrong reasons.

Also, since this is presumably something you're going to be doing as a hobby (money creates trails), the unfortunate reality is that "right" and "wrong" in copyright law matter much less than "Oh crap, I'm being sued for $500k in $further_away(New York|California), how do I defend this?" That's why you don't ignore the polite way of saying "go away" which is robots.txt or the rude way which is a C&D - if a lawsuit (the mean way) is the first communication you have from a company, odds are pretty good that an attorney can help because judges are busy and don't want lawsuits to be the first thing unhappy companies try.
I don't know how affordable it would be but physiotherapy may help. Finding the root of the cause will help as well. If its arthritis your treatment options are going to be very different from muscle strain. I developed RSI last year and still have it today. It has become more manageable but still painful. If it is muscle related physio could put you on the right path of repair and rebuilding those muscles. They would give you stretches and hand workouts which would help strengthen the muscles which would eventually stop the pain. But it takes dedication. I wouldn't say give up on coding if you love to do it. You could try speech to text programming. It may be hard to adjust but I have seen someone use speech to text quiet efficiently. Have you considered a "vacation" away from the computer? I feel if I had the chance to take 2months away from the compute my RSI would go away.
Have you seen a doctor.
Yeah... The ESU/FDNY Rescue pissing matches are really the only example I can think of where there is somewhat regular tension between cops and other emergency services.

What's the deal with ESU, anyway? Does it really make sense to have a parallel rescue company? Seems like I only hear horror stories (like when they dropped a car on that motorcyclist...)

EDIT: Also... "large professionals" indeed ;)
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That's cheaper than I thought it would be! But if you're trying to get to a job in San Mateo from someplace like Gilroy or Hollister, that would be a bit of a hellish commute. Maybe you could pull it off more easily if you work off-hours? Also if you're within an hour's drive of San Jose you may be paying Silicon Valley prices for new construction, which tends not to be cheap.

But if you're willing to live that far from work and can find water and a nice lot, I'd give it a try. Also with a private pilot certificate you could fly an older ~$20K Cessna from South County or Hollister to KSQL pretty quickly on most days -- certainly a fraction of your effective groundspeed in 101 traffic -- and bike from there to work.
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FWIW any professional investors, especially VCs, would love to buy out previous investors: fewer signatures, less dilution, fewer lines on the cap table, etc. But as a seed or early investor, you probably don't want to be bought out if further rounds of investment are happening (and in any standard deal you'll have the right to hold your stock as long as you want).

Further rounds of investment normally means the company is successful and growing. It also means that professional investors think the investment is a good deal, so as an early stage investor your best bet is generally to stay on the bandwagon.

In the case of Wattage, the company is going bankrupt, so as an investor you are going to be getting between 0 - 100% of your money back. So it seems like the founders tried to get that closer to 100% so there wouldn't be any negative feelings. But if you are an investor in a successful and growing company, getting your money back is not a good return.
I'm one who actually preferred Nimrod, but it's done by now.
> By default AI will optimize the universe to the greatest extent possible towards it's values.

Hmm, I'm not sure I understand this line of thinking. Intelligence is complex, soft, and can even conflict with itself. Why do you envision artificial intelligence as if it were a pure optimization algorithm with high-level problem solving abilities? It seems to me that a fuzzy metaheuristic with lots of competing goals would be a better comparison and this does not lend itself to the "paperclip factory" quite as readily.
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