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Hence the slow process, this is the problem with currency and money in general, by design it can store debt indefinitely allowing profits which is incentive to create scarcity.

Only if you retain the concept of having to buy things.

Removing currency would be a very slow process but once you get past the behaviour and economic issues presented I think this lines up with hacker values quite nicely. Everyone would have the ability to create because they want to not because they need to.

A major aim would probably be to abolish currency.

The only thing I really miss when not using AWS is security groups, iptables isn't hard to use but its nice to have this as a simple external service.

Nope, just various linux flavours

The same principles apply, just like everyone suddenly becomes an expert on politics just before elections.

I'm from the UK so you could say its worse for me as I'm definitely allowed to be spied on by the NSA. What are you suggesting should be built/organised? Protests? Another political party? Aggression?

Governments today have seemingly limitless ability to do whatever they want and then just shrug it off if they get caught, we on the other hand don't have that luxury, we have consequences. This is why you'll find few people willing to stand up and put their ass on the line, the last really notable people (Aaron Swartz, Edward Snowden) unfortunately aren't doing too well right now.

If something of the scale capable of toppling the current power structure is to be organised then the tools for doing so need to come first.

Many projects with similar aims already exist, meshnet (https://projectmeshnet.org/) comes to mind.

People becoming inspired to change the world after recent events need to be directed to established projects where their (probably short lived) enthusiasm can make a difference.

Hipchat

I currently have a 27" IPS (FSM-270YG / 2560x1440) and a 21" LCD (1600x900). I mainly do web development so the 27" will very comfortably fit sublime, terminal and chrome with dev tools. The 21" is my spotify/google/hn monitor.

I used to spread my workspace over two 21" monitors, but now having everything on one large monitor is much more comfortable.

I downloaded a couple small files with wget and got 10MB/s, so just point it at a large file, maybe even loop the command.

First thought, isn't this a tad dangerous for the supplier? There seems to be nothing stopping me from using huge amounts of bandwidth just to screw with them. Or if I really was a bad guy, how much of an effective dos attack could be launched on ec2 hosted sites in the same az from these servers?

About this direct access phrase, I read a post earlier today (linked from a comment on HN but can't find it now...) that described a hypothetical system offered by facebook to intelligence agencies, this system would allow the user to search for a person and then accept a EULA before being given access to personal information. If this system were to automate the submission and acceptance of a subpoena, would the system then be classed as having given indirect access through the correct "legal channels"?

Probably no-one, there will be a lot of "lessons learned" though.

The visual designer is great, it adds back in the ability for the designer to alter the template without the developer having to change any code. If this was a standalone product the template format would most likely need to be a proprietary format anyway for some basic piracy protection.

It is tedious to layout a PDF but actual pain points are handling variable sized images and amounts of text, try formatting recipes to a PDF... Your demo video explains the features but not how it can solve anything that is a major problem to me.

The concept here in designing a template to be filled later is a brilliant idea, but I think its the delivery of the product that may pose the biggest problem. PDF generation doesn't have the same level of complexity as video encoding or payments so when it is used, its expected to just work as the environment doesn't change.

This introduces what I think is the main issue, if I build a website for a client, as a developer I never want to see it come back with problems, so its not worth introducing the risk of a third party service for the sake of a few hours of tedious work. At the other end of the industry any company producing a webapp may have problems with this simply due to how fundamental the feature can be, PDF generation doesn't require the same infrastructure as video encoding or payments, so they will have very different tradeoffs. Your main problem here is that you have no competition so I have nowhere to go if you close and the design online feature is essentially a vendor lockin.

Your assumptions are right but they are what a developer wants, the decisions are mostly made by management where future risk is more important than short term convenience.

Personally I think this product in particular would be much more suited to being a standalone package.

Raspberry pi has an arm6 chip I think and the minimum for ubuntu is arm7. It could be done but the OS would require considerable modification.

A little of topic but...

Having read the comments here and many blog posts on HN on this subject it seems that many recent graduates are not up to scratch with what the industry expects.

Yet a degree is required to obtain a H1-B visa or 12 years (IIRC) work experience, could the removal of this requirement ever possibly be lobbied for with judgement left up to the potential employer?

I realise that a degree is used as a general quality standard in immigration processes but this seems like a situation in which it could actually be detrimental.

Note: I'm from the UK, I see the same problems here and I'm curious about the U.S situation.

Do US banks not support direct transfers online or by phone?

One tip from experience, make disclosing your age part of follow up info when someone is interested.

I started freelancing when I was 15, I found that when told upfront, potential clients would bail very quickly. When I tried not disclosing my age straight away but only after talking over projects, giving suggestions and pricing (the things that make clients feel taken care of / comfortable), no one cared...

I think there was only one person who was a little annoyed by this tactic.

I'm a coder so YMMV with the different client requirements.

Not really got the best advice on learning sources but this should make the situation more manageable without internet access.

I have a set of resources for when our internet goes down (rarely but weeks at a time):

- Set of Ubuntu linux ISO images, server and desktop

- Apt-mirror dump, I think this is about 30GB.

- SQL Dump of wikipedia and mediawiki source. Wikipedia has a lot more info on linux/programming/CS topics than I expected.

- Local package manager repository clones, NPM etc.

- Installer disks for your OS.

- Disk with any needed installers for your setup; virtualbox, vagrant, sublimetext etc.

Most of this just sits on an external drive using vagrant and nfs shares.

This would obviously require some linux knowledge but is well worth it, it is pretty easy to get together and manage with vagrant.

This should cover any resources you need to get hold of while learning, there's nothing more annoying than being stuck without a single package.

If I remember an episode of diggnation correctly Rose paid $10 per hour, though this is probably wrong. 20 hours is doable for a prototype of the first version of digg.

Have you looked into using webRTC for the stream transfer and using the server only for signalling? Not sure if these apis are available within extensions but this would make the server much cheaper to run.

Yes, although a relay (TURN) server can still be needed if a direct connection cannot be established (mobile connections etc). Its pretty easy to hook as well, we should see some some great apps come out of it, especially when data channels are fully supported.

I feel the same kind of apathy is strong in the UK, at this point I think our situation is worse than the US but nobody seems to care. Even to the point there is social stigma attached to bringing the subject up with most people, but then maybe I need to meet more people...

Is there a newsletter list anywhere to be notified of such a wonderful advancement?

Honouring someone who deserves it.

I'm not about to blog about it but his work and writing has been valuable to me personally and I'm thankful for it.

So it hits 1 billion and I get redirected to an adult "dating" site, interesting....