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I've had a similar experience. I was ok with it though, because the pure data -> DOM nature of Elm's architecture was better than anything else.

Until I found PureScript. Especially purescript-halogen [0], which is basically how one might make React in Haskell. Everything is still pure, but you can define nested state (not to be confused with React-style local mutable state!) without Elm's boilerplate wiring.

The "update" function runs in the continuation monad, which means that one can do something like this:

modify (\(State s) -> State $ s { loadingUsers = true })
users <- liftAff' $ fetchUsers
modify (\(State s) -> State $ s { users = users, loadingUsers = false })

and this runs asynchronously, but it still modifies one global state. Compare with Elm's "return fetch effect, fire event, react on event in update function".

There's everything one might need in PureScript: functors, applicatives, monads, so the language feels much less constraining than Elm.

Drawbacks:

- they use bower for package management - it's ok, but elm-package's enforced semversioning is really nice.

- no default imports, so imports can get verbose [1]

- the error messages might not be as nice as Elm's, but I haven't had a problem so far, at all

- no elm-reactor - though since halogen is just a library, the UI is pure and there's no magic state-isolating runtime, you can probably roll your own relatively easily

- not as easy to pick up as Elm - but no problem for a Haskell programmer. Elm definitely focuses more on user-friendliness and Javascript converts.

...but these are minor nitpicks - I am in the process of making the switch and porting an app from Elm right now, and it definitely was the right decision.

[0] https://github.com/slamdata/purescript-halogen

[1] https://github.com/slamdata/purescript-halogen/blob/master/s...
The UK is pretty much neck and neck when it comes to Android vs ios. If you change the map to just this month then Android comes out ahead: http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_os-eu-monthly-201512-20151...
Totally understand. It's hard to make people trust you before you have the real pics of the watch. But they'll be finished soon and then we'll have some real photos ;)
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For me SRS worked splendid inside the flashcard environment so far. I'm pretty solid on 500 japanese characters now, but I also learn related words of the characters simultaneously.
There is a cool BBC documentary about this heist:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr9thHKGgW4
Renders. The watches will be finished soon and then we'll be able to show you real photos. That'll happen in weeks, I hope :)
A joke should always be EXACTLY correct.. otherwise it creates opportunity for ill-humored pedantry.
I could be wrong, but my understanding is he was working in a business role and not programming computers in those jobs.
Right, but I assume it went something like this:

1. Users nag developers about not having an iOS app

2. Developers start considering creating the iOS app. Finds out they have to pay $100 a year, on top of spending time to develop the app.

3. Developer decides to charge the users that wanted this app at a price where they can be fairly sure to at least regain monetary expenses.

This seems fair to me.
Only 12 hours after looking at this did I realize that if your log files have one record per line, you can easily use this to search for all logs that happened in a particular ten minute period.
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Not sure how true it is, but one of my friends who used to work at Microsoft said that's what happened with the Xbox One, specifically after the PS4 release date was announced.
Hi, so this is all happening at the startup I work at:

#1

CEO: We just closed a XX million dollar Series C funding round!

-- later at an a company wide meeting ---

CEO: we have zero revenue. if we asked our customers to pay us, they would drop our product in a second... so, uh, we really don't have product market fit yet.

me: ...

CEO: no worries. we are attacking such a large market. surely we'll find something. and when we do it will be HUGE... it'll be... it'll be... it's so huge I'm having trouble even describing it!

#2

-- at an important weekly product meeting --

CEO: okay it's been ten minutes. where is [cofounder]

CTO: oh he's in china for the week.

CEO: ...

CTO: On vacation.

everyone else: ... (your cofounder didn't tell you that?)

#3

me: your company name "cadabra" sounds like cadaver.

ceo: nah, dude.

me: you had to spell it out when I asked you to pronounce it.

ceo: nah, we just need to hire more marketing people.

#4

wannabe designer: so tell me how you approach design.

me: well I really like being apart of the process from start to finish, since I've also done UX wor--

designer: great, let me tell you how we do design here. i draw up the stuff and you do it, unless there's a technical problem. you can argue and you will be wrong, ha ha.

me: you're joking right?

designer: * proceeds to create barely passable UIs *

And the list goes on. I have plenty of more stories to share but I am currently busy seeking employment elsewhere.

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No, you haven't really shown me how it's predatory, although I do know that does happen (as it does in all large lending markets).

I'm not sure what your point is about the largest debt collector having contracts with the DOE. Of course they do, that's almost a definitional thing. Pretty much the largest of anything has some kind of government contract.

Defaults are on the rise from a low base, and the securitized portfolios of these loans haven't really taken much of a hit, so it doesn't "sound familiar" because I don't see the same balance sheet risk as 2008 subprime, even though there are undoubtedly subprime elements to this. (For the sake of clarity, I'm referring to the subprime credit ratings and category, not the 2008 era).

I guess what I'm asking is, from what base is all this happening? Predatory lending is on the rise... from .5% of loans to 1%? 1% to 5%? 5% to 10%? Same with the others.

I guess what I'm trying to get out of this thread, is:

1. What novel insight is being presented here that invalidates huge amounts of sophisticated due diligence by incentivized, professional firms?

2. If none, what channel or mechanism is perpetuating something that everybody knows is a bad deal?

3. If everybody knows it's a bad deal, but there is something simply keeping it prodding along, this would not pass even the first level of risk management at these institutions, which really stresses the idea of #2.
I make software to help language learners generate flashcards for SRS while reading or watching videos: http://readlang.com

It works as a browser extension for reading web-pages or you can upload texts and whole novels to read via the web-app. You can then click-to-translate words and phrases that you don't understand, and it generates cloze flashcards for use in it's own flashcards, or for export to apps like Anki.

Would love to hear feedback from anyone who tries it!
Uh, well you have to pay them. So either pay them cash or incentivize with equity? Aligning interests is essential for a startup.
Every domain except for example.com is an existing domain.
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I could, but that would cost $300 for that sample. I got a sample of another watch to feel the quality. And I can tell you - it felt good!
The private student loan industry is pretty small as compared to the public market and the rules and considerations when servicing them are very different. So it is unsurprising that the big servicers for federal student loans are only in that business and not loan servicing generally. That's different in important ways from a refinery that sells fuel to all commers.

As for the road example, road building is an inherently local activity. If the federal government hired someone to hold a flag in Topeka it's be pretty unreasonable to expect him to start holding a flag in Phoenix next. So in that sense the need is temporary. But loan servicing can be done anywhere. My servicer is in NH for example. So the government could hire a bunch of people anywhere and bring it in house.
You really could have just worded that as, 'are you sure those images weren't linked to external websites' without resorting to questioning his competence and trying to cover it with a 'no offense' (laff).
The inflation models of the universe actually depend on repulsive gravitational force, but it requires a very specific set of circumstances for it to happen.
I like to think of Gravity as a result of mass deforming space in the same way a brown turd deforms toilet water as it spins inevitably toward the outlet during flushing. Standing atop the turd you are affixed to its mass, but the entire system is affixed to the spinning, evacuating forces of the great flush. The Bono/Kurick South Park episode was instrumental in this theory's formulation.
I had to look up the alphabet soup, but couldn't find everything.

CAC : Cost to Aquire a Customer

LGTM : Looks Good To Me?

BBQ : ? Not a clue other than a delicious way to prepare meat. Maybe something Quality?
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Who says this has anything to do with YC?
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Love that gradient! And the product of course ;)
But I would consider a Call To Action before fold, right under the first hero image. I can almost promise you - it will generate more sign ups :)
look does a binary search and only works on sorted files, while grep '^string' works on any text file but would be slower.
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Pink Floyd are the 70-ies, if memory serves. I had tape of the Dark Side of the Moon in 1977. That is a bit late, yes, but could any US resident claim ownership of the 1976 Belarusian single of the year in 1980? http://youtu.be/0rHjakawG8M
This view is quite common in computational neuroscience. Rather than calling it Real World emulators, they call it predictive coding[1][2]. Models that are able to predict statistical properties of "percepts", are able to store these percepts in a much smaller coding scheme (information-wise). These models generate predictions continuously (or emulate the Real World), and only update themselves if supplied with sufficiently contrasting information.

1. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10195184
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_approaches_to_brain_f...
Well then, why not have the government do everything? Service mortgages, run supermarkets, etc.
"Cultural fit" just means "I don't want to work with anyone I'm not friends with"
Heh yeah I was trying to convey the gist rather than the actual conversation. He threw a bunch of acronyms at the guy, quoted him the lean startup recipe and with a straight face, told a guy with a viable, profitable business to fold and start over.
What does that have to do with the article? It sounds like a classic case of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes
How do I contact you? My email address is marshall.ent@gmail.com
Collaboration =/= babysitting. Hiring somebody to build something and then going away for two weeks is managerial negligence.
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Evan Czaplicki was actually hired by Prezi to work exclusively on Elm, so the project has industry backing.
That depends on how you look at it. I'm using it, but is it ready for normal humans? I'm not sure. It's equally or more complicated than anki, and serves a larger usecase of doing the remembering for you and collaboration; and is not nearly as well documented as anki at the moment.

That said, if you're up for beta access, shoot me an email at r.letmein [a] ruru.name and i'll see about access
> it becomes clear that they've been trying to build it on top of their new database hobby project

That sounds like no one sat down and discussed requirements or even talked things through other than "I need X, do whatever you like"
For quick, brief, simple todo lists in the CLI, I prefer devtodo.[1] It's uses a plain text file as its data store, and is as simple as you can possibly get.

For more complicated things I prefer taskwarrior[2] or org-mode.[3]

[1] - http://swapoff.org/DevTodo

[2] - http://taskwarrior.org

[3] - http://www.orgmode.org
For Java I would say that Dropwizard if not a direct copy, definitely was inspired by the simplicity of Rails.

For Python it would probably be Django, but I'm still a novice in Python.

In terms of build chain, the declaritive nature of Maven as a build tool (far from perfect, but extensible) and then likewise in Python the setup.py bits.

Looking at other languages, Cargo has a similar declarative build chain for Rust, and I think a lot of the package management that we see out there was inspired generally by Ruby. Again, cool concepts, but for me Ruby never was more than a toy.
Ah, #1 is very familiar. Except that your CEO is slightly better in that he can admit they don't have product-market fit.
Ask HN: Web emulator for hardware?
A few times I've run in to situations where I'm building a website and while everything looks good and dandy in my desktop, when I go to test it in my phone it is more laggy and animations aren't as smooth. Is there anything similar to chromes viewport and bandwidth emulators but for hardware that throttles the processing power?
It is frat boy, because a large portion of these types of start ups are funded/started by and for frat boys.

While it is an obvious culture to examine, realize that most companies (and certainly all startups) have a cultural expectation. Sometimes it is as highly overt as the above, but other times it is a quieter expectation that is more in keeping with mainstream corporate American culture.

For example, in many companies not caring about sports can make casual conversations and friendly connections with coworkers difficult. Also, certain departments (such as IT) can be overwhelmingly focused on standard geek culture.

It is a really tough and interesting problem to examine. A strong culture can bind a team together in fantastically productive ways. However, a strong culture can also lead to groupthink and exclude voices that would help build an even better team. The exclusionary aspect can also be seen as sexist/racist/bigoted from an outside perspective even though it is doubtful that the team intends it that way.

On balance, I think a founder focusing on the type of culture they want is good as it allows both founder and employees have a clear understanding of what the jobs expectations. That said, a culture of beer-and-foosball hardly seems like the most productive and conducive to success.
Hi. Thank you for asking. I should have clarified. The tumblr post is not related to YC. I cited YC's philosophy as an example of why we shouldn't judge people by their age.
Ah yeah, thanks, that makes a bit more sense.
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Key point: a chunk of the evidence against the thieves was collected via wireless bugging devices.

Reading between the lines they'd also racked up an impressive stretch of prison time, individually and collectively. So perhaps were behind the curve in understanding just how modern intelligence-led policing and the surveillance state have converged to make their former profession extremely questionable.

(A supplementary point: the problem with criminology is that it's the study of the criminal mind -- but the only criminal minds available for study are the ones who were stupid enough to get caught. These guys got lucky (if the on-site security guard had done his job and checked inside the premises properly, they'd have walked into a police trap on their second attempt), but luck wasn't enough. They were still running on a classic 1970s-80s London gangland script, and were known to the Met as robbery suspects with prior form. By speaking aloud about what they'd done they basically handed the police enough evidence to roll them up. Score: old-school bank robbers 0; modern surveillance state: 1.)
Apple’s not as secure as it used to be
The article is a troll with some good information.

I've been a heavy mail user for years... Never encountered data loss due to file system problem, and honestly I can't think of a time in the last decade where anyone I'm acquainted with has. (And I ran a very large mail system for a long time)

Hell, I've been using OSX predominately for years now, and that garbage file system hasn't eaten any data yet!

There are problems, even fundamental problems, but if someone is literally unable to use any mail client, you need to look at the user before the file system.
After announcing the GitLab's A round I'm getting two recruiting emails, one outsourcing and one investor email per day. Having a note on our jobs page https://about.gitlab.com/jobs/ doesn't seem to help.
Even in a startup environment with a keg in the office, I wouldn't typically drink and code, besides perhaps a Friday afternoon beer.

That said, for personal projects in the evenings, I find having 1-2 drinks helpful for removing barriers to perfectionism when you have simple coding tasks to solve.
2. If none, what channel or mechanism is perpetuating something that everybody knows is a bad deal?

This. As I said in another reply to my OP, the government is backing these loans, which makes everyone think they're golden - and that might be true. Perhaps the government will allow the bubble to inflate forever, but the government stepped in in 2008, and there were still plenty of short opportunities available.

But it's unquestionably a bubble if hundreds of billions of dollars (and rising) of loans are being made to people to buy something that A) has no collateral (making it worse than the subprime crisis) and B) the value of the service they're purchasing is, by all perceptions, dropping over time.
If the moon was entirely electrons, not only could it stay in orbit, it would have more energy than the entire visible universe!

http://what-if.xkcd.com/140/

If your magnet was as weak as a fridge magnet and as large as the earth it would be way way way overpowered to hold the moon in orbit.

So no, diffuse is wrong. Completely wrong. Weak is the correct word.
> married hetero male founders: we're thinking of getting an intern

> me: okay but I don't see what we could offer. You know we're on a really tight

> married hetero male founders: we're getting an intern.

> intern: (beautiful 18yo girl)

Young male intern --> Everyone assumes you're a Wunderkind.

Young female intern --> Everyone assumes that the CEO is having sex with you.

Startupbullshit
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I'm sure you have about fifty more strawmen in your back pocket, but whipping them out and waving them around is a bit unseemly, don't you think?
I wonder how close btrfs is to ZFS. And how exactly it differs.
Discounting is rational behavior. No one lives forever. However, the predictions we hear seem pretty certain about events of the next few decades. Plenty of people will live that long. If they're certain, why don't they act like it?

How is attributing any particular human calamity to the climate different than attributing any particular storm to the climate? Pinker has argued persuasively that war and similar disasters have decreased significantly over recent periods. In that context one might think that the fortunes of Syrian refugees have more to do with politics and the media than with the climate. After all there were millions of refugees from violence within Africa during any decade of the twentieth century. They just weren't wealthy enough to make it to Europe. And in relative terms they were still fewer than refugees in earlier times, say 250 or 1000 years ago. How many fewer refugees would there have to be, for the changing climate to be credited for the decrease, rather than blamed for journalists' coverage of refugees?
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Everyone I know who wears glasses has bad vision.
You think all colleges don't profit? The fact that a place like Princeton can be considered anything but for-profit is criminal.
I see this a lot with startups hiring on Angel List. Angel List makes them specify a salary range so they do, but always offer well below the minimum.

At best they are blatantly insulting the candidate, at worst they are liars. Probably both.
I was recently fired for setting one of these up.
Been hearing a lotta stories out there,but the truth is most of them arent certified! I came across a pretty good hacker some years ago,damn too good! Genius Hack with the email geniushack08@gmail.com
He is the first of hackers i'll be recommending for any hacking service! Email hacks,banking hacks,school grade changes...
I think mature isn't the right word I would use stable instead.

10 to 1 ratio also pops up in business quite a bit between leaders and competitors in high entry barrier fields.
If your competitor is 10 times bigger than you then 90:9:1 ratio pops out quite naturally in many places espcially with even the slightest selection bias.

Pretty much most Leader:challenger:niche selections will maintain a similar ratio, just your run of the mill power distribution.
To expand a bit on the implications for depression treatment (NB: not an expert, just someone who's read some things):

There are different patterns of how depression symptoms respond to nominally rewarding experiences. Some people with depressive symptoms have a clear but blunted response to rewards: mood elevates, but in a more subdued and fleeting way than would otherwise be expected. This is associated with so-called "atypical" depression, which is named not for its prevalence (it's common), but for the idea that it doesn't fit the profile of "standard" depression. Other people in depressive episodes seem to simply not process rewards at all, often even experiencing guilt over their "failure" to be happy about something. This is associated with "melancholic" depression. At least superficially, it seems to match what might be expected if only the "what could have been" side of the equation is functioning (i.e. everything feels like a failure/disappointment).
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The funny thing about Draper University is that the reality show Startup U (http://abcfamily.go.com/shows/startup-u) was essentially intended to be an advertisement for Draper University (with a mix of Shark Tank thrown in)

I watched every episode. Startup U, if anything, served an anti-advertisement for Draper University. (Spoiler alert: the winner of the show was a 3D printing startup by a non-engineer who wanted to 3D print a house. All he was able to 3D print on-camera was a nonsolid pipe.)
My iPhone apps I created from 2009 - 2011 still provide a small income typically around $20 - $40 per month. Back in the day FemCal alone was doing $1500+ per month, with me 'full-time' on promoting and supporting it, but with little support or maintenance, apps waste away quickly.

It might be several hours to fix, retest and update documentation for even a small platform change, so just keeping up with platform changes can be significant effort if you work a full-time job, have children, other commitments etc.

The good news for me is that changes at work are affording me the opportunity to escape some process and re-open some of my side-projects again.

* http://femcalapp.com
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