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In some countries it does. Just like how companies get tax credits on their spendings on free food, perks etc this might also be covered. Good point, I will research on it.

All my employers have had great 401k match(upto 6%) and it is a key factor to attract talent. This can be a a great way to not only attract talent but also retain them for the period of their repayment of loan. And then similar programs can be expanded to mortgage, auto, child related loans, etc.

I think 401 k makes sense when you are first out of your debts. Planning for future retirement funds while being in debt currently does not sound very right
How will you handle the large and looming legal fees?
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If you have just learned OpenGL/Direct3D, and are able to draw some fancy stuffs, but your video card is still a damn black box to you, this project fits you well by opening the box up.

Or, if you think you are an old driver in graphics pipeline, and are keen on challenging me or teaching me lessons, this project fits you too.
Yeah, I've yet to jump on this whole low-carb fad...lol.

Look, I'm not saying it doesn't work for some people, or some people just don't like the taste of bread/pasta - but to sell it as some instant weight-loss cure, or a magic cure-all for illness is overdoing it a bit.

It's like saying, I'm only going to eat seafood - damn, everybody else should eat seafood as well!

Ultimately, just being aware about what you eat - whether it is not eating eating carbohydrates, or only eating seafood, or only eating organic food from a certain brand - is better than just mindlessly eating what's in front of you, or near to hand.

The article states:

> The causes of the worldwide weight gain are complicated, and the story is different from country to country. There are some common trends: Rising incomes, global trade, changing food supplies, and declines in physical activity all contribute.

Basically - we're eating more, and exercising less.

So if we did the opposite - ate less, and exercised more - that would go some way to reversing the trend.

How exactly you choose to do those things is really a personal preference - I don't think we should prescribe that you need to do by eating less carbohydrates.
Well... I'm from Erie, which is more like Cleveland or Buffalo than central PA.
(Non-native English speaker here.) I worked for a Scot in Dublin for three months before I realized his accent wasn't Irish. I also had almost no problem understanding him.

On the other hand, I find it almost impossible to read text that is supposed to show Scottish accent, like the one from arethuza.
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If you want to go to a very competitive school like MIT, probably. Generally the "best" schools are those that have better access to good professors, and resources that the brightest can best take advantage of. Now you can be bright and not want to make a lot of money out of MIT, but generally the assumption is that in capitalism if it is valuable it is worth money, and if you go into a job that pays a lot you are doing a more valuable job than if you were doing something that paid less.

If you want to go into a less competitive career, going into a less competitive school can make a lot sense, often because the less competitive schools can have better programs appealing to less lucrative fields because the pressure is less severe than it is for an MIT undergrad.
Wow, this is eerie for me! I literally just sat down on my computer to create an account to play on Nostalrius and see this on HackerNews.

Talk about synchronicity!

Here's a neat info graphic of what Nostalrius had achieved (found on /r/wow): http://i.imgur.com/jxtOQlu.jpg
Tangential but related: Toontown Online had two communication systems: "speed chat" and "secret friends". Speed chat is basically safe, prefabricated messages. Secret friends is unfiltered text chat, but only between people who have swapped friend codes. Since the game didn't support swapping friend codes, they were trying to make sure you only connected with people you knew.

However, players figured out a language to encode friend codes using speed chat phrases. So you would send a series of speed chat messages, the other player would send some back, and then you'd have each other's friend codes.
While changing requirements/expectations are part of the problem, I find that projects based on increasingly complex technical stacks and frameworks that impede functional changes are another.

Those bloated technical parts tend to be focused solely on supporting (and providing flexibility for) non-functional requirements. Is it then a surprise that functional changes can't be handled effectively?

Perhaps that is because developers really focus on technologies, not how to represent a complex business problem or systems into a model which is represented in code.

Representing the business problem in a system, including changing functional requirements seems to be both a lost art, and a forgotten need.
That is an urban legend perpetrated by C fans rewriting history.

Extended Algol was available in 1961.

PL/I and PL/M variants are older than C.

Mesa was already being used at Xerox PARC when C was born.

There are quite a few other examples that anyone that bothers to read SIGPLAN papers and other archives can easily find out.
The irony too, that Ritchie, Thompson, Pike et al at the Unix labs were then enamoured by Modula-2 & Oberon and used the ideas to build plan9 but in a new version of C.
This sounds really slow unless you can get it driving on streets. A reasonable maximum speed for a sidewalk is somewhere between 2 and 5mph.

What's to stop someone taking a delivery from the robot? Or from just taking the robot?

In what ways is this better than a human? How is this better than an airborne drone?
This is a really hard problem, do you and your team have the necessary skills to pull it off?

How will the makeup actually be applied?
Was Revolv ever popular though?

I thought the whole point was it wasn't popular - they were a home automation also-ran, who basically nearly went bankrupt in 2014 - got bought out in an acqui-hire, immediately ceased selling the product, then kept the servers on life-support for 2 more years.

E.g. -

http://www.cepro.com/article/theories_on_home_automation_hub...
http://recode.net/2014/10/24/nest-acquires-home-automation-h...

If they were actually popular, I suspect they would have been where Samsung SmartHub, or Nest is now.

It's like when people talk about Google Reader, or Wave.

I loved both of those products - but I don't try and kid myself that they ever got traction with the mainstream masses.

Yes, nerds get angry when you shut down things they love, but we're also probably a minority - and it costs money/engineering effort to ensure these things continue to run well.
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but you can't carry your TV around like cell phones. I still feel the problem is worse now a days. Also when you are watching TV with someone, at least you're watching the same thing together, which often spurs conversations. Now everyone is fixated to their own phones, each person has no clue of what other people are reading on their phones.
Was that sarcasm? To me it looks like these guys don't have an idea what they are doing. They advertise features which as well might be close to impossible. And their strategy is to appeal for experts? If they can deliver this, they should have quite good picture themselves how to deliver.
“I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters,” Trump said.

So in a way, yes, he has made murder respectable. The previous two POTUS' made murder respectable by using remote controlled flying bombs.
As in http://idlewords.com/? Why?
My organization would definitely accept Gresham Dollar for most transactions. I don't know what the organization would be called though. Any ideas?

I can certainly imagine a poor community transacting in Gresham Dollar among themselves. Since a large part of their incomes will consist of GD, they'll probably want to save their USD (if they even have any) for when they absolutely need it.

One potentially tricky part is that we need to come up with a straightforward way for poor people to transact in GD among themselves. It's easy if you have a debit card (or similar) and you buy from a merchant who's set up to process that debit card. But it's not as simple if you're dealing with a friend who doesn't have a payment system set up. They could transact online through an app, but we'd have to ensure they had smart phones and a way to keep them charged. More and more poor people are getting smart phones, so this is a hurdle that's probably shrinking with time.

Even if the poor people with basic income accounts trade among themselves, GD will still, on average, flow out of the poor community and into the hands of our merchant partners. The GD will then be continuously replenished through people's basic incomes.
Sounds like something that might be just as enjoyable on a simulator.
Yes, with the help of GopherJS which compiles the Go file to Javascript.
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Not to get in the weeds too far, but I obsessively do this too. Have you tried CSS to make the input box look more like the final comment? I'd always assumed the current style was intentional and it's hard to say if it'd be a good idea, but just throwing it out there to see if it sticks. I know HN values its scrappy design.

I would be supremely interested (as a victim of this really aggravating compulsion myself) in an A/B on your end, to see whether people do this less if the box is visually very close to the final product. My gut says yes, and it'd be useful data for lots of designers. (Anybody reading that's tried it?)

Something unconscious about the flow of paragraphs, color, length of my lines, something drives me back to editing religiously until the software no longer lets me, on any site. It actually bothers me and I've already done it twice on this comment. (Make that five times.)
As mj said in reply, we were worried about the face our clients used the artwork, even if it wasn't their servers.

In our mind it became quite complicated as we wernt sending them the ultimate files, just responding to their requests. So I think it's safe. But I am not sure how wow servers work.
Exactly this!

MSFT just lobbied and pushed their formats, scared of .odp, .odt to gain great traction, when many organizations (including governments) considered using open formats instead of proprietary ones.
Being indoctrinated with, "it doesn't matter what the degree is in, just that you have one," absolves them of at least some of the responsibility.
Check out Dash. Primarily feature is offline docs searching, but includes text expansion and snippets as a side feature, but does them pretty well.
Simpsons paradox though. There are more conservative people in California than there are in Georgia (e.g. more people in California voted for Mitt Romney than people in Georgia). Slicing people up into states to make nice sound bite statistics is useless and leads to stupid stereotypes.
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The future's been arriving too fast since velocipedes (bikes) were corrupting our youth. This sounds more like a business problem Netflix has invented to solve a (to them) bigger business problem, and such tactics have always existed.
Well, you can call me that, but that's not my name :-)

I'll not delete my comment. I'm worried, really, about two categories of abuse: 1) Abusers who are not persistent, but who create multiple accounts rapidly (i.e., aiming to get a quick laugh). They use Tor or VPNs to create accounts for 'easy' harassment. 2) Abusers who will take advantage of vulnerable users (i.e., "the long con") over multiple sessions, or who will act in bad faith over the long term.

Do you have data that indicates that people are unhappy with the level of service that 7 Cups provides?
Interesting! Thanks, this clarifies something for me - my wife is mortified because I freely discuss my income with anyone who asks, and it's way higher than the average. She considers it "bragging" and, as you say, embarrassing. I always thought I was showing friends / relatives / acquaintances that getting a lot more money is possible with not much effort - I work from home and don't have a degree.

Anyway - it's interesting to think of this mentality as part of "European culture".
Yup something similar
Flywheel systems last considerably longer than batteries, and are generally installed dug into the ground where failures cause no safety issues. Even when not installed underground the vessels fully contain any failure in any case.
LinkedIn already charges recruiters to contact you. The last time I checked, the spot price for a LinkedIn InMail was about $10 per message.
Amusing coincidence that readams above used "up goer", as the "up goer" editor does what you suggest :

http://splasho.com/upgoer5/
They've answered this directly numerous times. Compared to their user base, the demand is essentially zero while the development, maintenance and support costs are massive.

More importantly, the resources they have are better used developing new things for their existing properties which is what statistically all their paying customers actually want. The most persistent and universal complaint about Blizzard is that they don't produce content as quickly as their audience demands and consumes it. They'd be foolish and negligent to waste their time on anything else.
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We use it at NBCUniversal for some internal things. Nothing public-facing, though. Not yet, anyway.
At this point, Netflix is almost like the streaming company that acquired a plastic disc company, and hasn't quite gotten around to killing it yet. Search also feels biased towards streaming, to the point where it will suggest several "not even close" streaming movies before the literal title that you're searching for.
I don't think I understand what you're pitching. Can you explain it better? Only your first three sentences described what you're trying to build, and just in vague terms.
That's kinda the point.
(I pulled these numbers off Wikipedia, but they seem about right.)

Light rail can carry up to 13,000 passengers per direction per hour.
A highway lane carries up to 1,900 cars per lane per hour.

It takes about 6 lanes of highways to match 1 lane of light rail given current car usage (1 passenger per car).

If usage patterns change (say, an automated carpool that maximizes the capacity of the vehicle -- say 5 people per car), you still have 1900 * 5 = 9,500 passengers per lane per hour, which is good, but still worse than a single lane of light rail. Hey, worse is better right?

However, the bottleneck in many cities isn't the highway, but rather the smaller city streets the highway feeds into. Transit can sidestep this bottleneck altogether with subway tunnels, which automated vehicles can't. Even after everything else, light rail is still more economical and more environmentally friendly.* Finally, light rail converts to automated train operation quite handily (further increasing capacity), especially if all the other cars around it are automated too.

* I was about to say more comfortable, but is being crammed into a small car more or less comfortable than standing on a cramped train?
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+1 the OP offers not just their opinion about the quality of developers trained in developer bootcamps (versus all other devs) but also gives reasons why bootcamp-trained devs are better. It's not until the postscript, after the end of the post, that the reader learns that the author isn't a developer "By the way, I’m a product manager and growth hacker based in San Francisco."
Hey Andy,

Interesting, I'm working in a similar area (but not in crowd funding space) - would love to chat on some of the things you've mentioned in regards to forum software. Do you have a contact point I can reach out to? (me - hello at hellobox.co)
C was quite a few years before Modula-2. C was developed in 1972 and was heavily used in UNIX by 1973. Development of Modula-2 wasn't started until 1977 and it wasn't widely available until the 1980s.
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LinkedIn charges, but many people dont want to see most communications. And there is not price tier for contacting a student vs a CEO which obviously have different business value. This would solve both issues.
The irony that four words in the title are not in that 1,000 (in quotes here)

A "text" "editor" that only allows the 1,000 most "common" words in "English.

As determined by a similar online version that merely underlines words outside the vocabulary :

http://splasho.com/upgoer5/
The unfortunate part of this situation is that the only good content Netflix has is their own TV shows.

They don't have rights to stream any decent movies, those are all still just discs. Exactly one time in the last three years when I've gone to search for a movie I wanted to watch was it available for streaming.
btw, what were these hyperlocal businesses that failed in the past? [just not familiar with them that's all]
Very true. It's like a cooking competition where you take over from someone else after being blind-folded. Unless you're from the same schooling chances are the result will lack direction. The equivalent in software is bloat. Note that sometimes that "someone" is your former self and you forgot what the idea was.
> Apply HN posts should not make it to homepage and should be a separate section

IHMO, Keeping it in a separate section, looks definitely the right approach.
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It's best for short distances.

The items are locked in a cooler bin (not in videos), and the robot acts as a human would if it were being kidnapped.

The robot is happy to run back and forth along a route all day, humans usually get paid for this. If you've flown a drone, you'll know that you don't want that anywhere near people in public. Think flying weed-whacker. Times 4.

What's really new here is that it makes it possible for the first time to have something physically be somewhere else in the neighborhood at the push of a button, with no employee or friend taking it there. Skype isn't teleportation, but we're getting closer.
Same here. We have actually run into ECC issues before and it's a bloody nightmare when local files and backup files are overwritten with corrupt data. If you don't notice it in time (we noticed it after two days due to widely different MD5 checksums of backups) all of the data might be lost and if you are lucky, you will see some service go down (as a sort of warning) before it's too late.

And no, ZFS is not a guarantee here! (It can actually make it worse since it keep a ton of data in RAM)
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0) Administration size and budget. Even public university presidents are paid like CEOs.
I can't help but agree. Increasingly, things I want to watch just aren't there. It didn't feel like this five years ago. Then, it felt like most anything I wanted to watch was there. Maybe my taste has changed.
> You can think of 𝚫 now as a CDN for dynamic code (microservices and backends).

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm not a CDN.
Hi there!

Users
SHARPX is currently in prototype phase (Which is what you see in the video). No users at the moment. Initial numbers are based on the (purposely lowballed) estimate that barbershops perform 400 haircuts a month. Assuming 4 barbers, that's 25 cuts per barber per week.

The OpenTable model we're currently using projects that a $25/month fixed fee from 4 barbers, $1-$2 per check-in from users, and 10% from Pay-As-You-Go customers will net about $500/month from one shop, which equates to $6000 per year.

Growth
The current plan (once launched) is to accept sign-ups from service providers and client users in every state. How many are let onto the platform and how quickly will depend on traffic vs. resources. We currently do not have numbers on this yet.

Discount
Our research shows that the average cost of a haircut between 72 US cities is $18.30. The high was $26 in San Fran (of course) to a low of $14 in Indianapolis. The goal of membership is to set a single number that MOST clients/providers are comfortable with, and discount at a fixed rate from there. The number in the example is $25, and the discount is 10% off every additional swipe.

This allows a SHARPX member to use their swipe anywhere regardless of cost of living. In Indiana, the swipe may get them the royal treatment. In San Fran, a livable haircut. The market gets to (are required to) decide.

Marketing
Less than $5000 in marketing dollars spent up to this point have been to explain the concept (video, website, branding). The marketing push to attract users will come once we've reached development, but no numbers there yet.
Neo4j is great for what it does but if you look closely at the offering and read through the feature set (look particularly at the query language, for example), you can see the differences.

This is a relational database and is chasing that market; its competitors are MySQL, Postgres, etc.
Thanks for your question!

The concept assumes that you, the consumer will choose a number of haircut swipes that you're comfortable with. Since your swipes are use or lose, this will be a key decision for you to make.

What happens if you don't use your swipes:
IF the client only uses 1/3 swipes for the month: The funding for the 2 unused swipes goes to the service provider.

IF the client only uses 2/3 swipes at different shops for the month: The funding for the remaining unused swipe is split between the two shops.

IF the client doesn't use any if their swipes for the month: The funding for the unused swipes goes to the SHARPX app.
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Advantages for the consumer:
1. Your swipes are good anywhere. San Francisco or Indiana, you pay the same amount every month.
2. Booking convenience. You'll always know when you're up next.
3. Search. You'll always know where a shop is located whether at home or on travel.
4. Digital payments. No cash. If you're unsure of membership, there's also Pay-As-You-Go.
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Cancellations:
Members are locked in as explained above. For Pay-As-You-Go, we will look into cancellation fees if the client booked an appointment and did not show up. Needless to say, there will be push notifications/email to remind of upcoming appointments.
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Gotta have a seal! lol
You know that is an argument about expansions in the first place? Significant player dropoffs in WoW happen in the last patches before new expansions. The userbase usually spikes up on new releases, but almost always drops lower every time, predominately because new releases gate players who were on old versions against those on the new one. Friends stop being interested, unsub, and never come back because the player base is fragmented across every level cap WoW has had.

I've always thought that level caps in MMOs, particularly the WoW variety slash-and-burn where you basically make a new theme park every two years and throw the last one in the dumpster in terms of player viability, is a destructive cycle not conductive to building real living worlds.
Are you saying that the only programmer who's able to avoid bloat is a not-smart programmer? The truth is that it's a balancing act and it's not always clear when bringing in yet another externally maintained library is the right thing to do.