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That's not very fair to assume it has to happen all at once or never at all. I'm betting someone could exchange 8500 bitcoins over the next few months and get a good rate on it without disrupting the economy significantly.

Especially since Bitcoin has been getting a good amount of notice lately, lots of new people coming in with small buys if only for the novelty of it.
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> I'm quite sure in a decade or two

I can't wait, thanks for the cheery prediction!
Sigh. To avoid further downvoting, I may add that the 'blank css' approach makes more sense than the 'go away' one.

But I was thinking of things like the different browser (HTML5) Audio APIs 'we' are facing right now and my point was that you are probably better off just focusing on getting things right in one environment first before spending too much time on 'making it work for everyone'. Which is 'overrated' anyway, depending on the project. Just think of how Beatport.com is entirely based on Flash which is still the most convenient way of adding audio.
True, but Twilio doesn't support MMS yet.
jQuery is popular because you don't need any programming experience to be productive. I was introduced to jQuery by our in-house web designer like 3 years ago because he used it and really liked it. He spoke HTML, the DOM and CSS and so does jQuery. And there are far more HTML/CSS literate people doing Javascript than there are CS-educated software engineers doing Javascript. In fact most software engineers I know don't know crap about Javascript. Thankfully I read "Javascript: The Good Parts" and have a much better appreciation for the language.

I also like jQuery as well. If you're doing simple DOM manipulation, AJAX and light javascript work it's hard to do any better. But I think there are superior choices for some more heavy lifting JS projects.
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Thanks for replying. I can understand how someone who puts tons of time and effort into something can sometimes mistake questions and confusion for criticism. I plan on using Fuel for something soon, and if I have any questions I'll check out the IRC channel.
Things like:

Certain moving expenses are tax deductible if you're moving for work, from a location that is more than 50 miles away from your new job to a location that is less than 50 miles away.

Money received from paid family leave is tax-deductible on state taxes in California, but not on federal taxes. This can be a big chunk, since PFL is basically a replacement of income for the duration, and having your income be non-taxed is a pretty big refund.

Charitable contributions are tax-deductible. I think everyone knows this, but the wording on form 1040 can be somewhat confusing as to when you can take itemized charitable deductions and when you should take the standard deduction.
You might want to give InternMatch a try:

http://www.internmatch.com

They've also got a competition going. Not sure what timeframe its internships are for, but here's a link:

http://www.internmatch.com/500-interns-competition
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Hmm.. And unfortunate name. Tux is the name of the Linux penguin mascot.
Check out internmatch.com to find one. They're a 500 Startups company (most recent class), and seem to have some decent inventory on there already. Good luck!
It might be late for the larger companies who do hiring through school via career fairs and such. However, I have a few friends who are still talking with some small to mid size startups about internships. It seems to me that the smaller companies don't follow the same intern hiring schedule (or the students that didn't get offers from Facebook, Google, etc are now exploring other options).
> On an unrelated note, does this mean the FBI will be serving pg with a warrant for our info?

If they already had, would you even know? Twitter has fought the subpoena and gag order in court, which is the only reason we've heard about it. Presumably Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Hotmail, and other service providers have also had information requested from them, but we haven't heard anything from them, presumably because they cooperated instead of fighting.
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Am I the only one that would be a little worried about posting anything on here knowing that the X's could be removed at any point and thus the next (person|boss|gf|friend) to search my cell number would get to see my 'witty' response?
Newtonian gravity is obviously a conspiracy by the intellectual elite to maintain control over the masses.

Not sure if this is intended to be sarcastic, but your “intellectual elite” better known as professional classes, aka priestly scribes, http://science1.wordpress.com/2007/11/05/knowledge-divides/ since the times of Egyptians, defined and built a cosmology for the rulers for whom they worked so that rulers could control their citizens. So, more than a conspiracy, cosmology is the fundamental method used by rulers to control their subjects.

You can no doubt find examples of how cosmology has always been the projection of the social order into the cosmos and vice versa (e.g. old Egypt: cosmos as river; 20th century: cosmos as nuclear explosion.) Therefore, Newton’s forceful, atomic materialistic worldview with an all powerful sun “exalted on his throne” http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_quer... at the center controlling its subjects the planets with a god-given force may remind you the structure of the 18th century society ruled by all powerful kings; Newton’s “System of the World” was the world system these ruling classes wanted to impose on their citizens. I am sure you heard about the Sun-king.

Whoever controls cosmology controls your mind; whoever controls cosmology, controls how you perceive nature... This is true today more than ever.
Are you saying that the knowledge needed for manufacturing a product is more than a small software startup could muster?

To me, it seems the gaps are the same as software products:

Software: Business Guy w/ idea -> Developer + Servers -> Product

Hardware: Business Guy w/ idea -> MechE/EE + Manufacturers -> Product

Are you saying the MechE/EE are harder to find/coordinate and/or typical software startup guys don't have the skills to develop hardware?

I agree with you - when we can solve this gap - then we've got something cooler than any one manufacturing process.
"I guess you would hold that humans make [wheat] flour?"

Yes, that generally is held to be the job of millers...
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There sure seems to be a ton of bitcoin articles that show up on HN, with many of the same usual subjects showing up to comment as soon as they're posted. I know you guys want to drum up as much interest as possible in bitcoin for the obvious reasons, but it comes across a bit spammy/scammy at least to me.

Besides, if you really want people to set up shop trading things of actual value for BTC you're going to need to get the bullish forces under control so that you don't have this runaway strength in the currency. Promoting it so heavily looking for those slashdot type bumps in the value makes the community come across as just a bunch of greater fool theory speculators.
Oh, sure. I'm sure we used to say that about the bison, too. :)
The portlandten.com link is dead. I don't know if there's an official voice for the Portland startup community, but Rick Turoczy at http://siliconflorist.com does a pretty good job rounding up the local startup news (among other topics).
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It does.

let fibs = 1 : 1 : (zipWith (+) `ap` tail) fibs in fibs
:: (Num a) => [a]

according to ghci 6.12.1
Have you also posted the video to ontwik ( http://ontwik.com/ )? I think your video would be a great fit for that site.
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For the home button problem - I think a solution would be a system-wide toggle for alternate home button behavior. I actually wouldn't mind a setting where the home button switches single and double-click modes in-app, so that single-clicking while in an app brings up the switcher, double-clicking exiting to the home screen.

Mis-timing or missing a double-click to adjust the brightness or pause/adjust background music exiting causing the exit to completely exit can be annoying at times, and I'm not even a toddler :)
The problem with "I'm never going to use it" is that it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Further down the line, this attitude excludes you from jobs and opportunities where you need to be able to use it.

I say teach math (up to algebra and basic trig and calculus) and programming in every high school. Dropping out is so much easier than dropping in at a later age.
I hate the blue. I think the UI is facebook 2.0 completely, and while I think they are well done - I think they look like a cold corporate site profile and is one of the things that I have always hated about facebook - the UI is really not that good. Sure its functional - but you cant argue that its something revolutionary.
> You could certainly label those folks as cowards, but I think it's a bit disingenuous … In the case of people who otherwise share your sentiment, it's simple risk management

I don't think "simple risk management" and "cowardice" are mutually exclusive, and I am deeply offended that you are accusing me and Jake and others of dishonesty for expressing that opinion. I understand the desire to defend yourself (however cowardly you may be) but I do not believe that desire justifies launching personal attacks on the integrity of those who disagree with you.

Indeed, it's rather ironic to hear someone justifying cowardice setting themself up as a judge of the integrity of others.
Looks really really really really nice. Did you design it, or did you hire somebody?

A+ Job.
> I get that often from a whole slew of people I wouldn't expect to be cowardly.

You know you can stay at my house any time. It's far too late for me to be cowardly. I'm not aware of any repercussions Beatrice or I have suffered so far for our association with you.

> It's really awkward to date when the n-th date involves a discussion of possible harassing police raids in the middle of the night.

Seems like that's something to discuss before the 0th date. You well know there are zillions of girls and guys who find outlaws sexy, especially outlaws for a real cause (as opposed to just crooks.)
Nodester will eventually develop a pricing model similar to Heroku when the platform matures. We are planning to always offer a free instance for less intensive node.js apps.
CloudKick/RackSpace is hiring (full time and interns): http://jobs.rackspace.com/search/?q=san+francisco&search...
I hate the blue.

Luckily, Appleseed is very flexible, so it's not only possible to change the colors, but to radically rearrange the layout while maintaining the functionality.

I expect many sites running Appleseed will hire designers to "brand" their site in a way that appeals to their users.

but you cant argue that its something revolutionary.

I wouldn't, actually. I think social software works best when it's pragmatic and conservative. The revolution is under the hood with distributed social networking.
We've needed to restructure the college system for a long time now. It's moved far from it's original goals as being specialized for a small subset of the population while everyone else received a high-school diploma, learned on the job skills and did rather fine for themselves. Unfortunately, there are too many people who benefit from the current system in order to rework it and the rapid change of a system usually causes a lot of chaos.

However, I see no reason why we need 12 grades of school. In the European countries, they only have 10 and they seem to do alright. Add in two-years of some type of advanced English, Psychology and classes for a concentration of choice and students can be well-educated by age 18 to go into the workforce. It will require them to gain knowledge through searching and an auto-didactic method rather than being spoonfed, but if they don't learn that skill now, then when?
If you're seeing performance issues, please have your sysadmins reach out to the Plone community. There are proven approaches to scaling Plone to support high loads and very fast page delivery. We're often running Plone with various combinations of multiple ZEO instances, Varnish, HAproxy, and Nginx.

At my company we're supporting high-traffic, high-performance Plone sites for organizations including NIH, USAID, and Stanford. It's an excellent technology for large CMS and intranet projects.

Big thanks to Hanno and the other Plone core devs who are constantly looking for ways to make Plone even faster.
> There's a difference though, at least if your fedexed laptop gets pulled for examination, the customs agents don't get to play their sadistic "make you pee your pants" game while they look at it...

Another difference is that if your fedexed laptop gets opened and a hardware keylogger or rootkit inserted, you don't have any indication that anything untoward happened.
Interesting-looking product. But a hardware product, already in beta, sounds like an unusual match for a YC session that hasn't even started yet.
Thank you! I designed it myself.

All those years throwing together flyers for my friends punk rock bands paid off, maybe. :)
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Though really that analogy isn't to say small groups shouldn't use non-fiat currencies. It's referring to an economy as a whole using them and not being able to use Keynesian techniques to smooth boom/bust cycles.

No one could stop "ByteCoins" from coming out and issuing similar currency that might be backed similarly - unlike the problem of not having anymore gold.

As this happened more, people would create synthetic currencies (like the IMF's SDR) to hold a basket of these goods - which would probably be adopted by many, or used for collateral for risk-mitigation instruments.

TL;DR: Yes, there are some problems, but this doesn't have many of the issues the gold-standard did.
Most social networks are in various shades of blue. http://www.quora.com/Why-are-most-social-networking-sites-bl...
The paragraph I quoted was more about valuing wonder for its own sake - I thought he had an essay explicitly about that, but none of the ones I found seemed to hit that note as well as that paragraph.
I'll concur with this. Originally, Appleseed was green, and people hated it. I tried various different color schemes, and while I don't think social software has to be blue, blue color schemes are definitely the easiest to make work.
The architecture/design part of this article sounded a bit odd. For the sake of 'purity of design' or something like that he decided to eschew constructors, but then it turns out that an un-initialized timer is not useful... which to me is the classic example of when you do provide a no-args constructor with a smart default...?

These sorts of designers annoy me. They've disappeared too far up their own backsides for the sake of some arbitrary aesthetic. Moreover by leaving traps like this in their own code they always get out of their depth, and it's the pragmatists like me who have to go in after them and rescue them.

My rule of thumb when choosing between great art and great pragmatism is to make life easier for 'the next guy'. Because 9 times out of 10 you're the next guy.
First, this argument is about the successfulness of the WordPress internal architecture. If you haven't looked at the internals WordPress, or written something against their PHP API, then you're arguing from ignorance.

> I sense a lot of idealism in you.

Please do your best to limit yourself to relevant statements.

> I work for a company that uses Coldfusion extensively, and we succeed just fine...

This is just intellectual dishonesty: you don't reveal at all whether or not the core of your business depends on Coldfusion, which would be important in order to make an apples-to-apples comparison.

You work for Linode, a company that provides VPS hosting. If you make a poor choice of technology on which to base your website, the core of your business is not impacted. Maybe some customers gripe about your dashboard, but your competitors will compete mainly on the superiority of their servers. If you work for a company like MySpace (which depends on its website entirely) and Facebook enters your market, you will not be able to find enough talented CF programmers to fend them off. Talented programmers would not ordinarily elect to use CF, for many reasons.

> It sounds pretty useless except for people who are molding Wordpress into something it wasn't envisioned to be.

Now you're simply being a contrarian. I don't think you even understand what this feature is or how it works. And yet again, I have to remind you of the point was: a feature that they wanted took a lot of time and effort to implement, when it could have been had trivially with a better architecture. In other words the technology decisions created inflexibility when implementing a product feature.

> Proper code is a misnomer. There is no such thing as proper.

First, your college professor might have an objection here.

Second, I said "proper MVC principles", as in, had they properly implemented MVC principles. I would be happy if they implemented any sort of architecture. This is one area where, if you had knowledge of the internals of WordPress, we could have a productive conversation, instead of simply negating what I said in the abstract.

> Also, MVC doesn't apply to all use cases, and it certainly isn't a prerequisite to "proper" or "well-designed" as you imply...

Not implied at all. Had you any knowledge of the internals of the WordPress architecture, it would again be useful to assert that knowledge so we could discuss whether or not it conforms to any notion of design. Unfortunately, you don't seem to want to discuss the actual point of the argument, preferring instead to deal with (ironically) ideal notions.

> Wordpress continues to dominate. Why is that, you think?

Past performance is not indicative of future results.

This kind of argument can be constructed for every company which currently leads its market, but may in the future be overtaken by a competitor. The relevant question is not "why does it dominate now" but "is it threatened by X".
Well, the "occasional" cheaper rent is a big deal since rent makes up such a big part of monthly expenses. A 1-bedroom could cost 35k yen in the countryside, 60k in the outskirts of Tokyo and 90k+ in central Tokyo.
I'd prefer some sort of quicksort to a bubble sort. Maybe a merge sort, for the amusement of shuffling people.
People who are willing to invest in what they think is an economic bubble are probably pretty willing to invest in what they know is a ponzi scheme as well. After all, both can be pretty profitable as long as you get out right before the bottom drops out.
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Fascinating. Still, I'm not sure the problem with the babysitting scrip applies to bitcoin. You must be very careful to differentiate between monetary deflation and price deflation.

In the case of the babysitting scrib, it sounds like it was clearly a problem of monetary deflation. The payment of dues took coupons out of circulation, deflating the monetary supply. Aside from lost wallets, bitcoin does not have monetary deflation.

A doomsday scenario involving price deflation is just a theory since as far as I know there has never been an example in real-life. Logically, it does not make sense to me but I-Am-Not-An-Economist.

Bitcoin has been undergoing price deflation for much of its life. So far, it has not caused a problem except that vendors are inconvenienced by relatively quickly changing prices.
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There's also Omegle.
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Picoblogging FTW!
Have you sought any funding yet? Where are you based?

For some additional inspiration, you might also check out AppHarbor (YC W11) at http://appharbor.com/ . They are Heroku for .NET.

You can also check out DotCloud (YC S10) at http://www.dotcloud.com/ . They are also a platform-as-a-service.
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I wasn't talking about a dev-switch, but a system wide switch for the home button. The issue is not messing with the toddler attention span, but the slow-loading apps. With the toddler in control, they often won't wait until the app loads or they'll hit the home button if it becomes shortly unresponsive, and then they'll go right back into the same app. Yes, this is an app problem that should be solved, but in absence of those developers solving it, I would like to bypass them with my own fix.

Wrt to videos, left to own devices, the toddler will often just watch videos, and I'd rather them interact with the apps when it is not video time. When the icon is not there/found, that works fine.
Agreed, I posted this the other day:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2424678

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Here's an idea:

Take your primary hard drive out of your machine when crossing borders and put some vanilla install of whateveer on the machine. Fedex the primary drive to your destination or keep all your shit in the cloud.

Some years ago I did a design spec for what is now the atrix -- I wrote a paper and tried to get some google eng contacts to work with me on the idea that all machiens are jsut a KVM for your data - and that our primary data device would be both our phones and datasets in the cloud...

Sadly, I couldnt convince them this was true then - but i is clear now.

So it would be great to have a /home/ on your mobile that you can sync to your machine when they are close. If the machine dissapears, no big deal.

Here is how I would model that today:

You carry three devices - laptop, mobile and a USB stick and cloud storage.

Under normal operating circumstance, you work on your laptop as you would any other time.

The mobile has some 32GB of storage -- this is a clean install backup of all your installed apps.

The USB has a BASE install of your OS and whatever apps you can fit -- in a live USB install.

All your personal data is in the cloud, such that if you lose any of the three devices - none of your data goes with it.

Swap the HDD of the laptop when travelling to a clean install drive with no data - do not sync till you get to the destination.

Should you lose your laptop, you can use the USB to run a live session on any machine you can boot to it from.
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What bothers me personally about the system is that it is not fair. When I am forced to participate in a system, it should at least be objectively fair.

One point of unfairness is that certain entities, and therefore people, are guaranteed a profit. This is not fair. I can't take loans from the central bank at 0%, why?

Saving is also no longer an option. That, I feel, is unfair. We have already taken risks to create the wealth and now we have to take even more risks just to keep the value of the money. Of course, The Bernank and his successors don't have to worry, they just increase their own salaries and retirements.

I actually like fiat money because it decouples resources from wealth. In an economy that increasingly depends on ideas, that is good.

It's the implementation which needs an overhaul before it destroys the entire world. I'm still connecting the dots in my head.
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Writing event-driven, asynchronous IO code in .NET code is a breeze.

It's about to get even breezier: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/gg316360
Hackers are by definition counter-culture and seeks wisdom in going against crowd thinking. If there were no schools, hackers would go to school. If schools taught projects, hackers would do rote learning.

All hackers urge the same thing: "Think Different"
Geez. I have no children in my life (even from friends or relatives really), so I never even thought of this. Very interesting.
If you guys can bring up examples, that would be helpful to the rest of us...