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What do you speak of when we lose something of great value along with our technical progress?
Spreedly doubles pricing.
Despite the name, FaceCash identifies purchasers with a bar code, not their face. FaceCash's face identification is the equivalent of credit cards with your photo on them. The photo is just casual security and doesn't help for online purchases.

My university's cafeteria linked student id cards with a debit system. To ensure cafeteria cashiers checked the cards' photos, "secret shoppers" would occasionally try to buy lunch with a card featuring a portrait of a friendly golden retriever. :)
Mr. Appelsmith is a senior advisor to Governor Brown. DFI (http://www.dfi.ca.gov) reports to BTH and BTH (http://www.bth.ca.gov) reports to the Governor (http://www.gov.ca.gov).

If anyone does choose to write to him, and I encourage everyone to do so, please be polite even if you are firm.

I have talked to just about all of the people on that list with an e-mail address ending in .gov. So they should be familiar with the issues, and they will probably be surprised to hear that the public cares.
So you can make more money by focusing solely on textbooks instead of all the books in the world?
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I am not a native English speaker, but I'm constantly dumbfounded as to why anyone would even entertain the idea that "its/it's" are in any way similar. When you substitute one with another, the sentence just does not parse. It stops making sense.

By conflating "its" and "it's", you are overloading the meaning of "its", making the language more ambiguous.

Perhaps this also has to do with me being accustomed to more formal (programming) languages.
I did not read the article till you asked me and would not change my stylish Hogan Heroes based response even a bit after skimming through it.

Working on a startup starves one of normal social company, so the best I can do is to interact with random friends on HN.

Applying the argument for shady money, I'd have to warrant that we're already past the point of debate with other more strange anachronisms now extant in this game. The overall US debt is just the tip.
...surely you can't be so naive as to think that Milner is doing what he is doing out of some altruism for founders?

pg didn't say or imply that. If you read what he's written about investing (e.g., http://paulgraham.com/future.html, http://paulgraham.com/control.html), you'll see there's a much simpler explanation: pg thinks being founder-friendly is a good (i.e., profitable) investment strategy.
I'd be up for taking part in such an experiment, and testing a few other classics at the same time. I've long wanted to conduct the Pirate Game(1) in real life (adapted to remove the death part). It could be done online, but it might be difficult to simulate the back-channels, which seem required to me. And maybe it would be more fun to get 50 or so folks together in one room for a Saturday and do it..

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_game
This is incorrect.

The photo that matters for FaceCash is the one that is downloaded from the server onto the POS. The one on the phone is just for show, and cashiers are instructed to basically ignore it. So if you're a thief, you can't just put a JPEG of your thief-face next to someone else's barcode. The correct owner's face will still show up on the register.
>"Jobs dropped out, but if Jobs was all by himself he would not be Steve Jobs of Apple Computer, and there would not be an Apple Computer. Jobs is Jobs because he met Woz, and Woz went to college where he ignited his passion for electronics and gained the skills which would later enable him to create the first Apple computers."

It's more than that. If Wozniak and Jobs had been in Topeka, there probably wouldn't have been an Apple computer because few people there would likely gambled on an order for 50 computers in 1976. Only in places like Silicon Valley were there the right demographics to support computer shops and create the sort of demand which allowed them to get their start. Later financing also was facilitated by location.
I called them after talking to them at a conference. They said that they're not representing any technology companies. I asked about WePay; they said that was an usual exception.

From what I've heard they're totally dysfunctional internally. Also, every time you add a middleman, the price of your product goes up. We can charge 1.5% flat per transaction because there are no middlemen. We run the whole network.
Beware of statements that sound profound but have no wisdom.
It's all mentality. The "I'll get a degree, find a job, and move up the ladder" way of doing things is dying.

If you have the drive, thirst to educate yourself, and hustle to go out and do it, you probably don't need college (referring to business degree).

College has some good things to offer, but too often it's a false reality. You don't learn the real world lessons that come from dealing with actual clients, paying you actual money, to provide actual value.

You can only learn so much with case studies and papers.

I learned more in the first 3 months at an internship at a marketing agency were I was getting paid $8/hr than the 4 years of college, which cost $100k.
Touch screen?
sure, but the success of the ipad, to me, shows that Apple is now more of a luxury marketer than anything else. People would buy an Apple TV for the same reason people pay more for a BMW. If Apple were to come out with a stylish looking TV, built in DVR and Bluray player, with easy WiFi connectability, and cloud storage of favorite shows/movies, and a streaming service for any movie or tv show you want to watch (which Apple can do with content providers because of its heft), and make it so simple your grandma could do it, then I am confident it would be such a success that their TV unit would become their greatest revenue generator by far.
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Thanks. I may give them both a try and see which I prefer. It will probably come down to ease of exporting, I really don't want to get locked in to either one.
Indeed. "Services" often sound suspiciously like well-dressed subroutines.
All of your complaints are about frameworks and tools, not the language itself.

Have you ever tried Play?
That is probably how you would do it in this case, but in more complex scenarios, a simple association wouldn't be sufficient. In those cases, putting the code into a service instead of the controller will make the code easier to test and reuse.
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I'm going to do a bad job of explaining what I think the value of this quote is, but here's what I thought upon reading it: He's not asking for the technical difference between consulting a phone and having the phone direct you, but in a deeper sense (I guess maybe of some false depth, according to some), posing the question of where the line is crossed before which computers are simply tools used by humans and beyond which computers/technology in general must be considered a separate entity or life-form of some kind.

I think the "giving directions" example was sort of a poor choice, because people will think "yeah, a GPS 'commands' you, but it isn't actually 'commanding', it's simply information delivered in a command-like format so that you don't have to interact with it while driving". I think this was simply supposed to be an example of a more general philosophical question of at what point do we program-in such layers of thought, abstraction, problem-solving, etc. into technology that the resulting intelligence cannot be considered anything but another form of life (you could argue that as it exists right now, it is a very primitive version of that).
Too late. It's already trying to solve two problems, and doing it poorly.

I'd like to see the two problems (application platform, interlinked document platform) split cleanly.
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Question: Did the state come after Mr. Greenspan, or did he pick a fight with them because of this silly rule? If it's the latter, then I certainly sympathize, but it doesn't seem like the best approach to having your business succeed. Better to avoid attracting undue attention until you're big and well-connected enough that any bureaucrat who threatens you with an arbitrary rule is risking their own job. Until you're that big, you're likely under their radar anyway.
What Aaron's trying to get accomplished here is precisely the type of work that lobbyists get paid for. And although he's right, the government can stonewall him indefinitely unless they have some kind of executive order to force a resolution. I'm sure that Paypal, VISA and friends have made campaign contributions or have had long conversations over games of golf to delay any competitive threat to their business model so he's got a steep hill to climb.

I'm assuming as a startup he can't afford to have a lobbying firm on retainer, so the best outcome would be that the Times or the Journal picks up this story and shames them into action.

But man, I admire the chutzpah and the brass balls it takes to pick this fight. Good luck!
And how, exactly, are you going to get into college without a high-school diploma?
If your use-case is from ssh'ing in a remote box, this may be simpler:

#!/bin/sh
# example from `who - u`:
#nick pts/0 2011-07-20 20:44 . 7856 (xxxxxxx.xxxxxxxx.internode.on.net)

who -u | awk 'BEGIN {FS="[p.]"} /internode/ {print gensub("-",".","g",$6); exit}'

You might need to play around with gensub(...). Sometime `who` reports the IP as xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx and sometimes as xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
I wouldn't say it's "amazing", but it's definitely "upvoteable" for two reasons:

1. I don't have to install it. This means I can satisfy my desire for instant gratification and quickly go back and upvote it.

2. I support open standards. I'll upvote it just for the fact that it's implemented in WebGL and not some proprietary bullshit, and I'll continue to do this until all the proprietary bullshit is long dead and gone.
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Steve Jobs was passionate about education. You need to read more about him.
You could have left authorized in. Walter Isaacson was his official biographer.
No, a touchscreen tv would be horrible. That goes back to the RCA days where you had to get up and go to the tv to change the channels using the knob.

There's nothing wrong with the remote, just that it is starting to get very confusing to use (too many buttons). If Apple can find a way to make the modern remote less complex that would be a step in the right direction.
popularity doesn't matter - it's about the task + environment (if its not, then your doing it wrong)
Of course we only have one side of the story here, and considering that that side is self-evidently crazy, it's hard to take it very seriously.

I'm all in favor of regulations to prevent outright theft and fraud of a great deal of the public's money with no accountability. Gift card companies are repeatedly defrauding the public. Money transfer companies are repeatedly defrauding the public. Bitcoin gateways are repeatedly defrauding the public. I don't give a shit if you think the Man is keeping you down; you're trying to put your business risk (and perhaps your actual intent to defraud, but ABSOLUTELY your business risk) onto the public, and for some reason you think you're entitled to do so.

Your business risk ought to be borne by you, which means requiring you to get a big fat surety bond before you start handling large amounts of public money, so that when you fuck up your company (or intentionally bail with all their cash), the public isn't left holding the bag for you. Too damn bad.
Both skill sets are important.

For some, definitely. But if, for example, Jobs had the technical skills of Wozniak, he may have spent those critical hours hacking away at the machine instead of making smart business moves and we would have ultimately never heard of his name. The lack of strong technical skills was an asset for him.

My point is that there is nothing you can do to prepare for success. Getting your engineering degree might lead you to success, but it could just as easily steer you away from success. There is no magic formula you can follow.
It's really not that difficult. For formality's sake you could pick up a GED, but I think most colleges don't have a HS diploma as a strict requirement and would waive it if they did (assuming some evidence you're ready).

EDIT: I speak for the USA only.
Some people like to split windows vertically, shorter line help them, but splitting lines break greppability, and I am always wondering how to indent them properly.
I agree there's no rush. There's no rush at all.

Henry Ford started his company at 40. Jeff Bezos, 30. Sam Walton, 44. Paul Galvin, 33. The Albrecht brothers were 41 and 39. TJ Watson, while not a founder, was 40 when he took over CTR and created IBM. Hewlett, 26. Packard, 27. Larry, Sergey were 25. Ellison, 33.
I'm very surprised they haven't chosen to "grandfather" existing customers, so that they can remain on the previous pricing model.
Kinda hard to TL;DR actually. It's a poetic history of gambling on the future and how every new twist on the practice causes crashes, regulations, etc. And the history goes back to ancient Rome. In conclusion, we haven't mastered predicting the future and mitigating risk but have an unhealthy obsession to do so. The article is so long because it's so poetic.
I have a couple technologies I selfishly want to use for this (security stuff). Hrm...
The irony comes from Anonymous being vaulted into the MSM spotlight via their campaign against the Church of Scientology, and then later adopting their tactics.
Please don't steal my focus (2007)
So, how much should that surety bond be?
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twitter and the like is a total edge case
True. They have proposed to "grandfather" the current plans only upto 90 days so customers to migrate elsewhere, if they opt to.
And hey, if you don't wind up being under their radar, it's only prison, right?
I think you're both right. There is a strong tendency for people to get comfortable and less hungry as they age. But there's no reason this can't be resisted. Indeed, I've done that myself. :)
I don't mean to come off as insulting, but the problem clearly seems to be Aaron, and not California. He is overly combative, unwilling to accept olive branches (and exemptions! resolving the issue!), and stubborn. Find the path of least resistance, don't keep slamming into the same brick wall.

An entrepreneur should know how to problem-solve. MAKE IT WORK.
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What's an example that exceeds the functionality of associations?
It is surprising to see this coming from Spreedly, especially in the context of their previous discussion on the same topic in HN (when Chargify increased price).

When you price a subscription product, one should factor in long term sustainability at that price, for a long time.

Any price increase due to additional features / facilities you provide - say 24*7 on-call support, must not be burdened on your existing users.

Provide a way for existing users to "opt" for those at a higher price, but leave them at the current price as they stand.
I didn't know that you cared about local retailers; that changes quite a lot. Thanks for the clarification.
TIL I would not hire Aaron Greenspan as a general contractor to build an extension to my house (particularly if any zoning variances were required).
Much as I'd like to believe this, I was recently having a discussion with a neuroscience researcher where he talked about this natural phenomenon they've observed. Infants are on this side of the line craving novelty and mastery while aged folks are on the opposite end with comfort and familiarity. Everyone else lies sequentially in between.

That made a lot of sense to me. No doubt we can override it but...this kind of predisposition does place restrictions that one may not otherwise account for.

Plus, what better time than NOW!

I say this as I study for midterms
So a startup has failed if it is growing fast but hasn't totally won at the point in time you happen to hear of them?
How would you be able to use any technology to match Siri. I recommend you build an SMS service that does this and maybe finishes by sending you a link to pay or something. As Siri works with SMS.

Not sure about this though. I like Hipmunk for hotels and flights. It's probably the best in the travel space but isn't exactly like this.
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Dart's type annotations in a lot of ways are inspired by Closure. The big difference is that Closure Compiler style JS is... well... hideous. You get some of the maintainability and modularity of a statically typed language (I can't count the number of times the Closure Compiler found errors for me), but the way you have to write JavaScript to get that makes it incredibly ugly.
As far as I know, the hinting instructions embedded in a font also includes information about how to do kerning for that font, as well as replacement glyphs for particular sets of adjacent characters (such as ff).
USA: I got into collage at 14 by just taking an entrance exam, never needed a GED. No one will stop you form going to collage, you just need to pass exams.
If it is so sticky, why don't people sign up for multiyear contracts for recurring billing services with some sort of price guarantee?
epoch time has a new meaning to me.
I wonder if it is possible for a YC startup to take Andreessen-Horowitz $50000 investment and pass on Milner's investment.
That's good, because I'd be a terrible general contractor!
I can see why you'd say that about the quote, but I'm pretty sure he's not pretentious in that way.
Steve had Woz.
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Why? The long term stability of the currency is irrelevant if you're just using bitcoins as a temporary intermediary, as the exchange rate only has to be remain constant for the time taken to verify a transaction.
A lot of the most useful stuff in Guava is coming in JDK8 - most of the collection/functional APIs. Still, I'm surprised by your observation. What are you coming from that has a more comprehensive standard library? All I can think of is possibly .NET.
1. Government by waiver is not the rule of law.

2. The waiver was only issued because he was embarrassing them in front of reporters.

3. The waiver does not cover intra-state operations, which would mean he would be unable to get early adopters from the most technology friendly place in the country. He would also be unable to demo the product in front of investors.
On the other hand, if those numbers are the only thing that is keeping you in school, you might want to consider the quality of the education you are receiving.

Showing a correlation does not really tell us anything meaningful. Even with a degree, you still might be missing what it takes and end up being part of the four percent. At this point, we have no real idea of what it takes for an individual to be successful in business until after the fact. Two people can do identical things with completely different results.
What about small amounts of public money, as startups will inevitably start with?

Surety bonds only cover the licensed companies. Consumers are still at considerable risk as long as not everyone has a license. And usually the fraudsters aren't the first in line at the DFI with all of the required forms and audits.
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I once did something similar. I was in a school that had dumb terminals on which you could only check email - they set the login shell for all student users as pine. We found that you could set bash or lynx or the like as the spell checker or external editor, and in so doing, get proper internet access (or as proper as you could consider lynx).
Thank you. I do need to work on the message on the home page. What resolution did you have when you took the screenshot?
It shows that 2008 isn't a freak occurrence. The problem is systemic.
I think so.

Debt is not even the biggest concern. My biggest concern is the mentality to avoid failure at all costs. Since the world's reward system isn't structured to always reward effort, school (imo) teaches you to pass, not excel. And, as I understand, the passing grade for a startup is to excel. See the disconnect?

Except for that, college years seem to be the most formative years of one's life. I wouldn't be into startups if I didn't come do post-secondary. I wouldn't even know how to code if I didn't come here. Best experience of my life.
I have tried play, and my comment with a link is about the languages.
The reason it's confusing is that 's after a personal pronoun usually indicates possession, whereas this is the opposite for it's/its, so in that sense it's an exception to a rule, which people have a hard time remembering.
I would like to echo this sentiment. Further, having read the author's book 3 weeks ago, I'm confident even he wouldn't say the uneducated are going to save America. His book is about the alternative education that you can give yourself if you choose to seek it out, particularly around topics that are business centric (sales, marketing, personal branding, networking, etc.).

The point of the book is that he found common themes in the people who didn't have college degrees but who did attain business success.
The original reason may be dated, but there are other places where limiting line length is still helpful.

For example, I'll often have my editor open and docs open in a web browser right next to it.

It also helps when viewing side by side diffs.
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I assume that it was his attempt to give himself the appearance of authority, because the lengthy rant sure as hell did not.

The guy displays shockingly poor decision-making. Why would I (as a prospective customer) want to do business with a company that didn't do basic research into the regulatory environment of its target market?

The point of the capitalization requirement is not to inhibit startups -- rather, the point is to make sure that someone who wants to launch a business handling other people's money puts at least some thought into it. In this case, the Aaron guy appears not to have put any thought into it at all, and is now blaming everyone else for his mistakes.
Julien, can you say something about the company itself? Or if it's just your personal side project - state that. I can't find any info on the website. (Note: this fact might be discouraging for more serious customers.)

Are you in any way related to the Yandex company, apart from using the Highlight script hosted on their site?

BTW, I'm really happy you're launching this product. I've done some research on good screenshot services over a year ago and the results weren't encouraging. Eventually I settled for these German guys: http://www.websitethumbnail.de/
I have a 30" Dell with 2560x1600 at work. It's about $1000. I wish there was a 24" with the same amount of pixels, but there aren't any..
Sorry, I'm not groking what you mean. You mentioned problems with Maven, Jax-RS, and XML, then countered that with Rails in notepad.

None of these is a language, they are all frameworks and tools.