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Having lived and worked in Nigeria, I can say that there is enormous potential but with net access costing $100 per month, it is out of reach for the average person. Electricity supply is sporadic and generators/diesel is expensive. So if you take a population of 160 million and then whittle it down to people who can afford net access and electricity, the actual market becomes much smaller. We have not even touched on the issue of online payment systems and lack of postal service for physical delivery of goods, which would reduce the business model selection.
You might say that there is opportunity to provide cheaper net access, electricity and other infrastructure items but these are heavily licensed sectors that need a huge amount of capital just to be in the game, which means the price to the end user will probably be high as you need to justify a return.
Plus you have to deal with running a business in an environment where you need to pay for basic infrastructure (electricity, security etc etc) which increases costs further.
There are problems to be solved and startups can find a niche in Africa but it means working from a local perspective and not just transplanting a concept from a developed market where the needs and requirements of the market as well as the cost base are radically different.
What matters is the comparison of the 2k bottles to the rest of his garbage production, and his overall garbage production to the average.

If they represent only a few percent of his annual plastic-in-ocean contribution, it would be silly to worry about them while ignoring all that other stuff.
This is a bit misleading. A big advantage of an "Open Source Software" solution as opposed to a "Propriatary" solution is that you don't have to worry if the original provider goes bust or doesn't release patches or discontinues the product, and you don't have to worry about how many licences you have etc. i.e. Open Source gives you, not the people who made it, the power & control.

With cloud hosting, like Amazon S3, where you store all your data (or servers) on a 3rd party's servers, there are legitimate concerns about control & access (i.e. how much control do you have to do things, how much control do you have to stop someone else doing things (i.e. privacy)). So an "Open Source Alternative to S3" sounds like a good thing that would not have any of these drawbacks.

If someone thinks "Open Source S3" thinks that they, not the hosting company, have power & control, then they would be dissapointed by Nimbus.io, since it has all the drawbacks of S3.
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You're right about the tone here being misjudged, but I don't think the effort is completely indefensible. It can be difficult to make qualitative choices about things that have become omnipresent, a perceived necessity. Adolescents who were born into notification culture in particular may find "don't like it, don't use it" harder than those of us who recall life pre-smartphone. Clearly many of us relish our connectedness, but there is some value to taking a moment to mull over the inherent tradeoffs. Definitely a few wrong notes here, but I liked the intention.
A byte array is not necessarily a string.

Is an image a string?

Is a video on YouTube a giant string?

They happen to be equivalent at a data storage level, but they're not semantically equivalent. I think the article explains the difference quite well to be honest.
You're clearly correct about vent sexing, but the story about the planes rings more true. It reminded me of a study that shows that car enthusiasts and bird watchers access the area of the brain normally used for facial recognition when identifying cars and birds, respectively[1]. I would expect that plane enthusiasts learn to identify planes much in the same way that car or bird enthusiasts do.

I think another factor is almost certainly sound. The study I just cited dealt with photographs, but the plane watchers in the story would also have been able to hear the sounds of the planes. There are certain models of aircraft I can identify by the sounds of their engines alone because I have been around (or in) them so much. However, to most people they just sound like "jet noise" or "prop noise." Even though I can tell the difference, I would have a hard time explaining it because the vocabulary we have for describing sounds is not nearly as complete as the vocabulary we have for describing images (or at least my vocabulary is that way).

1: http://cognitrn.psych.indiana.edu/rgoldsto/courses/concepts/...
It used to be a golden rule for investors that they should see signs of needless ostentation (e.g. a fountain in reception, limos for all executives) as a danger signal. Excuse the pun but making a film about yourself does not send out a good, signal about 37signals.
My reasons:

* Benefits
* 401K matching
* Health insurance
* Stock options
* Perks
* Food
* Special discounts with corporate partners
* Training/classes/conferences
* Transportation
* Wide-scale impact
* Salary
* Stability
* Brand recognition
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immutable fields are probably recommended for salts ... I quite like being able to change my email address on a site ;-)

but yes, a hashed (global + immutable-user-specific) combination seems to be best practice.
I'm reading books different way than people I know. I'm skipping many fragments, I think I read maybe 10% of the whole text. This applies to fiction and technical books as well.

I'm doing this automatically, without thinking about it, some time ago I've discovered this, when at 2nd reading of the book I've stumbled at a fragment that made my understanding of the whole story "reevaluate" :) Somehow I've missed the fragment before, and the whole book made less sense.

I've tried to understand how my brain decides what to skip, and the heuristic is sth like this - read all things that starts with "-" (dialogs are the most important), beginning of the paragraphs, and the places that have many whitespaces, skip most of the other text, if you don't know what you are reading about - think for a while to deduce what's going on, if you don't know - go back and read more. That's not the whole heuristic, but that's what I can easily notice.

Especially the skill to "wait for a few pages to see if something you don't know yet will explain by itself, or can be deduced from what you know" is usefull. That way I read faster than most people I know, and I'm good at quickly learning material for exams (but without using the information I quickly forget what I've read. I even don't remember sometimes if I've read this book at all - mostly happens with fantasy books - they are all similiar :) ).

I'm also very bad at remembering names of real people and book heroes. I remember them "functionaly" - the one that is the uncle of the bad guy, etc.
I would think that hiring a film maker falls under the PR umbrella. PR adds value. Needless ostentation doesn't.

Time will tell.
Anyone has information regarding the actual vulnerability ? That would be very interesting. Thanks.
The companies we're partnering with (Living Social, WordPress/Automattic and Bank Simple) will tell us they want to look at folks who meet certain criteria, like this:

1. Looking for a job
2. Have unlocked these badges (as an example):
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2b. Ruby Foundations
2c. Rails Foundations
3c. Node.js Foundations

Then we'll present them with those people and they'll choose if they want to approach those folks to interview
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That's because it's not done :) We just added a static image for launch (MVP). We'll be adding an interactive version of the Badge Map as soon as we can.
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I'm sure most people would see the original non-literal features of the phrase if they were to think about it. The point is, they don't! Not because they're dumb but because the entire expression has unit status in their vocabulary. The fact that people do not notice the original non-literalness in the phrase (and indeed understand it as intended) is evidence that it's not non-literal anymore.

I'm harping on about this because it's such a nice poster child for an entrenched (conventionalized) meaning of an entire expression as opposed to just a word, and for the lack of componentiality of meaning in language. In other words, there's more to the meaning of a sentence than just the meaning of its words. Componentiality is one of the points of debate between different schools of thinking in linguistics.
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We're always going to charge for our content, because great content is expensive to create. In addition to this, the real value we offer is in guiding our Members through the process of learning and showing them in what order they should learn topics.

The "Sign your team up" link isn't finished yet. Apologies for that.

The pricing is $19/mo for Silver sub-users and $39/mo for Gold sub-users.
Thank you! Time to find a Kazakh speaker. The bottle was found on October 21st (more than a week ago) by the way, so we'll need a full translation to see what exactly is going on. You've been a great help.
Interesting for the context and perspective — thanks!
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Odd use of the word "competent", you implying Apple personnel aren't competent because they didn't send a message saying "thank you" with gold stars all over it?
That was my first thought as well, but it turns out to be the wrong alphabet.
If Facebook or someone else is unhappy with this they can just make their own search engine. I don't see an issue with Google promoting another Google product on it's own search page.
The thing is, web was supposed to be about documents but it always wanted to be about programs. A basic markup language together with styling goes with the former but in the latter it becomes something you need to work around.
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This is interesting, but as someone who's not very knowledgeable about C & assembly, I'm not sure what's going on. Could anyone explain what this does?
The PR industry say that PR adds value, but then they would, wouldn't they?
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Yup. The only three CC-licenses that are allowed are CC-BY, CC-BY-SA and CC-ZERO (public domain).
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It might be useful for retention in some form. If people are earning badges they are probably more likely to retain the membership for longer so they end up spending more in the long run.
Given that 37signals don't have investors, why should they care?

(I know that Bezos has tossed some money their way, but the terms were apparently in exchange for his advice, rather than for an eventual exit.)
This is a brilliant PR move.
Interesting. I read about the same way, and I find that I'm using something very similar to your heuristic (looking for dialog signs, skip-reading long descriptions, etc.)

I call this 'reading for the plot'.

I also suffer from the same issue with remembering names. I wonder if the two phenomena are related.
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I agree. Usually, on HN the title shouldn't be changed but here I should have made an exception.
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Hmm, how about sketching the pattern of stars you see on the horizon along with a date and (approximate) time?
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Maybe a better term would be "scalar" like in vector calculus or Perl, to emphasize that the larger data structures consist of scalars arranged in some form.
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Is there anyone, anywhere, who considers that as a plus? Who would actually consider rolling out their own cloud infrastructure?
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This will reinforce the 37signal brand, just like Getting real, or Rework did before.

They are going to release 25 videos, and they can count me in to see them. I had recently seen the peepcode double episode with Ryan Singer (UX at 37signals) and was worth the time.
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I'm not sure if this is complete egotistical wankery, or awesome.

I'll get back to you after I watch the movie.
"The server and client components are all free and open source software."

Can't find any link to the source. _Are_ they opensource. Or is it only planned to release the source eventually?
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What's the state of the art in humanoid or multi-pedal robots in terms of robustness and flexibility of their movement and balance? I assume ASIMO isn't as stable and stress resistant as the robots of Boston Dynamics, for example http://www.bostondynamics.com/robot_petman.html
That was my first thought as well, but it turns out to be the wrong alphabet.

To be fair, the Cyrillic alphabet was derived from the Greek alphabet of the time:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic#History
> I'm sure the current meaning of "I could care less" is quite thoroughly conventionalized: it's part of everyday speech

Only in some places - I can only remember having heard it on television from the US. I shiver in pain every time I hear it, too, so I'm pretty sure I haven't heard it in person (having lived in New Zealand and Australia).
It could have been sent on Eidul Adha last year :).
I'm not going to defend the tone, or facebook bashing, or anything like that. I will say, I enjoyed that site a great deal.

I feel like I'm often on a slippery slope toward easy, short, quick and cheap entertainment. Sometimes I'll go to my computer not for any particular reason, just because I want something to do. I should be going to my computer to accomplish something I want, and if I want to relax I shouldn't do it reading blog posts. From time to time, I need to (yet again) jolt myself off the short attention span path and remind myself that I have agency. Then I'm alright for awhile longer.

I think its this tendency in people which makes sites like facebook so popular. I think this is what caused reddit to drift from an interesting discussion forum to a repository of memes and cat pictures.

I suspect a lot of the facebook bashing you see on hackernews isn't because we hate facebook, but because hate using a site like facebook as a crutch to procrastinate doing anything actually useful.
+1 reserving judgement, as to where they come on a scale of egotistical wankery -> just plain vanity.
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The license for server-side code - the one you would use to create your own cloud - is AGPL. Isn't this license too restrictive for business?.
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Wow, amazing. This has come a long way since the worst demo ever: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASoCJTYgYB0

The way it manipulates stuff with the hands is very impressive, not to mention the 'understanding' required to pour liquid like that. Wonder how much of that was scripted.
In English law you can add a covenant to a contract where the purchaser agrees to certain restrictions on the use of that which is purchased. However, the covenant is only enforceable while the seller continues to be in a position to be affected in some way.

A church group might sell you some land with restrictions on it's use - no dance hall or casino say - but should that church cease to exist then the restriction would probably be deemed to have lapsed.
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Have you seen the production quality of Apple's manufacturing videos? The ones that include Jony Ive and Bob Mansfield?

People like working with human-centered companies. Showcasing what goes on behind the scenes is yet another marketing/"brand management" opportunity. Actually, its a definitive advantage because most software companies are run by socially awkward people.

Lastly, sighting investor's "golden rules" is ridiculous. Remember, most investors, especially in the venture business, are wrong more than half the time in aggregate.
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Since the OpenSSL::PKey::RSA.generate method lets you generate RSA keys with a different exponent there is some manipulation needed between the ruby side and OpenSSL. From my understanding the code was part of a refactor to release the global interpreter lock, if possible, while generating RSA keys.
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No but customers might, after all a company with money to openly indulge in corporate masturbation might find it difficult to justify their pricing or put prices up, imagine the reaction to Netflix if they had started making a film about themselves 6 or 9 months ago.
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So business decisions that use uncertain numbers are "fake math"?

You realize that with the narrow exception of a few quant traders, you've pretty much described all business decisions.
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This would have more effect on me if I had a Twitter account. Or Facebook. Or Google+. Or if my phone "rang" more than a couple times per day, if that. Or if I had notifications for my email.

Seriously, I can't stand those. It's not willpower; it's a physical aversion to being interrupted.

Oh, and to relax I like either to kill the lights and listen to some Jazz, or to watch people on the street. Reading stuff isn't relaxing.
The question becomes though, unlike real property which rarely becomes abandoned, if I don't renew the domain post-transfer it is essentially abandoned and the covenants can't be enforced on who ever registers it next. So it would seem that covenants/restrictions would have to have some time limit. I know that covenants in perpetuity is quite frowned upon in US property law. Thoughts?