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I've been an investor since 2007 and though I still fully believe in the company and its continued growth, I feel that the stock price's exponential growth in recent months is out of line with it's actual performance. Don't get me wrong, the price should be rising, but not this quickly. Broader market forces are at play in this and I would expect a market correction to occur in the coming weeks or months, which will have a significant effect on AAPL because it has a beta hovering around 2. Of course, the question is: When will the correction take place?
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Personally, I would say you should host your feedback/support/FAQ on Quora, per my suggestions in this post: http://www.quora.com/Airbnb/How-could-Airbnb-Support-be-impr...

TL;DR:

a) Quora has superior search and multi-layer taxonomy (see Quora Topics)

b) Quora allows others to suggest edits on content -- crowdsourced proofreading and updating!

c) Quora allows users to create content for you -- crowdsourced documentation (coincidently building a hiring pipeline)!

d) Airbnb's mission/business is to help people list and book places to stay, Airbnb's mission/business is not to engineer a great help center or build a collection of all the questions and answers people might ask about Airbnb. Focus on what you're passionate about -- hosting cool places to stay.

e) Quora's mission is to be "a continually improving collection of questions and answers created, edited, and organized by everyone who uses it." [1] In essence, it's Quora's mission to organize exactly this type of information...why not use it for what it's trying to be?
Try adding &format=json and let me know if you run into any bugs
I got my job from a reddit post I made (a year ago), and we were acquired two days ago ! high five from a fellow 'employee from the internet' :)
Python probably does the moderation. Sharepoint is for dead simple communication of info to the user community.
"They’ll be manufacturing and distributing the devices on behalf of the Raspberry Pi Foundation"

I dont think Amazon is in the business of manufactoring hardware for others.
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It's great that Leanpub makes it so easy to register, but it would be even better if you didn't have to. I don't want to provide my email address to download a file. I used a disposable one and I'm sure some others did, too. That's just going to add (a tiny bit of) work for the Leanpub email server and make their stats look a little better than they really are.

Also, the site creating a "profile" for me when all I did was download a book makes me feel "sucked in" a little. I know, rationally, that there's really no downside to it for me, but I still can't shake the feeling that this is more than I agreed to.
They're both part of large international companies. This first shipment is disappointing to many people. Hopefully crashing the servers so hard will give both these distributors some idea of what the demand is, and they'll get some large production runs going, and shift some stock to international distribution partners.

> RS Components has a huge customer base in the UK; it's basically The Place You Go when you need electronic components in large quantities.

RS is where you go when you have an account and need small amounts of components on a regular basis. Buying large quantities of components results in a very frustrating experience.

See, for example, the way they sell surface mount components. Buy qty 500 of 0805 SM resistors and Farnell will send you a strip of 500 while RS will sell you 50 little strips of 10 per strip. Or the way that individual parts are bagged.
Thank you for this clarification, and nicely said would've been nice to get an update a few hours ago stating they weren't taking U.S sales, same thing happen for the eBay auction, forgive me HN just needed to vent
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> I wonder if it literally means they were thinking of duplicating the (world's first) digital peer-to-peer currency: http://www.bitcoin.org

I think you forgot about digicash's product 'ecash'.

Claiming a 'first' in any field is difficult, to claim a 'first' in payment systems is a very tricky affair.

It may be that bitcoin is the first practical digital peer-to-peer currency but even that is up to interpretation, no doubt someone had something they launched that failed before it and plenty of people would disagree that it is practical as it is implemented today.
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So now they will describe it as home to 'hackers, thieves, ravers and squatters' :-)

If you go to Berlin, you'll discover many hackers are both also ravers and squatters. If you go to a security conference, you'll find many that are thieves.

I'm sure the people hanging out there are fine. :-)
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Something that would perhaps help more people is a "show unread" when you visit a thread. Reading a thread with 60 posts today and 100 posts tomorrow is sub-optimal.
True, but I'd bet a person-on-the-ground in the US would have been a fair bit less organisation that the deals they did with RS/Farnell. (See NinjaBlocks for an example - they're a bunch of local-to-me-in-Sydney-Australia guys who got a contact/partner in the US to manage their Kickstarter rego for them)
Yes, but this was the launch being done with boards that were already built in China. What they really wanted to have happen today was to get the 10,000 units into the hands of their fans as quickly and painlessly as possible, get a polite apology to those who didn't get one, and then hit the PR bell with their big brass "sold them all in 10 minutes" hammer.

"Nobody knows what the hell happened but I didn't get one" is probably not the takeaway they were hoping for on launch day.
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You keep mentioning ~/bin, but I don't think any major distro ships with such thing. So I don't really see how the situation is any better on Linux than it is on Windows. And then Windows has the Folder Virtualization trick.

> And if you try and install into C:\Users\...\Program Files, you will quickly be mis-detected as malware or spyware

So it's Windows's fault if you use crappy anti-virus applications? If you'd use similar applications on Linux wouldn't it equally flag ~/bin as malware too?
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Yep - will be. I know a bunch of other local (Sydney Australia) people who placed orders for more than one via Farnell (Element14 here in .au), both online and by phone. I suspect if they've billed my credit card they'll honor the order/confirmation whatever the RPi org tells them.
> Now, what sort of a imbecile decided that it's a good idea to let an underprivileged account install into a system directory - UAC or not - is beyond me.

Unprivileged accounts do not have write access to %ProgramFiles% by default in Windows.
I never know how much to attribute to these kinds of stories. It's easy to say you'd have risked more when you know you are about to die. For example, if you knew you were going to die in 2 months would you care about HIV? Would you care about pissing someone off? Would you care about planning for your future (ie, working and saving for retirement?), Would put any money in a savings account? Or save for that house? Would you stay in a stable job?

Once you are a just a few months from dying it's easier to regret things without fear because you know you're going to die soon. But when you don't know you're going to die soon then all of a sudden you'd likely make different choices. Choices that have few negative repercussions.
Yeah, not getting one is one thing. The probably inevitable emails of "Yeah, you know we charged your credit card and said we'd ship you a Raspberry Pi... well, we're not... please wait 4-8 weeks" are far, far worse.
Thoughts on porting NumPy to PyPy:

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Going down this path you will find yourself in a place where you cannot say or do anything without offending someone.
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> Vastly many more people get rich with 'lifestyle' companies than get rich with moonshots.

Not being combative, but can you justify that statement with data? It just seems implausible to me, given that the moonshot companies tend to employ a lot more people. Yes, relatively few companies become "big deals", but those companies (Adobe, MS, Google, Facebook, Apple) are the ones that actually employ most of the people in the industry.

Aside from 37Signals, what lifestyle businesses are (a) less stressful and (b) more lucrative than a shoot-for-the-moon startup? If it's a technology business, it's something that will be obsolesced rapidly unless you keep moving (e.g Yousendit being obsolesced by Dropbox), so where's the "lifestyle" in that?

It seems that your best options are either (a) join a startup or (b) work for a large company. The no man's land in between seems to be the highest stress and worst returns, with no prospect of your ship ever really coming in.
That's a very gross approximation of what France is. And I don't see the problem with being sued when cutting down resources if you don't have to and do it only for profit. If it's the only way to save your company you can do it and the law is clear on that.
R bench is glaringly unfair -- it consists of dumb ports of scalar algorithms while R is an array language.
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I have a feeling Balmer will only let go of being CEO when he's rotting in the ground.
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There's a big difference between ubiquity and relevance.

There's no arguing Windows' ubiquity, however, I'd argue that Microsoft is resting on their laurels, as far as Windows is concerned.

Mobile is where things are going, and they were late to the game. It's not even making a dent, either.
ecash was not truly peer-to-peer. On the contrary, the concept relied crucially on centralization as ecash would have been withdrawn from existing banks & credit card companies: http://web.archive.org/web/19970111163957/http://www.digicas...

In fact, bit gold, RPOW, and b-money (from respectively Nick Szabo, Hal Finney, and Wei Dai) were the only similar ideas predating Bitcoin, but none of them were ever implemented... Which is why one can say that Bitcoin truly is the first implementation of a digital p2p currency, where everything, including the issuance of money, is decentralized.
They didn't exactly make you get up at 6AM. To be honest even if everything had gone smoothly, it should still be obvious given the hype that everyone individually had only a small chance of getting one from the first 10K batch.

And I think they were entirely justified to make a small (if you call 10K small) production run ahead of everything else. It's not like they're an established manufacturer and retailer.

It dismays me that people are so quick to criticize others when they haven't been in their shoes and are blessed with hindsight. I understand it's 6AM and you might be a tad more grumpy than usual, but... really. Some of the comments on Twitter make it sound like people were owed one of these.
This is somewhat embarrassing for them, especially since they so confidently claimed to have everything under control. Kind of makes you wonder if there's any flaws in the device itself. I guess it those will have time to surface before most of us can get one though :)

Handling a launch like this isn't very hard if you don't ignore the problem.
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Thank you for the link, that was interesting - though until the very end I was hoping some tugging on the cable gave it away... :)
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> what is the current unfair advantage held by anyone competent

I hate to say it given how much time we waste here, but it's probably reading Hacker News. People here know about node.js, about client-side MVC frameworks, about MongoDB/NoSQL, and the like. Some of those things we even think of as old hat, from way back in 2010 or 2011. Some of them we think of as trendy and without staying power.

But we actually did take the time to look at these technologies, evaluate them, and reject them -- or sometimes, accept them.

Now think about the guys who still think Java is the standard, who might just now be getting around to learning Ruby...all when Ruby is itself fast becoming Blub and the new hotness is actually node + coffeescript (or a more FP language like Haskell/Clojure/Scala).

That's exactly the equivalent of the guys who ran Windows because they just didn't know any better. For better or for worse, competent hackers read Hacker News.
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You forgot Bill Hicks. Given the original quote that Javert took offense to I think it's a pretty good example. And I'm not 100% sure he was joking.

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Seems awesome. I wonder if there is performance penalty for compiling the string partial functions though. e.g. '>2'.
While it would have been a good idea to distribute some of the devices from the US that wasn't the main problem. A common way to do a launch like this is:

1. Make people register with their e-mail adress.
2. Send order links with unique and expiring tokens in batches.
3. Process payments.
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The title should have been "The uncanny valley of recognizing content on a website".

Scraping is a technicality and, as such, trivial. As the article points out, processing the scraped content and getting useful results is the hard part.

I'm running some scrapers for customers but the information they want exist in structured form on the various websites. Thank goodness.
More than that, the problem with Microsoft is how much they lose by just trying to one-up. Apple has iOS for touch devices and OS X for PC devices, and Microsoft wants to make "one for everything" in fact torturing their huge PC user base with "touch for desktop" release, thereby alienating the users they depend on. Way to go, MS.
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I have no idea who this is. He seems like a people person. How do you tell an introvert programmer from an extrovert programmer? The extrovert looks at your shoes.

Without exception every programmer considers himself a guru. I guess it's like democracy -- you need that. What I think is funny is human resource ideas from 23-year-olds. I guess in fairness, old programmers can be mocked.

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I'm not good at human resources -- a people person can sometimes be a good programmer, I think.

There's no doubt this guy can teach elementary stuff, I'm sure. Be a little bit cautious.

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I am not sure how familiar you are with the situation in France, but very often nowadays the former employees sue you EVEN if you fired them because you were losing money.

Very recently the court has also refused the right to fire employees to a french affiliate of a multinational company, on the basis that, overall, worldwide, the company was still making profit. This, regardless of how healthy the french affiliate was.

That's how perverted the situation is.
I agree. Their exercise framework can really use much improvement and there are a ton of subjects that don't even have any exercises yet. I would like them to concentrate on math and physics for now and work on really making awesome content and exercises. They should leave the CS and programming stuff for Coursera, Udacity etc. and focus on what they are good at (which programming is not imho).
Here is a google books link documenting ecash's peer-to-peer capabilities:

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You could use your bank to host the software, but it was also possible to run your own.

Ecash was very much ahead of the curve at the time and it had features that we can only dream of today.
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I'd really love to do code reviews but as a freelancer working mostly solo, I almost never have the opportunity.
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Nowadays, you get a (sizable) glimpse of it in 6.02, which is usually taken before 6.003 (in fact, it is a prerequisite), and which deals with digital communication systems.

Perhaps 6.002 also presents pieces of Fourier stuff when needed.
Santa Monica is becoming a sort of tech hub in the Southland: http://www.forbes.com/sites/maureenfarrell/2011/05/20/the-si...

Not sure about the rents, though. Santa Monica isn't cheap, Orange County is a bit more affordable, so are San Gabriel and San Fernando valleys.
> lots of cultures the world over think political correctness itself as silly and/or prudish.

Kudos to that. I find it hilarious, and very sad at the same time, that Americans can't say policeman/policewoman any more, and that they have at least 4, maybe more, words for for different values of "fat" (overweight, fat, obese, morbidly obese, ...). In Slovenia, one is just fat, maybe very fat.

Making a big deal out of irrelevant things... Now, someone that is not "tall" is "vertically challenged"? I mean, what's wrong with being short?

The point that "politically correct" people are missing is that you cannot really make someone "feel bad", because they already feel bad. You can only make them "feel worse" with your comments.

And the fact that you can get arrested/denied entry to the US because of Twitter messages, that's just fascist (England is in that club as well).
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It's really nothing other than what I've done since forever.

(n.b. I won't say $PARTICULAR_PERSON would do this without their permission first, but there are very many people in our industry who have this policy or fairly close variants of it. They just don't spell it out in detail on their websites. Since I have recent experience in the land of "Essentially everyone who I'd like to talk to is too busy to talk to me" delusions I thought I'd make it explicit.)
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Do you know what would it cost to keep a site like this running for a second year, once I've run through my free year?
FYI, if you order through Farnell, the total comes to £31.86 with free delivery. The device is actually £26.55 but then there's VAT to add in the UK.
You might want to stop it from opening local files.
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What kind of casing is there for holding the board? It would nice to have a case, like the Marvell wallplug computer.
Only that Amazon doesn't ship electronics to outside the US, and thus international customers wouldn't be able to get them. Since the Foundation is from the UK, they probably know that.

Maybe they didn't go for the best option, but I always like to remind the US customers (who usually just don't honestly know about Amazon's restrictions) that buying electronics from them is a bad idea for the international market
Do you have any support for this statement? Last time I checked they moved all of the api and backend infrastructure to Scala and were quite happy with it.
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I believe in eating your own dog food but it's fine if @Raspberry_Pi use someone else's tech for their ecommerce.
Yes, dying from success is never the desired outcome, but at least they managed to send a first batch, which will be reviewed, will increase the hype, and hopefully give them a second chance to do things right and stock some more units
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Everyone in the US:

The Raspberry Pi is now listed on Newark/element14 (Farnell's US site): http://www.newark.com/raspberry-pi/raspbrry-pcba/dp/83T1943

It's $35, although there's also a 30 day lead time and a $20 handling fee (because it's shipping directly from the UK).
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