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Completely agree: prices are not set arbitrarily or via direct calculation in many cases, but are driven by marketing ($1.99) or optimization (the local pizza shop that works everything out to even $ or 50c).
Thanks this is something that always bothered me as well.
You're assuming Google would do that and/or that it will be allowed to do that once sites find out. They are a lot of businesses who have zero incentive to give their data to Google.

This "AI" is just scrapping and replacing wikipedia while serving ads.
An interesting wrinkle to this is that an 18 cent coin would make it much harder to make change with the fewest coins for certain values.

How do we make change in everyday life? The simple algorithm everyone knows, even if they don't know what an algorithm is, is to start with the largest coin and move down, taking as many of each as you can. Thus to make change for 72 cents we:
take 2 quarters, leaving us with 22 cents
take 2 dimes, leaving us with 2 cents
take no nickels
take 2 pennies, leaving us with 0 cents and we're done

This algorithm as it turns out is only optimal so long as each denomination is at least twice as much as the previous one. So what happens if we have an 18 cent coin? Let's make change for 37 cents. With the simple algorithm we end up with {1 quarter, 1 dime, 2 pennies}. That's four coins. However you can do it with three coins: {2 18 cent pieces, 1 penny}.

The algorithm for the case with arbitrary denominations isn't np-complete (it's a fun algorithms question to figure out), but it's way too difficult to be doing in your head all the time.
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Maybe they had too much money to do it right. Teleportd just hacked it.
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I probably spent over 100 hours preparing for the SAT/ACT exams as a 16 year-old. Given that I received over $50K (early '90's) in merit-based college scholarship money based mostly on these scores, I effectively "earned" $500/hour studying. I have yet to earn this much as an adult.
This treats teachers the same way I treat cpu benchmarks. Teaching is not a mechanical process!
So, pricing it around 1/10th the price for 1/17th the users is execessive, but it should be worth at least a billion, right?
Then there is this:

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Whenever taxation changes it will shift the "average transaction value" by a few cents and invalidate the added usefulness of already minted coins
Makes sense for Verizon, and if they are being greedy, others will step in to fill the void.
It is funny because I have chosen Node for one my project because I have not found easy way to do that in Python. I must say I really love Python - it is my favorite programming language. I could do the same project in Python but node.js looked slightly better and faster in this case.

Programming language is just a tool - one from many tools you can choose to make your projects and node.js have done some basic things better than Python (e.g. packaging). I have learned to love JavaScript and it is really good language now. Still there are projects I wouldn't choose node.js as my tool.
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The latter is the source of problems for most people, so learning to write and speak clearly will give you a huge leg up on becoming successful.
That's what I thought the article would say, too!

Actually, it's complaining that the items are not even sorted correctly.
If I think I need a new suit and the only information available to me is the colors of various suits and their thread counts, I might be forced to make a selection solely based on these attributes. But, because I can touch the suits, try them on, and examine their quality in whatever ways I deem fit, I don't have to rely upon price as a measure of quality. Without exchanging experiences with other kids' parents, aren't these "shoppers" forced to make do with the available data? Perhaps a parents' "shopping night" where each teacher gives a short talk on his/her education philosophy and then sticks around for Q/A would allow use of better selection criteria?
I am doing similar thing, I quit my job in Oct 2011 and making iPhone apps. Made 4 apps so far but just earning $10/day from it. But its a lot of fun and exciting than a job.
This is what I do, rent and bills is around £800 a month, and can live quite well on another £300 to £400, and that includes going out.
Just curious, could one use this as a backup solution for your own files? Because it looks like you can if they truly go unlimited
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I don't remember where I was five years ago and what Facebook was saying, but if you look at this graph http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Facebook_popularity.PNG at 2007, and remember what Facebook is (since day 1), it's pretty easy to see Facebook making the argument that it will be used by pretty much everyone, everywhere. It's pretty obvious that pinterest has no such claim. That is one such basis.

Other such bases include network effects that come with the whole Facebook model (what it is, i.e. social graph) and that in some way it may even be a "natural monopoly". (People completely miss this when comparing it to myspace, which was never a literal, programmatic social graph).

Finally, again I don't know where this was five years ago, but credibility and buy-in based on how Facebook rolled out (Harvard, universities, etc...) may have been a factor.

Also due to the Facebook model it doesn't make sense for ANYONE to start a profile on a site that doesn't have any profiles on it. It's all about having friends on there. By contrast, Pinterest has already been ripped off by the German Pinspire: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/pinspire_the_hottest_ne...

If I want to sign up on Pinterest, I can sign up on Pinspire and it still makes SOME sense. (As opposed to signing up to a competitor to Facebook when all my friends are on Facebook).

So, there are several bases that I could have used to put Facebook at a completely different valuation.

Mark my words: (you can bookmark this). Pinterest will not make 1.5Billion in revenue over its whole lifetime, unless the bubble keeps expanding and it gets at a similar amount of cold, hard cash to spend on customer acquisition: the "Groupon model". (Which I consider possible! See my comment you replied to. I am definitely not saying that it can't get another investment at a 50 billion dollar valuation and make the people who just invested 200 million very, very happy. Nor am I saying it won't be able to use the fifty billion dollar valuation. I am saying that, indeed, it depends on it - or will never be able to justify the 1.5billion valuation it just received.)

In other words, yes, I am saying that it will not be able to turn the 200 million it just raised into 1.5 billion cash over its whole lifetime, without raising more money.

You might disagree with me, but at least I am being direct and not wishy-washy. You can falsify me soon enough if you are right.
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Template compilation being able to happen on either the client or the server is a huge win for anyone writing webapps, and it's trivial to write view code that can be compiled in both Node and browsers even without a framework.

In other languages, even if you write completely logicless views in a templating language that can compile in the browser like Mustache, you'll end up duplicating your presenter code if you don't use a language that browsers can understand.
> File sharing copyright concerns, monitoring communications to catch bad guys and all that stuff is what's holding this back, not lack of a solution for connecting through NAT's.

Why? It's software transferring files between two parties, just like you can do with email and things like Skype and even AIM, and hell, even the service we're talking about. Is there precedent for the people who write such software having legal problems? I'm aware of cases like rapidshare and torrent sites, but for example, are the authors of bittorrent clients also targeted?

> I sometimes wonder how many people are under the impression that NAT's are a showstopper. This is simply not true.

Hmm, I'll admit I don't fully understand this, but back in my torrenting days, you always had to forward a port to be reachable. How do you get around that?
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Stick to something (like d3js,) it's what I've decided to do.
I can't imagine anything more apt than a conversation about this subject on a forum made up of people who hold their own intelligence in a high regard.

I assure you that your definition of "stupid" is short-sighted. I've pre-judged a good many of people in my life as such and have been proven wrong almost every time, provided I'd spent enough time to try to understand what makes that person think the way they do.

We all have our methods. You might call them madness - or stupidity - but the moment you do, your ignorance becomes your bold weakness.

tl;dr: Get over yourself.

Downvotes... Let's continue the point...

"Sometimes, so far as I can tell, they're stupid. Sorry." [1]

"people do Stupid Things. And I call them stupid when they do them." [2]

"Smart people also triage their time so as to not waste it going down likely unproductive avenues." [3]

"Maybe politically correct people don't think others are stupid, but smart or not, there are definitely some morons out there." [4]

"Define usually. More often than not when I hear "I don't know" it is offered as an excuse/explanation for laziness and shirking responsibility" [5]

"Odds are that the all of the people from the article, and the author, are relatively stupid." [6]

"Smart people don't think others are stupid as the truely smart know that others are stupid." [7]

"at LEAST 15% of the world is stupid. That's just getting started." [8]

1: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3985594

2: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3985040

3: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3985265

4: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3985575

5: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3985050

6: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3985118

7: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3984894

8: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3985224
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That looping construct in LESS is rather reminiscent of C++ template metaprogramming. Or ML/Haskell without higher order functions.
The scripting engine fetches up-to-date stock quotes and fills them in. The rest is all done using spreadsheet rules.

Here is the scripting engine part: https://gist.github.com/2717042
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I wish more developers treated learning to program like learning a foreign language. When you're learning a foreign language, your #1 goal is to cast off any poor grammar or pronunciation and sound like an intelligent native speaker. It's been my experience that people often don't care very much about doing this with the programming languages they use.

Routines that are too long and ought to be refactored into smaller ones are akin to run-on sentences. Leaving out semicolons in your JavaScript is like speaking French in an Italian accent because you already know Italian and French people seem to more or less understand it. And people who refuse to follow prevailing code style guidelines? Those are your "Everyone there speaks English anyway" folks.

Such poor communication skills would be humiliating when trying to communicate in a foreign language, but for some reason people often wear them like a badge of honour when trying to communicate in a programming language.
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Is it ALT.NET or Progressive.NET and who uses it?
I'm interested to find out the correct term for the stack based on open source tech such as nHibernate, Ravendb, Service Stack, Booksleeve, nUnit as opposed to Microsoft tech such as WCF, TFS, MSMQ

I really like C# as a language and .NET as a runtime but no-one wants to talk about using it unless they are a large corporate using Microsoft's products.

I want to belong to a community but I don't know its name or location!

What companies/startups (aside from Stack Overflow) are built on this tech and are willing to admit it?
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If you sign up for Google+ dont you get unlimited photo storage on PicasaWeb and can do the same thing + with circles?
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Thanks that's a great idea and I'm already in the process of doing so!
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I'm not so sure in the case of Amazon. Their requirements analysis process appears immune to customer feedback.
This is so wrong!

On the other hand, I think this is a wild goose chase in a different way. It is a talented team that is solving a genuine problem. Today for me to share large files I need to use dropbox. The problem with dropbox is that it needs a sync based solution, that counts towards your quota. Agreed, you can share and then delete once received. But something lightweight like kicksend is a breath of fresh air to use.

Anyway, the wild goose chase here might be that there might never be a business model here, but if the team can solve certain problems then they align themselves to be bought over by a 'big one'. Some of the problems that the team could be genuinely solving:

- Ease the sharing process

- Optimal data compression and bandwidht reduction on the server side

- Privacy

etc...

I would not for once think that the team is doing this 'cos someone else wants them to.
What I have is a sheet which says how many of each asset I own, and the desired allocation. Then, there is a cell that calculates the current allocation, based on the number of shares, and the current price of the share.

The current price of the share is fetched from another sheet using a vlookup. That sheet is populated by the script. The script is here! https://gist.github.com/2717042

The overall system is based on research I found here: http://seekingalpha.com/article/15134-the-seeking-alpha-etf-...
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Fair enough. I like Cinnamon OK, but I really like some of the finishes touches Mate is putting on Gnome2 (e.g., finally putting a "open terminal" and "open as root" option on the Mate fork of Nautilus, which I've pined for for years ever since enjoying that feature on LXDE's PcMan file manager).

Also, I'm confident that Mate won't be experiencing any major compatibility issues for several years from now, if ever. Along with Cinnamon, it's now the main desktop environment for the 3rd largest Linux distro, and the fastest growing one (Mint).

BTW, I like what I've seen of the Gnome3 SDK. It's just the interface that I hate. I don't understand why all the biggest distros (except for Mint) are moving toward exclusively offering a mobile-like OS for desktop. I could totally understand a special edition for netbooks, but Unity is now the only interface officialy available for Ubuntu. It all seems to be part of the dumbing-down of the desktop. Given that the biggest group of potential Linux users are Windows power users, who love being able to modify every little facet of their desktop OS, I just don't get it.
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I like the idea, but I'd like to better understand how the money is going to be used on the Kickstarter page. Is it basically to spend, say, a month of focused work to get the major girders of emacsy ready to go so the rest can be iterated upon and crystalized? It's clearly not enough to fund the entire effort to the point of having something usable, stable, and with adoption (which would require working with the requirements of other projects), but I get the sense that wasn't really the idea.
The appropriate traditional CSS should be

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In all honesty, I'd just go ahead and do it yourself. It's easy mindless work. Put a movie on the tv, sit back with your laptop and just go at it. You'll get more done by the end of the film than you'd think.
People write articles hating on popular technologies for the same reason you went after your provocative title... because it's great linkbait.
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If you want to see how basically meaningless these teacher evaluations really are, check out the graphs in these posts:
http://garyrubinstein.teachforus.org/2012/02/28/analyzing-re...

The evaluations of the same teachers teaching the same subjects in two different classes are almost completely uncorrelated. The distribution of the scores on the scatterplots look almost random.

It's a travesty that perfectly fine teachers are being publicly shamed based on these unreliable metrics.
Well I'm going to head off the predictable and boring "bubble" comments and say this

Saying that predictably gets you upvotes for sure. But it's not about "bubble" comments being "boring" or not. The question is whether bubble claims have any substance. If they have, the bubble won't simply go away just because some people wish it would.

Is it worth $1.5B? I don't know. I would say it's definitely worth more than...

Comparisons like this are inflationary. It seems you really don't care about bubbles. But a bubble would affect many people here at HN.

It doesn't matter whether bubble comments are boring or not, it's about the importance of a bubble.
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I don't know about the half kidding...it seems like you might legitimately be on to something there in the area of private deal "experiences" for you and close friends.

But I'm thinking, more so than Pinterest it's closer to "Path" where you and your small network of close friends collectively get a deal (at Jerry's liquor, lovely example) then post cute photos of your night/experience (sans the trip on the porcelain bus) which become public on "Jerry's Drive-In Liquor" or whatever, and exposes the deal to other people in the private networks of those who were in your private network... a sort of "local viral" marketing effect which works as advertising and as the regular "look how awesome my saturday night was" that we (what? just me?) use Facebook/Instagram for anyway.

I think it perfectly combines the innate desire to show off and receive value while maintaining an air of exclusivity plus the whole validation thing, from strangers and friends alike.
In fact inserts almost never incur a disk IO, not until the transaction commits. Even then the IO is sequential, in the log file, not random in the mdf file.

The mdf pages will get marked "dirty" at the time of insert, and they will get flushed to disk eventually - either when checkpint time comes, or if memory gets scarce and the dirty pages get evicted.

It might seem that postponing the write until checkpoint/eviction is not meaningful, but it actually serves a purpose - for one, the transaction is able to finish and return confirmation to the user very quickly, and then if the same page is touched twice (or more) between two flushes, all but the first touches are "free".
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That's got to be one of the most rewarding fields to be working in.
We just sent in our six year-old's Montessori application for first grade next year. Our suburban public school system has an amazing reputation, and the passing rates for standardized tests are some of the highest in the state. Sadly, our little Aspie with ADHD issues has already expressed his dread of first grade. He doesn't want to do "seatwork", "paperwork", or any of the other drudgery that our local district tells him is "his job". [Quotes indicate words used by teachers with the best of intentions.] I can't figure out the value of this pseudo-rigor. Maybe I'm unusual in my autodidactism, but I can't think of anything I know which I (1) find valuable and (2) learned by force.

I bought a K'NEX roller coaster kit and helped him put it together. At first, he didn't grok the pseudo 3D instructions or the way the pieces fit together. However, after an hour or so, he was rotating our partially assembled segments in his head to compare them to the illustrations. But, this doesn't count as rigorous seat work. Oh well.

Our school actually does an excellent job of avoiding the binary incentives of No-Child-Left-Behind and attempts to provide somewhat individualized instruction to students. Ohio has yet to adopt a value-added measurement scheme, and I wonder how our district would fare, especially if achievement was normalized for socio-economic status (the average household income is over $100K, a high number for Ohio).

We hope that the Montessori school's motivated teachers can use their freedom from mandated curriculum requirements, standardized testing, etc. to facilitate our son's exploration of what interests him. I don't care if his education is seen as incomplete, unbalanced, or otherwise non-standard so long as he grows to become a curious, thoughtful, and creative person. When has someone with these qualities ever failed because he had some perceived weakness in his childhood education?
Late reply, but that's how I feel somewhat. I feel like CSS isn't intuitive at all for an application layout. I've done layouts in other markup languages and had a blast, but when I hit HTML and CSS, I just feel generally confused. Again, I hardly ever do web design, so it could just be ignorance on my part, but I still feel CSS could use a makeover instead of incremental changes.
In normal flot theres a stacking add-on and you can add {stack: true} to your chart. Not sure if this works the same but I'd guess it's similar.
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The change may be more than a dollar, so tens of cents is not necessarily the leading digit.
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