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I work in the mortgage industry (short sales), and from my experience you can't deal with banks as if you're dealing with rational people. You're dealing with a computer system that spits out verdicts based on an algorithm. Threatening to not pay your mortgage to someone in the call center in India will get you nowhere..
While graphite at least tried to mimic the RRDTool file-format 37signals just skips over that whole "complicated binary-stuff" and writes the data as newline-delimited ascii-text...

What benefit lies in trying to mimic RRDTool's file format?
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A few points I would like to make:

1) There is very little chance of them closing their doors in the near future as they raised a large series A and have great growth.

2) Having personally talked with Tikhon on the subject and it's clear that they plan to make this a stable platform for the longhaul. I would not hesitate to build a project on top of Parse they are a great group and would not leave their users hanging.

3) If you're still hesitant keep in mind you can still keep mission critical stuff on your own Servers/APIs and use Parse for Push Notifications/Location etc.. There is nothing locking you into what parts of the Parse SDK you use.

4) You can always export your data.
If you click the options arrow on the chat feed (next to your name/status), there is a "Privacy Settings" option that allows you to specify which circles can chat with you.

fwiw, you can also specify which circles are in "Your circles" (the ones you broadcast to) and which circles you are just following in the G+ settings (https://www.google.com/settings/plus).
Swift is an amazingly powerful framework. The syntax for its scripting language takes some getting use to. If you think that's bad, try reading the Java that's underlying it.
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I would have if I could have, but I didn't know the rules of when reply buttons appear.
He said he was creating an invoice template, in which case a table makes sense.
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OK, in retrospect that was confusing.

Both hashtags and pushState are ways of changing the page and the URL using Javascript. pushState is the "legal" way, which changes the page's URL (i.e. twitter/posts/1 -> twitter/posts/2). hashtags technically don't change the page, they change the part of the URL after the hash (i.e. twitter/posts#1 -> twitter/posts#2).

hashtags are used because older browsers don't let you use pushState. pushState is used because it's more correct, and doesn't exploit a hacky loophole.

Both are used because they are faster than a whole new page request, and they let you share the post by cutting and pasting the URL in your address bar.
They nearly killed newspapers in this country, which has nearly killed investigative journalism, which for whatever noble reasons they had is reeeealy bad karma. If anybody wants to put a dent in these fuckers, I'm on board.
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There was no question that he was asking me to answer. He just told me that I was confused and pointed me at an article. He didn't say what he thought I was confused about. There was no obvious conclusion he was attempting to lead me to. There was no new evidence he was presenting. It's probably an mistake to read offense into text. There is no way for you to know whether I was offended or not. In this case I was not offended, I was pointing out that his reply was devoid of content, and lacking in effort. Likewise if you want to read condescension into my text, that's up to you, but has nothing to do with anything I wrote.
The problem with self-hosting is one of managing the servers. When you are a small team the effort is just not worth it. Yes, there are risks when you give your code to someone else, but hopefully a company whose job is to host source repositories will take enough precautions.

Note, you can host GitHub within your company, but again - it is usually not worth it unless you are a larger company.
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People all have different ways of entertainment; and all the entertainments aim

at relax themselves. Some may do sports; some join parties; some go shopping,

and some may just sleep at home. For me, watching an interesting TV series or

movie is a good choice. For this period, I am addicted into Nikita season 2 DVD.
I don't get it. Craigslist is a company, they have been against 3rd parties using their data for years and they have no obligation to share their data with anyone else.

How is this even an article, and why the hell are we reading it?
It works hella well. That's innovative.
I did an image search and it doesn't look like the chrome books have the extra meta/command/apple/super/windows key on them. Do they just not have a select all?
I've heard countless times that if you're going to start exercising and stay with it you should compete -- for most people that means running and running races on the weekends once in a while or even training for a marathon.

I've done this in the past and I always overtrain and race too early. I have a bad race and stop training shortly after that.

I've found a much more effective way: Between my wife and I whoever is in the gym less in any given week has to pay the other person on Friday -- around $50. There is still competition (neither of us want to admit to losing) but there is also a very tangible penalty.

The combination is an excellent motivator and neither of us have missed a single day since we started it. It's similar to having a partner (a partner got me through 3 years of weight training in college) except that you don't have to work out at the same time, which is much better for busy people.
The thesis of this article seems to be that by sending C&Ds to companies that are scraping their website and using the data for profit, Craigslist is "squashing innovation". This seems crazy. Is the underlying idea that companies scraping Craiglist are like Google crawling the web -- making use of public data? Because Google links back to the source of the data; these companies (mostly) do not.

While I accept that Craigslist has solid network effects going for it that make it hard to compete even with better UI, I don't think you get to go whining to the tech press about the fact that there are natural barriers to entry in your market. Far from "squashing innovation", Craigslist is doing almost nothing to defend its market share.
Hmm... I guess that's the difference between saving and investment, although it's a somewhat fine line.

I would think that foregoing consumption (i.e. saving) would make it easier for someone else to borrow that money and do something more productive with it. But perhaps that's not necessarily true.

Anyway, complex issue, and I don't expect to understand it by the end of this thread.
Exactly,

A) if you don't use Parse you're going to have to write server code.
B) If you do use Parse and decide to change in the future you're going to have to write server code.

The outcome is the same however with option B you will have a working app 70% faster. Parse is great for moving fast while you search for product/market fit.
Wow this is really great. Perfect, for people who have tons of followers. Live update is very cool.
Note that among semi-technical users IE8-and-down usage is less than 3% of visits, and can only be expected to go down.

LastPass is almost certainly going to have 1% or fewer visitors using IE8.

It would be absolutely reasonable if their site looked ugly to users of unpopular, old browsers that weren’t even good when they were knew.
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I agree! I wasn't seeing this earlier but now I am. Pretty cool.
You're kind of stretching the metaphor a bit far here. In the javascript language interpreters, prototypes are implemented with classes. In JSX classes are implemented with prototypes. In C, strings are implemented as arrays. In shell scripting, arrays are implemented with strings. All we get out of this is that whether a programming construct is low level or high level is relative to how it was implemented, and is not an intrinsic quality of the construct itself. This doesn't make any sense to me.
I have no idea what you mean by "passing around objects", and I guess that wouldn't make it any more friendly. An "object" is an abstract concept that must be known beforehand, and is just one in a myriad that could exist in the context of interacting with a computer.

Have you heard of TermKit? It was an experiment in intertwining graphical and command-line interfaces: https://github.com/unconed/TermKit/
Getting upset over curly braces doesn't help anyone. We have so many languages that follow Algol's example because they work. It's a metaphor that works for us.
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It is important to address these things, but the problem is that whenever anyone tries to address these things, if you're not black you're accused of being racist, and if you are black you're accused of not "acting black". It is a cultural problem and seeking a solution to it is stigmatized.

Also, I have to agree with jack-r-abbit, this is more reddit material.
I wonder how much of the shift to mobile over desktop has to do with the fact that they haven't been completely clogged up with advertising yet.
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And those reasons are?
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Thanks for the input, I put this design together in a couple spare hours while at SXSW in March. I know with the appropriate amount of time I could drill down the functionality and overall design.

But this is what I create in a few hours... just to show any redesign is a huge difference.
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My guess: major third-party game franchises, for iPad and/or AppleTV.

The next-generation GPU in the series Apple uses (PowerVR G6200) is equivalent in power to the Xbox360 GPU (Xenos). So, you could port Black Ops/MW3/BF3. The next expected process-shrink enables this with the same battery life. But Apple's not due for a new iPad, and not everything may be possible yet (e.g. display's power consumption). AppleTV doesn't have the power constraint, so, with GPU upgrade, it could be first announced there.

The reason to rush is to get established as a competitive alternative game platform before being overshadowed by the next generation of game consoles. Game consoles may pay the ultimate price for holding off so long...
http://exp.lore.com/post/23876312160/a-second-grader-asks-ne...

This is Neil Degrasse Tyson answering a 2nd grader's question about colliding black holes. First he flatters the boy because that's such a genius question (really? things collide all the time - it's sort of an obvious question). Then he says that his grad school buddy once calculated that if you enter a particular orbit near enough to two colliding black holes, YOU TRAVEL BACKWARDS IN TIME!!!1111one

I swear, if a religious fanatic talked this way, people would laugh at him. But when you get enough "science boosters" together with people that have Scientific Authority, they can say all sorts of crazy shit and it's OK because Your Intuition Is Wrong. (You can't see the emperor's clothes because your fashion intuition is just wrong, so shut your stupid classicist, Newtonian mouth.)

My local theater, the Paramount, is bringing Brian Greene to talk about his "mysterious universe" and all that string theory crap. It's like.. this stuff is basically fringe theoretical... I'm almost loathe to call it physics, because it's just mathematical masturbation. And most working physicists shake their heads at it, and even prominent theorists like Lee Smolin have come out and outright called it a sham. But Dr. Greene and collaborators still get to go around the pop science circuit, making fantastical Nova specials about 11 dimensional nonsense, and basically corrupting the scientific sensibilities of the public.

My dad is an exceptionally bright physicist, and he is actively working to debunk most of modern cosmology. He's not the only one; folks like Halton Arp (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halton_Arp), who are skilled scientists in their own right, have been trying to call out the emperor's clothes for a long time. There's actually a hilarious introduction in one of Halton Arp's books where he traces ~70 years of groupthink and group delusion in astrophysics, where overnight, some crazy ass theories fell out of favor as new ones suddenly took root, and everyone sort of didn't talk about the fact that what they believed the previous year was completely insane. You could almost see a Monty Python sketch of this stuff, but sadly it's real. (Most of this theoretical churn was centered around the early work of Hubble, and people trying to figure just what the hell quasars are.)

Don't misunderstand me - it's fine and necessary to be wrong. It's just not fine to waste the public's (already limited) science attention span on stuff that is just pure conjecture. And it's doubly bad to poison the minds of generations of future scientists with all this nonsense. Cosmology is basically unhinged and it will eat itself.

I'll change my mind when they bring me a working warp nacelle. Until then, I'll be in my bunk... working to make lots of money in software, so I can personally fund fundamental physics research into magnetism.
This is a very key detail, I was confusing both of them. I thought only the original one existed.
Exactly. Is he like the Paris Hilton of SV? Famous because he's famous.

I see lots of comments about Digg but it seems like Digg peaked in 2008.
I did this redesign for Lastpass. I actually mocked it up in a few spare hours while at SXSW in Austin last March, so the design is far from perfect

Lastpass is an application I use daily, and it holds some of my most sensitive information. It also has one of the worst User Interfaces out there.

Good design can really give you a sense of security. Look at Mint.com; a site that asks for your bank account logins.
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One question to the Parse department: How do you add indecies to fields? Do you automatically create them?

If I have Users for example and I frequently want retrieve them by their email, I presume you dont do a linear scan every time?
> I can't even count the number of times I wanted to pipe an output of one program to multiple others

ls | tee >(frob x) | grep y

should output the output of ls to both 'grep x' and 'grep y'. The '>(foo)' syntax in bash will create a subshell to run the pipeline in the parens, and evaluate to the name of the FD for the pipeline (eg, /dev/fd/42).

For multiple inputs, similarly:

grep foo <(ls dir1) <(cat somefile)
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Exercise even helps some people maintain a proper cycle.
Looks like you missed most of the discussion: semantics, or machine-readable information, and accessibility matter enourmously on the web. At the end of that line of thought is just presenting a bitmap image, why bother with HTML at all? :)
> Firstly, neither string theory or "gravity leakage" or more than 4 dimensions of space-time are even remotely accepted theories in physics or cosmology.

So tell me please: Why are people like Brian Greene able to obtain the funding to make TV series like http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/fabric-of-cosmos.html and get public speaking engagements like https://secure2.convio.net/ata/site/Ecommerce/3120701?VIEW_P..., when they should be getting the popular attention of a Usenet crackpot?
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Why would I ever want to share a password? Not everything has to be social.
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Twitter is effectively a CLI. Posts that start with "D" form a direct message rather than normal status update. You can also issue other commands which follow people, edit your profile, and more.

http://support.twitter.com/articles/14020-twitter-sms-comman...
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Another reference to PRML I presume?

To this page, I'd add a direct link to Mahalanobis Distance. I was just harping about MD in some HN comments the other day on a Bayes article. There's no pictoral representation on the wiki page, but it is intuitive and its one of those simple concepts with foundational implications.

MD rests on the assumption of gaussian/normal population. The math is straightforward, starting with the covariance matrix. The original (Rubine 1991) gesture recognizer used the MD of some 16 feature vectors between an input gesture and the collection of trained gestures.
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I would split it up like this.

Pros:

- You don't have to manage your own git server setup, certs, securing the server etc. (probably better uptime than your own server would have)

- Github's issue tracking and the wiki are usable

- You can use their pull request stuff, which might or might not be a good match for your workflow.

- You can also maintain public repos if you want to contribute at all to OS (though it's trivial to use github only for the public facing ones, just by adding a remote + auth)

- If you have a few repos it's very nice to browse them using github.

Cons:

- Limited number of repos, unless you are willing to fork out more $$

That's kind of it, the way I see it
Re. 3: the first iPod required a Mac, cutting the market down. This worked because it enabled a great experience (fast download with firewire). So the issue here is: "Are iPhones as controllers awesome?" IMHO, no (at least, not for gaming as we know it...)
Drop a line. Not really my space but happy to take a look.

(Did you pivot? I recall get was similar to Jig.)
In some sense, the omnibar in Chrome is the CLI interface for Google. It both manipulates your browser and does searches. Probably wouldn't take much for Google to expand on this and add commands to help you send emails, interact on G+, and more.
I'm not familiar with the situation or any of the parties involved, but... maybe she was wronged and wants to stand up for herself and for future employees of the firm, because no one should suffer from discrimination in the workplace?

Not everything in life can be reduced to a financial cost/benefit analysis. Sometimes you have to do the right thing.
I mostly compete with myself. I am trying to do better now than I did earlier.

It helps that progress in my main forms of exercise (indoor climbing, weight lifting) is easy to measure, and relatively straight forward to drive at my level.

I also dable in dancing, where I am still so awful, that progress is easy to gauge. And mixed martial arts, where the whole point of the sport is some form of competition, even though sparring doesn't see you go all out.
Unfortunately it's kind of hard to kick someone out of a meeting when everyone is just a member and on equal footing.

I've been in so many meetup groups which started off with really smart hard working people that have been slowly run down by tire kickers and dreamers coming along each week but never actually making any progress on their company.

EDIT: Ah just noticed in the FAQ that they kick teams out who don't ship, awesome, good to see them keeping the quality high.
I may be wrong but this read as a complaint about not being allowed to monetize data that belongs to someone else. Seems to me that if Craigslist doesn't want you to play in their playground then that's fair, it is their playground. Seems there's an entitlement problem here.

Plus he finds all this unacceptable? What's he going to do about it exactly? Write another stern blog post?
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Maybe, we don't know what it looked like. These days you can do anything with CSS, even if by using display:table and family for emulating table behaviour while keeping nice markup.

Tables are ok; table-based layouts are not. Anyway, I was just getting back at the author for mocking the gist of my current profession - upon seeing the headline I thought he was promoting the use of WYSIWYG tools or something.
Agree that CLI are powerful but also scary to novice users.

So who's going to make cliacademy.com to ensure that everyone learns how to use a CLI?
I guess a better question would be whether the interface is a factor in retaining customers at Lastpass. Clearly, their showpiece isn't the web interface--it's the ubiquity through all their browser extensions and apps so that you rarely need to go through said interface.

At the same time, I agree with other posters. It's low-density to the nth degree. I go to the lastpass web interface because I need to quickly sift through hundreds of websites to find a single password. I don't want to spend my time scrolling and waiting for animations. It looks pretty, in that it looks like 90% of websites shown on HN. That doesn't mean its all that suitable for the task at hand.
Ugh. I know! My mom has a Camry and the local dealership makes up things to fix and scares her about them.

My local Lexus dealership (on the other coast) actually complained to Toyota for me when I asked them about the repairs.

What happened with the dealer after you told GM the truth?
Attempts to store wealth through currency or other assets are attempts to claim a future share of societies output. Since by definition you are asserting a claim into a scenario in which you might not even be present, there is an inherent tendency for such a claim to be weaker than one based in the present. That's just how it is.
You forgot Goldman Sachs.
The biggest difference between, bash and, for example, Google, Quicksilver, etc, is the level of fuzziness that they will accept. With Google, you can enter damn near anything you want, and it will accept it and try to do something sensible. With the shell, you get cryptic errors if you have a small typo.

ls foo(bar)

doesn't list files that look like foo(bar), it says "bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('". It has no method of easily discovering that 'ls' means 'list files'. And typos can potentially harm data.

None of this means that the command line is useless or a bad idea, but it does make it relatively unfriendly towards newbies. Even if the concept is more intuitive, the current incarnation can be scary.
There are a variety of techniques to reduce the dimensionality of data (i.e., Principal Component Analysis, among other ways), and you can get better results sometimes by running K-means (or whatever) on the dimensionally-reduced data.
Wave-particle duality is nonsensical. It certainly makes a lot less sense than "there is an as-yet unknown kind of medium that supports the propagation of waves".
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