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Well, if the top comment starts with "holy shit", it typically drags all other comments in the same direction.

Also, questioning someone's font survey by attacking their use of Comic Sans is, bluntly put, retarded. You still need to account for the quality of the content to make a judgement.
I agree that the market is largely speculative. But I think the speculation is mainly very long-term speculation - so people predominantly want to get more bitcoins, or they want to hold them. This will tend to drive the price up.
If someone wants to talk to me about proper seasoning while deliberately dumping a box of kosher salt onto some eggs, yeah, I'm going to assume they have no idea what they're talking about.
I think some of the downvotes you got are from people who just didn't read the whole comment. After your first sentence, I wanted to downvote you too. It wasn't until the last line that I was sure you were being sarcastic, so I can understand other peoples confusion.
> According to you, the odds of Obama losing are now higher by a factor of 58

Just to be clear, this is not strictly speaking "according to me", that is I don't use my personal opinion to come up with these numbers. I just take daily state poll results from electoral-vote.com and pass them through some equations. No human intervention.

Having said that, I think what was happening in the March timeframe and before was that the field of Republican potential nominees was very uninspiring to Republicans, which can be seen by how often we saw a new front-runner, only to lose their front-runner status and usually bow out shortly thereafter.

So, perhaps, against this amorphous group of uninspiring candidates, Obama attracted a lot of voters. Then, as the Republicans started settling on one candidate, and started to slowly accept him as the nominee, he now has a much better chance against Obama.
Who will be The "Amazon for Services"?
(*Sorry for repost, other one didn't go through) I think we all know the services space is hot and not really dominated by anyone. Im a fan of many of the niche companies going after individual industries. But will there ever be an "Amazon for services" company? And what do you think that will look like?
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Even ignoring the hardware, there are problems with the software. And the software is the most important part of a game console.

It's a given that in the gaming world, people hate buying hardware. The only reason people buy hardware is to get to the software. As much as they like to deny it, Nintendo consoles are just boxes to get to Mario and Zelda, and Xboxes are boxes to get to Halo and COD.

I don't care how indie you think you are, nobody's going to buy a game console just to play Canabalt.

And if they truly are focusing strictly on free-to-play games, and that's not just bad marketing that means "every game must at least have a demo", that's going to repel a lot of developers that aren't interested in that particular business model - the ones actually interested in selling their games.

Not to mention that a lot of times, especially in the MMO world, free-to-play games tend to be the rejects of the gaming world. They're the ones who thought they could take down WoW with a subscription-based model, bled money for a few months, and then went FtP because no one would actually pay for their game.

It's a shame, because I think there's plenty of opportunity in the console world right now. Nintendo is too busy pushing 3D and hardware gimmicks to follow up on their earlier success, and the other two big players are too busy trying to replicate PC gaming. But in order to compete properly you absolutely need good software to do it.
I have been waiting for the haptic stuff. I think it's almost certain they will go there (in fact, it's likely the perfect antidote to the MS Surface keyboard).

Unfortunately, I think you need to think about this from a manufacturing standpoint. They are unlikely to put a new tech like that in a product that needs to be price competitive at the lower end of their product line. They need things that have been clearly demonstrated to be easily mass produced in sufficient quantity. Therefore, I think it's more likely to be something "safe" like a new physical design, software they completely control, colors, or perhaps a new display that someone else is already using in larger quantities.

They have actually been fairly predictable with this stuff in the past: iPhone serves as the testbed for new tech. The small form factor means you need less of the really expensive materials and the US carrier subsidy prevents the initial price from being eye-popping. Once they get the manufacturing kinks worked out and the volume up, the tech can trickle down (over? up?) to the iPad and Mac lines.
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As an Uber rider in the DC area, I'm so happy this was defeated. It's a great service, and I think it will really end up benefiting taxi drivers at the expense of the taxi dispatch offices, which are terrible at their job due to their practice of dispatching drivers based on kickbacks rather than proximity to pick up.
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"It's marketing"

Correct.
Neat.

Worked with a coffee fiend at my first job that put the "every office needs a good espresso machine" idea in my head.

I've never quite executed that idea because I figure a clueless coworker would not clean it, burn themselves, or worse (flavoured supermarket beans - eurgh!).

Working somewhere with a constant supply of good coffee would be amazing.
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really? I think it's great! Picking a good domain name is hard and this one is memorable I think.
It's cute guys, I give you points for creativity. But as Rails consultant in San Francisco for many years and recent startup founder myself, I must say that the icon about $2500 for the hardware of your choice kind of backfires and I've advised my clients against using such incentives. On the one hand the new Mac Book with the retina display fully loaded runs about that in minimum configuration by itself. So no budget for an external Thunderbolt display? But more disconcertingly is the subtext which says, buy and set yourself up however you want, without regard to what makes for the lowest friction team, pairing and collaboration experience. In a way this is the cubicle of the 21st century. This is why shops like Pivotallabs don't give their employees individual machines, all they have is a room full of pairing stations, because they realize that ease of cooperation is far more important than personal preferences and customization.
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Side note: I believe Yves Behar/fuseproject only did the industrial design for the OLPC XO, not any of the hardware engineering. It seems ambiguous from this kickstarter who would actually be designing the internals.
Does this always work? If you think that company X should be valued at $10 billion, but is currently valued at $5 billion because the market is being irrational, are you claiming that it's always a safe bet to invest in this company? Are you claiming that in the long term the market becomes rational and will surely value the company at the value you think it is worth?
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I've been through mail clients for a while now, and I've even written one. The thing I realised is, even when it does exactly what I want I'm still burdened by the fact that for my needs email sucks, so I've managed to move a lot of work stuff to things like Asana for project management, and the email side of it is pretty much for junk and occasional correspondence.
Pretty cool. I congratulate you.
That "JIT cache" you're talking about already exists. It's known as AOT, or "Ahead of Time" compilation. I forget how you enable it, but it's there.
Sparrow is so close to this. All it's lacking is the all-attachments view and the prioritizing, but you can hack the prioritizing easily enough with Gmail labels. Even then, I don't think that's enough, though. I think e-mail nowadays needs to be more of a TODO manager and less about messaging.
AWS has more than one DB option.

http://aws.amazon.com/simpledb/

SimpleDB is a non-relational store that automatically indexes everything, but can only store up to 10GB. It's very flexible but limited, good for prototyping.

http://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/

DynamoDB is like SimpleDB's grown-up version. At greater cost and with more up-front configuration, it scales automatically to huge workloads. It's still a non-relational store, with the drawbacks that implies.

http://aws.amazon.com/rds/

Relational Database Service is literally managed MySQL instances. Amazon spins them up for you, manages configuration, backups and restoration. One of RDS's primary value-adds is that it can automatically partition your data across multiple EBS volumes (like hard drives). This helps get around the relatively low I/O performance of EBS volumes.

So pick your poison -- if you don't need high performance, simpleDB or a small RDS instance will work; it depends whether you want relational data or not. I can't speak for the difficulty of migrating; we stuck with running our own MySQL instances from the start.

For a lot of reasons (that I can enumerate if you'd like), we think running your own DBs is the best option.
Yehuda Katz is working on a Mac app that sets Rails up on a Mac: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1397300529/railsapp

Also see this relevant (and relatively recent) update on the project: http://yehudakatz.com/2012/06/05/tokaido-status-update-imple...
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Is this similar to the reservations in India (in jobs, educational institutions, voting etc)? If it is, then nothing good will come out of it.
What about the air pressure difference? As someone that works in a high rise, and has allergies, ear discomfort is a very daily thing, and sometimes downright upsetting when flying.
San Francisco hoods. SOMA is "South of Market" and is kind of industrial; It's being revamped with live/work lofts and lots of SMB / Shared office spaces.

Mission is another neighborhood which is pretty much a shit-hole, but IS a cool place. There are lots of great places to eat and drink and there are festivals, parties and parades most every night.

Usually when you hear about someone being shot, it's either in Oakland or the Mission.
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Each new generation brings the same humanistic flaws of the last generation. Doomed to repeat itself forever and ever. Humans will be humans the same way sharks will be sharks. We are cursed with a primitive instinct

My comment has nothing to do with Bitcoin. Just want to point out that I am very tired of this old bromide. People do make mistakes, misjudgements, etc. However, humans do not have instincts (which are automatic pre-programmed behaviors). Moreover, humans individually and, particularly, as a society, can learn from past mistakes. Thus, there is just no valid comparison to, for example, a shark.

You're basically just repeating a secular version of "Original Sin" and it's no more valid than the religious version.
I load all my wii games from a usb ssd and it's 10x faster than any cd.

And i think it's usb1
It IS someone I don't like in office right now, and I still don't think this executive order is an issue.
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> Tiny incremental improvements to email will only nibble at the edges of the larger problem. Let me communicate with a unified UI and unified contacts.

Isn't that Google's main intent with integrating Google Voice onto phones? The recipient use case seems to work well under the Google apps where Google Voice shows your SMS and voicemails, a quick click would bring you to Gmail. The only issue I see here, is that I that I don't believe there is a cross-app indicator of new email (excluding extensions and external apps).
Looks very nice. Pretty pricy too. It seems for team <=20, always $5000 per year, I wonder why they are not making the pricing more flexible.
That's a funny idea, but as someone who pays attention to bitcointalk.org, it's extremely unlikely.
> Installing Rails on a Mac Shouldn't Be As Hard As It Is (cabforward.com)

1. Editorialized headline

2. It's easier than this article-- you don't have to install XCode: https://github.com/kennethreitz/osx-gcc-installer/

3. There are some smart folks working hard to make it easier: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1397300529/railsapp
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>If it falls back gracefully, why not?

It doesn't. Content doesn't load here on a FF with js disabled (not that i do this normally, disable JS, just tested it because of your comment).

I think it kind of matters in this case. The "mail has to be repaired" is such an overused term, and seldom the people claiming that even try to give reasons for this ruling. Mail is an asynchronic system for letting people send messages (with attachments) and it works really well. If someone fails to see that, claiming something is broken which most probably isn't and is doing that from a technically broken site, it weakens his point even further.

So mentioning the observation isn't totally out of place.
I really wish I had been the guy betting against pirate, because then I'd invest 5,000 BTC in pirate pass-through accounts. Perfect hedge.
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Agreed. This is more like Rapidshare than dropbox.
Interesting site but the description on the homepage is horrifically hard to parse: "Find and use in real-time relevant crowd-sourced photos from the smartphone generation"
I suspect the higher cabin humidity and higher cabin pressure will make the airliner significantly more comfortable. These, combined with the larger windows could actually make a difference in terms of how air travel feels. It's hard to say whether they'll be too subtle to notice, though.
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Well, it's the other way around. App Annie has done this for a long time: http://www.appannie.com/
Just thinking "out loud" here, it seems CL would need to stop others from using their data derived from Google or other search engines. If they can legally do that at relatively low cost, they would. Alternatively, if I was Craig, I'd have to seriously consider disallowing well-behaved search bots from scanning CL data. As a moderate user of CL I've never found a CL item through Google; after all, ads are good for only a week. I don't see a big loss to CL by cutting off Google/Bing etc.
Does anybody know (or is anyone willing to guess) whether the force-directed-layout is done by some available library or whether they rolled their own?
I find it interesting that when someone gets a chance to build a controller from scratch in 2012, it ends up looking essentially no different than one from 1997: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_Analog_Controller

On a completely separate note, this might be a great reason to target android... if it works.
I haven't read your post, but I agree with your projection. I'm happy to put a significant but disposable amount of my money in bitcoin while I can still afford to get a significant percent of all bitcoins ever (which I still can).

(EDIT: And by that I mean, say, something like .01%.)
Point taken. But in our case, we're bringing on our first lead engineer. This person will create our engineering culture and be the one who decides how these processes will play out. So the opportunity here is to shape our engineering team, including how developers will work together.
Not evil, as far as I know. They have some great single origins, but I'm less excited about their blends.
In all fairness, running a speed test against a site that is currently on the front page of HN is a little bit of a stacked deck, isn't it?
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That's been around for a while, actually.

https://enterprise.github.com/
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I was really excited about this until I saw the specs; they seem singularly unremarkable.

1 gig of ram, and a say what, a T33 maybe?

Am I completely off the deep end here or is that like an order of magnitude less powerful (abit with more ram) than say, an xbox.

So its cheap. Big deal, so is the Pi and say, http://www.androidauthority.com/remember-the-74-android-pc-n...

I'm kind of dubious about the value proposition of something that wants to be a full blown console, but is basically just a slight lower spec'd version of my phone.

If you want to get me excited, stick 8 GB of ram on that thing and an intel based 3.2 Ghz cpu with a gpu that can run say, UT. That would effectively !!!! all over the state of the art for android devices AND consoles.

This? It'll be obsolete by the time it even exists.
There is already drama, apparently they only address this to guys. How about "Grab your bikini"?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3306815

Guess they figured that one out in less than 221 days.
It's actually a huge improvement from the passenger's seat as well. The new Sky interior gives the compartment a much nicer and cleaner feel, while opening things up and making the plane feel much larger. Normally I can't stand up straight in a plane; I'm too tall. I can stand in a sky interior plane. The overhead bins are much bigger, as well. They work on a different mechanism which will keep overstuffed bins from spilling their contents on poor souls beneath. The ride is also much quieter inside than previous models. Then, on top of that, you have the dimming windows, which are just plain cool. It's a huge improvement.
this is great point!
I build it on a 2G machine also on a 4G machine building process works just fine
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I would very much appreciate it if you elaborate on why managing your own MySQL database is the best option. I'm currently moving from back end proprietary systems development to web development and would like to hear your considerations.
Are you planning on hiring juniors soon? I'll go throught dev bootcamp from oct to dec, and would love to come to nyc un january :)
I have some of the experiences you are talking about, so I would love to talk with you !
Totally agree. Getting a cab in sweltering mid-summer DC weather is freaking awful. I almost always shell out the few extra bucks for a town car on my way back to the airport. It cozy, air conditioned, and even smells nice.

I also get really, really tired of the credit card dance that every cab driver does. Before I hop in a cab, "You take credit cards, right?" "Oh, sure! Of course!" Then we arrive at destination "Buddy, you don't have cash? C'mon? My machine doesn't work. There's an ATM inside, you could just run in and get some cash." "Not my problem, champ. You can take the card, or you call call your boss."

Not to be stingy, but complaining at me for paying you the way I said I was going to pay you is not the best way to get a good tip.

I'll definitely checkout the Uber service (If it is still around) next time I'm in DC.
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To sum up: it's gonna fall over at any minute without a continuous injection of money.
Everything sounds fine, except being Android based.

Worst platform ever.

Also good luck getting most of the hardware like game developers do with java.
My point was not clearly made.

I'm not talking about vertical or horizontal, I would put them both in the "technical" category of scaling. I meant to say that scalability is not something that can simply grow to meet a certain load, it is a concept that your system "can survive at scale" in whatever form that scale takes. It encompasses many things like having more servers, bigger servers, more people working on the servers, more users, longer sessions, more activity per user, supports more features, and so on.

It's a semantic point, but it seemed like the author had a very narrow idea of the terms he was using, and was complaining more about his own definitions than the concepts themselves.

And the user cares about all of them, indirectly. They all matter because failing at any one of them are reasons to use something else, whether it's simply slow performance or because your high performance system is so brittle you can't evolve, or downtimes because your high performance, quickly evolving system requires more admins than you can afford, and so on.
Maybe I'm coming at this from a different perspective as I've spent a number of years doing that whole "NINJAS BUILD FROM SRC.TAR" thing, but installing Rails under Mac has always been pretty straight forward. Get RVM > Get Ruby Version X > RubyGems > Rails > then fork off for databases if I want something fancy.

You are installing something that by it's nature requires a bit more understanding that just clicking on a .exe. Do you want to replace the default Ruby setup, which could potentially be used by something? Do you want to install new database servers? Do you want to modify Apache? Do you want to fiddle with SSH key gens? Do you want to have to delve in and change items of your .bash_profile? Do you trust an automated installer to be able to do it reliably on every single machine?

I'm not sure I'd have the confidence in something not going wrong and then sitting there with a half broken machine wondering what. At least this way at every step you can do the install > check & verify > confirm steps and make sure it's all business as normal.
The APIs aren't hard, the technology behind the APIs are.
Not sure why you'd recommend installing Rails in a VM? It's a framework, not an environment.
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Using CL I furnished a whole house with super high-quality stuff for less than US$2K. Wouldn't have been realistic pre-CL since traditional classified ads don't have pictures. I also found my house through CL.
Color me surprised: No NoSQL? Instagram seems to be a prime candidate for such a storage method.
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Nice misuse of the term 'low level developers' Craft Coffee...
The UI seems have a lot of similarity to the XBox 360 Metro UI, Windows 8 and Zune, even the fonts.

http://cdn2.sbnation.com/entry_photo_images/4547820/ouya2_ga...
Uh, let me see. Attempt nº 5712 to revolutionize the way we use email. Tell me more.

"Mark as read" is useless? I thought nowaday we had "archive", "search" and such from gmail... no mention of that. OK then, let's see what you offer...

"Clutter-free interface", "clean typography" and the mystery option "what you really need"? Are you (f) kidding me? This can't scream "I'm thunderbird but made by graphical designers" any louder.

Oooh Actionsteps! I have NO idea what you are, but you must be "what I really need"!
Scroll, scroll, still no idea...
Aha! I have Favourites (why didn't I come up with that?), and Actionsteps, which "organize" my stuff. So like, categories, but with a mysterious name.

And, it can handle attachments! What year is this?

Plus facebook etc integration like that's something I'd ever not want to disable.

Attempt nº 5712 archieved.
If you want it to replace php (or anything), it has to be as accessible as php for the same developer.

Until then, all the conversation about standards, best practices, and tutorials are far less accessible.
You speculated that the electricity you used to mine the bitcoins would be worth the cost of mining them. I'd say it was as safe a speculation as one could make. =pp