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Or exec. There's a lot of people in this space.
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You aren't the only one who thinks this way.

(Not that that answers your question).

I guess that we are outnumbered though.
What if this request was from the govt?
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Yes, what I have at the moment isn't very suited to people completely new to the field. The basic workflow is: plug your Garmin device into your computer, go to your user page (mine is http://www.cyclinganalytics.com/user/1000000), click the "Upload new rides" button, navigate to the Garmin device and find some ride files (probably stored in the "Activities" directory) and click okay.

Providing more information about how to get started with equipment and my site is a good idea and I'll look at doing something about that. Users having disposable income but not disposable time is a great point.
> Human.io lets you to script with humans as easily as you would script with software

That was our thinking when we first started working on human.io. If GMaps lets you invoke methods on a map, and Twilio on a phone, what would it mean to invoke methods on a person?
Going along this, Human.io, "the Human API" enables you to recruit a virtual army's phones, GPS, camera, microphone, etc.

Sample human API tasks:
1. photo scavenger hunt
2. parking garage availability
3. male to female ratio in a club
4. collect blind auction bids
Human.io: The real-world interaction engine.

Human.io provides a robust platform for creating mobile activities for people to perform in real life. Quickly create interactive apps that take full advantage of mobile GPS, video, and photo capabilities, promoting rich responses to surveys, games, or contests. Plus, using our integral filtering API, you decide exactly who gets to see and run your app. Push out your app to people based on location, demographics, or your own custom filters.
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> Even Linux has King Linus.

Once upon a time (a few years ago), King Linus and his nobles weren't terribly happy with many of the technical decisions the Android team made. How did King Linus exercise his sovereignty? Did it stop the Android team from doing what they wanted?
WOAH. what, is this 4chan or something? perhaps you want to use a comma...
Rather than suggesting that people delete their cookies, you could suggest checking the article in private browsing mode (or whatever their browser of choice calls the feature).
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It's certainly not worded that way.
I am 100% in agreement. I would never make users jump through hoops like that. Or assume that Redis would be their choice of database. That's a choice for the user.

But Lord knows I spend an inordinate amount of time jumping through hoops like these just to try evaluate software. It's just unavoidable.

A small, simple program with no dependencies or assumptions about your software preferences is like a breath of fresh air.

I wonder if there's an easy way to filter all of Github for these types of programs. Say, C programs with less than N LOC, and having no external dependencies.
Exactly. I have especially despised Paypal/eBay since they started doing this and I don't care that lawyers make tons of money on this so long as Paypal is punished and learns a lesson.
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> Where Apple went wrong was thinking it could start firing off lawsuits and not get crushed by the rest of the industry. Tim Cook would be smart to negotiate his way out of the mess.

In what way have they been wrong so far? They seem to piling up victories (Motorola, Samsung, Microsoft licensing) rather than defeats.
I saw someone else have a bad reaction to this statement, but I might be to blame for this. See:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4062983

But let me try to frame it more carefully: at the time (and maybe still) a lot of providers expect you to use special APIs endemic to their platform, and you can't get the real-deal implementation or a drop-in replacement if you want to model the production environment more closely or move off the platform. Even if you get the real-deal implementation, running it may be infeasibly hairy.

Heroku very assiduously tries to avoid this, and there is a downside: we compromise with the problems in existing software that people like to use as-is, and to fix those problems we have to somehow get that software fixed, too.
Yes... I kind of just brainstormed the blog post, did not expect it to end up on HN
I'm not sure what you're talking about. Both Python, PHP and Varnish are (mostly) written in higher level languages.

Also performance has a massive effect on how and what language a site is written in.
> It’s a massive fucking problem.

The same was said about "Antennagate", but the actual impact was pretty minimal.
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This Project is here to help me learn PHP & MySQL

If this is a project to learn PHP and MySQL (and maybe Javascript) you should not build it using bootstrap (you've lose all the fun ;). But this is only my opinion.
The main issue with his post is he has no idea what he's talking about. He mentions languages neither interpreter is written in and talks about 'buzzwords', while all the products I mentioned are real things.
Apple is literally preventing lifesaving technology from being deployed into the world. Due to this politically-motivated decision, actual real live human beings are being denied a simple tool that could allow them to literally avoid death.

If we aren't civilized enough to distinguish between combatants and foreigners (is has been clearly shown that we are not), we could at least have the decency to give the spectators to our fireworks shows a warning.
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I can agree with their decision to do what they are doing on one condition: They aren't allow to earn interest on my money via short-term T-bills, and if the money is put in T-bills, then the interest can only accrue to the rightful owner of the money and not Paypal. This practice doesn't exist to protect buyers and sellers. It largely exists to allow Paypal to operate on a huge negative working capital at the expense of sellers. IMHO it's fraud to say they do it for fraud reasons when the real reasons are profit. They have a perverse incentive to hold your money to earn interest that isn't theirs. They are stealing the time value of money from the sellers.
Thank you, this is the answer that I was looking for
Thanks!

What's specifically wrong with the android app, so I can make sure Paul & co see them?
It's been long enough since I've been on digg that I don't have the same email address.

I'd much prefer if they provided the data to the internet archive rather than one-by-one providing information to users.
This is exactly correct. We need to make it easy for developers to sell the humans.

(In my parlance, publishers are the people with audience, developers are the people who code, and audience are the people that use the phone. In the wacky future, they may only be indirectly connected.)
Because they've shown little or no empathy about those unpleasant experiences?
This is pretty great. Thank you.
I think you're a little bit crazy to think PayPal terminates business customers, who would otherwise be generating significant revenue for PayPal in transaction fees, in order to earn a couple bucks of interest off a much smaller balance than their transaction volume would have been.
My download doesn't seem to include anything of mine.
Yes. I'm actually an investor in Exec.

We're aiming at a different use-case though. Lots of people doing short one-off tasks around opinion and circumstance rather than paid specific tasks with a known, trained workforce.
Cool, thanks for trying! The UI could definitely use work, and we're working on it.

There is an option to delete your account. One option is to contact us (I know, that's not great, but we delete same day). The other option is to rip out Circle's authentication via GitHub, if you're worried about us doing it properly.
"That was our thinking when we first started working on human.io."

I think it's important to have that first, otherwise you are burying the lead. Although I can see why you wouldn't want to prematurely niche yourself, I don't think the pitch about engaging your users is especially compelling.

"what would it mean to invoke methods on a person?"

I mean ultimately you want to be selling the benefits and not the features, so I think being able to communicate the implications of that statement are much more important than being able to come up with a snappy analogy for the statement itself.

If you're really committed to staying neutral on usage though, we already have the term HCI for human-computer interaction. So maybe you could describe it as an HCI programming language or something.
This is good stuff. Thank you.
So do you think we should BUILD more examples or just talk about them?
It's like the question you're asking developers is, "what if your app could be on every block in Chicago, in real time, right now? What would you do with that?"

Also, I think the emphasis on "humans" in your messaging obscures the point a little. You're not so much programming humans are you are transforming them into sensors.

In that sense, a little surprised the words "eyes and ears" appear nowhere on your front page.
So let's assume thats $500 in dynos, that's approximately 14 dynos. You have 30k concurrent users per dyno using Node.JS?

It's not that I don't believe you, I just think you don't understand what you're saying.

(Actually, it is that I don't believe you)

That said, if this is if you're doing 500 requests/sec (that's very different than 500 concurrent users) per dyno, good for you. My main bottleneck was not so much CPU on the web machines (I hit memory limitations), but the database layer.
PG is too busy for us.

Having been to more than a few demo days myself, I think this is a much broader thing than YC cos tend to do.
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Ask HN: Why aren't there any Hacker News meetups in the bay area?
I know there's a reasonably regular HN Meetup group in London (the Meetup.com group has 3,400+ members), but I haven't heard of anything going on in the bay area. Is there any particular reason why that's the case? Obviously there'd be a tonne of people, so it might get a bit unwieldy, but is there any other reason no one is organizing them?
Have you thought about making this a web-app (or Facebook app) too? Sure, you won't be able to get Geo-tagged photos but not all the tasks require mobile devices.
You could use a proxy, but I'm guessing they will also restrict subscription payments to European credit cards like Spotify did before they came to the U.S.
Jobs responded to that case at D8 conference. He said it was a mistake ("We had a rule: you can't defame people. We thought it was sane to have such a rule, but the problem is that political cartoons, by definition, defame politicians. So, we made an exception for political cartoons") and they soon changed their guidelines to let the app in, but the developer never bothered to re-submit the app.
It's a shopping website. It's sorta hard to do cart management without cookies.
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We can run in a browser already. We'll probably get to it, but we're mostly focusing on mobile for now.
Mine was a three click process, I was already signed in to Facebook. Go to app (Facebook), Allow access, Create account. Done!
C is small and beautiful, but my preference is more along the lines of go, or maybe objective-c or d.
Thankyou! Running is something I don't know much about, but there isn't the same depth of analysis available as runners don't have power meters. I believe there are some tools out there for running that do more than just show runs on a map, but I couldn't point you to any offhand.

You're not the only person to suggest providing information about how to get set up with equipment would be a good idea, so I'm thinking about doing something about that soon.

Garmin dominate the market at the moment. The other main option is SRM head units, which are popular in the pro peloton, but cost around $800 and don't have a GPS. It's possible to use a smartphone if you have an ANT+ (the Bluetooth-like wireless protocol that most power meters use) dongle, but I haven't heard of any cyclists out there doing that (I'm sure there are some though). Specialized are coming out with an ANT+ bike computer next year, and there are probably some other options. To be honest, although there were some problems a couple of years ago with the Garmin Edge 500 (which I have), I quite happy with my device with the more recent firmware updates.
Phones have become more and more like computers over those 6 years (and this trend was obvious before that). Apple isn't a newcomer to the computer market (and their earlier history is serving them well - many of the patents they're using aggressively come from the 90s).

On the other hand, Google is a relative newcomer and it has been an issue for them (so much so that they eventually decided to buy one of the older players for their patents).
Here are my thoughts.

I used to love app sumo. There was interesting new apps and productivity/work/business programs that I could buy at a discount that allowed me to use the full apps without restrictive freemium controls. It was an excellent way for businesses to get new clients to trial their software IMHO.

Over the past year or two all the emails I get are either the same courses or offers over and over again or seem to be targeted at the hacker equivalent of a Nigerian Scammer.

I don't think that the copy is too sales'y, I think that the products you have for sale are generally shite compared to what you used to have.

People being happy will keep us on the mailing list for a while but in my opinion you need to improve the quality of the products you're selling.

My intention of this is that you get 100% true feedback. I think the people that work at sumo are great and I hope you guys get back to the top again. If you're profitable now then if you can do this then I imagine it will help the bottom line :D
someone should tell linuxcon about this meetup.

http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon
Does the WP SDK give you the ability to sideload apps?

At the very least, WP is different from iOS in that their SDK is provided for free (using the express edition of Visual Studio).
Where exactly would a comma go in this title that wouldn't make it worse?

ex: "my sister, and girlfriend,"
Just because you can do the devops work doesn't mean that's the best use of your time. Particularly on a small team (or in my current situation, sole developer). Heroku makes a lot of sense in that case. And since for the most part the follow standard development practices, there's little to no lock-in when you actually have the money to hire a sysadmin
There seems to be a minor bug of some sort in the habit list.

I've been using http://dontbreakthechain.com/ so I added 6 of the habits I've got on there.
Now lift is only displaying 2 of my habits on the home screen. If I click on my name at the bottom it shows the stat graphs for all 6.

Ah, ok, I quit the app and killed it, restarted it and now they're back.
How is bootstrap holding back when it comes to PHP an MySQL? JS, sure, I can understand, since most of it is just using their API, but how is it holding me back when it comes to PHP and MySQL?
This question keeps coming up. The answer is no.

Insurance covers much more than drivers running into other things
- theft of vehicle, parts of vehicle, or damage to vehicle and theft of contents
- fire + natural disasters (flood etc)
- damage to the vehicle by other drivers, both moving and parked
- personal liability for damage while using the car
- damage to the car from accidents

Note that in multiple vehicle accidents sometimes 'blame' is shared out between insurance companies as a way of sharing costs.

As to the fiction that accidents will never happen with autonomous cars, this is simply false. Of course there will still be accidents. The accident rate should decrease but this will take a long, long time to happen.

Take this example : workers have a self-driving pickup, but don't secure a ladder on the roof properly. While driving along the freeway, the ladder comes off and smashes into self-driving car behind. Neither self-driving car can prevent this. Same goes for self-driving cars failing to detect black ice on the road and skidding into railings/trees/other traffic.

Liability for accidents with self-drive vehicles will fall on the owner of the vehicle, possibly with insurers pooling 'fault' when one or more self-driving vehicles are involved.
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Cool, well you got some nice looking graphs taking the path you did. I am working on an app that has graphing, and I am running into some of the problems you mentioned. I am using the highcharts library.
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>insurance companies make money on the difference between
rates and claims.

This isn't true, but is a common misconception.

Insurance companies make money by earning an investment income on the retained premium (the premium earnt between when a policy is paid for, and a claim is paid out). You can easily see this by reading analyst reports on publicly-listed insurance companies, which will analyse in detail the return on the retained premium.

An insurance company collecting more premium than claim costs is overpricing itself. An insurance company paying out more claims than premium is underpricing itself.

The idea is that the risk is managed through actuarial study, so the premium/claim payout is managed, giving an optimal time lag between collected premium and paid out claims.

The ability of insurance companies to create a very large pool of investment funds is why Warren Buffet buys them. He is an expert at investing, and the premium pool gives him the size he needs.
They are a good fallback, I think he is talking about using things such as Local storage, session storage, or global storage. Since the site is their mobile site I see no reason why they aren't using the new technology available to us since most mobile devices would be able to use it. DOM storage seems to be a better fit for shopping carts than cookies anyways.
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The concepts that MapReduce uses were being discussed at least as early as the 90s. My parallel programming module in 1995 had a section on parallelizing programs using map and reduce functions so there is enough prior art on the concepts to make any patent defense on the general concepts difficult if not impossible.
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You cannot even see the front page without cookies.

I suppose it's better than 1990s websites that would go into an endless loop but what about people who are just browsing?
Straight from Rob Pike -- http://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2012/06/less-is-exponentia...

Python and Ruby programmers come to Go because they don't
have to surrender much expressiveness, but gain
performance and get to play with concurrency.

C++ programmers don't come to Go because they have fought
hard to gain exquisite control of their programming
domain, and don't want to surrender any of it. To them,
software isn't just about getting the job done, it's
about doing it a certain way.

The issue, then, is that Go's success would contradict
their world view.

And we should have realized that from the beginning.
People who are excited about C++11's new features are not
going to care about a language that has so much less.
Even if, in the end, it offers so much more.
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This is a really awkward sentence: "100% of our production system is now running Go as 95% of our
application."

I'm curious what the 5% is that they didn't convert to go.
It's 29.3MB according to firebug.

Which, in the age of video, isn't really that much.
I'd be really curious to know what their "800 million requests a month" means. When we actually added up numbers a while back, we were doing around 250 million requests to our Python machines/day, and we only had 200 servers (which included dbs/etc), that was around 3-3.5 billion pageviews a month IIRC. We now have 300 machines and do about 5 billion pageviews, but that completely ignores the huge amounts of requests to our realtime stream servers and our API (which get shit on every "pageview" at least once).
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The irregular intervals at which you scroll your mouse produces a stop-motion type effect :).
If you want to nitpick: please don't post caps, and a comma would not help (and would, in fact, be quite wrong).

The simplest solution would be "How both my sister and my girlfriend learned to code."

That said, I think after the initial double-take the meaning of the title becomes clear and there isn't actually a need to change it :)
FWIW you use whatever language you want on your end. It's more like a HCI RPC or something. With humans on the far end.
I actually think they will do the reverse. A self-driving car will likely do more miles. What's more, it will do empty-passenger miles. The travelling patterns of people are unlikely to change. But there remains the distinct possibility that people will get their cars to drive to work, then home (or at least to remote parking) again if 'work' does not have parking.

Thus the potential for cars without people driving around. This is inherently worse for congestion than 1-person cars.
It's a sad decline from the era where the President of MIT celebrated student hacks.
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It's really hard to compare different systems without knowing what kind of complexity each pageview engenders in terms of backend processing.

At one end there's flat HTML files, where you could serve 800 million pages/month from maybe a single particularly beefy server; at the other fully-dressed SOAs and CEPs and your uncle's pet dog rover performing multivariate regressions, meaning you need 9,000 servers.
This could actually be a serious concern. By riding in a self-driving car, we're putting our life directly in to a machine's hands. Of course, this isn't very new: pacemakers, for example, are controlled by computers. They can be reprogrammed, but only when you're physically near the target [1].

But a self-driving car would almost inevitably be connected to a network: an central computer could algorithmically control where all the cars are, where they're moving, how fast they're doing it, and basically make accidents nonexistent; such a system would be enormously beneficial to society at large. Yet, the downside is that all the cars are connected to a network, which an attacker could use to, as you say, send the target "off the nearest bridge".

1. http://www.secure-medicine.org/icd-study/icd-study.pdf
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