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I got an email asking the same question. Without going into specifics here is what I can say at this time.

I have not used site44 so I cant speak in depth about the differences.

I can say Harp will be focused on solving domain specific problems, rather than focusing on the technical solution. This means that we look at the problems developers are having and adapt the Platform to address those needs. I believe strongly that people really just want pain removed from their development process. You can expect Harp to have things like rollbacks, diffs, preview urls, staging and production releases etc. Harp does not just turn a Dropbox directory into a website. We see Dropbox as a great way to get files into the cloud in a way that offers a low barrier of entry for beginners. Dropbox is not tied in any way to our architecture and Harp may support other competing services (or even git) if that appears to be the desire of our users.

Hope this answers your question.
"As consumers have somewhat adapted to this and expect rapid updates for software’s. The vendors no longer need to spend as much time on finding bugs as they did before."

This problem is as old as software itself. At this point I believe that it will never be addresses since software "can always be fixed later" and the low barrier to entry encourages this behavior.
> we thought it was too good to be true. It turned out that it was.

I don't know about everyone else, but I understood this lesson by the time that I was ten years old.

I'd be curious as to what price differential this guy got on his house.

I'd also be curious to see whether testing supports his assertion that there are hazardous chemicals still present. It might very well be true...or it might be wildly exaggerated.

This is the internet; I've seen both.
Definitely agreed about the Shopify API and general sentiment around webhooks. Any integration without webhooks ends up using 3x more engineering effort to hack around it.

And thanks for the kind words!
My wife is Hungarian, and so does YY-MM-DD anyway. (Although rolls her eyes that the MM isn't a Roman numeral.)
Taxis don't go everywhere.
A truly bizarre complaint. You could say something similar about Los Angeles, and many other Californian cities, but opposite in every way.
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If you do keep a detailed log of your workouts, what kind of actionable data does that information provide you? Do you refer back to it daily, weekly, monthly and try to optimize your workouts based on your previous history? If so, how?

I used it to run experiments for my self quantification project. I even have an work-in-progress essay about it too: http://kibabase.com/articles/self-quantification

Granted, I can't do much with a sampling of only 1 person, and I only finished one experiment after collecting 30 days worth.
Does a standard home inspection catch things like this? I've purchased homes, and always had an inspection done, but never watched them actually 'inspect.' Curious if they use detection devices for things like this.

Also, how does the government get involved in the backing of contaminated homes. I know that as a VA borrower, the requirements are very strict. Isn't it the same here?
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I've had for a couple of hours. Its a nice looking app. I found a couple interesting spots while walking around Chicago. It does not look like a "Google" app. I imagine its one of the first apps to use the Google Now API.

Edit: It was created by Niantic Labs. http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/27/googles-niantic-labs-laun...
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David Talbot, founder and CEO of Salon.com recently participated in KQED Forum talking about 'How much tech can one city take?'. Somewhat similar to the above article but a 2012 view.

For those of you who are interested you can hear it here: http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201209250900
I could see the value if projects actually adopted mind-maps as first-class documentation (auto-generated and whatnot).

As it is, I dread the idea of re-mapping entire chunks of documentation on my own. I have better things to do with my time.
> Most importantly, we want Freddie Mac to start regularly testing the homes it sells for meth contamination, just like it would for lead paint.

I seriously doubt they test for lead paint.

While the laws vary by state, I know that landlords and owners around here have every incentive not to test, because if they test and find lead they have expensive obligations (made more expensive by a cumbersome lead-abatement licensing system).

Whereas if they just include a letter saying "we don't know the lead status", they're legally in the clear.
Of course, no one is anywhere near making the kind of content money that MSOs are making, that's a given. The reason Apple is interesting is not even because of their cash pile, it's their proven ability to command a premium price. This is what Netflix and every other streaming company has failed to do. That's why Apple is interesting, but like I said, that doesn't make it easy.
"Year nine"?
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The other question is that since its a rental how hard is it to disable the fact that the LED is on? My philosophy is that no webcam can see through masking tape :-)
This looks neat. I hope they can get that iPhone version out soon!
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Persona could potentially note at login time that you require that information to create an account, and thus require supplying it before attempting to log in.

That said, looking at what your site does, why do you need that information? I can understand why you want it, but what functionality of your site won't function without it?
A general tip for graphs with small points: if you use a clipped voronoi diagram to trigger mouse interactions, then the graph becomes much easier to navigate. Basically, the graph gets split up into regions that make efficient but intuitive use of the space.

See here for an example with d3:
http://bl.ocks.org/1405439

Otherwise, way cool.
Very nice.

(Some prior threads on lines of influence)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4194460

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3409774

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3920619
"my email password is usually a 50 character random string that I don't like entering on public computers if I even could"

"I almost feel like I have to compromise my email password which is much more valuable"

I understand your concern. I suggest using either two-factor authentication (such as Google's) or creating a "throwaway" email account just for this purpose.
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I've been thinking a lot about why people share in communities, so this was a cool take on things. I'd tack on to the 3 P's that communities need members who are:
1. Motivated.
2. Empathetic.
Maybe these are no s* sherlocks. But I say motivated because people need incentives, whether it's the prospect of making money or building a reputation or getting recognition. There is something everyone is after, and many of even the best communities have some sort of reward system (HN & Quora off the top). And empathetic because members need to be able to relate to each other. If the sharer has high empathy then maybe less so. Here's a longer winded version of what I wrote: http://marketinghead.tumblr.com/post/31338994971/why-share

As I write this, maybe the closer community members are sympatico, the more likely you get community wo incentives needing to be so significant...
use case for crappy crypto: performance. even google uses RC4 for gmail.
It would be a lot more fun to converse with you if your attention spanned all the way back to the beginning of the conversation.
The problem is lack of supply of real estate. The proper response here is to build higher density real estate, or to build transit systems that effectively expand the amount of land that can be reached quickly enough to be "in" the city, or both.

San Francisco has failed miserably at both. Development is a four letter word due to the attitudes of many of the existing residents and the legal process that allows anyone to stall and delay anything. BART meets the threshold for tolerable transit, but there's not enough of it, and even if there were fast rapid transit to the peninsula or Marin the residents there are even more opposed to density than San Franciscans. Most of the new development is happening in parts of the East Bay near BART because that's where people are willing to allow it and where transit can get you downtown quickly. If the city were to permit and construct 10 story buildings in the Sunset tomorrow that wouldn't do much to alleviate real estate prices because it takes longer to cross the city on transit than it does to BART in from the good parts of Oakland.
OP never said it's not real, just that endorphins are not conclusively the cause.
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What I mean to say is that to a large extent, this is just a stage of adjustment. It's natural to be perplexed about what it's all about, since much of life boils down to work, eat, reproduce, and die, but your being in the grip of a philosophical crisis doesn't make everyone else slaves, as such.

I was serious above about taking some time out from the world to evaluate your feelings about it. This is a great time to explore philosophy and art of different kinds.
It's a *nix joke, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsck#Use_as_profanity
I think so too. There is definitely some Google Now at play in this app.
This is called "an argument", one in which you appeal to some stereotypical descriptions of programmers which may or may not be accurate.

It's not the same thing as what we call "evidence", which consists of actually going out in the world and collecting information from more than a tiny and highly biased sample (which, like it or not, is a fair description of the set of programmers most of us will run into over the course of a career).

For instance, for one "Dudley Code-right" who is just as you describe, how many "Dudley Code-fast" exist, who are just as you describe except that no one else can understand their elegant constructions and it turns out that the "nearly bug-free" part, well... disappoints? Dudley Code-fasts look highly "productive" for a little while, then cause big problems down the road.

What we're dealing with here is the representativeness heuristic, which often makes us misjudge statistical truths. It's akin to the way people are much more afraid of flying than of driving, even though the former is orders of magnitude safer.
I don't disagree with your views on privacy, but what google does is simple hypocrisy. It still continues to provide visitors' search terms to paid advertisers who are probably much more likely to use them for questionable purposes than a random site from organic results.

If google is so concerned with privacy, why not block keyword passing from AdWords ads as well?
Or perhaps it's actually a positive, considering you no longer have to spend money on car payments, gas, inspections, fees, tolls, maintenance...
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This is a ridiculous concept and the opposite of "modern" web development, as it purports to be. Maybe I'm using a different definition of "modern" - it seems here that it means "using new shiny things" rather than "using accumulated knowledge of web development patterns to build the best user experience." But, I digress.

There is a massive gap here, and with any framework that is purely client-side. Here's what you get if you serve html from the server:

* SEO. You can't crawl a page that loads purely over Javascript. Google has an API to allow access to ajaxed-in pages, but that means modifying you code to fit exactly what each crawler needs. Not going to happen.

* Better accessibility. Yes, some screen readers handle Javascript now, but many don't.

* Page performance. Time-to-usability on a page served by a server is several orders of magnitude faster than when you load javascript, then load data, then render the page. If the server can serve html, you can start using the page while the scripts load and initialize in the background.

If performance isn't a big deal, you want to make awkward hacks to force SEO to work, and you don't care about reaching all possible people? Build a single-page-app and nothing else.

I'm not saying don't make a single-page app; I'm saying be smart about it.

You've got two steps out of three - building an API and a single-page app. The missing middle step is building a second server side app that reads from that API (RESTful, right?) and bootstraps the page, which is built using language-agnostic templates like Mustache. Then, you load your Backbone/whatever JS on top, which takes over, and points at your api. It's easy to do with something like Node that can even share the same code to build pages.
Something that I've used for this is Fitnesse. It is a wiki that allows you to document the legacy code and a test bench to execute tests against the code.
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I dislike that a Google search for "Mozilla Persona" returns Firefox Personas first, meaning that Mozilla now has 'Persona' and 'Personas' projects that are totally and completely unrelated to one another.

Something has to give because if it confuses a Hacker News reader, it's going to go completely over the head of the average computer user.
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If I sell one $50 million dollar laptop I'll have 100% of the $50 million dollar laptop market!
It sounds like what you want is really good, searchable documentation for everything. I use dochub.io - it's pretty awesome.
The Mission looks more like Noe Valley runoff than ever. Sure, some parts are still slightly scary but there are signs of it becoming more bourgeois all over the place.
Okay, I could probably answer this if I read all the old WebSockets posts, but how can you have people communicate without a server?
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Sure, that's possible. When I moved to San Francisco I traded my car for a MUNI pass (and eventually a bicycle) which saved me a lot of money. A few months ago I tallied up how much my parents pay for housing + energy + transportation and how much I do, and the amounts are roughly the same, except I spend almost all of it on housing and they spend a lot on energy and transportation.

That said, most people who move to SF don't give up their cars.
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I think the ship has mostly sailed on email -- most sites use email password recovery, so that choice isn't up to you unless you get a different email address for each site.

You should definitely use 2-factor authentication for your email!
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I'm gonna guess that the fine print was more along the lines of "we're not responsible for what happened before this" than "we're not responsible for leftover meth byproducts."

Sure, you could say that these people should hire someone to test for chemicals in the air, but how wealthy do you expect people who purchase a home that used to be a meth lab?

I'm just saying that it's not quite so simple as reading the fine print.
Any reason you copied the files manually instead of forking on github? The link to https://github.com/n01se/1110 was right there on the main page.
I'm running Chrome yet it's still long-polling instead of using websockets.

Why?
I just signed the petition. I think you should too. I just feel for this guy. I am a new homeowner myself.
A lot of the pain is self-inflicted in San Francisco's case, from idiotic zoning. I'd day Chicago is a reasonably interesting place, interesting enough for 3 million people to live there, and our real estate is pretty affordable.

The problem with SF and NY is that the people living there are selfish and want to pull up the ladder behind them. They like their cute little low rise buildings and won't allow new high density housing to be built.
But it's not like NFC based card would solve this problem, you should still give a permission (I think) if you want the contact to be added to your phonebook etc.

I understand you have to put the card very close, 3-4 cm or so to the phone but otherwise it would be good way to troll or scam people... create a fake card and the name would be Your Mom, actually call to a friend/extremely expensive number... or things like that.
"Experimentally developing Apple"

This requires the first release is complete and usable. Unfortunately in Apple Maps' case, in most cases the app gives simply incorrect results, which is totally not acceptable.
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Many a times, led ON is done in software as a digital output.

Secondly, I can imagine if rent to own places turned on the camera whenever the computer was on, people would just get used to it. Make it normal and nobody doubts you.

Thirdly, I would say that most of the people using rent to own services aren't interested in the inner workings of computer hardware, or even understand basic computer topics. To these people, it is a tool required by school, work, or casual use. Even if you told them that it would record you, they'd not have an idea to stop it, perhaps other than tape. And tape doesn't stop audio recording, or remote takeover software.
You can easily contain all the data needed of a vcard to qr-code... except picture of course - http://yeblon.com/vcard-on-business-card-with-qr-code
Yep! You can delegate to another Identity Provider (IdP) by adding a JSON file to your domain (we're looking into DNS-based ways of doing the same), but afaik, there aren't any publicly available IdPs that accept delegation yet. Ozten is working on one.

Also, we still haven't completely shored up the IdP-facing API (there are a few rough edges to fix before committing to it), so the specifics are still subject to change. https://mockmyid.com/ and https://eyedee.me/ are both open source, example IdPs that we're using for testing.
There are servers, you just don't have to run your own. PubNub is a commercial company with a messaging platform that they have integrated this with.
From what I understand, PubNub provides servers around the world who take care of the heavy lifting and all you have to do is deal with publishing / subscribing messages.

So there are servers, you just don't run any yourself and it is all abstracted away by their API.

What they did, in this case, is mock the WebSocket interface (so that they didn't need to rewrite the whole original app) and make it use the PubNub API internally. See https://github.com/pubnub/pubnub-xkcd/blob/master/websocket....
You have to use either Koryo or another government approved/run organisation for tourism inside the DPRK.

http://wikitravel.org/en/North_Korea
As an enemy of US, being in the same category as al-Alqaeda and the Taliban insurgents, does it mean that if the US military happens to see Assange anywhere in the world, they have to shoot him on sight or send killer drones after him? After all, according to them, he's just as dangerous as al-Qaeda.
Shopify's definitely doing integration right. The API docs are a little rough, but they've done the important parts.

I've spent the past few weeks helping new Improvely users integrate our tracking platform with all their different shopping carts. With most of them, we had to walk people through editing templates/themes or other kludges. With Shopify, we just wrote an "app" to register scripts with the theme, some webhooks and a few API calls, and the end-user just needs to click an install button.

Best of all, all those hooks/scripts get unregistered automatically when the app is uninstalled. Even other platforms that have a plugin/app system like this tend to get that part wrong.
... imagine living in a place as inexpensive as a medium-sized Midwestern city, but with Silicon Valley salaries.

I'm imagining myself waking up every morning wondering what good it is to be making $XX0,000 if I have to live in this place. My cousin makes ~$220,000 in Yakima WA as a doctor -- her main expenses are weekly flights to NYC.

The reason why people want to be in big cities is because other people are there -- supply and demand explains the high prices. I came from Sacramento, but I wouldn't live there for even double my salary because nobody is doing anything interesting there. The startup scene is non-existent and there are no major universities turning out bright minds. Just more fat people having kids at age 22.

Or are you asking why a SF-style city can't be as inexpensive as Topeka? To that, I would answer: because nobody wants to be in Topeka.
Yes, we require it. Having the persons name is obvious. For the rest, the site is very specific in its purpose, which is to allow people to register for USA cycling events.

There are some crazy rules around who can enter which race (based on age/sex) and we do our best to help guide people into the right event during registration.

Location is a nice to have so that when we show the list of participants, they can see where each person lives. Future versions of the site will use this information to help people connect with ride sharing to events.

Keeping the UX of asking for this information within our site makes sense when logging in with Persona since it doesn't have the social networking aspects that Facebook has. Most people who are entering bike races won't lie about their age/sex on Facebook (because bike racing is a relatively small community), so generally this information is pretty accurate. Once someone gives us their USA Cycling license number we also validate against the database we have of that information too.
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Well the feds did care about switchblades, that is why they passed a law banning the interstate sale of switchblades, "the Switchblade Knife Act, (Pub.L. 85-623, 72 Stat. 562, enacted on August 12, 1958, and codified in 15 U.S.C. §§ 1241–1245), prohibits the manufacture, importation, distribution, transportation, and sale of switchblade knives in commercial transactions substantially affecting interstate commerce[56] between any state."[1] Evidence for a continued interest in switchblades can be found in the recent exemption carved out for assisted opening knives in 5 USC § 1244.[2] (I think the exemptions in 1244 were passed within the last 5 years as part of a Homeland Security appropriations bill, but I'm fuzzy on the exact date.)

Wickard was 70 years ago, interstate commerce doctrine has evolved a lot in the intervening years. In fact I'm a little surprised that you used it as an example. It has been a while since ConLaw I, but I think Wickard is often used as an example of the height of the broad interpretation of the commerce clause. Are you arguing that there is no limit on the power of the the commerce clause? Or that Wickard is the controlling case? Lopez is one of many cases since Wickard where the Supremes walked back such a broad interpretation of the commerce clause.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switchblade#Federal_law

[2] http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/1244
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Test it with you website or email adress, exemple enter http://identi.ca/glynmoody in the form
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True that. It used to take an hour to get downtown from the Sunset. Finally we gave up and moved to North Oakland. The weather's nicer, and it takes 20 minutes to get to downtown SF.