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Non-hot wallets.

I didn't say you shouldn't use wallets, just don't use the naive approach of having a plain wallet in a computer that's exposed via bitcoind. That's asking for it.

Cryptography is hard, but you can use this for instance:

http://bitcoinarmory.com/using-offline-wallets-in-armory/

It's already prepackaged for you. Give it a good read if you don't know it.
Free, Open Source, etc. And the author is a nice chap.

It's not the only way. But whatever you do, just don't keep a massive hot wallet in a server that's online. They will find it and if you move enough money they will put massive amounts of effort into hacking it.
"most of your code should be self-documenting, assuming sufficient domain-level knowledge from the reader. If it's self-documenting, comments are redundant."

You're hitting on all the classic lame excuses. Self-documenting code is a myth, invented by lazy coders who would rather crank out code than write documentation, because it's more fun to write code. They're wrong, but they often don't know that they're wrong, because the same people who suck at writing documentation usually suck at reading code.

Clean code is a necessary, but insufficient precondition to understandability. Documentation is essential, because code can only tell you what -- it can't tell you where it should be used, why you should use it, how it should be used, who who should use it or when it's appropriate. And in any case, your code is never as clean or self-documenting as you think it is.

That said, I have no doubt that you're hearing these things from "experienced" coders, because our industry is filled with "experienced" people who suck at what they do. Also, these things are cliches for a reason. They get repeated a lot.
Back in 2007, I co-founded a startup to do something similar to this. Check out "System 7" @ http://www.kylecherry.com/ for what it looked like (I can't find examples of the software.)

We didn't succeed for non-technical reasons & died before getting to market. But here's my advice:

- go with Linux or BSD, not Windows (maybe WINE or something similar if you must run Office)
- prototyping and fabrication is non-trivial
- we worked with iSuppli and it was worth every penny
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Serious? A huge amount of traffic sent over the Internet is multipath due to ECMP. Hashing on the full src/dst ip and port tuple makes for stable path selection.
WRT to the second point, failure cases are not that simple.

Edit: lets talk directly connected next hops, like a L2 domain. In this scenario what's the difference between "Anycast" and "ECMP"?
"the dream of the fourth-generation programming language is dead"

I'm pretty sure R, MATLAB, SQL are fourth generation languages.
> Apple products are luxury items with high margins. They don't need to or want to chase that mass PC money.

This reality gets less true every day. It's the same argument people repeated to insist that the iPad Mini would never happen. Or the Mac Mini. Or $0-after-subsidy 8GB iPhones.

I don't think it would be surprising at all to see Apple look at business computing as money they no longer wish to leave on the table.
Why not Linux or the business distros from Red Hat and Novell?
The Ember teams has been planning for a sweep of all outdated information about Ember. We'll be updating SO questions and asking blog authors to add a disclaimer.

Ember Data is a completely optional component of Ember that seeks to bring ORM-like abilities to the client side. It's not as far along or as stable as core Ember. For what it's worth, you can easily just use jQuery.ajax and create Ember.Objects from the response. We probably do need better documentation in this area to make this clear. That said, it's not fair to count Ember Data as a point against Ember since no other framework has anything at all similar in scope.

Our overview documentation is lacking. This is something that we're actively working on improving. The hardest part for new developers coming to Ember is that the paradigms are very different than what they're used to. We believe that the paradigms are the correct ones, but we need to do a better job explaining them.
I throw away most of my own code, and my comments.
Tsk tsk. The problem with Wal-Mart is that their wages are so low some of their stores hand out Food Stamps and Medicaid applications when they hire you. They literally do not expect that you can make a good living working at Wal-Mart.

Which means that some portion of Wal-Mart's revenues is mathematically equal to the money the government spends topping-up their workers' incomes.
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I disagree. This is one of the main reasons that drove me to switch over to OSX. I don't think I'm alone in this either. I have a number of colleagues that have switched from windows as their primary OS for similar reasons.

I'd like to believe that if Microsoft were to add POSIX support, and a decent terminal as part of the default Windows installation it would go along way to improving their perception in the minds of technical users.
That's extraordinarily elitist and insensitive to some people desperate to work, isn't it?
The one reason people (like me) still want to keep the Pro alive, the one thing that no other Mac can do, is support for more than two screens.

Now, Apple already made it abundantly clear what they think of multi-screen desktops when they designed, and then failed to fix, the native full screen feature of OS X.

I love my Mac Pro mainly for this one reason, but honestly, like many other Pro customers at this point I'm just waiting for the other shoe to drop. I'm not going to have different platforms as my laptop and desktop, so if the Pro goes that's it for me and Apple - if by that time there is no real alternative to achieve the same thing. This is a hugely depressing thought. I hopped on board when OS X came out and never looked back to the Linux desktop since. For me, it has never been about the hardware, but OS X which always felt like home.
> Apple has abandoned any users who need real power.

I still think Apple might bring at least 1 more generation of Mac Pro's on the market. Main reason would be for development of both Mac OS X as well as iOS. I think developing operating systems is best done on powerful hardware, mainly due to long compilation times.

But perhaps all this is wishful thinking. Apple could use Xgrid to build their operating systems on a bunch of Mac mini's of course.
You have an odd definition of "utterly evil". By my measure, the most "utterly evil profit maximizing business" would prefer to externalize the costs of employment as much as possible by not paying for healthcare and paying employees as little as possible. Surprisingly, it seems that Walmart does something along such lines[1]. There are other business strategies that might approach utterly evil, like child labor in third world countries, or sweatshops, or paying no attention to physically/medically dangerous working places/conditions, but somehow I don't really find supporting a higher minimum wage to be one of them - especially when that business has continually ignored calls from Wall Street to increase its profitability at the expense of its employees.

[1] http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/dec/...
Why did you copy bootstrap exactly?
Are the Samwer brothers behind this?
It makes sense for Costco, because they pay above minimum wage anyway, and any increase in the minimum wage will hurt their competitors more than them.
Hey, looks like you guys are getting some flak for the prices. Personally I doubt I'll use the service, but I just have to compliment you on the site. It's gorgeous. Readable, clean, great logo, just overall beautiful. Nice work.
"when you're a 27x7 org,"

I assume you mean 24x7 :P
First, unemployment is structural is bunk.

Second, your solution is to kill all the jobs and then think of some new solution? All those small businesses that are getting buy will be killed and then so will everything else. Software dies when no one is around who can pay for it.
That depends entirely on your vantage point.

As the average end user, yes one key difference is that the system can actually run one of the three applications that you use on a daily basis. We also allow the user to continue using a file system that she is comfortable with, making adoption easier. Other differences are by design transparent.

From the perspective of a more security aware user, they will immediately notice that their data is cleartext _only_ when they are using it locally and only they have the capability to access their cleartext data.

As a developer, you may appreciate the underlying integration with your system. But this of course remains to be seen (as others have pointed out, we have not yet made any code public).
Just take away $0.25 (of basic income) for every $1 earned working.

Or whatever numbers make sense. But it should be straightforward enough to keep incentives available.
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I have the perfect name for this product that would sit between the Mac Mini and the Mac Pro: The Mac Plus.

rimshot.
The form factor will have to be significantly larger than any Mac Mini in order to accommodate a real workstation-class GPU. However, I wouldn't be surprised to see the PCIe x16 slot as the only expansion slot on the motherboard, with all the PCIe 2.0 lanes routed to Thunderbolt. That would enable the motherboard to be only slightly larger than mini-ITX for single-socket single-GPU systems.
It's hyperinflation if you're increasing to $1000/hr, which is why no one is seriously suggesting that. Otherwise it's a little bit of inflation, and one that would be overshadowed by the resulting growth.
The reality is that DesignModo is not new to this.

I have been waiting for this to happen for a while. Their "Bricks UI" is an extremely blatant copy of Google Ventures' web site, and it's weird nothing happened there.

http://www.googleventures.com/
http://designmodo.com/the-bricks-addons/

I'm not on either side, but it's just painful to watch the reactions on HN. It seems like a lot of the commenters were just closed down somewhere waiting for the right occasion to blame some copyright enforcer.
Maybe. The difference between 40k and 50k sounds small in terms of raw percentage, but if you consider disposable income, it's more significant. What I think you'd much more likely see is an increase in part time work. In your scenario, likely nobody would be willing to work full time as a cashier at Walmart. But they would work part time if they wanted to save up for a new car, for example.

If the labor pool can support it, I think that's as it should be. The neat thing about the minimum guaranteed income is how well it scales as we automate jobs in the future. If we no longer need very many people working jobs at the skill level of Walmart cashiers, then raising the minimum income will account for that relatively painlessly.

But it's obviously not something you can just slap into place. You have to analyze the problem to figure out both how to set the minimum income initially, and how to adjust it over time.
The letter Eric Holder sent that caused this.

http://paul.senate.gov/files/documents/BrennanPaul.pdf
These look really really cool. I can't speak to the quality because I haven't watched them yet, but I'll definitely check them out, this is exactly the kind of thing that I'm looking for.
The idea being that if joblessness has a social cost, we make the jobless pay that cost by taxing their breathing. Whereas if work, any work, is of social benefit, than we subsidize breathing by employers on a per-job basis.

The thought experiment is: does working at a job have an intrinsic social value, or unemployment an intrinsic social cost, aside from the wages or lack thereof?
I notice that my shirt size isn't included on the final confirmation page. Seems like it should be.
For ecommerce, you can't just create a product that solves a problem (Low cost glasses), you also have to create a successful brand. Stand for something more than just a product (or what you're selling). That's why Warby Parker is so successful, because they carefully cultivated a brand while solving a huge problem in a market. That brand affinity is a piece of what they are selling you and what consumers are latching on to (in addition to the fact that they are saving you hundreds of dollars on your eye glass purchases).

Product alone isn't sustainable for the future of ecommerce. This is why I don't think niche ecommerce businesses like Dollar Shave Club / Harry's (shaving) and HelloFlo (Tampons) are sustainable and scalable in the long run. Is it really that big of a problem they are solving and can you really build a brand around it?
Pretty much this. Except you should also add that while he dedicated time to learning poisonous flowers that are encountered almost never, I spent that time getting in shape to move through the maze quicker, a skill/attribute used way more often.
This is too fucking addictive.

pins app tab

I hope I get some work done today.
I agree with this.

1000/hr will make all jobs unfeasible - on the basis that a job is a way to earn money by offering greater value in labour than in wage.

But what if we lived in a society where solar powered robots did everything and one guy earnt all the money for just pressing the power switch at 8am each day?

How would we share out the bounties of wealth these robots made? Giving everyone a job at below cost might be one way. Not the best but it is a way.

So I suggest that the coming world will have vast wealth, and fewer jobs - and we need to find new ways to make society fair for all. Because an unfair society is a Bad Thing.

Edit: tried to be cleaerer
Society's income, or capacity to work, isn't a fixed pie.
Not Mac MiniS ?
hmm.. for US labels, it already is kCalories per serving size with serving size listed.. but yea there is no kCalories per 100g/100mL
I just nabbed an old iMac G4 with 10.4. It's clearly designed for a more power user; it openly advocates having your own website running on it.

Whereas my 10.8 MBP tries to play at being a tablet.

I'm basically done with Apple after the 10.7/10.8 direction of OSX.
Two reasons, from two different political ideologies.

Right: because it's giving money to moochers. Period. Makers and takers, man. (This is what the Republican Party actually ran their campaign on this past November.)

Left: because it's an effective subsidy for sub-living-wage employers.
BetterWorks and AnyPerk didn't revolutionize employee benefits; they've had these types of arrangements for decades. All they really bring to the table is a web interface. Thus, the problem of scale (especially as it relates to customer generation) matters.

The problem was that the business model doesn't scale. In order to generate partners and customers, they needed a fairly large sales force. BetterWorks was simply never able to generate sufficient revenues to make the model work.
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Doing so well on HN will help massively with press. I'll enjoy writing about this on a decent sized app site tomorrow :-)
I don't remember when Microsoft started doing the triangular beam (to allow moving the mouse right slightly inaccurately) in Windows, but it was really annoying until they did. I think they had it in Windows 98.
wow, for linux people I have no nicer response than RTFM!
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Well sure, if you take memory for granted then yes, it is already explained.
A different but related recommendation - hire one of the Whoishiring thread to help you think through those edge cases and deliver tests /specs and then hire someone to work on it.
I'm working on something like this at the moment, which will be released within the next few months. I can email you when it's ready if you're interested?
Less snappy than current Opera Mini ...
Atomfilms tried to build a business on short films a long time ago - I remember watching Aardman shorts on there, must have been 2001? But with an advertising revenue model, they ended up focussing on comedy clips to get the traffic, then the whole shebang was bought up by MTV.

Good luck to them though.
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Not really, no. I know loads of people with low-wage jobs. None of them like doing those shitty jobs so much that they'll turn down a wage rise, or a funded unemployment, or a higher-paying job, to "protect" their particular employer. Nobody wants to work more for less, and when you talk about a system that keeps productivity down (ie: a race to the bottom between labor wages and the price of automation), you are ultimately talking about everyone working more for less.
Hey Keith,

Thanks for your note, would you mind dropping me an email (my address is in my profile)? I'd love to have a brief chat about your experience and hopefully avoid any obvious mistakes, we're in the midst of making early decisions on hardware.

Thanks, Colin
I wonder, since Apple is obviously abandoning this market, why is Microsoft trying so hard to alienate the power desktop user market with Windows 8 instead of aggressively trying to bring this group of Mac Pro users over to them. Of course they would have to improve Windows into a high-quality OS that works for them and find OEM's to partner with who are willing to find out what hardware these users want and provide it. Maybe it's a forlorn hope, but it's better than flailing after the tablet ship that sailed past them two years ago.
source for this please?
Great idea! Please be sure to share the results on this thread. I'd be very curious to see what others are making as Ruby contractors.
Does he get paid by the word?

If you're responding to controversy, don't get too lengthy. It looks suspicious.
Apple's wasn't an exact copy either. (The Swiss railway clock design was nicer.)

There were slight differences in hand lengths, removal of the logo (obviously), and stroke widths.
I see you have an option to crop the image... but what about offsetting the crop? I've looked at a few of these services and no one seems to give that option. I can process it myself but it would be nice to do it in one api call. For example set viewport to 1200 x 1900, crop to 300 x 400 at 500px from the top and 300px from the left. Or some coordinates from top and center perhaps...
Why adding compositing and blending to CSS is harder than it looks
Don't miss the critical detail:

> 15) Flash the frost.img file from our download section to the phone: 'fastboot flash recovery frost.img'. For this command to work, the bootloader must be unlocked.

You must leave your phone in a vulnerable state for this attack to be practical. Otherwise it's a known attack vector.
Out of control means $184,000 total government debt per CITIZEN. http://www.usdebtclock.org/

Regarding "subsistence", make NOT working attractive and you get more of it. It's simple human nature.
> i) Skyline sounds scary

Despite the obvious phonetic similarities between skyline and skynet, skyline's first priority is the integrity of your data. Your data is encrypted locally and it is encrypted pre-transmission to the cloud.

> ii) Software is stored locally. How do you prevent users from saving documents locally too? And how do they know that is synced to the cloud?

There is no need to prevent user's from saving data locally. This behavior 'saving' is simply integrated as an event, which leads to the proper syncing behavior.

User's are notified when their systems are synced. If they would like to manually confirm the consistency of their data, they are free to use our API which includes methods to compare your local and remote data.
I think it's cool that Heroku treats programming as art and a form of craftsmanship. I'm not a Ruby developer, but looks like it was an awesome conference!
What do you mean? Isn't the reason to push it off to the router that routers scale up like crazy? Whereas doing more even 40Gbps linerate on a server is nearly impossible without specialized hardware. Even 10gbps linerate can be a lot of work as of a year ago.

And if the routers LB to a bunch of software nodes, then aren't you sort of in the same position?

Can you help me understand?
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...yet when industry eliminates redundancies and increases automation, resulting in lost jobs, it's viewed as efficiency.
Because this strategy is making a shit-pile of money for Apple and Microsoft would rather chase this shit-pile of money rather than take Apple's table scraps?
Disclaimer: I'm going to comment on my personal experience running a free web application, http://sleepyti.me. It's not meant to be self-promoting, but I feel that the experience is relevant.

There are a lot of ways to make actual profit (not just break even) with free applications.

The Hacker News crowd doesn't always show a lot of love for the "small, free application" crowd, and the echo chamber is correct that having a webapp doesn't mean you're a startup.

I know that I don't consider myself the "founder" of my app, because my site is not a company. I'm not trying to make it a business.

That said, though, this write-up glosses over what has been, in my experience, the easiest and most straightforward way to profit from free traffic: non-targeted ads. For me, that means a single banner advertisement served over Google Adsense.

Now, like I said, I'm not trying to make http://sleepyti.me my primary income. If I wanted to charge users, or enter deals with, say, large mattress vendors, that would be different. But that isn't to say that the traffic and feedback I've received hasn't helped me both personally and professionally.

Personally, I've received a lot of attention from my app. It's pretty popular with college students, and it's gained media attention from outlets such as Lifehacker, the Toronto Star, and most recently the New York Times.

I'm not listing these sources to self-promote, but to show that from a personal exposure standpoint, it's opened many doors for me.

The same goes professionally: I had a brief partnership with YC-backed WakeMate, which, although now defunct, allowed me to interact with an early-stage YC company that I otherwise would not have been able to experience. I get between 1.6 and 2 million hits a month, and the financial reward has been steadily increasing through my single banner ad as well.

People always say that "if you're not paying for it, you're the product," but I don't think that that's always true. I don't prey on my users, and I can think of several free apps that operate in a similar--even less obtrusive--manner. Trello, for example, neither serves ads nor sells my personal data (I hope!). Sometimes it's worth it for a developer to create something and truly release it for free, without having the immediate motive of profit.

I always tell college students who ask how to break into an industry--whether it's information security, professional programming, the startup world, or anything else--to do something. Sometimes a free application, such as the one I created as a free weekend side-project, turns into more than what it is. I'm more than aware that my experience is mostly a fluke, though. The take-home message should be that even if it doesn't become some massively-profitable, highly-trafficked app or site, it's still something that you built.

And that has value.
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My favourite QR code use was from the tube: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/AneZAsiCAAATy1Q.jpg:large

Keep your phone hidden (but check out this QR code!)