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I did not like basecamp. It felt like a free product but charges pretty high prices. It felt limited and kind of shabby. Maybe it's because I've heard so many people raving about it that I expected too much. I'm not sure.

I use Asana now. It's an awesome product for what I need. Their iPhone app is pretty good. The whole package is free for teams up to 30. I feel like I'm stealing when I use it, which means that I'll probably have to start paying for it soon to ease my guilt. I've heard great things about their API although I've never used it myself.

Can you do it? Yes, but it's going to be difficult. There are innumerable competitors out there with established names.
If you imagine investors organized concentrically with the sort who physically show up on Demo Day at the center, I think the sweet spot for this type of thing is the next ring out: people who are not focused on startup investing, but who either understand startups well (like rdl) or are rich enough to learn about them by trial and error.
Gold backed credit cards are flourishing in europe, that got me thinking about internet transactions in gold.
I think it was tongue-in-cheek saying that the publicity from taking it down right after release is giving it better visibility than they could've otherwise.
Which is better than startups with names ending in ".ly"
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Yes. Finally, someone levelheaded. Every bitcoin supporter I've ever spoken to has basically dismissed deflation as a non-issue. It is important, and if the bitcoin economy grows, the deflationary effects are only going to become more visible.
I see it the other way around. For Coinbase to succeed, Bitcoin necessarily needs to succeed. If Bitcoin succeeds the price of Bitcoin will increase by many orders of magnitude.

Right now I'd put Bitcoin's odds of success on par with an early stage startup.
Part of your sentence appears to be missing, but I'll fill it in for myself. The "ly" thing is beyond worn out. The odd thing in this case is that they actually chose a real word.
Looks good, I guess. I guess I struggle with things like this. Was this just a weekend project to learn a new x, y, or z? If so, cool - good job. If not, then I just have to ask, "Why?"

The page says, "About: VideoWatchr lets you watch and share YouTube videos and channels."

But I don't need some misspelled website to do that - YouTube lets me do that just fine. I can sort, filter, etc all on YouTube. So I don't get the point, I guess.

I do like the "Please comment." style - it says, "Here's what it is - comment in any way you wish." Some people prefer to try to focus the comments ("Please tell me if you think this is needed", for example) and that's fine too. You just get different types of comments with each style.
I think that rather than dumbing down UIs in favor of general usability (which is what is suggested here), having a more complex UX with better documentation is paramount. Dumbing down the user experience does nobody any good, because as soon as the user (who has gotten used to the simplified interface) sits down in front of a different interface, he/she will find it extremely difficult to accomplish anything because of the varying metaphors used.

In this case, the user clearly has a very primordial grasp of computing metaphors; present the user with an Android or Windows Phone device and she will clearly be at a loss. The solution isn't pandering to computer illiteracy, it's solving computer illiteracy in the first place. This kind of solution seems like something the United States Congress would come up with, not hackers, who usually opt for the simplest and most effective solution, not an overly tangled one.

Consistency is what matters most in usability and computing, not intuition and certainly not ease of initial use.
The desire for an open source app top-to-bottom or the need to use existing databases or tooling would be a good reason.

(However, I do think this question is a bit of a red herring: I don't see any obstacles to pulling in a different database in Pedestal.)
I tried this out on android and it was a really engaging experience. An auto-play feature with timing effects could make it better but then having the need for controls could be a setback.
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My top 3 basecamp alternatives (minus Trello and in order of preference) would be:

1) Nozbe - http://nozbe.com - Yes, it's a GTD app but you can also upload files and keep stuff organized. Very powerful

2) PBworks - http://pbworks.com - Their pricing is screwed up but there's a lot of flexibility there

3) IQTELL - http://iqtell.com - Promising, I was a heavy user for awhile. No windows app though

There are many other services that are closer clones to Basecamp like Siasto: http://siasto.com but after using them for a few weeks I realize how far behind Basecamp they really are. Siasto didn't seem serious about improving the product either. It was more on autopilot.

Asana: http://asana.com/ Meh. I'm not sure why, but I couldn't get comfortable with it.

What's missing from Basecamp? All my emails in one place, like IQTELL. I log into IQTELL and I get a snapshot of everything that's going on in my life (pretty much). Killer feature.

I bailed from Basecamp. Using Microsoft OneNote for my projects. Pretty good actually. There's a lot to love about OneNote.

Btw,I'm okay with paying a monthly fee, but I'd much rather pay a full year in advance, like with the Microsoft Office 2013 suite. Comes with OneNote and SkyDrive. Very handy.

Hope this helps. I'll keep an eye out for any other questions you might have.
Which is handled by contract law; it isn't clear why companies that want to do that should get a subsidy via criminal law DMCA penalties. Just like it isn't clear why white-only diners should have received free services from government thugs to throw out African American "trespassers".
Right. One way or the highway. A relatively refreshing feeling. I think the ability to tap anywhere on the screen helps too, there's no way to eff up.
>Note also that the numbers for soylent don't include packaging or shipping.

Sure they do. He says he's buying them in personal-size containers, and the price includes shipping. Someone is already buying the ingredients in bulk and reselling them in smaller containers, it's just not the soylent guy. Once he's buying in bulk I would expect costs to drop, even with the added expense of packaging and shipping.
What 'Lean In' misunderstands about gender differences
Canvas doesn't have any kind of support for playing music, but there is a (flash) based sound manager that works everywhere and Chrome has some facility for playing sound too.

However making music is an art not all programmers have mastered, so most would likely skip that step.
Ask HN: Who has the best API Documentation?
We are in the midst of redoing our API docs. I have been visiting other API providers to see what they are doing and been getting some great ideas (dwolla's docs are amazing IMO). I am sure you all have read docs that have made your lives easier. Where are they? Thanks in advance.
Indeed. Nobody should limit their investments to just these. For every $1,000 you put into a crowdfunded company, you should be investing at least $4,000 in more traditional and safe investments. And 20% is even a lot. That assumes a young person who has high future earnings potential and a high risk tolerance. 5-10% would be more reasonable for most people.

That said - this is certainly an asset class one could beat the S&P500 with, as long as you aren't just throwing darts and are actually investing in companies you know a lot about and understand.
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Oh, I'm not arguing with food aid. (I mean, I can see how one can take issue with government subsidies in general, but I agree that food aid to low-income folk is probably the best bang you are going to get for your subsidy 'buck'[1] and, well, it's hard to argue against food for the hungry when you are well fed without being an even bigger asshole than I am willing to be.)

I was just pointing out what I think the reason for outrage was.

(to be clear, middle-class people have nothing against subsidies... they just prefer their subsidies in the form of tax loopholes. The outrage here is that culturally middle-class (but financially lower-class) people were taking subsidies intended for culturally lower-class people, and using those subsidies in the way you'd expect a culturally middle-class person to use them.)

[1]I scare quote 'buck' there because I'm talking about the total cost of the subsidy; not just the monetary cost, but also the market distortion cost. both should be considered before we decide a subsidy is worth it.
The problem with that is... who backs it? it's a radically different concept, not comparable to Bitcoin.
Tufte wept.
> you had to know both data and index sizes across your most common usage patterns.

This is called capacity planning. If you can't estimate what resources you use, I wouldn't expect great success scaling.
You can think of it as a magically valuable liquid flowing down a system of ever-growing pipes representing the blockchain where the transactions are linking points and txins and txouts are pipes with their cross-section areas corresponding to their respective values. Once you think about it, the analogy fits perfectly.
Strictly speaking, you are probably right. Outlook has often been bundled with the higher tiers of the Microsoft Office suite and omitted from the lower tiers. But Outlook Express and Windows Mail? Certainly there are many home users using them. They've been bundled with Windows or IE for years.

I don't think this distinction affects the grandparent comment's point.
One of the examples cited by the ACS is the use of prayer. Apparently this has been shown to be effective in some cases.

The use of prayer is definitely part of alt med, and has been shown to work, therefore Nursie is incorrect when he says "alt med does not work".
Ask HN: What are the biggest coop/employee owned IT companies?
In construction an example would be Arup, in UK retail John Lewis. What are some large IT companies that are also cooperatives?
Is this basically what firebase.com does?
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> It's not necessarily any of your business

I think this is wrong, Nick initally posted to the Internet - without caveat's - I think it's perfectly reasonable to ask question's and intrigue.
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http://ripple.com

It's a cryptocurrency system that lets you store ANY currency that someone, somewhere is willing to support through it. So far it's just USD, AUD, EUR, CHF, BTC and a few others, but gold and silver are definitely going to appear soon.
I'm glad you consider yourself an ally to the cause of women in tech.

However, your claim of my looking for offense is incorrect. My comment was an aside, a point for reflection on the power of naming something as important or not.

Any internet communication requires surgical rhetoric. The English language has a myriad of ways to express things and it's not always clear what is meant when communications lack human interaction (e.g. tone of voice, body language).

It is tiring to translate thoughts, experiences, and feelings into a digestible and understandable format.
This is true. It doesn't look like the code digs down into an answer's revision history or anything like that.
First, I wouldn't call bitcoin user base community. It is like saying the dollar user community.

Bitcoin users meetups, non-profit organizations dedicated to supporting bitcoin, bitcoin related community, miner consenus and voting, are not evidence of a "bitcoin userbase community"?
Yeah, this is passive aggressive stuff. The guy said you even smiled at him as you took the picture.

I actually read more of Adria's site and I read
http://butyoureagirl.com/13871/success-against-the-odds-fill....

"Because of my experiences growing up, I have triggers. This means that I’m always scanning for danger; for situations that seem like something from the past that could hurt me. When I recognize something that matches, I can overreact and feel intense fear, anger or anxiety."

Which explains a lot. I am shocked to read about Adria's experiences as a child, and would urge everyone to go a little easier on her.
Updated the forum question - we've since updated our TOS with our privacy policy and submitted it to Safe Harbor:

https://www.digitalocean.com/tos

Thanks
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what problems/verticals are most interesting to you? or what problems have you come across in your own life that you want solved? I'd start your search there, then find companies or startups already working on the problems you want solved.
1. There's a link a comment up in the thread[1] that points out Ghost Sites: Websites with high visitor traffic but obviously no one would ever really visit. Like Babypowder.net or some such malarkey. If you're running a ghost site, you contract out to a botnet to deliver clicks and impressions at rate lower than the return from the advertising.

2. The article shows a bunch of these ghost sites so I would suspect that it's common in the world of scamming/ghost sites to drive up their CPM (Cost per Thousand). Hell, if I was running a legit site, I'd outsource the bullshit ghost sites to a Russian company so that my own CPM gets higher. As an example: I bet the value of "Baby Powder" as a search term is probably twice what it should be.

3. Get "Live HTTP Headers" or run your traffic through a proxy and see how many HTTP requests you generate just using a basic ad. I worked in Rich-Media Advertising and the way we tracked was every interaction. Right when I left in 2008-2009 we started tracking more and more. Really depended what the client bought/paid for. But we'd always track opens, clicks, etc.. the basic stuff. We didn't do heatmaps or X,Y coordinate tracking, but we had the data.

It was impressive to see, we would host our units on Akamai and due to the sheer traffic were unable to do real-time SQL inserts, so we would crunch the HTTP logs in hour increments after the fact to generate the data. So a typical GET string would be ad.domain.tld/?id=adunitMD5&type=Click&x=0&y=0&action=MD5

Of course it wouldn't be that verbose, but the GET string would be quite long with all the data. This was all done through a combo of JS and ActionScript.

[1] http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/meet-most-suspect-publ...
How old was he?
V8 is another important change that isn't really touted much in this release.
The $100 startup.
https://mtgox.com/

https://localbitcoins.com/
The dupe detector only looks at items in memory, which means the most recent 15k plus any that have been viewed recently.
Classy, first you imply that I don't like sex and now that I'm a moron. Boy am I glad that we don't work together.

I like sex, I just happen to prefer my work/professional environments without sexual overtones.
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At Netflix, our general policy is that if it has to do with technology, open source it, and if it has to do with movies, then don't.
"Why I left Google" - said no Guido ever.
Could you elaborate in a less rude and more informative manner?
Thank you for the providing all the background! I didn't know all the historical context.

> or custom low level stack slicing assembly that has to be maintained for each processor architecture.

Yeah I would personally also say that the advantages of writing the equivalent assembly for a handful of architectures outweigh re-writing / re-inventing high level library code dealing with concurrent IO.

I think Guido and a few others have decided to focus on some things rather than others and the Python ecosystem will suffer in the long run based on these decision. The ability to write beautiful concurrent IO code without a whole new async framework, is better, even if means breaking some C extensions, writing assembly, or not supporting exotic CPUs.

Programming world is not going to get less concurrent over time. Concurrency will spread more and more. There is already some momentum with gevent and eventlet and it is something that Node.js doesn't have -- and I see Guido turning away and making something worse.
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Not sure why there isn't more of a discussion going on, given the uproar over Reader, I found the whole article insightful but especially the end. The concluding 3 paragraphs are like the twist at the end of The Sixth Sense.
Why aren't all of our graphs interactive?
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Really? Most folks just want to chart signups, lead submissions or similar in a time period. No uncertainty at all.
I always wear my earphones. Nothing special there, just the ones i got when i bought my iPhone.

I listen to this playlist a lot. http://grooveshark.com/#!/playlist/Few+Rock+Songs/81912164

Spotify is not in India and i like Grooveshark a lot. Also, on my mac, i use Shinygroove desktop app for Grooveshark which makes it easier for me to use the Media keys. http://ktkaushik.com/post/45445419529/shinygroove-a-lovely-m...
1. Because it has jumped 3x in 2 months. Either the bitcoin economy has exploded over the last 2 months or speculators are feeding the hype machine. I see no evidence for former, but plenty of the latter.

2. It is irrelevant because you can use any sub unit down to satoshis to transact. If you want to use BTC as a currency and perform transactions, the exchange rate number is irrelevant, because it doesn't matter if a widget costs 1BTC and the rate is 1 BTC/USD or if the widget costs 1 satoshi and the rate is 10,000,000 USD/BTC. If you're a currency speculator OTOH, yes the rate matters immensely. Which goes back to my point - is BTC there to provide an alternate currency and associated economy, or just an easy way to gamble?

3. You're using the terms "market capitalization" and "economy" interchangeably. The economy implies the size of goods and services produced in the BTC universe - this number is important but seems largely ignored by the BTC community (in fact, it seems to not exist). Market Cap here means # of bitcoins multiplied by the USD exchange rate. This number is closely followed by the BTC community, but is large meaningless. It has spiked 3x in two months, but what has happened to the BTC economy itself? It seems to have grown, but can anyone say definitively?
The analogy to predatory pricing doesn't work because in the brick and mortar world, you drive out your competitors so that you may raise your prices. So the price is said to be artificially lowered.

In the software world, free software products stay free even after they have become the dominant platform. The price is not artificially lowered to zero; at scale the cost of operating a free service is lower than the advertising revenue generated by it. This is actually the "natural" price for the product.
Very much +1 for Highcharts. Best charting library I came across when looking for charting libraries. It's a bit on the expensive site though.
BCD isn't _that_ bizarre. Many architectures had and have instructions for BCD arithmetic:

x86: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_BCD_opcode

68k: http://meseec.ce.rit.edu/eecc250-winter99/250-1-20-2000.pdf

6502: http://www.6502.org/users/dieter/bcd/bcd_0.htm

6800: http://fundamentals-digital-electronics.blogspot.com/2010/09...

Several others, such as Power6 and Sparc64: http://speleotrove.com/decimal/ (also shows this is is both still useful today)
I totally agree that jQuery is a significant improvement over the native DOM as an API, and that thinking about/profiling what your jQuery code is doing is a better approach than deciding to try to avoid jQuery whenever possible.

However, throwing away jQuery for whatever reason (as we have on the iOS-only project I've been on for the last 3 months) doesn't necessarily mean you're stuck in verbosity hell. We just tried to look for the points where it seemed most verbose/painful and wrote thin jQuery-ish wrappers around native stuff... so, for example, there's a short alias for querySelector All which gloms `Array.prototype.forEach` onto the return value, and class manipulation functions, and a handful of other things. Last time I checked, the library fits on one screen and none of the functions are longer than 4 lines.

Not necessarily the right approach for every project, but neither has it been a descent into hell.

Interestingly, I've never found event binding to be a particular pain point; the thing I'm really getting tired of is writing `e.preventDefault()`, but jQuery isn't going to save me from that anyway.
You are a venture capitalist, yes? ;^)
FoxPro 2.0/DOS was really disruptive product back then. And it was addictive. My academic advisor used to using FoxPro as his primary text editor.

But real guys preferred Clipper due the advanced abilities such as eval.
Here's a good paper about animated transitions in stats graphs and their effectiveness. http://vis.stanford.edu/files/2007-AnimatedTransitions-InfoV...
I have never met a single person who was able to convincingly raise at least a little bit of suspicion about deflation in me. Why is deflation bad? Because people stop spending? Can't you see how ludicrous this explanation is?
Yes but dongle jokes and forking jokes aren't sexist in any way.
For more backstory, this was originally posted as a question on Security.SE (which, when looking at it now, has had the encrypted text removed):

http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/32779/how-would-...
You would be surprised how low some professors will stoop. My sophomore engineering graphics class required payment of $35 in royalties and $5 in copy fees (going by the standard rate of .10 a page) just to get a printed copy of the PDF course packet (required to pass the course). It wasn't bound or anything, we literally had to go to the privately owned copy center and fork over $40 and then wait while they printed it off and then handed us a stack of paper.

I know that there were ulterior motives on the professor's part because I specifically asked to just print it out myself and was told that the TAs had been specifically banned from allowing students access to the PDF version for printing.

This was a 300 person lecture taught twice per year.

300$352 is $21,000. Suddenly that looks pretty appealing to the professor who thinks he could use a new bass boat this year.
At my first job, I had a foxbase database (government built), Turbo C 2.01 (make sure to patch the FP), and a Postscript printer. We needed some reports and graphs to satisfy other agencies, what fun.
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I only met Malcom once, during the Djangocon US 2009 sprints. Having never contributed to an open source project before, I naturally had no clue what I was doing, but he still managed to make me feel like I had something to offer. What a great loss to the Django/Python community.
It's too late for an "alternative" now. Regardless of your views on the impact of deflation in an overall society, a deflationary currency is always going to be a better store of value and a more attractive option for a consumer. The wheels are set in motion with Bitcoin whether we like it or not (personally I'm unconvinced that deflation causes as many problems as people claim, especially with infinite divisibility).
Without making judgement as to how valid that "obligation" is, this is pretty much the stance of RMS.

No, it's not the stance of RMS that if you use open source code than you are obliged to produce open source. In fact, he considers it essential to software freedom that someone should be able to obtain a free software program, modify it, use the modification, and keep the modified program to themselves.

If you release a program of some sort and don't release the source code to give everyone various freedoms, you are perpetrating a great wrong.

This is the stance of RMS.