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Thank you - this would have been the reality of the situation.
No it doesn't. It's value is completely tied to the market, with very few exceptions, as evidenced by the USD charge for a good or service being relatively static, while the bitcoin price fluctuates, according to the market, to maintain parity.
94% of Americans Cannot Name One Chinese Brand. Can you?
Good point. Not exactly my area of expertise but I should have used that as an example.
Not necessarily. I do agree that requiring a tour can be an indication that your app is too complex, but sometimes its just a good opportunity to display some light marketing (as in, show stuff behind your app that might be abstracted from the interface in order to avoid cluttering it).

In the use case I built Chardin.js for, I'm using it to display stuff that happens behind the scenes that the user is abstracted for, but I still want the user to know its happening (perception of value is almost as important as value delivered!).
Good Web Design Is All About The User
Work with or are competent at? :)

For the last 8 or so years, the jobs have been C#/.Net. Before that, Delphi. Before that, C and C++ (quite a while ago). There's also been a touch of Ruby, a couple days of PHP, and an odd smattering of x86 assembly.
Just downloaded it, loving it so far!
Forking Applications on Heroku
Here's the beginnings of a Javascript-based ggplot2 implementation on top of d3: https://github.com/gigamonkey/gg
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"much of the iPad UI is very poor in a myriad of ways."

Why does he say this ?
I think this a perfect opportunity for us to learn about Man-pologizing.

"Man-pologize"

When men pretend to apologize while blaming someone else for their mistake.

Example: "I'm terribly sorry that you didn't get my email with important changes to the terms that affects your bank account, I'm sorry it's your fault you didn't get it."

Most men man-pologize and blame someone else, anyone else, for their mistake in an attempt to not hurt their egos. My father and brother and many other males do this. I used to do it too until I broke out of the habit after catching myself man-pologizing several times.

The opposite of this is fem-pologizing, the female act of blaming oneself for everything
I don't know much about the startup, but I was definitely rooting for the founder Seth after his father died in a skiing accident last year on Mt Washington (with Seth present). Tough year for sure, hoping things work out for him and everyone else at LevelUp.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2012/04/05/adventurer-prieb...
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Just think of all the concerts, festivals and other large-scale events though that could make a huge mosaic with the crowd instead of using lighters!
No, think it through.

Poster said, "I've contributed to keeping prisoners in prison."

This is in no way an inherently good thing--especially given the well-documented clusterfuck that is the judicial system in the US. Have you ever been through the wringer?

I don't think that kudos for helping that system is in order, unless it was specifically something like "I wrote software to help schedule inmate times so that violent offenders and trouble inmates were not put in the same areas at the same time as nonviolent or well-behaved inmates."

As for the second point--look, it's insurance claims. Depending on what the poster did, this ranges from "I helped people get the best claims service from their provider" to "I helped the provider service the bare minimum number of claims." Without more information on what was done, that topic has a lot of room for bad.

"Fix the base system" would be something like "I made a simpler marketplace so that care providers (doctors) can directly bill patients, cheaply and transparently."
How to make a backup of life on earth in case of a planetary extinction event, assuming that those off planet could start over once things calmed down.
I was going to post this comment if it wasn't already here! Pretty much every innovation/invention that has ever occurred has been taking past inventions and adding just a small new thing. Of course, there are plenty of completely new inventions (transistors, lasers, etc), but they are few and far between.

Standing on the shoulders of giants!
Being a man with a strong viewpoint when talking about women's issues is like being an non-technical MBA going off about how programmers should architect their code.

If you don't acknowledge the disparity, you will immediately turn off a huge segment of your target audience.

Yes, people may still get offended, but you can try to REDUCE the likelihood that they do, in order to effectively reach more people.
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I wonder how he proposes to verify the Etoy was made by a child and not harmful or containing "scary" content?

It all was an amazing vision, but the problem is link bait headlines, spammers, and politicians who run committees. In a world where someone had to write a "penis detector", the visions loses some of its shine.
Silicon Valley start-ups criticize state money transmission law
Nice... us hackers must be thinking the same thing lately - let's use multiple IP devices to do X.

We just released...

SpeakerBlast - Turn multiple friends' IP devices into one massive stereo system.

Checking out Mosiac ... i wonder what other uses of multiple IP devices can be put to use to?
Yep, we plan to write a blog post all about it, and what we'll fix going forward.
1st, I'm sorry. Divorce is tough. Not easy, not clear cut and can drag on for a long time.

My best advice is to get a lawyer. It will cost you but in the long run it will save you way more when it comes to issues that MUST be dealt with. Child support, dividing possessions, etc.

Second, let things roll of your back a bit. You are not in any trouble. You aren't a murderer facing a life sentence in prison. Take words from her and her attorney with a bit of a grain of salt. Acting agressive or like an asshole could be a detriment if they bring it up in front of a judge.

Third, have fun with your son, enjoy him. Start demonstrating that you are a good dad and you can provide a safe, stable home for him.

Fourth, stay away from having girls over and around your son for now (since you said you make decisions with the wrong part of your anatomy) until your divorce is final or legally separated. Lawyers will prey on that like a thanksgiving feast. Dont give them a reason to think that you never had your wifes interests in mind and now that she is gone you are going to bone whomever shows interest.

Fifth, talk to people that you know were divorced and see how the dealt things.

Lastly, been here my friend. Mine was messy and I didn't always restrain with my words as I should have. it cost me for a few years until I wised up and petitioned the court for changes.

E-Mail is in my profile if you want to talk more.

Good Luck. Stay relaxed.
...when you think of everything as Nouns that things go downhill (which lead to naming things -Managers, -Handlers etc).

Yeah, not seeing it. If I "think of everything as Nouns" then I might go with "Noun" or "NounManager" as a name - but they're both nouns, and I don't see how pointing that out helps.

I completely agree with the point that "Manager" style classes are a warning sign that something could be usefully refactored. But if you're just going to refactor stuff into other nouns, and you're trapped in a noun-centric language anyway, I don't see any real connection between the advice on the one hand and the message about how trapped I am on the other.
I'd imagine they were going more for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic
Don't forget npm, and bower, and jam, and component, and ender, and volo, and...

Really, it's only a matter of time before someone creates a JavaScript package manager manager so you can manage your package managers.
It took me a while to realize there were implicit conversions in the companion objects that are necessary in order to get useful functionality out of the data structures.

It might be worth adding an example to make it a bit more explicit in the documentation, such as:

import org.saddle.Vec._
Vec(1,2,3).median // Returns 2

Other than that, it looks pretty cool, I'll go use it right now. :)

Edit: Formatting.
Yes, of course.
But for Linux kernels, for every new release for the few maintained stable kernels, they always tell you it's better to update without giving specific details if there are vulnerabilities and who is affected.
I personally don't bother to upgrade all the time with minor versions (at least on the systems where the kernel is not from the distribution).
Therefore, running something not as root is good, but I should still be afraid of any exploit!
> Your suggestion that my disclaimer only exists in an "upside down" universe suggests you don't agree with that assertion.

No -- I don't agree with a social movement that induces you to lead with an apology for an innate traits such as your gender.
"Aaron's Law" rewrite backfires, reformers now on defensive
Lately, when I code in C#, I write the code I wish was possible with the goal of trying to code to the problem as stated in the requirements. This way the code that solves the problem looks almost exactly like the description of the problem. That is step #1.

Step #2 is doing whatever is necessary to make that code work. Sometimes this means using the more interesting stuff like reflection, dynamic objects, expression tree visitors, etc. but I find that subsequent issues keep getting easier to deal with. This is because step #1 is naturally building a DSL for your problem domain and you start to find that what you did in step #2 is quite reusable.

I've been programming for a while, so I have experience with the imperative, "write the code that solves the problem" approach and it works too, but I am having fun with the "write the code that describes the problem" approach more.

Just my two cents.
The documentary E-Dreams is a very interesting behind the scenes look at Kozmo's rise and (mostly) fall. Not a great documentary as a film, but definitely worth a watch if you're interested in the history of the dot com boom.
"Real" prices are almost always measured in CPI terms, although sometimes the GDP deflator is used (it was CPI in that chart).

The real value of gold was (relatively) flat until gold convertibility ended in 1971 because the price was being fixed by the western powers under Bretton-Woods. Ever after it's been on a non-stop roller-coaster ride. If you bought gold in 1980, far from its value being "stored" it would have lost half its value in 10 years even if you bought after the spike.

It sounds like you don't value low CPI volatility very much (perhaps CPI goods and services are of little interest to you), which is fine, but many would use CPI volatility as the definition of a "store of value" as opposed to a speculative investment.

> When measured in dollars

No, when measured in real terms.

> which have lost 98% of their value since 1913.

Nobody would suggest that dollars are a useful store of value. They are a useful medium of exchange and in the short term, a useful unit of account.
great point !
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There's a Squeak for Android. In iOS you're forbidden to run any programs except through the blessed interpreters (the app store and webkit). I'm sure you know this.

Added: "if we wanted to get Squeak itself into the App Store we would have to cripple it." -- http://forum.world.st/Squeak-VM-for-iPad-Current-progress-td...
Gonverter: easy, straightforward type conversion for Go
North Korea threatens to restart nuclear reactor
Many dream of a world where all software is FOSS.

The point is, only corporations pay for FOSS in form of SaaS, consulting, support contracts or trainings.

Usually the only way consumers pay for FOSS is when buying hardware with FOSS inside.

However if you plan to create a company developing products that are software based, where the average developer salary would be around € 1500 netto, quite normal in many European countries, it will be very hard to keep the company afloat when targeting markets outside what I mentioned above.
Still, I'd rather have a loop and be linear than using a sort and being linearithmic.
NICE!!! So much better than parse
When you bring up contracts, the small print matters. It's still not clear what the original terms were, and since I wasn't an Instacart Express users I didn't see the company's messaging, but I'd assume they're not out to screw people to the tune of $8. Unlike most people on this thread, I assume the best of startups until they do something truly evil.
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CouchDB 1.2.2 released
Duolingo is good for understanding structure and is far more mobile and immersive than RST. I agree with most of the comments here that it's difficult to find a full-service solution since different learners have different needs.

It's very interesting that general consumers recognize RST for what it is: a massive marketing machine that took a standard, linguistic approach to language learning and applied it across many languages. What other products are so bluntly recognized as overpriced but fantastically executed from a marketing & sales approach to where year in and year out people are coming through the door?!?! I would argue that LiveMocha was just as guilty of applying a standard solution across many langauges. Different languages require different methods and approaches.

I run http://lingo-live.com/ which is focused solely on Spanish. As a result, we have a small customer base who NEED or REALLY WANT to learn Spanish and have catered our product to this very specific need (also we further segmented our users into people who mainly want to SPEAK Spanish vs. write or read it, have very busy schedules, and are comfortable accessing their learning entirely over the internet, including live lessons with their tutor over Skype). Not having to worry about how we teach Chinese/Portugese/English/Esperanto... is a huge benefit and we can rely far less on ad spend and more on referrals and WoM since our students are actively engaged with our Spanish service and have someone keeping them accountable to their learning.

Then again, the number one answer we get when speaking to potential students when we ask how they would have gone about searching for a Spanish learning solution is "Rosetta Stone Spanish". Maybe the marketing is more powerful than WoM but how sustainable is it? RST has been running in the red for the last 3 years despite some significant cost-cutting and there are countless articles about the inefficacy of their solution (a few below)
http://language101.com/reviews/rosetta-stone/
http://www.fluentin3months.com/rosetta-stone-review/
http://seekingalpha.com/article/254261-why-rosetta-stone-s-s...

I don't believe LM offers them much in the way of technology but it will be interesting to see what happens with RST's balance sheet behind them from a marketing perspective. The acquisition was a great deal for RST even if they dissolve LM.
Ask HN: How would you define a Minimum Viable VPS (MVVPS)?
Hopefully the title is self explanatory. I am looking to setup a VPS for a side project that could come to completion soon and wanted to setup a VPS to show it. Any pointers about the minimum setup ? My app is a Python/Flask/Postgresql along with the goodies of front end (bootstrap,jquery etc.).
As a consumer, if you use LevelUp at the merchant, you get x dollar credit for every y dollars you spend. For the merchant, you aren't paying any credit card fees on that y amount. For LevelUp, they take a cut from the x dollar credit amount.

I assume that LevelUp must batch credit card transactions in order to make the fees cheap for them, and that probably requires floating a good amount of money on a daily/weekly basis.

I use LevelUp almost everyday, sometimes multiple times a day. A lot of places in downtown Boston take it, and it seems like it's great for both the merchant and the consumer.
Western Union Mulls Using Bitcoin
> Is this premature optimisation?

In this case, I feel that it is not. It's just using the right data set for the job. This is exactly the sort of thing that sets are for.
Ok, I still don't understand the point you're arguing though? What advice do you have for the OP that will help him. Painting him in to a corner isn't going to help.

You're reading too far in to what I've said. I never said that confidence is "all that's wrong". I said that confidence can outshine his condition. That doesn't make the condition go away. I have empathy for his situation, and I acknowledge that he's got a challenge ahead, but I don't think that's a very good reason to lay down and give up.
Sounds like a message during checkout (click checkout and instead of confirmation of order get a message explaining the change, and have to click checkout/confirm or something) would be helpful to alleviate this problem.
Quite true.

Every time I see such posts here, I think what is the business value of such changes.
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I don't think we are regressing because the AOL of olden days was an indicator of why the Flipboards of today is successful and why Google Reader is dead. We were never progressing to begin with because the mass was not interested in curating their own, rather, they are happy with the apps buttons, the beautiful looking magazines and what not.
Something similar to that was posted on HN a few weeks ago, unfortunately I don't have the discussion link but I did star the repo[0]

[0] http://usablica.github.com/intro.js/
If I showed you a list of non-Bitcoin-accepting merchants picked at random, you would almost certainly have the same reaction: you would not trust most of them, because they are all too tiny and you have never heard of them.

You have to realize that the web is a long-tail ecosystem. There are tons of small merchants you have never heard of, while the biggest ones (Amazon, Newegg, etc) are just a few and represent <1%. What you call a "reputable" merchant exclude 99% of all merchants. Plus, the most reputable/biggest merchants will probably be the last ones to adopt Bitcoin (the bigger you are, the less likely you are to adopt a disruptive technology).
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Tell HN: EmberTO (ember.js) Meetup on Thursday at 7PM  Unspace
"Hi Emberites

First of all, we want to apologize to any of the usual denizens who showed up at Bento Miso on the 26th for the old Tuesday slot - we've decided to change things up to take advantage of new spaces and formats (plus Thursdays just sound better), and we owe you some treats for the miscommunication.

The next EmberTO meet-up is taking place at Unspace HQ (342 Queen Street West, Floor 3) at 7:00pm on Thursday April 4th. In lieu of the usual solo speaker, we're doing a show-and-tell format, as many of us have new projects and discoveries that we want to showboat. We also welcome you to get on the soapbox to chat about anything that's been fascinating or perplexing you, or demo a freshly minted project.

As a teaser, Robin will demo an Ember app that can browse Reddit, and Carsten will be showing off a music discovery application he developed in Ember. Jamie will also be showcasing a Pusher walkthrough which will help by introducing a sensible starting point towards a structured and declarative integration with your Ember application.

Also (to make up for our mea culpa moment) we have Amsterdam Breweries delivering some of their good stuff to keep things bright and social. Looking forward to seeing both new and familiar faces!

Soon,

The EmberTO Team"
I read your article. It's well written and it's worth reading. Let your words stand on their own. Give your target audience the benefit of the doubt.

Also, your assertion - "By acknowledging upfront that I have many biases and that I hold a very real position of privilege in society as a man, I am trying to speak not from up high, but as a peer, as an equal." is also reverse discrimination. I am sure not every man or woman would agree that a man always has the upper hand. And please, your statement is general to the point of meaningless.

Like I said, in the spirit of open discussion, you have written a great article but your disclaimer is a weak point.
Iteration != innovation, but the two certainly can overlap in a venn diagram.
The problems already have been solved long ago, it's just a matter of cost. Ksplice can update the kernel without a reboot, but has a cost. 2 minutes of downtime has a cost. As does not having a backup server and losing the one and only production server.
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It's ABS. Most professional drivers can outperform Anti-lock Braking Systems, or at the very least the first several iterations of them.

But putting ABS makes a mediocre driver able to do things they wouldn't otherwise.

The article itself highlights that someone shooting this hit a target from 1,008 yards - using a rifle for the first time, ever.
>its not true that they don't value add; its just that their value adding happens once - the cost of production is borne by media companies, and they assume the risk of not making back their investment money. The value they created then is the possibility of a good work being created.

Investment is not a value-adding activity. When you invest, others' value-adding is what makes your investment grow. The value-adders are the people who take your capital and use it to make something of greater value than the principal amount you invested.

You're onto something when you mention commissioning works of art, though. Currently the motivation for companies to invest in the production of art is the ROI they can get from (exclusively) selling copies of the art, as guaranteed by copyrights. If copyrights are technologically obsolete because copying is now virtually free, then we as a society do need to find a new way to finance the creation of large-scale, expensive works of art--if we still want to enjoy that type of entertainment, that is.
As an American it took... perhaps 5 minutes or so to scratch my head at the name :).
Instacart's challenge is that unlike an on-demand private car, which has no "set" price, groceries from a specific store have a price the store sets. So the markup is more obvious to the user.

Since it seems like you (and probably many other users) would prefer a "single fee with everything rolled in", would you prefer to have no markup, no tip and a single, but higher delivery fee? Or would you prefer a higher (but opaque/variable) markup with no delivery fee and no tip?

Personally, I wouldn't put too much stock into what one driver says. The claim that some service employees are getting a commission seems unusual and surprising. Commissions are usually reserved for jobs with a sales component.
This would be equivalent to signing a contract and, on the reverse side of the contract, it stating that the drafter of the contract is not bound by the terms. Can't do it. Both parties are bound or neither is.
Just to add a useful, encouraging data point. My DBA supervisor has a really challenging stammer, and he's fantastic -- both as a technical leader and a people manager. We value him highly and his stammer has never, ever been a problem (or changed the way people interact with him). There is hope!
I was sort of sad to learn earlier this year that the scalala project had become inactive, and when a friend pointed me at Breeze, the first thing that concerned me was that it seemed to "do ALL the things!", rolling in a bunch of other functionality along with a scalala revamp. What I really wanted was an elegant, fast, well written numerical computing library in Scala, and this seems to be it. This is great. Now all we need is to be able to tell this to use GPU hardware acceleration under the hood for things like FFTs and we're set!
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