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OpenStack provides virtualization, storage and networking services. You have the basic gist, once nebula provisions everything, you can interact immediately with the system, provisioning virtual machines and storing data.

You can use a browser-based web dashboard or REST apis to interact with the system. Object storage (think S3) is exposed externally, block storage is supported, but it isn't currently exposed outside the system (its for vms only). AD integration is in the works.
Right, but presumably Medicare's prices are significantly lower due to its negotiating power (which is why "Medicare for All" may not be such a bad idea). As we can see from many of the comments here, the prices vary widely, even when you make the effort to find out what they are for your provider and insurer.
I am not a lawyer but i find it hard to believe that a divorce case can be made out of the fact that the husband watches porn. For the embarrassment part, sure it will embarrass you if the lawyer brings it up even though I don't see why. Can a divorce lawyer on HN comment on this if any ?
This is what i got after forcing the jsonp callback: "Product sold out! Thanks for shopping."
I still want my refund on items I never received from Instacrap. There are about $15 worth of groceries that mysteriously never made it to me, but I still paid for.
Even if you have Instacart Express, they enforce a $10 minimum per store you want to order from on top of the delivery fee. Plus this wasn't a service offered to any except the earliest adopters. If they can't profit or deal with the volume from the early adopters buying at least the minimum for a store and picking the (formerly free, now only free for $35+) slower delivery option, they need to phase out the service altogether.
Growth, and positive interaction with the rest of the world?
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Your safe dark place sounds like a good candidate for growing mushrooms!
Another stutterer here. Fortunately, my stutter is limited to certain phonemes (generally initial plosives). I can generally just avoid words that I know I will stutter on, but unfortunately some words have no synonyms. For example, I stutter on the word "but", so I use "though" anywhere it wouldn't be terribly awkward.

I have a phone interview coming up this week. Hope I manage to keep a lid on it!
He means Fremont street in Las Vegas. The area surrounding it is largely populated by places to gamble and find bail bondsmen. Very un-Palo Alto.
> Of course, don't send something offensive like "you're the worst programmer ever". I don't think anyone would be offended by "we're looking for someone with more experience in X", which is what I suggested.

Well yes, but you have to tell people the truth for it to be useful, which means saying things like "we didn't find your design to be that good" or "your code isn't that great". The recipient will not be happy to receive those unsolicited. I'm sure they'd be perfectly happy with "looking for more experience", as they're not to blame for that.
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At the extreme risk of starting a flame war, why do you seem to posit that he should do that as a moral obligation?

(I'm reading that you posit that, perhaps I misinterpreted)

If I read that correctly, under what strictures do you interpret reading about the idea of privilege (noting that this word in and of itself has contested and differing meanings) as a moral obligation?
My take on this is the following: d3 / js are great because they provide a portable expressive substrate for providing rich interactive visuals.

At the same time, If I'm writing a tool to do data vis (say in R, Haskell, Scale, etc), while I may want to leverage browser based rendering, I really really really have no interest in "compiling" my visuals to javascript code. My take on vega is it provides a nice "shim" so I can emit a visual which will be rendered to d3, without writing a mini javascript compiler.

tl;dr Vega (as they say in their documentation on the github wiki), is a data format layer that makes it easier for high level data vis tools to emit a format which is used to construct the D3 rendering.
I had a similar initial reaction, and your second intuition makes more sense. The responsibility is now offloaded from JS side to server side to generate proper json. I can see a gem to generate the json based on configurations options and combine with data in rails/sinatra apps.
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lightning fast!
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Yes, I would recommend "The Grammar of Graphics" for serious attempts to express visualizations: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0387245448
This is awesome - congrats Phil, Steli and team!
Totally off topic, but wasn't that shot in Pittsburgh?
While most of the people I know use gmail, Yahoo mail is a fairly close second. It tends to be among the less technically sophisticated, but they really use it.
> I don't understand why poor kids, ghetto kids, don't do startups to get out of poverty.

Actually, poor kids start more startups that rich kids but access to money and network is very limited. I do think that "Y Combinator for kids-from-poor-families" might be even more successful that Y Combinator.
The cynical developer inside me thought, "Windows 8 has so little traction among Windows developers, Redmond is trying to attract Apple developers out of desperation."
We call ourselves innovators, but most of us are really just iterators...

That's a fine line. The most significant innovations are often iterations. (Google comes to mind.)

Why do we do this? Because we want to get rich, of course.

I disagree with "Because we want to get rich". And I definitely disagree with "of course". Real hackers do this because we just have to. It just so happens that currently it's also a great way to make money. Many of us hacked long before it was this way and many of us still hack for little or nothing (side projects, open source, etc.)

But technologists used to work on big problems.

We still do, probably more than ever. But if you're busy reading Techcrunch and going to conferences and hackathons, you'd probably never know about what the other 99% of us are doing.

They did it because technology is about improving the human condition...

There are many ways to do this, all with relative importance. Putting a man on the moon was definitely cool, but so is getting fresh produce to your supermarket (which probably benefits more people). Like a football team, we hackers all do our part in the blocking, tackling, running, throwing, catching, and scoring. It all counts.

Just a few of the things I've contributed to in the past few years ("sexy" is in the eye of the beholder):

- people get the right prescription medication on time
- firetrucks and ambulances get to where they're supposed to be
- parts that go into cars and planes are properly certified
- prisoners are kept in jail
- those same prisoners get proper medical care
- electronic equipment gets assembled properly and on time
- medical supplies get dispatched to where they're supposed to
- insurance claims are processed properly
- quality data is properly maintained for food items
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I'd be glad to discuss this over email if you like; the upshot is that I don't think there's anything formally proven anywhere along the way, but it might be interesting to discuss if it theoretically could be (that is, given a hypothetical imperative language, is fork/join code possible to fully verify as I believe or not.)
Well I guess that means I'll give up on trying and get back to work.
Is this comment in the wrong thread?
From the OP:

But technologists used to work on big problems.

Many still do. And some technologists used to work on small problems, and some still do. There never was a perfect time in which every technologist ran around working on the Biggest Problem They Could Find.
OP here: We're still gathering feedback and testing our service. While in this phase, all provisioned databases are free for testing/non-production purposes. Looking forward to your thoughts!
Regarding iteration vs. innovation, I'm so mad each time I hear about Square, Stripe, Balanced, etc. etc. as innovations in the payments space.

Find me a way to get rid of the absurd 3% worldwide tax that Visa, Amex, Mastercard take on every payment for almost NO added value (well there was added value 30 years ago, but today ?) and then, OK, let's call this innovation.
I expected that this was how the judge would rule.
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Really cool, can't wait to use it :)
Great product Steli!

Jorge
Balance that against the positive ego effects of thinking that you pulled yourself up by your bootstraps and built the log cabin you were born in.

Parent post was right for a good number of people.
Author here. I've been doing iOS side projects for a few years now, but recently quit my job to do this full time. This is an app I wrote to scratch an itch and try some new techniques (including lots of ReactiveCocoa).

I'll also be releasing the source in a few days along with a blog post about the process from start to finish.

In short, Vinylogue is an iOS app that's like TimeHop for music. It uses your Last.fm listening data, so if you haven't been an active user there it's not going to be much fun. You can still try it out though and use my Last.fm username (ybsc). No password is required.

Critiques and criticism are welcomed.
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Congrats Phil, Steli, Jason, Thomas, and any other engineer who's creeped in there since my last visit ;-)!
Congrats Yahoo! and Dropbox! Looks like a great integration. Very similar to what Attachments.me has done for gmail to Dropbox, Box, Skydrive and Google Drive.
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This is awesome, I literally was going to research javascript intro/tutorials today. Off to a great start!

Have you tested across browsers? I just need it to work in webkit/mozilla. maybe ie10.
I was eventually charged for the express, around the same time as they implemented the pricing changes. I also never got an email.

Curiously, my instacart express membership lasts from when I first signed up, not when I got charged, but the picture attached to the article shows March 20, 2013 as the start date there. At the same time the author says he signed up "last year". So I'm a bit confused.
If you read the article, it doesn't actually say that Western Union are looking at working with Bitcoin, just "digital currencies like Bitcoin". For all we know the Bitcoin name drop is completely gratuitous and they've never even heard of it.
Note that its not about getting rich, but about not being broke. A very distinctive difference. Not being broke allows for a good life style. And that's what most of all want.
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Not using Continuous Integration and Deployment? OP: Might I suggest https://circleci.com.
I've found in declarative style, most mistakes just turn into compilation errors.

That said, the "why did it choose that terrible implementation?" problem does occasionally come up in declarative programming, and inherently never comes up in imperative.
Botnet uses Evernote as C&C server.
Oh Kozmo. My friend told me tales of ordering a Snickers bar at 3am while some dude on a bike would come and deliver it by 3:45am.

It would be nice if startups could learn lessons that don't directly affect their company, but the lesson probably wouldn't hold as much weight/carry as much significance if they didn't experience it firsthand.

I would love to believe that every startup within a vertical learns lessons from the pioneers that have failed, but sometimes the lessons are in the details that aren't readily available.
Isn't that the point of http://requirejs.org/ and the AMD API - http://requirejs.org/docs/whyamd.html ? Why is there not more of a push for frameworks and libraries to be AMD compatible? The Dojo Toolkit is, and thus lets you load just what you need.
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This should be to https://www.nebula.com/nebula-one (without the trailing slash)
When a company makes claim to your after hours work, Is that the line between a "corporation" and "start up"?

I saw this at a previous company (some say it's common place). They put the legal-sleaze into the stock option documents saying employees would have to seek written consent for work outside of the company. So classy!
Hrmm, not happening for us. What browser are you on?
Thanks for sharing this.

There's a quote I remember from somewhere about this that was something along the lines of "When you give someone two bad options, don't be surprised when they take one."
Seems like it could be adapted for lightweight telescopic optics.
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"doing the same thing with DVD players" implies to me that you would have a set of large warehouses containing stripped down DVD players, DVDs, and some automated mechanism of loading and unloading DVDs into players which ensures that a given DVD is only watched by a single customer at a time. Would this be illegal?
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I agree--take a look at our startup OneJobOneCause.com.

our mission is to help those who have been unemployed by giving them life-saving resources with a % of paid employer postings
Then why didn't you request one? When you get your receipt and they ask you to rate your delivery, there's a link for if you had problems. And if you rate <5 stars, they also give you a few options for any problems you had, including "missing or incorrect items". They've always been prompt about refunding me if I tell them that they forgot an item.
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Prolog is declarative programming take to the maximum (excluding things like Answer Set Programming/clingo etc).

In Prolog you ask questions.
For example:
subset([1,2],[2]).

then it goes away and says "yes". Or you want to know if any subsets exist:
subset([1,2],B).

B = []
B = [1]
B = [2]

This makes it really really nice for some surprising tasks (Windows NT used to ship with a prolog interpreter for setting up the network)
Wow, my Space Dice just arrived. That was fast! I guess being one town away had something to do with it.

I'll play it later with my kids and see what they think (my opinion rarely counts these days).
I also highly recommend Pimsleur. I used it for Mandarin and apart from using a few dated terms, was brilliant.
I've been using Julia for my thesis research lately, and I find multiple dispatch to be a great match for writing mathematical algorithms, especially because of the ad-hoc specialization that it allows based on all parameter types. OO approaches always seemed weird for this sort of thing, where you'd have to decide which type "owns" the ability of how to work with the other types.

What I wish for:

- faster lambdas and which capture numbers as values not as addresses. I left Python over the latter, it caught me up all the time. At least Julia developers don't consider it a feature and plan to fix it.

- to be able to specify function domain and range types, for documentation and sanity checking

- maybe some improvements in comprehensions would be nice, so I could have an Array of Arrays of something e.g.. Currently the [x for...] comprehensions tend to collapse things together while the {x for ...} comprehensions tend to lose the types of what's inside.

Overall a great language already and a positive experience.
This rocks.
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I've got just about zero tolerance left for people who don't view other people as people, instead of embodiments of their socioeconomic-racial-gender status.

A person is not their balance sheet, their skin color, or their preferred type of partner.

The truth is that--barring sheer crazy--anyone would play the cards dealt to them as well as they can muster.

This "Check your privilege" stuff, once a useful exercise in introspection, appears to have become another threadbare excuse for real thought and critique. What a fucking bore.
I'm sorry, dozed of for a moment. What was I reading?
There's an app for tractor roll-overs. That's innovation by the author's definition:

http://www.iowafarmertoday.com/news/livestock/there-s-an-app...
I'd say it's not modern computing he's unhappy with, but modern people.
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Yea, they did a killer job at SXSW this year getting in front of a lot of people and making real transactions. The hardware is great, but getting stuff into vendors is hard.
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Just had to go back and check my receipts. I have express and all my orders were over $35 since January so no bad surprises for me.

I wonder what's going to happen with Instacart. Some days I love it. Sometimes it just seems so expensive and frustrating. We were driving home from Sacramento on Sunday and wanted to make a pasta dish for some out of town guests. It seemed perfect--get our shopping done while we were stuck in the car. But what ended up happening was every item was
"commonly out of stock" and so we're supposed to pick a replacement. But the suggested replacement for, e.g., asparagus was broccoli. Other items were similar. And at least on iphone, we didn't know how to pick a better replacement. So we ended up scrapping the order and stopping by Safeway on the way home.

Writing this, I wonder if a first-class concept of recipes in Instacart would improve the situation.

And since I'm babbling, I'll just add that although I haven't tried it yet, I'm excited by the idea of ordering Instacart to someone else's house (say, I'm at a dinner party and we need some ingredients.) Of course the minimum for free delivery does make this potentially less useful.
Put the TL;DR at the top!

TL;DR Instacart offered a premium subscription called Instacart Express that waives delivery fees on all orders for $99 a year. They seem to have silently changed their policy and now charge $7.99 p/delivery on orders that are under $35. They also claim to have sent an email regarding this policy that at least 3 people have not received nor have they publicly posted any announcement of this policy change on their website.
Plenty of other previous mentions here for you to peruse:
https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=ne...
Unless I got it wrong: He paid $100 for free deliveries a year instead of paying $7.99 each order. Instacart changed it and started charging him $7.99 on orders under $35. Solution is to give his money back (maybe pro-rated) or honor the original deal. But Instacart doesn't have a choice, sending someone to deliver you a $5 ice cream isn't sustainable
What's the most infamous case of it appearing? Has it happened in the wild?
expect Yahoo! toolbar in the Dropbox installer soon ;)
Ooh, I forgot all about prolog!

I worked through the 7 languages in 7 weeks book, and solving a sudoku with prolog blew my mind. I think the first "real" programming I did was a sudoku solver in Excel and VBScript (yeuch).
The goal is to render everything server-side; you'll need to handle POSTs and whatnots separately (since rendr is effectively middleware, so you can do what you like and redirect back to a GET route to display data.) In theory, it deprecates perfectly.
Right. My guess is that with services like Twilio, CALEA provisions are fulfilled via the carriers themselves. Any thoughts on that?
Consistency is important. There are multiple styles (Chicago, APA, MLA, AP, etc) - picking one and sticking to it makes your writing more readable. Subconsciously, a reader will come to expect certain constructions or a particular flow (e.g., serial/Oxford comma or not). Think about consistency in areas such as document layout/structure (bullet points or prose), sentence structure, word choice, and punctuation.
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It does work on webkit/mozilla. I don't have access to IE10 though, so don't know about it.
Instacart continues to disappoint me: I had a detailed conversation with one of their drivers: the driver relayed to me a number of disappointing and distressing aspects of their employment, including an opaque policy regarding tip dispersal, differences in compensation between new and old employees, e.g. commission for new employees, and other shady discrepancies.

Now compound this with a general degradation in quality of service: Recently I've had a driver attempt to deliver the wrong groceries to me, in fact the driver almost left before I could tell them that these were not the groceries I had ordered...prior to that I've had several incorrect or missing items that I was billed for. I wonder if this push towards changes in their driver employment terms has led to a overall lowered quality in the service? This is just speculation of course, a number of factors probably contribute to this. But the bottom line is my experience as a customer has continued to deteriorate.

I had reached out to Intacart directly over email to try to understand how the drivers were compensated so I could determine how much to tip the drivers. I also inquired about the exact mark up over the base cost of an item: I feel like I'm being charged at minimum three times over the base cost: 1) mark up 2) delivery fee 3) driver tip. Contrast this with Uber, who roll everything into a single fee that I never have to think twice about. At any rate, I never received any response from Instacart and I'm still not sure how to appropriately compensate the drivers. It's really disappointing that Instacart has both declined in quality and made it more difficult for me as a customer to understand them as a regular expense.

I would probably be better off just walking to the grocery store or taking a cab: at least then I know exactly what I'm paying for and can anticipate the rough cost.
This article fails to point that Linux system are usually attacked by malware and rootkits, not by old-fashioned binary-file-modifying viruses.

For a recent account, see:

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/04/exclusive-ongoing-ma...
I'm not sure I agree with some of the examples in the article. The examples used paint declarative programming as basically abstractions over details. The problem is that there is no line where an abstraction crosses the boundary into declarative programming. It's not really about abstractions but about control flow. If your code has a specific order it has to run in, then its imperative as you're still describing the steps needed to perform the action. SQL is declarative because you're describing the output set rather than the steps to generate it. Functional languages are considered declarative because of the fact that pure functions can be rewritten, optimized, lazy evaluated, etc by the runtime. I have a hard time considering map/reduce/etc in isolation as examples of declarative programming, as they're usually used in conjuction with an algorithm that most definitely has a defined execution order.