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What is the appeal of this when the rates are so high? The fees on most exchanges are in the .4%-.6% range for low volume. If I tried to run an exchange and had to pay a 3rd party 1% of all transactions, I'd be running at a loss.

Furthermore, you can pretty much already do this by buying/selling on localbitcoins.com[1]. They provide an online wallet, escrow service, and also charge a 1%, but they don't charge a monthly fee.

[1] https://localbitcoins.com/cash_exchange_howto
Here are some books that I have found worthwhile, for the complete and utter beginner--really, preliminary to learning about genomics itself:

--Matt Ridley (1999). _Genome: The autobiography of a species in 23 chapters_. New York, NY: HarperCollins.

--James D. Watson [yes, _that_ James D. Watson] (2003). _DNA: The secret of life_. New York, NY: Knopf.

If you have any interest in the application of genomic science to psychology, this is a good place to start (presuming a basic knowledge of, say, the contents of a good Psych 101 course):

--Robert Plomin, John C. Defries, Ian W. Craig, and Peter McGuffin [Eds.] (2003). _Behavioral genetics in the postgenomic era_. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Best of luck to you.

--Mark Koltko-Rivera
Not until they have their own crawlers, fully dependent on their own crawls I mean. They can't compete with them using others' crawls.

I use DDG as my main search engine but sometimes I just give up and have to fall back to Google which I think is because of their reach or maybe filtering. Happens mostly with pages/searches specific to my country(IN).
GNUemacs.
The rate at which I can consume material definitely varies depending on the material. I read philosophy a good 2-3x slower than literature.

It's a little bit disingenuous to suggest those speaking of speed reading are saying, "1,000 WPM ALL THE TIME ALL THE ABSORPTION IRRESPECTIVE OF MATERIAL!" - I don't think anybody is saying that.
Could be Google AppEngine, or the Node.JS on Google chrome Minimum +V8. (not that I know many people using that). Or it runs as a bot net :-)

Sound like the kind of line you put on your home page to make it to the top of hacker news.
That's pretty much where the minimum wage comment comes from. I admit that it is a bit hyperbolic, but they are still ridiculously overworked and underpaid.
If I had to guess, it might be because, while philosophically more "pure", I believe GPL is a less pragmatic license if the goal is getting your software more widely used.
I created a byobu ticket to cover this issue as it is what ultimately starts/connects tmux pointing to this thread. Thanks for the solution. https://bugs.launchpad.net/byobu/+bug/1168734
Not sure I quite understand...
Is this so the kids on the corner can sell bitcoins for cash instead of lemonaide?
I must have missed something. Who the hell was getting extorted by AppGratis?
remember Clusty?

Nope.
High exchange fees.
Little info about what it is built on.
Suspect timing (and likely too short of a build time)
Likely to have regulation issues in the near future especially if lots of people do it.

All adds up to not how I would do it.
I don't understand why they want to build a high-performance exchange engine, in Node.js. Even I wouldn't choose my language of choice, but would rather look at either Java, C/C++, hell even Go or Erlang!
Feel free to fork and improve, I'd be interested to see how it would work with your APIs.
I'm sorry, but this assemblage is aspiring to a sophisticated strata of dialogue. Kindly elevate your contribution beyond the 2nd grade level. (http://sarahktyler.com/code/sample.php)

...alright, even my tongue-in-cheek comment only hit the the 7th grade. Methinks the true goal of "a Chrome extension which hides all HackerNews comments that are below an 8th grade reading level" is to get everyone off the comments and back to work.
Show HN: New Startup ChariText Offers Users Unique Way To Support Charities
Phoenix AZ, http://www.stremor.com Silicon Valley tech team, living in "the middle of nowhere"

We don't care if you have a college degree. Just if you have skills. We do rocket science. Which is what is generally missing from startups outside "The Valley"
But that $10/hr is gone once you are out of residency. And particularly for the Surgeons - who are still working 100 hours - the real money starts. Med Schools is a fine financial decision at this point in history. Lots of debt - but lots of jobs, with good pay as well.
I guess I could live on that amount. :\
Right on with the black and white comment. Many technology/software companies are run by sales people. Check out Cisco or Oracle.

And if anyone wants to start a software company and run it from a sales or marketing perspective, they're free to do so! Nothing special prevents it.

But from my perspective, the author begins to answer his own question with the 'soft skills' musing. When people without measurable skills are in charge of things, you run a much higher risk of incompetence derailing the business. And even one or two average-competence people in leadership positions can make any organization inefficient.

Also, I think his point about quality being a secondary consideration to customers should be explored more. That point is only true when there is a high cost (be it time, money, or fear) to switching products, and thats where you see the sales based companies succeed. Software is often easy to replace, in relative terms.
If you want a great startup to work at you have to find the start up that fits you. And invest. Not dollars directly, dollars in your pocket. Move. Live cheap. Take less salary and more equity. There are startups on both coasts, and a few in the middle. But the most important thing is that you find a job you like in a company you believe in that you think can go somewhere.
Why is _this_ one the front page?
Steve Jobs' 'private legacy'
Bad news: cloud cover over most of northern USA will significantly decrease odds of seeing it :(

I was planning on driving out from Chicago to WI or IN. :(
Hi bosifounder, thank you for taking the time to create a hackernews account in response to this conversation, welcome to the community.

I think you made some interesting points in what you wrote but at the same time I feel you're missing the broader problem here.

I feel that CoFoundersLab betrayed my confidence by sharing my personal and confidential information with your company without my permission. They told me when I signed up that "We promise not to share your email with anyone else." And then without any appreciable warning or forenotice their system transmitted my personal data to your server when i clicked the "take assessment" link in my internal CoFoundersLab Profile.

Can you please explain why you feel this is an acceptable practice? I would further like to quote for you the relevant section of CoFoundersLab's Privacy Policy which states:

"The Personal Information collected by CoFoundersLab is kept completely private and confidential and is not shared with third parties, unless you submit a lead form from the Resources section of the website; in which base the contact information you provide will shared with the third-party who fulfills the specified product or service. CoFoundersLab shall make no effort to validate any information provided by you."

http://www.cofounderslab.com/privacy-policy

I absolutely did not "submit a lead from the resources section of the website" and therefore I do not understand why you or CoFoundersLab felt the sharing of my personal data was OK.
I agree it's tricky to get right. The art world is one example where some philanthropic spending is arguably for the public benefit, but other philanthropic spending has arguably fallen "the prey of a clique".

I wasn't thinking in my comment upthread as systemically, though, in terms of whether philanthropy or, say, taxation, is a better way to tackle inequality. I actually lean a bit towards the latter myself, and am skeptical of whether very wealthy people are actually good at directing large philanthropic projects on average.

I was thinking more small-scale at just a cultural level, like the anecdotes this article is describing. The article paints a picture of some wealthy people in a certain set of circumstances who are quite dismissive of poor people, even contemptuous towards them. But in other circumstances, it's seen as one of the rewards of wealth that you can act as a sort of magnanimous benefactor, gracious servant of the public. Whatever causes that cultural difference strikes me as interesting. One guess is that it relates to whether wealthy people feel some sense of community with poorer people in the same area, so they gain something socially from being a town's benefactor, because the poorer people they're helping out are in the same social circles. But I imagine that's only one aspect.
Something like that. Plus there are partial years involved - new classes arrive halfway through the year, so you only get 1/2 the bonus that year.

Also, only a very small percentage of people last that long. Figure maybe 20-25% of first year analysts survive three years to become associates, and maybe 20-25% of new post-MBA associates survive three years to become VPs. (Some leave for better jobs, of course.)

I used to keep a spreadsheet listing every member of my associate class, and the date they quit. I handed it off when I left; I'd guess that 9 years later no more than 5 out of something like 80 are left at the same bank, but they're probably Managing Directors.
How old are you? Your attitude of absolute, rigid moral certainty suggests you don't have much experience with the real world.
Here was my comment on the story 5 days ago. A couple of folks down voted me initially!

"It's all fun and games until an American technology company leverages their market share and business model to decimate a European technology company. A couple more of these and the EU will start dragging them in front of committees with little need to be concerned about a backlash."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5519922
Thing is, this kind of logic has been used before, to justify hiring strategies that left the unbalanced status quo untouched (whether in relation to gender, race, or whatever). This approach shifts the responsibility for the gender imbalance in STEM onto the educators (where, admittedly, some of the responsibility does belong), rather than placing it on the hiring mechanisms of STEM firms.

However, at the risk of mentioning the obvious, it is not the educators who are not hiring women into STEM positions, but STEM companies. If we want to see the gender imbalance change, that is where we have to address that imbalance.

To say this is not to take a position on Adria Richards. It's about the logic of the position, not the mis/behavior of some of that logic's adherents.
"Spinning Reserve is the on-line reserve capacity that is synchronized to the grid system and ready to meet electric demand within 10 minutes of a dispatch instruction by the ISO. Spinning Reserve is needed to maintain system frequency stability during emergency operating conditions and unforeseen load swings."

http://www.caiso.com/docs/2003/09/08/2003090815135425649.pdf

The poster isn't saying they're producing energy, just that they must be ready to do so at any time.
I really love the look and feel of Facebook Home, great work on the overall design! I do think it's a bit awkward in how it handles my applications and the lack of widgets is a huge downer, but I'm sure you guys will figure that out.

That said, is there any chance the Facebook for Android app will be updated to be more like Facebook Home? It's incredible how much _better_ Home looks and feels on my phone. It's incredibly jarring when an action in Home opens the regular Facebook app.
I may have to reexamine my chosen career path, and my nationality. :p

In all honesty, this seems almost too good to be true, especially given the state of healthcare in America. At 25 hours per week, it would take three Canadian doctors to perform the labor done by a single American doctor at a significant markup. (At least right out of a residency. I am not entirely aware of salaries, but I've heard on multiple occasions that a new doctor will make between $100k-$150k.) I'm curious as to why Canadian hospitals choose to emplace such short shifts, and why there is such a massive price disparity between nations of similar prosperity and social norms.
From what I understand, this app had 12M users. Is that correct? So for people here to claim it was at all spammy, explain to me why it never had 12M uninstalls and zero users. There must have been value users got from it.

EDIT to kill a typo.

Second edit to add more:

I get a daily email from a service called BookBub. AFAIK, it's basically a similar model to AppGratis. It's pay for placement. Yet every email I discover a legitimately free Kindle book I can download. I understand it's pay-to-place. I don't find it spammy. Do I want to see everything be pay-to-place? Hell no. But to say I can't have BookBub or something else of my own free will -- well, something is just wrong with that thinking.
Cyprus is not a good case study - the banks there actually are the whole economy, to some degree. Aside from tourism, they were supporting themselves by banking a lot the money coming of Russia, etc. The assets of Cypriot banks were ~9X their GDP, and the size of the estimated bailout was about 1X GDP.

If you don't let big banks fail, then nobody ever has to worry about counterparty risk, and they won't keep an eye on each other to see if one bank is taking too much risk or backing too many bets.
I remember that Comment. I upvoted it then and now too.
Are widgets considered a power user thing? My mom/dad/wife all use widgets and I'd say they are far from power users.
A plea for better open source etiquette
I agree, but yea, it's there.
The problem is that large scale debt makes you interested in money AFTER you get the degree. While getting it, the debts on hold, and there is no pressure.

If you want a class of Doctors that don't care about money, have them accumulate moderate debt, and get a nice but not extravagant income. But Huge debt with a just large enough income to pay it off, just makes people who otherwise wouldn't care about cash, start caring about cash.

(This is exacerbated by the fact that many Doc's go straight through and have never had a job until Residency, where they have to pay off the debt - but are not (yet) making enough money to do so. That'll focus your mind on money fast.)
Okay. Point made. Frankly, in a culture that tends to ignore the long-term on so many dimensions, this is a welcome little bit of software.

One thing, though: It should ask for "Date of Birth," rather than "Birthday," which often implies month and day only.
I find this really interesting, thanks for posting it.
I'm wondering has to never been considered in the pleatora of CSS Frameworks out there? Trying to write my own SASS rules based on it now.
These are touchy subjects with vertically integrated monopolies. The equivalent to separating the value, and price, of transport from other services in telecom is called "structural separation." Telcos don't like it one bit. They prefer pricing and costs to be opaque. It may be that obfuscating costs and margins in consumer electric service is just as advantageous to the utilities.
The Selection of Go at Apcera
Dude, you're missing a donate button :)
How does it affect user's privacy? Play page says - THIS APPLICATION REQUIRES NO SPECIAL PERMISSIONS TO RUN.

That I don't understand this coming from Facebook, if this means Facebook isn't reading anything.

Though the app is not available in my country, a friend from US said it's plain clunky and he uninstalled it within minutes. My concern would be privacy, mostly because it's Facebook.
I remember the original thread that Aaron posted to HN asking for help when his legal problems began. The replies were mostly unsympathetic.
That was step two.
Thanks for indulging me my rather public chest beating moment too.
This seems incredibly unnecessary, especially since I might actually use their exchange if they ran one. (More design chops than most of the abhorrent exchanges.)

Though an alert() is a rather inelegant confirmation...
I think it's a little unfair to compare a professional journalists OpEd and the rumination of someone fairly connected in Finance over a decade with a "how I got my first real job" post.

Yes, depth of insight and research Mark out the journalists article from the blog post. But longform, as the editor of the New Yorker will tell you is effort and cost

Tldr - it's good if unfair advice. Take it
If you're interested, I have replicated the /json and /db services for a few of the popular ASP.NET options for creating JSON services.

- mono-httphandler

- mono-mvc-dapper

- mono-mvc-nhibernate

- mono-mvc-raw

- mono-servicestack

Notes:

1) All projects use MySQL as the database.

2) mono-httphandler uses bare-bones HttpHandlers and will probably be the best performer because there is no real "framework" involved. It mirrors the Java servlet example. As I believe JSON serialization is one of the key indicators of performance, it has the option of using 3 different JSON serializers popular in the .NET world: NewtonSoft, ServiceStack and the default ASP.NET MVC serializer from System.Web.Extensions.dll. At present the rest of the ASP.NET MVC projects are using the default JSON serializer and should probably changed to use the fastest option (as servlet uses Jackson) which is probably going to be ServiceStack's serializer.

3) Dapper is a micro ORM created by Sam Saffron of StackOverflow fame. More info here: http://samsaffron.com/archive/2011/03/30/How+I+learned+to+st...

4) Nhibernate is a popular full-featured ORM that is similar to Java's Hibernate ORM.

5) mono-mvc-raw uses bare-bones ADO.NET calls for database access.

6) mono-servicestack uses the ServiceStack framework which is supposed to have top performance for creating REST web services using .NET. It has it's own micro-ORM and JSON serializer which are supposed to be high performers. More info here: http://www.servicestack.net/benchmarks/

7) AFAIK, the new Web API is not supported on Mono. See here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14126855/is-mono-capable-...
So is the imbalance addressed by showing more women that STEM is a valid choice from an early age or is it that we start at the firms and try to work your way backwards? At a certain point is it a systemic failure?
How did this status quo come about to begin with? Was it through gender discriminatory practices? Is it possible (I'm just asking here) that the gender "imbalance" is the equilibrium?
Pity the poor foo at http://bar.com/.
That's predicated on the false premise that being motivated by money is in any way correlated (positively or negatively) with the qualities we want in doctors. Lots (most?) brilliant people are motivated by money.
I'm in NYC now and have been watching the sky for the last few hours. No joy yet....
I know everyone loves DDG here but to reach a mass audience, the first thing I'd do is to get a new name.
Furthermore, where were the people who claim it was all spammy BEFORE Apple banned the app?

They had no objection to the app because their dear leaders at Apple had yet to object to the app.
General Relativity?
Horowitz : how to hire salespeople
Have been living and working in China since 10 years. This article is a good typical case of China misunderstanding. Example:

> Chinese private internet companies, many of them clones of Western ones, have been allowed to flourish so long as they do not deviate from the party line.

There is not one party line that everyone follows, this was true 30 years ago but isn't anymore. What we have is a blurry moving red line delimiting the topics that will trigger censorship.

Germany and France also have censorship. The difference is in the protected topics, the number of them and the blurrynesss of the lines.
Exactly. Salespeople fundamentally do not create. For those of us who are in technology not to build a 'successful' company or pad our bank accounts, but rather to create new things, none of what this guy is talking about really has any relevance.
The removal itself isn't the problem, the problem is Apple's clear and undisputable track record of:

* Arbitrary and inconsistent enforcement of rules

* Unclear/nonexistent communication with developers

* Blatant anti-competitive behavior

* Backwards, bigoted censorship bordering on outright oppression

* Generally doing things that you won't get away with unless you're the only game in town (which they are)

The point here isn't that AppGratis being pulled somehow merits legal action. The point is that you can easily look at it as the straw that broke the camel's back: Apple has been pulling this shit for a while, and will continue to pull this shit FOREVER unless other parties intervene.
http://23andme.com
Probably just a reference to the original source: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/keep-calm-and-carry-on
By hosting the platform, are they trying to avoid licensing/regulation? After all, they are not providing money transfer services, but are providing a platform for others to do it.

I looked into legally building an exchange in Texas, but I would have to get licensed as a money transmission company or a currency exchange company. The fees were outrageous! $2,500 application fee, $300,000+ security deposit and requires the applicant to have over $500K net worth.
Yeah. Well, can all sales people run businesses?

Let's start from the basic questions:
1. How do you know X is more difficult than Y technically. How do you trust somebody who says X or Y? Should they sell you the idea because, ya know, you are a sales person?

2. What makes a sales person? Ability to sell a product A? Is selling A different from B? Do you specialize in A? How are you different from somebody who too can sell A? Do they need a degree to do it? Can our average car sales man do it? Yes or no, please give me your reasons..

3. Can you give me good examples of sales people running any other businesses? Businesses that, ya know, don't suck.

4. Salespeople usually do well in business where the technology is mature. Ya know, not long ago, there was this "fruit" company that was brought to its knees by a "cola" sales guy. And there is a Seattle company that is getting off rails slowly.
No, the application of those equations to practical problems is patentable. A physics problem is not necessarily practical (2 frictionless spheres in a vacuum are rolling towards each other...), but practical mechanical problems necessarily have a physical aspect and frequently rely on results of solving mathematical formulae. A patent on a mechanical solution may very well include the solution of such equations, and always have. Funny, doesn't look to me like the mechanical industry is stuck in the 1700s.

Edit: An early example of a mechanical "algorithm" patent - http://www.google.com/patents/US3765263
If you don't have sufficient reading comprehension to realize that my post wasn't a defense of AppGratis, perhaps you shouldn't post multiple paragraphs criticizing arguments I didn't make. 2-3 months of pre-approval? Who on earth would suggest something that stupid? There are way easier ways to solve these problems; Apple doesn't want to solve these problems.

Apple can certainly change their mind. That is not the problem. The problems are, among others: unclear/nonexistent communication, arbitrary and inconsistent enforcement of rules, and anticompetitive behavior.

I don't care if AppGratis ever makes another cent, but Apple should definitely be held to account for their behavior and if this is what it takes for that to happen, so be it.
Yeah, poor choice of words on my part, I should have said: Businesses _survive_ because they're the most efficient way to solve the needs of a group of people.