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Thank god Andrew Carnegie didn't live today. He'd have never gotten a job other than his first one: shoving coal into an oven. The same for all of the people who started companies before degrees existed.
I am not on Four Square. Are they all about "stores"/other commercial spaces? Or do they do check-ins for libraries, parks, beaches, and/or other non-commercial sites?

(I am sparing you my probably crazed-sounding rant. :-/ But I find visions of a future where something like Four Square is all about commercial only spaces pretty horrifying. So I am hoping for good news about where they are now in that regard.)
Bitcoin isn't just a currency, it is also a protocol and payment system.
I'd like to make such bad decissions to have few million dolllars to sunk into bitcoin.
> surely we could tolerate that much deflation.

This does not follow.
Seriously? You guys will nitpick about anything.

I typed in a username in the field and pressed enter. It worked fine. Mystery solved.
That's not true. http://www.cumulus-soaring.com/newsletter/2008-05/Mitre-ADS-...

You also don't need to be on the plane. A typical ADS-B transmitter can be picked up pretty easily from over 100 miles away--I can broadcast to every aircraft over Los Angeles from my backyard if I want.

I don't know about ACARS, but I would imagine it's similar.
Tried my hand at a version:
http://codepen.io/anon/pen/ABniu
The exceptions prove the rules of course.

Currencies do not have (>10% of volume of transactions) investors, they have (>90% of volume of transactions) users.

Currencies are primarily mediums of exchange and occasionally used as an asset class. Bitcoin is primarily used as an asset class and very occasionally used as a medium of exchange.

I don't think you're really disagreeing with me, we're just quibbling on semantics.
Best Practices for all HTML messages is to also send a Text-Only version. Have you configured your client to prefer the text version?
There's an RFC that nobody uses for rich-text e-mails.

[edit] found it! http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1523
Except:

- Deflation of prices denominated in Bitcoin has been massive, several orders of magnitude higher than 2-8%.

- Inflation encourages you to spend money. Deflation encourages you to save it. An economy where no one spends money isn't much of one.
Wow...did not know that. That's awesome that they both seem to put family first - in their professional lives.

What's interesting is that FB isn't listed as an investor in their $800M round. I wonder if that would have been a conflict - I can imagine it musta been.

But I wonder how awkward it was for Google to be an investor and not FB.
If by the gold standard you mean the one that millions of people all over the world voluntarily chose over the course of thousands of years? Well, at least until it was co-opted by fiat currencies in many countries. I'd rather have the problems that come with a free currency than those that come with a fiat one.
You can go past getting your team home for dinner if you actively work on having a family-friendly culture.

The best company culture I ever worked in was the early startup days at EnterAct, the Chicago ISP I ran technical operations for. Instead of an office, EnterAct bought a large apartment on the north side of Chicago (for a time, one of the founders had a room in it, but it was mostly occupied by the company). The founders were married and routinely (like, weekly) had friends/family over for dinner.

If you have a reasonably small team (like virtually every startup does) and you acknowledge that many on your team have families, you can put effort into integrating families into the company. Create times when it makes sense to have people's kids in the office. Make dinners. Take little trips. Pay for real health insurance (I KID I KID).

How weird is it that it's less odd to see someone's dog next to their Ikea desk than it is to see their 4 year old?
That's pretty much the same thing, as it's merely a method of pre-paying for a finite amount of merchandise.

The actual best solution would be to allow spending controls, so that, even with a linked credit card, the account can only buy $100 worth of product per month or something.
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surveymonkey's revenue is the only validation for mr. Goldberg's work schedule given in this article. (correct me if i missed something)

an opinion either way on the work schedule has so little evidence given this article that it would qualify as a value judgement.

this article is a successful individual expressing mostly value judgements about his work philosophy.

my first conjecture is that folks clicked on the link because of it's sensational headline.

my second conjecture is that folks upvoted it because the value judgements in the article aligned with the value judgements of the community at large.

i would love to discuss work from home policy with you. i don't believe this article contributes meaningfully to that discussion.
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What's the exchange rate with Flooz?
Thanks, you just made me spill my drink.
And yet despite all the deflation people are conducting transactions in bitcoin.

How long do you have to hold on to money before it's hoarding? A second? A minute? An hour? A year? The vast majority of money is hoarded because most people don't earn a dollar on one hand an immediately spend it on the other.
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I think we need more ridicule of this type of stuff, not less. Also, I'm all for public ridicule of western kooks and BS-ers in government, science, healthcare. I disagree this is why we don't get along, humor can be a powerful and positive weapon.
You'd be crazy to put serious money into bitcoins. Not because it's fundamentally flawed as a currency (I don't have the expertise to know if that's true or not), but because if bitcoins ever become more than a sideshow governments around the world will make their use illegal (de facto if not de jure). People left holding the currency will be out of luck.

Controlling a currency is a politically easy route to tax everybody who uses it, and governments will not give up that privilege even if it means intrusive new controls on internet traffic.
You check in so your friends know where you are and can choose to come join you there. Among my circle of friends, the understanding is that checking in on foursquare implicitly invites anyone who sees the checkin to drop in if they happen to be in the area.
> vectors are 2-item arrays (for example, a velocity might be [2.3, -1.2])

Would be nice if they mentioned what each item was. Is it magnitude + direction or deltaX, deltaY?
Another perspective: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/hEkby
Same, inside rings: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/KuyCf
I don't see how opt-in messages from a paid service qualify as spam.
Absolutely. I hope more companies take note of this and stop trying to blindly ape what Google/Facebook are doing. Not only does it result in a better environment, but -and arguably this is more important- its what makes you unique
Deflation will pretty much guarantee that Bitcoin will never replace a "real" currency.

It prevents a key economic activity: borrowing money. I'll let you put together why deflation kills incentives to loan money, hence making it impossible for people to borrow.
Taking it out of USD and changing the units around (even though it's just dropping a decimal point) mentally disassociates 'Amazon Coins' from USD. Microsoft goes even further on the Xbox, 1 USD (+ local sales tax) buys 80 MSP; so it takes a moment to realize an 800 MSP game is actually $10.
Unless you know the price they bought in....
Awesome! Can't wait to dig into this a bit.
The HR trainings all employees are mandated to complete each year will strongly contradict this,

> Microsoft seems to otherwise encourage their employees to post work stuff on the Internet
Would you support a change in US immigration policy that would grant a green card to everyone who wishes to come here with good intentions (ie., with nothing but the desire for a better life for themselves and their families)?

The US does currently accept about 1.2 million immigrants legally into the country every year. Obviously, that's not enough to meet demand. Do you feel that 1.2 million is far too low? If so, how do you feel generally about the notion of an upper limit - or would you support unlimited immigration to the US?
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But only if it's the sole/main currency. Otherwise it becomes like gold is today, only a bit easier to move money in/out of it. That's always been the main flaw in the "deflationary" theory, it depends on some absolutes that wouldn't exist in the real world.
The article says they have been buying since the summer, so they are most likely still up a bunch.
Like goverments banning drugs stopped people from using drugs.
You say it does not, I say it does. If an economy can handle fluctuation in the value of money in one direction surely it could do so the other way too. In fact, this is precisely what has happened over thousands of years. The constant loss of value of money without limit is a relatively recent invention. In centuries past prices would go up, then back down, then back up, then back down and so on. If our unsophisticated, foolish and stupid ancestors could handle such fluctuations certainly the enlightened and modern people of today could as well.

EDIT: Here's a graph of inflation vs deflation in the US over a few hundred years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deflation#Major_deflations_in_t...
Having been at two SoMa companies (Splunk and PagerDuty), I think you're generalizing a bit here.
What shady history is that?
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How do you propose to defend against insurance fraud? With mixing services available, there would seem to be very little risk in robbing one's own account.
As there was no counter-study they cited, it's not clear that women's expectations are "at least as" unrealistic. While this may be a result I would expect, I don't see the data backing it up (and nowhere in the actual article does it attempt to).

That being said, it would be exceedingly unsurprising to find that women are equally influenced by social norms/social constructs of attractiveness as men.
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If money is a way to keep score, they're doing pretty well for themselves.
http://longbets.org/1/

"Second, this phenomenon of ongoing exponential growth through a cascade of S-curves is far broader than computation. We see the same double exponential growth in a wide range of technologies, including communication technologies (wired and wireless), biological technologies (e.g., DNA base-pair sequencing), miniaturization, and of particular importance to the software of intelligence, brain reverse engineering (e.g., brain scanning, neuronal and brain region modeling)."
-Kurzweil
Bitcoins will be much easier to stop than drugs.
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That's the risk of using geography as a stand-in for demography. Let's just acknowledge that it's a very leaky equivalence between two classes of companies that both exist.
>> How weird is it that it's less odd to see someone's dog next to their Ikea desk than it is to see their 4 year old?

I would find either of those things in a business odd. Maybe I don't understand because I'm a young guy but I don't see how integrating your employees family's into business life is helpful. I've never found the mixing of business and personal relationships to have any positive effects.

Could you give a couple of examples of how a business which incorporates employees family's is beneficial?
Even more importantly, he probably violated his NDA by indirectly revealing facts about the next generation xbox (which has not been announced officially in any manner) which are still supposed to be secret. Being an asshat certainly didn't help his case, I'd imagine.
Rich countries don't lift other countries out of altruism. They do it because it's in their own strategic interest. Take a look at what's going on in Europe for a few clues about what happens when too many of your neighbors go too far out of whack.

we had a huge relatively unpopulated country, but that incentive changed as we became a mature, populous society.

Sorry but you still are a huge, relatively unpopulated country[1].

[1] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/World_pop...
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I have 30 hours remaining in my Bioinformatics degree. I cannot stomach the 'pre-med grind'/cost involved in finishing the degree.

My work was generous and allowed me to turn my internship into a full-time job. Yet, everyday I am told I need to finish my degree and move away from this job by coworkers.

I get to ship on average every two weeks, it is wonderful. I have time to toy and tinker on the side.

My only fear is first for blame, then, to fire. I know if I ever was to venture off, the tone would turn from "we're so grateful to have you" to "you'll never make it in this world" in a heartbeat.
Any USD to bitcoin exchange price reflects both a bitcoin buyer and a bitcoin spender (seller). The bitcoin exchange price can only increase through people spending bitcoins on USD. Besides, if this argument that "the only rational thing to do if you own a deflationary currency is to hoard it" is correct, then that implies that "the only rational thing to do with an inflationary currency is to buy a deflationary currency regardless of the exchange price."
My issue with this is that people should not be working to create cultures where they never leave the office.

There is work - and there is life. Your work can be fun, fulfilling, challenging. But there should also be things you do which define you outside of the workplace.

I definitely wouldn't want to be in a family where my life revolved around my parents' work.

My life is based on my family, then work. I love what I do. But I love my family more.

And, as a family man, I don't want people bringing their dogs OR their children to work. If I had to choose, I'd put up with kids before pets.
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I do all the time, mainly because of lock-in at work and family laptop. Python is really easy to do this with. But yes, web code gets deployed to a Linux box.

But you can do quite a bit from desktop application to the source of this post, DataNitro (Use Python in Excel).

> mostly use Visual Studio/.NET and just do Python on the side

I have nothing to back myself up, but I would be surprised if this is actually the case (ie most Windows users program with VS/.NET). I'd like to find out if there is any real data on this.
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Can you eat gold? No. Can you make anything useful with it, other than some component in electronics? No. Gold was only valuable because it didn't corrode, and was scarce in the ancient world, therefore making it an ideal medium of exchange in an environment of weak central governments and zero ability to stop counterfeiters.

If a zombie apocalypse happened today, and somebody tried to buy food or weapons from me with gold, I'd tell them off. Gold has ZERO inherent value. When you understand that the purpose of a currency is simply to facilitate exchange of goods and services as efficiently as possible, you reach a conclusion that a gold standard is stupid, because it prevents governments from increasing quantity in times where hoarding is occurring.
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Firefox on Linux (where I assume DirectWrite isn't used) also displays it fine.
You might be interested in GNU Unifont: http://unifoundry.com/unifont.html
It was pretty much the perfect explanation for me.

If you're trying to non-mathematically explain a mathematical process, I think, more often than not, you're going to end up with an incomplete example. If you try, I'd wager that you'd probably end up with something fairly long and possibly convoluted.

Which isn't to say that more blog posts about the topic would be wasted. I think the posts so far are great ideas for expansion. I just think it accomplished what it wanted to accomplish.

Hopefully the blog post won't spur too many novice developers into writing home-grown password hashing functions based on the outlined technique.
Someone else will have to answer that, I'm not familiar with them.
HTML as a technology to render plain text obviously isn't getting in the way, because it's plain text. All the features of HTML beyond that get in the way by obscuring the plain text and the information plain text conveys. In my mind, email, or text communication, is not about presentation but is about textual content. If you want to deliver media or style or a visual presentation, it's just not email. I would strongly prefer if it was a plain url or safe attachment in format that doesn't allow any kind of scripting.
And thus these things don't "go" for javascript. They might do so in 5 years, informed by the rest. But now, nope.
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a month or two ago? Curious, this is the first I've heard of Amazon coins - where was it being talked about so long ago?
They used to say: "if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all." Equally important: "if you can't say something the right way within the constraints of twitter, then don't say anything at all."
I don't know if it's just me, but I noticed that the BEST price is not always on amazon. Most of the time, the retail stores' price is equal to what amazon advertises. Some stores (Costco & Sams) offer items at far below what Amazon offers them for. Most of the time, I only save paying the tax...
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If you see Austrian unemployment at under 5% and Greece at over a quarter of the population, you cannot possibly maintain the illusion that this is one single economy.

The euro is the potential time bomb, other than that there is no "eurozone", and certainly no eurozone unemployment rate.

And all fallout of amputating the failing economies of Greece e.a. from the euro is strictly theoretically. I'm not saying there isn't a problem, and it is certainly one of the most import factors in holding back recovery, but the apocalyptic view of the current economy in Europe doesn't match the economic and social reality in most European countries.
I get a lot of opt-in messages that I didn't really opt-in for, as does everyone. How many people do you think even know what 'opt-in' is ?
Another example of shoddy science reporting. Sure, it reports on a study done on attractiveness of males to females. But the title is not supported by the article - nowhere in the article does it cover men's expectations in a similar quantitative fashion.

And as for the opening 'men wondering what women want', people want different things. Finding what's generally attractive to a gender does not conversely mean that you know what individual members of that gender want. And even if either gender were homogenous anyway, what you want changes significantly as you age - what a 20-, 40-, and 60-year old want are frequently very different things, even in the same person.
The loan argument is a good one, to be sure. Alas it does not play out in reality. Check out the graph here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deflation#Major_deflations_in_t...

Once you've done that, please explain to me how there were loans made over the last 400 years in light of the fact that only the last 80 years has had reliable consistent inflation.
>this troll on the debian-user mailing list predicted that Orth would be "fired".

I don't follow the mailing list but are these "reddit-like" conversations common/tolerated on a mailing list?

Off Topic: Is debian.org using a self signed SSL? It popped a warning on my browser.
You would be surprised at the people who think they were just doing something very ordinary, when suddenly a class 5 media shitstorm descended on them, often because of circumstances entirely out of their control.
Exactly, I was one of those MATLAB users.
Yes, we've all played XBox.
You can't really expect it to do much more in this case, you can make the computation which results in ".exe" arbitrarily complex, and detection needs to be cheap. Ultimately the problem is that AV software is in the business of enumerating badness. You need to do whitelisting, for example of who gets to execute arbitrary code, which is the problem here.
The company was "built" by Ryan Finley, and completely profitable before Dave Goldberg even heard of the company. Survey Monkey was 10 years old before Dave Goldberg was even hired.

Let's not rewrite history here. Sheryl Sandberg and Dave Goldberg both go home at 5:30, but neither are even close to founders.

I don't mean to diminish their accomplishments, but "built a billion dollar business" is misleading.
It would be great for debugging purposes if all ships could return an array of color coded vectors (or even just a single vector) to display every step.
Yes, I read the entire post from beginning to end. I still wholeheartedly believe that nobody wants e-mails like this. Yes, I'm speaking in absolutes and yes, I don't give a damn.

> If you don't want them, it doesn't mean nobody does.

Correct. I chose to speak in absolutes to make a point.

> There's also an unsubscribe link at the bottom.

That's wonderful, but I'm pretty sure the terminal emulator I'm running Alpine in doesn't do automatic URL lexing...

HTML is for the WWW. Please keep it out of e-mail. Thanks.
Ask HN: Does Silicon Valley's ambition for the music machine bore you?
Does listening to new music played on the radio (and through music services) leave you underwhelmed and bored? For example, would you pay to listen to music services if they only offered music recorded after 2007?

I've cofounded a different kind of media startup that's hard at work developing stealth, visionary efforts and I'm looking for creative technologists that would have an interest in making a very, very positive influence on music.

If you may have interest in either helping the efforts or offering advice to the startup, I'd like to hear from you. Send a message to me at vossjehns@gmail.com (the startup has a contact address; however, I don't want to advertise it on the forum). Although I think I may have found a Technical Co-Founder/CTO, I'd also welcome interest in the position from someone that seeks to innovate in the music media space, including Research and Development (R&D) responsibilities.
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Yes, machine transposing of hummingbird is trivial, but what about transposing while sight-reading? I have to do that regularly, and the removal of the key-signature makes that impossible.
It's a lot easier to go home at 5:30 when someone else is doing the work that gets done after 5:30.
Technically, they don't support it. People have just figured out how to side-load it and Amazon hasn't done anything to block it.
Nearly all marketing messages that I receive are HTML only, not multipart. In fact, this is a problem that seems almost as if it is specific to marketing spam; ordinary people who send HTML mail seem to use MUAs that sensibly send a plain text part as well. But whatever tools marketers use to send their "newsletters" seem to be ignorant of best practices, or they just don't care about the small market segment of people who don't read HTML mail.

This is not a complaint. I don't care to read what they're sending me anyway, and the wall of visual garbage that greets me when I open one of those messages has trained me to reflexively hit delete and move on.