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Of course, it was a bit of hyperbole. It's meant as an illustration.

I agree that there should be a centralized place to track, prioritize, and allocate work. But the comment I was responding to was about having a ticket for every code change, which is absurd if you take it to the extreme. If I'm working on feature X, but come across a typo, do I have to have a ticket to fix the typo or can I just fix it as I go along?

Again, we are taking things to the extreme in the examples.

In a sane workflow, someone prioritizes a list of tasks, someone (hopefully the group) divides up the tasks, and then we work on them one at a time. All of that is in a central place and developers generally don't have a problem tracking like that.

But what about the case where you find a bug (especially a small one)? In larger teams you probably want to indicate that you fixed something so that the testing team can have something to verify against. In a small team you just fix it and go on without the overhead of making a ticket for every one of those you discover.

An example from today. I just came across some code that was

"unless @blah.blank?", but it should probably be turned around to "if @blah.present?", so I made the change. If I had to write a ticket for that I would quickly want to strangle someone. And that's what the original comment I responded to seemed to be asking about.
I'd suggest emailing support@bitfloor.com and asking them to help you do what you need. That is assuming we're talking about a substantial amount of money and not $20. Or, find a friend who isn't so cautious to receive the money and give you BTC or good old dead trees.
"all of their ads feature people with great skin,"

I'm sorry, but that's just uninformed bullshit http://www.adverbox.com/ads/dove/

No, they don't show people with severe skin issues but really, that's a little unreasonable for a company selling skin care products.

" I haven't checked, but ..."

Ahem
This looks awesome!, I'll definitely try it! (the color configuration approach is very clever)
LOL... mandatory=1 in the url? What happens if you set it to 0?
It is a little ironic consider one of the often trumpeted benefits of Bitcoin is a limited money supply and lack of a fractional reserve system. The truth of the matter is that Bitfloor was under no restrictions whatsoever on how much USD/Bitcoin it needed to have on hand in the event of something like this.
And by them you mean?

I haven't asserted that you're infringing on anyone in more than a general sense, by the way. Though 'nuh-uh' wouldn't be a particularly convincing response if I had. And I'm not even talking about 'everyone who doesn't hate gays'. Nor am I excluding people who do hate gay people from my criticism. Given that I already believe that you're right and they're wrong (about gay rights, anyway), your posts don't seem to be going anywhere.

Edit: For future reference, "X is right" and "I believe that X is right" convey exactly equivalent information unless you're talking about psychology, which I am and you don't appear to me to be. Saying it really loudly doesn't change the epistemology. Am I misunderstanding you?
Was your original comment made in the spirit of "having fun"? I was pretty sure you came here with a disagreement in mind.

How did a discussion about your mis-identification of an informal fallacy suddenly becomes "Hacker News Defends Patriarchy"? This whole ridiculous argument is really pretty simple and it has nothing to do with gender. It has to do with Honey vs Vinegar and you think that people can complain their way to success! lol

Alright, sorry you were wrong. You should be happy though, maybe next time you decide to start a game of "Someone is wrong on the internet" you'll come better equipped to play :)
Sure - I was just responding to the claim that it was Currency Exchange regulations that apply here.
100% fault is your own. Regular online businesses have a hard time operating merchant accounts, much less these kind of sites. Bitcoin is no safer than online poker was in the US (I had a little of my money in Full Tilt, and a lot of 'winnings', and got $0 out of it).

BTC operates in a pretty gray market. The companies involved are not regulated and perhaps violating existing regulations. Mt Gox et al are not ETrade. Any money in BTC should be money you are totally OK with losing.
Is it really an "inability to understand", or just an "unwillingness to tolerate"?
I think they said why: one of their key bank accounts is being closed against their wishes. It's not easy to get an account like that opened, and when it's closed the money has to go somewhere. In this case, back to the clients.
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Do they send the cash to the cash's regional reserve, or to the bank's regional reserve?
It’s really easy to call issues like gay marriage ‘disagreement’ when you're a heterosexual. When it’s something which actually affects you, less so. When people or organisations support CISPA/SOPA/PIPA, for example…
When this happens we can still use it until international wire transfers are free :)
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I actually don't have an OKCupid account. I deleted it a few weeks ago.

I've heard of other people getting married and a few of my best friends met through a dating website, but yeah. I think that it's not necessarily because of it.

danah boyd's talk here is a good reference: http://talks.webstock.org.nz/speakers/danah-boyd/culture-fea...

The TL;DR I got from that talk is that "Internet bullying isn't bad as normal bullying, it is just portrayed differently".

In line with that argument, I would say that dating websites in general just bring out those "crazy people" you meet in a different way.

Because at the end of the day, the "crazy people" would still exist.
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Do you honestly have one? How did it perform? I was considering doing something myself, I'm curious how it went.
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I've never heard of pain in the finger tips from typing on a keyboard, and if it really is as you describe it you might not have a lot of options except medication.

I find the Rapoo e9007 wireless keyboard more pleasant and less painful than bigger ones with big chunky keys. Maybe a personal thing though.
Hmn. I don't find those examples compelling, but maybe I'm just missing something.

I don't have a thought about the wikipedia backtracking example.

Regarding cache-vs-RAM, or regarding RAM-vs-disk, I see no reason you cannot take the work that the parallel units do, and serialize it onto a single processor. Let me consider the example you gave.

Initially, you have two processors with caches of size N/2, and a problem of size N on disk. You effortlessly split the problem into two parts at zero cost (ha!), load the first part on procA, the second part on procB. You pay one load-time. Now you process it, paying one processing-time, then store the result to disk, paying one store-time. Now you effortlessly combine it at zero cost (again, ha!), and you're done.

In my serial case, I do the same effortless split, I load (paying one load), compute (paying one compute), then store (paying one store). Then I do that again (doubling my costs). Then I do the same effortless combine. My system is 1/2 as fast as yours.

In short, I think "superlinear speedup" due to memory hierarchy is proof-by-construction that the initial algorithm could have been written faster. What am I missing?
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Now if only I had kept it in there for the long haul, I'd have my $1,000 back.

He would in fact have about $3,000 today (just 2 months after his comment). Of course, yesterday he would've had $2,000, and a week or so ago he would've had about $8,000.

It'll be interesting to see how Bitcoin plays out.
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Matthew's Open Letter: http://blog.bytemark.co.uk/2013/04/17/geary
It was an exceptionally shitty router, yeah. One of my roommates wanted to be in charge of the internet connection; she went with the lowest end AT&T plan, and she had the router that they had given her in her last apartment. On top of that, the cable going into the router was practically falling apart; I didn't actually know any of this until shortly before I moved out, at which point there wasn't a lot of motivation to do anything about it.

Upon moving out, I got a 18 Mbps cable subscription & a Motorola Surfboard Extreme. Now the only shitty piece of networking equipment in my setup is a Belkin wifi router that I haven't been bothered to upgrade.
I think the main point about the EMH and Bitcoin is that a market can be quite efficient without anyone knowing that it is efficient or why this is so...
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That's true about Django apps, but this post doesn't describe a Django app. It describes a Django project.
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Bank accounts can be closed for all kinds of reasons. They don't really say what happened or why their account is being closed, or why they aren't being tough cookies and working around this blip, if possible, etc.

In essence, their post is about as content-free as imaginable, which is a shame because it was a good opportunity to educate others.
Yeah that's pretty close to what I was thinking. Or the Taskrabbit as mentioned by jonathanjaeger.

I noticed you are a technical co-founder at Thumbtack. I had an idea for a similar service that helps people with particular skills make themselves available for hire to their neighbours. Were there many business or technical challenges trying to reach so many localities across many different types of services?
> nobody would come up with them on their own

Um. Someone had to.
At this point, you guys should be questioning the word choice of "hang", too.
It wouldn't read your .bash_profile, because it cannot. Any variables that are set by your .bash_profile will therefore not be set, and anything that depends on them being set may break.
I bet he's talking about Cruzio's Velocity service.

(I'm on it too)
This just showed up in my inbox.

"Our goal with Google Affiliate Network has been to help advertisers and publishers improve their performance across the affiliate ecosystem. Cost-per-action (CPA) marketing has rapidly evolved in the last few years, and we constantly evaluate our products to ensure that we’re focused on the services that will have the biggest impact for our advertisers and publishers. To that end, we’ve made the difficult decision to retire the Google Affiliate Network and focus on other products that are driving great results for clients. "
You seem to have gotten many positive comments already but just to respond to this point specifically. If it was a site as the audience was expecting i would have signed up and could have done with something like this a couple of months ago.

I come across people quite often looking for co-founders. They don't necessarily need them, but that's their choice.
A way to move to fish gradually is to use it on your local machine (interactively) but still write scripts in bash and stick to bash on remote hosts. This helps keep you in sync with others.

One drawback is keeping your aliases in sync, but once done it is not much work.
Isn't Fiber in Kansas City, Kansas, as well?
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Wouldn't CISPA also protect the companies providing information to you by giving you permission to test and/or access to their systems, and hence be beneficial to your business? Why aren't you a consumer of threat information that way?
thx.. very interesting. Can you say any ore about the kinds of things these people do that the smart but unworldly hackers don't, or more places to bury our heads in?
This would not allow me to

1) start typing a command;

2) look at or copy+paste stuff from the previous commands

I usually do my history search through history|grep.
The theft from Bitfloor was roughly half the total assets (most of the BTC, none of the USD) at the time. A fractional reserve of 50% is still many times higher than what you'll find if you look in the vault of any regular bank in the US.
I didn't intend it to be about money. I also said that entrepreneurs want a 1% shot at ruling the world (king vs. rich). It's really about perception of control and perception of fairness around hard work.
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3 of those sites seem sub-optimal, at least for searching in non-top-5 cities.

Cofounderslab.com has a background that scrolls horizontally as I down-arrow on it. Stop that! Otherwise, the listings seem good. Best of the bunch.

Techcofounder.com provides no geographical search at all, from what I can see. Of the 3 ads in my area, 1 is from 2011.

Collabafinder gives me a list of people, but it seems I have to sign in to find more.

I have to register for Founderdating before I can find out if I want to register.
Mine has a date! http://pastebin.com/dzRqSgGj
Great response & bounce back after not getting into the incubator. Residen.se is a excellent idea trying to solve a problem in the lucrative real estate sector. I'm helping out Anthony, who is a good friend of mine and I use to share a house with him in Melbourne.
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>Yet another company with a far too relaxed approach to security

What Data Was Leaked?
bcrypt password hashes, with a cost parameter of 8, for all accounts as of March 25th 2013.

Wait, this is fine, isn't it? They did the right thing.
haha who knows..

Their site in general is pretty dumb. I logged in and deleted my account but it didn't log me out, it just changed my name to 'Deleted Editor #XXXXXX' - I can still edit all the account details.
I thought it was Mark Twain.
But 110kV into the car is totally out of the question. At a more reasonable battery voltage of 1kV, you'd need 20kA. That'd be a fat cable indeed.
But the 3.0 change didn't say anything?
Fulltilt players actually lost their balances?
Ditto regarding everything up until your last sentence - it is a pretty great setup.

What do you mean it "compiles over the wire" in development? In development, pipeline just renders individual js/css tags for each of your static files, un-compiled...
They're probably too busy trying to return all the client funds to write a beautiful blog post about what happened (or rather, is happening right now). Bitfloor is active on Twitter--it might be better to tweet at them on the weekend to say you're interested in a follow-up post (mortem).
>The answer is compensation. Not that big companies don’t compensate them enough, but that the compensation structure is not aligned with an entrepreneur’s world view.

As far as I can tell the dominating decision factor for everyone I know who runs their own company seems to be "freedom from management". That's why people work for years at an expected value of a below-market wage. That's why people leave a year into their four year vesting schedule post-acquisition.

In the anglo corporate culture there is little to no room for co-determination; and I would wager that's especially grating to those in the position to do something about it.
How do you do arbitrage when you can't short and can't move funds easily and quickly?
Why do people report this kind of stuff on hacker news. I am sure everyone knows how to google for a site's status page.
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I wouldn't say 'fine'. They say the hashes were salted (which is good), but it's not clear whether all the salt was also leaked.
Same with me. Said I was 28 the second time I tried where I feel like I "tried harder".
I'm also a member of the Church who went to BYU. I loved Utah the state (and wish I had had the time and money to explore it more), but the Utah Mormon culture there really rubbed me the wrong way. It ended up being a major factor in our heading back to the East Coast. That said, I'm still an active member so it was just Utah that was my problem.
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No they didn't but replacing a company that no longer exists (for reasons other than a lack of demand) is actually a really interesting business model.
Speaking of growth, how does everyone view their growth rate, which is 10% month over month? By the standards of a VC-backed company at their current revenues, it feels low. But I'm guessing this is considered quite high for bootstrapping?
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This is cutesy, but having a timestamp on your prompt is an easy-to-implement sometimes-lifesaver. Highly recommended, one way or another :)
It is quite incorrect to say that "Historically, money arose from, and in conjunction with, this power." (the power of taxation by states). He gives no evidence for this claim except to reference a "controversial" book - perhaps controversial because of its wildly inaccurate thesis?

Unless the contention is that humans traded solely by barter before states came along to tax them, mediums of exchange (money) obviously predate the statist invention of fiat money. In fact fiat money is a relatively recent phenomenon, as money was historically backed by precious metals long before states invented unbacked fiat money and central (statist) banking.

Which doesn't in any way invalidate his argument that Bitcoin is a bubble. It's totally irrelevant to the Bitcoin issue. It's just wrong by itself.

Another thing that's just plain wrong is the attempt to refute the efficient markets hypothesis (EMH). The only reason Bitcoin actually does have a value above 0 at the moment is precisely because statist meddling in the market has created a huge demand for an alternative to fiat money - such a huge demand in fact that people are willing to try almost anything, including Bitcoin, or even riskier methods with a high failure rate (such as J. Orlin Grabbe's early anonymous banking system DMT, or unaudited gold-backed e-currencies that may actually be backed by nothing at all, among many other examples).

If we had uncrippled free-market gold-backed electronic currencies (such as e-gold was before it was attacked and destroyed by the feds) there would be zero demand for bitcoin as the existing currencies would have all the benefits of Bitcoin, while also being backed by a commodity with a base value (not 'intrinsic value').

So, it _might_ be a refutation of EMH if Bitcoin were to be successful long-term in an actual free market. As nowhere on this planet do we find anything even remotely resembling an actual free market, his argument against EMH is as much of a straw man as all the other examples that pinkos trot out as examples of "market failure" while pretending that there is a free market somewhere, which there isn't. All such examples are really examples of statist intervention failure, not market failure, as the market we are talking about is highly crippled and not remotely free.
It's against European law. But companies flouting the law doesn't bother some.
I get that pain too sometimes, like a bruised bone in the tip of my fingers. It doesn't seem to happen when I get a good mechanical-switch keyboard. But when I'm on a bad keyboard, like a laptop keyboard, and I have to bang the keys hard or else it can't keep up with my speed, then I feel it. Do you have to bang the keys because your keyboard misses your keystrokes?

These days when it starts to happen I adjust my typing style to type more slowly and more with the flats of my fingers instead of the very tips/nails. Also I wear a bandage when it gets bad. It goes away after a day.

I don't know what kind of doctor I'd see for this.
Piling on the comments that say you should consider developing this as a general service.

One constituency to keep in mind is the person who has a job but would quit it if they had the right cofounder -- ie some form of anonymous or semi-anonymous matching until both sides choose to reveal.
I really, really want to reiterate Recoil's point above.

The rental market is massive and real and worth a shit-ton of money. Handling the pain of repairs and stuff? it's not even been vaguely tapped! That's a fucking good idea that's going to be hard to sell but it's a domino thing. When one major rental agency starts using it they'll all start using it. 'Your flat doesn't have residee.ce? How lame!'

Finding a co-founder is a tiny market.

Your advice is well intentioned and dog-fooding and all that lovely bullshit nonsense and really, really terrible.
Call your bank. There is a small chance you can still cancel the transaction even if the funds have cleared your account.
I think it depends on what amount of your balance was your own money vs other people's money. My balance on the day the feds shutdown FT was around $500, but I had started out with money my roommate transfered to my account so $0 of it was deposited by me. He had put in $100 originally and his balance on the day FT shutdown as over $1000, and he got nothing back either.

(Edit, after a quick google search, it appears that FT is just now starting the refund process. http://www.pocketfives.com/articles/full-tilt-claims-adminis...)
Gizmodo bought a stolen iPhone 4 prototype, blackmailed Apple over it, and published photos of the phone. Since then, they haven't been invited to Apple's press events.

Given the history, it's silly to suggest Gizmodo is being paid by Apple to write positive stories about them. I doubt Apple would even pick up the phone if Gizmodo called them.
They posted in December (https://plus.google.com/109620439233076225324/posts/YjFo5kgE...) that 1.7% of the stolen funds had been repaid out of their own revenue, and that it would continue. At the time it had only been 2-3 months since the theft, and it's been a few months since then. So people got some back (at Bitfloor's expense, unfortunately, rather than the thief's).
There's also http://naev.org/
thats the magic of jam bands. its amazing getting lost in a jam, feeling the transition from one song to another, forgetting the bad has been playing non-stop for the last 30 minutes. its the newness that is most attractive for me. its the closest live music that comes to dj's spinning live. you don't know what your gonna get till its time.

its sad to see this type of music dwindle away when it was so rampant during the 60's. its magical feeling the energy from a band that can talk to each other through their music. its the same magic that happens between basketball players when they are in the zone and can pass the ball without looking to their team members.

magical.
Hundreds of devices storing small files on your one hard drive could be more iops than the device can handle. Does Space Monkey account for other users potentially killing the performance of a single device?
The salt is included in the serialized form of the bcrypt hash, so yes they were leaked. Secrecy isn't their purpose.
Hadoop 2.x lets you run a standby namenode with automatic failover.
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Of course it did, but what it said wasn't enough to make me want to start using Rails again.
Agreed.

Way too many people start a company these days because they want "Founder", "CTO" or "CEO" title... rather than because they see a real need and want to solve a real problem.

The fact that anybody with Google or Stanford on their resume can raise a $500K or $750K seed round doesn't help things either.
that's what a lot of people say, but I think it's more of an excuse/laziness around explaining the actual problem. any entrepreneur who raises a series A will be managed by his investors. if he is not the CEO he will be managed by the CEO and the investors/board.
Posting fake positive reviews is illegal in Europe under the EU Unfair Commercial Practices Directive.
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