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I think there’s a big place for a Kickstarter for journalism- consumers pay to get the news that they want to hear. I saw this most during the Occupy actions last year. Livestreamers would go out and cover events in their cities, funded through donations. People found livestreamers whose actions and viewpoints got them their news best, and then paid them directly. I’m sure a lot of them felt the thrill of hearing their name thanked over a livestream watched by 1000s. But others were simply paying for journalism- and in a way big news organizations are not prepared to replicate. These weren’t micropayments, but (often) funding of specific things. This month’s cell phone bill, a better camera for better video, a light to see the action better. The connection between spending your money and the results it brings needs to be tight. Watsi knows this about philanthropy and executes perfectly. Maybe we need something similar to that for journalism. This doesn’t leave much room for profit, but I often prefer news sources without profit as a primary goal (Mother Jones, NPR, et al.)

This is similar to the change the music industry is going through. There will always be enough money to fund the creation of good music and good journalism. The question is how it will be distributed in the future, and whether those industries will still generate the profit they used to.

Musicians now release their albums independently for free or cheap, and then make their cash from live shows and selling merchandise. This directly funds the artist, but doesn’t leave room for a record company to take it’s cut. This freaks out the music industry exactly the way the journalism industry is freaking out. I think we are shifting away from following organizations for our news to following individuals and funding them directly. Talking to them on Twitter. Impacting what they cover next. As much as big news organizations try to imitate this, it’s never the same as talking to and donating to an independent journalist. Like the difference between seeing your favorite band in a tight little club and at a stadium. There might not be enough profit around to fund big newsrooms full of reporters at desks, but I am pretty sure there will be enough money for reporters to make a living, especially if they can come together in collectives in coworking spaces like the leanest of start-ups do.
As mentioned below, there is that official upgrade guide. It is not comprehensive, as mentioned in the post. Should get you going, though. We'll be continuing to work on it now that there's an RC out.

I personally have reviewed (but am not getting a cut of) http://www.upgradingtorails4.com/ and it's pretty good.
Yes, I'm aware of this. My comment was about wide-spread adoption.

I have a hard time imaging my parents working with fractions just to buy a coffee.
That sounds like it would be pretty useful. What would you suggest as far as the database? I plan on using Postgres on Heroku and will be either be using SQLAlchemy or Django's ORM. What would be a good way to approach this problem? I was planning on doing something similar, making a diagram of all of the models/tables I will need, and additionally writing out all of the details of each relationship and possible entities I will need to add in the future.
Or, like Linux, it will become ubiquitous on the commercial-side of business, just not consumer.
Do you mean ionic air purifiers? Do they work?

http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-skeptic21apr21,...
> If you're using an ORM, and you almost certainly are

I'm not a web developer - I spend more of my time in raw-sql-land, so this discussion is largely academic to me :-). That said, even if you're using an ORM, it's presumably not exactly free for the ORM to produce an object out of the thousands of distinct rows you can end up getting if you have multiple one to many relationships.

In general, the availability of arrays for the purposes of data transport - less so actual storage - in postgres is rather helpful for these sort of problems. I find working with other DBs to do object storage quite constricting by comparison.
Where's the selection for "I have a partially assembled Prusa Mendel I'll finish some day?"
Create a group of highly respected editors coming from a wide variety of perspectives that are salaried (no bonuses) and appointed for a single fixed period, and that can present stories from a wide variety of sources. These editors are to agree not to work for another news organization for at least a year after serving.

It would have no writers or television crews of its own, but would pick the best stories from organizations that do.

Any member of this board could pick a topic to cover. And a majority of the board could shoot down a particular piece for failing to conform to its standard.

One half hour broadcast a day I can watch any time would be nice and a web site. I don't care if its ad-supported but advertisers are to have no say on content. Some independent funding will probably be necessary. Make it a kickstarter project.
The name of the site is Eat this much ;)

But indeed, for the site to plan a person’s total caloric intake, it really should include popular liquids (it does plan shakes and smoothies).

Coffee and tea contain very little calories, but once you add milk and sugar (including syrups), it really adds up fast. Sodas and energy drinks are packed with calories.

If you like to drink, alcoholic beverages really should be accounted for. One gram of pure alcohol contains 7 kcalories. A 12 oz beer contains about 150 kcalories.[1]

[1] http://getdrunknotfat.com/
> Woah, desperate much?

I doubt that desperation is an issue.

> Headline roughly translates to "we're willing to pay the perpetual maintenance cost of a new runtime because our existing runtimes aren't attracting enough users to justify the product"

No, it doesn't. You may interpret it that way, but that's not a translation, that's your unsupported ascription of a motive.

It would be at least as justifiable an interpretation to say that this is a sign that the AppEngine platform has matured as a standalone product (rather than just a way to derive some incidental revenue at low cost from infrastructure Google has to have to support their core services) that they are getting around to supporting languages with heavy market demand but little internal traction in Google, rather than what is internally-useful to Google.
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It's always felt like a fundamental flaw in copyright to me, though, if as implemented it discourages the legal dissemination of content.

At the start a 14 year copyright term (+ 14 if author was still alive and chose to renew) was considered sufficient in the U.S.; these days, it's life + 70 years. And copyrights are recognized (more or less) internationally, and we live in a time when nothing has to go out of print and most copyrighted material can be paid for and delivered over the Internet rather than cranked out on a printing press and carried by horse into the territories.

In other words, routinely creating artificial scarcity strikes me as a relatively modern usage of copyright protection -- there might have been the odd case where somebody only wanted to produce five books or something, but as a matter of course it seemed like authors wanted to get their material out there. Things seemed fairly hunky-dory until copyright terms got extended, publishers and movie studios began amassing libraries of content, and alternative strategies to simply publishing content to meet demand became viable.

If nothing else, it seems weird to me that a radio station can go out, buy an album, pay set royalties to the appropriate organizations, and be clear to broadcast or stream... yet the equivalent does not exist for streaming audiovisual content.
My first £1,000 (about 8 years ago) from a small PC repair shop I opened with a friend.
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Ask HN: great B2B SaaS websites with product showcase?
Hey folks,

I'm trying to find examples of great websites that sell SaaS products to businesses / govt entities. What I'm looking for specifically is understanding the best practices of guiding an interested purchaser through the website, showcasing the product and ultimately offering a trial and/or to get in touch with the company to sign up for the service.

I'm implementing something of that sort for my product, and I think it's best that I at the very least see how other successful companies have done that so I don't reinvent the wheel.

Thank you!
I'd put them firmly in the same stage that computers were back when you had people in their garages soldering together homebrew computers.
That policy is dumb and that is why I use Opera instead!
Me as well. The post just gave me the warm fuzzies.
There's some information on the specific charges here: http://www.nj.gov/lps/ge/exclusion/colavecchio_louis.htm
There doesn't have to be only one divide.
Cool poll but I have a hunch data will be skewed towards "yes" (in the sense that people who have 3d printers will be more likely to answer the survey).
There's the entire JVM ecosystem available. Batteries are very much included.
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I guess there would need to be some heuristics as to what is and isn't allowed.
> Handwriting communicates more than just words, but attitude, character, and mood as well.

Actually, I think signaling theory strongly suggests that the preference for handwritten notes is rooted in its difficult and time-consuming nature (i.e. a costly signal) rather than the emotional fidelity of the communication.
While I mostly agree with what you're saying... The truth is, why worry about Google getting hacked and having the attacker modify their CDN version of jQuery (or leaking user behaviour and identity), when I'm already letting them load unknown (to me) code in ga.js?

To me, there's a trade-off I've chosen, and while I'm not 100% comfortable with having the availability of my site depend on Google - "repugnant" is _way_ to strong a word to describe the downside to the pragmatic choice I've made.
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I agree. But I have seen many programmers claim they will be more productive in language/framework X because its new.

As for cheap shots at PHP, I see PHP like the USA. Easy to take cheap shots at because its so large and runs so much. For all its faults/flaws its still pretty productive though.

I am an Aussie for the record.
We need journalism because we don't all have the time and resources to track a story or investigate upcoming trends, cultures, or ideas.

If you aren't interested in what is going on around you, or you just prefer to just "read the data" from public, government, or non-profit outlets then you might not see a need for journalism.

"Community-curated" journalism seems to have replaced much of the "low hanging fruit" that magazines and newspapers used to print.
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That's a quite uncharitable reading of the Netflix slide (I assumes that's what you're referring to).

Your "A-game" is your best, not the best in the world. Your "B-game", by extension, is something less. The way I read it, is that as long as you're doing the best work you can, it doesn't matter when you work. If you're doing less than your best work, well, you should stop.
I had it suggesting whole milk for a while, but a lot of people complained that it was giving them too much whole milk so I just removed it entirely. My algorithm doesn't give any special treatment to drinks, but maybe it should to output something more realistic looking.

I use the site myself, and the way I handle drinks is with the "locking" feature (via the lock icon next to a food or meal). If I know I'm going to be drinking a lot one night, I'll lock in a few beers from the "Add a dish" menu and regenerate the plan - the algorithm will fill in the rest of the plan to match the nutrition constraints, making it kindof like an autocomplete for your diet.
Is there a Hackerspace near you?

http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/List_of_Hacker_Spaces

(If there's not one nearby, you could always start one... when I cofounded a hackerspace I met a lot more than 15 new people who wanted to share 3d printers and the like!)
Good tip.

Australia: Woolworths.com.au
Mainland Europe/Asia: Carrefour group.
UK/Asia: Tesco group.

One potentially interesting Asian market to consider is Singapore (almost certain supermarket delivery services must exist there due to regionally high income levels and tiny geography, plus it's full of office-dwelling cosmetic-concern types).
I like this argument. When looking at the other analogies (ATM giving you too much cash, cashier giving you wrong change, etc), the missing detail is that a casino is sort of a morality-free zone for money when you think about it. The casino is given a license by the state to offer losing odds to customers, thus guaranteeing the casino a (statistical) advantage (and the gov't a cut of the profits). In other words, the casino is allowed to exploit people's greed and credulity that they can beat the odds.

And so, if there is no money-morality at a casino, I don't see why casino patrons shouldn't be allowed any exploit of whatever games the casino offers (card counting, bug exploits, etc)--barring of course any threats or injury to people. If the dealer doesn't shuffle the cards or the game has a bug, up to the gambler to take advantage of it until the casion fixes it.

So by this reasoning, creating counterfit tokens at a casino would be considered fair-play. I actually don't see that as a problem--it does not affect legal money supplies so why should the feds or states prosecute it. Up to the casino to protect itself and develop secure tokens. I don't see why the feds were involved in that case either (of course, I understand under the current laws).

In my hypothetical world, he only thing the government should be regulating are the taxes (on winnings by both sides) and the non-money aspects of casinos, such as ensuring personal safety. It's not allowed for the patron or the casino to threaten or hurt anyone based on any money transactions. Casinos can exclude patrons by refusing to allow them to play, but they can't physically interfere with them.
Linux and BSD are not nearly the same thing. And I'm not even being overly pedantic here. They have 2 things in common:

* They try (and arguably succeed at) cloning Unix.

* The adopt a permissive license for sharing and copying.

Beyond this, they're 2 completely different projects with nothing more in common. Heck, even the "permissive licenses" they each use are contradicting in philosophy.

You seem to imply that Linux has reached ubiquity on the desktop because MacOSX is based on BSD. This is just wrong.
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This probably goes without saying, but you have a cool high school - or at least a cool teacher or two. Good luck with the printing!
Counterpoint: nothing is more middlebrow than thinking that something needs updating just because it's old or not "flashy".
It's a bad idea to put a photograph of keys on-line, particularly in such a way that they can be matched up with a real-world identity. And the higher-profile you are, the worse an idea it is, I imagine.

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/07/duplicating_ph...

http://www.news.com.au/national-news/killer-escaped-prison-a...
This is a startup likely to be acquired sooner rather than later, if they do it right. There is a huge amount of legacy leftover in this industry. An uncle lives in Seattle doing COBOL on some very, very old systems related to shipping and trucking.
Selected Yes, but I really meant "I have one and it doesn't work properly, haven't touched it in months and wondering if I should get rid of it." :/
It would be nice to also know what kinds of things people with printers are making. Prototyping? Doodling? Replacement parts? Puzzles/Games?

I am interested in 3D printers but I'm not sure what I would be using it for!
Implying that the 6th most popular language on GitHub can't qualify as "very popular"?
Please tell me it's adjustable between little- and big- endian.
I asked them about some kind of integration when I first launched, but because I had a pretty small userbase they dropped the conversation after a couple emails. Now that it's grown, maybe I'll prod them again.
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I remember having a support ticket with Heroku about this. I found the feature through tyring to create a Facebook app.

I then asked if I can use the platform for non-Facebook apps. Here's their response:

"Hi– it's not yet officially supported, but if you try pushing one, you'll find that it works."
Linux Desktop refers to the entire package, not just the underlying plumbing. OSX is MacOS built atop a BSD variant.
For god's sake, have an opinion that wasn't on the front page of HN last week.
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> What's the best way to engage other developers who would like to expand and extend a commercial game? Would open source be better, or rely on the mod community (and provide an extensible framework)?

Why is it either/or? Open source opens the whole engine to developers, a framework that supports mods permits less intrusive, safer changes. You can do both (see OpenTTD for an example.)
Unions were (and are) a reaction to how some employers can treat employee's unfairly.

Now it could be said the end result of an union is worse than the bad employer.

Also, why would most workers want to be taxed (additionally on top of their state, and federal income tax) to have someone protect them?
based on the AJC here in Atlanta, don't forget half your audience. Failure to keep their editorial slant out of their everyday reporting clobbered this paper.

After a few attempts to reinvent themselves, they tried to prop up their numbers with web content. The sad part, far too many printed stories sent you to the web to get the complete story which basically told readers, why bother with print!

Another area people overlook, the for sale pages of papers took a direct hit from ebay and craigslist. I remember buying papers just for the wanted ads, but vehicles ended up on dedicated sites, cars.com / autotrader.com and such.
I own a 2D printer and have found my use of it declined dramatically over the last five years.

Given I just became a Google Shopping Express member and I am already addicted to Amazon Prime, I anticipate my desire to make my own 3D items at home to also decline over time.

I do agree with @JDDunn9. There will be businesses that will provide 3D printing services using state of the art printers, high quality materials, and their expertise. Bay Photo is a 2D example of this kind of service. They will deliver the results quickly, cheaply, and reliably using distribution services like Prime and Express.
That doesn't sound too different from finding and exploiting a bug in an online bank.

If e.g. someone found a way to log in as other users, that would reflect poorly on the bank's security, but it wouldn't entitle them to withdraw all the money they could access, even through "a sequence of buttons that they were legally entitled to push."

I think categorizing it as hacking makes sense in that light. The issue seems to be that the current laws treat hacking as an exotic crime with federal scope, which makes the legal cases a bit quirky.
Hmm.. ~1 month out from starting alpha testing of my app, do I update now, or later. Decisions..
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Where's the option for "I don't have one now and don't have any plans to buy one, but that might change as the technology evolves." Never seems too strong a word in option 3.
If it was so easy to get rich with bitcoin, everyone would have it already. Besides that, what are Dollars useful for besides drug deals and tax evasion? I can't pay a taxi in Dollars here (a very good measurement for how useful a currency is) but I can use dollars to buy stuff from some Chinese seller that doesn't make me pay tax over the bought goods. It's a hard truth for some.

This reply is total bullshit, I know. I'm trying to connect with him on his level.
The users AppEngine has now are, pretty much by definition, not the ones for whom PHP is a make or break feature.

So that doesn't even make sense as explanation.
Does the never buy one option entail a belief that they won't someday be useful? Or is it just, "Won't buy one if they remain as they are now." I meant the latter when I upvoted it.
I really like this application and the idea. What I'd really love is if I could write the note using some kind of stylus on the iPad. Then it would truly handwritten.

My "claw" is illegible enough for people to know whether or not I really wrote something by hand or generated it on a computer.
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There is a need for people to propose hypotheses about the data that's out there. And to propose plans of action. And this information needs to reach people who can do something with it.

Does it immediately follow that we need someone writing inverted-pyramid wire service copy?

All I'm saying is, journalism is not an end in itself. It is at best, a means to an end. We want a prosperous and just society where everyone is empowered, and part of that is wide information distribution. But there could be many roads to get there.
Bought a 3D Systems Cube a few months ago. I would say it's not a consumer-ready product, though not a bad investment from the perspective of doing market research. I've learned a lot about where the current market is in terms of consumer-usable 3D printing.

There are clearly growth opportunities, both on the hardware and software sides of things, and in their intersection.