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This is what we did at TaskRabbit, and here's our rails midleware to do it: https://github.com/taskrabbit/storehouse
I thought the term carried a connotation of "marks in a record" or other paperwork - and in governmental bureaucracies it usually does mean this (schools included). I literally mean no official record - a verbal warning.
Thank you for such a comment!

To your not sure points:

- Voting: We understand that it's just what a future could be. We are not working on this right now and won't till we're in a position it might get useful. It will start out as a mail hosting with a nice client having some cool features. This is just how we'd like to use mail in the future if we're lucky enough to have your support to be around that long.

- Multiple accounts: You have a username/password to your account that has access to all your mailboxes. Mailboxes themselves don't have any username/password combo. Owner of a domain can give you an access to a mailbox. We're using SMS to verify you and is used again in case of a lost password. To have a better control over access on a different devices it's a nice idea to disable some mailboxes from mobile devices. We'll look into it. Messages will be encrypted and communicate with your devices only over HTTPS. We're taking security very seriously and we're enhancing all of this all the time even for the beta to be absolutely safe.

- Social media: Honestly, we don't have any plans to make this optional to be displayed.

- Metadata: Don't worry, I myself need those basic information at hand. The app as it's getting developed changes a bit from design screenshots but not so much it makes it overwhelming. Still looks simple.

- Compose: It'll be possible to compose fullscreen and/or in a new tab.

- Service: It's a mail hosting, you need to own a domain to be able to use our service. At the moment you need to also use only our client solution, beta will be browser-based web app and mobile and desktop apps are coming next. In the future we have plans to create an API to connect our hosting into more clients.
Well, when you give up a little liberty/property rights for a little 'safety' you get a whole lot of inflexible shit in return. Zoning and its inflexibility hurts the people on the bottom of the totem pole the most as the article indicates. With no zoning, you can still have a lot of shit, but at least you're not married to it.
Dailylit.com is great for getting extra reading in. Beyond that I have "Hard" book that I make sure I read at least 30 minutes a day, to ensure I'm not only reading fluff.

As far as articles go, when I find something that I don't have time for right then I drop it into a "Consume" folder in my bookmarks, and then periodically I go in there and power through some of the stuff, it's not optimal, but as long as you have some way of making sure you periodically check it, it is a trusted system.
This. As much as it may work right now, because basically no one is doing it, as soon as it becomes a popular method, it seem to me it will stop working pretty quickly. Everyone doing it will become equivalent to a Jehova's Witness knocking on your door.

That said, I imagine I'd be more okay with it if every time I said yes I got a free coffee.

Aside: I wonder how different reactions would be in different countries/cultures.
Jeremy, also to note we'll be putting out many in-depth articles about a variety of engineering related topics in the comings weeks.
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Probably. Netflix has the big constraint of availability that only extends to the US. Porn is global. Even though the US has a above-average bandwidth usage (guesstimated) it's still only a small(ish) drop in the global network.
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John McPhee's book "La Place de la Concorde Suisse" is excellent if you are interested in the militia system of Switzerland.

http://www.amazon.com/Place-Concorde-Suisse-John-McPhee/dp/0...
Stock dividends come to mind. Not sure how common that is in the industry, though.
> Vim—a text editor. It’s been around for more than 20 years and it’s still much better than many of the other editors I’ve tried.

I am an emacs person and I take offense at this blatant editorism. Posts like this are perpetuating a vimtriartic environment in the tech scene when it's already struggling hard to find more nano users.

(Sorry, couldn't resist)
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Steve Jobs blah blah blah UNIX blah blah blah Apple blah blah UX nerdery blah blah blah blah blah.

OK - now the important stuff about the Cube:

https://www.google.com/search?q=next+magnesium+case+burn
Personally, I think being able to defend oneself is pretty useful, but I guess I just don't have your giant brain.
The option to say no doesn't make it any less annoying.
Exactly! This example of private contract law is really the right way. To be fair, Houston really developed post-car + cheap land which explains the low density.
I cannot pimp John McPhee's Assembling California [1] highly enough. It is fantastic, and contains a wonderful section about the '89 quake. Really, anything John McPhee writes is worth stopping whatever one is doing and getting started. He's a national treasure.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Assembling-California-John-McPhee/dp/0...
It's not that simple when you have a family to provide for. The job you have might be the best job for many miles.

I don't agree with the decision not to protest, and I don't think HN should really care about catering to that demographic, but I understand their motive.
Still, you don't go out of your way to pick confusing colors. This is Usability 101 stuff.

If the room's on fire and I'm in it, I'm a 'safety responder' whether I want to be or not.
Over the years there have been several people in here who turned down options for, what would become, major players. iirc there was someone who turned down stocks with MS that would currently be worth upwards of $320m.

Sometimes it's difficult to get out of the endless loop of 'if only...'
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Anyone going to CapitalOnStage in Berlin?
On the 16th of May there is VC event in Berlin called capitalonstage.com anyone from europe going there?

I'm still in doubt or going is usefull, they have a nice list of VCs but hard to guess how serious those VC will be in terms of doing deals. What do u think?
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"The Segway is expensive, solves no real problem, and you look like a dork when riding it." -- society
What's the advantage of it? It's just a municipal government by another name, but with fewer safeguards, and a throwback "votes only for landowners" style of voting. I'd personally prefer to be regulated by a proper local government than the strange quasi-governmental abomination of an HOA.

Had this been the norm last century, Palo Alto would've been developed with these kinds of restrictions, and instead of the Palo Alto city government with its NIMBYism, you'd just have the Palo Alto HOA doing the same thing. You actually see that in one part of SF currently: the least dense neighborhood in SF, Forest Hill, is the least dense in part because it was developed by one of the country's early HOAs, the Forest Hill Association, which works hard to keep it suburban and "small-town".
Cornering the market in a useless item in order to drive up its price? Reminds me of the time Porsche cornered the market in VW shares and squeezed the short-sellers: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/transport/32...
Says someone not looking at $2,800 for an apartment right now.

And the peninsula isn't really much better. They tend to be bigger, but nothing is within a half mile, nobody walks on the street, it's a miserable place to be. All that, for an apartment that's $300 cheaper? It makes no sense.
Vive le Québec libre! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vive_le_Qu%C3%A9bec_libre)
It's easy to give objective evaluations about what should be done, but the reality is that given how many people have spent inordinate amounts of money for their homes already, they will likely fight tooth and nail to ensure that their houses maintain their values. The last thing current home owners will be is charitable towards newcomers, who would pay less for homes than what they had to, and at the same time dragging down their own home prices. I think the low density housing in the Valley is just a situation that people will have to live with for the foreseeable future.

The thing is, there are plenty of cheap housing in the outer-lying areas like Livermore, Tracy, Stockton, etc. They just need to invest in proper transportation options, like extending BART to those cities.
Yes, but logic and statistics tend to do very little to dissuade the anti-transit NIMBY types. They're fueled by things like this:

http://www.glennbeck.com/agenda21/
I can definitely see the use-case on CTA buttons, it would be really interesting to A/B test.
Yes. even if Twitter should use this one!
Actually, the QWERTY-layout made typing a lot faster, since the keys didn't jam together.
To paraphrase Adam Savage, who was quoting someone else...

"The difference between fooling around and science is whether you write down the results after you're done."

Of course, to say that you're not learning if you're not writing it down is wrong too.
If you use firefox, try the "it's all text" plugin (although I don't know for sure if it works with the new gmail compose). You can write in the editor of your choice.
> He never asked if I’d give him money today for it. He got feedback from someone he didn’t know would be a paying customer or not.

That's because verbal pricing feedback from random people tends to be terribly inaccurate. Most people actually have a pretty poor conscious idea of what they will buy and how much they would pay for a future product.

Many times I've seen people in focus groups say they would pay $hundreds for an electronics product, then reveal that (for instance) they just had to sell their stereo on Craigslist for rent money. (Translation: no way in hell they would actually pay $hundreds for the product.)

This sort of guerilla action is great for usability testing of a mass-market product because the utility of the feedback increases with the ignorance of the test subject. If your product can be understood and used by tech luddites, it will work fine for tech savvies too.

But pricing research needs much more rigorous look at valid data on potential markets and customers.
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Well, whatever works for them. I've been using gmail since my '04 invite, but a few weeks ago I migrated to mail.com for web mail and bing for search. Google lured me in with the sparse simplicity of their search and webmail. If everything Google is getting bloated and broken (literal string "searches" in google search, fo example), I may as well disburse my online data to multiple places so no single entity has a full picture of my online behavior. I now can vote/comment on youtube without having those things tied to my identity (WTF, Google. If I didn't explicitly sign onto Youtube, don't fucking associate my gmail identity with Youtube!!!).

Anyway, I'm not trying to be hip or edgy. I just finally got tired of Google's feature creep and identity wrangling. So I switched to inferior competitors. Hasn't been too painful, though.

The one thing I'll keep a "real" identity presence on Google's services is "talk" just so I can converse with the few contacts who desire that venue, pretty much making that account similar to my token Yahoo and MSN accounts. I've managed to create a fake identity solely for my Android phone so I can get apps from Play.

While I am curious about Google's future, I've decided that I no longer want to be a part of it.
That was the word I was completely unable to recall: affordance. Yes, that's exactly where you might find these icons useful. (We can agree to disagree on whether the content of the icons is whimsical or annoying.)
I'm not sure a Free Dev Tier of 10megs is gonna do much. Plus the astroturfing mentionned earlier is a big put off.
John Romero's blog has a nice write-up about how id Software developed Doom on Next Step back in 1993. Complete with a screenshot of the level editor: http://planetromero.com/2006/12/apple-next-merger-birthday
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I cannot resist asking .. what isn't?
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This is my favorite of Colin's:

"Isn't HN amazing? Here is the same article submitted on no less than four previous occasions:

* http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4185226
* http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4170972
* http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4355548
* http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4167834

Total upvotes: 29.

Total discussion: 0.

No wonder people try to game the system and find optimal times to submit things.

No wonder people think HN is broken."*[1]

What he failed to mention is that his submission was the fourth and most recent duplicate (oldest to newest):

4167834: zmanji

4170972: VeXocide

4185226: moobirubi

4355548: ColinWright

And obviously he had a justification for his duplicated submission....

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4638756
My uncle did this with trash bags. Big boom.
These icons are perfect for just that, making the most important thing on the page pop. The usual way we see this is a "call to action" button, but I think these sort of high-quality SVG buttons with just a bit of movement may do the same job in a more subtle manner.
Please, take a trip to Istanbul sometime. While there are zoning rules, they are easily subverted by a bribe or two. The architecture looks positively ghastly in many areas because of this.

On the contrary, make everything mixed use. Bottom floor (at the minimum) is business use, and above that is housing.
Or have more accurate valuation techniques. "Last settlement price" is a really, really, bad way to ascertain "value". They should be looking at the market depth of demanded prices, etc.
Even if quantum computers do not exist, a theoretical model of them does exist, so we can discuss them the same way we discuss a turring machine. (Although we might need to clarify which model we are talking about).

However, that is irrelevant because quantum computers do exist. For example, in 2012, researcher's factored the number 21. [1].

However, even the existence of quantum computers is irrelevant, because programming languages designed for them still exist. [2] Not only that, but you can still run programs written in such languages on a classical computer.

Of course, you could also do the type of Bayesian programming in a language designed for that, instead of one designed for Quantom computation.

[1] http://arxiv.org/pdf/1111.4147v2.pdf
[2] http://tph.tuwien.ac.at/~oemer/qcl.html
Everyone should read the author's e-book (it's a really short ~30 min. read).

http://www.amazon.com/The-Rent-Damn-High-ebook/dp/B0078XGJXO

After reading his book, I am convinced that overpriced rent is a massively important problem that makes countless aspects of society worse.

I've read that people spend roughly 1/3 of income on housing, 1/3 on food and 1/3 on everything else. The long term trend in the U.S. has been to greatly reduce the % of our income we spend on food (due to agricultural and tech innovation). We need to do the same for housing prices over the next 20 years. A small space to live for one person in NY or SF should simply not cost ~30% of your annual income! The materials are very cheap to build a square box! And there is lots of vertical room in our nicest cities to build square boxes. The issue is solely constrained supply due to building regulations (many at the local level).

For tech leaders in SF, this seems like it should be the next big political fight (after immigration).
My friends and I set a tree on fire once just with some chlorine and sugar.

It was a regular ritual in my hometown... gather the boys, pitch a few dollars together and buy some chlorine from the local big box stores that sold it as pool cleaner.

If you mixed the chlorine and sugar together in a water bottle, and then later added water, it would explode with an impressive pop after a few seconds.

We were carrying a few of these bottles in a backpack one night when suddenly, I heard a hiss.

Apparently water isn't needed for a chlorine, sugar, water bomb... the jostling of the two powders together in the backpack was enough to start the reaction.

By the time my friend could get the bag off his back and up to his ear to listen for himself, one of the bottles exploded.

Said friend proceeded to throw the backpack as far as he could, as we all scattered in different directions.

We met up later, and walked home past where we had thrown the bag earlier.

All that remained was a scorched tree and a few firemen.

I think that was the last time we dabbled in that sort of "fun".

By the way, my friend's hearing is fine.
Waste?
It's been about 9 months now that Balanced started the approach towards openness: https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues?direction=as...

Building an open company wasn't part of the initial vision. It's something that we've embraced as we grow Balanced.

Regarding the homepage, that's a great suggestion.
Zoning and urban planning are very closely interrelated. Zoning (obviously) is an instance of urban planning - and it's very hard to plan a city if you don't have a way of enforcing your plan (zoning).

The China and Eastern Europe ghost-cities are slightly different because the distinction between the zoning authority (government) and the developer is more fluid, but I still think it applies.
I was of this opinion too. MythBuster's always been known for "these guys try science for real" and "these guys blow stuff up and use real guns!!!".

I remember a story some years ago when one of their test explosions was bigger than predicted and it ended in damage property in a nearby town but AFAIR they didn't get in law-related trouble.
Of course it's simplistic, as is the notion that less guns make us all safer. For the most part though, while there's no way to prove that a lawful citizen today won't become a criminal tomorrow, crime is largely perpetrated by known criminals.

Put more simply, guns are a complicated issue. Eliminating all guns from the planet wouldn't solve all crime, nor would arming everyone on the planet. As a pragmatist, I find it hard to blame the hammer for the actions of the carpenter wielding it, but that seems to be so often the case when guns are involved.
Weird to call NIMBY a liberal thing when many conservatives hate any kind of density planning or mass transit.
Yeah, said the taboo on speaking I'll of the dead was stupid and the world was a better place without Brietbart.
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Glass is the headset display analogue of Microsoft's early tablets. It's not likely to be a blockbuster consumer product this year or maybe not next year but moving displays next to our eyeballs is a natural next step and putting cameras on headsets is a natural next step. I'm hugely skeptical whether those steps need to happen together.

I'd guess the killer app for next gen mobile headsets is the ability to record your surroundings. Yes you can do that with a phone today. What you can't do is have your phone in your pocket constantly holding 5-15+ seconds of audio and video so that when you hit record you get the thing you actually wanted to record whether it's something adorable your kid/pet did, a great joke, an illegal act etc.

So that's the killer app imho and it's going to require an insane amount of battery life up front (and we're putting it right next to people's brains so it better not catch fire or blow up). Then we'll probably need an insane amount of mobile bandwidth and cloud storage for persistent streaming.

But wait we're jumping ahead, you don't need an eye display to do this, you get the functionality from just a camera on a bluetooth headset while the slab in your pocket handles the storage/radios. In fact powering a display is going to kill overall battery life which is the most important constraint. The display is also the most expensive part of Glass today.

So I think the first blockbuster consumer Glass-type product is going to be a bluetooth headset with a camera and no display.
There's no clear definition of an assault weapon. Fully automatic weapons have essentially been banned since 1986 [1]. Once you take away that, the bans on assault weapons pretty much amount to bans on firearms that look scary. Perhaps an AR-15 with a polymer stock will be lighter than a hunting rifle with a wood stock, but ultimately they amount to the same thing.

My objection is that bans based on how something looks are silly.

[1] If you want to get technical, only manufacture of new fully automatic weapons is banned at a federal level. Transfer is still legal, as long as you pay the appropriate taxes and the firearm was manufactured before 1986. Given the limited supply and high prices ($10k+, easily), however, they're extremely rare. States may also have separate bans, like in California.
I wouldn't be surprised at all if he'd said that; but you might be thinking of Gates who once said that OS/2 would be the operating system of the '90s. (He was wrong but he… still did all right in the end.)
My father, who is a gunsmith, finds the hoopla amusing. He sometimes jokes "In my day you didn't have a fancy 3D printer, you had to make a gun out of part of the sink with a rubber band and a nail for the firing pin, you got your sweety to smuggle you in a bullet."

The basics of guns are very very simple. And anyone reasonably facile with hand tools can make them out of off the shelf parts. Things you don't get, a lot of accuracy, or multiple shots, etc.

Ammunition is still pretty hard to do well on your own. Black powder muskets with lead ball shot are no problem, but a reasonable .32 or .45 cal handgun, dicey.
I think the whole thing is another symptom of the local government's dysfunctional incentives. There's no unified agenda for the Bay Area, and it hurts everyone. It shows in the approach to housing and transportation, in business development, and in the nature of political campaigns.

To some extent, I would venture to say that the region suffers from a form of Resource Curse - nice location and weather, and a tech ecosystem that, these days, spins money out of "nothing." Lots of wealth, lots of idealism, but nobody with both the privilege and the responsibility to organize it all in a way that would fix the issues.
Eventually. But NeXT had failed way before that happened. NeXT got bought out by Apple about the same time that the workstation market collapsed.
> And that, is horrible, horrible judgement

That's what being a child is all about. Some people want to see things for themselves.

If I told a younger you about 42.zip, wouldn't you be just a teeny-tiny bit curious about it? Wouldn't you think it would be so funny to email it to a friend of yours at school because of what it did to your machine? What if your school had a zero-tolerance policy for "hacking"?
Well, NeXT got bailed out by being bought by Apple. I don't think you can really call it success. I mean you can call it that but it's not by any yardstick I'd use. It's like you're in last place in the race and your Mom hands you a trophy.
I don't mean "enthusiast crapfest" as in "nobody considers bike for serious transport", but as in "build quality and engineering of modern bikes is stuck in 1920".

Brakes, transmission, drivetrain - one of these is guaranteed to fail in a way that makes the bike unsuitable for driving within a year. You basically can't use a modern bike in winter if you want to still be using it come spring.

That's what I mean with "enthusiast crapfest" - bikes were replaced by public transportation and cars and reduced to a hobby segment, where all manufacturers produce is overpriced gadgets for people that like building bikes but would never dare drive their beloved posessions.

They are basically not usable as dependable transport.
Photos of people around the world showing the food they purchase.