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Definitely made the difference between "not loading, closing the tab" to "wow, that was awesome, I will gladly wait and see where this goes".
Okay maybe comments get dead from certain words in them. Let me try reposting a redacted version of Samuel_Michon's post:

I think you’re missing my point: there are millions of teens experimenting on the Internet, [...] in front of webcams. The number of people involved with what you describe is orders of magnitude smaller.
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Call me picky but the language in the titles of these types of articles indicates to me that the authors don't really understand investing.

Thalmic didn't "get" $14.5mil as if they were chosen by some lottery or via some contest. They raised money by creating what, ostensibly, is or could be a viable business (whatever anyone's opinion is, the investors are betting that indeed it's a viable business), and are partnering with some investors to make it a reality.

I've seen a lot of titles like "gets" or "nabs" or "grabs"--that doesn't do justice to the process or the relationship in my mind.
Whatever you do, don't think about getting hit in the face by a helicopter...
Interesting that developed countries do not implement a similar system for their own poor. Friedman and Hayek both believed such a system was superior to merit-tested social assistance programs which require massive bureaucracy and are prone to abuse.

Hopefully, with the success of such charities in developing countries we will see increasing support for such systems here at home, allowing people to escape the vicious unemployment trap of western economies.

(Edit) Additionally, the implementation of basic income at this point would be extremely effective, as it would leverage the massive revolution in freely available online education (e.g. Khan Academy, EdX, Udacity, Coursera) and cooperative workspaces (e.g. hackerspaces). This would effectively transform the entire country into a startup incubator, giving those with the desire and talent to build new companies the resources to do so immediately, without going through the excruciatingly slow, inefficient and oftentimes counterproductive process of formal education.
Well that was constructive
It's safe to assume that for anything that's even mildly controversial externally, there's a ton of internal discussion as well. Usually the internal discussion is even more passionate than the external discussion.

I'm an advocate for the idea that Google wants to compete on a level playing field, which leads directly to the fact that I believe Google should also support open standards and interoperability. That means that any time we aren't doing that, we need to have a really, really good reason for it. That said, after a ton of discussion about XMPP internally, I understand the team's decision and their reasons.
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Those prosecutions are rare because they are hard to win. If there were a reliable way to prove that a picture or video involves someone younger than 18, those prosecutions would be far more common. It is not as though the prosecutor receives a case of someone has pictures that appear to be of minors, and they say, "Gee, I think we can let this slide. Those girls are clearly sexually developed!"

At the end of the day, a prosecutor's career depends on their ability to win cases. Prosecutors choose cases they believe they can win, regardless of whether or not those cases actually make sense.
You know how Steve Jobs said, "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life"?

Well, I agree, and I take that idea very seriously. People should keep their money (earned by trading time from their lives), and use it to make the most of their own lives.

Moral credit ought to go to those who create the most, not to those that give up everything. Contrary to what your mother will tell you, giving money to charity does not make you a better person. But creating things and otherwise making the most of your life (you only have one), does.

If you want to give money to charity, make sure you're doing it for the right reason (i.e., because you know that the specific cause you're supporting will make your own life better), and that you have enough money so that you're not sacrificing your primary values (your own goals, family, friends, for example) by doing so.

Don't give up the one life you have, or any part of it - it's yours, and it's all you've got.
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funny, the game i played had the same thing, it was a bit cheaper though, 9$ for three months.. same effect..

i'm seeing similarities with the clash of clans model to the idea of putting a frog(player) in a pot of water(game) and slowly turning up the temperature(tiny payments), until its boiling and they don't notice the total sum of the payments along the way...
Wired ran a story last year on a Chinese team that did the same thing already:

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/08/zhejiang-university-c...
Because you're acting like it's Google's responsibility to provide a client in addition to a server. This is not the case. In fact, the two are barely related.

Or perhaps because it's kinda silly to say, "Oh, you gave me one thing? Now give me another thing!" It's just . . . a childish perspective? I'm really not sure how to describe this.
I know it's anecdotal, but I read way more Google+ related content than Facebook.

I say this as someone who doesn't have an account with either service. The quality content with Google+ is there, Facebook is clearly just useless tripe.
As with all money transfer products, the technology to transfer funds to an individual is generally the fun/easy part. Wait until you find out about America's (and most other countries) wonderful anti-money laundering and anti-terrorist financing compliance laws that can land you in less-fun places like federal prison if you don't use this sort of webservice very, very carefully.
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I added my first subscription just fine, but subsequent attempts have given me error messages.

1) URLs that should work with autodiscovery give me this message -> "Sorry, that does not look like a valid URL".

2) When I enter the full URL of the feed it appears to add the subscription successfully, but it doesn't show up when I refresh my screen.

3) The keyboard navigation is a bit weird. If "J" advances to the next item, should the previous letter "H" send me to the previous item (as opposed to "K")?

4) I don't see how I can manually create folders for my subscriptions.

5) I can't rename subscription titles.

Yoleo looks promising, but it feels like a beta product.
How many directions can EEG control.

If this is just up and down based on your level of concentration, it is relatively useless. However, if it maps all 6 directions, it is pretty impressive.
I've been in this situation, and there is no comparison at all. Nobody but the very wealthy can afford to pay out of pocket for healthcare. A single, minor injury can cost you $50,000 - $100,000. A chronic condition, cancer treatment, or major surgery can easily head north of $1 million.

Sure, you can try to negotiate pretty much anything. But what kind of leverage do you think you have? Insurance companies can put many millions of dollars of revenue at risk with the threat of dropping a stubborn healthcare provider from their network.

In contrast, your negotiation position is A) please? and B) I may be forced to declare bankruptcy, in which case you may or may not get your money. If you have enough assets, then option B is basically another form of A: "please, don't take away my house or the savings I've spent my life earning." The bigger your bill, the greater the incentive to deal with the annoyance involved in collecting from you. The likely consequence of your personal financial ruin doesn't enter into their calculations.
Doesn't even need to be a backend feature. A Chrome extension (a la Reddit Enhancement Suite) that lets you tag people would be more than sufficient.

I understand Aaron's motivation. Asking for that info on HN though is the same as starting a fight in a Starbucks. We're better than that.
Has anyone here ever used Developer Auctions? I'm curious if the engineers actually get higher salaries or if it's just on par with market value.
they mentioned that in the article
So your bullshitting is my mental health issue now ?

Congratulations! You've upgraded from baseless assertion to ad-hominem!

Let's see what offence against logic you will commit next
Not for a long long time. The reason Paypal doesn't work everywhere is because of crazy laws, not technology.

And Paypal can afford many more hours of lawyering than most startups.
Nifty, nice job! Does it work with horses?

I feel pretty in touch with my dogs since I work from home and provide their exercise...but I could see my wife wanting to see how the horse is doing since it is kept at stable and she can't make it out every day.

Also typically horse people are super rich (tho we are not) and already paying lots and lots on horse care, might be good to explore.

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I am not sure that marriages of royalty are representative, their marriages had entire countries, delicate alliances, and survival of families on the line. That probably drives extreme decision-making.
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and you have to keep buying the items or the "Winner status" goes away..
The hassle of job seeking can actually be a pretty good motivator for entrepreneurship. Why would one want to play the game of crafting CVs, studying for interviews and playing the interview game when all that isn't actually relevant to the work you want to and will be doing? You could be spending that time trying to develop or sell a product you actually do care about and if successful, will see decent return on your investment of time. And it's not like the interview game even matters, when in the end a nephew of the head of another department gets the job, no matter his 2.7/5.0 GPA.
The first attempt at a compiler was made by Robert Brayton, but was unsuccessful. The first successful LISP compiler was programmed by Timothy Hart and Michael Levin. It was written in LISP and was claimed to be the first compiler written in the language to be compiled.

However you look at it, lisp seems to be an exercise in recursion :-)
Exactly! Read my comment below on this.
(OP here) Oh, I'm must have not been very clear on the purpose behind tracking commits vs. time - for accounting purposes when recording what time gets capitalized and what time gets expensed. As for misleading, when we matched up commits to time spent per project, they lined up incredibly well, as mentioned in the article.

You're correct that business value is a crucial metric, but that's applied across departments and largely for strategic reasons. This is managed & handled entirely separate from how developer time is translated into accounting practices, which is what my post was about.
Oh yes it is! I know exactly what my insurance company's negotiated prices are (because I pay them!) and they are astronomical. I just had an emergency visit and the nominal charge was $1700. The negotiated charge was $1500. That's _nothing_. I added up the medicare schedule prices for the entire visit and it was about $350. So, yes, a large insurance plan (like medicare) seems to be able to negotiate far better than my insurance company.
Not everyone subscribes to such a dark, cynical view of the world. I realize that there are thousands of invisible advantages I have over an identical me born in Africa. Giving to charity is a small way of shrinking the gap.
It's certainly unexpected by the general public.
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For another opinion, I'm a Stripe customer, and I really appreciate Balanced talking about their product in this thread. They're not trashing Stripe, they're just talking about the differences between the products.

It seems cordial and I would rather read about the two products together than in some later thread I'll probably miss.
This is a great idea. Giving directly to the poor will hopefully bypass corrupt entities, and essentially injects cash directly into the economy you're hoping to assist. In the case of a farmer or someone looking to start a business, even a small cash injection can make a big difference, and will immediately produce an impact.

The main risks of course to this plan is that the money could get spent on imported goods, which would transfer the cash back out of the local economy, or that it would get hoarded (or stolen). But cash injections are still the most effective means to stimulate an economy, especially small, local economies.
>By that rules, most people who possess child porn act illegally.

Out of curiosity, do you have data to support that? If the stories are true, you can't really swing a cat in the space of Tor hidden services without hitting a public server full of CP.
That's a really good question... and I'm not sure. Certainly if, outside of the context of this topic if you asked me your mentally handicap question I would say that no, there's no difference.

But think of it from a different angle, and separate each individual action. Let's define "causing physical pain" as a bad thing. Now take an example of child abuse in which physical pain is not caused - let's say fondling, or maybe consensual (ignoring subtle manipulation/etc.) sex with an older child - would you say that adding physical pain into that equation doesn't make it worse? And if adding one bad thing doesn't make it worse, what other things could you add before it does count as making it worse - murder?

Now to come back to a more specific example - if an adult has a sexual relationship with a child which the child is, at the time, untroubled by, then is there a chance that they could come out of it without any harm being done? Yes. I've no idea what the stats are, but certainly there are adults who as children had relationships with adults and who, now they are adults, still don't think there was anything wrong with it. So however likely or unlikely that is to be the case, a consensual relationship has a higher than 0% chance of doing no harm. On the other hand, a forced relationship in which the child hates it at the time, already is at 100% doing harm - even if the child gets over it and lives a happy life, there was already some harm (however serious or not serious) caused at the time. So doesn't that mean the odds suggest one is better than the other? Even if only by a tiny amount?

edit: Another thought - from a moral judgement point of view, I think it's also possible to see that there might be a difference in motivation from the abuser's point of view, who could look at a consensual relationship with a child as justifiable (i.e. deluded) vs. one who clearly knows the child doesn't want it (i.e. evil). Of course I'm sure that some of the consensual relationships (maybe the vast majority) involve adults who are just scheming and thinking about what makes their abuse easier, but some definitely justify to themselves that it's not OK. (Probably more likely with children older than 6, though.) Mental handicap example: difference between having sex with an adult who you believe to be consenting (but they're not, they just don't tell you because of their handicap) vs. having sex with an adult you know doesn't want to have sex.
You have no proof that Honda/Acura use 128-bit AES. In fact, being familiar with some research in the security of electronic car locks, I would wager they do not use AES.
Have you thought of throwing up an email-collection landing page, and putting a few bucks into Adwords to gauge demand? If there's nothing else in this space, you may be on to something, but you'll have to do some legwork to generate interest.

This looks like something that could work well as SaaS, I'm not sure you'd get enough traffic for ads to work out for you.

BTW, the graphing library is beautiful, but you might want to outsource some logo and design work.

Good luck!
I'm working with PostgreSQL right now, and it supports various indices (I'm sticking with btree for everything I have for now). Just made me wonder, whether the folks behind TokuDB cannot pursue PGSQL variant of their solution?

never mind - found some good answers here - http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/Fractal-tree-indexin...
This is what welfare and employment insurance are for. Most developed countries do have systems for distributing wealth to the poor, to varying degrees.
The use case is exactly what you have described: third party services. If one wants to run a Calendar service, open standards allow them to use a published standard protocol (CalDAV in this case) that clients can use regardless of platform. Most desktop calendar software (and even iOS AFAIK) support CalDAV and it seems that Google has cleverly omitted CalDAV support from their mobile OS, locking Android users into using Google Calendar with no other option.

That being said, there's nothing stopping someone from writing a proper CalDAV/CardDAV adapter and releasing it on the Play Store. But with all of the claims of Google supporting open standards I was highly surprised to see that Google neglected to implement CalDAV/CarDAV in Android.
So if there existed a person who found all nude pictures arousing, then all nude picture will become porn?
Is a website, is beautiful, is easy to use, has an API. You've hit on the first three, so when the API becomes public, I am so using this.

Are you hosting this yourself? Do you expect $9/year members to adequate cover the costs? I'd totally be willing to pay more if it means I don't have to suffer through another shutdown.
Please force SSL/TLS on the accounts page if not everywhere (should be everywhere)...You're currently sending Stripe payments over http
Define 'exchanging' here. Let's say there is a forum/imageboard/pinterest/whatever that a bunch of people post pictures on. Does that count as 'payment' to each other?
Here's what the product page looks like:

https://yumcoin.com/p/osZO
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Disadvantage of charities is that only approximately 10% of donated money are making it directly to the cause.

Disadvantage of giving money directly to the poor is that half of them will end up buying pot, booze or getting robbed.
3) The keyboard navigation is a bit weird. If "J" advances to the next item, should the previous letter "H" send me to the previous item (as opposed to "K")?

No. It inherits this behavior from Google Reader, which inherits this from vi. http://www.catonmat.net/blog/why-vim-uses-hjkl-as-arrow-keys...
I'd be willing to bet that someone has stolen some universal unlock codes for a variety of manufacturers and it is now in the wild. Of course, no car company wants to admit this.
I read SJ's quote as about being intentional in the things you choose to do and to not let other people's expectations guide your life choices. This is orthogonal to whether or not a person chooses to donate money/time to others.

I think yours is a pretty selfish viewpoint. I wonder how world war II soldiers would feel about what you say.
Why ought moral credit go to those who make the most, regardless of the opportunities that they're given? Americans and Western Europeans, on average, start from an advantageous position compared to those in poor regions.

As a side note, it seems quite plausible to me that redistribution from the "lucky" to the "unlucky" will result in a growing pie for all, though perhaps it won't grow to the extent that the very lucky are better off than if the redistribution didn't happen.

By all means be a miser if that makes you feel better, but don't cloak your actions in "morality".
Determinants are never actually used to invert matrices. In fact, I can't think of any computational math that even calculates an inverse matrix. It's both faster, lower storage (unless you invert in place?) and far more numerically stable to solve Ax=b by factoring A as LU/chol/maybe QR. Even if you had multiple b you would just save your factorization.

In which bit of math do people actually instantiate an inverse?
I've not been so methodical in it as you but I've been checking out and throwing money at productivity tools just like you. None of them fit so far though I stuck with Things the longest. Will revisit THL as a result to reading your blog post.
What does the payee see? My business name, stripe's name, etc
Nonsense. That is exactly what the administration implied. By implying the Saddam Hussein had connections to Al Qaeda and had WMDs, he clearly implied that we had to stop Iraq or else we would be in grave danger. That constituted the bulk of his argument for the war.

Maybe "official Washington" (whatever that is) knew differently, but the Bush administration was selling the public on the vision of a mushroom cloud in front of the white house.
How about the manufacturers providing a back door? Their own code.

What happens in the event that you loose your fob?
It is worthwhile to pay attention to history.

Internet shopping has a good historical analog. Mail order catalogs. It took a long time for things to settle down, but eventually everyone wound up with both mailorder and retail outlets.

Even the 800 pound gorilla of mailorder, Sears Roebuck, became a hybrid. It took decades before they opened their first store, but today it is mostly known as a chain of department stores.

I am sure that the same will eventually happen to Amazon. However not for a long time.
Not at all. I loved when Google had more products than anyone could keep track of. Not every company needs to be Apple.
Many people derive great personal satisfaction from giving to others...
That's fair enough. It's worth noting that Hitoshi Harada, the original author, is a long time contributor to the core project.
Mixed metaphors, n=1, and the shock of the new. The interesting thing here is that Google seems competitive on item choice and offers Amazon some meaningful competition.
There is nothing dark or cynical in what I have said. What is dark about "live the best life you can live" and "make the most of what you've got"?

Fact: to achieve your own goals, you need 100% of your time, money and effort.
FD3SA is suggesting that he/she considers this kind of wealth redistribution quite different from social welfare.
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TL/DR: I (would have) used this new google shopping thing (once) and would have saved money, except for shipping. Amazon better be terrified.

Sheesh. Not that Google's tool doesn't have merit, it might.. but we'll have to wait for someone to write an article worth reading. This is silly.
I don't think that the author is really comparing apples to apples. The products are different and the prices are different.

That being said, most of the time when comparing amazon to local retailers, I notice the price is almost identical, except for tax.
Good point. Maybe I should say that the resources aren't directly nor officially used to fund wars.
this is how analytics should be done. congrats, guys. proud to be an investor!
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I don't think that holds. I would see "Christian" as implying they're evangelical, where fundamentalists have a specific code they're living by and proselytizing, so they tend to use their specific denomination. There are lots of different kinds of Christian fundamentalists, but the specific fundamentals of their church differ between groups (7th Day Adventists, etc.).
I'm not acting as if it is Google's responsibility to support any protocols at all. It's just curious that Google would implement a protocol on their servers but not on their operating system. Am I demanding anything? No. I am blaming anyone? Not at all.

The personal attacks based on your perception of my comment are frankly unprofessional and completely unnecessary.
Your business name, along with the transfer statement descriptor you specify (though this varies by bank).