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Fair, but a little knowledge really can be a dangerous thing. I'm not a practicing physician, but several members of my family are (whose characters I tend to trust).

The annoyance you may feel when a non-engineer pontificates on a technical topic they clearly only have a surface level understanding of is similar to the aggravation they (M.D's) feel when patients who have perused pubmed and webmd decide they're better informed than they actually are.

I'm of the opinion that "trust, but verify" is a reasonable way to approach subject matter experts in other fields.
Even for employees, startups are hard and take commitment. It's not for everyone, in fact it's probably not for most. People seem to have this idea of lavish Zynga style life styles. It's not. It's really really hard work. You still have to do as you're told. Everything is always going wrong. You still have to be responsible for your productivity. In fact you have to do a lot more. You cannot just hide.

As startups are not anywhere near a guaranteed job, downturns are really hard on morale, but you have to stick through it. Why do you have to? Because commitment. If you aren't ready for that kind of commitment, then early stage start ups are not for you probably.

As an employee you will more than likely not end up making as much as you would elsewhere in the long run. What do you get out of it then? Depends. I think it's worth it because I learn a lot and because my contributions really make a difference. Even if I don't have input in the broader direction (actually a good thing), I know my value.
We applied to YC with this idea last year. I wrote about it in the last thread on this topic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6021507

Overall, your two biggest challenges are going to be convincing people they need backups (they still don't know, we tried) and pricing. Currently, Backblaze gives me unlimited backups for $5/month or less. With nearly half a terabyte of photos, it's cheaper for me to back up everything with them than use a service like this, which doesn't back up the rest of my stuff.

That said, I hope you guys can find a way to make it work!
Because their training also includes the scientifically bankrupt "osteopathic manipulative medicine", presented as if it were real medicine.

If you found out that your doctor had, in addition to her ordinary training, received training in psychic healing, and believed that this was a valid approach to medicine, how comfortable would you feel with that doctor being allowed to prescribe potentially dangerous medications to patients?
Hey your website is not finished, you have lots of LOREM IPSUM :)
The difference is that this.

1 - The bank signed a copy then gave one to the customer to sign. If the customer changed the print at this point, it would no longer be valid.

2 - What this guy did, the bank gave him a copy, he modified it, then signed it, then sent it back, to which the bank approved. Which is still technically valid.
I really enjoyed that whole series - learned a lot about 3D programming, which is part of the field I've never touched outside of motion planning in college.
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One of the great things about leaving a job you dislike to bootstrap a company making something you do like is not having too care too much about what other people think of your employment history.
With the NASA having troubles getting the budget it needs and seeing the slow-ish development elsewhere, I disagree about SpaceX potential.

With Tesla, on the other hand, I'm with you. I see Tesla like Luciano Pavarotti back in the day. Arguable the greatest in his field, but no matter how amazing he was, he did not end up changing everything we know about music. He started the huge change on how general public sees the opera, but he wasn't alone and it was just the beginning.

Now, Tesla might be the beginning of a big shift towards how we perceive electric cars, and it could even be the next Ford or General Motors, but it's not the next Benz Autowagen or the invention of the railroad, which Hyperloop clearly would have potential for.
Most likely many developers ARE in the process of updating their apps already. But they shouldn't be penalized with bad reviews for an app running on an OS release that is not considered supported yet.

Also, it's hard for people to know if issues are related to the app itself, or underlying problems in the beta iOS release. But any negative review is going to be associated with the app, not the OS.
It's encouraging to see public opinion and the medical community evolve on the issue of medical marijuana. However, there still remains an ambiguous interpretation to the way the substance is treated between State and Federal governments. For example, in my home state of Oregon the laws on medical marijuana possession are quite liberal, yet the consequences at the Federal level make progress on the issue nearly void. Furthermore the consequences at the state level in Oregon for illegal possession of marijuana remain quite harsh [1].

My biggest concern is that people who otherwise wouldn't be criminal are becoming lifelong criminals by getting locked up for a relatively harmless substance. From a financial standpoint, our government needs to tax the substance so we aren't treating a large portion of the economy differently than any other industry.

[1] http://www.robertcrowlaw.com/blog/drug-crimes/oregon-marijua...
I wish Hacker News used Persona.
Ok, so add the phrase "I believed that I was enhancing shareholder value" to whatever the thing is that you're doing.

People get fired all the time based on bullshit performance improvement plans that come down to "pissed off the manager". I've personally been put on PIP the day after saying some impolitic things because of, officially, a bunch of 2 year old tickets in the bug tracker that were never going to be fixed.

Fudging your justifications is a time-honored tradition. How come people are so loathe to do it when 'the shareholders' are involved?

EDIT: Was googling and found this:

http://truthonthemarket.com/2010/07/27/the-shareholder-wealt...

There's apparently precedent for very wide latitude given to 'business judgment'. You can do whatever you want as long as you say "I thought I was enhancing shareholder value in the long term" afterwards.

This does not explain the meme I referenced above which seems to go way beyond legal CYA into actual moral beliefs in business culture.
This is so cool. I'd love to see it's method's applied to other games. In college we played a lot of Super Smash Bros. 64 (same idea as SF2). At work now, Dr. Mario has shockingly become the game to master.
I also found the following article invaluable when building my ATMEGA328-based project using watchdog timers and a battery.

http://donalmorrissey.blogspot.de/2010/04/sleeping-arduino-p...

There is some cumulative error (maybe one second per hour) after sleeping in increments of 8 seconds (the longest interval possible with the watchdog timer) because of the time lost starting up and shutting down, so this approach is not 100% accurate.

Running direct from 3xAA batteries (=4.5V) means that you can avoid a voltage regulator from 9V too.
This is cool. Finding myself spending too much time on HN, I'm looking to write something similar myself with the purpose of making a weekly digest of only the top stories.

Looks like a few [1][2] have already made the efforts to write filtering based on karma score.

Edit: The OP's app is very close to what I want, but instead of limiting to top 10, use a point threshold directly.

1: https://github.com/fractastical/Hacker-News-Filter
2: http://hnapp.com
The problem with this article is it's a straw man basically. The author argues that BTC appeals to people because of the lack of regulation but I would counter that's not the case, and the advantage is that you separate your currency from central banks and their inherent financial systems. Of course you will always be coupled to real world economies, financial industries, and the regulations that come with it. BTC isn't strictly about hiding your transactions, it's about decoupling from a currency system that many think is flawed.
My apologies, somehow my eyes skipped over "that than" in the last sentence.
> It's not really possible

Both places this is used with regard to regulation, this claim needs to be justified. It seems to me it misunderstands what it means for it to possible to regulate something.
>"Until recently(?) the primary JIT back-end for PyPy was, in fact, still the JVM."

That's not true -- PyPy had an experimental JVM backend early-in, but the first and flagship backend has always been the RPython one.
Thank you for adding so much detail to my oversimplification.

Let's get back to the original question, though, which is about why shareholders have so much power. My contention is that shareholders (Via the board) have the most direct influence on senior executive compensation. Yes, it's indirect. Yes, there are biases that push it upwards. But this doesn't change that shareholders have much more influence.

A bondholder doesn't get a direct say unless they have covenants that protect them. (At least until a default)

Non-management companies don't get a direct say either. They can vote with their feet but that's about it.

Communities rarely get a direct say.

So what we're left with is companies deciding, "Do I act enlightened about caring for more than shareholder interests?" The way to encourage this from an employee's point of view is competition between firms for their services. Your (detailed and correct!) analysis doesn't change any of this.
It's not just about metadata being visible. Duplicity is designed to work when the remote machine doesn't have the private key to decrypt your files. If you use EncFS instead, anybody who compromises the server with your backups can also get the key to decrypt them.

EDIT: Never mind, I just saw your other comment and learned about reverse mode. That's a simple but clever feature.
"PHP rant [1]" makes it seem as though there is an array of PHP rants, possibly containing the frequent complaints devs have about PHP and its occasionally poor implementation.
Liquipedia needs this for StarCraft2 VODs.
Super easy, very nice result. It smooths the scanned forms, so you get clean letters. Took about 5 minutes.
> Cash is regulated. Bitcoin isn't.

Bitcoin is covered by lots of existing regulations -- as keeps being demonstrated -- contrary lots of the hype advanced by proponents.
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Part of that is a kind of devil's bargain where "offenders" are put into a treatment program that's doomed to be quack medicine for most of the participants who have no addiction. Better than jail I suppose.
And some MDs were educated at Georgetown, which is a Jesuit school, so you can't trust any Georgetown grads because they believe in sky faires.

Let's also remember that "MDs" work in a field founded by bloodletters who believed in the four humors.

The important thing is whether the field is progressing via scientific method, not what its founded believed long ago.
> Name a successful interface that is practically unchanged for a decade that is not in decline.

I can name thousands, not just in software, but in almost every area of life. When was the last time you saw a car that didn't have the same dashboard elements and controls arranged in basically the same way? Would you drive a car that had the steering wheel mounted to the ceiling just for the sake of novelty?

Changing UIs for the sake of change, without any substantive benefit, can ruin products just as thoroughly. How successful is Windows 8 right now?

> Complete conjecture. Things become trends for a reason.

Perhaps it is a conjecture, but it's a bit more meaningful than "it happens because of reasons."
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Hey, I would love to be proven wrong on this. I love the concept.

I just don't see it happening. They won't even hit the half.
> As a person who had a really expensive bike stolen - I would never buy a bike from those places, I would not want to finance any criminal activity.

This is kind of a prisoners dilemma. You don't buy, others will, and you won't stop anyone, only hurt yourself financially. Problem must be solved in other ways, because "voting with your wallet" is not always effective way.
Then it's still the same as a trojan surreptitiously stealing bank account info and siphoning off the funds.

I think we have to face the fact that digital currency (fiat terms) and Bitcoin are essentially the same except for the means of generation. "Money" is printed when physically present, but once stored in the bank, that's converted to bits and the physical notes (depending on wear) are destroyed.

Also the fact that there's no equivalent for FDIC et al. for Bitcoin losses.
S'alright :)
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The word "slony" still makes me tremble in fear, even years after I last used it.
Not the most dangerous thing.

Try driving on LSD. While drunk. And high on xanax. While shooting heroin.

Obviously, there are more dangerous states to drive in than tired and unfocused...
Why the downvotes? I didn't know about that url till someone else posted it.
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Actually Lady Gaga already did it :)(I mean the meat dress)
How to PM? When I click on your userid, it just shows submission & comments.
I think we're going to have to minimize our traffic over established links for such a system to work. Three types of media come to mind --

1) Open-air (e.g. radio but possibly IR, optical, etc.)
2) Electric lines
3) Water pipes or other forms of conductive media
4) Couriers

So far, so good. The trickier problem is how to get people to adopt the new system while keeping out the snoopers or other bad guys.
To many of you: are you really letting the fear of a gap in your CV stop you from chasing your happiness? Grow up and take what you want or someone is going to take it from you.
Surprisingly (or not), there is a Bitcoin wiki[1] that is actively maintained.

Here is a short list of weaknesses:

* Wallet Vulnerable To Theft: malware searching and downloading wallets

* No authentication for IP transfers: you can send transactions to IP addresses, this is vulnerable to MITM attacks and someone can re-route transactions to a different IP address

* Energy Consumption: electricity has a variable and external cost, which can be manipulated

* Illegal content in the block chain: arbitrary data can be included transactions, including binary data (eg: child pornography)

* Breaking the cryptography: Bitcoin uses SHA-256 and ECDSA, this isn't vulnerable now but it could be in the future

* Double-spending[2]

* Coin destruction: if your wallet file is deleted, your coins are gone forever

Obviously wallet theft is the biggest issue, especially with using third-party wallet services and running insecure operating systems (ie: old versions of OSes). There are a variety of reliable learning resources for managing your wallet files securely.

[1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Weaknesses

[2] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Double-spending#51.25_attack
It sounds like you got burnt out. When you "code until the sun comes up" you neglect basic human necessities like sleep and human contact. When you think only about the company and the product vision, you lose your sense of self. Your sense of self becomes your work.

I used to work at a startup where this was the case, but I've since changed. I love my work and my co-workers and I think they all work extremely hard, but I go home every night at 6:30. I cook for myself. I take salsa lessons. I read. And I work on my own projects.

Interesting work at companies comes with ebb and flows. Sometimes you work on things you don't like, sometimes you get bored, but if you keep your mind fresh and sane you'll come up with things to work on that are meaningful and interesting.
"Maybe this kind of expensive, high volume devices shows the limits of crowdfunding?"

Maybe having a billionaire with his hand out holding a tin cup shows that people aren't such big suckers as Shuttleworth anticipated?
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I'm really glad they finally added this. Persona is a great way to login and better for developers and users.
> The closer Bitcoin gets to being an accepted currency, the less useful it will be as a method of exchange. And the less useful it is as a method of exchange, the harder it is to see why it has any value at all.

I really don't understand how they are arriving at this 'contradiction'. Unless you really squint, there is really no support for it in the article.

Codifying that virtual currencies have actual real-world value doesn't change anything about how the ecosystem/currency works. Am I missing something here?
> but never more at the expense of those that came before

This is the standard anti-bike, pro-car argument in most American cities. That cars are already here, and adding bike infrastructure takes away from space for cars.

The fact is, when you progressively accommodate more forms of transit, it's ALWAYS at the expense of those that came before. And that's ok. Pareto optimization is a lousy way to find a global optimum, in any system.
One title from RD which still sticks out in my mind: "My Posse Don't Do Homework".
None of those demonstrate causality, just that cannabis use is associated with, or predicts depression / psychosis. Is cannabis use causal? If so, how does cannabis cause psychosis? Or, are depressed kids more likely to try drugs? Some psychiatrists, psychologists, therapists opine that some people's drug use is the person's attempt at self-medication.
"so either users will willingly submit to a further deflationary spiral or, more likely, they'll clamor to expand the stock"

This doesn't make any sense. Why would users care that their bitcoins are getting more valuable over time (i.e. deflation)?

It sounds like the author is throwing around the term "deflationary spiral" without understanding what it actually means.

Anyway, it's damn near impossible to "expand the stock". If somehow a majority of miners decide they want a larger reward the users who actually hold bitcoin can decide to ignore their fork. See "economic majority": https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Economic_majority
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Walgreens supposedly prospered during Prohibition because they stocked "medical" whiskey, for which you could get a prescription.
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> It does makes sense however since the backlash could be severe.

So then it does make sense from a fundraising perspective.
I'm looking forward to when their LDAP adapter [1] is ready for prime-time so that we can use it internally for our own email addresses. I'm curious if the GMail adapter would work if you host your company email at google?

[1] https://github.com/mozilla/vinz-clortho/
Am I the only person using hnsearch to find content on HN? It seems no app developer bothers to implement a search feature in the hacker news apps.
Anyway, this is a great app, thank you.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adult_lifetime_cannabis_use_by_... and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annual_cannabis_use_by_country.

Laws may be more lax in Europe but popular opinion of the drug is much more negative than in the US. But attitudes are changing largely due to how it is portrayed by Hollywood.
Absolutely correct. Lua, for example, does fine on mobile phones. Python pushes the limit wrt to memory and battery consumption, but if you code conservatively and make judicious use of Cython or native code libraries, you can do OK. Incidentally, Python performance seems just fine for GUI programming on modern mobile phones (based on personal experience). But because of the way you have to package Python/Lua/Ruby programs, it takes a long time to open them. But once they are open, they all do fine (and Lua does fine any way you want to measure it).

As someone developing on Android, I so wish that Google had opted for native code on Android, and a native toolchain SDK, which would have allowed people to use almost whatever language they wanted: C, C++, Python, Lua, Ruby, etc. If that had been the case, I suspect most people would opt to use C or C++ for the backend, and code the frontend GUI in Python, Lua, or Ruby.

And yes, you can use the NDK now, but everything visual has to pass through Java.
... and to believe that BTC actually 'hides' your transactions in any real way is the naive assumption that just wont go away.
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Thank you for the detailed response - very helpful!
This is what VRcade[1] is doing, but not for consumers since it costs too much. I've played their demo and it's very immersive.

[1]: http://www.vrcade.com/
It shouldn't be pleasing when someone comes around to your position merely because it's advantageous for them at the moment. For one thing, it means you can't count on them, and their position will change again the next time the winds shift.
Absolutely! GoldenEye is a favorite here too. I haven't thought about it too much, but I bet it would be easy to adapt kartlytics to that, since it also uses a pretty straightforward on-screen display.
Actually, I could be wrong, but I think the load time is coming from the fact that the developer had to move the application over to S3 in order to deal with the heavy load with this being on the front page, and with S3 not supporting gzip, it's causing a bit of a delay. Once it's loaded, however, the app is very fast in switching between pages and comments.
It used some another (failed?) provider before (which connected accounts to Gmail, Yahoo, etc.)
Woah. This is going to change the game.

Rapid iteration on mobile is tough enough...as long as this doesn't have too big of a hit on performance, this is about to change the way we develop mobile apps.
But that just speaks of a bigger problem, that of people who have children and buy houses they can't afford. Most people, minority or otherwise, can find a job if they had none of these ties they can't afford. I realize that's a simplistic view but I think that's what it boils down to.

If people spent even just a few moments thinking about their own future and prospects they might decide against purchasing a home, having kids, getting a new car and so on.
It would be the same as the beer industry. There will be a couple Budweiser type brands that are mass produced, mass marketed, cheap, and consumed by 90% of the population. Then there will be craft brands that produce high quality small quantity products at high prices for the connoisseurs. There will also be hobbyists that want to produce their own.

Bring on full legalization, regulation and taxation. It is overdue.
Oh, so it's not a web-based client. Sorry, I confused it with Mega. To be honest, why not roll your own alternate solution? This one here is just a frontend to S3 and glacier. It shouldn't be too difficult to write a script that takes all the files in a directory, encrypts it with GPG or OpenSSL, and then uploads it to glacier.
It doesn't work with google apps, unfortunately.

Which is completely logical when I think about it since persona would not use the mx record to find the identity provider.
> We want smaller updates because it narrows the window of vulnerability... We have enough users that this means more users will be protected earlier.
Completely anecdotal of course, but I've never met someone who smoked pot in their teen years who wasn't a layabout stoner with no future prospects in the 20s. Meanwhile, I know plenty who started smoking pot in college who were just fine.

I think any drug that affects a developing brain can have grave consequences. I would love to see research that follows people who start MJ use at different stages of their lives.
Nope, but virtually any shelter or veterinarian will be able to read the microchip.
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