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Growth Hacking is essentially thinking of the role of a marketer as someone who is a chef instead of a waiter, which marketers have been traditionally.

Good marketing is generally baked into the product/service itself. In the traditional model, a company would make something and then think about marketing. While the marketer might have ideas to make the product better, generally all they can do is create a better presentation for what is already made.

The concept of growth hacking isn't anything new, as many companies have included marketing in the product creation. The only change is that analytics are becoming better and the cost of tweaking a product or service once it's in the market is decreasing.
No joke. I kept scrolling, looking for the paragraph when he quits the "trying to be funny for the intro" style and switches to a normal, readable mode.
> Every backer voluntarily decided to support that business

But they can still change their mind and go crying foul to their credit card provider. If there was some way to indicate to the card provider "for this transaction I understand the risks and forfeit my right to a chargeback", this wouldn't be a problem. But as it is now, people can say "oh yeah I'm all for crowdfunding", then when the project fails say "fuck it, I'm getting my money back", and PayPal is shouldering that risk.

> They happily took the money and kept the fees, but will neither refund it to the backers nor cash it out

I'm willing to bet if Mailpile told PayPal, "OK, just refund the backers", they would do it in an instant. If they refunded everyone with no discussion or attempts to resolve anything then people would be even angrier.
I'm working on a library for C++ called Team where this kind of flow control is possible. At its core it's got coroutines, so you can write code in a blocking style.

The current (early!) socket APIs can all be called with a callback (which act like Node and call it as fast as possible), or without one (in which case they block). Here's an echo server that accepts connections as fast as possible, but does blocking reads and writes so only one chunk per client gets buffered at a time:

https://github.com/Sidnicious/team/blob/b157ea2c58177a2587c9...

The callbacks-as-fast-as-possible version is just implemented on top of the blocking one, so it'd be trivial to add flow control via a blocking callback (or by calling `accept()` in blocking style and making your own decision about when to call it again):

https://github.com/Sidnicious/team/blob/b157ea2c58177a2587c9...
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Good question! I think that's getting into blurry lines territory.

Rape victims often suffer for a long period of time from the experience; people busted for a joint usually get over it more quickly. A reader of the comic is more likely to be suffering PTSD from rape than from getting busted.

Societal attitudes toward rape materially impact the likelihood of the occurrence of rape by creating a culture of safety or of danger; attitudes about drugs generally don't affect whether an officer will make an arrest (until laws get changed). Media shapes societal attitudes; therefore media creators have an obligation to be socially responsible.

Although rape doesn't only affect women, I estimate that it does affect them more disproportionately than the war on drugs disproportionately affect minorities. Men going about their day-to-day business aren't concerned with the threat of rape or related issues; white pot smokers going about their day-to-day pot smoking should be concerned with encountering the police (depending on local law).
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Don't have a link but I recall seeing stats that implied men were raped more often when prison rape stats are included.
I got sick of writing rules too, hence the diversion!

yeah so you could extend that tree decision processes this. You could add a cost function on the trees, which includes long range communication between nodes (e.g. the results section of a document includes at least one word commonly associated with results). So you could go to higher levels of abstractions.

However, I say limiting yourself to even a very abstract parse tree structure does kinda exclude the spatial layout of words on a page and the semantic meaning behind the layout (tables, web pages, code formatting!).

MIPs can fully express tree logic so you lose nothing.
AFAIK they still haven't shown any benchmarks where their chip beats a similar-sized GPU (e.g. Temash). It still looks like faith-based computer architecture.
my thoughts exactly. they're supposedly targeting the casual reader, but how many casual readers read more than 1 book a month? at one book a month the pricing model makes no sense. it's really at 4 books a month where it starts to look cheap, but 1 book a week is a very steep hill for most people.

reading is an active activity unlike tv or music which are inherently passive. IMO that makes a big difference in how much we can consume the medium.
I clicked that link expecting to regret it almost immediately. I was pleasantly surprised. This is the most reasonable I've seen Gabe or anyone associated with Penny Arcade be about the subject in the almost 3 years it's been dragging on. And on... And on...
Probably coz the ecommerce sites are usually not mobile optimized and that leads to user totally abandoning the checkout.
You've got a corner case that is way harder to hit than you think you've measured it to be, and the scenarios where it may happen would have almost certainly not have the design required to cause it. Even so, it is addressable.

Based on my own experiences with this scenario, I'd be surprised if you managed to experience any problems if you turned off throttling (and didn't force everything to the same timestamp).

So yeah, you have a scenario that can happen, and I'd recommend anyone who absolutely cannot have that happen either not use Cassandra or design their schema accordingly. Absent that scenario though, row operations are isolated.
My gut feeling is that the majority of homosexuals are social, rather than biological.
I would definitely consider it a candidate for bad writing sample of the year. And as overly flowery and obfuscated as the writing is, it can't really dress up a pretty mundane story.
As a node junkie and LiveScript apologist, I'm surprised I hadn't heard these complaints against callbacks before -- fascinating stuff. I might be doing more things in Go from now on. ;)
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Because PayPal's job is simply do deliver money from Party A to Party B. It's not their job to worry about how the money is used, the USPS does not audit the check your Grandma sent for your birthday.

Crowdsourcing is a gift, like a donation to PBS, where you might get a coffee mug, but if PBS decides to to stop showing Downton Abbey, you can't rescind your donation.

If PayPal has a problem with charge backs, they could simply stop taking payments for indiegogo projects (which its indiegogo's job to vet projects, not PayPal's) or put in big fat letters that THIS IS A NON-SALE OF GOODS TRANSACTION AND ABSOLUTELY NO CHARGE BACKS WILL BE ALLOWED FOR MONEY SENT TO THIS ACCOUNT AFTER FUNDS HAVE BEEN PROCESSED before they click the final confirmation button. Which is basically in writing already when you agree to send funds to indiegogo or Kickstarter. Problem solved. If you have a problem with projects not delivering, don't donate, take it up with indiegogo, or take it to small claims court.
I installed the Gilt app mentioned in the article. Push notifications and emails almost everyday.

This is exactly how you get me to deny the request for push notifications.

This will be true until the end of time: be useful to your customer, not spammy.
Rather than picking a number out the air, we're going to use the next few weeks to see people's usage so we can give the fairest price for the service.

We're working on what we think is the best for everyone and will announce it when we decide :)
Ouch.

I probably shouldn't have spoken so absolutely. I've driven in most of the (Continental) U.S. but I've never been much North of Boston (i.e. Maine) or to some of the more desert regions of of the far southwest (Arizona, New Mexico, West Texas area). I have flown to San Diego though so maybe I'll just make sure to never drive there :)
> Any further push for 'free speech' there must come as a package with instilling a culture of rape... again, even if that's not how they mean for it to be perceived, that doesn't change the reality of how it is being perceived.

Instilling implies a real effect, not just a perception of intent. In other words, culture must become measurable more pro rape as a result for there to be real harm. I haven't seen the evidence of this anywhere: the only effect it has had as far as I can see is people who are against mentioning rape at all getting angry about their perception of it (not changing anything).
It also left out the inline-6 (different from the flat-6) and the wankel. Here's a couple more piston configurations:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Piston_engine_configur...

http://www.caranddriver.com/features/the-physics-of-engine-c...

Another fun subject is harmonic vibration and balance. Certain configurations require things like balance shafts and harmonic balancers (arguably unnecessary fluff) to offset the intense vibration, and modifying your engine can result in it self-destructing if this isn't taken into account. Inline and flat 6's and 12's are the best balanced, though the inline is more efficient and requires less maintenance than the flat.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V6_engine#Balance_and_smoothnes...

http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=509340
While articles like this are interesting, what in the world does it have to do with Hacker News?
not to mention this is old as hell.
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Persons { String[] first_name; String[] last_name; String[] address; }

Are you sure they didn't do it for performance? That is a well-known pattern for getting better data locality ("structure of arrays" vs. "array of structures").
Thanks for putting this together Jeff. A lot of Mailgun customers organize local open-source projects and use mailing lists to stay connected with members. That's one of the reasons we originally created mailing lists. Nice that managing them will be a little eaiser now.
They'll still have Jumpstarter flow – they just won't get the 1-Click ability and it won't be customised for that particular framework.

Each framework we offer generally comes with a customised stack in one way or another. :)
What I'm deriving from your statement there is, "So we hired a guru to bring our Windows systems up to par with Linux base point".

I'm glad its working for you, I use stackexchange daily and am generally quite happy with it!
I really want to try this, munin is awesome but I find quite hard to configure and some stats hard to understand, longview's design seems much more friendly.
Humor has no forbidden themes. Forbidding themes approachable in humour is a slippery slope we, as a society, should not wish to enter.

Uncomfortable themes that have been used in humour: death? Check. Religion? There's a whole subculture of it. Torture? Check. Disabilities? Of course. Dim-witts? Oh boy has it been used. War? The more war there is, the more it's mocked.

Why should rape be any different?
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As an honest question, how do you feel about murder? How many people have been murdered? Know someone who has been murdered? Love someone who has been murdered?

Is murder off-limits? It's arguably more heinous than rape, and yet -- video game culture specifically and, more generally, all media culture seems to glorify it and often use it for humorous purposes. Dexter. Scarface. Pulp Fiction -- when they shot that kid in the face it was treated like a joke. And I see this stuff all over t-shirts. All over the TV. Internet. Music. Games. Etc. As a culture, we love entertainment involving murder.

Why do we have this reaction against rape jokes in particular? Is it because of the sexism angle?

Maybe I'm just a white American male and, therefore, don't have sensitivities towards certain things like sexism and racism. But that attitude feels awfully dismissive.
Books in the library are rivalrous: for a given physical book, at most one person can borrow it at a given time. There are nontrivial costs (time and/or money) to copying a physical book.

e-books, in the current incarnation, are not rivalrous and are much easier to copy and disseminate.
I don't read PA's critics as arguing from a position of having "been vicimized [sic]." Their status as survivors is incidental to their argument. I read the criticism as being about the lack of empathy of PA's authors for their audience. You could replace the critics' status with gender-minority, and you'll find a more recent incident where Gabe was unable to empathize with his audience (denying the existence of transgender). Some comedians bill themselves as jerks and carve out a niche for their audience, but Penny Arcade purports to provide laughs for all gamers.

While I am pleased that race-gender-sex-preference tensions are being discussed in public in the 21st century, but I find it highly questionable that this is a greater power struggle than the classic 20th century struggles of war and labor. Especially given that what is at stake here is mostly audience size and hurt feelings, compared to livelihood and physical anguish.
Fwiw, Scala has several good web frameworks besides Play -

Scalatra - Scala's Sinatra

Blue Eyes - appears defunct but good example of pure asynchronous framework

Lift - strong built-in security, Netty integration wip.

Probably a couple more I'm forgetting.
Because, as an Android dev, I understand that both platforms have different strengths. Merge of the android and chrome/web platform, that would keep the strenths of both, is basically impossible. So the only possible scenario is making interative improvements to the chrome/web platform. But:

1) That would break backwards compatibility with Android apps. They would basically have to kill Android and replace it with Chrome OS Mobile.

2) Chrome OS platform is far, far behind Android (and operating systems in general) in many aspects.
I'm kind of torn... I've lost a child to SIDS, but I would not tell people that they can't make dead baby jokes at risk of revictimizing me.

Sorry to hear that. A key difference there is that SIDS is a medical problem whose incidence is unaffected by whether people make jokes about it or not. Rape (and sexual assault in general) is a crime whose perpetrators may feel more emboldened to act if there's an atmosphere of amused tolerance around it. And unfortunately, there are a lot of people who behave poorly when in a crowd and try to excuse their poor behavior by saying it's just meant in a spirit of fun.

I wholly agree that the original comic was mildly but unintentionally offensive, but making a sticking point out of it and repeatedly reviving the issue comes off as little better than trolling.
I don't know what you are talking about.

I'm talking about the fact that to apply the extraordinarily simple supply and demand model to the price of houses, and expect it to work, is wrong. Other factors are more important.

If we were talking about something very cheap and fungible, it would be far more applicable. We're talking about houses. The majority of people cannot afford to buy a house. They don't have enough money.

If there was no credit, we'd see a simple supply/demand model at work; I could take 20 percent off the cost of houses, and most people still wouldn't be able to buy them because they don't have enough money, but a few more would be able to, so the demand (or rather, the number of people who want one and can now buy one) would increase. However, there is credit.

If I added 20 percent to the price and also arranged to lend people enough money to buy the newly expensive houses, they would sell. If I doubled house prices and lent people the money, they'd still sell. The price of houses is so dependent on the availability of credit that it swamps the simple supply and demand model. Credit doesn't just play a factor; it's the majority of it.

They're also a veblen good; the simple supply and demand idea that as prices go up, the demand will drop, isn't just wrong - it's the complete opposite. As prices go up, people want them more; they fear that if they don't buy one now, it'll cost them more in the future ("don't miss the boat" is what often gets trotted out during the housing booms) and/or they think of it as some kind of investment and think they'll make more money since they're going up. The simple model that prices going up leads to demand going down is inverted. This works as they go down in price too; as prices drop, demand drops. Nobody wants to borrow money against something that will soon be worth less than they owe on it. Dropping prices cause their own positive feedback, every drop pushing demand lower, in turn dropping prices further and amplifying the effect; classic boom and bust behaviour.

Houses are a veblen good, dependent on the availability of credit to buy. Simple supply and demand is utterly swamped. Look at the last housing boom (and indeed, the ones before it). Was there a massive reduction in the number of houses available? No; in fact, many housing companies were building them as fast as they could and the supply was increasing even as prices bubbled beyond sanity. Did hordes of people who had been living on the streets suddenly decide they wanted to live in houses? No. It was people suddenly able to buy one because someone was willing to lend them the money.
Chrome is now a serious security risk for me. it's just waiting to happen.

for now on, it will be used as the remote debugger for android browsers (until we have something native). just like i have a spare mac for running xcode for the same reason.

firefox serves me well. and will not make me worry much.
Thank you for this. I might want to start using Clojure in production now :)
There's mention of the "myth of calories in vs calories out", implying the relevant changes were not calorie-related, but there's no mention of typical exercise nor calorie intake before or during the month long experiment.
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No one is asking the government to censor Penny Arcade. Penny Arcade's own audience is asking Penny Arcade to stop being an asshole.
From the ChromeView github page:

"Attempting to scroll the view (by swiping a finger across the screen) does not update the displayed image. However, internally, the view is scrolled. This can be seen by displaying a stack of buttons and trying to click on the topmost one. This issue makes ChromeView mostly unusable in production"

Have you used ChromeView successfully in a production application? This seems like a deal killer.
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You'd be surprised actually. When studying the incidence of sexual violence in the last 12 months, the CDC's 2010 "National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey" study found that 5.3% of men and 6.5% of women were victims.

The CDC did a pretty terrible job of organizing and labeling their data, and the male numbers are skewed downwards because they don't have reliable statistics for the last 12 months for rape in which male victims were penetrated. It's true that the lifetime incidence of sexual violence is significantly higher for women, but talking about the average person today, rape is basically an equal-opportunity tragedy. Even leaving aside the problems with the study that bias male data downwards, making the claim that a type of crime is gendered should require a far greater disparity in the incidence per gender.

http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/nisvs_report2010-a... pp 18-19
Some sites force you to add an item to the cart in order to see the price -- I can understand how 97% are abandoned if these are included.
For a while I was in charge of fraud screening for a high risk company selling software - about half the incoming orders were fraud, and their transaction scoring system was quite advanced, to the point we could see the name and even pictures of the customer.
See also Patton Oswalt's reconsideration of rape jokes:

http://www.pattonoswalt.com/index.cfm?page=spew&id=167
Why not? What if the apps are purchased seamlessly through the play store and can run on Android or in Chrome?

I have a feeling they will add more and more Android device APIs to whatever is coming, until it has just as many as the Java APIs.

I've thought for the past year or so that there is no way the future of Android app development is Java/Dalvik.
His response to why he said pulling the merchandise was the mistake:

> In hindsight all this did was open the wound back up and bring on a whole new wave of debate. Any action we took at the time just dug us deeper regardless of what it was. What we needed to do was stop. just stop.

My guess would be he internally translated the message to mean "That we don't know about". Since he has previously said the whole incident was a mistake, he was probably thinking that this last bit was new to people.

And I think all the points of this blog post are why they have changed their stance on a lot of those things. They were reacting as if they were defending their free speech, and they weren't incorrect in isolation, the problem was they thus enabled other people to act out in more extreme ways. Finally when people got annoyed at them for starting the whole thing, they assumed it was for the initial strip (which was fine by most people's standards, which is why it is still up), rookie mistake, but probably one they took to heart.
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With crowdfunding the date of delivery is the date the campaign completes, not the date the rewards, if any, are shipped/published/whatever. At worst given the typical 30 day campaign that means they don't need to worry about chargebacks more than 220 days out. That's still nearly a year, but honestly I think once a campaign funds they shouldn't even process chargebacks against it unless the original backing can be shown to be fraudulent (I.E. stolen CC).
...which is precisely why it worked well for travel and cards...
We have a forwards only migration runner that takes care of the deployment for us. We don't use many stored procedures, but they're taken care of the same way (in a migration). Our policy is that pushed code be backwards compatible by however many migrations are being deployed in a production build.
Well, I've got a PhD in computer science, I just use the words as I please. But yes, you are right ;-)
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I don't know, it depends, is there wifi on the island? :)
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> ... but it becomes an issue when a platform forces you to use only the callback style. I'm talking about you, JavaScript.

JS definitely doesn't force you to use the callback style. NodeJS HTTP module (the culprit in the discussion) does, but JS as a language doesn't.
Hasn't Audible done this for a long time already?
That's all anyone is doing: not attending PAX, and urging others not to offend PAX. I don't understand what your argument is here.
Merge of the android and chrome/web platform, that would keep the strenths of both, is basically impossible.

Why do you say that? Add some APIs to the Android browser, allow it to open apps full-screen... there doesn't seem to be much more to it than that.
Thanks for fixing the compile