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An example of the great 21st century American power struggle: a fight to define who has been victimized more, and can therefore assume the mantle of moral authority.

edit: spelling
Why do these people assume that raped people want them putting on such a noisy rape-is-bad awareness show of "support"? How about advocating for changes that make rape less likely and, if possible, the social consequences to victims less severe? For example: more men than women in the U.S. are raped (though a woman not in prison does have more to fear, rationally).

Getting offended by crude humor is fine as a personal aesthetic choice. Drawing attention to it seems futile.
What is Growth Hacking? The author should have defined it ...
Thanks so much. We spent a long time thinking about how to
have the benefits of types in a Clojure-y data-oriented way. The advantage of having Schemas as data is that we can use Clojure code to process them and generate things like Objective-C classes (https://github.com/Prismatic/schema/blob/d82bf0b049fc1205a81...) and Avro specifications. It will be our glue to declarations in other languages.
> Since we've got a bunch of awesome gearheads commenting, can someone tell me why manual transmission is so easy to stall out? Particularly between say 1st and 2nd (...)

It's not easy, only if use it wrong. It's easy to stall going from neutral to 1st if you don't apply enough gas (for instance, if you're on a slope, or the car is loaded), but it will only stall from 1st to 2nd if you're trying to do it from too low RPM (in this case the engine may take a while to stall completely, you can still avoid it by unclutching), or if you work the clutch too fast (the engine stalls right away).
Hey, I like what you're doing here, I think I'll use this... it gives you a lot of the benefits of a deep type system while being completely orthogonal to the design of the program and without the cognitive overhead of a complex type system.

Also, functional programming is heavily focused on data transformations, which in practice means lots of deeply nested heterogenous data structures... these types of structure are usually tedious to put into a static type system, but your system appears to make it easy.
Wow, dear God are you projecting.
Interesting and useful article, thanks. If the original author turns up, I'd be curious to know how you felt about their being two of you in it together and not just a single co-founder.
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I don't work for them, I just read the FAQ at the bottom of TFA:

| What's running JavaScript under the hood?
| We're currently running a custom-built, real time operating
| system on top of a Lua Runtime. Your JavaScript is compiled
| to Lua bytecode when you push your code, and that bytecode
| is run on the runtime. It's this runtime that allows us to
| have such low memory overhead. We may switch over to an
| implementation of Libuv or a microLinux flavor in the future,
| but that shouldn't change anything about the user experience
| with Tessel (except it will be faster!)
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Definitely an inspiration. The core utility of Schema is that the declarations are still data and can be utilized in code. I think we'll have some interesting applications of this idea soon...
Some genes, not all of them. The experiment was about brain shrinkage, not Down's syndrome.
But conversely, the processes are abysmal* because Paypal is cheap. If you want to be given first-class treatment and have your hand held every step of the way, then I'm sure there are plenty of firms that would be willing to do that...in exchange for 10-15% commissions.

* I think they're annoying but not abysmal. 90% of the tantrums I see on HN about Paypal involve a lack of preparation on the part of the counterparty.
I agree. Do we have to leave this initiative up to the browser developers though? As a website developer why can't I just replace the traditional password form field with a textarea form field, requiring the user to copy and paste their RSA private key (for my site) into the field, which would then be validated against their public key kept in the website user table? For additional security the private/public key pair could also be password locked. As long as my site(s) are using SSL, and other best practices, isn't the biggest risk one of the user losing their private key or having nefarious hands otherwise getting a hold of it?
I don't, but their FAQ says that they will be open-sourcing their code and hardware.
Fingerprints are great as a security token, but they should not replace passwords completely. Together with a PIN they will be useful.

"Led by Stephanie Schuckers, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Potsdam, N.Y.-based Clarkson University, the researchers tested 66 Play-Doh copies of real fingerprints of 11 different people. The fake fingerprints were verified as the real deal 90 percent of the time."

http://www.informationweek.com/biometric-readers-fooled-with...
I thought the exact same thing!
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1) On BigCo's I never have the opportunity to define deadlines. Deadlines came from bosses, we just had to work through it and face it.

2) I don't get your question pretty well.

3) Not as much as I wanted. People were surprisingly boring and introvert.

4) I delivered in date many times, did stuff no one did before and clients were happy with me.

5) Never happened.

6) Hires came only per project and clients pay it. So I had to choose the team once everything else was approved.

My input: boring after a year. Look for side projects, you will get bored and maybe also disappointed with the creativity, the fun or the projects itself.

I've worked for a +65k employees consulting company.
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I really don't see how this comment belongs here.
Crashplan.
I got a unlimited amount of storage for up to 10 computers for 100 dollars/ 2 years.
Everything is dropbox like, meaning you have to do just about nothing.
For backup, nothing can beat that (IMHO.)
Randomly chosen from what? Or, to put it another way, does every word have the same probability of selection or is each word's probability weighted based upon frequency.

If "crwth" is as likely as "is" then the likelihood of a meaningful sentence is lower than if actual word frequencies come into consideration.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crwth
True. It is a nice system we have (no school districts + full government funding for all schools based on nr of pupils they attract; also for denominational & other types of education on an equal basis (as long as test-results are okish)).

Allows 'the market' for good education to operate, without bringing money into the equation.
I don't grant your premise that crowdfunding constitutes "presales."

Crowdfunding is an inherently speculative activity, a way to invest in a team with the hopes that they will create a product that you'd like to see in the world. Trying to fit Indiegogo into a presales model to justify PayPal's outrageous behavior here is a Procrustean approach that helps no one.
Is mild Asperger's a deviation that should be corrected as well? What about people that are border-line Down? Or just a bit smarter than that?
So, what's a good replacement for PhysOrg?
That actually makes a lot of sense given their Android KitKat tagline which is "It's our goal with Android KitKat to make an amazing Android experience available for everybody." Google has used Play Services to update Android in the background. Since they also own Chrome, the more apps that live within Chrome the more apps are up to date and out of reach of other companies who would use Android for them, notably Amazon, Samsung and Facebook
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Interestingly, if being gay is a biological phenomenon rather than a social one, then that may be possible.

I wonder if Wikipedia has a list of unethical medical research topics?
Apparently it's the promise of something-for-nothing through nebulous means, similar to social media marketing and viral marketing.
On the other hand, you can get so serious that it becomes comical again. Much laughs were had in 5th grade about the endoplasmatic reticulum, out of no reason beyond being a 5th grader. On the other hand, that's one of the only cell parts I still remember.
Yeah I messed up. I'll link to it in the post:

http://www.aginnt.com/growth-hacker#.Uii2m2TORe4
I must have missed the memo where I was told I have to care. Maybe my sense of social order is broken, but I tend not to care too much about who's trying to be king of that hill.
You can't bet a million dollars. it's limit hold-em. not no-limit.
I really hope so. Android's support for webapps has been dismal, which is very surprising given that Google pushes them so hard elsewhere.
I just came back from a visit to Germany after 5 years and I was blown away by the gigantic size of all the solar panels and wind turbines spread throughout Germany. It is unreal if you see it.

Following the news and hanging out with my old friends talking about the energy policy in Germany I learned very quickly how messed up this is now.

A kWh is now 34cent and continues to explode and it is not surprising given how the German politician approached their energy policy. It is a long article with lots of depth, but this statement captures the core of the problem, “Swedish utilities have an interest in maximizing their return on investment. This is different in Germany, where the most inefficient technology at a given time is the most heavily subsidized”.

Twenty years ago when I graduated with my EE I learned about the challenge of storing efficient and cost effective energy in the GW and that has not been resolved. This energy policy is a good example when a free market with demand and supply is ignored. The politician do not understand the technical details, have lots of special interest influencers and set policies in place which can have some really negative long term effect. The thinking is they just can overrule a market by subsidizing, but this works only to a certain level. I am all for renewable energy, but I do think it has to be done in a competitive way otherwise it is unsustainable in the long run.

It is really bizarre to read that a country investing billions in a zero emission energy solution now increases its CO2 emission by 2 percent. When I visited I heard the story from the wind turbine on Borkum as well and though that something went seriously wrong here, but as always when politics is involved no one is accountable.
It's the equivalent of calling yourself a "ninja rockstar hacker"
I didn't make the comment, and don't necessarily support it, but I think I understand it.

I think it's the result of hobby programming/hardware converging with professional programming/hardware. The hacker scene collides with KickStarter.

People used to have to carefully write assembler to get programmable electronics to do things and had to fit it inside a 1K EEPROM. Suddenly machines exist with literally a million times more memory for prices an order of magnitude less and reference points are suddenly thrown right off.

I'm not that old (not yet 30) but for people >= a certain generation, I can understand why this all seems very very alien.
The new breed of chrome apps has a lot of flaws after I tried to convert my app over:

-Previous installed chrome app matches the HTML5 api, the new chrome apps has a lot of restriction where you have to totally rewrite you code in terms of storage. i.e. Chrome.storage instead of localStorage; All chrome storage is async.

-The new window format for apps are a huge UI flaw. You can not open an Chrome app in a tab anymore. Basically, you now have an extra window whenever you open a chrome app. This is very annoying since when you click on the existing window the app is hidden in the back, you have to flip through your windows on the mac to find the app you just opened again.

-Javascript execution permissions are very strict, and no longer follows that of a normal webpage.

The result is, you can no longer build an HTML5 app and prepare it for the chrome store, you have to specifically change the code to package it. This makes it less ubiquitous and creates extra work for developers.
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> for the sake of argument

> This is absurd apologism.

I agree that what happens to Mailpile is A Bad Thing, but the reasoning as to why it makes financial (not moral) sense for PayPal to withhold the money is solid. There are other ways to send money across the world, maybe the lesson for crowdfunders is to switch to one that is more instant and less reversible, or at least offer them as alternatives.
I'm pretty sure even political inclinations could be flipped over, provided we dig deep enough into the "machinery" up here.
It's like the "cure" for the mutant gene in X-men. Saying it needs to be cured can be interpreted as saying "it's bad that you have Down's Syndrome". Giving someone enhanced mental capacity would certainly help them, but I think for someone who's used to accepting and loving others for who they are, it isn't necessarily odd to have an uncomfortable reaction to the idea of "curing" them - even if, objectively, it's helping them.
Newbie here, mostly familiar with OOP.

What is the difference between how Clojure and other functional programming languages declare types.
I said it wasn't authoritative, I said nothing about readability or openness, neither of which have anything to do with what is under discussion.

I can provide plenty of UK links which refer to Down's syndrome.
Interesting work. BTW, there's a typo: "shee here" should be "see here".
I have a friend that has chronic pain. I'm all for treating the chronic pain, yet I don't feel like the friend should not exist.
There actually does exist one for Ruby. Check out gemcanary https://gemcanary.com/
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http://www.reddit.com/r/science is actually pretty good about calling out unscientific journalism, making it a somewhat-decent source of science news. (As long as you read the comments.)
Sentiment analysis has never been this good.
Sentiment analysis has never been good.
Almost 8 years ago. Fingerprint readers could have improved since then (the article even points out that they have software in the lab to do so). Anybody know how good the current crop of HW/SW combinations is?
According to Linode support, the API key provided is unique to longview and can't be used for anything else.
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What's worse: if someone can get to the software fingerprint image stored in the computer, they can create fake fingers that work in conventional fingerprint scanners. http://youtu.be/K1Sx_BmfZ8I

Having a stolen fingerprint is worse than a stolen password. For one, people tend to trust fingers more; for the other, it's impossible to change your fingerprint, unlike your password.

I really can't trust these kinds of consumer technologies until their designers use revocable biometric systems to protect the fingerprint template. That area of the literature is quite well studied, but everyone seems to ignore it.
How long till we find out the NSA has been doing this in secret for years?

This is the most 'warm, well-intended way possible' to divert the discussion to something entirely unrelated and SNR-destroying.
Just send a money order or cash through the mail. After all, you trust the recipient, so you don't need all that customer protection stuff that Paypal offers.
The thing about biometric security that always makes me uneasy: when your "password" is compromised, you can't reset your fingerprints.
If Indiegogo projects are fundamentally incompatible with PayPal's risk profile as you imply,

He didn't imply this, he laid out a very eloquent case for it.

...the onus is on PayPal not to accept money for those projects. Full stop.

No, please don't stop with a naked assertion completely unsupported by any other statements you've made. Please describe for me how a business operating in one of the most regulated industries in our country, whose disclosures are voluminous and thorough, and whose business model is turnkey merchant accounts, has this obligation.
How does node.js have security advisories? Isn't the fact that it's built on top of JavaScript kind of throw the idea of security out the window to start with? Shouldn't we start with JavaScript security advisories first?

Honest question, have you ever seen a public Javascript security advisory?
Ugh. Another "let's-act-like-everything-is-happiness-and-rainbows" post.

In my experience, most of the time someone says "this is shit", it actually is, and it's indicative of serious failures in the hiring/training/code-review/management process.

The only ways that companies improve at those processes are by pointing out the shit, calling it by its name, and figuring out the best ways to keep it from happening again.

Having a "this is shit" culture can be GOOD -- it can hold people accountable and promote a culture of excellence.

> In the end it is a culture that values negativity rather than focus on solutions.

That doesn't follow. Call it shit, and then fix it.

> Start by understanding the code, and then find ways to improve upon it.

That means that, instead of fixing the underlying problem and making people accountable for their work, you take on the burden of cleaning after other people's shit? I don't think so.

The author is correct when they say:

> Don't blurt out negative assessments of others code for no reason, and with no understanding. ...Start by understanding the code

But that goes without saying. Don't be too quick to judge when you don't have the facts. But once you're sure the code is shit, it's ultimately counterproductive to hide that. Most employees will only start writing better code once they're expected to, and strongly held accountable -- like most people's performance in any job.

PS: To be clear, I'm not talking about disagreements over coding styles, etc. I'm talking about code with obtuse function names and no comments. I'm talking about CSS that is hack upon hack upon hack filled with negative margins and !important's. I'm talking about JavaScript that pollutes the global namespace by programmers who refuse to use "var". Or CSS declarations like "div div span div span tr td span {color:red;}". And there's a tremendous amount of this stuff out there. Stuff that there's never an excuse for.
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I did an experiment with logstash, elasticsearch, and Kibana for our HAProxy logs. The default with logstash was to store each field, and then the whole text so stuff go quite large for our web logs. Also the Kibana interface was pretty buggy. Parsing our logs (~2k entries) a second doesn't work well with Regex so in our version we do a bunch of substring stuff. I'm excited about Kibana/ES for the rest of our logs over with their recent hire.

When I looked at StatsD and Graphite last time I didn't really see an API. I really like the model of data being queryable and returning nice serialized format like json (like OpenTSDB does). I'm also not that fond of the "many files" model and the automatic data summarization as it ages (it does save space, but makes forecasting difficult as it can skew data).
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What Unity3D has is Javascript in name only. The syntax looks kind of familiar, but UnityScript is more like Boo with a C-like syntax.

http://wiki.unity3d.com/index.php/UnityScript_versus_JavaScr...
1.5 hours is NOT a lot for an entire day's trip. Two weeks ago I took a much shorter 240 mile trip and we stopped for about an hour to fill up gas, rest and eat. The bottom line is this is a very typical usage pattern, many people like to break long car trips into 3 - 4 hour segments so Tesla fits right in WITHOUT any inconvenience.
Hey - was just poking around new and saw this. We're pushing on a number of open-source iOS apps, because the number of OSS is disappointingly low for such a popular platform.

Announcement & links: http://blog.inkmobility.com/post/59687500040/open-source-and...

Feel free to shoot me an email as well
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Loops obviously have their place, no question, but you're going to find that assigning a List to a var, and then appending to it / re-assigning it is going to generate a ton of garbage, and in general will just be slow all around. There's a reason that prepending/appending to Lists is "strange" in Scala. This is why map and flatMap are so great, because they take care of a lot of that heavy lifting for you (eg the matcher on None/Some -- this is what map is made for!).
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It's sad that enough people find this kind of humour enjoyable enough that they fill a conference.
That's interesting to think about. On the one hand, it sounds absurd to say that a medical procedure could influence someone's future political beliefs. On the other hand, would that sound absurd in 1,000 years? We're really in the very beginnings of understanding the human brain.
Right, anywhere with a WWOOF host is not very remote!

For people unfamiliar with WWOOF, it's basically accommodation around the world on organic farm oriented properties for a few hours of work per day. You supposedly get to learn lots about different types of farming, meet people, and explore for less than it would otherwise cost. A friend of mine from California went through New Zealand WWOOFing a couple of years back. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWOOF
That's even worse than engaging in presales! It's practically fucking gambling the way you describe it, why the fuck would Paypal be enticed by that subtle shift in framing?
> sexism

Wait, wait... how did you get sexism out of this particular issue?

I'm not saying the dude isn't sexist or an asshole, but all of the characters in the offending strip were male, there's not specific reprisal against one particular gender of critics, etc.

So there's lots of assholery going around, but how did you get /sexism/?
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Well, you could write a blog post about it for ad dollars.
That's exactly why "revocable biometrics" are so important. There are ways of combining a fingerprint and a password to combine the security of using both with the revocability of an ordinary password: http://www.wjscheirer.com/papers/wjs_icb2009_bipartite.pdf
Oh man, have you seen that new Monster Hunter Online game out in Asia? I'm so jealous.
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Yeah, it's "gambling" the way donating to an artist you like is gambling.

And who's trying to entice them? Again, if doing business with Indiegogo projects is incompatible with Paypal's risk profile they shouldn't do business with Indiegogo projects. That seems straightforward.

Bizarre to think we should be sympathizing with, enticing, or otherwise fellating PayPal in this situation.
Let me clarify a bit here. I am not denying there is a LOT of shit code out there. Nor do I have a problem with calling it out, whether the code is someone else's or my own. Fair's fair.

This article is arguing against a type of environment that praises negativity rather than contributions. One where the first reaction is to name something shit by default and not even offer any solutions to fix it or at the very least understand why it is shit so you don't end up making similar mistakes in the future.
At what point are you no longer "bootstrapping."? This seems more like 1 year of bootstrapping.

Still a good read. I can only imagine the acrobatics OP's stomach was doing when their newly-found CEO backed out.
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