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Hi,

I'm Sam the founder of MakeSpace. It's been a long day so my apologies for the delay.

3D printer jokes aside, I had the problem of not remembering where things were in my girlfriend's storage unit. A lot of storage customers have trouble remembering what's in the storage unit in the first place! (The lifetime average $PSA customer is 3 years and 50% of customers > 1 year). So the "access anywhere" analogy to Dropbox is what people (and not just tech people) like to reference when they hear us talk about it.

Also, to your point about "x for y," it works only for a certain type of crowd if both things are well known (and Dave McClure mentions that here: http://image.slidesharecdn.com/howtopitchavc-090321140851-ph...). A lot of YC companies do it when they pitch investors because it's a great way to connect quickly to their audience. When customers call up my 1-888 number; however, "Dropbox for real life" aren't the first words out of my mouth.
Perhaps to an early-stage investor but I can't imagine that's the case during the latter rounds of investment. They'll at least want the founder to incorporate before investing in the company
I wouldn't go so far as to say that large companies have great toolsets, but they're definitely pretty different from what's on the outside. I've spent a ton of time learning internal tools and that knowledge won't transfer when I leave my company. Frameworks are different, infrastructure is different, and the process and scope of responsibilities is different. Building something inside a large company is a pretty different skill from making it from scratch. That's my experience anyway.
The redemption period is required for the domain to be turned off according to ICANN. Contact them to try to revoke their registrar license - once they realize the seriousness they will settle for the extra money paid to recover the domain.
Protip: In addition to standard fullscreen, Chrome also has a "Presentation mode" that makes all the browser UI autohide at the top and makes the content full screen. Useful if you don't want the browser UI cluttering up your presentation.
Scientific research: Looks good on paper
Yes. The boxes have eyelets (for locks or heavy duty zip ties + security tape) and are sealed in front of the customer.
No one wants to claim a link between this and references
to slavery in The Bible?
Your competitor might find it advantageous to compete with you on employee wages and poach your good employees leaving you unable to compete. Supply and demand works for salaries as much as it does for physical goods.
Recently a storage unit in a luxury building went for $300K. Not kidding.

http://nypost.com/2013/08/25/new-yorkers-spending-300g-on-st...
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the age of the renaissance man is alive and well.

Well argued, though I would say only in flatter organizations or in very specific cases. Conventional management structures kill off breadth of thinking very effectively.
Seems like the guy requesting that certain data be collected is due some measure of academic credit for having the foresight to know what question to ask, even if someone else "scoops" them on the analysis.

Sure, sometimes the right question will be starkly obvious, but no system is perfect.
Interesting idea, this is the first virtual hackathon I've ever seen. Wonder if this is the first time someone's ever tried this. Could be huge
CA Bill Requires Court Order to Interrupt Wireless Communication Services
How does the actual collection take place? I'm sure 30% is too steep a cut for splitting a dinner check. Has Apple loosened its policies on third-party payment processors?
IF ONLY ALL GUYS WERE LIKE THIS still lmfao
you will not stop laughing
FAA recommended that airline passengers be allowed to use smartphones
"long term storage. Cheaper than regular storage but not as accessible." We've thrown around "amazon glacier for storage" analogy a few times -- but only with the right crowd :)
An iOS app update note that you may want to read
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Free speech still stands. No one is stopping you from being stupid. Obviously when one is a public official, racism/idiocy in this situation comes into play and the person gets kicked out of office.Also being an Arab as far as I know is not a slur. One is not supposed to know every damn ethnicity that exists.
I never got a good explanation of why Feinstein is so interested in keeping these programs alive. What is her horse in the race here? Or does she honestly believe that these programs protect the safety of Americans?
Has anyone used this or other virtual filesystem applications like tagsistant or tmsu? Any feedback on any/all of them?
Agreed - I've never expected that ever (of course, some may object to referring to me as a 'top dev'). I may be too much of a picky eater to even want 'catered lunches'. Snacks/drinks are nice - even just subsidized (25c sodas, etc).
I think you would find this article really interesting.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/magazine/06self-storage-t....
Can anyone recommend good websites for recruiting developers? My company used stack overflow before with no success. Craiglist and hn's who's hiring were better. It seems like hacker news is the best place to go at this point ;)
Behind every successful commercial software product is a horrible codebase.
Maybe this will be useful to understanding lifetimes: http://static.rust-lang.org/doc/0.8/tutorial-borrowed-ptr.ht...

As for the pointer dereferencing, perhaps putting the type there will make it clearer:

[1, 2, 3].map(|x: &int| if *x > max { max = *x });

Now you can see that x isn't actually an int but a reference to one.

As for automatically derived traits, those are actually slightly more powerful macros implemented in the compiler itself. You can see it at rust/src/libsyntax/ext/*.

For default methods, you just put the code you want in the trait itself. Like so:

trait Animal {
fn sound(&self) -> ~str;
fn make_sound(&self) {
println(self.sound());
}
}

The make_sound method is what's called a default method. If you implemented that trait, at the very least you would have to define the sound method and if you wanted to, you could override the default make_sound method.

Macros are actually created with another macro called macro_rules. I'll defer to the tutorial for them: http://static.rust-lang.org/doc/0.8/tutorial-macros.html
We'll ship them to you. But it may slightly more than $29 which is for local delivery
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This could be dealt with by requiring the plaintiff to post a bond on an ongoing basis.
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This was discovered in Yunnan, the southwesternmost province of China that is already well known for its fossil record, both in terms of early ocean life and humans. Just last year they discovered what appears to be an entirely new species of hominid[1]. I lived in Yunnan for 5 years and really fell in love with the place, which is surrounded by Tibet, Burma, Laos and Vietnam and is China's most biologically, climatically, culturally, historically and linguistically diverse province. Despite a near total lack of credentials, I'm currently writing a long form history of Yunnan for a general audience from prehistory through near-present in English, as a fun long term side project. I'm also an Australian. Australians have been involved in many other studies in the area, such as historical water level studies of the region's impressively large alpine lakes. Kew Gardens in London also collaborate with the province on a shared long term global seed bank project.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Deer_Cave_people
"I didn't delete out of embarrassment. I deleted because there was no point in leaving them there to be downvoted to hell."

God forbid you lose some valuable internet points.
haha, the dark side of github! switch man switch, go to bitbucket
But put that aside, let me give you a primer on climate change.

Here are some indisputable facts (well, to dispute them, you would need to overturn quantum physics, not impossible, but quite a hard task):

1) CO2 absorbs more infrared light than visible light. This can be demonstrated in a laboratory, and we even know why this is the case, thanks to quantum physics.

2) When sunlight hits the Earth, some is absorbed, and then re-emitted red-shifted. Again, we have direct satellite measurements of this, and we also have the theoretical explanation as to why, thanks you again quantum physics.

3) We know that we are increasing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. Again, direct measurements show this, plus we know that we are producing CO2 with our industrial processes.

Put those 3 facts together, and the baseline conclusion is that unless there is some unknown fourth factor, our planet is going to get hotter. Scientists noticed this back in the sixties, and started conducting experiments to see if this was indeed the case. All of our measurements since then show that global temperature is increasing, on average, which ties in nicely with what we expect from theory (points 1-3 above).

Anybody that wants to make a serious claim that climate change isn't happening needs to either demonstrate that one of points 1-3 is wrong, or that there is a fourth factor. A fourth factor would be something like "as the world's oceans become more acidic due to absorption of CO2, past a certain threshold value the surface becomes more mirror-like, increasing the albedo, and hence reducing the amount of red-shifting of light". A paper that demonstrated this, and demonstrated that the effect would be big enough to overcome the increased absorption caused by increased CO2 would indeed have demonstrated that climate change would indeed be limited by the threshold value. If such a paper were to come out, I personally would probably breath a deep sigh of relief and then throw a party.

If someone tries to claim that climate change isn't happening without demonstrating that points 1,2 or 3 are wrong, and without demonstrating an unknown factor that hadn't yet been taken into account can be safely dismissed. You can question the specifics of the models, like "is the Greenland ice sheet going to melt in 10 years? 100 years? 1000 years?" That's fair game, and if you go and read the papers, you will see scientists doing just that. But the overarching question of climate change? That's settled business already, and anyone claiming otherwise deserves the title of "denialist".
Awesome example of a company that doesn't try to be everything to everyone and just focuses on the one thing they do very well.

Just please don't try and emulate their success in your startup, bc it likely won't work. These guys won the side-project lottery so an amazing kudos to them.
I wish reporters and pundits would just quit mining twitter for stupid quotes. It is like shooting fish in a barrel. It means exactly nothing that a couple of hundred, or even thousand, people said something dumb on twitter.

What this judge said is definitely newsworthy. Some random anonymous user on twitter who is probably trolling, stoned or both saying something means bupkis.

Although I did get a laugh out of Colbert's take - "705 people saw a woman in a bikini and thought, 'Muslim Extremist.'"

http://gawker.com/stephen-colbert-had-the-perfect-response-t...
A Chat with Startup Mentor Marci Weisler
Happy Boxbee user here.

The real thing I love about it is that it's per-box pricing. The thing I hate about storage spaces is that if you get rid of some stuff in it, you are paying exactly the same amount. With Boxbee if you get rid of a couple of boxes, your bill goes down the next month.
Its the same problem among students of gujarat India. Here all rich brats opt for TFW (Tution fee Waiver scheme) and so the poors don't get the chance for the same.
Expect:
"Official Rules:

1. Eligibility: The Liberty Hackathon Contest (the “Contest”) is open only to contestants 18 years of age or older who are legal residents of the United States (“Entrants”). The Contest is subject to federal, state, and local laws and regulations and is void where prohibited by law."

It's only for US citizens.
I just want to note, if you ever release something (anything, be it a version or a whole startup), copy their first paragraph intro! I didn't know what Rust was, but after just 8 seconds I did. Fantastic and all too rare.
Global Game Jam [1] and Ludum Dare [2] are two other 'virtual' hackathons.

[1] http://globalgamejam.org/

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludum_Dare
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A succinct embodiment of all that is wrong with the self-assumed authority of the modern nation-state, which, at its core, is based upon a monopoly of violence.
Aside from the traffic milestone, another crop of impressive Imgur numbers involves the amount of funding the company has taken, which is exactly zero since launching in 2006. The company is also profitable, and it has been since about a year after the site launched.

Interesting to see where this goes.[1] It is a great story.

[1] see, eg: http://techcrunch.com/2007/05/07/myspace-to-acquire-photobuc...
What do you think free speech has to do with this?
Oh, yeah.

Sometimes, though, they're friends and relatives who just aren't aware of how much work is involved. I don't want to be mean to them.

I usually just ask them how much capital they have to invest in the joint venture. That's typically the end of it. :-)
Also being an Arab as far as I know is not a slur.

Context is everything. They didn't just idly identify her as an arab as in "Wow, an arab finally won Miss America" - they called her an arab as part of a larger effort to associate her with terrorism and debase her as being less of a person and therefore undeserving of winning.

Just because a racist is illogical in their hatred doesn't make their hatred any less real.
This is really terrible to read.

I don't understand why it's on Hacker News though.
I don't really want to engage with this (it's a really common talking point and it won't change anyone's mind who didn't already agree) -- but your phrasing made me for the first time realize what exactly the alternative is: a free market for violence. Is that what you're advocating?
That's not wholly unreasonable for something new. Drafting something that respects wider international law is difficult; there are age and parental restrictions in many countries, content restrictions in others, restrictive copyright laws in others.
I had to pick up a contract from a mobile gaming startup yesterday. 30 grim cubicles crammed together, shit literally everywhere on the floor like piles of cables, papers, discarded hardware...

There was even a gargantuan flatscreen that looped their product commercials and one of the guys sitting beside it I could see the flashing, seizure inducing graphics reflecting off his 2 screens and glasses. No windows, and unbearably hot from all the machines. How do you not go mad in that environment
Imgur solved a problem for Reddit the same way TwitPic solved a problem for Twitter.

I think it's a testament to Reddit that - unlike Twitter - they didn't feel like they needed to consume image hosting for their platform. It also spurred the growth of the meme sites. I'm sure Reddit will spawn more large niche sites yet.
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The Illusion of Connection
My guess is that she sees her political fortunes as being tied to the programs. She is head of the Senate Intelligence Committee - she has been rubber-stamping them for years. If the NSA goes down, she goes down as an enabler.
>Even the project scientist, John Grotzinger, is not officially JPL (he's Caltech):

Grotzinger and any other scientists, postdocs, engineers, and other collaboration members are going to be working under their own grants; almost always funded by a gov't agency. Caltech, incidentally will be taking 40%-60% of those funds as rent (overhead).
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She chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee. Of course she must have a strong opinion, and its not surprising that the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee supports the status quo.

Why do you find it difficult to believe? Cognitive dissonance with the idea that a liberal Democrat would support massive surveillance of Americans? Obama does too. If you want to stop it, you'll need to start supporting Libertarian Republicans like Rand Paul.
I'd take a cube farm over an open floorplan any day.
A mistake in identifying her ethnicity is fine. But what they did was call her an Arab to associate her with terrorism and thus insult her.

Free speech does exist. But do remember that any free country also stipulates that the freedom comes with the responsibility that you do not use your freedom to hurt others.
Yes! and Yes!
I have really mixed feelings about the index, personally. It is nice to be able to incrementally build up a change, but I do think that it's a thing that complicates learning for new users.

I'm curious, as someone who actually loves it, what if there were just better tools for incrementally altering the last commit instead? I'm not sure that a more robust git commit --amend couldn't achieve the same goals as the index with less conceptual overhead.
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> I find that post you linked disgusting. Now I see why we need laws for things I feel are obvious. I feel like that person should be reported to the authorities or something. Not hiring people because they refuse to regularly work over 40hrs/week should be illegal.

It's interesting that you're so adamant about having the ability to make your personal choices here when you're advocating to take choice away from others.

The article states that the employer demanding 80 hour work weeks cannot find anybody to fill that role for 4 months and counting. Employers have to compete for labor just as employees have to compete for jobs. If somebody offers an 80 hour per week job without offering adequate compensation (multiple times the market rate, a large percentage of ownership, etc), then they'll fail to fill that role.

Your personal feelings are no justification for trying to create laws and interfering with other peoples' voluntary transactions in the marketplace.
OK, yeah the fundamental number type of Javascript is the 64-bit floating point double so I could see how the ability of a JIT to emit code to handle 56 bit integers might be useful. But it would still be a tradeoff against the cost of doubling the size of every pointer.
How is this story related to HACKER News? I visit Hacker news to read interesting stories that are related to technology...
> The founders/CTO are often rockstars...

Out of curiosity, what makes for a "rockstar" founder or CTO?
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I agree with you in general terms (quick release is best).

But I think your post is in error because it implies that the raw data is not eventually made public. To my knowledge, this is not true -- especially for Earth missions, I think all that data is public. Perhaps the level 0 data [essentially, raw telemetry] is not, but everything from level 1 up will be public.

The data-release culture is very discipline specific. In planetary (e.g. Mars), there are embargo periods -- partly to ensure the systematics are understood. In cosmology, a four-year embargo period for Planck was ended just this summer. This kind of makes sense -- they didn't want half the astrophysicists in the world off chasing a phantom caused by their very sensitive noise-suppression tools. But I understand the community was getting pretty impatient. So, there is push-back.

For Earth missions, after an initial calibration period, I think all the data is made public as fast as it can be processed. Indeed, MODIS even broadcasts the raw data to whomever wants to pick it up (http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/directbrod/), like disaster responders.

Like I said, it's discipline-specific. For disciplines where time matters (Earth, space weather, seismicity/geodesy, time-domain astronomy) there is a real advantage in releasing data fast, and that's what has happened. I could give websites in each case where data is released in near-real time, say, less than 1 hour after taken.
out of curiosity, how does Foucault's Panopticon relate to museum curation
>editors contributed to it during the review process.

Who are themselves gov't employees on salary at universities and national labs.
Free speech does exist. But do remember that any free country also stipulates that the freedom comes with the responsibility that you do not use your freedom to hurt others.

Joe Random twitter user can't hurt anyone by being an asshole on twitter.

The real free speech issue here is that freedom of speech runs both ways -- you are free to speak out and everyone else is free to speak out and criticize you for what you said.
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I don't really want to engage with this (it's a really common talking point and it won't change anyone's mind who didn't already agree)

Oh right, and being trite with a false dichotomy is supposed to be more constructive? Sheesh. I suspect if you were, say, homeless or wrongly jailed for awhile then you'd come out far less dismissive of criticism of government.
I remember when this started, and I was amazed that the guy was willing to risk massive fees for little reward (at the time).

Very happy they have grown it into what it is today - fast, clean and stable.

It's what imageshack could have been.
Yes, I did wonder if that's where you were headed. I'm just not confident that they are workable.
The reality is that as of today, top VCs, top incubators and accelerators, and the leading law firms advising investors and startups currently regard public fundraising as a question mark. Many are actively advising against it,...

This is interesting.
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The iOS7 GLES implementation is almost certainly written and delivered by Imagination Technologies. Surely Apple has customized it a little, and being (by a huge margin) the most important customer they have strong influence to drive features where they want. But they aren't the GPU vendor.
The way Apple products work makes sense if you imagine they were imported from some alternate world where Apple has monopolies in each category it competes in. If you really do only have Macs, iPhones, Airport routers, AppleTVs, etc. it all works together really well. An all-Mac household has a similar feeling to an all-Windows enterprise office--everything magically talks to everything else and sets itself up and enforces policies it gets politely asked to by the domain.

I kind of wish there was some open standard on this OS interoperation glue stuff -- X11+NFS+Kerberos+MIT client-cert auth was just about right for the early 90s, but we screwed it all up somehow instead of evolving it into something competitive with the two big modern closed-source environments. I mean, Linux got WINS-based zero-config link-local peer name resolution from Microsoft, Bonjour/mDNS-based resolution from Apple, but this was never a problem the FOSS community (or even the BSD folks) tried solving themselves. When there are real open-spec solutions for problems, Microsoft and Apple both seem happy to implement them; Linux just doesn't seem to want to do anything other than playing catch-up when it comes to multi-device experience.
I've always thought Reddit as a community and platform was massively under-leveraged. So what other problems do Redditors have?

My Reddit experience these days seems to be nothing more than using RES to scroll through images. I miss the good old days of in-depth discussions that were across the site and not just pushed into subreddits.
I think a bit tribute to Imgur's success is the fact that it has the same content as reddit's front page, just a lot less of the internal politics and bitter comments that tend to drive people away from the site.