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I think momentum plays a big part. That goes both ways in creative pursuits of getting things "done" or at least moving forward on projects, as well as stagnating.

The more time you "I'll do it later" on something, the easier it becomes, etc.

The book "Art of War" while some "hippie'esque"'ness breaks down "resistance" to getting to creative pursuits.
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Big enough player can guarantee a result. Luckily only 1 coin limit so far.
My Yahoo account that is just for personal use and trusted vendors gets ~0 spam. Another Yahoo account for the remainder gets lots of spam. Part of the difference may be that I religiously use the Spam button for the first account.
very interesting elementaryupdate, thanks
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Because of the nature of this site, we are very sensitive to any security related questions. Sorry!

Without revealing anything specific, we have a number of trigger conditions and any bet size over or under the limit is a trigger condition. That marks the bet as invalid and manual admin action is then required to refund the bet.
While I find software development as very personally rewarding job, I spend a lot of my free time contemplating existential problems. The sad personal revelation I have had is that technology is ruining the human race race.

My friend said on Facebook a while back that "Relationships are harder now because conversations become texting, arguments become phone calls & feelings become statuses and tweets." It occurred to me that isn't the case at all - relationships have always been hard; we now just have all these ways to avoid nurturing them.

In the same way technology is giving us an excuse to not work on our physiological wellbeing, and I can't help but agree with this article (even though they didn't make that association).

I think it's time for a new "brogrammer" movement where we instead focus being on healthy (which I am seeing a few examples of - inspiring to say the least).

*written on my cell, excuse any typos.
I went through a phase of thinking as you are. And then I realized that in the big scheme of my life, I was spending way too much time focusing on a very insignificant piece of my day. I could get much better return applying the same time and energy to choices that have bigger impact. And ... did I really want to shave with blades that could slice me up?
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Silicon Spectrum is running a Kickstarter to GPL their GPU:

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Big enough player won't have one coin limit...
Vitamin water's 4+B acquisition was about 5 years ago.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/26/business/26drink-web.html?...
This entirely depends on each person's specific use case. It's not a black or white answer. Sure, the MBA is "better" - and more expensive - but it's also a case of the Chromebook being "good enough" for a lot of tasks where the MBA is overkill.
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> why are you not buying in large bulk and saving?

Although I'm probably not thinking of a few things, I do buy basically every nonperishable in bulk. I buy paper towels, toilet paper, double-edged razor blades, toothpaste, laundry supplies, and shower supplies at most twice a year. It's not that hard as long as you find SKUs that you like and have somewhere to store them (and I live in a tiny San Francisco studio, so most people should have plenty of room).
Got it from here: http://apps.eky.hk/css-triangle-generator/

Here's a series of examples showing how it works (not a fun animation like the OP, but a little easier to follow): http://jsfiddle.net/X8gXS/

Basically, you can get any triangle as long as at least one of the sides is horizontal or vertical.
Color me dense, but I don't understand this point. The author clearly had aptitude to be successful, but if we were to randomly put a percentage on his aptitude that weighted him above the average, it would still probably be less than 0.00%
Ahh, you missed the essential point. :-) The point is that that you can use the p2p ledger to publicly track rights, like a notary public without the notary. Normally, this is centralized in a few hands, vested in a trusted source (the government, or a third party). Property rights, titles, deeds, all are recorded by various government offices like the county clerks.

What makes the DRM issue really about power (and NOT about "freedom" or "consumer friendliness") is that current DRM schemes puts all the power into seller. The most vocal dissent against DRM, however, when examined, really about retaining the power that comes with cheap computing.

This is no way for society to function. We're not the Wild Wild West and I certainly do not want a tyrannical social order either. The solution is a decentralization of power. Being able to use an untrusted mediator is a big deal, of which a DRM method is one small application of this.

In this guy's case, he is selling used software in the EU. By being able to tie the DRM to the bitcoin transactions, it better allows for used software to be passed from one person to another in a fair and equitable way. It can be done in a way where the software owners have little to complain, that if you're going to resell the software and treat it like a tangible good, then at least that gets tracked.

Now, I've heard arguments that, software and other digital "goods" are not inherently tangible, and should have no scarcity restrictions on it. That any form of DRM is therefore arbitrary. However, that fails to consider two points. First, is that authorship and creative endeavor is itself not as easily replicable as the digital good. When you pay for a digital right, you're actually paying for the effort put into the creative endeavor -- although in practice, the owner and controller of a right often is not the creator. The second, is that all types of property are inherently arbitrary. There is nothing sacred about property, though a lot of people have deep, unexamined, emotional attachments to property.

I actually find it hilarious that people get angry about how arbitrary digital rights are ... and yet fail to consider that all property rights are inherently arbitrary. Who owns the water, the land? Who owns the air? Who owns the animals and other living beings on earth? We humans like to think we are the owns, but we not really. We draw arbitrary lines around land and other resources and trade pieces of paper designating ownership. Why not get angry about that?
I enjoyed reading this very much. No hint of the arrogance that so well characterizes some of the younger entrepreneurs and also a real success story not choke-full of buzzwords. (about a simple app that generated $500k in revenue in the first 12 months after launch).
Thanks for responding.

By "ui front end at the back end", I was referring to the OP's suggestion to use nodejs as the entry point which the talks to the "real" back end.

I'm interested in real time collaboration where message connections between connected users are easiest held in a shared data structure to reduce latency. I've on occasion mangled this data structure unintentionally without any feedback from JS before deployment. If I'd had some static checking, these problems would've been easily avoided. Hence my fear.

edit: to be clear, my "fear" only applies to languages like JS and untyped racket at the backend. Not of backend programming per se.

Rgd my example, so ... given that I would needs CORS support, the browser->nodejs->backend division of labour that the OP is suggesting doesn't seem workable for such a file upload case.
True. However, being part of the network wouldn't expose the data on the entirely of it, only a small sliver. Also, keep in mind that there would be a network of people who are cloud-maintainers and also of cloud-users. The cloud-maintainers would be a more insular group than the users, and it would be these people who would be able to sign new nodes.

On top of that, it could be arranged so that cloud-maintainers had almost no knowledge whatsoever of what cloud-users were doing. Cloud-maintainers could abstain entirely from using their own cloud (maintaining a separate one for their own use). This would mean that LEOs who infiltrate the cloud-maintainer organization would not gain any information on cloud-user activities, and LEO that infiltrated a cloud-user organization wouldn't gain any ability to compromise the network.

Implemented this way, such an infrastructure would be a different order of difficulty entirely to penetrate. In contrast, Donnie Brasco as a lone agent could gain access to both operational activities and organizational structure of the Cosa Nostra. In this scheme, he would have to choose one or the other. Also, two LEOs attacking the infrastructure from both sides would have to collude to make sure their intelligence would overlap, and this would make their activity detectable.
Without knowing beforehand how your own aptitude fares compared to others, that x% is the best estimator though.
Since we launched the Cedar stack, we've used AWS ELBs as the front layer in our routing stack. Since we had only ever allowed regular, short-lived HTTP requests through our stack, we opted to use these in HTTP(S) listener mode [1]. When used in HTTP(S) mode, ELBs have historically been very strict about what traffic they allow through.

As the WebSocket standard is very recent, it has never been supported by ELBs in HTTP mode.

ELBs in TCP mode can support any TCP traffic. It's become clear that we need this flexibility, so we're moving to TCP-mode ELBs now. This was not trivial, though, as long-lived connections (like those used for WebSockets) have different implications for our HTTP routers. That had to be taken account.

Nonetheless, we've had a private beta for a long time that worked as described above. But we deemed it insufficient for general customer use because TCP-mode ELBs mean that you lose the client's source IP and protocol. Fortunately, ELBs now have Proxy Protocol support [2], which allows us to keep that request information that Heroku apps typically rely on.

[1] More info on ELB modes: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ElasticLoadBalancing/latest/Devel...

[2] http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2013/07/elastic-load-balancing-ad...
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I'm familiar with our economy. We're in a debt crises. I didn't mention the government shutdown at all.
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I agree with statement, Adzerk are an amazing team!
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If you are a founder in a company that sells for a billion dollars, and you only come out of it with 300,000, that's an almost criminal level of incompetence.

That's .03%. Assuming you start from some whole number of percentage ownership, it's almost impossible to get diluted that low. You would need something like 10 rounds of 50% dilution.
What if I start running around waving... because there's a bloody fire!? (That's a really bad false positive!)
No, health research is a better investment.
I think the unstated assumption OP is making is that fat people got hooked on food, and can't be responsible and give up their addiction. And while it may be hard to do, you only owe your inability to stick with quitting for your continued problems. Born again skinny people are particularly severe in this regard, since they've likely overcome their own personal issues with food (for now, at least) and so see that experience in everyone else. Maybe they made physiological excuses before, and tend to discount those issues in others; maybe their own feelings of weakness don't allow them to be especially empathetic.

And, the analogy to smoking is fatally flawed. Nobody needs cigarettes, but everyone has to eat.
I don't mean to be rude, but why is this on HN? I mean, there's nothing wrong with it and its a nice read, but, I dunno, haven't we all had experiences like this? Is there some broader context I'm missing?
Right now you treat this as an awkward brush-off. Hopefully, if things go as planned, this will become increasingly treated as low, insensitive sexism, and people who never learn would grow old to be the innocent elderly sexists who simply didn't keep up with the times. Hopefully the fact that right now it seems unwarranted to politely correct someone for saying "guys" in the name of spreading awareness on gender issues will change. And hopefully this hurtful, alienating comeback will not be possible to justify as "brush-off" any longer. It's a work in progress.
I agree and I think a bayesian approach is more suitable. For instance, the probability of getting into YC:

P(getting into YC | sold a startup, graduated from Stanford/MIT, worked on/built something awesome, etc)

Or the chance of building a $1B company:

P($1B company | you're in SV, $100MM in funding, etc)
The big thing with an ORM is that you must keep those lazy loads in mind when you work with it. Lazy loads are the big place where you get "300 queries instead of 1".

ORMs aren't bad on principal, imho... but they give you more than enough rope to hang yourself while promising a magical efficient user-friendly rope.
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I have an rMBP and a Pixel. I actually prefer the Pixel most of the time - it's smaller and lighter while still packing a high-density display, has a fantastic build quality, and is just zippy. The built-in LTE radio is handy for when I'm out and about, too. The sleep/wake times are incredible (it's generally woken up before I've fully opened the lid), so it's trivially easy to just flip the lid closed, go somewhere, flip it open, and keep doing what I'm doing.

ChromeOS is perfectly functional for so many use cases (though not all of them). I do all my development on a Linux machine on my home network through SSH anyhow, so I can work at my Windows desktop, or pick up the Macbook or Chromebook and continue working easily. It actually outperforms the Macbook in regards to video (I can't watch fullscreen on the rMBP without it going all laggy).

I still go for the Macbook sometimes, but if I just need a portable terminal and browser, the Chromebook is perfect.
It seems pretty similar to the Bop smoke alarm I made for a hackathon. See: http://bop.io

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Marcus
A trillion is a lot of money.

No single corporation controls that much capital; even the largest are just half-way there. Very few organizations can organize and control that amount of money.

I agree that compared to the total circulation of virtual money, $1T is small compared to the total.
I've been thinking about online-to-offline a bit recently while watching the rise of Grouper amongst my peers (as well as Tinder to a lesser extent). Seems like there may be some places where the offline-to-online focus of disruption could itself be disrupted by encouraging more offline interaction. Anyway, interesting to think about in the age of software eating the world.
> We need the right to copy for archiving without profit, or something.

Just throwing it out there - this is (in some sense) one of the intended purposes of the Library of Congress.

The Library of Congress already even announced a few years back that they were planning on archiving every public tweet.

Having them archive every video referenced in official documents (such as a Supreme Court decision) isn't that much of a stretch.
This isn't surprising. I think the future of warfare will be massive armies of drones controlled by algorithms. If we can remove the pilot from the equation, we can drastically increase the size of our military. That's not to say that algorithmic warfare will be good. I'm merely saying it is inevitable.
It's "just" a business district within London, leaving aside a couple of millennia of history. London comprises the City and 32 boroughs, somewhat similarly to the way New York is made up of five boroughs, one of which is also called "New York" in some contexts.
So let's say the builder is a dumbass and placed it incorrectly. What homeowner is going to move it? I would guess the percentage is something along the lines of 1%.

I would. You would. But we're not the norm. Not all products are designed toward the DIY crowd.
I don't know. If the venture finance industry has taught us anything, it's that one big win can pay for a whole mess of failures, and then some.

If you tell a bunch of rich people they've got a good chance of financing the next Leonardo DaVinci or Thomas Edison by providing the living essentials to 5,000 people, you could probably get a few to take you up on it. Just make sure you're cutting them in on the profits.
I don't think you gave it enough practice, I have been using a double edge for years and shave faster than I did with cartridge because I only need one pass.

Feather blades and olive oil are the only thing I use. Also double edges were originally called safety razors for a reason.
Is this legal in America?

Edit: Why the downvotes? I'm curious if they got an opinion from a lawyer on the legality of their site.
"These arrests send a clear message to criminals; the hidden internet isn't hidden and your anonymous activity isn't anonymous."

Huh? At least in the Seattle case of "NOD", they caught them by gumshoe police work, noticing patterns in parcels (supposedly tipped off by narc dogs), and asking postal workers to recall customers and so on. I guess if you think mailing hundreds of packages of medicines via the postal service is "anonymous" then maybe they're right.

The real message is: Don't be careless. Don't create huge patterns we can detect via physical surveillance.

At least, so far. Maybe it'll come out that all these cases were the result of parallel construction and they really found everyone by defeating Tor. But so far the complaints seem pretty straightforward.
You have never gone to shave and felt the pull and tug of an old razor? Then you go to work only to forget that you need to buy new ones on the way home and the process goes on again. This process happens to me because I am usually focused on buying food and not non-perishable goods.

I switched to DSC recently because of this and I am tired of paying Gillette/Schick $20-$30 on a pack of razors.
> Did you check out the meteor package "spiderable"? It might need to mature a bit but it might do the trick

Of course I did :). It's not usable at all :). It's also not reducing the initial loading time (very high for any public webpage).
One important question is: could one create a short BTC contract at a reasonable price? so that when I hold BTC I'm not subject to the downsides? For every short someone holding BTC would have to find long exposure which a BTC holder wants to give up. I'm not sure its possible, I don't think so.
Well, we're sure as shit not meant to sit in front of a screen all day.
As other people have pointed out, the Nest detector uses photoelectric detection and multiple of them will link together. Comparing it to a $20 ionic detector is apples to oranges.
You seem to be disturbed about this. Have you had close friends suffer this fate?

If not, you should cool your jets. Because this product aims to:

1. Make it less likely for people get annoyed at their smoke alarm and turn it off
2. Add a CO sensor which when paired with a Nest thermostat will turn off
your gas furnace
3. Save more lives than are currently being saved.
I would like to see how this almost made it to the top 10.
When my Merkur showed up, I was scared to use it. For me (and maybe your face is different), there was no need. I was really careful the first time, got comfortable with it, and haven't cut myself in over a year of use. I think one trick is to let the weight of the shaving head apply the pressure. Don't dig into your face like you might with a disposable.

It takes a little more time, but I think that's because I now take the time to do a better job. For the same effort as a disposable, I think I'd still get a better shave.
Many not-high-profile people are forced to turn over their electronics at the border on a regular basis. A device that you can wipe and restore once you're through customs is quite valid here.
The effect a gene has on a trait isn't equal in all environments. It plays a larger part in groups of people who have very similar environmental conditions, conversely it plays a much smaller role in populations with a high variation in environmental conditions. We know that there is a fairly large variation in the environments of the groups you mentioned so it stands to reason the differences have very little to do with genetics.
tl;dr go learn what heritability is.
> Indeed, but personally I don't want a dumb electronic device to make that judgement for me

But ultimately, you have no choice. Even the ideal smoke detector that you have in mind is going to be a dumb electronic device that has to make a judgement for you.

It'll have some sort of threshold before the loud alarm goes off. I'm not suggesting that be changed.

What I'm suggesting is that, in addition to that, at an even more sensitive threshold, there be a quieter alarm, too.
How good are the trackpads? If any other vendor starts using trackpads as good as Apple's, I will switch in a heartbeat
How does the parimutuel betting work? If I bet now, am I guaranteed the "Betting X Pays Out" amount if I am right, or does that change with more bets on either side?
An always-https connection would be great. I've had no significant availability or search issues, ever.
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It means that statistics are useful until you try to apply them to an individual. While a statistic may hold true for an entire population, the converse does not logically follow for an individual. I think the fallacy may be "over generalization".
Thanks. I was one of the editors.
English is neither of our first languages.

One of the guys who helped edit wrote a book with Clayton Christensen.
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A little strange to interview for a position that isn't open and then feel rejected when they reply they aren't going to create an opening for you. That would be the expected answer, I'd think.
I confess that in my last house they were always going off, not just because I burnt the toast but just because I made some toast. Or because I took a shower. Or lit a candle. I moved them several times but could never find a spot that was simultaneously far enough away from the toaster, stove, shower, microwave, dinner table, grill, and fireplace. Silencing them required getting a ladder and only lasted a few minutes, never enough to prevent a second activation.

Because they were going off all the time the batteries went out in months, and they would start chirping loudly at random intervals around 3 a.m. It would wake you up then you couldn't figure out which one it was and once you decided it was a fluke and went back to sleep it would do it again.

I did bad things to those smoke alarms.

In retrospect maybe they were just a bad batch and needed to be replaced but historically I hadn't experienced much better. I've moved since then and haven't had trouble with the new ones yet, knock on wood.
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This might be a better source: http://www.natap.org/2010/newsUpdates/SittingTimeCauses.pdf
Would be nice if there was a down vote for stories option. ;/
I have a personal distrust towards HP products. Their customer service has always been good to me, but I've owned 3 separate HP laptops (from before and after the Compaq merger) and all three have essentially fallen apart after the first 12 - 18 months. Same goes for Toshiba (2 laptops). In comparison, every thinkpad I've owned (3) has always outlasted my need for them due to outdated specs over time.