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Cool, thank you for the context (which is everything in these situations.) And apologies if I implied things that weren't the case; just my reading/interpretation of the post.

My primary criticism of the CTO's email was that it didn't seem direct, which I've found is the most important aspect when communicating in that role. With all the intentions of being inclusive and providing avenues for flexibility, I've found the interpretations are most often viewed as ambiguous. The higher up the chain, clarity becomes so much more important. Live and learn, in my case.

In terms of consensus building, I had to do the same thing. For me, we accomplished that through objectivity -- we were constantly evaluating. We asked team members who liked technology A to provide brown-bag sessions on technology B. We had "skin-the-cat" sessions, where we would have a team of two or three implement a somewhat basic solution in three different ways (you know, nine ways to skin a cat....). It took some doing, but essentially what we did was enable developers who might not be so flexible to considering alternative technologies to get comfortable with those by spending time using them and providing an opportunity for them to say "this sucks" or "this is awesome". The team, as it was constructed, really responded well to this. Not only did they feel involved, but they were also tacitly preparing themselves to accommodate a shift, no matter which way it went. I was really surprised at how well the team became empowered; it was not something I was expecting to see.

Your CTO definitely had a tricky process and conversion to balance. I empathize, it's so easy to do a mediocre job with things that one wouldn't expect to matter quite so much.
asciidoc support would require an ansciidoc renderer written in javascript, which does seem to exist[1](although I haven't used it). This also highlights some of the problems with markdown because it is an insufficiently rich language for generating semantically meaningful markup for use-cases beyond blogging. There has been some really interesting work on "scholarly markdown"[2][3], but given the social and technical complexities of markdown implementations and the community[4] seems like adding asciidoc is easier than fixing markdown.

[1] http://asciidoctor.org/news/2013/05/21/asciidoctor-js-render...

[2]https://github.com/scholmd/scholmd/wiki

[3]http://blog.martinfenner.org/2013/06/19/citations-in-scholar...

[4]http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/10/the-future-of-markd...
Bitcoin does not require exchanges!

It's also not a cap, it's a target. "Reaching" the target means either:

1) all of our speculative bitcoin money becomes worthless as miners stop mining because it ceases to be profitable, so new blocks are not produced, so transactions don't flow.

2) miners stop processing transactions below a certain size or without a certain fee included, so only poor peoples' money becomes worthless as they can't afford the fees, don't meet the size limit, etc. or

3) the algorithm works, all of the money is fungible, and fees that are a fraction of what you and I would consider money today are enough for miners to make a living, as long as they are contributing a fraction of a percent of the hashes that sustain the whole network globally.

There's nothing "Free" about the miner fees. The subsidy of block rewards are meant to compensate early adopters for their hardware and electricity costs. If miners don't horde bitcoins to themselves, they don't "need" the money to be viable, once their investment is paid off they can just as well unplug the machines and let them sit on a shelf, assuming it's not worth their time and electricity to go on mining.

Bitcoin is "free to transfer" at exchanges because exchanges collect their fees through other vectors than transfer... eg, trade fees, merchant fees, venture capitalist infusion, ... there's no free money, and if you think there is, ask anyone who's already become rich on bitcoin how many they're keeping "in case the value goes sky high" eg. so others can make money off of us all.
You seem to be forgetting the part where we've moved to a knowledge worker's society in which men's physiological differences no longer make him inherently more fit as a provider.

That is what has lead to a massive shift in gender roles over the past half century. It has had it's fair share of casualties due to maladjustment on both sides. One specific group of casualties just happens to be highlighted in this article.
Physical security seems insignificant these days when all it takes is a government order to access any data they please.
I was kinda expecting Palantir to be on the list. In other words, they should have been.

I still find it amazing to see how much true 1984 is becoming. I am sure the next phase is thought control, because "crimes" start there and have to be prevented at all costs. Let's get inside the minds of people and put CCTVs and audio recording devices everywhere. In tables under restaurants, in cars, in buses, every possible place. Crime has to be prevented.

The future is scary.
I'm saying why we should see it as a game from game theory and how that will be good thing for people in general?
Would that this were more well known. I would have called myself a conspiracy theorist if I'd made that conclusion on my own. Sure, I'm aware of the halted embryonic stem cell research we had under Bush, but I had no idea it was happening with anything so seemingly-benign (or, at the least, neutral) as parallel computing.
I wrote a super simple Ruby app to do this: https://github.com/ctide/screenshotter
The part of this hackathon that concerns me is this:

> Are granting us an irrevocable, royalty-free, worldwide right and license to: (i) use, review, assess, test, and otherwise analyze your Entry and all its content in connection with this Hackathon; and (ii) feature your Entry and all its content in connection with the marketing, sale, or promotion of this Hackathon and of Salesforce.com (including but not limited to internal and external presentations, tradeshows, and screen shots of the Hackathon Entry process in press releases) in all media (now known or later developed);

Maybe this isn't their intention, but win or lose there's nothing stopping Salesforce from taking your submission and running with it.
"It's not a gender thing, it's an effort thing."

Then why are there vast asymmetries along gender lines in virtually all aspects of dating? Look at OkTrends (http://blog.okcupid.com), or Dan Ariely's posts on the subject (http://danariely.com/tag/dating/), or this post from a woman http://www.alternet.org/why-online-dating-sucks-men) which indicates high dating success for women putting in low effort. Are men and women just putting in different amounts of effort? The question is then, why is that the case? And that case arises from historical gender roles. It is a gender thing.

Your "many people ..." statements are platitudes that are true no matter what follows ("Many people are smart; many people are dumb."), and do nothing to support what you "suspect."
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You could instead think of dating as a mutual cooperative process of finding out if you two should really get together.

I like your world...let's live there instead.

:(
Don't take it personally, it seems to be a fundamental feature of mathematics and human behavior that when a competitive and healthy market exists for a quality which is normally distributed, the resulting price curve follows a power law.
In many cases, that is _take_ the right of way. Cars and bikes (mostly?) have equal footing. That sometimes means the car has right of way, sometimes it's reversed.
Pure random attacks, completely unprovoked, to take your bike. Me being a white didn't help either as usually such events included a lot of racial hate towards whites.
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Along similar lines, but a more focused book (no learning, etc) is the classic Cover and Thomas:

http://www.elementsofinformationtheory.com/
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I think there's a fundamental asymmetry in the dating 'market' which doesn't require the depressing exercise of assigning everyone a number.

Young women generally will only date men her age or older. So for example a 22 yo woman would date men in the large pool between 22 and 30. Meanwhile the 22 yo man doesn't have much opportunity to date older or younger. However, when the woman hits 30, the situation has reversed and the 'marriageable' men in her pool are dating younger women.

Whether someone is a '5' or an '8' isn't necessarily an inherit characteristic and has a lot to do with their life circumstances.
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Tangently related question - is it possible to use Bluetooth API to send pictures between devices? I wonder if the bandwidth is too low, or if there any hoops for the user to jump through? Thanks
I'm really happy that this seems to be a Riak implementation: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/basho-and-seagate-partner-t...
> and more incentive to do research

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I was under the impression that the entire point of tenure was so that professors who have proven their worth have the freedom to do the (perhaps controversial) research that they want to without fear of retribution from their employer.

Edit: And now that I think about it, the point is also to prevent "dead weight" from being fired. Because it'd be easy to classify a professor as dead weight who is simply working on something unpopular, or contrary to consensus.
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>Also not seeing motorbikes, which seem quite popular in Europe.

Yes, mopeds are very, very, popular in Italy.
You could write something like this yourself in about 5 lines of code using PhantomJS: http://phantomjs.org/ Check out rasterize.js in their examples section.
Society is more accepting of men who join street gangs (rather than corporations). However, I think correcting that imbalance by focusing on how society treats women in gangs, rather than how society treats men in gangs, would be a mistake. Don't you?

It is surely an imbalance that needs correcting, but there is legitimate question as to how that imbalance is best corrected.
> the reason I'm considering moving our team to Python is because of all the hate on PHP and the opinions that "PHP is the reason we can't use better languages"

That's a horrible reason.
Scala can work great in a large development team. Your sentiments about poor readability and maintenance have little to do with the technology itself; you could say this about any programming language.

People new to a technology have a tendency to flounder around a bit in the beginning because they're naive to common coding standards and principles. After those are found or established then Scala codebases are just as easy to collaborate with on than any other.
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All i want is to improve my presentation and public speaking skills.Usually sometimes i am a little nervous/shaking/broken voice.
That's the whole point. You do have to change, and not changing, then complaining about not getting dates, is hurting you. Find people in the same subculture as you.
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People who are short look as height as "the key". It's really not and it truly doesn't matter if you don't have other features to compliment height. If you're overweight and 6'2, it doesn't matter.
A lot of people use keyboards with their iPad.
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I'm still using the directory layout from 0.96 with Django 1.6. What forced you to change?
> Why is that bad? Why is it that women are the worst when espousing the idea that life isn't about career ambition?

Because this is not their life that they are talking about.
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We can start with the federal fuel tax which hasn't been raised in 20 years.
That's what an economic collapse does to your population.
'Discovered'? If I may quote Satoshi https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=202.msg2133#msg2133 :

> True, if it happened suddenly. If it happens gradually, we can still transition to something stronger. When you run the upgraded software for the first time, it would re-sign all your money with the new stronger signature algorithm. (by creating a transaction sending the money to yourself with the stronger sig)

Hardly sounds like he's going 'guys! this is a serious problem but I just realized that we happen to have a work-around available!'...
Nobody is saying it's good for people in general.
It's just an observation that there is conflict of interests in dating/mating dynamics and it's not easy to get what you want so you need strategy to improve your chances hence "game".
In the bug tracking use case it's plenty - imagine 300 meaningful tickets / month.
That looks like a very clear structure, I like it.

Off topic, but would mind sharing what you used to create the diagram?
In our case the email alerts went out 12 hours after they identified our site and started giving the warning to users. We got several calls from customers before being notified by Google.
> One of my old math professors had a page devoted to this. He complained a lot about living in Hawaii

Wow. No offense, but I can't imagine this guy with a real job. The self-entitlement is insane. I really think there's a forest for the tree problem with a lot of academics. The few I know get massive entitlements, days off, benefits, etc. I work in IT, worry about layoffs, get minimal holidays, have on-call, and generally get treated like an idiot savant because no one likes techies and techies go against the corporate 'sales guy' culture that dominates so many companies.

I wish my biggest problem was being forced to stay in Hawaii. On top of it, I went to some pretty good schools and honestly half my professors were loathesome misanthropes. I can't imagine where they would fit elsewhere. They'd be destroyed in corporate culture in a new york minute.

Perhaps I am suffering from a 'grass is greener' mentality, but sometimes it helps, i think, to remember where you came from and what you have. Some problems are real and others just aren't.

I really wonder if the real issue is the ease that someone can enter many phd programs. With massive private/public loans and universities hungry for money, we might have long ago hit a tipping point of being too generous and letting a lot of people in who otherwise would have been unacceptable for phd programs, especially in the humanities. Of the academics I know, maybe one is a stellar thinker, the rest are just upper-middle class milquetoasts who wanted an easy life.
How do you boycott these folks if they don't sell to the general public?
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Auto update is itself a security issue because it means the app can overwrite itself.

This is not a security concern with client apps like browsers because they don't run on a publicly listening server. Wordpress does.
Yes on prestige. Last I checked lawyers make an excellent living here too. University fees are less crippling because you aren't forced to make repayments unless you are earning over a certain amount.
Someone is risk averse!

On a bicycle you have the Highway Code (or equivalent) on your side, you are also able to go into pedestrian mode if need be. Therefore you do not have to stop for anyone or anything if you do not want to. There are softer targets than cyclists and softer cyclists than you. So long as you have your wits about you then there is no need to be apprehended when on a bicycle.

You can even change your route to avoid having to stop, e.g. at a junction. You can also change your pace without arousing suspicion. There is no need to use a 'car park' or other area targeted by thieves. With an unassuming but well locked bicycle you need not have your ride be a cause of concern, even if locked up in an area you do not know well. In some cities parking is so expensive that the loss of a bicycle seat or wheel is 'affordable' risk.

By sticking to the tin box you are part of the problem and not the solution. Cities need regular citizens walking about in them to feel safe.
There is a 180% tax on cars in Denmark which is a pretty major disincentive for driving a vehicle. I have a friend who bought a used VW Passat wagon (5 or 6 years old) in Denmark for $90,000 USD.

Having cycled Copenhagen, I have to say it's wonderful. Everyone is on bikes all the time, and the city always prioritizes bicycles over other vehicles. I'd love for the same to be true in Palo Alto, but realistically a high vehicle tax would have to be done at a state level. The problem is that California is so diverse, that there is no way a farmer in Fresno or Bakersfield is going to be able to handle a large auto tax.

The only way we're going to be able to get people out of cars here in the Bay Area is to increase spending on cycling infrastructure, as well as transit. Thankfully with cycling infrastructure, many cities, including Palo Alto, are finally getting serious about making more bicycle boulevards and bike lanes. For a long time cities in the Bay Area have either just payed lip service to the idea, or have been mired in red tape so that they couldn't roll out new cycling infrastructure without an environmental review.

On the transit front, I'm not so optimistic. There's just such a quagmire of competing transit services in the region, that it's impossible to get any kind of a cohesive system together. Either you have a central authority which dictates the entire route map which will tend to neglect various regions, or you get what we have now which is hyper-localized transit authorities which don't service the needs of the region very well. As a result, companies just implement their own systems (ala Google, Facebook, Apple, Box, etc.) which are exclusionary and have become icons of gentrification.
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> especially after having named their product PouchDB.

Ah, PouchDB isn't our product. It's just something super awesome that we want to support and promote. In fact, it's built by Dale Harvey, who works at Mozilla.

Disclosure: I'm a developer at Cloudant.
As you said "continuous" is important. I'm looking at you, Palo Alto, with your protected bike lane that goes one block and ends at an intersection with two one-way streets.
It's easier to change bosses if the current one happens to be a jerk than change spouses. Independent career helps in both cases.
This is the first I've looked into IPython Notebook, so apologies for the newbie question: Is a notebook an html page with Python code snippets interspersed? Are these supposed to be interactive at all? Or do you have to copy the Python locally, then install some packages before you can finally run it?

I guess I'm asking, what's the difference between an HTML page that shows a Python implementation of an algorithm vs those links? Or what's the appeal?

I'm certain IPython Notebooks are valuable, since everybody seems to love them. It's not clear from glancing at those examples what the big deal is, though, so I thought I should ask in case more newbies come along and incorrectly conclude that there's nothing especially interesting about those examples beyond their content. (To be clear, the content is excellent, but why is IPython Notebook to thank rather than the author? Could those examples not have been done via some other method, or is the purpose of IPython Notebook just to make it really easy to generate such pages?)
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I've been using knockout.js for a while on some flask (python) projects, most of the time I've been doing simple server-side logic for stuff, and HTML based views. Then for more complex UI interactions, using knockout. It works very well.

It doesn't force any kinds of rigid conventions on the code, which is good if you're adding it to a already existent project.

It is kind of fiddly having multiple layers of observables

ListOfPeople
-> ListOfDetails

where both sets of lists are updated in real time to the server in JSON, but overall I found it remarkable easy to get into.
In most areas, owning a home & having children requires two middle-class incomes. So unless you're in a top income bracket, this is an important factor for people.
You can look at it any way you like. Some of the features of the way dating and mating operates can be modeled in a game theory fashion. It isn’t good or bad for people - nor does it have to be - it’s just a way of interpreting the data in front of us.

Now, the way you guide your own dating life, should, presumably, be done in a way that is good for you and not harmful to others, but this is more of a Golden Rule thing rather than a game theory thing.
I suspect this is already happening. There was a guide/tutorial posted a while ago on how to hijack a forum/thread and redirect the flow of conversation. I can't find the link but it was very detailed and wouldn't surprise me if someone was profiting from selling such a service as pr/thought/damage control.
In my router! I guess it returns a.status that the tool interprets successful connection.
Showers would be nice. Though if you take a hot shower beforehand it sharply reduces the bacteria that cause most odours for at least 10hrs. A quick wipe down when you get to the office is then usually sufficient. If it's really hot you could take a change of clothes and change in the toilet stall.

As for safe storage of your bike, just take it into the office and lean it against your desk. Don't ask permission.
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Ask HN: What is the best way to use SBA or SCORE?
Maybe its me but I have never had any luck with SCORE or SBA. I feel like both programs are out dated. However I am very interested in hearing about how to hack these programs to get something beneficial out of them.
Ask HN: Advice on leaving corp for startup
I'm sure you've seen this time and time again, but I need some advice. I'm currently a part-time MBA student at a prestigious university, and working a comfy corporate job. Our team won a local startup weekend, and we're applying to accelerators. Assuming we get in, I'm faced with the decision of quitting my job to pursue the startup full-time. Basically, taking a paycut of somewhere in the range of 45k to 81k (based on whether or not I can freelance during the time too). On the upside, I love the startup environment and this is what I want to do. However, if I work away for a few more years, I can be 100% free of debt from my student loans.

In either case, I have a comfy fallback when I graduate.

Any advice would be appreciated. Sorry again for posting something you've heard over 9000 times before.
Is it just me who noticed a possible messaging discrepancy? The articles covers what women have been taught ("world is your oyster", etc.) and how that has affected their eventual search, yet glosses over what men have been conditioned with all this time.

Suppose there's "messaging" disconnect? Women in this generation (and last's) have increasingly been conditioned and taught by their parents and various peers and mediums to be independent, pursue careers, and become all they can be. What has changed with how men are raised? Maybe they're still getting the same traditional message and lessons that they are meant to be the head of household, to provide, to find a woman who will bear their children (and not a whole lot else)? Then it would make sense that men and women will have almost diametrically opposed POV's and not find common ground?