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That's what I was thinking. The ubiquilist product looks really neat, but there isn't a single use case on the site.

I wouldn't change the product (yet), I would find great use cases and present those in detail and with flair on the site, and then I would find ways to put that use case in front of more people who are like the ones in the use cases.

Possible use cases: show how a family with a dog that needs treatment gets organized to take care of their pet thanks to your product. How a mom & pop shop get their orders right by using the estimate feature as they work on them. And on and on...

Again, for my 2c, this is a marketing problem plain and simple. Close the IDE.
No, you misunderstand mathematics. Just as 1 + 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + ... only equals 2, the odds of break even is not at 20 consecutive heads. The expected values are as follows:

See this gist: https://gist.github.com/zachaysan/7603526
Because it loses value slowly enough. That's the whole "stability" part. Holding onto USD for a year or two doesn't lose a significant amount of value, so you can save up effectively and plan on what you will be able to buy with it at the end. And you can put it in an interest bearing bank account or invest it to further offset or counteract the effect of inflation for longer-term savings.

Unstable currencies you generally need to convert to a more stable currency immediately, if you don't want to be subject to the sudden swings in value.
This account is not intended to be a novelty account; you can see I post relevant discussion most of the time. I am, however, someone who was hellbanned for quite some time for an admittedly less-than-stellar post. One facetious remark got a 900+ karma, 3-year old account banned.
1000 Days of User-Visible Improvements
> as well as new standards for DC distribution within the house (I am trying out 48V and 24V).

This is something I've wondered about for a while. Everything in my home aside from a few kitchen appliances is now running a AC<>DC converter. At what point does it make more sense to run DC circuits in the home? Would the gauge be a problem to run enough DC power for a desktop PC, a TV, and a ton of LED lights?
It is even worse, EU agricultural commission is pushing replanting ban for entire EU, for any seed regardless of copyright.

In Europe each county or even village has its own breed of apples, plums and other fruit. Various mutation added some unique traits. For example resistance to cold or parasites, sweetness, time of harvest...

This would be golden mine for any geneticist. But 99% of breeds disappeared over last 70 years.
I was about to ask the same question, great to hear that it's being worked on. Also good job on the documentation, clean and well organized.
I began like this, with some market research amongst potential users that I know directly. Worked closely with a few. But my problem was that I let myself lose track of this and, when I came back to them with my MVP, it had deviated (by virtue of me generalising it too much) from what they actually wanted to use.
So you're spot-on, and sticking with a few customers whilst building the MVP is probably a hugely important step.
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Post author here. We're quite serious that our startup would have failed if not for hard-committing to gradual daily improvement like this. The article quotes Paul Graham a lot, who basically claims (in How Not to Die) that if you do something like this your probability of success will be 90%. To us it feels like a transformative lifehack and we're keen to convince more startups to do it!
Plus - sadly - expensive.
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Another in a long line of examples that reinforce why the world should be so excited to have the Olympics in Rio.
Its usually three generations not just the person responsible, from what I read.
This is actually a good example of why I'm not particularly interested in chess anymore-- a game that's that heavy on draws and where so many of the situations are adaptations of well-known positions simply isn't that thrilling. I really enjoyed chess when I was a kid, but the better I became and the more I learned about it the less I found it a compelling game.
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Well, what was Facebook back when it used HTML5 in the news feed? The lines are blurring quite a bit. Just because you are abstracting one part of the app to the browser runtime (that can still easily access the native layer) doesn't change the fact that you are shipping a native binary at the end of the day. We have decided to go with Hybrid since it is causing confusion, but I disagree it's so cut and dry.
>Ever heard of a mandatory false card

Nope, what is it? Nothing shows up in my Google searches other than plain old "false cards", which are fairly obvious. I don't remember bothering to name such a thing.
> All the more reason for OEMs to start shipping with Firefox instead.

I would love it if OEMs started to do this.

Unfortunately, I bet that most OEMs will just license Chrome, and if they decide not to do that, my money's on them creating half-assed proprietary browsers built around WebView before they turn to Firefox.

Which is a shame, because Firefox for Android is young, but shows great promise.
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Eh I'll be honest I'm not sure exactly how the gold standard works but I'm pretty sure it's priced individually against many currencies, whereas Bitcoin's whole pricing system is fantastical.

I'm pretty sure Bitcoin just takes it's sticker price (whatever it's currently been bid upto) and then does a bunch of arbitrary currency conversions.

Again, I THINK this, do not know... but i THINK if you took the amount of gold and multiplied by its USD price to arrive at some figure of how much the "gold pool" is worth (bitcoiners do this all the time) gold traders would laugh their asses off at you. The medium needs to be tightly interwoven into individual economies through usage and growth/settling.

Bitcoin is like this thing that is sitting out in the ether totally untested and people are making random claims about how much its worth, supported only by bidding wars in trading.
Thanks for chiming in. I was nervous too. It was unecessary.
FossilEra Founder Interview & Google thinks Megalodon endangered?
I'm curious how you can make money on selling software as an appliance, and guarantee that a customer won't just replicate the system to have more servers?
Postman - A powerful HTTP client to test web services
> I like the idea of a currency which doesn't allow politicians to introduce inflation, but perhaps we should have one which has a finite set of tokens on setup, and doesn't attempt to also attract people as some sort of investment with mining etc.

Bitcoin _does_ have a fixed set of tokens on setup: 21 million of them... but you need a way of giving out those tokens without handing a windfall to a centralized decider that gives them out.

Mining isn't an "investment" thing: It's the @#$@ fundamental consensus process that makes the whole thing possible: Node autonomously validate the rules, but transaction order is not decidable autonomously and so mining produces a hard to rig / cheap to verify 'vote' on the order of transactions.

Bitcoin smarty aligned these two processes by making participation in the consensus also accomplish giving out the original tokens.
You are mistaken if you think it's an alternative. From their site: "Buttercoin is a free, white-label bitcoin exchange"
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Great model that bring the tragic events of November 22, 1963 to life. I'd also like to see labeled in the diorama the location of the infamous "grassy knoll" and the location Zapruder was filming from.
lol - Thanks absolutely, spot-on!
I'm not ditching UbiquiList, but I plan to expose those few simple use cases more elegantly. I believe I can track back from this general solution, with marketing / education, and encourage folks to come on in.
Thanks. I think I knew this years ago while spending my off-work hours delving deeper into programming language history and theory, but most of that info is now lost from disuse. Like I said to your sibling post, I see the semantic comparisons, I just don't get calling it a "lisp variant", unless we're going to call every language with somewhat similar or derivative semantics but wildly different syntactical structures and additional semantic constructs lisp variants as well. With that, distinction between languages (primarily for conversation and discussions) becomes virtually non-existent as we could probably come up with a half dozen categories that all languages fall under.
> I'm probably more radical than most on energy issues, but I find this kind of FUD downright irresponsible.

FUD? Seems like common sense to me.

If something comes with a heat sink, it's to disperse heat. If you're dispersing heat, you need airflow.

I know this. You know this. But the average consumer does not.

Consumers should be aware of this and this article accomplishes that.

Please keep any fanatical environmentalism to a minimum. Nobody is saying LEDs are bad. I own quite a few. It is, however, important to know how to use them effectively.
The crawler is just mandatory if you don't want to penalize the site with long response times or to prevent serving 5xx pages the first day you launch your Ajax site in production. BTW, be prepared for headaches, they are some surprises when dealing with search engines and their escaped_fragment implementation ;). Anyway, welcome on the SEO for Ajax SaaS providers (disclaimer: I'm one of the SEO4Ajax co-founder).
I think your point is very fair in that the author is exaggerating. But,

"highly readable"

Are we talking about the same language? The only reason R ever saw use is it's adoption by the statistical community, but all other things considered, R is a shitty language.

-Awfully difficult syntax

-Extremely high learning curve

-Nightmare to debug (error and warning messages are the most cryptic I've ever worked with)

-Some of the worst documentation I've ever encountered

-Many transformations are not visible to the user (how special characters are handled for example)...

-The largest set of statistical libraries...but have you ever tried using any? Good luck! Next to nonexistent documentation for most, and even with a background in mathematical statistics, I still have a hard time following examples

-More often than not, lack of backwards compatibility

I'm a statistician by training and data scientists by day job, and have used R for years. I really admire what some have tried to do with the language (Hadley). But, it's a result of the statistical community being light years behind on computational training and is by no means a good language; it just happened to come along at the right time and had some really genius initial developers.

Frankly, the "language of choice for data science" simply doesn't exist yet. You just use what works best for the problem at the time, and more often than not that involves switching between many languages.
I've noticed the opposite pattern in my house. Ever since we bought the place, we noticed that occasionally we would semi-randomly get a very fishy smell coming out of our staircase, and couldn't find the cause.

After putting my google-fu to use, I realized it was the plastic casing of a small light fixture in the staircase that was getting very hot and slowly melting around the incandescent bulb.

I've replaced the bulb with an LED bulb several months ago and I've checked the base of the socket, the fixture, and the bulb after hours of use, and all three are barely warm to the touch at all.

I suppose it may depend on manufacturing quality, or as the OP article mentions, airflow.
And Youtube Viewer: https://code.google.com/p/trizen/
I mostly agree with what you said. But your proposed solution sounds to me like a reboot of COBOL, which was a failure. I feel like I'm misinterpreting something. Am I?

> What worries me is that we've created a negative feedback loop.

<pedantry> Wouldn't that be a positive feedback loop? </pedantry>
I expect it to be about as difficult as this - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1466604901... - but not quite as difficult as this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSCX78-8-q0 - or this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk7yqlTMvp8
Not much is known about sleep and why we need it

Wasn't there some research posted recently about how sleep is when toxins are cleaned from your brain or some-such?
How do you get 3 or 4 coins if you aren't in a pool, that's impossible.

If you aren't in a pool the only way to get coins is to solve the block and in that case you would have had 50.
It's Friday! I had to reply. Indeed a time waste, thanks for the reminder. ;)
That doesn't help with the clients. If someone doesn't trust AeroFS not to leak data, why would they be able to trust the AeroFS client not to leak data? The server is only one half of the problem.
Cocoa isn't ObjC, it's an Apple-specific framework. Granted, that's a bit of a nit-pick considering the answer to your 2nd question. But ObjC was around before NeXT showed up.
If this thing is actually great, I feel that the license is important. If it's too restrictive, what's the point? We're not living in the 80s.
I agree with your general point, but as an aside I wouldn't call Teflon perfectly safe...it's fine as long as you don't heat it up too much, but at higher temperatures it releases toxic gasses (and we're talking temperatures you can easily reach on your kitchen stove).
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> A similar question can be asked about USD: why would you ever save it instead of spending it immediately, since it's only going to lose value over time due to inflation?

Except for relatively small amounts for liquidity for known or potential immediate needs, it doesn't make sense to hold US dollars (or any other modern fiat currency), it makes a lot more sense to invest them in productive assets which can be converted easily back to US dollars (or other fiat currency) when necessary.

This is not an accidental feature of modern fiat currency, its pretty much the whole point of the transition from commodity-based (e.g., gold standard) to fiat currency -- so that broad downturns don't have a dangerous positive feedback effect where poor investment market conditions lead to currency being a more attractive place to hold money than the investment markets, which leads to even poorer performance in the investment markets and even more people pulling money out of those markets and into currency, etc.

> But clearly, if bitcoin ever becomes a major currency and the deflation levels off [...]

Please explain how increasing interest in using bitcoin is going to cause the price increase relative to other currencies or goods to slow down.

> [...] there will be plenty of motivation to spend bitcoins, the same way there is currently plenty of motivation to save USD.

What motivation to save USD?
Your body also contains strange fibers when viewed under a microscope.

You are eating something that contains something that used to be partly a chicken. Chicken McNuggets are not chicken.
Show HN: Owl Platform - Wireless sensing with a 10 year battery life
Here's another process, tinhat mode fully on: 1) Kill of significant number of bees on which we depend to pollinate crops via pesticides, fertilizers, GMOs or combination of. 2) Buy leading bee research company investigating bee deaths to hide evidence of wrongdoing. 3) Use research company to develop GMO bees which are resistant to other Monsanto products, and further, modify them to only pollinate Monsanto products. 4) Kill off the remaining natural bee population.
I think he is either a troll or has an axe to grind about this issue for some unmentioned reason.
I never said I was excited about Android nor that it will be popular forever.

I was just observing that Google's strategy regarding Chrome OS makes no sense to me in the presence of Android.
Incandescents will. They get very hot in normal operation and last the amount of time you would expect from an incandescent.
> I heard a suggestion for a gold-backed digital currency once.

Yep, and now go look up how that went.

It's not possible to "gold back" a digital currency without centralization which carries a multitude of risk, as has been demonstrated by the many failures along the way.
you can similarly firewall/inspect traffic on the AeroFS Private Cloud clients :)
And women?
youtube-dl not only bypasses the wait, but also the asinine "age verification".
Unless its a sex related domain. I'm sure fuck.com, sex.com and anything similar will receive free traffic as long as domain names exist.
Browser is still in AOSP, https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/Brow...
(not the op) I love Magic: the Gathering and played on and off for 18 years now.

It has two big downsides, the main one for me is that it's extremely expensive (a brand new console + collection of titles is equivalent in price to owning a couple of top tier decks).

The other one is that it's seen as uncool or childish or nerdish. I'd rather not mention it in workplaces anymore.

That said, yeah, building decks playing the metagame is very rewarding intellectually :) and having games 24/7 on Magic Online is great.
Put it in a savings account. In under 100 years you will have doubled your money.

On the scale of human history, this can still be considered "quickly"
Soot is the first known environmental carcinogen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimney_sweeps'_carcinoma).
Comment on the design of the homepage, there is nothing to visually draw the user's attention to content below the fold. When I loaded this page, it happened to be in a window at a perfect size to hide your overview content. I clicked around on a few pages before realizing it was on the homepage.

https://cloudup.com/c8N5Zm4HnI5
I'll check it out. Thanks for the heads up.
> Because it loses value slowly enough.

Yes, I agree and stated as such in my post.

My point is that I don't think you're pointing out a fundamental flaw in bitcoin. Deflation in a currency is not a deal breaker. Bitcoin is volatile right now because it is so young. People are predicting it will reach a huge market capitalization, which would necessarily entail a huge USD price per bitcoin because there are so incredibly few bitcoins in comparison to USD. Anytime something is increasing in value there will be considerable gambling and speculation to come along with it as random people jump on and off the train repeatedly.

What bitcoin really needs is a unique and innovative service which could not exist without it. This would encourage people to hold a small balance in bitcoin which they would be willing to spend in order to enable participation in this service not otherwise possible. As the currency stabilizes and more and more use cases emerge, people will slowly but steadily become more comfortable holding larger balances in bitcoin.
If your lamp and enclosure are UL rated then the on-die temperature is well within operating parameters for the 6000 hr+ lifespan.

6,000 hours? Where does that come from?

The L-Prize bulb claims 30K hours; most of the LED lights I've seen for sale claim lifespans in the 25K to 50K hour range. Are you saying that 6K is all we can actually expect?

To actually get just 6K hours from a bulb that cost you US$30 or more (the L-Prize bulb is $70!) would be very disappointing.
Postdoc: a special kind of hell
We enjoy smelling the flame retardant fumes offgassing from the electronics. Bonus when one burns out in a small cloud of acrid plastic smoke.
Not really. Stephen knows how poor our debugging facilities are (and I regularly tell him how bad the situation is) -- we've just had limited bandwidth to actually fix it properly to our satisfaction.

Luckily I have a totally revamped debugging and logging system that will put us ahead of the curve here (imagine DTrace at a program level). Probably a point release of V10.

Same goes with multiple undo and retina support -- we know how embarrassing their absence is, and we've luckily been able to fix these for v10. I've been in design meetings where the multiple undo has bumped several other desirable features off our roadmap.
Incidentally, on my retina MBP in Safari, the entire text of this post somehow manages to appear scaled up and blurry. Doesn't happen in Chrome.
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This made me laugh. But... just in case you were being serious, I wasn't commenting on the fonts but the project in general.
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So it is about as dangerous as wood then.
You're right of course - I know there are no guaranteed ways to double your money.

Have been considering stocks - its definitely a real option. Or possibly investing into a managed fund. I did play with the stock market a few years earlier and did have a nice return on it.

But was thinking about possibly more creative/risky ways to try. Stocks are fine - my only problem with that was - it takes time/research to do properly (if I'm doing it blindly its a bit like Vegas then). And obviously 8% on a 30k is not as profitable as spending my time doing more freelancing.

So if I'm spending that time - I was thinking I need higher returns. I've also been looking into FOREX for a while, but I have mixed feelings if any amount of research/time could predict the volatile jumps over there :)
> What motivation to save USD?

Seriously? How about buying a house? Buying a car? Going to college? Going on vacation? ... Most people cannot save up enough for these things overnight, and they aren't going to put their downpayment savings fund into stocks because it's not worth the risk of losing it for them.
You should really give No Limit Hold'em or Pot Limit Omaha a try. Poker is a game of astounding complexity once you start taking it seriously and it's quite fun. Combine that with the ability to take a small bankroll, $100 or whatever you're comfortable using as seed money, and turn it into a roll sufficient for high stakes poker (with enough dedication and time) and it truly does become quite an amazing game to play.

I personally play heads-up poker. Unlike 9-handed poker, heads-up poker is constant action. It's more dependent on opponent profiling and maximizing expectation on the fly, using experience and statistics. A game of infinite variety.

Since April I've taken $200 and, playing online and live poker, have profited in the following ways:

+$6458 - online poker heads up matches

+$2900 - rakeback/bonuses from pokerstars

+$12500 - live tournaments and pot limit omaha cash

And that's merely playing recreationally, completely separate from my full time job. You can play a complex, fun game and make money doing it. Who wouldn't enjoy that?
Yeah that's pretty bad.
Ohm's law only applies to linear components, of which exactly 0 exist in nature. Everything approximates linearity to varying degrees – resistors approximate it over a wide range of currents (up until they melt); MOSFETs approximate it until they reach saturation; diodes approximate it only infinitesmally.
The entire first part of your response is pointless. You are essentially admitting that you are annoyed by articles that don't agree with your preconceived notions. "it bothers me because it doesn't fit my version of black and white" is not an argument and does not belong in this discourse.
I suppose it is fair to say Objective-C plus Cocoa Touch is proprietary, but why is Javascript plus Cocoa Touch not proprietary in the same context?