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And yet, here we are with snapchat being hugely successful. Maybe you just don't understand what makes a product like this successful, and why things that are "not that hard" may be something that literally nobody does for a certain reason because they are hard enough.
Nothing was quite so cool as 'pulling down the screen' to reveal another screen behind it.

even with different resolutions at that!
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Self reliant is an Ouroboros; a serpent eating its tail.
Exactly! I come from a middle-class background. Not trust-fund level, but enough to shield me from the catch-22s of poverty. It disturbs me, when I reflect back on my life, just how many "steps to success" would have been complicated had my family been lower on the economic totem pole. It disturbs me even more how many of my peers (disproportionately many of which share the same background) don't acknowledge this fact with respect to their own lives. It's easy to be a libertarian when the market is treating you well.

It saddens me that the concept of "class struggle" was sullied by its connection with a certain well-known failed attempt to solve the problem. Just because our rivals failed doesn't mean we have succeeded!
I don't think it does. Bitcoin can be split to the eighth decimal place, IIRC. If bitcoins become hard to get, the price should go up, then needing one whole btc to buy something should get less common. Or maybe you're right and years from now it'll all collapse and some other improved crypto-coin will have to take its place.
I guess we'll find out, because there is a hard-limit on how many btcs can be obtained(21 million to be exact) by mining, so when that runs out...
Go volunteer, that's step one.

There are likely many, many ways we can leverage our abilities and talents to contribute to a solution, but many are non-obvious until you're on the inside and start ascertaining the size, scope, and nature of the problems.

Go find local shelters, soup kitchens, and other humanitarian services. Take the most rank and file (but front-facing) opportunity you can get. Work. Talk to people - the hopelessly homeless, the temporarily homeless, the people who work with them. Learn about these problems up close instead of speculating from the comfort of an armchair like most of the world.

Don't expect to be welcomed with open arms. Expect some measure of hostility. The homeless are all too familiar with being paraded around like animals in a zoo. Many of the people you will be volunteering with are presumptuous people with savior complexes, who will be patronizing to the people they're trying to help. Many people you work with will initially assume you're one of them also.

You're not going to write a world-changing piece of code having never written code before. You're definitely not going to turn homelessness upside down with no inside experience.
Cities that don't care for their homeless tend not to have a homeless problem.

The same is not true of countries.
I get that newspapers and the journalistic profession used to be different, and in many ways better, than they are now. Still, doesn't it strike you as interesting that brilliant, thoughtful people living at at the same time as those "better" newspapers made criticisms similar to those being made today? Thinking too poorly of the present and too well of the past is a common error. Or, on a related not, "There's nothing new under the sun."
So it's going to break https://emailprivacytester.com/ by default?
While I agree wholeheartedly, I can't help but feel that investors still cherish face-to-face availability over the occasional Skype or message conversation. If funding is your business route, anyway.

The network impact on startup success is undoubtedly important, but so is keeping investors happy. And where are all the big investors these days?

Besides, who would you trust more with your money: someone who you know is available to physically run over and meet you at any instant, or someone half-way across the world who can only talk when wifi is working?
Christ fed the hungry. He did not petition the Pharisaical council to establish a steering committee to look toward the establishment of a working group to consider the possibility of soliciting public input from all interested stakeholders with the eventual goal of producing a synergistic plan for improving the condition of the urban disadvantaged.
I just finished paying 2x market for an electrician who had the following invaluable skill:

1. Physically appearing at job site.
I agree, all the metrics comparing best cities doesn't mean much if you don't know a single person in those communities. What do you think of the advice to live in-proximity (an hour or so of driving away) of the city with your biggest network, but not necessarily right in the expensive part? I don't know the San Fran satellite areas, but for NYC it would be living Jersey or out near Long Island, where the rent is half or a quarter that of Manhattan but still within striking distance to take meetings or go to networking events in the city.
From what I understand, 0.12 (odd numbers are used to test new features before the next even number release, and right now they are at 0.11) will be the last version before they go to 1.0
Fair point, I wasn't considering external links, only embedded images. Thanks.
This all based on a tiny amount of anecdotal evidence: one post and a reply by his friend. It's like a pyramid balanced on its apex.

The interesting thing about this article, to me, is what it shows about how much demand there is for this idea.
At Google there was a wall of articles about Marissa in building 43 as I recall. Basically various pieces that had been done on her by various magazines. It always struck me as out of place, too much focus on an individual vs on their works. This reads very much like those pieces. "Ooh look how geeky she is!" I appreciate what she has done for Yahoo!'s stock price, would love more focus on getting moribund engineering organizations moving.
That is not true of all cryptocurrencies. See for example Peercoin which uses proof of stake instead of proof of work.
How much did your parents make? Did they buy you your first computer? Did they pay for you to go to college?
Do you believe the Silicon Valley professionals the article criticises for expressing their disgust with the homeless are more likely to be big advocates of "self reliance" and "small government", or Marxist totalitarians?
So you're saying the best option for someone looking to start a business would be to move to Washington DC and start something the government will want to contract in?

If that's the case, I'm packing as you read this.
That requires very difficult circumstances that almost certainly can't occur at the planetary scale.
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I agree with this. At the risk of sounding nebulous, snapchat 'feels' different.
It feels personal like the handwritten notes you pass in classrooms.

A text is more like someone handing a a slip of paper with a typed message.

An email is like someone handing you an 8.5x11 piece of paper.

Snapchat lets you be really gestural, for instance I draw on >95% of my snaps. In instances where I want to add text I draw it on with my finger.

The last snap I sent was to my girlfriend, it was an image of our dog with a ripped up shoe, I scrawled "How mad are you?" on it.
short term benefit vs long term value is certainly something to consider...

Going back to my earlier point, the important thing is for managers to know how to recognize when a developer's effort is aligned with business interest as opposed to simply allowing developers do what serves their own ideology.

I think once you do that, it becomes easy to discuss/address things like technical debt.
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I'm from Vancouver where there's plenty of homeless. The Tenderloin's similar to Vancouver's Downtown Eastside (in which I worked for years), but one thing that I noticed that seemed more common in the Tenderloin was human faeces on sidewalks.
That's exactly what I'm currently doing. Six 7950's are running and keeping the 70 sq m first floor rather warm when I'm not here. Outside temp is around 0 degC. Even if the coin prices drop so much that it breaks even in electricity, it's still good "free" heating. Hopefully the rigs pay themselves before the price drops that much.
The difference is negligible: http://i.stack.imgur.com/n6LXj.gif
As a person who has purchased things, I couldn't care less if there were a (mostly transparent) watermark on the picture of the thing, and I appreciate high quality photographs.
Sorry to drag out old slashdot nomenclature, but what you are saying is:

1. Use cryptocurrency

2. Fire 10% of bank employees

3. ???

4. Profit!

I am no expert on banking, but I'd be really surprised if 10% of banking employees were doing things that become unneccessary with cryptocurrencies.

Most steps that can be automated are automated already, and the number of sysadmins certainly won't decrease.

That is, here in Europe. I've heared that there is some inefficient weirdness going on with "wire transfers" in the US, but that is not the case here.
Holy crap. If I'm reading this right, this basically destroys all pixel tracking, so no more email open stats, no nothing.
$70k is revenue, not profit.
Upon further research, where are you getting this number from?

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2002/pdf/1824.pdf
Someone REALLY likes the sound of their own empty rhetoric. While that's all fine and dandy, you should probably be aware that you don't necessarily get a choice as to "subsidize" people who contribute nothing to society because it is possible for people to actually negate things from society, all the way down from petty thugs all the way up to crooked, lawyered-up execs and/or politicians. The difference is that the latter gets to pay their way out of their transgressions to society (often times at a rate that still makes it profitable to rob society) while the former get the societal brunt and blame for society's ills.

That's not to say that the former group are saints, but 1) they have systematic disadvantages that actually prevent any current legal implementations of a free market from providing for them and 2) once incarcerated, they actually end up costing society in a far more permanent way (up to $167k/yr in NYC).

So, even if you disregarded how totally wrongheaded your argument on a sociopolitical level, it also shows a pretty flimsy lack of substance on a quantitative level. You WILL pay for poverty one way or another. You can't magically incentivize it out of existence with a free market, so don't whine about it by thinking about it as subsidization. Think of it more as insurance, at the very least.
Yes, we have some remote engineers also. We should probably reflect this better on the careers page. Sorry about that.
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"...where your day-to-day activities are forced to be about the most basic level of survival?"

Isn't the purpose of so-called "subsidization" to avoid this? (Not that it necessarily works in practice.)
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well, i tend to view reddit as the 'hacker news for everything' if that counts..

otherwise, i don't really think so. but i'd argue its related in that reddit has made such sites largely unnecessary. subreddits can be as narrow or broad in topic, and as open or regulated in curation as one wants. i see little value in a 'finance news' (for example) when there's /r/finance and probably around 100 other finance-related subreddits out there..
>>and although Tim Cook is talented as a supply chain expert, he is not the visionary that Steve Jobs was.

There are very few people in the entire world who can be compared to Steve Jobs in this regard. In America, there is only one such person and he is busy running an electric car company and a space rocket company simultaneously.

So yeah, the fact that Tim Cook is not Steve Jobs v2.0 should not be surprising. He was never meant to be. What matters is that he is exceptional in other ways and Apple has benefited from his talents tremendously.
If they claim they don't pay that high they are not really looking for Principal Software Engineers. Maybe the title system is different where they are. As I understand it, a Principal Software Engineer is between one and three steps above a Senior Software Engineer. If it's only one step higher for them and they're a relatively low to average paying company, then perhaps they don't pay that much. But if it's 2 or 3 steps higher than a Senior Software Engineer and they're at least an average paying company, you should be able to get more.
Too late. It has already become popular. These are "better" versions of it http://www.google.com/nexus/5/ , http://www.android.com/kitkat/ . I call it "powerpoint style design" and it has all the drawbacks of powerpoint slides (http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/powerpoint)... some stupidities just refuse to die.
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seattle doesn't have good homeless weather.
I don't know. Why aren't you running your own email server?
Would it not be

file:///path

as per RFC 1738?
QFT: some of us are fucking scary.

What are stereotypes ?
Can I ask where you've applied so far? Or at least what kind of companies? Are you applying at large enterprise companies? Startups?
Hash the folded protein with the previous POW. Problem solved, no?

(I think the important thing is that you have to prove you didn't start the current pow until the previous work unit is done, right? Fortunately, there are lots of proteins to be folded. You can use the previous pow to select the parameters for the next pow. The hashes are uniformly distributed, so that will eventually range over the set of proteins.)
CPU-mining however is also more profitable for malicious parties (e.g., botnets).
Rand is an intelligent guy who is impressively self-aware.

I've seen him speak multiple times on SEO and marketing topics and each time his bursting enthusiasm has made him come across as someone worth working alongside (or for).

It's good that he's not only been granted the opportunity and fortune to be able to step down from something he no longer enjoys, but it's good that he can see that in doing so the business is likely better off.

How many CEOs (and founders) have done similar things in recent history? I'd go even further and beg the question: what's the ratio of times that's worked out well for the company and individual vs times it has not?
> Google will only load your image if you open the email, which means Google has just opted-in all users to mail receipts.

If you didn't have the "ask before displaying external content" option set before this change, you were "opted-in" to read receipts already -- its just that, due to protections designed to stop other malicious use of images, you were incidentally protected against images as the vector for silent read receipts.

With this change, you are better protected against the malicious uses of images the default-not-to-display option was designed to protect against, but exposed to external images as a vector for read receipts if you hadn't chosen to display external content only after confirmation. If you did choose that previously, then you also got the new "ask before displaying external images" chosen by default -- so if you were protected from senders injecting read receipts before, you still are now. If you weren't before, you aren't now, but then that's not really a change.
What baffles me is that these accusations and the subsequent discussions of "[they]" all treat homelessness as a homogenous problem. If we, as self-proclaimed as hackers and problem-solvers or whatever, want to discuss problems and solutions we have to understand what we're talking about first.

Sure some subset of the homeless population spits, urinates, taunts, sells drugs and gets rowdy, but so do a lot of rowdy bar hoppers on Polk St every Saturday night.

Homelessness is a complex subject with many causes and effects -- I don't claim to understand it; in fact, I'd like to learn more, but episodes like this don't seem to engender that kind of discussion, unfortunately.
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> Could you send the FTC after competing "merchants" who are advertising products they not only don't have in stock but have literally never seen? It sounds like a scam, and I wouldn't knowingly give money to an outfit like that.

I hate to break it to you, but a HUGE amount of e-commerce sites are nothing more than front-ends to drop-shipping accounts with suppliers. This is the dominant pattern in the industry. Actually holding your own inventory is a rarity that would put you at a major competitive disadvantage.

Unless you're dealing with a very large, well-capitalized site, or a company that makes their own product, you're almost certainly dealing with this kind of store.
I do live in SF and can confirm that we have a serious poop problem.
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Note that sometimes society doesn't let them contribute in ways you're probably thinking of.

I have a friend who recently got a job at a company that works to deport immigrants who have committed some sort of crime. On the face of things they try to give them hope, but they mostly give false hope, don't provide the information they need, and make holding a job impossible.

Once a month they will visit home "sometime next week" - and the person must be at home, which means an indeterminate amount of time off - maybe a week, maybe two. They ask them to come into their offices at 9am and don't see them until 6pm, if at all - maybe they ask them to come back tomorrow.

He's in the process of finding a new job, as the job is misadvertised as helping immigrants. Especially as an immigrant himself, he hates working there.
First, we need to distinguish between homelessness and poverty on the one hand, and crime on the other. The two may overlap for some individuals (just as wealth and crime overlap for some), but they're by no means synonymous.

The legitimate complaints about the homeless in SF seem to always revolve around criminal acts: Assault and vandalism, mostly. (The less legitimate complaints are usually a variant on "I shouldn't have to look at poor people.")

Not all homeless people commit these sorts of crimes. Those who do are just disproportionately visible. This provides fodder for the false narrative that the homeless are criminals who are undeserving of compassion and responsible for their own criminality.

So how can we discuss this issue without wrongly demonizing a whole demographic? Here's how. If you live in SF and you're bothered by street crime, complain about street crime. Advocate for community policing that a) keeps a lid on assault, vandalism, and other such crimes, and b) treats the public (including the homeless) as valued customers.

It's fine to say that street crime in downtown SF bothers you. That's a completely understandable sentiment. I think most everyone feels the same way about the neighborhoods they inhabit. What's not fine is heaping overbroad blame on an already marginalized group.
Major desktop titles probably not but major mobile titles definitely yes [1].

WebGL + asm.js on desktop computers should be roughly equivalent to native iOS / Android applications on top-of-the-line mobile devices (with possibility to get better effects on desktop GPUs).

This is btw what's going on with these very fast Emscripten ports - they can be done so quickly because the bulk of the hardest work was already done before, when engine and game developers made their code and maybe even more importantly their assets work well on mobile devices.

If you noticed many of these fast Emscripten ports were not desktop ports but had already existing mobile versions before - Unreal Engine Citadel demo, Unigine Crypt demo, and now Monster Madness.

Nevertheless it's still very impressive, big kudos to Mozilla folks.

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[1] For example these iOS 3d games should be feasible on the web (runtime performance wise, big asset downloads may be pain): The Walking Dead, The Wolf Among Us, Grand Theft Auto 3 / Vice City, Infinity Blade series, Max Payne 1, Mirror's Edge, XCom: Enemy Unknown, Real Racing, Asphalt series, mobile Need for Speed series, etc.

Plus of course anything 2D - Angry Birds, World of Goo, Plants vs Zombies, Osmos, Limbo, etc.
Neat, but is it safe to assume Google (and likely other agencies) have already done something similar to -- or a step or two beyond -- this?
Forget "the best city", and find the right city for you.

TheRightCityForYou === WhereeverYoureAtRightNow

BuildingSomethingNow > (Thinking | Planning | Networking | ...)
Lots of things have a real world cost to them, that doesn't mean everything that costs anyone anything to make or do should be restricted and withheld from the public.

Presumably there was a cost to figuring out the angles and zooms that showed these machines in the most informative way. Do you think that particular, informed camera setup should be patented?

If not, why should the particular photographs be copyrighted or otherwise excluded from use? Presumably when setting up your business (or the OP's), they looked to other more successful businesses as an example to follow. Should those other businesses be compensated for contributing to the OP's success?

What makes one idea, or expression of an idea, exclusive, private property, while other, often more valuable ideas, are free for the taking?

Sounds to me like the OP is trying to suppress competition through rent seeking, rather than competing on an even playing field by providing more value to the customer.
Sure you can.

http://www.asteroidapp.com

(cgminer and cpuminer are also in MacPorts)
Thanks for the information! So if you want to display a dynamic image containing real-time information when the recipient opens the email, it will still work since Gmail only caches the image for a short time, right?
Funny.

The Puritans are closer to the do-gooders than the general population. Puritans left Europe to form the perfect society, which they defined around their religious practice. They had all the answers and were building the city on the hill. The system worked, as long as you were an adherent.

The way you solve these problems is by acting at a higher level to address root causes. Advocating for someone's "right" to shit their pants and disrupt public spaces is ridiculous, but it's also easy to do -- offering pity is always easy to do. It's not as easy to get treatment for mental health issues or to fund drug programs or to address the more systemic issues that result in a screaming maniac running around in the street.

Techie or not, I have a right to use public spaces that should be preserved. My son should be able to work in a public library. My family should be able to walk down the street without fear.
They do get an exaggerated coverage. It's really not that common. I've been riding BART to/from SF for my techie-job for 6+ years and I haven't seen anything like that. The most interesting thing I've seen in person is this guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGkbJlmhI90

Oh and I did see a guy yell at and punch a window on the BART train once for no apparent reason. It was late at night so not many people on the train but the few passengers were definitely freaked out. Window didn't even crack and he punched it HARD.
You are under another misconception: the broken window fallacy. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window

Creating/sustaining an inefficient financial industry [1] is a bad use of society's resources. Just like breaking a mirror for the sake of giving work to the repair man is a net loss to society.

[1] I claim "inefficiency" compared to crypto-currencies. Example: transferring $150 million via Bitcoin uses less resources than doing it via the legacy financial system: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6782706