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Of course it would force them to do the research differently. Like, not at all, for example. Some research involves seeing processes which can only come after death. I can't even begin to explain all the other research that wouldn't happen, because I am not a bioresearcher.

It's really easy to judge an entire range of research with zero insight on what actually goes on or why. I would suggest you go ask a bioresearcher to explain what they do to you, and why it is necessary to do it that way on animals, before you call it "a meat chopping factory".
> He wasted valuable city resources on an experiment the outcome of which he should have predicted, being a criminal attorney in Roxbury.

I'm not sure he is the one that wasted resources though. Wasn't he about to plea bargain before they decided to "make an example of him" at the expense of wasted resources? They could have fined him to easily cover those "wasted resources." It really revealed that personal vendettas are easily carried out by DAs, police, and judges when it comes to sentencing and treatment.

> The police are set upon from all sides. If they bend the rules, they are severely punished. If they don't bend the rules, and the rules don't always apply the way liberal suburban white folks might imagine they do on the street, then they get castigated for not "doing their job" i.e. catching the bad guys...the public will view you with contempt and disgust.

It's hard to have sympathy when your excuse is that you're worried about being seen with contempt and disgust, so you have to strive to ruin lives as much as possible.

> here's hoping you will be permanently cured of f##king with us in the future, a##hole."

So they want to be viewed with contempt and disgust or not? That is a pretty disgusting view.
I've been using it on 5s for two months, and I rarely if ever get a glitch. Two or three times Recents tab in Phone app crashed, but that was it.
Author went to Princeton.[1] Another Princeton grad "found him" through the alumni directory. Sounds like networking to me.

Then, in the fall of 2006, a guy named Austin Merritt looked me up in the Princeton University alumni directory. He was about two years out of school and had just moved to Big Sky to ski, enjoy the outdoors and hopefully find a job in the construction industry. Apparently, we were two of only three alumni in the area. He asked if I wanted to grab dinner sometime, and we did. As we drove home that night, Lauren said, “You know you have to hire that guy.” I knew I did. That would mean paying his salary from my personal savings, which was scary. But somehow, I knew it would be worthwhile.

The author linked to another other article about his company, describing his difficulties hiring good developers and "eventually" stumbling upon SEO, around 2006, when he got lucky finding a college student in Montana. [2]

SEO was pretty common by 2006, especially in places like San Francisco. I'd imagine that if he had done more networking (even in Montana) he might have figured this out sooner. He might also have had a better time finding development resources instead of having to stumble through 10 different outsourcing agencies.

[1] http://wins.softwareadvice.com/how-software-advice-got-start...

[2] http://wins.softwareadvice.com/how-software-advice-got-start...
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Their lock in isn't worth the paper it's printed on, though - they reserve the right to cancel transactions up to the point bitcoins are actually delivered, and frequently do if the price goes enough (or just refuse to offer locked-in prices if it's obvious the price is rising).
You probably could have helped your cause further had you not spelled the word "delfation." Have you actually proved me wrong? I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader.
Actually if there was a delay alone this would not really be illegal and could be forgiven.

If you look at: http://i.imgur.com/R2qEn8E.png

They clearly quoted a transaction price for the BTC conversion. This price should be calculated as:

=> (rate at which the bitcoin have Already been purchased) + (costs incurred by coinbase) + (fees owed from client)

The rate Can Not under any circumstance be quoted unless the transaction has already been executed.

If the trade(s) were not executed, Coinbase broke laws that they are governed by regardless if bitcoin is regulated or not.

If the trade(s) were executed, Coinbase still broke laws(albeit different ones) that they are governed by regardless if bitcoin is regulated or not.
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Thanks. <3

Speaking as a male for a moment here: in my earlier years, the reason I would have had trouble saying something like "I see how hard it is" to a woman would have been because I was not 'man' enough to come out and say something like that. I'd have been afraid the woman might take it the wrong way, like as if I was belittling her. That's how a lot of us do feel, I bet.

When I went back to school for software engineering and talked to my peers via chat late in the night, I really just found that a lot of them are broken. They have low self-esteem, they feel women aren't interested in them because they're nerdy. And so, their interactions with woman -- like walking on eggshells, trying not to embarrass themselves or get humiliated, be outed as "clumsy-with-women", they behave in a rigid way that could possibly be interpreted as being cold and mean to women.

I really do think you're onto something here. If more people took the initiative in communicating feelings of care and love, things would improve.
Roots isn't actually a "company". Just an open source organization although we do sell a few things like screencasts.

If you're interested in work to do with WP/Roots you can check out this thread on our forum: http://discourse.roots.io/t/looking-for-work-post-your-info-...
Easy to do with ngrok.
Wow, okay. I knew some of the bigger sites supported SPDY, but I didn't realize that the browsers outside of Chrome were already supporting SPDY (and HTTP2) as well.

So (pardon my ignorance, I googled a bit but didn't find very conclusive results), why isn't everyone using HTTP2/SPDY now? Because of IE < 11 and Safari?

Edit: Or maybe because of the SSL requirement?
Edited again: For clarity.
As long as it's not Freelancer I'm fine.
> The existence of a fitness function does not explain the increase in complexity.

That would be an interesting rebuttal if I calimed that the existence of a fitness function explained the increase in complexity.

Since that's not what I said, it's just a non-sequitur.

What I said was that if you start with a collection of items all uniformly near one boundary and then vary the collection randomly rejecting things that fall outside of the boundary, both the maximum and mean distance from the boundary will increase over time, until and unless that behavior is constrained by a boundary on the other end.

(In the case of life, I'm talking about a strong, "outside of this you don't have anything that counts as life" boundary, not a fitness function in the evolutionary sense, which addresses the relative reproductive success among viable life forms.)
Aren't the vast majority of tech workers "young white men"? Also maybe the areas that are gentrifying are ending up less diverse than they started whereas in St Louis its not an issue since the neighborhoods are staying diverse?
Parse.ly has been using this product for the past several months. In fact, I think we are the "smallest customer" that Jason cited, with 16 employees. We're a fully distributed team (as I described in http://bit.ly/distributed-teams), so it was a particularly good fit for us.

Our team loves the product. They loved it from the first week it was in use. It sends a weekly email rounding up what everyone is working on every week. It also has team members sharing interesting social things like favorite recipes, childhood stories, books, and movies. And the "Company Question" (a weekly question picked by management) allows us to get regular feedback from employees, which we used to do sporadically using hacked-together Wufoo surveys, but this has much less friction and actually works. One of my favorite of these questions that we recently asked was, "Is there anyone at the company you wish you could apprentice under for a few weeks?"

I don't want to reveal too much about the product because I don't want to preempt their own marketing of it, but here's a quick glimpse of how the "Questions" view of the product looks -- this is where you can see the answers from employees of past questions. In general, it has a simple, sparse, and beautiful design that achieves the goal of the product with ease.

http://ubuntuone.com/3gYi3mg65rCM30dTSGsYB8
Having hot wallets and cold wallets separated does make a lot of sense.
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Hey, I find the hard drive light very helpful in determining whether my system is thrashing for virtual memory, or likely stuck on some CPU-bound process.
Funny dynamics for bitcoin to be used as a currency

For now its swings are like the Zimbabwe dollar
Yeah. Elance / oDesk aren't incentivized to prevent this behaviour. They want a site that looks busy, and full of "high-quality" / highly rated contractors.

They could easily allow for filters to weed, though instead they allow for details to be hidden.
Don't be ridiculous. Sure, the order was delayed, but there is no reason why they should have refunded the entire order.

Kudos to Brian and team for getting on top of this and solving the problem quickly. They executed the order as originally promised, admitted their mistake, and gave him a credit for the inconvenience.

I've executed many transactions with Coinbase and although one of my transactions was delayed briefly, I've been very pleased overall with the service.

They are go much farther than most other Bitcoin exchanges and services, which barely have any support channels and have frequently stolen user money entirely.
Some of the activity logs show "activesync", which I assume is my WP. Other log entries show logging in from Windows CE devices, which is very strange.

But yes, "datacenter" was the first thing that popped into my head.

Then of course there were the constant failed security question checks coming in at a rapid pace. I pretty much assume those are dangerous. I changed my PW to something insanely long with lots of nice junk in it and added two factor on top of that.
You can go from downtown SF to Facebook with one bus transfer. KX to 281 or DB1.
No, wrong. The reason people have to put up with Coinbase's shenanigans^, is because of the super intense regulations in this sector. Those of us who would take customer money more seriously (and who would have refused additional customers much earlier) also take legal liabilities more seriously, particularly the legal liabilities of running an unlicensed money transmission business.

If these regulations weren't so onerous, a dozen more of us would have jumped into the arena, and the one of us who gave the best customer service would be the market leader.

Instead, buyers are stuck with Coinbase.

^ Not suggesting anything purposely illegal -- just incompetence combined with too much business. Yet another reason regulation is hurting everyone here: less regulation would have left Coinbase left overwhelmed with so much business (since there would be more competing businesses).
How does that work? The client specifically notifies odesk that they're making a hire, and they charge the freelancer 10%? When does he have to pay?
UV is certainly easier to deploy than chlorine gas (a UV leak won't poison everyone in the room via gas inhalation), but it's still dangerous at the scales used to sterilize large quantities of water.

The bigger problem than either is that AFAIK, few places bother to sterilize their effluent. I'm not even sure if San Francisco bothers to do that, actually...
Not really, I can easily come up with 35k at the drop of a hat...
> The guy vandalised property, wasted police and court time

The DA wasted court time. The judge was accepting the plea bargain and the DA decided to waste time. They could have easily fined him to more than make up for any wasted time it took to track him down after he turned himself in.
Mining BtC has a carbon footprint from hell (as they get more computationally expensive to generate, electricity consumption soars). This essay has some questionable numbers, but the underlying principle is sound.

I didn't do the math (not even back of the envelope) but my sense tells me it'll be less footprint than the current mega banks.

Bitcoin mining software is now being distributed as malware because using someone else's computer to mine BitCoins is easier than buying a farm of your own mining hardware.

Piracy, Theft and Crimes are not a new thing. They have been for a very long time.

Bitcoin's utter lack of regulation permits really hideous markets to emerge, in commodities like assassination (and drugs and child pornography).

We don't have that now? I guess regulation is better with Bitcoin because cash has much more privacy than BTC.

It's also inherently damaging to the fabric of civil society. You think our wonderful investment bankers aren't paying their fair share of taxes?

It's like there is no off-shore tax havens right now, and everyone is paying his share of taxes. Maybe we should give the tax system another look and a good reform?

Sorry, but I couldn't find any substance in this article. Just the usual hatred. Here is my actual view on Bitcoin: http://omarabid.com/why-cryptographic-currencies-matter/
I saw OpenSCAD mentioned in another HN comment, and thought it looked interesting. I was wondering though:

How does OpenSCAD compare to other free CAD programs like FreeCAD? Is it just that it's more focused on programming?
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No, it's nothing like shipping a book 2 days late. The OP has actual, recognizable economic losses as a result of Coinbase's delay. The transfer of money via ACH is a separate transaction from the Bitcoin acquisition. After the admitted delay following the Bitcoin acquisition transaction, Coinbase should have either reaffirmed that the OP wanted to purchase the coins at the original price, canceled the transaction, or acquired the coins at the then-market price. (Note, normally when the price increases, Coinbase cancels the transaction.) Consequently, the OP has a solid legal case against Coinbase.

Unfortunately, for the amounts involved its borderline not worth pursuing. It's too large an amount for most small claims courts, and too small an amount to justify the time and cost of civil litigation (unless it settles at the very early stages). Indeed, based on Coinbase's record (refunding purchases if BC prices increase rather than executing the transaction), it's very likely that they are factoring this arbitrage into their business model.
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Or just the final code or maybe have access to your servers or other assets - and without a full security check / wipe, you can't know if they created a way in - or they threaten to release your code publicly, or sell it, etc..
Agreed. There is no need for this to be happening. San Francisco has a very anti-build attitude and there isn't a lot of new construction going up to account for growth. You are adding 3000-3500 dwellings per year, that is not going to cut it.

We need denser, taller, construction, so that everyone can live here and everyone can enjoy SF.
That matter? 3. Just like how many desktop platforms we have.
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> Doesnt this take away from the real issue of fossil fuels? Pollution, increased CO2 and climate changes.

No. Any CO2 released when these fuels are burned has to come from the algae. The algae gets it from the air. So CO2 is cycled, but not added to the atmosphere.
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Give it to me, I'll take care of it.

But seriously, index fund. Sorry — not sexy.
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Wow, what a arrogant statement!

Instead of acknowledging that you don't know what you are talking about, you act like you know it all, and doing so makes you look like a fool for anyone that knows a little about the topic.

I had sent-received money from South American or African countries in Bitcoins, and they are super useful.

Countries like Venezuela, Argentina, or Colombia or countries from Africa will tax you more than 50% of everything that is sent via official channels, if they let you do this in the first place, which they wont. All the money goes to corrupt governments.

With BT not such problems.
TL;DR version:

"And this brings us to the crux of the matter: are sign language translators for the deaf really meant for those who cannot hear the spoken word? Are they not much more intended for us – it makes us (who can hear) feel good to see the interpreter, giving us a satisfaction that we are doing the right thing, taking care of the underprivileged and hindered."
Or the company via a different means is paying this "person" more money than he is spending, to make it look legitimate -- the only loss then is the fee (%) that Elance / oDesk takes, which further incentivizes Elance / oDesk to allow this behaviour, though that is minor in comparison to having a lot of "high quality" / highly rated contractors on their platform.
Based on numbers I hear from friends and Glassdoor, Google programmers make $100k-150k/year. To make 10x less than that, you'd have to make $10-15k/year; that's less than minimum wage.
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The protesters could be making a lot less than that. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6928230 Santa Clara County, Calif., is home to Google, Apple and eBay. So it's no surprise that the median household income was $91,000 a year in 2012, one of the highest in the country. Yet one-third of the households in the county don't earn enough for basic living expenses, even when they work at some of those big tech companies.
Networking is for people who don't know what they are doing and who don't have better ideas regarding what to do with their time and energy. So if you go to a networking event, understand that you are automatically putting yourself into this class of person.

If you are someone who provides a lot of value, other people will go out of their way to meet you, and then you don't have to go to networking events. So the fact that you are doing networking implies that you are someone who does not provide a lot of value (or else that people don't know what value you provide).

Do you think Elon Musk goes to a lot of networking events? Do you think Steve Jobs went to a lot of networking events?

If you are early in your career and legitimately aren't providing a lot of value yet, because it's early, then I would offer that your time is much better spent cloistered away becoming excellent at what you do, than it is networking. Because if the arc of your career involves you being excellent at what you do, then very quickly you will find that people you meet randomly at events like this are not in your league -- that's just how things are everywhere all the time.
Skettios.

What is coinbase doing to prevent this from happening in the future? Both from a customer service perspective, and from a technical one. I want to assume good faith, but I'd also like to verify before doing business with you.
Good point. Fixed that.
Are there certain people who aren't allowed to work on Elance who work on oDesk?
My experience was the opposite. I've done various shorter and longer Amtrak trips on my various visits to the US. I've done Raleigh NC - Philadelphia - Pittsburgh - Dallas, which is really just a concatenation of some shorter and some longer legs. I've also done Chicago - San Francisco, which is a really long trip (two mights and more than two days), plus I did Chicago - Albuquerque which is about 24 hours. The latter two lines pass some of the most amazing scenery I've ever seen from a train. I was never bored at all on any of these trips. I rode in sleeper for which all meals are included as is free coffee whenever you want it. Although not top notch 5 star cuisine, the dining car was definitely on par with the best I've seen on any European train in recent years. And yes, it was a real dining car with table linen and all the niceties, not the airplane style gunk on a diminutive plastic tray that is sadly becoming more and more common on European trains too. Then there was an observation lounge with extra large windows so you could take in the scenery or chat to random people who for some reason were all the most fascinating bunch of individuals you could imagine. Then there was also a bar car where you could hang around if you craved for a drink in between somethings. Besides the usual drinks there were even craft beers and other local specialities of the areas we passed through. The staff were absolutely fantastic and always answered questions courteously and had some nice stories and anecdotes to tell. The worst part of those trips was actually arriving as I didn't want it to be over.
He only suffers a loss if he sells. I'm bearish, but it's too soon to say that it's never going back up to 800.
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In a court case, the breach of contract will be evaluated and the losses incurred will be relevant whether or not the assets are an "investment". What kind of law will apply is up for debate.
What is your experience with customer dev. vs. talking to other SaaS folk?
What're your non-Coinbase platforms for purchasing coins?
Yeah, my comment from the thread on this series that disappeared:

Whenever I see these articles, I think about what makes the Bay Area expensive. The key factor is housing prices.

There's a limited amount of land available near the centers of SV because of mountains and natural areas. Supply is strictly constrained and demand is very strong because of industry growth. The result is spiraling prices far above what would seem reasonable elsewhere.

Supply constraint isn't really a natural limit, though. Bay Area housing is spread out, low density, even sprawling. Even San Francisco is only half the density of Brooklyn. San Jose and San Mateo county mostly look like a suburb of Omaha.

Market demand would indicate big profit opportunities for anyone who can buy up a subdivision and build a neighborhood of three story flats on wide sidewalks and two lane streets. That would be over double the density of San Francisco and ten times the density of a typical San Mateo subdivision. You could easily afford to buy up property, knock down current buildings and carry away a huge profit. But you can't get permission from planning boards.

Or you could build like Tokyo, which is a little less dense than Brooklyn. You'd make free standing two or three story single family homes with very little yard on 15' single lane streets and small blocks. That's the same density as Brooklyn, 2.5 times San Francisco.

Or you could even build like San Francisco, but in San Jose. That's efficient enough in land per housing unit to make big money.

But it's all prohibited.

The Bay Area has chosen to be unlivable and unpleasant by its choice of public officials. Those city officials have prohibited the practices that make city living affordable. The result of bad public officials is an unhappy public.
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I've had opposite experience in general. It's all about hiring well. The problem is that hiring well shouldn't be using the "high ratings" that contractors have - it shouldn't be used to determine who you hire.