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Ember App Kit In Depth - ATX Ember Meetup
Hey Austin HNers, I'm writing an in-depth guide to EAK and doing a presentation at the Ember ATX meet-up on Thursday. Make sure to show up!

The 1st draft of the Guide is up at https://github.com/ulisesrmzroche/ember-app-kit-in-depth/. I'll be putting up the rest as I write it in the next few days, to be done on or shortly after Thursday. There will be screencast for embercasts up next.

To quickly learn more about me, I'm at http://ulisesrmzroche.info.
Not everyone has -or can have- a credit card.

Bitcoin also allows anyone to accept payment which could vastly increase the range of products and services available: we can imagine that a lot of individuals and small businesses who do not have access to credit card payments will be able to offer their services and get paid.
I like this part:

This could take many forms, but my suggestion would be helping men, especially men who believe they are in no way sexist, identify some of the biases they have and some of the things they do that make women uncomfortable. We could talk pretty openly, get some of the horrible things we believe off our chest because we’d be explicitly there to identify and combat them,

So there's no possibility men who think they are not sexist actually aren't sexist. They just haven't been properly shown how exactly they are sexist. They haven't been shown how uncomfortable they make the women around them (and this is a topic so deep even a specialized conference can cover only "some" of it). They haven't been exposed to the fact that the things they believe are actually horrible and need to be combated.
Far from defending NetSol here, but that's not what that means. It means that if you unsub from marketing emails, they are still able to send you transactional emails (emails relating to order confirms, existing business, technical support. Etc).

It's actually what you WANT as a consumer because otherwise it would be too risky to unsub from a vendor. It's also part of CAN-SPAM (not defending that either).
There's a distinction between numerical approximation and simulation. The former is a technique to solve an analytical model of the world. The latter would have an analytical model of the simulation outcomes rather than of the world directly.
Interesting. In the abstracts of the two studies of the issue that you link to, one highlights financial concerns and the other ignores this factor.
Please explain how any of those were actions taken in support of a strong dollar, as opposed to in support of particular economic interests otherwise.
I'll give the guy credit for coming up with a creative idea [1], but for a guy who was overly concerned with efficiency, going on 55 first dates and only 3 second dates strikes me as absolutely insane and a waste of time. It would be similar to having 55 in-person interviews and only making 3 offers. Something is going wrong in the funnel.

I don't see how his system was better than just using the site as it is intended, nor do I think it should be romanticized as much as it is in this article.

[1]: Though it fails the categorical imperative. If everybody did this okcupid would be much worse off.
CEO appears not to have a linkedin page (really?)

You shouldn't be surprised when people choose not to have LinkedIn profiles. I quit LinkedIn because they were spamming me. They were also selling spamming privileges (or InMail) to anyone willing to pay. The user experience is below average, the groups are pathetic, and recommendations have become essentially worthless.

So really, having a LinkedIn profile isn't obligatory.
I think its safe to assume any youtuber or blogger may have some paid endorsements. I thought getting paid for mentions or endorsements required disclosure by the FTC.

http://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-rel...
LogMeIn no longer free.
Unfortunately RedHat (and by extension, CentOS) [edit: prior to RHEL/CentOS 6.5] strips elliptic curve crypto out of OpenSSL, so the list of ciphers you linked to is not accurate. For PFS on CentOS you're stuck with the slower discrete log Diffie Hellman.

Edited to add: my information is out of date! See ivanr's reply.
The best lesson Bitcoin taught me is that the currencies we grew up with are just a shared illusion.
I hope that gender/race/sexual orientation/anything specific events will fade away eventually. But right now there's still a lot of casual sexism in tech that goes well beyond the well meant joke.

I've worked in the adult industry, gaming and lighter tech(IT) before transitioning to development. Prior to entering the dev job market I wrote off women who complained about the tech industry as whiny or overly sensitive. On one of my very first interviews the CEO told me women aren't math minded so he was going to skip some of the questions for me. On another interview I was asked why "he should take on the liability of hiring a female programmer".

To be honest I personally could not care less about the sexual aspect of it, getting hit on, ect., as that stuff can and does happen anywhere. But I've never ever had people question my intelligence because of my gender until I got involved in development. (Or at least not bold enough to voice it to my face in a professional setting.) At first I was even against the idea of female only learn to program classes until I started volunteering at several LTC type events and saw the difference in how comfortable women are. It's not even about sex in 99.9% of cases, which is where a lot of people take it. This comic gets brought a lot to demonstrate what I'm describing and it's really spot on: http://xkcd.com/385/.

I think everyone can agree that we would like to get to the point where attribute specific outreach programs are not needed but until we get there they are a good resource.

This wasn't part of your question but I'm sure it was brought up somewhere in the thread: Obvious sexism is not long dead. I'm only 30 and when I was in school men had to take shop and women had to take home ec. I was actively discouraged from college as it was viewed as a waste of money because women would only spend a few years working before becoming moms (if they finished school at all).
I wish this was possible here. People need to work for years before they can even think about buying a house.

Sounds like a really good idea for a place like Utah - props to them.
Good argument. It's a gambling instead of a business model. According to the traditional business practice, if you don't have a sales projection, you don't have a business. Tech world should not bet on the exceptions. Investment could cause bubbles. Whoever is the last gets caught.

The reality is: not every startup and business is qualified for making profit. They should pursue it diligently to merge to a model to have enough margins, but be prepared to fail. Therefore the founder will not be that sad.
Google's Eric Schmidt denies knowledge of NSA data tapping of firm
Please explain these other factors, I am genuinely interested. How do top comments stay top whilst accumulating a huge number of polar opposite commentary?
> It was first date number 88. A second date followed, then a third. After two weeks they both suspended their OkCupid accounts.

You know... there's a damn big chance you find someone worth having a relationship after 88 dates. Something tells me his technique was no better than just dating at random.
But it's not just about speed... most people have better cognitive performance with visual sensory information
According to the original source[0], the solution has been in place since 2005, and had reduced the homeless population by 74% by 2012. The cost savings was about 5k per homeless person per year.

"In 2005, Utah did a study that found the average annual cost for emergency services and jail time for each chronically homeless person was $16,670. The cost to house them and provide case management services was only $11,000 per person."

Obviously those two numbers don't account for the fact that even a newly homed person might continue to have some emergency services, and jail time. Yet, Utah continues the program and "... the state is on track to meet its goal by 2015", where that goal is to eliminate chronic homelessness.
Does anyone believe what this man says anymore? Just askin'.
Wow, that's an extremely cool program. Thanks!
This is a testable hypothesis.
The question is: what WILL be the useful benefits of this research in the future. And we don't know that. That's the nature of blue sky research.

But let's look back at the 19th and 20th centuries to see what value fundamental physics research has had.

At the time research into electromagnetism was quite esoteric with little practical use. Yet, of course, it turned out to be hugely advantageous in many ways. Electric motors. Electric lighting and heating. Electric appliances in the home. Radio. RADAR. Television. Telephones. Etc. Electromagnetism defined the industrial advances of the 20th century and easily was responsible for literally quadrillions of dollars in economic value.

Later, advances in computational theory and especially quantum mechanics and condensed matter physics enabled the electronics and computational / digital communications revolutions which gave rise to the modern internet, smartphones, personal computers, and even high-efficiency/low-emission automobiles (through micro-computer based engine control). Those technologies have been responsible for easily tens of trillions of dollars of economic value (if not hundreds or more) and are utterly dependent on advancements in basic science which at the time had very little practical use. The laser, for example, was originally lampooned as a solution looking for a problem, though of course eventually it became an important component in the backbone of modern industry and commerce.

At the time absolutely none of these benefits of this research were obvious. And in many cases it took many decades up to a century or more for the benefits to be realized. But just look at the enormous RoI generated. Imagine someone in the early 20th century systematically campaigning against high-energy physics research because it had no immediate practical application. Imagine how many trillions upon trillions of modern economic activity would simply not exist today because of that short-sightedness.

I could enumerate all of the practical benefits of high-energy physics research over the last, say, 2 decades but that plays into the wrong game and misses the point. Ultimately we don't know what we are missing out on by not pursuing certain categories of knowledge. And occasionally pursuit of blue sky knowledge produces not just enormous levels of RoI but absolutely civilization defining levels of return. Thus we should pursue such research with a healthy level of investment regardless of the perceived short-term applications, because the benefits of hitting the jackpot are too great to sanely do anything else. It's possible that knowledge of the higgs-field will have no practical, economic impact on human civilizations, ever. But it's also possible that it could lead to quadrillions of dollars in economic value over the next several centuries, the only way we'll find out is if we acquire that knowledge.
The truth and opportunity is that donating to some charities creates disproportionately more good and well being in the world than other charities, so this is a very important question. http://www.givewell.org/ is one charity evaluator that tries to answer this with in-depth analyses. I recommend them!
DIY Android based connected car kit - Know better alternatives?
Stuck in the Ice
One Question To Rule Them All - Getting Honest User Feedback
The implementation/operational complexity of a queue (assuming you don't just hammer it into your existing database, which can sometimes be a bad idea) many times outweighs the user having to wait an extra 200ms.

It's nice when you have to have a queue for image/audio/video processing, page scraping, etc because then you can use the queue for other stuff, but for the most part, excluding large jobs, you can get away without having a queue for quite a while.

So if you have a queuing system, great, use it. If you don't, try to avoid building it until you really need it.
Oh come on. Microsoft's "evil" amounted to giving the competition a few kicks in the ribs while they were down. It was nasty and unsporting but let's keep things in perspective.

The comparison with Nestle would only be reasonable if a Windows 95 BSOD killed one of your children.
People are foaming at the mouth, waiting for and wanting Facebook to fail.
Eh, same info, tidier writing. I'd forgotten about it for a while.

Man, SJWs really take anything involving the word "privilege" seriously, even when it's obvious sarcasm. Anyone have any theories as to why their sense of humor is so underdeveloped?
This is a duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7098563

Also, here's my .02 re-posted from the comments section:

Rather than answer the questions that were important to him he decided to find a set of people he thought he would like then only answer the questions they care about, and not even the way he would naturally answer them, rather he used an algorithm to determine the weight that would be best to get the highest match %. The fact of the matter is he could've spent a fraction of the time just answering all the questions honestly and with his honest weights and he would've found high matches too. Furthermore, he could've narrowed it down to just the kind of people he wanted through a normal search and then filter their questions based on what's important to them (which is a normal question filter on OkCupid).

So in fact what he did was pretty bad, violates OkCupid's TOS in numerous ways and at the end of the day wasn't honest to himself as he created specific profiles for his targets.

Honestly, we should not be celebrating this.

To recap what he did:

1. Didn't want to answer questions, so let's find all the questions that are important to everybody from the categories of people he thinks he likes based on clustering and then browsing a profile or two of people in that cluster. (He did this by creating numerous fake profiles and having those bots answer all the questions so he could scrape his targets question)

3. Create specific profile for his targeted group. With words and information that he knew they would like.

2. Answer ONLY the set of questions deemed important to those people. He answered these with weights determined by an algorithm that determined the best weight to achieve the highest match% rather than honestly.

3. WIth new found 99% matches go on dates with these people and follow normal dating process.

Now that we see the above broken down we can see that it's really not good. In fact, he was only answering what they wanted, and created profiles for them. But he wasn't being honest with himself or with his answers. If we're trying to match with everyone, which is essentially what he did, it's not that difficult to do. The fact that he eventually found someone is great, but the information used was faulty. Obviously there's no way he would be 99% with that many people normally.
Can you share the nginx config?
> How do top comments stay top whilst accumulating a huge number of polar opposite commentary?

Note that this is not what I said. I just said that votes are not the only factor.

> On the front page, by points divided by a power of the time since they were submitted. Comments in comment threads are ranked the same way.

http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

Now, HN runs on a slightly modified version of news.arc, so we can't be 100% for sure. pg did give the formula a long time ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1781417

TL;DR: time since the comment was left is often a factor.
Simple Question: Can't you just call your credit card company and ask them to void all of these charges?

My assumption is that credit card companies are obligated to take off any charge you deem is unfair. It is their responsibility to find a proof that charge was with your explicit agreement. This is why they get to keep 1-4% of each transaction in first place. Doing this also had side advantage that merchant ruins reputation and loose their ability to charge like this in future.

Wouldn't this be the least hassle way? Just 5 minutes on call and charges are poof! gone.
TED: Amy Webb: How I hacked online dating

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6wG_sAdP0U

"Amy Webb was having no luck with online dating. The dates she liked didn't write her back, and her own profile attracted crickets (and worse). So, as any fan of data would do: she started making a spreadsheet. Hear the story of how she went on to hack her online dating life -- with frustrating, funny and life-changing results."
There are about 3 conservative Christians on HN.
Ideology aside, it seems to be working better than any other state's solution and for less money. It seems pragmatic enough. I would be curious to see some numbers on success of people the enrolled in the program in 2005-6.

I wish I could remember where I first read it, but from what I understand the average long term homeless person is a middle aged disabled man with either a mental illness or some form of substance dependency. Many are also veterans. It seems silly to tell that person to bootstrap. So for 11k a year for a roof and social worker vs. 16.65k for E.R. visits, jail, etc it seems like a no brainer. that's 5.65k in savings each per year.
Despite an expanding use of electronics in products, the number of people working as electrical engineers in U.S. declined by 10.4% last year.

The decline amounted to a loss of 35,000 jobs and increased the unemployment rate for electrical engineers from 3.4% in 2012 to 4.8% last year, an unusually high rate of job losses for this occupation.
The VC Social Network (visualization via graf.ly)
Hasn't Facebook not only surpassed MySpace in peak popularity, but has lasted (usage wise) quite a bit longer than MySpace? I feel like MySpace never actually tried to significantly innovate and change itself (in its heyday) while Facebook has iterated significantly multiple times since I've been using it.
There's some possibility men who believe they're not sexist aren't sexist, it seems unlikely that it's a common thing though. It would take an incredible force of will for anyone to be totally devoid of the influences of patriarchy.
Yes it does. That's why his bots were getting banned.
I'm not sure if it is just the wording or what, but I find it really wacky that you seem to be conflating poverty with crime. "Punishment"... for being poor and homeless?
Now it's got deleted. Anyone have a screenshot or cache or something?
The questions are an excellent initial filter if you've flagged a few obvious deal breakers. It's the FizzBuzz of dating. Then you move on to personally examining the profiles of people who have passed that test, contact them, and so on.

It's certainly not an optimal system for casual sex, but it does a reasonable job of finding candidates for any relationship more serious than that.
Or may not :) The way things are, they will either be stable like google and they are going in that direction, or completely dissapear.
IANAL, however my whole family is.

I doubt they could do that. People are often afraid of such fine print gotcha's but would almost always would not stand up in court.

Contracts are assumed to be "In good faith, and neither for nor against any particular side". Meaning having a clause like 'oh yeah, in addition to your yearly fee of $10, we can also charge you any unlimited amount and you agree to pay'

This would be easily deemed as not in good faith and completely in favor of them (as no sane person would agree to that). Hence judge would throw it out - which may or may not invalidate the entire contract depending on how shady the judge thought they were being.
What? How is Facebook like an idea or an illness?

The problem Facebook solves is a problem we humans have had for thousands of years: how do we stay in touch with our friends and family? Facebook has made staying in touch much easier and simpler than any method before it. I don't see Facebook's demise until something else comes along to make staying in touch with friends and family even easier.
I did something similar 4 years ago. My OkCupid profile was receiving about 3-10 visits/week from women, and I had only a small handful that I matched 90+% with. I deleted all my answers and answered just the minimum required with complete honesty but zero possibility of controversy. My match % was 95+% with everyone and my inbound views turned into 100+/week.

The match percentage was useless as a filter, but who cares? The new filter was my profile, and women who liked it messaged me.

Within a few weeks I'd been on several dates — I'm now married to the last woman I dated from then. She messaged me.
I agree and thank you for quick response to my comment.
Or, let's admit it, he sucked in real life human relationships. I mean we all sucked in first X dates, just, hopefully, took less than 88 to realize that whatever you are doing is just wrong :)
It's also true that the planet Earth may lose up to 100% of its users by 2017.
It never was, they just didn't charge money for it
It already has in my book.

There is absolutely nothing visionary about it except that its a really nice cash cow.

I don't expect it to last through 2015. 2017 is way to long
This is not a whole lot different from public housing projects that are subsidize by the state, just more subsidized.

The system works in a number of countries. As far as I know, it works. Eventually the only people on the street are people who are unable to cope/deal with the system and who fall through the cracks, such as mentally ill.

Of course one of the costs of any state welfare system is the tragedy of the commons. For example people keeping houses they no longer need and people not maintaing the houses they are in. I would be surprised if the former social problems of slums are improved by bricks and mortar.

I was in South Africa for a vacation recently. They are giving inhabitants of shanty towns small houses. Once they have moved them out they bulldoze the now-vacated land to build more houses.

Someone I met asked me if I could give an old woman a ride to her government provided house at the edge of a shanty town she used to live in. She told me that the solar heating water system installed by the government on all these houses does not work. I could see her house, which could not have been more than 5 years old, was already decaying. I suspect corrupt builders/politicians cheaping out. It was also clear that some of the ever newer houses were quickly deteriorating and were blending into the slum across the small dirt road that separated them, mostly from lack of rudimentary maintenance.

I could not help but wonder what those housing developments will look like in 10 years or 15 years and if the government will have to start rebuilding them at a huge expense.
Knowing the dealer invoice price does not tell you how much the dealer makes on the car. Most of the dealers that my company sells to make their money from bonuses for moving units.

More on how dealers make money is here http://www.edmunds.com/car-buying/where-does-the-car-dealer-...
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There are also the quality of life improvements for the general populace of not having homeless on the street at all times and possibly also a measure of increased safety.
How is someone illegally recording a movie a Homeland Security matter?
Hardware Startups in NYC
Mechanical engineer + software engineer + digital marketer looking for work at a Series A/B funded startup. Looking for a respectful workplace that values young intellects.