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>As for disruptive industries, cherrypicking AirBnb and Uber isn't representative of the vast majority of the industry. Airbnb enables about 1/2 of its users to illegally sublet their apartments in cities like NYC. And its annoying a lot of the folks out here. But does that make other tech companies bad? Uber, from various anecdotal insider reports, seems like a pretty shady company that tried to operate illegally in multiple cities but is being reigned in. Does that make other tech companies bad? King.com got absurd trademarks for their game designed to extract money from unsuspecting players and is now using those trademarks to inhibit competition. But does that make other tech companies bad? Yes, Apple price fixed the whole book publishing industry and Google bought and killed off multiple products people liked and Adobe costs too much and all three of them conspired to keep tech wages down. And Facebook is an immense privacy-gobbling behemoth that won't let you install their Android app unless you let them read your SMS messages. But does that make ALL other tech companies bad?

You know, it doesn't make all tech companies automatically bad, but in statistical terms, it sure as hell establishes a pattern.

Once is accident. Twice is coincidence. Thrice is enemy action.
It seems that you learned backbone along the way but if you did make an educated decision btw that and angular I'd love to know why you picked backbone over Angular. Awesome job thanks for all the great responses below too cool to read
The custom domain is probably the best escape hatch, and an advantage over Medium – ultimately you keep ownership of the pointer that is your brand, and that lets you really move your content (even if there is no export yet).
I use ctrl+c. It's easy to hit than esc, and it's built in, so it always works, even on servers i haven't set my config for, etc.
No MOOCs for Iran or Syria?
You guys are missing the point, "aiming", the industry's carrot to overwork yourselves for the startup lottery and forget about the rest.

http://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/11/watch-a-vc-use-my-name-to-se... (ironically bashing TC)
Wow. If it's so irrelevant, why put it there?
To be fair, the documentation I was linked to doesn't say anything about the 'content' property behaving this way. It only mentions 'model'.

In the second case, it seems quite reasonable to assume it knows about HTML comments and that they would behave as I expect.
Now I get it. I'm hundred percent sure that Apple TV integrates iBeacon powered mobile payments. How else do we pay for the on-demand content on TV? Just scan your fingerprint and there you go. Maybe even buy an advertised product that you see on TV, just like that.

"This channel requires subscription, please verify your payment with your iDevice, thank you." Fantastic.
As an occasional hypochondriac, I really like this idea but I'm ridiculously squeamish when it comes to medical stuff. I'm afraid I'd keep passing out on my keyboard. :)
The thought that's been put into Persona (formerly BrowserID) is excellent, but as far as I can tell it is intended for use on websites. Perhaps it could be made to work in a mobile app though?
Heh, maybe. I'd be interested to know if there have ever been any documented cases of vegans actually being offended by 0xDEADBEEF (in anything other than a joking way). Seems like something that is only 'hypothetically offensive'.
I've been enjoying Zed Shaw's Learn C the Hard Way http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/
The phase noise (really short term stability) of a rubidium oscillator is rather poor compared to on ovenized quartz oscillator. So what I really want is a strontium disciplined OCXO.
One thing I've spent some time thinking about is whether it would be possible to use atomic clocks to get a better measurement of the gravitational constant G. (G is by far the most poorly known of all the fundamental physical constants.) The idea would be to build a sphere whose mass is very precisely known and place one clock near the mass and one clock far away. By measuring the gravitational time dilation you could infer G. As I recall from my order of magnitude calculations, atomic clocks would have to improve in accuracy by four orders of magnitude or so before this would be feasible. So it would still be a long ways off.
SSL/TLS client auth is an option, though the UI isn't great.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPKAC
How is it more lucrative for the creators than the early adopters?
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In a vacuum, you could get GPS accuracy down to 700 nanometers with clocks that accurate [1]. If only that pesky atmosphere didn't get in the way!

[1]: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%281+second+%2F430+tril...
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And here I was expecting things like 'overfitting' and 'not having a holdout set or at least crossvalidating'.
Wow, check out the comments on that article. Are we sure this isn't a parody?

> Scott Johnson · Managing Director at New Atlantic Ventures

> Like the Yankees, and Patriots, Harvard, and Oracle, Siilicon Valley has a swagger that comes from repeated success. So of course there is growing resentment toward the region. Bask in it. The resentment is just admiration manifested as envy.
Being the target of such a campaign can have 'real-world' implications, so you might want to make sure you have "fuck you"-money before looking for that sort of fight.
>This is exactly the patronizing point of view that the Russians take of the Ukrainian identity: that it does not exist or that Ukraine is simply a part of Russia.

Personally I believe Ukraine and Russia should be equals in whatever future association they make. I see nothing wrong with saying Russia should equally be a part of Ukraine. It is just easier to imagine the opposite because Russia is bigger.

>This is exactly what the protesters are fighting. The fact that there are protesters on the streets right now is proof enough.

There are all sorts of protesters out there, and I have read that most of them are protesting corruption, not the trade agreement or East vs West. Anyway, let the elections decide.

>Just because one country invades another and subjugates its people for a period of time, does not make the occupied country a part of the occupying country.

Except Ukraine willingly joined the Russian empire in 1654. And again, many Ukrainians would like closer ties to Russia.

>Moreover, any cultural identity does not exist in a vacuum. By your logic we can argue that the US has no identity of its own and is still just a breakaway British colony that is due to join the UK any day now.

The similarity is that the US and the UK have very strong relations, and a difference is that many hundreds of years have elapsed since the American revolution. But, similarly, during the American revolution, there were royalists, and a foreign power (the French) did intervene to defeat the British. The point is that many Ukrainians would like closer ties to Russia, particularly those in the East.

Also, why pick the US when you can pick Canada- the Queen still comes by to visit, we have a governor-general, we are part of the commonwealth, and so on. A lot of people here feel close ties to the UK because of their British heritage.
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"Has someone tried creating another device that serves as a "key" and connects to your device via USB/bluetooth that can be used for authentication purposes?"

As far as I know many banks outside the US issue a key fob which generates tokens. Those are essentially equivalent to something like the Google Authenticator app.
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Do you have to get out of IT entirely? I thought IT is a big enough field that no matter what kind of job you have, you're able to find something almost opposite of it. I'm sorry to see that I'm wrong. What is it that you need that you can't find within the IT field?
My father was a flight instructor for the Air Force in the 1950s. He said the most common causes of accidents were running out of fuel, flying into bad weather, and failing to warm up the engine before takeoff.

> As the single-engine Marchetti climbed during takeoff, the engine suddenly quit.

That's the symptom of failing to warm up the engine properly - it quits just after leaving the ground.
"To the moon" isn't exclusive to pump and dump schemes, NASA have been known to use it from time to time...
I've tried to do this myself, and found it's pretty difficult task. When you remove really stupid mistakes pilots make (and we'd never do any of those things... we're not THOSE pilots... right?!) it starts to look a lot safer.
I absolutely love CoffeeScript, with how it structures classes and functions makes sense (plus the python like syntax was a big plus for work). JavaScript seemed to unorganized, unclear, and cluttered for big projects.
So, basically, Microsoft Research's Photosynth tech, but where the input is a bunch of videos instead of a bunch of photos, and the result is an "animated" 3D model of the environment instead of a static one?
Does it beat the pulsar clock [1]? And will standing next to clock make it go wrong because of the change of the gravitational field?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsar_clock
I think CS is too similar to JS in it's current an upcoming versions to stay relevant in the future. After Harmony the few differences between JS and CS will be trivially fixable by a few macros like Sweet.js.

Personally I moved to LiveScript as it gives me much more syntactic support for functional semantics, without requiring runtime support like ClojureScript (although I'm looking into ClojureScript as well, just not using it in production). But I'm in a privileged position because I could make that choice myself; I think not many people could do this. And they don't, which means if they switched to CS they're effectively stuck with it for some time.

Which, yes, makes CoffeeScript rather mainstream language :)
If I go to a restaurant with amazing food, and I find that the owner is an asshole, it's completely reasonable to not give them my business anymore. How is it any different with software?
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This is already mainstream. Facebook even pulls the code directly from your SMS if you are logging into their Android app.

It's just that it's a second factor to the password. Your phone can be stolen as well (although such theft is harder to scale) - so keeping the knowledge-test around is important.

I agree though, if you don't care about security, OTPs are potentially much more convenient than traditional passwords.
Be careful here. The SMS "from" number can be spoofed. So it doesn't quite work to have a user simply reply with 'Y' to an authentication text, unless the reply includes something only known to the service and the user.
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That's bordering on misleading in my opinion.

"Lasting impact" that can't stand up for itself, needs to generate a little confusion first.
This isn't your typical consumer ISP. Since they control the hardware, they could setup the mesh in some interesting ways. I'm not suggesting that they would accept arbitrary internet traffic, but you could see the routers accepting traffic from other peers in the mesh.
I think the biggest advantage for Apple is that they have the most popular content distribution platform, and they don't care if they make a profit on content. That makes them pretty attractive to content producers.

If you think of app developers as content producers, you can see how well Apple is already doing with partners.
If you host your jekyll blog on github, then creating a new blog post is as simple as logging into github and going straight to your blog repo. You can create a new file and edit straight from there. The blog is rebuilt on each commit.
If the attitude of the author is "invitation only", then you don't get the luxury of choice if you're not invited - that particular attitude trumps any quality argument.

Edit: I'm not really familiar with the particular politics here, but attitude of authors is not a trivial thing. Similarly, the wealth of GPL/BSD/MIT-licensed software that we all benefit from is strongly linked to the attitude of the authors.
Thank God that I cannot uninstall the FaceBook app from my HTC One.
I can see an argument that a system like this could be an "operating system" for a high level p2p system. Large swaths of what they are doing are undisclosed, but the object and user management system would make a decent theoretical operating system for decentralized p2p applications.
For those who are in this field, I have a question, and will be grateful for an answer. How far-reaching is this technique can be for Cancer treatments? I understand Cancer is not a simple disease that can be delineated.
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Look at it this way: DOGE was worth 240 satoshis before, and now only 160 satoshis. You would think that this would make people sad, but no, it makes people happy because they and fellow shibes can buy more DOGE. Yes of course that will make the price go up again, but the price isn't really the deal here for the most people.

http://imgur.com/C9M8mHa
I should learn that before posting something like this I need to set up an auto-responder. It's late here and I have an early start, but if you email me, I will reply.

Thanks for all the emails so far - I hope you get something interesting out of it, and I look forward to your comments.
True! People use Rubidium clocks only because they are inexpensive. I don't think scientists working in expensive labs rely on Rubidium clocks.
No, I think you get it. It's the equivalent of doing a password reset every time, generating a new random password each time, and simply never writing that password down. The idea is interesting but it has a few drawbacks. The one drawback that hasn't been pointed out by any comments I've seen is that email suuuuuucks as a transport for something you want to happen quickly (e.g. logging in). Occasional hiccups in delivery and spam false positives make it a serious pain in the butt if you have to receive an email in order to log in somewhere.
// for integer division instead of comments? Are these guys on crack?
Relevant blog post: https://github.com/blog/1767-redesigned-conversations.
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Wordpress is just a shitty CMS, but it is still a decent blog publishing platform.
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Good point! My comments are somewhat ephemeral to me. I'm not a very prolific commenter, and I don't feel all that attached to the content. To concede the point in practice, I'll just go for it with a long reply. I do wish comments were somehow a part of my own complete archive though. That seems like it would obviously be better.

Although I think the quality of discussion on HN is interesting, it's not that the HN brand is explicitly about the quality of the comments. The writing interface is pretty dissimilar from what Medium offers. To me there there appears to be an obvious conflict: if you're all about attracting brilliant users wouldn't those users also want to retain complete ownership over their content? Isn't that the smart long-term thing to do in a world of quickly changing services?

What's especially fascinating to me is the role that design plays in these services. Medium has clearly spent an exceptional amount of money to create a particular user experience. Without commenting on its quality, it seems that the aesthetic they have chosen has almost become a red flag. Spent all our money on design? Don't worry, we're going to sell you out anyway!

That should come with the disclaimer that I'm trained as an architect. Design is important, but most important is the tool. In so many cases design is just a way to send messages that distract from the actual workings of the tool.
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The entire context of this discussion is regarding a person who cannot accept cards. It is pointing out that Bitcoin is a non-solution because the user base is so small and most people pay with credit cards. You need to keep in mind the context in which you are responding.
I guess that is my point, why does it need to be isolated. Why couldn't you have video conversations while wearing the Occulus as if the person was right there. Hell even with life like avatars when half way across the country? collaborating on code or whichever subject in a virtual space?

I mean is it that important to take it off? I could see it increasing communication within a company. Instead of walking to a persons desk you could just have an in-person chat with them without moving (a much better experience than say, skype).
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It comes down to educating users in a way they understand. Part of the problem is that they simply do not grasp the risks or the issues involved. The problems are either too technical or confusing or they may simply not even know that the issue exists.

When wireless routers first came out almost none of them defaulted to having security. Unless you were fairly technical minded, you simply left the defaults in place. Not because you were clueless, but because you trusted that the manufacturer must know what they are doing...and you certainly don't.

Now they all come with security enabled, plus, users have been educated as to why they should use it. They don't need to know how it works-just why it is important and what it means to them.

Same thing goes for enabling HTTPS on websites, adding two-factor auth to your email, having unique passwords on different sites, etc. Part of the responsibility of users' cluelessness falls on us. We need to find better ways to communicate to the average user, who has a minimal understanding of technology, in a way that is meaningful to them.
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Woah.. is this like Rule 34 of startups? If an idea exists, there is a startup doing it (and has a .io domain name)?
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I think submitting your idea was a good idea. Maybe since she's proven she gets stuff done, she could crowdsource and crowdfund her next product.
# has always been for comments. What are you talking about?
Driving is also probably substantially safer if you don't make stupid mistakes.

Of course, you're also more at the mercy of others making stupid mistakes.
Quantum leap refers to a sudden increase in something. Given that this clock is 50% more precise than the previous record holder, I think it qualifies to be called a 'quantum leap'. So even if you are pedantic about headlines, it should still make sense. Don't you think so?
>If you pick software based on your opinion of the attitude of the authors, rather than its actual qualities, you're going to make a lot of mistakes.

Disagree.

I don't like the way Microsoft does business, and I think Steve Ballmer is an egotistical prick, so I don't buy their products. I don't use Windows on my devices (including phone), I don't use Skype, I don't own an xbox and therefore I don't use xbox live, etc.

I'm not interested in the "actual qualities" of Windows Phone or Metro UI because I don't want to support Microsoft with my dollars.

Have I made a mistake, pg?
Why not a more automatic approach like http://heapanalytics.com? Their js snippet starts automatically collecting all click events, then I group and analyze events on their website.

How is this "big data" when I have to make backend code changes to manually add each event using keen's api library? There's no way I can get as many events adding them one-by-one.
I have no horse in this race but I'm not sure which part of proof #1 is "wannabe elitist" and "knows better than everyone else"?

I used to own an iPhone 4S and switched to a Nexus 5 this christmas, because Android interested me and I wanted a change. I like Android overall much better and the N5 is a great phone, but I still agree with his points about the screen. It IS pretty frustrating trying to reach with one hand. The extra screen real-estate makes it worth it for me, though.

Apropos of nothing, I guess..
Some anecdotes I heard in the past was that Microsoft lost some of the source to it, either that or the source is such a huge mess it would need a virtual rewrite to get it to be portable.

Though probably the most likely one is that it was too much work to adapt the db engine to something other than the MS filesystems, as the program has existed since the early days, and the code is probably deeply rooted in MSDOS.
I can see how my post left room for misinterpretation; my intention was to express that the creators are in the set {people for whom it's most lucrative}. The earliest adopters are in the set too, obviously.

Put differently, my point is that "ethical" launches are simply good marketing, and are quite compatible with the sentiment expressed upthread that "[altcoins] are schemes to lure money into the creator's wallets". If a given coin becomes popular, the creator is going to profit immensely from it whether or not they engaged in pre-mining. By doing an "ethical" launch, they're making it more likely that the coin gains significant adoption, albeit probably decreasing the expected size of their payout. That seems like a smart play, given diminishing marginal utility of money, etc.
1. Tweet surveys out to hashtags.

2. Go (literally, physically) to places where your customers hang out. (Starbucks.)

3. Post in Facebook groups you think your customers would Like.

4. Post in LinkedIn groups you think professionals who'd buy your tool would participate in.

5. etc.

There are so many examples out there. Just brew some coffee, Google "how to get customer feedback", and take notes for an hour. You'll be set for at least a week of experiments.

* http://blog.kissmetrics.com/best-ways-to-get-feedback/

* https://www.helpscout.net/blog/customer-feedback/

* http://www.desk.com/blog/customer-feedback/

* http://blog.crazyegg.com/2013/09/17/customer-reviews-that-co...

* http://insideintercom.io/3-rules-for-customer-feedback/
Definitely ... just as soon as it starts raining money ;)
I read last week about an Australian researcher using honey as a base to make graphene. Can just see people keeping bees in their backyards to create base material for their future printers...
CoffeeScript has always used a single # instead of double // for comments.

In previous versions `//` compiled into an empty regular expression – something a little more difficult to express in JavaScript. But also something pretty much useless — hence the willingness to use it as an operator here.
why does it need to be funded if you already have a prototype? Why not just put it on github, I would be sure people would contribute.
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Keen is one of those companies like GitHub, Heroku, or Mailchimp that makes it easier to focus on what I'm actually trying to do. Best of luck to them.
The lesson here is how can you reasonably bash their economy?

For the record, I think the US economy is just fine, but I also think that things in scandinavia are A-O.K.