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Scala is a functional programming language. Go is even more impractical than Java for FP. Scala runs on the JVM, Go does not. Depending on your views on these matters, you may lean towards one or the other, but it's still apples versus oranges.
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Yes it is a common business model, and great work if you can get it.

To be successful at it you need to be more than just a middle man; you provide value by solving an impedance mismatch between sets of buyers and sellers.

For example: eBay provides a reputation system, a search engine, and a payments processor (PayPal). Those are all arguably difficult things for individual buyers and sellers to provide. As a result eBay attracts a large audience of both, making the marketplace for goods more efficient, and extracts a small cut of lots of transactions.

Stripe is providing a way to make the payment provider part of the marketplace equation more easily available to developers. In theory you can focus more on the other hard parts of making a successful market.
Computers have many applications, while data mining is generally used with working sets consisting of information about large groups of people - either to get a strategic leg up on them (say, price discrimination or advertising susceptibility), or to single out deviant individuals.

I don't think the entire field is strictly a universal evil per se, but with the current climate of centralization I think any good that it can bring is massively dwarfed by the bad.

Similarly, missiles themselves aren't a universal bad as they can be used for self defense, but in the current world basically their entire purpose is to preserve empires.
(This post assumes that one is trying to maximize likes. There are obviously different, and arguably superior, ways of using a social network)

The value of analysis like this is proving, codifying, and quantifying things that are intuitively believed to be true. Or, alternatively, disproving those things.

One might believe that "more hashtags" causes "more likes", and even have a model in which "more hashtags" causes "more likes", but that doesn't mean that it's actually true.

Before doing the analysis, the result could have come out either way. The author could have found that "more hashtags" did not cause (or at least, was not correlated with) "more likes". In this case, one could have taken the action of not filling in 30 hashtags, saving effort.

And, for that matter, there's a lot of variance in average likes that's not accounted for by hashtag count. Further analysis might actually prove that some other factor (such as age of poster) influences both like count and hashtag count, and accounting for that other factor, hashtags might actually be useless or detrimental.

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As a general philosophy, intuitively knowing "something is true" is not nearly as good as being able to point at data, and show general evidence that the thing is actually likely to be true.
It sounds like you have a better understanding of DHT than me and tt sounds like DHT isn't vulnerable like traditional tracker. My knowledge of the attack method is served to what I read in a research paper 2 years back.
When looking to effect change, one has to build coalitions, which sometimes means picking battles.

If only this could have been the last word on this issue. I salute you, 'chimeracoder, for your fairness and rationality.

Was the recently-mooted "comment pre-approval" process delayed for some reason? If any HN comment thread could be rescued by that, surely this is one.
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Henry Ford was one of the worst people in history, and writings that he sponsored and opinions that he espoused were referenced frequently by the architects of the Holocaust.

That says nothing about his ability to make money, but Mozilla is a non-profit exercise.
I don't think I've seen anyone get excited about it yet.
Sigh. Part of the Maidan movement consists of militant fascists, yes. But that doesn't make the whole movement fascist and neither does it make the overthrowing of Yanukowich a fascist coup.

I know a bunch of Ukraininans (ethnic and Ukrainian-speaking), and they are extremely opposed to being any part of the "Russian sphere". Those 80 years of subjugation are not easily forgotten.

Ukraine was at a once-in-a-hundred years decision point and it was very clear that staying away from Russia was not possible with him in power.

Just because you are democratically elected doesn't mean that you can single-handedly decide to do anything you want. Or do you think Yanukowich was elected on a "screw the EU we-ll go Russia"-ticket?
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One of the things I liked about Snapchat was the ability to find friends without using Facebook. I think that would be a good addition here.
Stripe was always going to release this. Balanced however, has more advanced tools to deal with marketplaces (i.e: you need to write less code to power a marketplace on Balanced than Stripe).

This is not a big deal though, the battle will end up being who can scale globally faster.
(bill from wepay here)
competition in payments is a good thing for the market & I believe that Stripe has had these APIs for some time.

I believe that our model (which removes marketplaces from the flow of funds & shields them from risk) is a better fit for some folks, but not all - there are tradeoffs. I have a ton of respect for the guys at stripe and would consider us good friends. (We were actually both in YC S09 when Stripe was called /dev/payments)

[Edit/addition: Marketplaces are an especially valuable segment for payment companies because they touch a lot of payment volume relative to their company size. i.e. a software company selling $100m of revenue is usually a relatively large & established company, but a marketplace processing $100m of GMV can be quite small.]
Assuming that your position is correct, how is fighting against gay marriage a good for anybody and at all productive? From what I can see, it serves to divert resources from your stated purpose, needlessly antagonises people who might support said purpose and serves to maintain a right-less underclass. And no the latter's not going to fight for your purpose since they're busy fighting for equal rights.
Yes, completely freelancer developed. I closed the agency and moved to SF from LA when we got to 30k monthly uniques.

Overall, the two years prior to the inflection point and the first users were pretty inefficient. The vision was actually always the same (a universal social platform for all of shopping), but the execution changed dramatically. We literally just kept launching features around this concept, but they were pretty unfocused, until the minimalist redesign.

On the other hand, this 2 year period allowed me to make lots of product design mistakes and learn from them and to develop a personal philosophy and approach to product design.
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You can buy hemp protein powder on Amazon, I've seen hemp blend shirts (horribly scratchy, for the record).
Yes, or slightly more charitably: "kids benefit from having both male and female role models at home." I struggle with this a bit.
Nice job guys. Really well thought out and well designed. You guys are top notch.
> I can't help thinking that it doesn't really fit with the image Mozilla tries to present of themselves.

Mozilla offers mass-market products. That means that there are many many people who, for example, use Firefox and watch FOX NEWS—and that Mozilla would dearly like for there to be many more of them. I guarantee you that Mozilla doesn't seek, and would be mad to seek, a public image as an organisation that blacklists people for holding mainstream US conservative views.

Secondly, if one accepts the principle of industry blacklisting, and not only against individuals with exceptionally marginal or extreme views, we can assess, for example, the HUAC blacklists in this light. Were they proper and appropriate? If not why not? Perhaps because being a mid-century Stalin apologist is entirely forgiveable but being a Prop. 8 opponent is beyond the pale?
1) Who said anything is unforgivable? This is a straw-man and a false dichotomy.
2) People usually expect some kind of apology and atonement before forgiveness. Quick google search didn't find anything, got a link?
3) Way to call people calmly being upset about someone donating to prop 8 on the internet basically worse than racist, homophobic, neo-nazis.
Yeah, the "DIY" approach: ask all the gay couples out there who tried that with big expensive packages of legal documents that ended up being worth sweet fuck all precisely at the moment they needed it.

Part of the reason there is a push for gay marriage is because the alternatives (civil partnerships, "DIY" marriages using contracts) and they've failed to provide the necessary protections for couples in the way marriage rights seem to.

There is a compelling societal need to be able to say "here are people who are in an intimate, long-term trusting relationship for the purposes of decision making, finance, tax and so on".

I wish you luck in your campaign to find a compelling and convincing political and intellectual argument for something that would serve the social goods that marriage does and would effectively replace marriage for gay and straight couples. Until then, I'd quite like to be able to get married to someone of the gender I'm actually attracted to. (And as of Saturday, I will be able to, thanks to the marriage laws in England changing.)
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Maybe it has something to do with the fact that the team is Slovenian, and we're quite proud of what these guys have achieved, and if we can help in any way, we do.
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s?on the web?when you can scale your infrastructure horizontally using asynchronous, connectionless queries distributed across a global network with large peers, layers of caching and a set of uniform standards to interact with client/server applications?g
Except there are an indefinite number of other DNS servers, free and with a contract, that Turkish users could use too, from an indefinite number of different vendors. It's a heck of a lot harder to block "any DNS server that isn't under Turkish government control" than it is to block twitter.

We can all speculate, but really I was hoping that someone had some additional information, perhaps because they are in Turkey, on what's going on exactly.

(Is it too much to expect discussion of technical details on HN, instead of political bickering? On anything involving Turkey, anywhere on the internet, yeah, it probably is. The reason why I'm curious about technical details is, of course, because I have an interest in knowing how to circumvent and help people circumvent whatever censors are up to these days).
Short term perhaps, but longer term a huge reduction/elimination of human-caused accidents is really bad news for car insurance.

Here's a quote from Warren Buffett (big investor in Geico): "If you end up with no accidents, we will end up with no insurance company"

http://www.reddit.com/r/SelfDrivingCars/comments/1vj99m/warr... (unfortunately the video has been removed)
Depends. France has the same sort of salary diversity as the USA. Paris vs. Bordeaux are almost two completely different worlds so while you have good engineers in Bordeaux, their price tag is probably about 3 times cheaper than their Paris equivalent.
https://www.impassebreaker.com. If you click on the "about us" button on the front page you'll find links to some reading (in the answers) that you may find interesting. Feel free to email me off-line with any other questions -- stephen at impassebreaker dot com.
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I wonder if disconnecting people from the Internet is enough to bring down the government. Has that happened anywhere yet?
Reboot three times each day; though the Army assumes you know that.

"Army officials said that they believed the Israeli experience was atypical--they assumed other Patriot users were not running their systems for 8 or more hours at a time. However, after analyzing the Israeli data and confirming some loss in targeting accuracy, the officials made a software change which compensated for the inaccurate time calculation. This change allowed for extended run times and was included in the modified software version that was released on February 16, 1991. However, Army officials did not use the Israeli data to determine how long the Patriot could operate before the inaccurate time calculation would render the system ineffective.

On February 21, 1991, the Patriot Project Office sent a message to Patriot users stating that very long run times could cause a shift in the range gate, resulting in the target being offset. The message also said a software change was being sent that would improve the system's targeting. However, the message did not specify what constitutes very long run times. According to Army officials, they presumed that the users would not continuously run the batteries for such extended periods of time that the Patriot would fail to track targets. Therefore, they did not think that more detailed guidance was required."

http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/gao/im92026.htm
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I'm frequently trying to explain to people that Stripe has all the features to run one's marketplace on but folks somehow think that they should be using another product merely because of the marketing. Good to have a centralized marketing experience targeted toward marketplaces, even if the feature set didn't change. It is very smart -- PC and the whole Stripe team did a great job here.
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Earth Class Mail will deliver them. And not just documents, I've had packages delivered to ECM and had them hang on to them until I had an address to deliver it to. There's a storage fee, but it's nothing compared to the monthly fee.
I did read in the story you were a world class snowboarder which is awesome. I was just trying to say that I'm disappointed with the quality of the story that TechCrunch has published about your product. It's not very well written and didn't explain your product well. But it doesn't reflect poorly on you, just on TechCrunch. Best wishes and good luck!
No problems with earthclassmail here either. It is expensive though.
Do your customers really like you?
I never knew Mod was Draft until I read this linked article.
http://needwant.com/p/cancelled-kickstarter-campaign-funded-...

While reading that I was wondering, and not accusing Mod team here but just a thought, what is stopping people from using Kickstarter this way (to gauge demand) deliberately? Launch a campaign and yank when it is successful to pursue larger profits?
I'm not sure how "quiet" that is considering the number of comments. That said, this is HN, not 4chan (though you certainly see the 'sexism-is-not-a-thing' crowd crawling out of the woodwork at every opportunity).

Wrt to Eich and his donation, I'm on a the fence about it. I don't like mobbing on people, especially on the Internet. Especially when the people concerned have not made their reasons public. On the other hand, upon reading Proposition 8, it's difficult to imagine many other reasons than deep conservatism or homophobia for supporting it.

Ah well. I suppose Brendan will trend very carefully, and he certainly has enough technical credibility that nobody will attack him from this angle. I'll also note that a number of figures popular on HN are more well-known for their amount of wealth than their moral character. Maybe one of his crimes is not being rich enough?
Mozilla hires new CEO who will focus on Firefox OS
FOBO - Hiring Growth Engineer, local marketplace for used goods (SF)
Fobo, a local marketplace undergoing rapid-growth, is looking to hire a dedicated growth engineer.

Sound interesting? Reach out. Would love to chat about:

- Objective-C

- Javascript, and ideally Typescript/Haskell

- Leveraging mobile measurement partners (we're using AppsFlyer)

- Small-scale, targeted ad buys on Facebook

- Retargeting across the web

- Mixpanel

Just shoot me a quick note at ed@fobo.net

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We're well on our way to profitability (10% WoW growth leading to $1M run-rate, in just 6 weeks).

This is a key technical hire, with significant equity and lots of room to influence the strategic direction of the company. The best fit will probably be someone hoping to be a technical founder in their next role.

FOBO has raised $1.6M from a number of top-tier investors such as YC, Kevin Rose, Dave Morin, Joshua Schachter, Chris Sacca, Tim Ferris, Index, Greylock, et al. Visit us at http://www.fobo.net

We're located in San Francisco's mission district, just blocks from BART.

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FOBO - The Fastest, Easiest Way To Sell Your Consumer Electronics

http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/10/fobo/

Gadget Marketplace App FOBO Has Hit A Million-Dollar Run Rate

http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/16/fobo-video/
Removing routes from ISP DNS servers nationwide is often the first step in blocking content. It's easily bypassed if you know what you're doing, but most people don't and are stuck. China did this circa 2004, and AFAIK a lot of blocks in Vietnam are still done like this. I doubt Turkey has the infrastructure that more advanced censorship regimes like China and Iran use, so it's something of a poor man's solution (especially in a world of apps on mobile where the end user has no control over how data is fetched over the network).

Google DNS being just two IP addresses makes it a lot easier to shut down without collateral damage.
Hey guys, I'm the CEO and Founder of Wanelo, so I'll jump in here.

In 2007-2008, I actively searched for a technical cofounder, but I couldn’t find one. I did have a false start of working with two great engineers, who in the end weren't interested in taking this on full time.

In parallel, I started consulting as a UX designer to make money. I eventually took on more projects that led me to hire a small team of designers to support all the client work. The income generated from these projects made it possible for me bootstrap Wanelo on my own and hire an engineer in India and a couple people under him to start building Wanelo. This was a direct contracting situation (he got paid and there was no equity involved) which went on for a couple of years.

We built a bunch of features that nobody cared to use until, finally, at the end of 2010, we launched a version (mentioned in the presentation) which people started using for the first time. At that point, I closed down my agency, which ended my source of income. I then asked the main engineer (Sarvjeet) if he would come on board as a CTO/cofounder (since I could no longer pay him or anyone else) and he said yes. This didn’t last for long. After a few months, it became clear very quickly that we were not a good fit for a cofounder relationship. We mutually agreed to end his involvement with the company (there was a 3 months transition period for which he got paid), and I went on solo to raise funding and build a new team, which took over the technical platform. Two months later, we fully rebuilt the website on an entirely new stack, leaving all the old code behind.

To elaborate on the “no team” comment, that comes directly from investors who refused to consider me and a remote engineer in India as a real team. This was the main challenge in raising money. Investors would literally call me a solo female non technical founder because it was just me with no engineering background and some remote contractors, and it took 40 rejections from investors to close my seed round.
There is a difference between a statement someone got asked for or an immediate statement (even a short one like: "I acknowledge that some people in the developer community have issues with this decision because of my donation to prop8, an issue I will address soon").

The current state of things shows that he didn't feel like this needs to be addressed by himself.
I love this app. It is the most used 3rd party app on my iPhone.
I cant imagine better way for fast communication with frends. Keep up the good work !!!
the background of this page is moving around aaaah
It would also matter if your customers are in one of the 4 countries that can have stripe merchant accounts. I'm running into that issue with manualviableproduct.com.
Two things:
First: So AT&T will lower your bill by charging data suppliers (Netfix, Google, Apple,...) for preferential access. Well what are these companies going to do: charge higher prices to recoup their higher expenses! Two sides of this coin: yes you pay higher fees for their service, but only users of Netflix/Google/Apple pay the higher fees. Everyone else is lower. So in a sense, this stops non-subscribers from subsidizing the subscribers.

Second: This "will help startups compete against more established players." How so? Now start-ups are going to have to pay for preferential access to serve their content too. Big players will always be able to outspend these startups and in a way reduce the exposure of any new service. This is not so good for everyone (well except the titans).
> we're not dealing with "anti-gay", but with "anti-gay marriage"

Which is a distinction without a difference.
In all fairness, many EU leaders are scared shitless of Turkey. It is not so much that they have something against Islam (well, at least most of them), but they are acutely aware that Turkish society might blow up once the power of the military is reduced to a sufficient degree.

Nobody knew what exactly could/would trigger chaos in Turkey, but there are many candidates: The Kurdish question, the post-Kemalistic resurgence of Islam, the Alevites...

I sincerely hope that these expectations were to pessimistic. If Turkey could somehow "capture" all its societal tensions within the framework of a stable parlamentary system, we (both Turkey and the EU) could greatly benefit from Turkish accession.
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>Wow

and

>I don't really understand

in same post, what are the odds? :) Its a scam.
They are tryting to sell 50Whr battery that can be charged in

>nine hours for 100 percent charge on a 1A power supply

from usb (5V), thats maths 101

>Do they have circuits that somehow manage the battery

They are selling product that stores more power than it consumes while being charged. Its snake oil at best, more likely a scam.
Its always been like that, there is a joke that you stop a random person on the street in LA and ask them how their screen play is coming, they will look at you suspiciously and ask "How did you know I was working on a screen play?" and similarly if you ask the random person in the Bay Area how their business plan is coming, they will respond identically.
This headline looks like it was generated via Markov chains.
Yes, snake oil salesmen are usually happy to let you buy some snake oil.
I appreciate the idea of holistic morality, but if Gandhi's statement is true, then there's no such thing as a person who is doing right, since the number of ways you can be engaged in (and even habituated to) arguably unethical behavior is so great.
HyperMac literally bought Apple adapters and chopped off the cable. I'm not sure how much more Apple-proof you can get than that. What you need to be is "lawyers on retainers who can keep draining your law funds"-proof.

edit: another comment suggest a MagSafe-MagSafe2 adapter is used. That's an interesting solution that may very well work if they require the customer to buy it themselves, as I believe the Apple patent hinges on using a magnet. Of course, they may want to argue that in court. For years and years.