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> AWS, Azure, Heroku, App Engine, Parse, and similar services aren’t free, easy, or automatic.

I don't know why he lumps in AWS with Heroku. At least when I read AWS, I think of EC2, which is very similar to Linode or Digital Ocean (which he is complimentary of). I suppose there's also Elastic Beanstalk, which is more similar to Heroku, but I doubt that's what most people think of when they read 'AWS'.

> Ideally, your servers should be disposable and easily recreated. The only backups you should need are your source code (which should include any required server-setup scripts) and your database’s data.

Ugh, please don't mix server-specific setup scripts in with your app source code. Now when you want to switch from CentOS to Ubuntu, you're hosed. The server environment should be able to host your app without any modifications to the app itself, and the code that makes this environment ready to host an app should be separate from the app code, so that you can drop it into a different kind of environment at any time. This is one of the main ideas behind http://12factor.net.
Not just Google Docs, but Google's QuickOffice, which is the more feature rich office app for mobile from Google.
So there is no risk in shipping because you are 100% positive that you have the money you expect you have.

Only if you wait for a significant amount of time (days?) to verify the transaction. If you use a payment processor and they allow you to pass through transactions without verification, they are assuming that risk for you, but the risk is still there, and there is of course also risk caused by the currency volatility, chance of theft or loss of coins (very different from digital cash, more like paper cash), etc.

I'd be interested to know how companies like bitpay hedge that risk, or the risks caused by Bitcoin volatility, if indeed they do.
Good point, but it should be possible to overcome this for an online document. Free accounts could only be able to edit other people's documents, for example.
"I mean, we accept that decapitation is a non-survivable condition"

I do not accept that (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_transplant#History)
Wow. After 5 hours and 51 comments this story is already on page three at rank 73! Slow clap right there.
Doesn't Adobe Acrobat/Reader require a purchase to edit?
What about a night-shift guard with a male-male audio cable and any device with a microphone jack.
I don't think I've ever seen an editorial that was this far off from the truth before.
If you work for a private company, and look up the causes that your CEO contributes to, you might be surprised at what you find there, too.

I'm not saying Eich's contributions are irrelevant, just that he would hardly be the first CEO to hold political opinions many or all of the people who work with him find repugnant.

> it's severely exacerbated when it's applied to the CEO, who's getting a huge paycheck

I haven't looked at their financials, but I would have to assume that CEO of Mozilla is one of the less lavishly paid "CEO of a major tech organization" jobs. Nobody goes to work at Mozilla to get rich.
I didn't realize Twitter was part of the sharing economy
As you said, even if the original tx has propagated, a double spending tx with a higher fee will jump the line in a miner's mempool. Never assume miners are altruistic - they seek primarily to maximize their profit. Propogation is a useful heuristic, but its not a panacea.
> find a money guy

I feel like I live in a different world from everyone else. No one I know has money. Apparently old guys handing out checks are abundant everywhere else.
In general I agree with your theory. But I think it's different when you want to be the figurehead and ultimate authority over thousands of people. Especially you've helped to strip civil rights from some of those people.
http://www.apple.com/iwork-for-icloud/
So I am really tempted to get the SE 535s (because they seem like the next level up from the 215s which also fit me really well). The only thing that is stopping me is that the idea/hope that the Westones would be better. Did you do any sort of comparison between the two?
Lightbox is really the saddest app. It has no features a web page from 1995 couldn't do - except for the animation, which is about jQuery 2006 level, and can be done with native CSS easily nowadays.
more importantly I think, the BSD license allows you to think up new stuff, incorporate it with what I wrote, then not share it with the rest of the world. GPL means that every commit raises ALL boats.
I did. Perhaps I should have phrased my reply a bit better:

People who criticise another person for an act which is contentious is not going to produce a drop in market share.

Perhaps even this is not obvious enough for you. You're probably being deliberate obtuse though. The simple point is that you can't infer a technical ability from their belief on whether gay marriage is right or not.

In addition, even if these people were proven to be bad at their jobs, I doubt that would cause the drop in market share either. Three people who are not at the very top of the company are unlikely to have that effect.
How often is that a requirement, though? I'd imagine the vast majority of cases are people just looking to send a document, not look for edits.
Exactly right, until he demonstrates an inability to bracket his personal affairs from his professional life (which he hasn't done) we as a enlightened pluralistic society should assume good faith and accept that he rose to this position based on his merit and contributions to the company and is probably a great candidate for the position.
Are you aware that prohibition of same-sex marriage in English legislation is a recent thing? It was only written into law in 1971.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nullity_of_Marriage_Act_1971

Marriage is tweaked when needed.
It's worth noting that the password requirements for an account on that site are insane:

Password Must be 10 characters and begin and end with a number.

Yes, they actually mean exactly ten characters. And no, that's not has a number in it, that's begins and ends with a number.
Witch hunts start with one person shouting that someone is a witch, and public opinion slowly grows and turns until someone is literally tied to a stake and has gas poured on them.

Nobody wants to literally burn someone alive. But at the same time, nobody wants to live with a witch in their community. Alone, nobody would go so far; but there's comfort and safety in numbers, and the more people support a cause, the easier it is to jump behind the masses and throw sharp objects without being singled out. If you'd like to see how an entire village can murder someone for, say, being a homosexual, google "necklacing".

Also, your idea of abusive behavior completely negates the real experience of people being harassed online. Women bloggers often get threatening letters and tweets that are hidden from view, telling them they should be raped, murdered, and worse. Even just a majority of people telling you you are a bad person is enough to cause severe depression and anxiety. Without experiencing it yourself, you really have no idea how horrible it can get. And if Brendan actually had a history of mental illness, this could easily drive him to kill himself, as many people have committed suicide from online bullying over the years.

Also: Are you saying these Mozilla employees were wronged? I'm certainly not aware if they were, so I don't see how any of this is justified.
I'd be really curious on why you chose not to go with Erlang. Could you expand on that a little?
I'm wondering what would happen if, without paying for the office 365 subscription, I try to edit a document stored in the cloud. Will it open a Safari tab with the free office.com online Word/Excel/Powerpoint ?

In other words : Is there an "Open with Word Online" button for non office 365 subscribers?
Silicon Valley Disrupts Discrimination: Now It’s for Middle-Aged White Guys, Too
"It couldn't be stupider, and that's why it's brilliant" Yishan Wong on Dogecoin
Honest question, as I've never really understood the industry: where does this money come from and why? And where does the money go that acquisitions and IPOs earn them?
No we couldn't. Entitlement spending (eg social security) is mandatory, by law. The architects of that system (and of Medicare) did not foresee the bay boomer generation and the sudden drop in fertility. US pensions are not especially generous, though Medicare costs could certainly be controlled. I urge you to read the SSAB report; this isn't something you can conserve your way out of, same way that you can't conserve your way out of rising carbon pollution.

Sure, Congress could pass a law to cut entitlements significantly. But good luck explaining to voters who paid payroll taxes all their working lives that they can't have what they paid for.
They're so full of shit.
in other words, witch-hunt is ok if you support the cause?
I've been experimenting with one as well (https://www.plantdietlife.com/) I'm getting a lot of interesting from physicians interesting in plant based nutrition. I'm curious where diet's based on plants and biotech will merge. My buddy shared this (https://campaign.soylent.me/soylent-free-your-body)

"Soylent is a food substitute intended to supply all of a human body's daily nutritional needs, made from maltodextrin, rice protein, oat flour, canola oil, fish oil, and raw chemical powders." -Wikipedia
I learned a lot about writing good Haskell code from working with Yesod. Since it's a framework it structures your code for you and exposes you to a lot of well-designed patterns. Yesod and Conduit are two of the best written packages I've come into contact with (though there are many many more) and simply following their guides has given me new insight into what high-quality Haskell code should look like.
Below-average and expensive masters degree programs will get disrupted sooner than most people think. This is already happening (with coding bootcamps, for instance).

Will MOOCs disrupt them? I'm not sure. But it will be some combination of online content (e.g. MOOCs) + curriculum + mentorship + community. e.g. Check out what Thinkful is doing.

Undergraduate programs are safe for the near future (but not forever) because employers are conditioned to value college diplomas. I checked with 30+ hiring managers and recruiters in the Valley last fall, and there was almost no willingness to hire someone who didn't go to college. I predict this will change in 15-20 years, and going to college will become a choice, not a necessity for many jobs.

Ashwath Damodaran (NYU prof) has written an interesting post about it here: http://aswathdamodaran.blogspot.com/2014/01/if-moocs-fail-is...

I spend a lot of time thinking about this stuff (I'm working on an education startup, details in bio). I'd be delighted to chat more. My hacker news ID is also my gmail ID.
Because it's illegal for anyone except Oracle to include ZFS with a Linux distribution, amongst other things.

Take it up with Sunacle.
What does cash have to do with this discussion?
oh actually I agree with you completely! Don't mistake my negative impressions of the study... I am being purely objective based on existing evidence. Subjectively, I think we should continue to do everything we can to advance this area of knowledge and think it is ethical to do.
But what is still missing is a Metro version of Office. Historically, Office has always been the showcase on how to build proper Windows applications, it's where UI innovations are first introduced: i.e. embedding, multiple document interface, icon bar, ribbon.

Since the introduction of the Metro ('modern') UI, Microsoft has not been able to really show the power and possibilities of it. Office for Metro should fix this, and show people how Metro is superior to the iOS and Android UI. Supposedly Office Metro has been in development for years (project Gemini), but as it turns out: it's not ready. And Office for iPad is.

I hope we'll hear more about office for Metro soon, maybe next week at Build?
> Because as a consumer, I've never had a complaint about my CC, ever.

I take it you've never had your CC details stolen, or less seriously, had your CC automatically shut down when you're traveling due to "suspicious activity."
Warren Buffett has always preached valuing stocks and investing for the longer term based on what the market capital SHOULD be worth.

If Zuckerberg bought this company because he wanted it to earn him money in the long run because it is currently undervalued at 2B, then yes, I guess he is.

Edit: This disappoints me because technology shouldn't be treated like a commodity.
The Alternative Payments Landscape (Visualization)
How do you think the tech/startup world can better diversify?
The guns that know who is firing them
Woah!! Way too premature to compare Zuckerberg and his singular 10 year old successful company to Buffett, who's been above and beyond in successfully running dozens of businesses for 50+ years. For the sports comparison, it'd be like comparing Kevin Durant to Michael Jordan (or Neymar to Pele for the European readers). Potential is there - yes. Too early to make a good comparison - yes.
What other risk could there be to the seller?
He was asked in 2012(?) if he still held those views. He declined to answer.
Oracle have supported it as a production filesystem in OEL for some time. SuSE have made it their default. It will be available in RHEL 7.
An hour goes by and no one has called me on this? "Basic Income" and "no 'currency' to speak of" seem contradictory. I'd go for no currency rather than BI now that I think of it. Replicators for everyone!
I've never heard of a VC leveraging up with borrowed money. Who would be on the hook if the fund loses money?
I generally consider PDF to be a static document, something meant to freeze the current appearance and layout as part of making it a final draft.

Would I start to think this way about Word docs? Is that good for MS?
Some things just require a lot of time to grow, either because it's a new problem or a new technology. We were lucky because both of us (founders) had a headstart in academia, which funded our research for 2 years. We could chart prototype pools of 20,000+ people and test out things like scalable mesh wifi networks and user-persona switching because of that academia safety net.

Maybe it's more truthful to say - "having a growth vertical and being able to articulate it concisely is the most important." Things will change. Your strategy will change, your product will adjust itself based on testing, listening, more testing, listening. Getting that market fit, and knowing your market ensures that you're growing in the direction that you actually want to grow in.

I'm a current applicant though, so maybe I'm wrong. Regardless, we did our best in the application and that's all we can do. Now -- back to working on the company! (it takes them a while to get back to you anyway, no point waiting anxiously)

PS. good luck to everyone else who applied
Stripe is testing Bitcoin
Anti-adblock startup secures $400,000 funding
I think you're drastically overstating the risk of a double spend.
R2048
The issue I find is that spreadsheets are really unpleasant to work with on a tablet (or any touch display). Given that, things like QuickOffice or similar work mostly just fine for viewing.
I agree with you. I think people have diversified. Office isn't going away, but their prolonged absence on other platforms opened some doors that they can't close again.

I've seen much more openness to other document formats across industries. It's a bit like BYOD in enterprise, but at the document level. For example, it's been 5 years since I've been at a conference that requires slides to be PPT.

They will probably always own the high end: advanced documents for the 20% of knowledge workers that need those features; custom Enterprise workflows, etc. But fewer and fewer people will ever require access to the Office Suite in any form.
>but save 3% on the transaction, would you

It's my understanding that it's explicitly against the merchant agreement with the big CC players to have different prices for different payment methods.

Of course, that's difficult to enforce in practice for every Ma and Pa operation, but if you're operating on any scale, where a significant portion of your revenue comes from CCs, that will be an issue.
> And the most advanced algorithm family for indexing point-like data is not in the literature at all.

So what is it? Is it patented, secret(classified)?

And how do you know it is the most advanced without a peer review?

BTW "adaptive spatial sieves" on Google search produces exactly 0 results. Is there another name for it.

Spatial indexing is interesting and complex but not exactly rocket science, there have been a good number of people thinking about. It is hard to believe there are general approaches there that haven't been thought of yet. But again, but I am not an expert, so I could be wrong.

Can you write some more about it, I am very curious.
> Which won't even work on current versions of Debian GNU/Linux because the soname for libgmp changed.

Again, my argument assumes that you're not upgrading to current versions of things. Enterprise production-grade deployments often fix their OS version because of this. There's a reason RHEL is so far behind the most recent versions. If you are upgrading, then you'll be fixing these problems incrementally as you go along and it won't get out of hand.

> No it doesn't. I had specified a dependency on a particular version of text

You're making my point for me. It looks like you were probably depending on 0.11.1.4, which doesn't exist now. Your problem would not have happened if you had used an upper bound of "< 0.12" like the PVP says instead of locking down to one specific set of versions. If you had done that, cabal would have picked up subsequent 0.11 point releases which should have worked fine. Also, I can still download text-0.1 which is more than 5 years old.
You've described why merchants would want it. Now describe why consumers would want it.
> Some consumers can't get a credit card. It's hard for consumers vulnerable to overspending & borrowing to avoid the card's expensive credit component.

Aren't debit and credit cards 100% interchangeable these days? I've for sure never had my MasterCard debit card rejected.
Employees are not employers so I don't see how this a violation of Title VII since nothing of the nature has come to pass. I can demand anything I want this does not constitute abuse of any sort.
The same reason a friendly drug dealer would offer a first hit free: to get you hooked.

Once you have a bunch of important documents locked up in Office file formats -- which Office is the only app guaranteed to be able to read reliably -- you have a great incentive down the road to start sending money to Microsoft so you can continue to access them.
Experts Found That Mt. Gox Lost A Mere 386 Bitcoin Due To Bug
Not really the whole dataset. For ImageNet, I have mini_batch size of 256, and I need to allocate the whole network on GPU for this mini_batch (which is 256 * the neurons in the network), and plus parameters (parameters is about 200MiB * 3 for updates and momentum). Also to speed up certain operations, the data need to be reshaped, and there are 500MiB scratch space just for that purpose. In total, I am using close to 6GiB GPU memory. You probably can get to only use 4GiB memory if the batch size is 128.

The code is never optimized to the extreme. I optimized the code to the point of being able to finish at reasonable time (9 days for 100 epochs). The convolutional kernel is parametrized (with template and some macro tricks, forward and backward propagation convolutional kernels are parametrized into hundreds of small functions) and the best parameters were chose with a mini benchmark in the beginning of training process.
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> Only if you wait for a significant amount of time (days?) to verify the transaction.

What? Two or three confirmations are generally irreversible. Six - an hour, give or take - has been generally agreed to be absolutely irreversible since the original Bitcoin client (if it's not, there's something really wrong and Bitcoin isn't as valuable as we thought).

If you're using a payment processor which takes risk that doesn't need to be there because you're not going to have your items in the post in an hour anyway (i.e. the vast majority of merchants), you're simply wasting money.
A cracked version of an iOS app? You must be jailbroken. Most users are not.
Even today, 'American' names on a job application generate more response than non-American. They do know how to get ahead; Americanize your name.
How to be rich like me
Cash is still an extremely common and well-accepted method of payment for brick and mortar stores, despite the fact that it (like Bitcoin) doesn't have all the consumer protection features of credit cards.
> However, a well rounded person knows when to adapt. They lead when necessary, and take instructions when required.
Haha this is incredible! I've never seen these surgeries. Technically you could do this on a person too, I don't see any reason it wouldn't work. Of course, with our current level of scientific understanding, we have no means to 're-connect' the spinal cord--that is currently our rate limiting step in surviving a controlled decapitation, say one performed under hypothermia in an OR suite. We could use a bypass machine on a severed head, but it would still be a quadriplegic and unable to breathe for itself.

Futurama's 'heads in bowls' is not so far-fetched if we never figure out our to reattach a spinal cord.
This is actually a totally legit target for investment on Demo Day.

If your product costs $30+/user/month, dozens of users could mean that you're ramen profitable at the end of two months, a major milestone. If you can sustain that 10% growth for two months of YC, you'll have enough money to hire an employee by bootstrapping alone, which means that you're able to turn down investors, which makes you more valuable.

You shouldn't ask for (and shouldn't take) millions of dollars in investment at that point, but you're certainly lined up for hundreds of thousands of dollars; keep up that 10% growth rate a few more months and you will be ready for VC.
EmberConf picks up where the Rails community left off
I made a Hacker News for healthtech, but I've been having trouble persuading folks to submit stories and comment.

http://www.medtechnologynews.com/
I think you're confusing the $150 million dollar 'loan', the settlement of the lawsuits, and Office, which is reasonable confusion based on how unclear the whole thing was.

http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-202143.html
It's easy* to build a dramatically better performing and more efficient CPU than currently available if you don't have to restrict yourself to the code and compilers currently available.

The exciting thing to me is that between wider availability of open source compilers and code, and a larger amount of user level code being written in interpreted languages (so only the language runtime needs to be rebuilt), there might actually be a future in alternative architectures.

* As these things go...
Using Ruby command line options
Sounds like Java and .Net Bytecode. I don't deal with Java much, but in .Net world IL is jitted on demand into memory and thrown away when the process is recycled unless you do ngen, which is difficult to do in many situations (web applications).

I think many underestimate the overhead involved in compiling IL to native including MS themselves. There are user perceivable delays in application startup time in larger code bases that lead to a worse user experience. Why they don't cache jitted code to disk after 5-6 version of .Net is beyond me, even Mono has a AOT compiler.

I am starting to appreciate the AOT approach of "native" code (C,C++,GO), do as much as possible one time, at compile time. Don't make the user wait because you want to distribute a single portable binary.