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>> Is that really how you feel?

>If it were, I simply wouldn't read bitcoin stories.

Then your statement, 'I suppose this is all great if you want to use bitcoin because of your political persuasion', doesn't fully represent your actual point of view about the topic you were referring to (the growth of the bitcoin ecosystem)?

This one of several issues that I'm finding quite confusing. You've said you personally would love to see bitcoin have some limited growth because that might force improvements in the existing financial system[1], but then you've dismissed all other people's possible pleasure at bitcoin's growth as being purely politically motivated[2]. These two positions seem to contradict each other.

>What are the material advantages to using bitcoin for anything other than as an exchange mechanism?

I could give a trivial example, but do you mean the material advantages for you, or for some other person? I wouldn't be so presumptuous as to insist that bitcoin must be good for you personally. It's quite possible that it's worse than useless for you in its current form.

[1] "I'd love to see BC companies do well and then die off" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8079622

[2] "I suppose this is all great if you want to use bitcoin because of your political persuasion." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8081114
I find it difficult to balance my distaste for corporations that act irresponsibly with my laziness in regard to my investment portfolio. I use a slight variant on the three-fund portfolio (http://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Three-fund_portfolio). I value its simplicity because it saves me time and gives an acceptable expected return. However, using large total market funds means that I'm invested in so many companies that it would take a very long time to investigate each one for responsibility.

Good on Mr. Cuban for standing up here.
I would really like to make a device, maybe Google Glass, maybe something else, that would allow me to see more of the EM spectrum through augmented reality.
If i didn't have to work I would like to run more and become an archeologist. I would have no problem just living of the robots fruit of labor. Like someone born rich basically.
While I like this (for reasons that others have already mentioned), the lack of an italic version is a bit of a killer for me, along with the lack of full latin-1 support.

If you haven't seen it yet, Fantasque Sans Mono (formerly Cosmic Sans Neue) is my current favourite. It's worth checking out. http://openfontlibrary.org/en/font/fantasque-sans-mono
This looks great and solves a very real problem we have. Looking forward to using this!
I tried out Seven Cups of Tea after reading this article, and I have a few points of feedback.

From what I make of it, it's apparent that the business model is that of "professional listeners" i.e. a few listeners charge for their service and essentially become an online version of therapists without being therapists. (although a few do appear to be trained as such and they charge their usual rates, most of the people on the roster don't appear to be professional psychologists)

This all fine and good, but the problem within the model though is that there's a tension between the positive side vs. the revenue side: we volunteer and help people who need a listener, but we try to nudge people towards paying for these sessions. This manifests itself through these constant popup windows while the listener is engaged in a heavy emotional conversation. Imagine you're pouring your heart out to someone and things are at an emotional juncture, and a sickly cheerful popup comes up on the screen cajoling you to sign up or rate the listener. It feels horridly out of context and it takes away the experience of the person within that moment. And this has happened to me 4 times so far in around 25 minutes.

Of course, the thing is that 7 Cups of Tea needs to convert its users and it needs to make that happen relentlessly, but the key over here is subtlety and I feel that this design iteration, sadly, misses that. However - from an outside perspective - it doesn't have to be this way. You see, anyone who visits this website and connects emotionally with a listener experiences the purest form of engagement - emotional engagement and a genuine empathic bond with someone. If the person or the bond is strong, then there is no reason why they won't sign up, after all the product has touched the very core of their being. Of course they will sign up, if there isn't any friction! They're hooked and they want to maintain that bond. They want to connect with this person again and they want to feel that sense of connectedness again and again. They want to feel okay again and again. So really the best thing 7 Cups of Tea could possibly do is get out of the way and let people connect with one another and let things flow from there.

In other words, this can be so much more. It has the ingredients of being so much more. It just needs the right touch. A light touch.
I lean towards merging as is and fixing afterwards. Or doing a manual merge locally, fix whatever needs to be fixed, and then push to master. There is just something about changing other people's commits that doesn't sit well with me. But maybe there is something about the author/committer feature of Git and how it's intended to be used that I'm not understanding.
I think that's the eventual outcome, as there will likely always be some place with a low enough rate to compel businesses to setup shells.
>I wonder if it would be interesting to have memory controllers managing striping/mirroring of memory modules

This is already common. Log onto Dell.com and configure a high end server, you will see an extensive number of options regarding mirroring and advance ECC configurations.
The idea is that each user has their own Sandstorm instance and can install web apps on it through a web interface, like installing apps on a phone or desktop. Be sure to try the demo -- it takes 30 seconds: https://demo.sandstorm.io

Apps require a little bit of porting, but not much. Sandstorm implements a native-code sandbox, so it can run any tech stack that works on Linux (no need to rewrite in a new language). The main things you have to do to "port" an app are:

* Packaging (gathering dependencies, specifying metadata).

* Removing your authentication/authorization systems and relying on Sandstorm's instead.

* If your app communicates with the outside world or publishes public web content, it has to use the APIs for that, since by default apps are isolated for security reasons.

There's some (work-in-progress) docs about how to port on the wiki: https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm/wiki

The current catalog is at: https://sandstorm.io/apps/

Generally Sandstorm is meant for apps that deal with a single user's personal data and which act in federation with other users' personal servers. It can also work for data owned by a small group, but generally won't work well for anything that needs multiple machines' worth of resources (we'll support that eventually; it's just not the main focus right now).

Sandstorm is currently in alpha testing, with a first production-quality release expected early next year. We're also running a crowdfunding campaign: http://igg.me/at/sandstorm
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I don't understand the whole "If you behave logically as a business we hate you" sentiment.

You enact business unfriendly practices business leave. It is the job of a business to make money, the most money possible, at all costs. That is its single purpose existing.
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It's exhausting, but it's really not something you want to automate. Whether through breastfeeding or a bottle, those feedings are pretty important bonding time.

When my kid was in this stage I'd stumble in and give him a bottle, but I was always aware that I wouldn't be doing it forever, and someday soon I'd miss holding his little warm body against my chest every night in the darkness. I don't miss the exhaustion, but I do look back warmly on that middle-of-the-night time together.
Looks cool. Maybe you should change the name so it's not just focused on churches? Non-"church" denominations and organizations could use it as well.
can you add a link?
> Ethics rarely figures in Investment decisions

However, it seems to be a "coming thing". I began altering my investments a handful of years ago to include what I found tasteful not just on return, but on ethics//morals as well. I don't see how this is different from "voting with your feet" or "voting with your dollar".

Starving companies of investment and sales are part of the same mixture as starving companies of talent.
This is why some mothers sleep with their babies, so that they can feed them without moving or being too disturbed.
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In some cases, those dividends can be blood money.

There are plenty ethical ways to make money from investments.
I myself am not blessed with the gift of faith, and I don't particularly enjoy Rails, but I greatly appreciate your making your very mature passion project available to one and all. Very impressive!

I enjoyed: "It's like a cross between Facebook, Google Groups, and SharePoint, but it's completely free and open source and awesome." I especially like that it's awesome in addition to being completely free and open source, rather than _ just because_ it's free and open source.
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We have no way to tell if they're being flagged by users or setting off the automated system for detecting flamewars.

One of the problems with the topic is that essentially every Hacker News reader feels as though they're qualified to comment on the topic. This translates into massive nested threads that blow up with people arguing the same points.

I'm not convinced that discussion of these issues on Hacker News does anything to push the ball forward. I have yet to meet the person who changed their position on the subject due to an internet argument.
I'm absolutely fine with giving my kids space. That doesn't mean I don't want to be around to see them, though.
Go Mark Cuban, I never liked you before today. Thanks.
Just because you "behave logically" does not mean you behave morally or ethically. Perhaps you should reflect on why immoral behavior would result in people hating you.
Punishments are about a combination of rehabilitation, disincentivization and reducing or eliminating harm to society at large. In cases of capital punishment, the chances of rehabilitation is considered to be effectively zero, so the other two factors are emphasized.
It's ridiculous that lawmakers to try to guilt or shame companies into paying more taxes. If they want companies to pay more or not use loopholes they should raise taxes or close the loopholes. Otherwise they are penalizing any company that tries to "be patriotic" or "pay its fair share" by forcing it to compete on an uneven playing field with companies that aren't paying those higher taxes.
I am retired so I know exactly what I'm doing. I'm devoting myself to the Atom editor for the foreseeable future. it is a hacker's dream.
Yeah I only was using it because I was working for Rich Kilmer at InfoEther. We were doing a DARPA gig and I wrote a thing in Java, and Rich said "no no rewrite all that in Ruby". A far-sighted fellow that Kilmer.
You've read more into that tweet then I ever would, saying " we are a small startup with limited resources" doesn't really imply anything to me on whether they are or have been working on BSD support. Has DO made any promises about delivery date here? Did they imply anything that could be construed as "overpromising"? I mean any company or OS project has plenty of stuff they "have been working on" for many years, I wouldn't say they've overpromised on anything unless they made explicit commitments and failed to meet them.
You could at least sign up for gittip or throw a btc/ltc/dodge address up there. I'm sure users who donate will feel just as good as you do when you donate your services. Either way, the app looks great. Keep up the good work.
How did this become gospel?
That's the expectation in a lot of industries (finance, consulting, law--heck my dad works in public health and he's worked 60-70+ hours most of his career). I worked at a big law firm in New York, and most of the partners had kids. Indeed, my daughter was born a month after I started at the firm. I immediately got put on an internal investigation, where the client was under threat of getting their stock delisted unless we made its auditor happy. It was a "if you're awake, you have to be in the office" situation. Somehow we all managed, despite several people on the team, including the partner, having small kids.

I think the attitude towards kids in the tech industry has more to do with its general youth worship. There's a big attitude shift towards kids from early 20's as you go into early 30's.
Whattt? Golfers who get a hole in one are expected to buy everyone drinks? I caddied during the summer months in high-school and college. Whenever someone got a hole in one there would be a 2-4 hour open bar after that round came in, for all of the members and their guests who happen to show up at the bar during that time. This is not the tradition around the world?!
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Miss you gents in NY. ☺
Where would you be located? I might have a possible solution for you.
Yeah. Then, raise taxes for those who can afford it to make that up. I like it. It'll never happen but I like it.
Sure, and as Cuban spells out pretty clearly in his tweets, he is taking into account the higher taxes he will personally pay in the calculation of his overall returns.

An extra 5% return on 2% of your portfolio may be dwarfed by increased income taxes as the result of multiple large corporations re-domeciling.
Why? I don't understand how businesses are morally obligated not to select the optimal tax environment for them.

After all, a very common defense for compulsory taxes is "if you don't like them, you can leave." Is that not what's happening here?
Fantastic, I've been looking for a way to stop using Janetter for some time, and my love of TUIs means this is right up my alley!
For reference: http://www.flightradar24.com/49.08,30.48/6
So the strategy for the GCC (the Lambda-man controller) is that you actually build a compiler/pre-processor for it in some other tool, versus just logically solving the problem with the given instruction set?

The details on the ghosts are dramatically clearer than the details on the Lambda man.
You use Docker, is there anything else technology wise you guys use? Do you use Deis or is it your own setup?
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Considering that not all giant companies are bad actors, shouldn't we hold them to higher standards?
Are you saying that a company moving money around in an advantageous way is immoral? How so? Presumably you deduct the maximum amount you can from your taxes. That's what the business is doing: shuffling it's money around in a way that minimizes their costs.

Sure, I can see the argument of people who don't really like it, but to say it's immoral seems a bridge too far for me.
If we just moved to be inline with the rest of the world that would be an improvement.
That could pretty quickly sour relations with a lot of other countries, if we were cutting our own tax unilaterally. Anything like this would preferably be coordinated with other countries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Effective_Corporate_Tax_Ra...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_tax_in_the_United_Sta...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_rates_of_Europe
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> It is the job of a business to make money, the most money possible, at all costs.

By that logic you would support the removal of all consumer, labor, and environmental protections?
The web inundated with garbage because of the perverse incentives[1][2][3] that now rule it. I'm am working on ideas to fix this, including:

- Articulating the problem and its causes very well, better than what I did in the footnotes below. If you have an interest or expertise in the business models of the Internet, content publishing, economic analysis of advertising, or the promotion of "commons" approaches to human betterment (e.g. Wikipedia, open source, creative commons), talk to me!

- Designing a internet-wide, independent collaborative filtering layer that let's people share negative feedback with a single click. Imagine the satisfaction of hitting a trash can button when you are presented with garbage, and knowing that there is now a cost to publishing garbage. This adds a much needed negative feedback loop to the web[3]. I have a unique (as far as I know) idea that both solves the problem of "One person's garbage is another person's gold" and makes the system un-gamable. If you have interests or expertise in cluster analysis, statistical classification, collaborative filtering, talk to me!

- Promoting what I call the "Users First" covenant": A list of principles that internet sites and services adhere to.

- Promoting other solutions to the problem, work being done by other teams, such as

-- a consumer-friendly web browser that puts privacy first. No need to install any extensions. Open source, non-profit and in no way tied to advertising revenue. Adheres to the Users First covenant.

-- A way for publishers to get paid by their readers rather than advertisers. For example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8009959

I actually have more than a half a year of free time to work on this, because I quit my job (and my cushy life) to work on this. You in?

-

[1] It's bullshit that advertising gives us stuff for free. In fact, it makes everything way more expensive: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7485773

[2] Since advertisers pay for much of it, sites and services are incented to trick us into clicking on links, to show as many ads as possible, and to invade our privacy for the benefit of advertisers. Users do not come first, advertisers do. We are the product, as they say.

[3] Viral dynamics rule! The web only has a positive feedback loop (people linking to pages, sharing URLs) and lacks the dampening effects of negative feedback. This let's good things as well as crap spiral to viral popularity. What we need is a way to downvote or flag garbage on the web in general (not just within communities such as HN), and this certainly can't be owned or operated by a business that takes advertising money (see [1]). It needs to be ungamable, and take into account that one person's garbage is another person's gold.
When you official declare that you started a feature over 15 months ago and then provide no uodate on schedule or release - and this is just one if many times they so this, you begin to feel like these features they promise too will never happen.
Microsoft...

In a talk given by Bill Gates, he mentioned that Microsoft only took on an investment once and it wasn't because company needed money but because Bill Gates wanted to bring on an investor to be on Microsoft's board of directors and that was the only way to do so. Supposedly that investor has been on the Microsoft board for decades.

Obviously because they technically did raise funding, might not satisfy the question
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I agree, it is a lot of industries. It's not all of them, though, which seemed to be the point to which I responded.

There is always a tradeoff between reliability and availability when it comes to the 20 year old dev and the 35 year old dev.
> I don't understand the whole "If you behave logically as a business we hate you" sentiment.

I agree with this. Businesses will work to maximize their benefits under a system (just like most humans will).

> It is the job of a business to make money, the most money possible, at all costs. That is its single purpose existing.

I think that is the market-pressure for what businesses should do and the single goal of many investors. But I am not sure convinced that is truly the single purpose of a business.
No. This is supposed to be a useful fallback, kinda like babysitter latter in life.
I suppose one of the most relevant things as a geek with a new baby is that it's _very_ hard to be an introvert with a new family. It takes a lot of work and co-operation to find the time to be alone and recharge. Obviously it's really hard being on call 24 hours whoever you are, but I'd love to hear how other introverts managed once kids arrived!
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It's not something you want to automate every single time, but how about half the most inconvenient nights?
So what about companies who incorporate in Delaware? Are these companies he doesn't want to invest in?
And that's not worth hating?
Glad the issue's being addressed, but sad that it dodges race almost completely.

Making diversity all about gender is effectively playing the topic on "easy mode." Kinda lame, honestly.
We certainly seem to live in a more secluded society, and it runs far deeper than the Internet. From what I've gleaned, this isolation has been increasing for decades. (Immediately I was reminded of a book on my list to read called Bowling Alone[1].)

But I had associated the Internet with better connectedness as a result. I wasn't raised in an active neighborhood community, it was just the place I lived. And so I live today; I don't really know who my direct neighbors are, because my social life is smeared out so much farther. While I am cordial and pleasant, there's not a lot of social depth left of me to share. Which likely comes across as aloof.

[1] http://bowlingalone.com/
sure, it's just that the open bar is funded by the "lucky" player
wat?

this isn't what cuban is doing. at all. it's more like:

"because you behave logically, i can and will encourage you to behave in my best interest."

hate has nothing to do with it.
Nor is this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8035586
How do we replace that 10%? According to your link, that would be about $280 billion per year.
Are you making an oblique reference to Aaron Swartz?

http://www.volokh.com/2013/01/14/aaron-swartz-charges/

But no, I probably can't find cases in courts. But then, I probably wouldn't be able to find cases where people steal the pillows, but that happens although it is a different law.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/10223157/What-c...

> I spoke to the Metropolitan Police on the law regarding towel-lifting. “It is a crime,” its spokesman said. “If we were to receive allegations, we would follow them up.” In reality, it appears most hotels would be more likely to blacklist a guest over a petty theft, charge the items to their card, and save the police the trouble.

This is likely to be the case with fraud, which is both civil and criminal. The criminal fraud is probably tiny (unless you do it in every hotel you go to) and the hotel probably doesn't want the negative publicity. And they probably don't want to encourage the practice of user agent spoofing. So if hotels do care, and do take action, they'll just charge the credit card and block-list the user.
Prompted by http://www.vice.com/read/sprezzatura-basically-means-youre-c...