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> the future seems very unpredictable

Future is always unpredictable. It wouldn't be future if it was known.

> how would you invest your money nowadays in a clever way

You invest your money today as you did yesterday, last week, last month, last year, last decade, last century .... and so on. You should go in investing with long haul mindset. You can't be right all the time in making your calls so consistency in investing pays. You come up with a long term validated strategy and stick with it, rain or shine. And, you don't make decisions based on short-term fluctuations, emotions or your subjective opinions.
You would think the single most important aspect of that article would be a nice picture showing the actual trees, either in bloom or fruiting but all I see is what looks like a photoshopped image at the top of that article.

Surprisingly the "artist" uses the same fake picture on their site as well. There are a few minor pictures of multi fruit grafted trees which you could find if you went to any garden center as they are quite common.

This seems like something destined to impress people who don't know any better. I'd love to see the actual 40 grafts tree in action but it seems to be agricultural vaporware.
Except that unless you're unusually awesome, you don't generally express your ideas by means of chalupas.

But seriously. Diversity in language design, in the implementation of new languages, and even in the extension of currently popular languages, is a good thing (TM). It means being able to learn a new approach or technique (anonymous functions, monads, templates, erlang-esque pattern matching, etc) and be able to integrate it into the projects you've already spent 5 years of your life on.

(edit: missing comma)
I might give a fake address in the same zip code.
I'm tempted not to believe it since it makes sense to me :-) But more seriously, back when I played WoW I spent many hours watching some of the tougher boss fights on Youtube. Automating that process is a great way to unify those page views. And its a fairly strong 'you are a gamer' signal so probably a more valuable piece of advertising realestate.
Might as well feed it journalism and editing too, given the high cliche factor of human output.
I'll just leave this here:

http://refocus-it.sourceforge.net/
There is some ambiguity as to whether guillotine is actually completely instant or painless: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1172/does-the-head-...
>Supporting your apps on another platform is expensive, so I imagine that Google doesn't support it because the market and users aren't there (relatively speaking)

Nah. It's not that expensive. They want to ignore the Windows market to stick it to Microsoft. The relatively small Windows Phone market makes it possible for them to do that.
Look at the size of the hangar: (people for scale)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CargoLifter#mediaviewer/File:Br...

All this for an unsucessful zeppelin that could carry less than the required 200 tons. You'll be convinced very quickly that it doesn't trump simply carrying by land.
am now getting this, still on DO:

TASK: [genesis-digitalocean | Get the latest 'Debian 7.0 x64' image ID from the DigitalOcean API] ***
fatal: [127.0.0.1] => a duplicate parameter was found in the argument string ()

FATAL: all hosts have already failed -- aborting

PLAY RECAP ********************************************************************
to retry, use: --limit @/root/digitalocean.retry

127.0.0.1 : ok=4 changed=3 unreachable=1 failed=0
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Notorious Airbnb squatter may be the dev behind two flailing Kickstarter games
I was able to enter just "Portland, OR" and move on. If that is sufficient, maybe the labeling could be clearer?
Crashes of browsers are never the problem of the website, but always of the browser vendor.
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Lightweight Remote Execution Framework for Ops Automation
And that ex-girlfriend would have been able to get the charges reversed plus legal recourses. It is considerably easier to do that when you show you incurred real costs, versus when receiving them is "free". The phone calls to your carrier customer service cost them money too so they are keen to reduce those.

Try India sometime for SMS spam.
Vim-based keyboard shortcuts in Kato
Chobani is a hugely profitable, capital-intensive billion-dollar company that was 100% bootstrapped.

http://hbr.org/2013/10/chobanis-founder-on-growing-a-start-u...
Sorry you had to go through the hassle when you went through the process. The rates that you see on the site are 100% real, and we do our best to quote the most precise fees – however, fees do vary from area to area. We also don't charge a percentage of the loan amount, since it doesn't make much sense to charge more for a $300,000 loan than for a $100,000 loan. Also, as a result of our technology and automation, we're able to pass the savings on to customers.
There's support already for HTTP Live Streaming [1] which, while not really standard, is supported by many platforms. Just append /hls to the channel url and there you go. I guess the only step remaining is for someone to write an HTML5-based HLS viewer. IIRC the main technical barrier here is that <video> does not allow for seamless video switching (which is required for HLS as it adjusts bitrate on the fly).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Live_Streaming
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WhatsApp actually raised closer to $60M [1]

[1] http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/whatsapp
Awesome use for that structure.
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I have sympathy for left-turners in particularly busy intersections where there is no turn light. Driving in NYC, you pretty much have to nudge as close to the opposing lane as you can until the light turns yellow/red and you can scoot yourself out of gridlock. Furthermore, you must account for streets which are one way, too narrow, full, or active to stop and turn around. However, this was not the situation I was really talking about at all.

The scenario I had in mind while writing my post is that of the local road which crosses a major stretch of highway. Such highways might be an actual interstate, a busy two-lane highway, etc. One of the worst types of road to cross is the one that is far too wide for its own good– an ambitious 6-lane road with not enough traffic to ever be full (Trenholm Road in SC, ahem), but enough so that drivers spread out across all lanes and make crossing very annoying sometimes. There are parts of the Taconic (NY) that pretty bad to cross, though I'm usually the one on the highway. The local cross sometimes gets backed up 5-10 cars, 2-3 of which are stuck in the median. Getting on the highway or going around by going the next town can add 10+ miles. Letting someone cross by slowing down a bit and changing lanes is not, in my opinion, a smug assault on the efficiency of those driving on the highway... it's just something a few people do when they recognize that nothing is very efficient anyway. (Note that I haven't said much about safety because it was only a small part of their comment, and not the part I was responding to. I hope it's clear that I am not advocating for people to test fate by slamming their brakes to let someone curtsy across the pavement.)
"They talk about the need to instill everybody at Burger King with an “ownership mentality,” meaning mainly that employees should husband the company’s money as if it were their own."

I always translate this to:
"Share in the losses, and maybe, just maybe, we'll share some of the wins with you, if there's enough after satisfying our insatiable desires"
Please do any or all of the above. The idiotic Twitch chat spam and moronic memes makes my iq drop every time I see it.
A couple of months ago, there was an HN discussion about "business friendly places", and if I am not mistaken, your pov was that the US is the most business friendly place; And when I mentioned that the US tax system is worse than most, your response (again, if I recall correctly) was along the lines of "it's just a line item in your expenses, make sure you pay an accountant to take care of it". And you're very consistent... however,

Don't you think the ease with which you can get into this kind of trouble (which may not be dischargeable in bankruptcy, and which may IIRC become a criminal matter) should factor into the "business friendless" score of the US? In every other tax regime I'm familiar with (several European and the Israeli one), everything which is not outright fraud gets you no more than a small fine.
Epic, which delivers most of the Electronic Medical Records software for large healthcare organizations in the United States, has never raised any funding. With revenues over $1.7 billion a year, their valuation is certainly greater than $1b.
Epic, which delivers most of the Electronic Medical Records software for large healthcare organizations in the United States, has never raised any funding.
This is great. The only immediate UX thing I can think of right now is to make the popup for the loans a little easier to dismiss (like clicking anywhere outside of the lightbox should dismiss it).

The only other thing I can think of is being able to tweak numbers after seeing the proposed loans. But then again it's great for not even creating an account.
The hospitality industry doesn't operate at nearly the same pace as the tech industry. If you think back, 10 years ago it wouldn't have seemed unreasonable for a hotel to charge for internet at all. They're likely under contract, they realize an additional revenue stream, etc. It's hardly the morning staff's fault.
Not exactly. Those that are speeding have accepted the higher risk of accident in exchange for getting to their destination slightly faster (if at all). The choices of the speeders have externalities in the form of a higher risk of accident for all other drivers around them, regardless of others speed. The drivers who obey the law bear none of the of the responsibility for that increase in risk. If you want to argue that speed limits should be raised because everyone is breaking them anyways, I think that is a fairer point of view. But to blame people who are following the law for the externalities caused by those breaking the law is absurd.
Yeah we only really need your city and state to give accurate results. We will try to clarify the labeling.
>all because they can't handle leaving the services work isolated by default.

... because that makes no sense. First, because they want to build a cohesive and comprehensive service platform. Second, because a lot of users would prefer to have these services tied together. So what's left, either try to please everyone and complicate the service or provide a common vision for the platform. I think it's obvious that they would go for the latter.

Having said that, they did fuck up in places. Real name policy was stupid. Like I wrote in another post, their great sin was trying to make Google+ a facebook clone, as opposed to a unifying system for gchat, search, youtube, gdrive, gmail, photos, and blogs.

>i have one gaccount for main gmail, one for gtalk (dead), one for commenting on youtube annoymously, one for gvoice, one to have a different handle when on the phone (because circles do not work as promissed and I want to restrict people that can bug me while i'm mobile).

There you go. This kind of insanity is always an option to the insane. What's the difference between this, and 'services isolated by default'?
I just pushed a fix for this. If you pull, you should be good to go. The bug was introduced in the new version of Ansible that came out two days ago. I didn't catch it because I hadn't updated quite yet. Sorry about that!

Edit: I'm still working through a few other Ansible 1.6.8 issues as well.

Edit 2: I think that I got them all.
Exactly. The recent drought on the west coast can be attributed to a very massive high pressure system sitting off the coast deflecting away much needed rain storms. http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_24904396/california-dr... --- Is this "resilient ridge" caused by global warming/climate change? Haven't seen any evidence that links the two yet. If El Nino doesn't produce a very very wet this winter, then a lot of change will be coming to the west.
It should be noted this is a new app from an existing (Y Combinator) company.

http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/24/kamcord/
A Data Science Chat with Kevin Novak from Uber
No, the 97.53 is more fair. See here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7638269
There are two separate problems with HES identity and association.

The first is that HES's own guidelines instruct students to list their degrees in ways that can be confusing. See: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/lamont/2013/09/18/harvard-exten...

The second problem, and I think the reason behind the first problem, is that the formal way to list a degree on a resume is not by the school one attended but by the university that grants the degree. That is, an HBS graduate would list their degree as an MBA from Harvard University; an HLS graduate would list their degree as a JD from Harvard University. Harvard's method of identifying the school is that it awards unique degrees according to which school was intended. Thus an MBA will always come from HBS. A JD will always come from HLS. There is no BA or MA from Harvard Extension School, but rather a BLA or MLA. In this way, the correct listing of a BLA from Harvard Extension School is distinguishable from a BA from Harvard College, but of course, only for a person who knows the difference (or doesn't assume the "L" is a typo). This is, in my view, more a problem of poor convention than of anything else.

Yes, there are also people who plainly abuse language to mislead people. They make people like myself ('07 ALMM program) very self-conscious when it comes to talking about my education there. I never brag about the Harvard name. If pressed I refer to my program as "Harvard's night school for working adults" (because let me assure you - nobody knows what the hell "Extension School" mean anyway). It's a shame that there's no clear, accurate way for HES students to talk about their programs without denigrating their own accomplishments or risking being impostors.

Finally, there is one bit of praise I would like to bestow upon HES that cannot be said for any of Harvard's other schools: HES is the most meritocratic academic system I have ever seen. Your success boils down to whether you can do the work and whether you put in the time. It doesn't matter what your grades were in high school. It doesn't matter how much money your family has donated. It doesn't matter if you can throw a football. The requirements for admittance are as black and white as they come. If you show up, do the work, and get good grades, you'll get admitted. If you take three classes and can't consistently get Bs or better, you will be rejected no matter how much money or legacy you waive in front of the school. I hope someday the rest of academia will consider this model.
Actually you can tweak some of the numbers if you click "show filters". We are working on adding more advanced tweaking functionality there.
To my knowledge it's still privately held.
The old model co-mingled markup and content, which made it difficult to make websites unless the user was a coder. CSS did not exist. The whole concept was a black art working around browser bugs and thus a web professional was necessary to create something that looked good.

With browser standards and CSS frameworks, layouts are now standard, content management systems like WordPress are mainstream, and content is separate from the layout. Microsoft is also producing fewer headaches in its IE releases.

The next area of demand will likely be for copywriters. Someone has to write text that gets people to buy.
hey pvam
Seattle drivers are some of the worst mergers on the planet. You'll see a half-mile-long line of early mergers and then an entire unused lane. Absolutely blows my mind.
The postal service should be worried about 3D printing. Once mainstream home usage becomes commonplace, you would think shipping volume could drop substantially as people begin to buy things online that then instantly print without a need for shipping at all.
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I would agree if they were supporting lots of smaller platforms but just skipping Windows phone. Someone correct me if I am wrong but Google only has serious app support for iOS and Android, correct?
Sometimes wifi is great in one room, but the signal doesn't reach another room. I HAVE A DREAM that, one day, people review the wifi of different rooms in the same hotel.

I'm so glad someone built this. I've been wanting it (or to build it) forever.

Even if I'm not picking up the tab, I'd rather stay at a crappy hotel with great wifi--vs a Four Seasons with crappy wifi.

Hopefully hotels realize this and start competing on wifi quality.
Thanks!

Great feedback on making it easier to dismiss the popups.

You can actually change some of the main numbers when you hit the loan results page. Did you not see the expandable section near the top? If not, that's great feedback and we'll make it clearer.
Okay, I was curious enough I got out my paperwork. Looks like my origination fee was a lot higher. But my closing costs also included lots of escrow for property taxes and homeowners insurance, and I guess it makes sense to leave that out. So I don't feel too bad. :-) Congrats on a great tool!
Yep, we were YC S12. Would love your feedback!
The fate of the iPad?
The evidence given in the article is "A 10-year average of Palmer values has been increasing for most of the last 20 years, which is to say that the country is in the midst of one of its most sustained periods of increasing drought on record."

If the new normal is what used to be severe peaks than the west is in trouble. But looking at that graph, especially the non-smoothed light-grey line, I'd say we need another 10 years of data to be sure that we are in a new pattern.
Great work. I also really like the json files that it produces https://github.com/gaganpreet/hn-hiring-mapped/blob/gh-pages...

Makes it easier to play with data analysis on the hiring threads in R. http://pastebin.com/TpLfSKjP
Germans Love Getting Naked at the Beach. So Should We
The naughtiness he is referring to is clearly not the mistake they made in not paying payroll tax. He mentions later that it is about offering features that did not exist yet, which is very common.
Such an awesome article. Minimal, simple and well said. Taxes would suck to f up
While we're at it, can we also choose them by the actual things that let you get a good night's sleep -- whether the beds are not only nice enough but fit your preferences, whether the rooms are acoustically isolated enough you can't hear your neighbors walking (or watching TV or talking or getting busy), whether the temperature controls of the room work efficiently, and whether the room doesn't smell offensive.

Right now, hotel ratings are completely broken for personal bed comfort (I find I'm slightly more likely get a decent night's sleep at a Motel 6 than at a Fairfield, because I'm more likely to find memory foam beds at the latter -- yes, I know they're great for some people, but they're absolutely horrible for anyone who doesn't sleep well when warm and wants something more supportive than conforming).

There's some correlation between ratings and the other things (and it's nice to see more hotels going smoke free), but it's by no means certain.

I'd love to see a rating of internet reliability, but I can get internet in other ways if I need to. If I'm paying for a room for the night, there's no other way for me to sleep, and my experience is that it's generally a crapshoot as to whether I'm going to get a good night's sleep or not.
This is a really excellent paper, full of forward-thinking ideas. One that jumped out at me was 'USPS facilities could server as 3d printing hubs.'

However, I can also see other businesses lobbying against such innovation on the grounds that it would crowd out private sector offerings, which seems to be a common objection to allowing the USPS to offer more services at post offices. In Europe and Japan, post offices don't just deal with mail but serve as a one-stop shop for many interactions with government, from welfare payments to savings accounts. The legal status of the USPS is complicated the Constitution's postal mandate, ably discussed here if you like legal technicality: http://law.justia.com/constitution/us/article-1/39-post-offi...
Google under fire from regulators on EU privacy ruling
It is quite surprising that a book written 60 years ago could still seem so timely in describing how well meaning central planning could eventually lead to tyrrany.

https://www.google.com/#q=the+road+to+serfdom

...although I guess the saying "the road to hell is paved with good intentions" is even older.
YES!

http://businessandbootstrapping.com/8-successful-startup-str...
This was leaked about a month ago. Maybe 2.

Twitch really is a phenomenon. There's such a diverse community of game streamers that I can't help but expect someone to enter this space to compete soon. There are millions of viewers, and some shows are super niche. Take for example TheMexicanRunner http://www.twitch.tv/themexicanrunner who is working his way through beating every North American NES game. Sounds impossible, but he's the guy that could do it. Elsewhere, people like Lirik and Sheever have become famous and make a living off of their broadcasting now. Quite an ecosystem!
> We spent TONS of time picking out the name Trello and just narrowly avoided naming it something really stupid by serendipity.

I guess you must have heard this but "trelo" means "crazy" in greek; at least the stress is on "lo". Not exactly stupid but kinda close :)
The nicest thing about zipper merging is that everyone can see the fairness of it, when it works. It's the lack of fairness that most infuriates people with the free-for-all system.

Minnesota still does a very poor job of letting people know where the expected merge point is.
Zara started as a pop and mom shop.
I assume they will.

It seems like a similar situation to Soylent- a spinoff of a ycombinator company, that is billed as a ycombinator company.
Thanks for the feedback! I'm excited to see how people use this and what new features might be helpful for them. I will be sure to incorporate that information into the README.
The article suggests the postal service 3D printing from their own facility. Is there is precedent of the post office even printing ink on paper and shipping it on behalf of others?
The article details opportunities for USPS, highlighting their ability to ship last-mile, perhaps distributing from local 3D printers to homes.
> so the reasons given by Google don't add up

They add up perfectly, though it may be inconvenient for WP users.

You CAN use youtube on WP using the mobile site. You just don't have a native app. They're not denying WP users or content creators anything except a little bit of convenience and battery life.

And as far financial or rational reasons - Microsoft is still extracting patent fees from Android handset makers. It makes a lot of financial sense to hurt them back - so when you come to the negotiation table, you have something to negotiate. Don't you think?
Don't forget restrictions by location.
The only way this is a win for the USPS is if the quality difference between commercial and personal 3D printers remains high. I don't think it will for long for most goods, but if it does local printers you drive to will be the winners.

Expect the 3D equivalent of Kinkos and a resurgence of big box brick and mortal retail, albeit in a radically different form.