skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Free demo app + paid full app was the first thing people tried when the iOS App Store was new. The conversion rate for that setup is terribly low compare to a 1-click "unlock now" button inside the demo. It's all about reducing friction. App users are busy and distracted. Ain't nobody got time to fire up the App Store, find your paid app and download it (Again???. What's the wifi password here?) just to give you money.
sweis,

I met with the CloudEntr team to learn more about the technical implementation. They are working on a security page which will provide more details soon. In the meantime, I can share what I learned from them.

The CloudEntr password is stored hashed and salted on our servers, it is also used to encrypt and decrypt all the application passwords and notes within our web browser plug-in.

I will post the link to the security page once it is published! Thanks for your feedback.
Getting a PE also requires several years of experience working under the guidance of an existing PE. Maintaining a PE further requires continuing education.

Is anyone talking about post-graduate education requirements for the FE?
I don't know what they mean by "The Big L", but the first MAJOR fight against an unstoppable opponent begins in Chapter 8.

edit: Oh, as soon as I posted I realized what they meant by L. WHOOPS.
I agree that there's a hint of ageism there in the standard case (i.e. the one you describe), and that's likely due to seeing someone w/ 15 years of experience in Java registers (perhaps subconsciously) as "old guy". And indeed, being young was how I fell into my first radical shift around 2000, from C based systems level stuff to R based bioinformatics tools.

And admittedly, despite what I said previously I also hold it against people at times if all they've worked with is a single technology and they've done it for a very long time. To me that shows a potential lack of flexibility and perhaps they might not be able to transition to new technology all that easily. Even if a company thinks their stack is stable, it might change at any point and IMO it's good to have someone who can pivot easily. Also, as I mentioned previously having that broader range of experience is useful in terms of spotting pitfalls or good approaches.
Could you give more detail here? Why do you wish you had them in Java or Python?

In particular, are you really trying to write Haskell code in Java/Python, or are you writing Java/Python code and still wish you had monads?
Hey, would you mind sharing the site? I've thought about doing something like this but always assumed getting traction would be painfull
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Dell sells computers and peripherals. They aren't really in the business of alternative currency speculation.

I doubt Dell management (at any level) would green-light gambling with company revenue.

> it's what a lot of the BTC payment processors are doing presumably

Maybe some, but certainly not most.
That doesn't really change the argument.
If I have a friend that can't pay what I find it worth, I usually just do it for free. As soon as someone pulls out their wallet, expectations go way up. Another good tactic I've heard is to put the value price (what you'd charge someone legit) and then discount it to their price, but show it all. Then they value it what it should be.
Not sure if that's what the parent reply means, but while there's no baseline to compare growth in consumer usage of bitcoin, you can compare it to the growth in business acceptance of bitcoin.
There are quite a lot of fitness communities on the web. Did you try advertising on any of them? http://reddit.com/r/fitness might be a good start
>Doesn't sticking with Django lock you into the ORM and it's capabilities itself?

Not really. You're always free to use raw SQL, and it makes it pretty convenient to do so for the occasions when what you want exceeds the ORM's capabilities (which will likely happen).

>Unless the library you're using is a Django extension you have the same pool of libraries available to you, so that's an invalid point.

I was talking about the django extensions. Stuff like a rate limiter, for instance, or a pluggable social media authentication backend. Or the one mentioned by the OP. All useful when making APIs.

>I saw that blog post too, however by heavy weight I meant all the remaining stuff you don't need for an API, e.g. you don't need the template, view, form, ... layers

You're not railroaded into using any of those things if you don't want to (the same way you are with RoR). All of them are optional and most of them are even swappable without too much effort.
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I pay my monthly VPN subscription with BTC, and will continue to do so. That's not a store and certainly a niche, mind.
They also explicitly forbid store-and-forward operations.
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Well, phonetically, pure numbers are better.

It's much harder to hear "eight" and mistake it for another number, but "P" and "T" are commonly confused (presumably people would read it as "Papa" and "Tango" to avoid confusion). What about "O" and "0", "I", "l", "1", etc. Now we have ambiguities that may not be interpreted correctly, even with phonetics.
Does lack of ability to enforce purity equal lack of ability to express the algorithm/data structure? Or does it just equal lack of ability to prove the purity?
That was my thought too, math is obviously tied very closely to language. And programming did come from CS which came from math. Web/App dev is just so far downstream from all of the math, that people in those roles can get away with ignoring it.

In fact, if you accept the premise of math as a language, most of the piece can be boiled down to: "language skills help programming skills, whether that language is mathematics or not".

Another nitpick:

> A common variation on this: without a CS degree, you can’t build anything substantial. Which, ha ha! Don’t tell the venture capitalists! They’re down there on Sand Hill Road giving actual money to hundreds of people building software projects without any formal qualifications whatsoever. In fact, they do it so often that the college-dropout-turned-genius-programmer is our primary Silicon Valley archetype of success. And monetarily, their strategy seems be to working out for them, if the fleets of Teslas on 280 are any indication.

1. Tesla is not a "software project" and I can't imagine that building a car is light on math.

2. Elon Musk has a degree in physics and dropped out of a Stanford EE PhD. He's not a "college dropout" or a "genius programmer." The CTO, Straubel, also has (non CS) engineering degrees from Stanford.

3. To my knowledge Tesla was initially 100% funded out of Musk's PayPal money, not venture capital.

"Math is irrelevant, look at Tesla!" is simply a ridiculous thing to say.
Good point. I haven't personally gone that route but I could imagine it being an effective way to do it.
Of the partners announced today, a lot of people know Alexis and Dalton, but my guess is that few know Qasar. I worked for him for over two years at Google. He was one of the product leads I respected the most because he was really good at product management and managing people. He'll definitely be missed.

But the truth is that I've always thought of him as a coach. I've grown so much since my time as a fresh new grad and Qasar was a huge part of that. It's crazy to think about how many hours he spent listening to my problems and I'll always be thankful for that (it's funny to think that in retrospect he was just doing office hours).

Of course he's good at what he does, but his genuine helpfulness and energy is what I've always respected and appreciated most about him. And it's that energy that finally gave me the confidence to quit and finally try out all the things I learned from him. The cycle continues...
Slightly OT, but relevant: I still want less horeshit. The Toronto police / RCMP ride horses down the bike paths in Toronto, and sometimes they leave giant shits in the middle of the path. The disrepect to cyclists and the rest of the city is immense. It's dangerous, it's smelly and it's extremely rude. They do this in Montreal too - the police horses leave giant shits all over the Mont Royal paths. Please stop leaving horseshit everywhere Canada. Seriously.
Preach on! :) Yes, we think we're better/more convenient than walkie-talkies for a few reasons.
1) We integrate with the smartphone you already have on you. 2) The asynchronous communication, as you said, allows for less miscommunication. Plus, with delivery confirmation receipts you KNOW it didn't just disappear into the void somewhere, and was actually received by your intended recipient(s).
3) You can direct the message specifically to discrete individuals or groups. You don't need to worry about being on the same channel or hear other people you don't know yakking.
4) You can share your location on detailed offline maps.
Wow, that was quick! Great tool, thanks for sharing it.
Publishing it as MIT is, on the other hand, a different cup of tea.

I am not disagreeing that this is possible, but the parent wasn't sure of the correct position, either.
Wildbow has mentioned the timeskip specifically as something he wishes he hadn't done.
It's been gone for a while. But it's honestly to be expected that Google pulls only dickmoves regarding RSS, since RSS is actually counterproductive when it comes to showing ads.
We should change the terminology back to old shareware days. If the Doom shareware floppy could have offered users a way to buy the full game from within the demo it would have.

So new categories of apps:

Free, no IAP, no cost, ads or something else
Demos, IAP to upgrade
Full, could be free but use IAP consumables, ads, whatever its all yours
Are you making enough mistakes?
it looks like lots of people are just hoping that someone else will leave.

Yup. Hello, tragedy of the commons. Albeit in a slightly different form from normal.
EDIT: "in this life, right." => "right now."
For some entertaining looks at this. You might want to watch a season or two of house hunters international. It's not real in-depth, but seeing what living conditions look like in many places, and what they cost, can be very helpful.

I've learned from that show that Paris proper and most of London are absolutely off of my list of places to live.
We want to do that, but FCC regulations don't enable meshing (currently) on the bands we're using (151-154 MHz, aka the MURS band). We considered releasing a 900 MHz device that the FCC allows to mesh but then you only get, if you're lucky, up to 0.5 km range and it has to be line-of-sight. So we went with MURS because you can get greater range and don't have to be line-of-sight; the propagation characteristics are better down at MURS. Also, when we asked 1000 people (including testers) what they preferred -- a long-range MURS device or a short-range meshing device -- about 8 of 10 picked the former. So that's why the goTenna device you see today is our first release!
I'll still be holding it down in Brooklyn when I'm not helping the batches in MV.
Doubtful you would be interested in our products, although you never know! -- we're in the jewelry and crafting business.

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Strictly speaking it means dissection (to chop up or cut into I would more colloquially put it), which is appropriate in this case.

(Finally getting some use out of those years of Greek class!)
Y Combinator is on a roll. I’m in engineering and worked with Qasar and he was no doubt one of the best product managers at Google. Actually sad to see him go.
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greggman's usage is pretty common.

e.g. wikipedia: "In common usage, the term is often used in the context of professionals or skilled workers sent abroad by their companies,[1] rather than for all 'immigrants' or 'migrant workers'."
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We're looking at specifically non-advertising approaches as well. We're playing a little with Google AdWords and will likely try paid ads on /r/fitness - however straight up advertising on /r/fitness like forums is against their rules (and well-moderated, cough* we tried).
As someone who's live abroad for 8+ years I can assure you there are two vastly different cultures. One of expats as I defined them above and other as people living abroad of their own accord.

If you mistake one for the other you're going to have a bad time. If someone from the group I mentioned above tells you living abroad is awesome but you then choose to move on your own you're going to have a vastly different experience.

One generally lives a carefree life. They are catered too. The bring family, put their kids in private schools, eat at the most expensive restaurants, live in large apartments, often have cars even if that's not common in their place of residence. And generally make 6 figure US$ salaries.

The other, in my experience, generally make less than US $50k, live in small inexpensive apartments, and have all the struggles that come with a lower income.

I'm not saying one is better or worse only they are different worlds and just pointing out it would be good to know up front which of those worlds you're moving abroad into.
I wish Chinese were the same way. Chinese grammar is very simple and there's little or no conjugation. A lot of Chinese words sound very similar and if you say a word in the wrong tone, you're likely to have said a different word.

Oftentimes, native Chinese speakers are bewildered when they hear learners attempting to speak Chinese. Not because they're being rude or condescending, but because if you're just slightly off they honestly have no idea what you're trying to say.
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51% attack is not the only kind of attack. A "selfish mining" attack can break the system too. http://hackingdistributed.com/2013/11/04/bitcoin-is-broken/ Here's the paper http://arxiv.org/abs/1311.0243
Is there an example of a font that does this anywhere?
Like I say every time this comes up: lack of chargebacks is a mixed blessing. It puts risk on buyers, which shows up as lower demand for the product, with part of the economic incidence falling on the merchant.

To the extent that it's a benefit, I would prefer it be phrased as the ability to opt out of chargback insurance, the cost of which can be shared by merchant and buyer, if it's not worth the cost.
The author starts off by asserting that Ford never said what is popularly thought he said.

And then he starts his discussion with his own assumption:
"Here are some of the things people would have responded with if you asked a mid-late 19th century city planner what he needed with regards to equine transportation:"

I think it would have been a stronger argument to just list a few sources of information.

But besides that, I think the article raises some interesting points. For me, I don't want a faster car, I want fuel efficiency. I want a car that doesn't require too much maintenance and repairs.
That's understandable. It's generally easier to market in a non-saturated environment with ads, but here, it feels like ads are too expensive in terms of customer acquisition cost, in the short run at least-
Whoa. The nytimes is publishing code!? Times (no pun intended) really are changing.
Yeah. Top comment is true, but not too relevant. If you're not dealing with someone who appreciates this stuff, then you're not dealing with the best person. If the company you're applying to doesn't have such a person, then it's not a good company to join.

Unless they're a start-up recruiting you as CTO/similar to be that person. But that's quite a different proposition.
The human eye detects motion very readily, so this technique would actually be far more perceptible than keeping the modified portion in the same location of the image.
I've been thinking the same thing. Worm would be great on HBO or Netflix, an extended drama that could give proper time to let the world and characters be expanded.

At the same time I wonder how they could convey all the details of rational thinking, internal dialogue and the like. I think it has the same issue the film of Ender's Game had in that it's just hard to include those details from an external perspective.
I think the US standard is more around 15 days of PTO. That's what I get here. Plus the week between Christmas and New year that is for everybody.
Great catch. Will update now
Warning: the (real world) point of the fanfic is to recruit people into a cult whose goal is to prevent evil artificial intelligence from taking over the world.

Seriously.
Finding customers is more a function of skill + effort than luck. I visited over 100 hair salons, did a bunch of cold calls, and more. You can get customers if you try hard enough for long enough, and try enough different business ideas.
lol Shaq spends $1000+ a week on apps, pretty sure a billionaire founder will have no issues

http://time.com/21470/shaq-spends-1000-a-week-on-apps/
Things I can do for a person/company who backs at $10k
I'm not sure how the indentation rules come into play here. I'm not saying that this:

if blah:
for .. in ..:
..
else:
..

is visually confused with:

for .. in ..:
..
else:
..

What I'm saying is that for-else and while-else add syntax to the language that only solves a single specific instance of a class of similar issues, making it confusing.

Let's consider the issues that are in the same class:

- execute code block when loop condition isn't met the first time (i.e. loop never executes).

- execute code block when loop exits prematurely (e.g. break).

- execute code block when loop doesn't exit prematurely (e.g. no break) // execute code block when loop condition evals to false (first eval or any subsequent eval)

Only one of these issues is solved by the for-else/while-else syntax currently in Python, and using a generic keyword (else) just heightens the confusion (especially since this syntax differs from many other languages).

All of these cases may require the use of sentinels / additional checks to implement. Why is one specific instance any more relevant than the others to the point that it gets special treatment (i.e. special syntax in the core language)?
There are some additions going on to make CSS addon sheets that match the NOAA, yahoo, accuweather, etc etc. It's just a ton of work to even get this far, I have to take month long breaks to return to the real world.

The next big release will be integration with weather service API codes and other weather codes, and fixing some nuanced things like moon phases which are hard to conceive when you're in the depths of things.

As far as the nuanced subtle-differences, that's a hard one. When designing, a lot of the icons start to be so similar, or the same, they become multi use. Some user research I need to do is to see how many people would use "mostly sunny, partly sunny, slightly overcast" as 3 icons, or if 1 works. I am pretty restricted with the choice to use the single color, bold stroke icon style. Especially when they are meant to look good at 16-20px.

A "hairline" font weight is also planned.
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This is such a sad thing to think about. Truthfully almost all languages outside of English, Mandarin, and Spanish will eventually die out. But for me learning a second language has never been about practicality, if it was I already needn't bother knowing anything but English. I've been studying Japanese for 12 years now just for the way I can think about things completely differently, and for the way it sounds. I started with French in school and after I feel more solid in my Japanese I plan to go back to it (this could never happen, Japanese is fantastically difficult). As a language lover it is very disheartening to see the inevitability of the decline in human expression through language.
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But the app is free. Only small parts of it are "locked." You never have to pay to enjoy the experience, there's no pressure at all to do so either.
Social channels only work if you have sufficient reach on your social channels. If you have less than a couple thousand followers on both, then it's the equivalent of a tree falling in a forest.
We're currently shipping to only US & Canada for regulatory reasons ;)
Maybe if you turn this chart sideways it will look flat, otherwise... up, up and away!

http://blockchain.info/charts/my-wallet-n-users
That's the issue at-hand: if the app isn't labeled as "free" then many users won't try it.
> It's interesting to see that the market price is completely decoupled from such problems coming into public attention...

It's seems "decoupled" because investors know that there is a fairly high chance that the problems will be fixed when it becomes apparent that it's posing a serious threat. Ultimately what Bitcoin is is a social consensus, and that social consensus has rapidly changed before in the face of exploits and will probably do so again. Secondly, at a technical level solving the flawed incentives can be done in a backwards compatible soft-fork upgrade - a hard-fork where everyone upgrades at once is not required, which makes agreeing to and deploying such a change significantly easier.
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In Boston we'd have cop-horses leaving their several-gallon-sized gifts all over town. Once a coworker (known for paroxysms both inside and outside the company) encountered some in front of our building and he got hopping mad on the phone to start screaming. I cooled him down enough to say it was in front of the fast food store on the first floor, not our business, because if the BPD has any blacklist for assholes he was going to get us put on it.
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It's certainly better than nothing. The system now cannot direct the user to the wrong location if they input the wrong, similar, characters. But it does not make the user feel confident that the input was correct.

This only works if you know 2 is a possible character, but Z is not, and etc. Otherwise an average user still isn't sure whether '0' means zero, or the letter O. But at least the system will refuse the incorrect version.

You could make it a little more user friendly if you replace all the non-existent characters with their similar partner before interpreting ('Z' becomes '2'), but then it still is not clear to the user if the code they entered should have been 'ABC123' or 'ABC1Z3'. Even though they are identical to the system, the user cannot know this (always assume the user will not read your FAQ).
Classic modern day problem. Maybe I should go amend the article.
It gives you a chance to try the app without buying it, and convenience of buying full version without having to go into play store to download new version, and also deleting the "demo" version.

For example if you sign up for a free MMO trial, you can either cancel it or just buy subscription - you don't need to re-install the game and reapply any customization you have done.

Also if it's a kid-game, and your kid is small, they might be super happy with the one or two free levels, and you wouldn't need to upgrade to full game.
You make that sound like a bad thing?
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