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So Metadisk is out, and DriveMiner is on its way. As far as technical contributions, going to have to wait until I finish up the revised whitepaper.

We were focused on writing the code first, and now we are in the process of writing down what we learned. Don't take me at my word, but do give me a few weeks to prepare a more formal paper now that most of our core code has been implemented or speced.

As far as the $6M we don't intend to raise that much. What is left over will be distributed through the early mining, and future crowdsales for other platforms build on top of Storj(decentralized Youtube, Imgur, etc.) In that way we can give the network a kickstart with the actual resources that it needs to survive.
Lengthier but more accurate title: Send and receive messages to other GoTenna devices within range via alternate RF-band communications even when you don't have service.

A text-mode walkie-talkie.
Fine Structure was fun. However, it seemed to take several weird turns without warning, but acted like they weren't weird turns, just completely normal. Like brain-uploading suddenly appearing in the middle of one chapter. It felt a lot like the author had proven to himself previously that brain-uploading was logically inevitable in the real world and so there was no need to foreshadow it at all.
I feel that this method of hiring (not based on specific languages/tools) is increasing, but I imagine the biggest beneficiaries are going to primarily be younger engineers who haven't been involved with one technology for many years.

Someone writing Java for 15 years may be less likely to get interest from a small Python shop than a much less experienced Ruby dev. Ageism could potentially be a contributing factor, but I think some of it also has to do with the popularity of the languages within other language communities. If the language you know isn't generally appreciated by the hiring team, your experience may not be as highly valued.
I was just thinking about doing a 8-12 month around the world trip. Anyone care to join?

Contact info in sig. (I'm based in SF)
I learned French in my mid-20s -- in France. I spent a year learning French at a school and literally couldn't even understand fluent, spoken French by the time my ex-girlfriend moved back to the US. I stayed in France and began dating a French girl who didn't speak English at all -- so we had these weird intellectual/juvenile sounding conversations in the beginning - with me basically speaking confusing, garbled French 100% of the time. Point is, after about one month together with her, I understood spoken French very well, and could articulate some fairly complex thoughts. It just felt like the language came crashing into my head once I had to "articulate" what needed to be articulated and "hear" what needed to be heard. It's one of the strangest feelings of immersive learning that I can remember. Like DonPellegrino mentioned, I never really cared about gender and proper grammar, because... when your girlfriend doesn't know your language, you just have to force the thoughts out somehow. This might sound obvious, but if you have a partner who speaks another language fluently, just speak in your native tongue and ask them to speak in their native tongue. From my experience, the most powerful part of learning a language is just "slowing" it down in your head. You'd think you could just watch television to do this -- but in my experience (multiple languages now), you can't. It just seems like you need to be engaged intimately with another human being to get these results.
I'm re-reading Worm currently, and keep thinking about what an awesome HBO/Netflix series it would make. I've been waiting patiently for the end of HPMoR. Have also read Ra, but Ra (and Fine Structure) both start going off the rails at some point, and I find it hard to follow.

All need a solid editor, but they're awesome and I can't believe the big publishing houses don't have people looking for stuff like this.
> Well Dell wants to promote the currency so much they will be giving a discount

What could be going on here is, Dell is speculating on BTC. So a 10% discount today in exchange for products they still make profit on, will result in potentially multitude of additional profit later. (The discount encourages people to give Dell their BTC, so Dell can sit on them and speculate... it's what a lot of the BTC payment processors are doing presumably).
How do you know these are Chinese Hackers?
"Nobody will expect a physicist to fix their cars, or a biologist to cure their sickness. Nobody studies physics to work as a mechanics."

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

"It was once pointed out to me that math major undergrads generally perform better than most computer science undergrad in many PhD programs."

There is a significant difference between computer science and archaeology, as academic disciplines. And it's not what you might think it is. A computer science student with out a Ph.D., with only an undergraduate degree, is (I hope[1]) fully competent to be gainfully employed in the field doing actual programming. An archaeology student without a Ph.D. is a shovel-bum, a ditch-digger, perhaps with some experience using surveying equipment, but certainly not qualified to do property title-related stuff.

[1] At most decent schools, anyway. The school whenceforth I came, for example, taught graphics and networking and compilers and data bases, along with basic data structures and algorithms, and a certain amount of actual programming. Someone coming out with an undergraduate degree certainly wouldn't be an ideal candidate to lead an important project, and certainly wouldn't have 5-years experience as a full-stack web developer in Elm and Clojure. But they would have the knowledge base to learn those things without big gaping holes in their understanding. You know, what used to be jokingly referred to as an "entry level" position: basic competence without expertise.
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It's funny that there is a logo for the magazine, but not the programming framework the magazine is actually about.
This has actually been opposite of my experience.

I've seen that bigger cos, owing to being better resourced, can be more patient about the payoffs of long-term bets (including training young/inexperienced employees). Microsoft can afford to fight 10-year wars of attrition; small startups with 3 months of runway can't.

Overall I've found that consulting gigs turn on value delivered immediately, whereas the stronger of a "software" culture that a company has, the more willing they've been to invest in training and letting people get up to speed with newer tech.
From what i read in articles about this, you have three groups:

- people who pay nothing

- people who pay about a full game's worth

- people who pay astounding sums

This works out because almost all AIP games sell cheats, which excert a different draw (or sometimes even a push) on players.
I thought it was pretty funny. It seemed absurd enough that I thought it was totally tongue-in-cheek.
We've got an experimental IMAP server using Irmin as a maildir-replacement backend, to give us e-mail provenance and undo for when mass moves go horribly wrong. It's not quite ready for open-sourcing yet, but should be over the summer. I'm switching my personal e-mail over to it soon gulp
This is in no way confined to polls. Almost every website has a voting component of some kind, be that measuring which stories are read most, allowing up/downvotes, Q&A or comment systems etc. It doesn't have to be a straightforward poll to be gamed.

I think it would be better to address the malpractice by our governments than to blame journalists - if the gov. is sufficiently determined, and is given the funds to spend on it, they will find ways to distort online discourse. The UK has just increased funding for 'intelligence' (what an oxymoron) by £800 million, so you can expect more of this to come, and we should lay the blame where it belongs - with those agencies poisoning the well of online discussion.
Since most people using weather icons will also be using APIs by Accuweather, WUnderground, and Open Weather Map, it's good to try to match actual reported conditions as much as possible:

https://api.accuweather.com/developers/weatherIcons

Often designers create lots of different wind and extreme icons (Tornado, Meteor) which will never be used and not enough subtle-difference icons (Mostly Sunny, Partly Sunny, Intermittent Clouds) which are needed. When implemented, we end up using only a small portion of a collection and repeating many icons.
I feel like merchant adoption is being done for the sake of "looking cool" not because they really care or their users really want it. Actual adoption of bitcoin by consumers has remained relatively flat
What makes you think Lucas would grant any service the license to distribute multiple versions?
I have my issues with the rest of the series, but I really liked the part where Ron says "if you are a friend of Malfoy, you can't be my friend" and Harry tells him to go pound sand. It's just a horrible thing for the supposed heroes of the original book to roll along with.
Honestly, i think calling them consumable is white-washing it. They're cheats in a fanciful disguise.
Yep, obviously the incentive system of bitcoin is deeply flawed.

It's interesting to see that the market price is completely decoupled from such problems coming into public attention...

I'm holding on to my stash for now, but unless the network is hard-forked to solve this issue (and other major ones on the way), I don't see a real future for bitcoin anymore.

The price could still hit $20k, but the coin would be tightly controlled by then if mining remains centralized.
Please weather.gov use this
What I find interesting about all these new merchants accepting Bitcoin is what happens to the Bitcoin they receive. It is a safe bet that all of these Bitcoin are converted to USD immediately as part of the payment processing by someone like Coinbase. The question is, can Coinbase sell these coins as quickly as they receive them? If not, what kind of exposure do they have to the violatility of the price of Bitcoin? Is that exposure high enough that these companies could be brought down by a drop in Bitcoin pricing and would that lead to a collapse of the Bitcoin economy (i.e. are any of these too big to fail)?
Can these things share accurate telemetry data so you can add a geospatial data layer? That would be great because if they are communicating anyway getting relative location should be reasonable and make keeping track of folks much easier while not having to rely on LOS.

edit: I see the maps feature but I also see the text of the messages asking where someone is, so that is what spurred the question.
This is exactly how I went from not knowing Rails, to getting a high paying gig with a Fortune 100 working on a high scale Rails app within 3 years.

I went from first Rails side project -> Freelance consulting -> Early Stage startup -> Acquired startup at Fortune 100.
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Well, Amazon TELLS you that you lose the right of first sale. That has yet to be tested in court. EVERY industry (seriously, try to find one this isn't true for) has tried to kill the secondhand market in their particular corner of the economy. And every. single. one. of them failed utterly. Digital goods purveyors are going to fail just as spectacularly. It will require lawsuits, of course, but eventually digital property will be respected as actual property.

Right now, when you purchase a digital good, you are quite literally paying for nothing. You're giving money to a company and basically asking them to do you a favor and give you access to some content. Nothing in the "license" you agree to obligates them to actually provide you with ANYTHING. It conveys absolutely no rights to the purchaser and, just as importantly, places absolutely no obligations on the "seller". As it currently stands, it's basically just a giant sham with consumers acting in good faith and waiting for some CEO at Amazon or Apple or Barnes and Noble or somesuch to try to eke out a little more quarterly profit by doing something like requiring consumers to pay more to unlock content they already "paid for".
I might also say, people who are using Haskell have to care about this kind of stuff, because the language more or less forces it on them. Java or Python, not so much.
Yeah, I believe the free trial and full version were 2 different apps before. Now, you don't have to download a new app to upgrade and can keep game data from the trial. This seems like a better solution, though the price may be misleading due to how "free" games are displayed in the store. The new play store change should solve this.
Compared to San Francisco, housing is about 70% cheaper in Bangkok. That's a big one. If I'm saving 1k a month on rent, that can cover the other things pretty easily. Also, public transport and taxis are much cheaper.
What now?

What are you wanting to happen?
The CEO of Overstock, Patrick Byrne, is an outspoken libertarian. It is just as likely that a political move as it is a 'marketing ploy'.
I don't expect them to clone my repo and see my work AND I don't expect them to see the readme. They won't understand (quite understandably) most of the work I do and it will not have any GUI candies to show either :)

What you suggest is useful in many scenarios given that they are willing to go thorough the trouble of following the links and checking up the work. All they want to hear is "x years on y tech a z company". Not all of them are like this but so many are.
Looks like the ability to get alerts via an RSS feed has gone.. I've gotten less and less email alerts over time I honestly thought this would be something Google had on the deadpool list
If you were as defined by being bad at speaking as some people are by being bad at math, you would starve to death because you couldn't pay your bill at the grocery store.
This is perhaps one of the more insightful comments on learning a foreign language I've ever read. It really crystallizes the tolerance of the listener to foreign speakers as part of the barrier to learning a language.

One thing I'd add, at least as a native English speaker in a very international area, not all foreign accents and mistakes are equally well treated. And this may help contribute to and explain why some populations tend to learn English more poorly than others.

My wife is a non-native speaker (from Korea) and despite speaking and understanding English at relatively high levels, is clearly not a native speaker. But she frequently laments how people we know from different countries seemed to learn English faster or slower than others. It drives her a little crazy to think that all our Persian and Russian speaking friends effectively spoke fluent English inside of a few years (even if they have some lingering accentalisms like w-v confusion), while almost none of our Korean friends have managed the same level, even after decades.

But as an English listener, we definitely tolerate Persian and Russian accents better than Korean accents.
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Note that # of submissions is directly proportional the the time submitted.

http://minimaxir.com/img/hn-submissions.png
Yeah I came across that a few weeks ago. Glad to know you are making progress. Can you contact me via hello@storj.io, and lets figure out some ways we can work directly together. Storj doesn't believe in competition, we instead want to find ways to collaborate with those in the decentralized data space.
This is good advice but it really depends on whether the client/company views software as a revenue driver in its own right, or a means to an end.

For places that use (not make) software, the best bet is always to focus on solving the client's problem in as economical a way as possible, irrespective of the technology used.
I would also offer my anecdote to the statistics that Tiktaalik provided based on a few trips to Montreal and French Canada over the last couple years--while it's true that many people speak English as well as French, English seems to be popular because of the large number of English speaking tourists that visit the city (in no small part because of its French culture). Even in the touristy areas you're greated with "Bonjour-hello" to see how you choose to respond. There were a few times I've been grateful to have some background in French, as the person I was talking to didn't know any English (this however, was mostly on the outskirts of Montreal and in smaller towns). Overall, I was surprised at how francophone the city/region as a whole were, as before traveling I had anticipated it being equally French and English.
Good news, but I think this should go further.
Like showing potential buyers the average or median amount spend for people who actively use(d) the app. Or money spend per hour/week of usage.
flat based on what?
Probably because the license they have to sell those titles doesn't allow them to rent them on this service.
You could buy a Space Monkey and call it a day...
Is it just Dell.com or all the Dell's ?( dell.fr , dell.de ...)
The values differ amongst those gamers. But on average it amounts to those 1-2% CLV being >= $.99 (and exactly why the games are free to begin with). The strategy that these developers make is simply, if we have a larger pool of total users, and we lower barrier to entry of downloads (make it free), then you can guess that the 1-2% of paying users will grow linearly with number of total users.

Making it free and marketing it as such lowers customer acquisition cost, while still retaining a low to decent CLV (and this is discounting the extreme case users who pay a lot higher than would be expected of a mobile purchase as well)
I, for one, welcome all progress towards the inevitable vector future without unnecessary pixelation. :)

I think the Go gopher is, rather than a trademark, a copyrighted work under a CC-Attribution license. The attribution to make this use of it legit could just be adding "Go gopher by Renee French, under CC-Attribution license" to the Note section. (See http://blog.golang.org/gopher.)
Try to avoid dealing with these people unless you really must; your time is better spent directly targeting line managers with hiring authority.
Not sure I am ready for the first FedEx branded rocket heading into Memphis.
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The problem is that, until <svg use> is standardized and supported, the only way to style svg elements is if you include them in your markup (or use something like Iconic's SVG Injector).

There's a tradeoff between inlining (or rather, including them server-side) and calling them as <img>, background-image, or fonts. The size, http requests, caching , and styling all play a role.
We added a btc option at Tuft & Needle last November and up until about Feb was about 5% of our sales. btc purchases have been steadily dropping and are now around .01%
> The fact that everybody tries to import monadic values into their languages is evidence that they would indeed be useful...

Could you give a bit more detail here? From where I sit, I certainly don't see people trying to import monadic values into the languages I use, and I don't see much evidence that they'd be useful. (I've been trying to get my mind around monads and when and how to use them, and one of the problems I have in learning them is that, as far as I can tell, they don't look like the solution to any problem I've ever actually had.)
Something like that was tried before, with limited success. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_mail
http://parahumans.wordpress.com/f-a-q/

Q2: Will there be an ebook version?

A2: I hope to self publish and sell some somewhere down the road. Going to finish the story first and edit things as thoroughly as possible first.

Q2a: Can I have an ebook version for free? I’d like to read offline.

A2a: I have some, but I’d rather not distribute them. There’s unethical sorts who are taking others’ work and claiming it as their own (often with a title/name change) and I’d rather not make it easier for them. I know there’s a few fanmade ebook versions circulating, I accept that it’ll happen, but I don’t want to help the process along.

I’m hoping to get a polished version out at some point. Should you be interested, send me an email at Wildbowpig [at] gmail [dot] com with the subject line ‘WormPublishNews’. I’ll mass-email everyone on that list when the time comes, to let them know about release. (For all worm news, use the subject line ‘WormNews’.)
So who is going to be the YC ambassador to the East coast now that Alexis is full time?
Congrats to Alexis! That dude not only created one of the greatest communities on the internet, but also does some amazing things. He's right up there with Elon Musk in my list of inspirational people.
One more use case: When an address doesn't reliably geocode across mapping providers. I've run into this with things like campgrounds or tourist attractions in rural areas in the US and Canada, even with Google Maps but especially Apple Maps in the early days.
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So, uh, what's the company? I got me some Bitcoins here. (Partially serious; chances are you don't sell what I need, but if you did, I'd rather support a Bitcoin accepting company.)
It's really good that some form of craft programming has spread as "not math". But let's not kid ourselves that math isn't programming, and programming isn't math.

It's like finding your way from St Louis to Chicago (in the US) or Rheims to Paris, say. You don't need to know that you're navigating on the surface of a spherical body. You just need to know a little map reading, or listen to Google Navigation giving you apparently planar directions and execute them. Just because your journey looks and feels flat does not mean you live on a flat earth.

You can even keep up a flat earth view of the cosmos, but ultimately, you'll end up re-inventing Geocentrism and embellishing cycles with epicycles. And you'll be mystified by how a few wizards can fly non-straight-line routes from New York to London and get there faster than your flat earth "straight line".

I hereby acknowledge, swear or affirm that the previous is an analogy, and therefore can be carried to far for purposes of building a straw man counter argument.
> Oh. Ocaml again.

Nothing forces you to read the posts you don't like.

> Well, I'll chirp on the opposite side of discusion. The syntax is completely <->:%^&#$^ $% %^&*% up. Unreadable. Yes, it maybe somewhat pleasant to write code in such syntax, but readability sucks.

Readability is mostly a matter of experience.

> Which means that there are uncountably many ways to screw up the design

And many ways to make it fit a given problem. It's again a matter of experience.

> And each OCaml primadonna developer thinks that his way is the right way. And the rest can't read his code. Fuck that.

Glad you give your opinion. Apparently you have an axe to grind against the OCaml community though. You could probably replace OCaml with any language with a lot of expressiveness, and still be correct - assuming there are "primadonna"s in the OCaml community and that "any other". Or do you mean that this happen only with OCaml?
Can you explain how it makes it more difficult to perpetuate fraud? I've never worked handling money, so I can't picture how that would be the case.
People build a lot more than blogs with it now. It goes head to head with just about any CMS now, and dominates the broader CMS market. That said, it's just now being included in more enterprise and government style projects.