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First of all, "just behavior" doesn't really mean anything. You're arguing that people should stop trying to describe other people's behavior in certain terms, but I don't see any compelling argument. "I don't like it" isn't compelling.

Second, there's nothing wrong with "irrational". If I describe someone's behavior as irrational and I happen to be right, it doesn't automatically mean that I'm criticizing them. I might be, but just the use of that word doesn't automatically imply criticism. Humans don't make completely rational decision all of the time and that's okay.

Third, your examples are pretty much a mixed bag. At least three out of those four examples are about irrational decisions -- the first one might be completely rational, because we don't know all the details -- but that's the only characteristic they share. Dealing with an aggressive salesman who manages to convince you to get that new phone is very different from buying a bunch of Steam games because you thought you would like them and there was a bargain on them. That, in turn, is radically different from pouring $1,000 into Magic Cards alongside the time and dedication that go hand in hand with that level of enthusiasm for a hobby.

Fourth, spending $60 on a game you ended up not liking is a pretty good motivation for wanting to improve the process in order to avoid repeating the same mistake. Not all process improvements are legislative, of course. The sixty-dollar console game scenario, for example, doesn't deserve a law that decrees that all reviewers should be as critical as Yahtzee ;)

It all comes down to whether IAPs are a problem and, if they are, how much of a problem they are and how it can be solved. Personally, I find that the level of manipulation involved in mobile games with IAPs can sometimes be unacceptable [1] and that something should be done about it.

[1]: http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/RaminShokrizade/20130626/1949...
Not that I know of. I got a few requests via email and github issues for very specific conditions in the Scandinavian countries. Some are so sublte, I am not a great enough graphic artist to truly nail the metaphor of what "dust" looks like in the style I borrowed (with permission) from @artill. Fog, smog, haze, dust, "dangerous air quality" are so similar but abstract in the style chosen.
Eh, I don't think so -- and no PR related to it mentions Material design principles. The only thing about it that looks "material"-ish is a single-column paper card sort of thing and the bold color at the top. There are no animations, no reactive layouts, no shadows.
>If someone stole my IP

They didn't steal anything. They only infringed on the exclusive right granted under copyright law.

Actually stealing IP is near impossible to do.
What does bitcoin have to do with this question? Hint: nothing.
There is something to be said about the farm raised hotties.
Because almost all of that growth was reached by Mar 2013 and it's been mostly flat since then(one bubble, a few small dips).
What... wait what.... There is an official API and no one told ... what?

Ok, I'm seriously scraping, and I seriously dislike it, sound like HackerSwifter will now use the API! Thanks!

Edit: But there is no endpoint to have the top items, ask hn etc... right?
At first glance the concepts may seem similar, but this is a different thing altogether. Storj is a service layered on top of other blockchains. Filecoin is a new blockchain protocol itself, with its own contributions: mining construction, use of proof-of-retrievability, put/get as transactions, and more. Read: http://filecoin.io/filecoin.pdf

Soon will have simpler explanation. :)
What about Alien? Or Aliens who protect us from a meteor because they respect humanities kindness despite its atrocity, like the end of The Abyss.
Except that the situation with email is very much a result of a longer development. It certainly wasn't always difficult to do your own email - in fact, it once was relatively normal.
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Yup, not only do you take less vacation you don't get paid out when you leave.
> 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".

The gaming industry has already done this kind of thing with on-disc DLC, incidentally.
Why present for debate the casual comments made on the spur of the moment about this tragedy by a few travelers. As they said, they are literally, 'not America'. Fact! Why read something into it?
how hackable will this be? Will the end user be able to turn up the signal strength and gain? (similar to what I can do on my wifi access point?)
This nonsense requires the AI capable of computing a simulation at a rate (much) larger than Bremermann's limit[1], on data that vastly exceeds the Bekenstein bound[2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremermann%27s_limit
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bekenstein_bound
I think timing is a huge factor here. December is not ideal for a cooler, but Summer is. He also did a great job building momentum and getting people early in the campaign.

We find that most campaigns that eventually hit their goal raise about 30% of their funds from their own networks. They should raise this in the first 48 hours. Once you have this 30% of funds locked in, it will be easier to raise additional funds. When strangers see that others trust you with their money, it gives them the confidence to contribute. This seed funding also gives your campaign momentum that can be leveraged for marketing and press.
Cults rarely debate about their own cultishness. http://lesswrong.com/lw/md/cultish_countercultishness/
"40,000 transactions to about 60,000 transactions"

Exactly. You called this +50% growth "more or less constant", which is why I corrected you.

As to judging how much of this +50% growth is due to increased economic activity, it is impossible to prove due to the anonymous nature of Bitcoin. However indicators like the growth of Bitcoin payment processors (BitPay and Coinbase) very clearly show there is extreme growth. Eg. look at this data about BitPay: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7974197
Companies usually scale pay based on the cost of living in the city where the worker lives. Tech hubs tend to be high cost of living areas. A $115k job in NYC becomes a $90k job in Omaha based on the premise that it costs 25% more to live in NYC.

This accurately reflects the buying power in the two different cities but base pay also generally translates percentage-wise into other benefits like 401k matching and your negotiating position for salary at your next job.
A BMW costs the same, but it doesn't matter if you're making $200k or $50k if you're not actually pocketing the difference. If you're only pocketing $1k each month in either place, the BMW costs the same and still takes the same amount of time to save up for.

And about your being laid off in the Midwest... sometimes I think people believe that every Midwest city has to shut down their main street whenever the cows need to cross...
> Plus not everyone signs their windows binaries. Only Microsoft really.

Hahaha... no, not really. Pretty much every commercial app is signed, even if it's a freeware. Otherwise you get promptly hell-banned by MS's own SmartFilter and flagged as suspicious by every antivirus.
Pay them like they live in SF regardless of where they live.
What point? That they're not Americans??? They're not wrong. They're simply ignorant..
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Why have an icon font for ℃ and ℉ instead of just using &#8451; and &#8457;? There are probably Unicode codepoints for others in this set, too.
Both smell like a scam, "coincidentally" today storj started fundraising by getting people to send them bitcoins for useless storjcoins they created, the worst part is people falling for such a scam, then again there's a fool born every minute which is a business model a lot of companies rely on.

In this case and in storjcoin case the actors behind it all remain anonymous
A modern airliner (seemingly) disappearing without a trace is interesting, even from a technology perspective.

A modern airliner getting shot down by a SAM is fairly boring from a tech perspective. Sadly it's not even a particularly unique occurence over the past few decades.
I've just (as in 20 minutes ago) accepted an offer with a supply chain data analytics company in northwestern Arkansas (right in the middle of the Ozarks).

They are paying WELL above cost of living for the position.

I think the recruiting for these locations needs to be targeted based on a demographic profile. Fresh grads will take anything, unless they are highly recruited due to some stand-out factor like school, side-project.

Experienced people are another story. Here's what sold me on the Ozarks vs. offers in Austin, San Fran, etc:

QUALITY OF LIFE QUALITY OF LIFE QUALITY OF LIFE. I'm a married guy with two kids. I've done the densely populated urban area thing in DC. Walk to work, take the train anywhere, live in a high-rise. Guess what? There are a lot of folks my age doing the same thing in our industry, and they are probably getting sick of it like I am. But I don't want to live in a suburb and fight traffic to get to work. This is where you can come in. Big yard, house, short commute.

These folks made a point of selling a country-living lifestyle with a 10 minute drive to the office (and very flexible telecommuting options). A lot of people want nothing to do with that lifestyle, but the people who do will gravitate towards it.

Another issue you have is the dual-income family. My wife is a full-time mom, so for us this issue didn't exist. Perhaps the affordability of an area allows this for those who want this and don't currently have it. A lot of moms AND dads I know would love to be a stay at home parent if they could. Flyover country allows for this if you pay well above cost of living.

Since I'll be getting a similar salary when I move, I'll be able to save way more for one day starting my own business.....

These are all selling points, and you should highlight them in your ads. It's not about an ad where 99% of the people who see it think "ok, cool." It's about an ad where 3% of the people who see it go "Oh my fucking god I want to do that."
Currently, iTunes lists the top 10 in-app purchases in the app description, which makes it easy to gauge what will happen when you use the app.

The Play Store only recently added "Offers in-app purchases" as small print next to the device compatibility info.

Not sure if Android users will embrace any form of hybrid pricing that doesn't say "Free".
Paying the same amount would be challenging if they're not doing the same amount of business. Google can pay an average software engineer $100k because they do a lot of business. Should a company that only makes $100k in a single year pay their developers the same? Tech companies in SF tend to be pretty big/well funded organizations.
For me, there's nothing you could do to get me to move to the middle of nowhere. I love the city (currently in NYC) and would rather kill myself then move to some relatively deadbeat rural town.

If the work were remote, then of course I'd be open to it.
Is it? If I want to be my own bank I also have to coordinate to sell all income coins on a market rapidly to avoid fluctuations in price. That's a full time job in itself.

Also the risk of failure for a mistake in being my own email service is that some of the mail I send lands in a spam folder. The risk of failure in being my own bank is that I lose all my money.
#3 was especially poignant. The first time I encountered the 'split brain' problem i was left scratching my head for a while.
Wow. I remember when Slackware was distributed on six floppies, and I had to download it from BBS about a thousand miles away. I had a 386 computer with a 40Mb MFM hard drive that was about the size of a loaf of bread, and the computer had the bare minimum of ram to run it -- 4 Mb. You had to directly copy a floppy image to the hard drive, and then manually edit a few bits to tell it to boot from the HD. I had no idea what I was doing -- none of my friends had even heard of Linux, but it was a lot of fun.

Linux: You've come a long way, baby!
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It's also amazing that you can trap SIGTERM to perform clean-up tasks when the user Ctrl-Cs a script.
whats to stop the node replying with the hash of the file saying "yes the file is here" when in reality no file is there
I'm not sure that I could be enticed to work outside of California, and the reason is because of the many friends I've made at university. Almost the majority of them stay in California and it would take far more than extra compensation to entice me away from that.
I agree with most of the feedback already posted in this thread: compensation "considering the low cost of living" is not necessarily good compensation, and remote work may be the ticket. To other HNers, I would say that I just moved from Silicon Valley to the Midwest and I'm so much happier with all the open space and corn fields. In SV I used to feel trapped and tense all the time. Everyone talked about money. To the OP, I would say I work remotely for an industry-leading software company, with a Silicon Valley salary, and basically my own schedule. Don't see your goal as trying to get people to move to the Midwest, see it as trying to compete with Silicon Valley companies for talent. There are fewer jobs out here, so I have to look much harder to network and ensure job security. I wouldn't give up my current arrangement any time soon.
There goes my weekend! Thank you so much.
While I understand that by "rationality" and "truth", you may not mean the same thing than I do, I fail to see how they could possibly be at odds.

I mean, if you value truth, you'd better be rational, or you're not going to find it.
"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."

By importing them, I mean by writing articles like this, which invariably produces code with such an overhead to use it that nobody ever would.

They don't appear to solve any problems partially because you're already "in" a monad; program execution flow is already a monadic value itself. They partially don't appear to solve any problems because you can't really "think" in them, because, as I mentioned, most languages are simply too weak to make them convenient enough to use. And they partially don't appear to solve any problem because the samples used by all the "tutorials" are all pretty trivial; it's sort of like dismissing Object Orientation because obviously it's only useful for modeling relationships between shapes, animals, and cars or something, since that's all anybody ever talks about.
Large companies can trick them into moving. Get them at a `cool` incubator in a major city and then ship them out to the farm.
Not sure how this is different than just hiring a freelancer to do the work?
Living in a mid-to-high cost of living area while I'm working now affords the following advantage:

I'm building equity in a house that I can keep when I retire because I love it here, or sell it and move anywhere I want.

If I move to Oklahoma and decide I don't like it, and you're paying me in accordance with the reasonable cost of living, I'm stuck.

So, no thanks. Either pay market rate regardless of location or you're not going to entice people invested in a high cost of living area away.
Anyone else noticing this story getting furiously downmodded? 250 points within two hours and buried under older, lesser stories. The bitcoin butthurt is strong here on Hacker News.
I love the gov.uk people. Their design principles doc is still bookmarked for me https://www.gov.uk/design-principles
Nobody wants to pay.

Outside of tech hubs, companies don't seem to value software devs. I guarantee that if your company was paying rates competitive to the major cities - not "considering the low cost of living", but actually competing on the dollar - there would be more interest. You have to pay programmers enough to mitigate the risk that there just aren't as many jobs in those areas and there aren't as many opportunities for professional development. Instead, everyone wants to look at the cost of living in SF/NYC, and claim that it's such a better deal to move to $midwest_city, even for less money. No. The environment matters. Pay up to compensate.

Check Meetup.com. Are there large, active groups meeting regularly for a variety of languages and technologies in your area? Think about what devs have to give up when they leave a city with a thriving programmer community to come to your company.
Octopart initially provided the official API[1] and then Algolia took over early this year[2].

[1] https://www.hnsearch.com/api
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7130590

A lot of people seem to have used the API to build cool apps.

https://hn.algolia.io/cool_apps

I would read the docs first and jump to conclusions later.
Pretty much any traumatic event gets the conspiracy theories going, which lends credence to the hypothesis that they are at least partially emotional coping mechanisms.
Sorry but could you clarify? How is the child of an Australian and Chinese couple German?
> sometimes I think people believe that every Midwest city has to shut down their main street whenever the cows need to cross...

As someone who's lived in the Midwest my whole life, and is here right now, that's not an unfair assumption in any way.
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However, this is not as performant. Font Awesome switched away from this to an extra `fa` class for that reason.
A note on dropout:

If your layer size is relatively small (not hundreds or thousands of nodes), dropout is usually detrimental and a more traditional regularization method such as weight-decay is superior.

For the size networks Hinton et al are playing with nowadays (with thousands of nodes in a layer), dropout is good, though.
I've always thought that it would be neat if a tech company bought a few square miles of empty land somewhere in Wyoming and build the mother of all tech campuses. Build on-campus housing and incentivize housing developers to build nearby, wire up beefy internets, incentivize other tech startups to set up shop nearby, and basically form a small tech gravitational well from nothing in a stupendously beautiful area. Maybe it's a pipe dream, but I for one would be extremely interested.
I suspect it's because the world itself breaks along those lines.

It's a bit like how Republicans and Democrats look to a non-statist a hell of a lot like how Protestants and Catholics look to an atheist: they agree on far, far more fundamental things than their actual disagreements, which are mostly at the edges, not at the core.

Similarly, whenever Randian-style "reason" is promoted as it is in Methods (to a degree), the world breaks strongly on people who really, REALLY like that sort of thing, and people who truly, absolutely hate it with a passion.

(Funny anecdote: a friend of ours in college—a mild, sweet, good-tempered female—tried to read Any Rand's "Anthem" in the school library one day and physically threw the book against the wall she was so upset by it!)
I can understand why -- with all the scams out there -- that would be one reaction. But note that Filecoin makes important technical contributions on top of the Bitcoin protocol. You can read the paper here: http://filecoin.io/filecoin.pdf

FWIW, we aren't really anonymous. Neither in the storj case (you can find who they are in their website), nor in the Filecoin case. (hi!)
Just because he says it's copyrighted doesn't mean it is copyrightable in the first place.
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For me, low cost of living means low quality of living. There are more things to do in more expensive cities and quality of almost everything is higher, from restaurants to doctors to schools.

Many people brought up the compensation which is fair, but for me, even if a company in mid-west offers 30% increase in my earnings I would pass.

For people like me that are minority, diversity is very important. It makes living much easier when you are surrounded with all different kind of people. By visiting some cities in Montana and Idaho I understood how good Silicon Valley and NYC are. People keep staring at us in restaurants just because we were talking a foreign language. I know it's all because of their curiosity and they don't hate us necessarily but it is not comfortable.
This. I live in NYC and work remotely for a company in London. I'd be just as happy to do it for a US company.
This can't be up-voted enough.

I turned down a very good paying (relatively) job in a midwestern town near family because it was 50% of what I could earn in the bay area, while being more than 50% of the cost of living. Compounding that problem was that the majority of other roles in the area were no-growth developer roles, and there were also few of them.

Sometimes I think companies don't realize that potential employees engage in the same kinds of cost/benefit analysis for themselves that the companies engage in.

As an addendum: frankly I consider the software pay in the Bay Area to be below the cost of living for anybody but: a) singles; b) couples with little or no debt. Sure it's good pay, but compared to the cost of housing it's not that good. My experience is that it's typically worse elsewhere, and especially in lower cost of living areas.
It has to do everything with it. If company sells something directly to a customer and is under VAT obligation and it takes bitcoins in exchange for goods.. how is VAT then distributed to tax collecting entity? I guess that's why 3rd party bitcoin processors are popular because business is getting cash, not bitcoins. I presume if they were collecting bitcoins directly, then it would be no different than dealing with non-convertible foreign currency, which is not a legal tender, and it would be impossible to deal with.
How important is unit testing in rapid release, non-critical (web) apps?
Making it easier to buy stuff online will drive growth
When you are fundamentally running shell commands, using python/perl really don't make a lot of sense. Use the best tool for the job. Note that for my dayjob I write python almost fulltime, but if I'm almost exclusively running shell commands, I'll write a shell script. Just because you can do something one way doesn't necessarily mean I should.

See I'm of the opinion that if you need arrays and associative arrays, bash is the wrong tool for the job. If you have a recent bash it has both of those, just seems wrong in such a clunky language with awful scoping.
It's good to see some actual code in practice. I'm pleased to see how readable Swift is compared to Objective-C.

Good job.
Thanks to you both for the responses. I live in NYC which is the difficulty in really being able to network in Silicon Valley. I have made some investments via funders club, and love the service, I was just looking for a way to invest directly rather than just in a fund. Again Thanks for your time.
Check out Military Grid Reference System (MGRS) [1], referenced in the article. Increasing the number of digits increases the precision of the location.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_grid_reference_system
A lot of the grammar is extraneous indeed, and not actually used in spoken language. After taking a linguistics course, I started paying more attention to the difference between my spoken and written Québec French (my mother tongue) and realized that we almost never use the formal future tense in our speech; we use an auxiliary instead, English-style. So instead of saying "J'irai au dépanneur", I say "Je vais aller au dépanneur" (I will go to the convenience store). We often do the same with the past tense (passé composé), although that form is more kosher in written form.