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Hmmm... Combined market cap is about $10bn, which is about 25x revenues. The similar ratio for Google is 12x. Dropbox's revenue is reported at $200m with a $10bn valuation, which is 50x. So the ratio doesn't seem crazy to me given the assumption of growth potential and the ability of the new company to better control pricing. When you say the numbers don't seem in line, what examples were you thinking of?
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The article seems wrong on the sporting example - if 49ers win, then you have invested $20 and obtained only $10*4/3 in return.

I think the article does have a point. To my limited understanding, the false distinction between "insurance" and "credit default options" and the illusion that "they could get away with it" was crucial in the financial meltdown of 2007-09.

Things have reached a point where even people who have Ph. D in mathematics or science hardly know how to invest their money. I think financial literacy should be considered one of the basic necessities of existence in a capitalist society, and activists should launch public information campaigns to educate the vulnerable public.

But some of the remarks are overboard - the fact that credit means debt, I think, goes all the way back to double-entry book keeping. I think this hardly counts as jargon, any more than the word debt itself.
"overbearing and clingy, judgmental from the get go. expects me to fit to some kind of mould. next."

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"hey! you like icecream?"--
--"yeah!"
There's an interesting thread here of a guy called /u/btcrobinhood who monitors these wallets and attempts to return the funds to the original holder.

meta: http://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/296zn4/

original context: http://np.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/295las/35_of_my_btc_...
Given just how bad the economy still is, it pains me to see the NYPD wasting potentially tens of thousands of dollars, if not more, trying to find a bunch of kids who replaced a couple of flags. They should be rewarding these kids for finding a glaring security hole (if they find them) in supposedly one of the states heavily guarded monuments before someone with ill-intentions found it and caused havoc...

If they're calling this an act of terrorism, are they going to throw these kids into a jail cell for 20 years for a harmless prank? Whatever happened to being able to have a good old prank. Kind of reminds me of the MIT pranks: completely harmless.

How about they spend the money securing the bridge instead of combing through cell-phone towers and involving innocent civilians in a draconian dragnet operation? This kind of behaviour from the NYPD is just going to encourage more pranks like this.
Not only that, but it manages to break the spacebar as a scrolling tool. I'm getting really sick of webapps that are hijacking or breaking keyboard shortcuts!
Uh, why? It's pretty much just a rebrand (for trademark license reasons). It's not the same as the other two examples.
It violates mine: on just about every other page when I press spacebar the page scrolls.
Yes it is and CF keeps on saying they'll do it next Q, for nearly a year now. Going to be glad to get off CF. ;-)
But even that action will have to manage the dependencies on these multiple stores, doesn't it? Whether it's called an Action or associated with a Store, does it make a practical difference?
I've had two offers from companies wanting to buy out VirtualHostX. Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately), neither company made compelling arguments for me to give up steady, stable income.
Thanks for being honest.

The key word is "think", but I guess most people don't use "think" to actually mean "think".
Why not? 1.0.0 is yet another version number. We have significant API changes since the original 0.1.3 tag. The sooner we get on 1.0.0, the sooner we can move on with proper semver in our lives.

Documentation is still lacking for bitcoinjs-lib. PRs and volunteers welcome =) Meanwhile, developers can reference our tests for examples; and join IRC #bitcoinjs-dev if you have any questions.
Nice job taking initiative!

Do you know if there's a technical reason for ad packets to be so small?

I like the idea of using URIs, but if beacons automatically caused my device send arbitrary network requests along with any kind of identifying information it could be quite scary (someone could track my location in real time by tossing a bunch of cheap beacons around).

Also, you'll probably want to cram a URI scheme in there.
On the plus side it can't be worse than their existing electronic locks which have been horribly compromised:

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/133448-black-hat-hacker...
If I remember correctly the meat of the argument in the book wasn't a just so story about consciously maximized incentives but an empirical look at time on the market for houses that agents sold on behalf of clients versus houses sold on their own behalf.
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Some underlying qualities correlate positively with success in both. Some correlate negatively. Charm, for example, or salesmanship.

My late grandfather was a master salesman. People would believe what he said, because he himself believed it when he said it. He was also amazingly good at knowing what people wanted to hear. What he wasn't so good at were trivial things like "facts" and "truth": those things often got in the way of believing the most useful thing at the moment.

Several times I've had pals at software companies where the CEO has great sales skills. Every time it's gone great at the beginning, because they get plenty of initial customers. But then things get ugly, because the CEO's promises aren't constrained by the realities of software development. It's death by a thousand cuts as tech debt mounts. Or key customers leave because the CEO consistently promises things that can't be delivered. Or some other ending where ugly reality eventually intrudes upon the CEO's beautiful vision.

I'm sure some people are great at raising money because they're great at building companies. But I'm equally sure that some people are great at raising money because they're terrible at running companies.
Will the tool scan github, epfl papers, and the rest of the internet and fix the Scala there, which is still being produced using procedure syntax?
But if most people lack discipline, why should they not use something like this?
I think it will become more prevalent in Eastern culture before Western -- ie. it allows characters in the native language... instead of only Western (English) characters.

But then again... I don't have a bridge character on my keyboard...
Which is why they changed the headline.
"Bring em on." - George W. Bush
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I agree the video is confusing. I think that was special for its maiden voyage. It seems like it will be on its own thereafter, hence:

[…] if Hitchbot's power runs out when it is waiting for its next ride, written instructions on its body will tell people how to strap it into the car and plug it in, and direct people to a help website.
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memory allocations to sound.
They claim the money is a donation to a open source software project, so they don't even need the money.
Someone else posted this in another comment: http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/page/7/

It turns out photo quality, and even which camera you used, matters a lot.
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This looks interesting. How long are the super early-bird tickets open for?
It is even worse when you cross cultural barriers. I was recently in a discussion where a guy from an unnamed company in India has decided to change "Sign Up" in one of their services to "Join" just because in India the first does not immediately suggest a user what to do.

There's also the perennial complaint that sporting analogies and slang make no sense across countries - G. H. Hardy's cricketing analogies and an American professor's baseball or NFL insights are gibberish on the other side of the Atlantic.
GitBook may or may not meet your needs. I'd say so, personally: https://www.gitbook.io/
Yep --- couldn't effectively use and parse subqueries with ActiveRecord alone.
The 7.7s to process a 400KB page (Wikipedia) is particularly surprising. Assuming a processor that executes ~2 billion instructions a second, that's roughly 37,000 instructions executed for each byte of input, or a throughput of ~52KB/s. I wonder where all the time is being spent, as from my understanding minifiers just parse the input document and then write it out in some smaller canonical form.

Also, please, whenever you publish benchmarks, always include the specifications of the system they were performed on! 52KB/s may be horribly slow on a 3GHz i7 but pretty good for a 100MHz Pentium.
This essay might be remotely insightful if Sam explained why great companies "often look like bad ideas at the beginning" and "look really risky at the seed stage".
During that time didn't they hire Bill James, who originated the system upon which Billy Beane based his management?
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I've been lurking here for quite a while before I started posting and I strongly suspect it's the ratio of upvotes to comments that trigger this. There may be a "recalculation" at 40 comments for performance or other reasons, but I've seen plenty of other stories with hundreds of comments and an equal or greater number of upvotes - on occasion passing 1000 - that stay on the front page for the better part of a day.
Yawn. Let me know when you're ready to announce a project to competently sign and verify artifacts.
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You can add caching to it pretty easily. If you cache the objects independently and leverage memcache multiget you can get some very nice speedups.

AMS have unfortunately no caching by default, and the development was stale for almost a year.

The mailing list is active again since the last couple days, so it might get fixed soon.
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Let me give what I felt was a popular opinion when stripe launched: it seems like an iterative improvement with nice docs and a nice API - but what's to stop Braintree or anyone else from copying that tomorrow?

I think most investors would have claimed that Stripe would probably make money but would never get huge. Now they're pushing $2B - that is an extremely unlikely outcome and so fits sama's definition of black swan.
Man, I wish I had this when I was a kid. I would've killed to be able to turn on an unlimited force power cheat (I remember binding the middle mouse button to "give all" and just spammed it when I was using tons of force power.)

Now I can just comment out the code that takes the force power away:

diff --git a/codeJK2/game/wp_saber.cpp b/codeJK2/game/wp_saber.cpp
index f87736a..a35c235 100644
--- a/codeJK2/game/wp_saber.cpp
+++ b/codeJK2/game/wp_saber.cpp
@@ -7617,7 +7617,7 @@ void WP_ForcePowerDrain( gentity_t *self, forcePowers_t forcePower, int override
{
return;
}
- self->client->ps.forcePower -= drain;
+ //self->client->ps.forcePower -= drain; //MUAHAHAHA
if ( self->client->ps.forcePower < 0 )
{
self->client->ps.forcePower = 0;

Ah, simple pleasures.
Keep fighting the good fight, Eliezer.

To add on: Some words have valuable and specific meanings! We don't have a good substitute word for "exponential" that means the same thing. Please make an effort not to do this!
Does thinknum have any plans for utilizing the models tracked by users to find larger trends? Wouldn't that be the largest concern after not actually having this info on company servers?
'Perps' in this context reminds me of the Dredd story "Un-American Graffiti".

If this all ends with someone trying to paint a smiley face on the Statue of Liberty, then I would not be in the least bit surprised.
I do it. I always thought, "What's the harm? Everything important is over SSL these days". Apparently not!
It is like having a population partially vaccinated, almost pointless on a large scale.
This leaves out or glosses over some very important areas, namely the use to which the can is being put. Soup cans are taller than ideal for minimum material use in part because it's easier to pour from them, while on the other hand a tall skinny tuna can would be hated. For a more extreme example, consider the guava paste can - an inch high and 6-7 inches across because of how the product inside is used. Think about trying to pour your soup out of that.
Definitely should be a separate product, with perhaps 10-20% off a bundle of the two. This also helps price discriminate your audience. People who actually need to monitor both probably work for big messy companies that can afford $90.
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I know what you mean about the tracking and that's actually part of the reason I think this method makes more sense. Something that's been in my head, but not put down anywhere is the idea of applications registering domains. Which to my understanding is similar to how other beaconing works, where UUIDs are registered.

Although there is only so much that you can do to prevent it. I'm kinda mulling around the thought of one basic (anonymous, except IP) request to the base domain for general information about the endpoint and if these implement some sort if well-known action types (transit-stop, point-of-interest, ???) then you'd be able to allow requests to always be made on a domain-by-domain basis or maybe some sort of "tap-for-info" button when you're near something interesting. Not sure yet, but I am generally trying to keep privacy in mind.

EDIT: Missed the part about the advertising packets. I don't really know, I've only read through the BT4 spec really quickly, but I have to imagine it has to do with both not congesting the spectrum with overly verbose broadcast messages and limiting power usage.
I'm just over 1 year as a developer in a large enterprise shop.

I've had some hiccups moving me a bit away from where I want to be ("needs of the business"), and really make me feel like I'm the only one looking out for my development. Things have been slow at work lately, so maybe I've been thinking about it more than usual.

-How often do you think about your career development?
Probably daily - making sure I'm learning the right things, meeting the right people, reading the right HN articles.

- How much time do you spend thinking about your career?
Too much- I'd like to just auto-pilot for a while, but I feel like I'll end up on the path that makes everyone else look good, rather than fulfilling my goals.

- How do you plan what you want to develop for yourself? Is it based on trends or a specific goal?
A specific goal- I would like to move into our information security area, specifically online threats/fraud.

- How do you keep track of all the skills and experiences you've gained through your career?
I don't have that many to keep track of, so the resume holds a good chunk at the moment. I should work on tracking the things that I do more.

- How do you get feedback on your skills and strengths? What do you do with the feedback?
This is probably one of the tougher things for me. Trying to change fields, my management and peers can't give qualified feedback for a different area.

- Who do you talk with the most about your career development?
This is the most I've articulated it in a while, my fiance is a good sounding board from time to time.
Funny thing is that CERT doesn't have a problem with shenanigans like this. They are more concerned with buffer overflows than by-design stupidity.
There's no reason to want a package manager to be non-deterministic (i.e., unpredictable). I gather that functional is meant to encompass more than those two properties; I just didn't want to list them all.

What bugs me a little is that there are Programming Languages folks that are into functional programming and Computer Systems folks that work on things like filesystems. I liked Systems in college. It seems like the PL camp has somehow found a way to rename systems concepts that already had names and call them functional.
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On the other hand there's a large portion of android users that really aren't participants in its app economy. At this point the value the iOS market presents to developers equals Android and the cost and hassle of developing for iOS is significantly less. Android winds up being a haven for techies who want to run task managers and antivirus on their phones, people who religiously hate Apple and people who want to spend as little as possible on a smartphone.
Rig up a couple of motion triggered IR camera's at critical points not commonly accessed, disguised and tamper proof. Check it once every so often just to make sure it works.

Next time some jokester tries a stunt like this go check, find their pic, locate & throw his/her dumbass in jail (if so desired).

And please stop with this "terrorist" scare mongering!
We as a society (or the media portrayal) are becoming a bunch of paranoid jerks parroting this nonsense and wasting taxpayer funds when the NY cops have many more important issues to deal with.
I always figured that Hotel locks only need to keep honest people out - it's just got to be hard enough that most people don't mess with it.

Wouldn't it be way easier to sneak in when a maid isn't looking or social engineer the front desk into giving you a key to a room? And once you do, you're on camera anyway.

It's just like most houses.. Sure they have locks, but it's usually trivial to break a back window to get in. It's morals and jail that keep people out... Not the front lock.
If I need something like live previews of my work as I am writing it, I just use light-table with the appropriate plugins.

Otherwise, any old text editor works for me.
My favorite attack on hotel security is much simpler: the front desk will willingly print you a key for any room.

Hold out your keycard and ask for a duplicate. Do they take your card and swipe it? No. They ask for your room number, type it into the magstripe machine, and print you a key for whatever room number you just gave.

No electronics, skill, or even malicious intent necessary (you just "forgot" your actual room number). Look and act like you belong, and make a run-of-the-mill request. Discovered this by accident when I was ~12 and wanted to go to the pool by myself. Never actually tried to get a card for another room, but never had the desk actually verify my rights to the room when requesting an extra keycard either.
We use a local repo as well(its easy to setup) and so this type of security is not something we even think about. If we are adding/version changing dependencies we just have to put a little more work into making sure the jar that goes to our local repo is good, but that doesn't happen every day. Of course when prototyping or just playing around this could become an issue...
But will users in aggregate pay more when extra effort and resources are expended on security? Will you?

If the answer is no, then the smart developer has no financial incentive to do so, and every reason to segment security out as a premium feature.

Maybe MITM vulnerability counts as broken code. But as always, markets win. I don't think the status quo will change until users consider security assurances worth hard dollars.
He was speaking as a rep of Sonatype, as am I (head of engineering for same). We'd be happy to speak to you more. There is a lot going on from a community perspective and this project has been in the backlog for a while and now rapidly working its way to the top given the apparent sea change in attitude associated with security.
Perl is better than sed/awk, but you're still going to write unreadable code. Python or Ruby are a better choice for maintainable scripts.
"Anyways, the solution isn't to complain."

I strongly support the michaelochurch's of the industry because if we actually saw the kind of changes they speak of on a large scale we would be decades ahead technologically and the vast majority of people would be better off.

However, people who complain "in the small" and do nothing about it are perpetuating the existing system.

E.g. If you know key decisions are made outside of and before meetings then work within that system to get what you want.

Or if people get hired based on who they know then spend a little bit of time each month networking. The number of chumps I know who complain about this but never network is insane.

Or if you have expert knowledge of a critical legacy system then make sure you are compensated appropriately. $500k/year is nothing compared to the cost of replacing you in the short term (4-5 years). Or you could leverage your expertise into a decent management role.
They should really just store the private key and password in the keychain, it's super simple to do.
Most people are always balancing the time/money tradeoff with how much they enjoy the task.

i.e do I do my own laundry, clean my own place, drive my own car, cook my own food?
Yes we do. More interestingly we plan to let third party developers do as well. However, clients can pay a monthly fee to keep their models private. Our business model is similar to Github. Free for users who wish to contribute their models to the public. monthly fee for private repos.
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> So now it looks like the market will come down to Redfin vs. Trulia/Zillow.

I think that's a terrible mindsent. As a recent homebuyer, I can assure both Redfin & Trulia have a shared adversary: the existing full service broker syndicate in a given city, often deeply entrenched.

I started my home search using Redfin, used them for 6-9 months & put in offers+counter+etc on 3-4 different houses. We saw a lot of places via open house & were surprised how hostile the seller's broker would be towards us on hearing we were using Redfin.

In fact, one agent actually flat out said if we made an offer, she wouldn't bother taking it to their client because we used Redfin. That's actually illegal in my state, so I asked her to clarify. I think she knew I knew at that point & back tracked. Still, my wife was so insulted, she stormed out, refused to see the house, and refused to see any other listing listed by that agent.
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Thanks for responding. I guess that its a good thing that they don't deliver to my area, ~$3 for 10 fl oz. (When you buy in bulk) is pretty steep.

Wal-Mart carries Vita Coco @ $4 for 33 fl oz. Again, the freshness seems to vary so its not as good of a product.
> There's no reason to want a package manager to be non-deterministic (i.e., unpredictable).

I agree with that assertion. However, it's an important distinction, as almost all other package managers produce non-deterministic build artifacts.
Ask HN: How can I sustainably run a website without charging a fee?
I have (what I think to be) a pretty good idea for a website. I also have a full-time job that I'm very happy with.

I'm thinking of launching my idea on Heroku, and the monthly fees would run around $300 a month. Mind you, this is with two dynos, two workers, and the "production" level of a few add-ons (Redis, Postgres, etc).

My problem is that I have no interest in charging money or providing an additional tier of features for people who would pay money. I want to try launching my idea, see if it's useful, then scale the site/add-ons to match those needs. I'd also like to open-source the whole site. But what happens if (a very large, hypothetical if) it does turn out to be more useful than I expected?

The only way I can think of breaking even is by asking for donations. Is donationware in the Internet age a viable option? Has anyone done it successfully?