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I like London and have a great time there when I visit, but I guess I'm weird. Brewdog, Euston tap, the skaters at South Bank, etc. are all good attractions. I also strongly support the congestion charge. Land is expensive, and letting automobiles drive all over it subsidizes drivers at the expense of the pedestrian (or cyclist). Ideally it would be so expensive to drive in the city center we could take a lane or two away from cars and give them to other road users, but I guess this is a pipe dream. Remember, at one point streets were for people (and carts, horses, early cycles, and yes, even very slow-moving automobiles), but cars stole that, and with it an important civic space, from us.
Url changed from http://cdixon.org/2014/08/13/bitcoin-is-the-currency-the-int..., which points to this.
I've been thinking a lot about using words to stand in for numbers (eg: fingerprints) -- and I think the idea is good. But i18n should be considered -- and the PGP world list is probably the worst example I know of. The only thing it has going for it, is that is already collected/created -- but seeing as how it's not implemented by gpg -- that is kind of moot.
This is a great argument, thanks.
So basically, CouchDB + PouchdB/TouchDB/Cloudant ? I'd love to see something really emerge in this domain (CouchDB is already mature).
For anyone else in this situation who is not aware, by default an Assured Shorthold Tenancy (which you probably have if you're renting all of a self-contained dwelling) becomes a statutory periodic tenancy (i.e., usually, rolling monthly on the same terms) at the end of the initial contract period - this requires no action on the part of anyone involved so you can politely tell the agents where to stick their £100+ bill, assuming you don't mind being on a rolling monthly contract. You can of course do this next time you're due to renew even if you've paid for it before.

I've done this in four out of the five places I've rented over the years (the fifth being a special case as the landlord wanted to sell) and had no problems - although I had to argue the point with one agent who initially insisted I had no choice but to cough up. Pays to know your rights :-)

Sources:
This guide is great and used to be on the UK government website:

http://www.leeds.gov.uk/docs/Tenants%27%20Tenancy%20guide.pd...

Since superseded by:

https://www.gov.uk/private-renting

which sadly doesn't seem to cover as much detail.
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A little off topic, but is there any reason to still be talking about salted hashes when we have bcrypt and scrypt these days? Seems like an anachronism.
Somebody should build a 'UV mirror' so I can avoid 'missing a spot' when applying sunscreen. Any way to apply a UV filter to the front-facing camera on a cell phone?
By far the most efficient wind turbine placements are offshore. We have plenty of coast, and so far very little of it has offshore wind farms.

We also have a good few estuaries that could create electricity relatively easily - using known and proven technology, which fusion certainly isn't.

Bottom line is these figures are either incompetent or disingenuous.

I'm old enough to remember fusion being touted as the Next Big Thing for literally all of my life. Commercial containment fusion seems no closer now than it did fifty years ago.

There are alternatives, but they're highly speculative. Dropping YC cash on them makes sense as a long shot, but the science doesn't suggest it's wise to expect them to make good.
for such a small app I imagine, that the performance issue is from the tech stack itself vs anything he's coded. I would put that as a warning to those that are considering to using this stack. If it is within the code itself, he shouldn't be teaching bad code.
Thanks! It definitely doesn't have a team of designers/developers behind it...which is kind of the point. If you added a competent designer, and more than a week of work, you can see how a functional, smooth app could result. Not a guarantee of course, but the foundation is there.
The only value I have gotten out of my profile is that it grants me the ability to see other people's profiles. Though, perhaps the fact that others can see info about me is some value to me also.
Wonder What Google Street View Is Like With Sound? (Spoiler: Awesome)
I agree with you that YC and things like it are not a real threat to higher education, but not because of the (relative) lack of success in the companies that have gone through them. The question that matters is which of the two produces people with skills more widely valuable to society. That is a harder question to get hard data on, but it seems clear to me that the skills gained in building a (usually technology-focused) startup, while valuable, are extremely narrow in scope when compared with the aggregate of all the different skills different people gain in college.
As someone in the same position as the OP, first thanks for the ideas, it is a useful post. But I am a little surprised about advising against colour theory (the only of those suggestions that I actually know anything about).

Sure no need to go into depth, but there are plenty of short easily manageable resources for getting the basics. Before I read a blog post about colour theory I had no idea the concepts even existed. Now I'll use an online tool to help me select colours that will work better together. The effort required is basically a bit of google, and less than an hours reading.
Google does, well sort of. It assumes all lowercase it in bytes

kb = Kilobyte
Kb = Kilobit
KB = Kilobyte

Also some other nice tricks:

100MB/s in GB/2 hours
5MB/s in Mb/s
We changed the title to take out the linkbait. If anyone can suggest an improvement, we're happy to change it again.
I also wonder if a concise language like this wouldn't make lying easier since you can manipulate the meaning of your words by so slightly altering their spelling and pronounciation.
Given that IE 10+ supports web sockets I don't really see the need for server sent events. What can you do with server sent events that you cannot do with web sockets? I guess one could deprecate SSE in favor of WS.
Why? (non-rhetorical)
Just signed up. I am probably your ideal user. I work 100% on 1099, I buy my own health insurance, and I wouldn't mind paying you if the service was a net gain for me.

My thoughts:

1) The sign up form has a First________Last name field. I thought I would tab from First and land on a hidden Last field because of the gap between the two. Tabbing just moved me down to the next set of fields. If the words First and Last had been closer, I would not have been confused.

2) I cannot type in the date in the New Earning report. It sucks to click 5 times to get to Jan 31, Feb 28 etc.

3) I expected some Q&A about my consulting/tax profile. I file jointly with my wife who is on W2. I expense out things like home-office, cellphone bills etc. I would love to specify these in advance/batch so the tax estimate is more accurate. I don't want to put in every identical phone bill manually.

4) You don't cover Florida for health insurance yet. Understandable for a beta but please don't make this service just for CA/NY.
I think I've written about this a lot. Prop M from 1986 capped the amount of office space that could be added per year. The city has only run into the hard cap a couple of times in its history.

http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/22/the-pressures-driving-adapt...
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The "others can see info about me" is the value that I've landed on in my head. I don't recall ever getting a valuable message through the LinkedIn platform, but I will concede that there's possibly passive value in having an account as the absence of one could be a red flag for future potential employers.

That said, I'm also unconvinced that I want/need to be passively recruited at this point in my career.
As someone working on a phonegap project, I'd really advise against committing to this framework for mobile app development. It is good for really quick and dirty proof of concept things for devices, but for fully fledged mobile apps on iOS and android, there is an enormous gap in terms of performance. In order to get performance at least on par with native, you'd have to sacrifice TONS in terms of user experience.

Want gestures? You'll have to look towards things like iScroll and hammer.js, which work "sometimes". Add that to framework issues, and momentum based scrolling that you will have to implement yourself numerous times... Oh boy. Basically, things that come out of the box on native will have to be manually implemented by yourself, and none of these solutions will even come close to native experiences.

Add this to the fact that phonegap documentation is all over the place, and all you will get are senseless headaches. Save yourself the frustration of hacking the web into a mobile device and go native all the way. You will thank your self later.
Feedback on http://www.practicalguidetomobileapps.com/resources/book/pho...

3. don't see [New App] button
5. Broken URL (missing ".git")
6. "App must be less than 20 MB" (I'm on the Free Plan, I assume like most)
Shame, I would really like to have cross browser support for CSS Masking and Clipping. Masking stuff with a gradient in particular.
Computers can have pen input too for situations where that's more efficient, and for less expense than that lecture hall's complicated apparatus of multiple sliding blackboards to get around the finite drawing area limitation that computers don't have.
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I have. I found my current position after a recruiter contacted me on LinkedIn.
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That depends on the definition of value. If that definition is did you have any event in the past where you came out better because of your LinkedIn; I am inclined to say no, or maybe the classic answer I got a job and they probably checked my profile.

However, I recently had to turn off the "interested in career opportunities" because the huge amount of recruiters offering jobs. I imagine if I come to be without work, or want to switch jobs, all it takes is turn that option back on. Within a week I will probably have a job.

In addition, I have people in my network who I do not speak to frequently (other companies, previous shared European projects, etc). I would probably forget their name, or not be able to attach a name without seeing the face for some of them. I can use LinkedIn as a quick reminder on who I need to contact as it shows a face, their line of work, and experience usually.

So, back to your question on value. Not directly, but I have means to get in contact with persons who otherwise who be one step further away. It might help.

Alternative answer: you can turn this around and say it only helps because everybody thinks it helps. Therefor is on LinkedIn and thus checks it and can be connected. So I could also answer with no, but what would replace it then?
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I'm an iOS dev. A few reasons:

1. Payscale for native development is higher
2. Your product will look infinitely better. It can do more things that Phonegap can't.
3. Supporting future devices using Phonegap will be difficult. Apple TV SDK? What about the watch thing that could also come out?
4. Xcode is great.
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It's very difficult to get webviews to be as performant and "right feeling" as native.

That said, I think the case is very overstated, and that majority of users (i.e., not 20-somethings from Silicon Valley) won't notice or care if your app has some rough edges.

I've been working on a mobile webapp, and I'm happy with the trade offs - it's cross-platform, and it's "good enough".
For example, savers around the world were enticed by Iceland's high interest rates, and then this happened: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%E2%80%9311_Icelandic_finan...

Turned out those savers were the suckers needed by those banks, in an attempt to remain solvent.
Of course, there will be less and less "jobs" in the future. But that's OK. The population growth is already stopping. Productivity will rise to the new heights. Society will adapt — first, by introducing, say, 4-hour work days, then by totally eliminating the concept of a "job" — everyone will be either a temp staffer, or a business founder (or an artisan — arts and crafts will be more valuable than ever).

We are moving to post-scarcity, and the future is bright. No more office jobs, though.
I haven't looked at it much, but from a JS background, Swift might look more approachable than Objective-C to you.
Contracting, as a Jr. Dev, at a small startup
I'm still in my first six months as a developer and have just started working for a tiny startup where I am the only employee, and receive excellent mentoring and am leveling up. It's a short term, open-ended arrangement.

We have been trying to come up with a fair contract, given that there are limited cash assets,and that this is more or less an internship. My boss spends twenty minutes a day giving me code review and direction, which is valuable for me at this early stage in my career.

What is a fair rate? Do I charge less given the mentorship I receive? We work well together, and are both motivated to make this work.

We've worked out one benchmark per week, and are trying to figure out a contract. The company has limited cash resources.

Thanks for any guidance.
MySQL's non-standard ON DUPLICATE KEY feature is extremely useful, so any "upsert"-like feature would be a great thing to have.
it has been really my only pet peeve with HN. if you like the scrape/mod, use it, fork it, whatever you like. still new here... (but this is only for personal/private use)
Those are stupidly irrelevant examples. Nobody's suggesting that you would need to have a Coq parser between your keyboard and your display. You can type an incomplete or invalid expression just as easily as you can write one, but only with a computer can you have your statements automatically and reliably checked and errors flagged in realtime.
as somebody already mentioned, Rockefeller who is probably more important for building a modern economy even than Ford (Ford was important for building industrial economy which is going away while Rockefeller's foundation is still the foundation of the modern post-industrial economy), didn't achieve it by being a good, or even by being just minimally honest. Quite opposite actually.

In this case i'd expect that, like in case of AirBNB's "contractors" spamming Craigslist, Uber would officially claim having no idea that their "contractors" have been engaged in such practices (an approach i call "responsibility laundering").
CGP Grey recently put out a video along very similar lines. Worth 15 mins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU&list=UU2C_jShtL7...
I'm still confused as to why I'd want to use famo.us over an open source UI framework. From these screenshots it doesn't even look particularly good.
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That's the weirdest thing I've seen. I can understand it if you're sharing private things, but why would you do that with your public website?
Just spending 5 minutes with PhoneGap was enough to convince me that it isn't ready for professional app development, performance wise. That was 2 years ago and I'd hoped it had improved quite a bit since then.
It is open source... Some development (a majority) has been behind closed doors, but they are now opening everything up.
“Humans Need Not Apply”
200 years ago people were still willing to invest in infrastructure
There will be a bright future for our growing aging population.
Ehhh, it's tough. What happens when you need a vertex moved or a poly count reduced? Visual assets really impact game performance in a way that requires bespoke work on almost everything. It doesnt help that the number of free game-ready assets out there is basically 0
Ah, 1950's future.
I'm supposing you didn't look at what Famo.us offers, in terms of gestures and scrolling. I used to have your opinion, then I actually tried famo.us, and realized how simple it made everything.

I'm arguing that if myself, as a no-design-talent, been using PG since 0.8 guy can recognize the benefits of switching my workflow to this, it is at least worth a look.
> One big problem is that people take the idea of "better safe than sorry" as a way to avoid thought. Don't analyze the situation, just pick the option that appears safest after a glance!

Which in the innocuous cases is the option that is least safe:

If you flag everything as suspicious then you waste law enforcement resources investigating nothing that could have been used to investigate something.

Increasing the false positive rate makes it easier for genuine threats to blend into the noise. If you cry wolf for every neighbor's puppy the townspeople soon stop responding.

And then you make enemies out of the communities you're unnecessarily harassing, which leads to "Fuck the Police" culture where people won't even report obvious and serious threats because they don't want to attract a bunch of unthinking jackboots who might just as soon arrest victims and bystanders as the perpetrators.
Remember that some "censorship" is good. When FinFisher is being used by a repressive government against protesters and journalists, or a Zeus trojan has nabbed the credentials for your bank account, it's really nice for the security folks to be able to take down the domains being used for command and control.
Last week patio11 had an interesting comment on residential rents in San Francisco compared to rents in Tokyo.[1]

"Can I throw one into the list? The median cost of a one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco gets you approximately two bedrooms in Tokyo... in a semi-luxury apartment, in the most desirable neighborhoods. . . .

"Still though, given that I have had lifelong impressions of Tokyo as being the most expensive place to live anywhere, I was pretty gobsmacked when I started doing the math."

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8142684#up_8142803
Hm... I tried submitting this once and was taken to a thread where it was already being discussed. I lost the thread, and resubmitted hoping to be taken to it again, but... it went through. Perhaps I misunderstand how the dupe-filtering on the submissions works here.
I suspect many cell phone cameras do have a UV filter, however it would be filtering out the UV. If UV does make it to the sensor then you could do the filtering and band shifting in software.
Why I really like the Snowden Wired cover picture
Yeah, it's really odd to spend effort maintaining haystacks, trying to keep their needle:straw ratio high, trying to grow and filter the haystack, et cetera, then pump giant aqueducts and funnels (pass it up!) of absolute crap intelligence into it. There needs to be a word for losing knowledge: instead of extracting knowledge from streams of input, you're smearing it all around, obfuscating the useful bits.
> Many people here in SF have been saying this is the direction we've been heading for quite a bit(if it hasn't happened already): SF becomes Manhattan, the surround Bay Area become the boroughs.

That's extremely far off the mark. Rent is so high in SF precisely because it's not like Manhattan.

Even Brooklyn is denser than SF. That's ludicrous, when you consider the supply & demand of housing.

In New York, housing almost follows the free market. Yes, rent is expensive, but that's too be expected considering the consistently high demand and that apartments can't be instantaneously constructed.

SF is just as expensive, despite have an order of magnitude less demand. It's a completely supply-driven problem, and until that supply problem is fixed you're going to see rents well in excess of Manhattan (for a far shittier city, with way fewer amenities).
JavaScript – The weird parts
Ken Coleman.

http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2013/04/11/ken-coleman-j...
Sure, I don't doubt there are other vendors too, and it'll be useful for everybody. Just seems even more so for Microsoft, given their push towards that sort of thing.
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More functions to modify JSON columns in place without needing to retrieve it.
> Peter Todd, a developer who has contributed to the Bitcoin project, says Andresen seems in more of a hurry than others involved with the project to tweak Nakamoto’s design

Peter Troll. The guy never gets tired of derailing discussions and slowing down all development on github issues. It's always about bringing completely unrelated technical or economical issues, for the sake of saying "look I'm smart!". He also loves to imagine conspiracies, like the block size issue (Nakamoto didn't want to keep it at 1MB forever, but Peter says he says he did and even created a website just for that :s). And he is always accepting donations of course, and contracts with altcoins (they get the press -useful for a quick pump/dump-, he gets the money).
Those kids who are "there for the paycheck" got hired just the same as you did, plus they have a life outside of work. Meanwhile, you've sacrificed any semblance of a work/life balance, all for the sake of an impressive title and a marginally higher salary.

I think you could learn a thing or two from those stupid kids you work with.
Serious question for other startup founders: why would you put your company in the bay area or even the state of CA?

It has never been easier to build a tech company, especially a SaaS-type business with no physical inventory. You could home your company in a cheaper, more business friendly city like Austin (disclaimer: I live in Austin). The tax savings alone would cover the costs of going to SF once a week. Quality of life is just as high (or higher, depending on your interests) in many other cities.

Edit: Seems people are missing the fact that you could literally fly to SF once a week for networking / meetings / events and it would still be cheaper to live somewhere else. You don't have to miss out on being a part of the network.
PhoneGap can only do so much, it is mostly just wrapping your HTML/JS/CSS. Finally those languages are starting to get close to what a native app can do (with significantly less development time, perfect for prototyping).
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All good points, but you are explaining why this research is not a landmark development. Most research, however, is iterative. Get a simple step working, which contains a bunch of simplifying assumptions. Then slowly try to remove those assumptions. That takes time and effort, and we publish each of those steps, and call them "novel".
I'd like to believe this, but I don't see the corresponding changes in societal structure. If we really are post-scarcity, it would be nice if some sort of average person could have a family if they choose, or at least have access to health care, housing and things to make a reasonable life. Truly part time work with a decent wage almost does not exist in most fields. The people I know trying to make a living doing artisan things would certainly not agree that arts and crafts are more (monetarily) valuable than ever.
So what's the BitTorrent equivalent of a seed library? (no pun intended, but amusingly apropos)
The thing is, the web will never ever catch up to native. The web is too fragmented, has too many libraries, differing philosophies and paradigms, and is too far removed from the hardware to even compete. You think you'll ever see something like Flipboard built on Phonegap? Pretty unlikely.
Android or iOS? Swift? There are many, many choice for "native" devs. Every choice has sacrifices, including this prototype-focused one.
"Vringo fell 73 percent to 86 cents at 12:43 p.m. in New York trading after dropping as low as 67 cents."

Wow!