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I think the app I'm working on (https://www.RetirementPlan.io) is in the right ballpark for what you are asking for. Can you try it out and provide feedback? It's free while in beta.

It's missing the Mint-style auto-connect, but it largely does the rest of it (the actual hard math).
I think that's a great idea, and launching it at a hack-a-thon might be a simple way for people to all do it together and share it with the rest of the world.
A bit off-topic, but one great polish writer/journalist that deserves to be more known is Kapuściński. His style mixes journalistic objectivity with fiction in a brilliant way.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryszard_Kapu%C5%9Bci%C5%84ski

His most known book:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor_(book)
Well, you'd make type synonyms in this case.
Codec licensing costs are an impediment to innovation in the video space and another example of controlling the market and keeping out newcomers without deep pockets. If you had only two brands of paper that licensed the one paper+pen "technology" (H.26*) available and anyone with an alternative pen+paper combination that isn't out to make money only with licensing fees is kept out of the market - that's the situation we are in with video codecs. Regulatory bodies play a vital role but fail by sometimes overregulating and in this case ignoring abuse of power. The widespread myth spread by ISPs that want to invest once and milk the network as long as possible while maintaining it as little as possible is also the reason why we haven't managed to declare internet connectivity as just another utility like water and electricity. To think that those broadband companies got tax breaks and want tax breaks while searching for loopholes to prevent municipal fiber installations...
In many cases they use story as boilerplate to present some technical marvel.

I find that to be more true for Clarke than for Asimov. Clarke likes to present technical marvels, and the stories themselves are quite bare, but Asimov focuses more on the characters, leaving the technical marvels in the background.
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I think you can tone down the hype a bit for example "communicate twice as fast" comes across as a number off the top of your head and not an actual metric.

"Deep services integration", where is the API? Hipchat is able to integrate with 50+ services because they have an API which let's other people do the actual work, how can you compete with that level of integration without one?
I can't make every decision for myself, as it's not possible unless we go back to caves. So I contract some out to society which has experts to do the job for me to some degree. They know which side of the road is best to drive on and they know (because they fund research on the matter) what things fuck up a society.

Drugs is one.

And yes I'm quite happy for this decision to be made for people.

The allergic to penicillin is a stupid comment. I'm allergic too but thanks to public funding and study, there are alternatives. If we had to put public health funding into addiction related problems, perhaps there wouldn't...

Also when drugs are legalised, what is to stop a pharmaceutical company trying to provide a superior experience with addiction so you come back (nicotine v2)?

where does the ethical line lie? Right at the start.
goroutines and green threads.

Some people use coroutines, cooperative threading, channels etc. for years. In fact, the whole Solaris OS threading model was build around some of these features.
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It's a bad analogy because mushrooms are qualitatively different from Mushrooms. This isn't a case of switching one addiction with another.
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Yes, I agree that some of those answers currently hold true. But what's to stop them changing?

I feel most of those issues you mentioned can either be solved with technological solutions (pause, rewind, ffwd a stream) or with streamer education and practice (talking through your thought process, increasing font sizes).

I do, however, have lots more to research and understand before I can be confident there are solutions to all the problems currently faced.
Edit: oops, double posted.
Penicillin is a bad example to use because it is controlled in many countries and places where it isn't are having problems which will cause severe trouble world wide.
One thing I am not clear on: Will Apple make ApplePay available to Android users?

If they do, they would get more sales. More people wielding compatible phones would also drive adoption. (Think of how Discover used to be made fun of on Family Guy, but now almost everywhere will take it)

I personally think that will be the tipping point to getting a critical mass of users - making sure it's cross platform.
Mailchimp is 100% PHP.
Non-moonlighting employment rules / provisions aren't the same legal issue as non-compete. Non-competes are for after the contract ends.

It still might not be legal for a part time contractor, but it wouldn't be because of non-compete law.
Yes. We use PHP and we love it! It has its, er, quirks from time to time, but allll that negative stuff that you're always reading about PHP doesn't really affect the bottom line: PHP is great at building websites and scalable web apps, warts and all.

(Edit: a few others in this thread are observing that most PHP-ers got their start in the early 2000's. To add another datapoint, that's true in my case as well. Active since 1998, I started with perl, got familiar with PHP, moved on to MS tech for a few years, then became a RoR dev in ~2005-07. Eventually I got frustrated with Rails' performance, decided to refactor an app in PHP and was blown away by the two-orders-of-magnitude performance difference at the time. I've stuck with PHP since then, though I still play with Node and Python. All great tools. I hate the language wars, use whatever works for you.)
I agree that Nacchio derailed the thread, but look at the timestamps: there was a sprawling and irrelevant Nacchio thread here before I got here.
Very interested in your product. With Catalist[1], we are approaching each of these SaaS functions from the ground up. Integrating your product would be huge for onboarding and creating a seamless transition. Let's definitely chat[2].

[1][www.catalist.me]
[2][sumedh at above]
Here you go:

"Pilot study of the 5-HT2AR agonist psilocybin in the treatment of tobacco addiction", Johnson et al 2014 https://pdf.yt/d/i123Xa2YOeU3os-6 / https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5317066/2014-johnson.pdf / http://libgen.org/scimag/get.php?doi=10.1177%2F0269881114548...
I feel like I am not really trapping myself in the Apple ecosystem because the things that I use (web browser, emacs, IDEs for Java, Clojure, Ruby) are available on Linux. I just don't use my Linux laptop very much since the Apple experience is more polished.

I do agree with your comment in general. That is, for non-tech computer users, moving off Apple's platforms would be difficult after years of use.
I'm afraid I can't; it's my personal guess, and with an admittedly large margin of error. You make a fair point that if it turned out to be more like a terawatt, that might not be out of the question.
I called it a startup marketing plan, because I've used it for six years while working with startups. It's not groundbreaking, but it's way less overwhelming than the comprehensive marketing plan I used for larger companies.

I completely agree with testing and revising on an ongoing basis. Of course you've got to continuously test assumptions, measure results, and adjust any plan.
In the UK its actually easier to start a business than it is in the US, and the associated costs are significantly less.
*(as someone who has started companies in both the UK and US)
> The "when possible" in your statement is a caveat large enough to drive a semi through

You are absolutely right. It's a real effort of architecture, and sometimes one of the marks of a great projects.
EDIT (thinking of a bad experience of mine): Sometimes, this compartmentalization is also unnecessary and force the architecture to be far worse, too loosely coupled and hard to follow.

> There was no way to separate the code the way you describe without implementing it twice.

Your mileage may vary but implementing it twice can be the best solution if there was so many dependencies to the platform. You should then document the algorithm and reference this documentation in each implementation so that they don't diverge too much.
That's not always the best solution, thought. There's no silver bullet in this world...
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Is that Robert Hirsch of SAIC? References?
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Well yeah a lot of programming can be dead air, but consider:

* Some programming, like quick bursts of activity after an epiphany, can be very lively. These moments can be surfaced to viewers if the right signals are used.

* It can be a million people with an audience of 10, not just 10 people with an audience of a million. It could be useful for real-time distributed projects to have collaborators' streams open. Or track a favorite open-source project whenever the developer is working on it.

* It would also work well if scheduled and with a specific task in mind, especially if the programmer is a "rockstar". (Similar to Notch's recent performance.) e.g. "7pm-8pm PST Linus will begin Git forking refactor". As a performance, could also be used for code walkthroughs instead of actual coding.

* Even though it's live-streamed, it can be still be packaged into highlights later, and the best way to do it is to have the raw content available for anyone to remix it. Different work can also be curated together to highlight a common theme.

* Regarding video quality, that's an easy fix given that most programming remains text-based. The obvious solution is to capture high-level terminal content rather than just plain old video. A coding session could then even be curated into posts like http://asciicasts.com/.

It's interesting to see different people's workflows and mindsets, so I think it's worth pursuing this, and it could be very popular with the number of people learning to code right now.
Seems like your strong selling point is the NLP stuff.

I think that the vast majority of your target market is already using Slack or Hipchat or something like that, and switching chat systems is a big deal. It's a pain in the ass and not something you want to do.

So, is the NLP feature good enough to make people switch? I would argue that it's not. But, if your NLP actually does add a lot of value, then it's probably good enough that it could be an addon feature to Slack or any of the other chat services.

So, here's my idea: make a hosted NLP bot that integrates into whatever chat system you're using (super easy with Hubot). Then, I can continue to use Slack/IRC/Jabber/HipChat, but I could also buy your chat bot to augment with NLP stuff.

It opens up your market by not requiring people to switch chat apps, and lets you focus on what it seems like you want to focus on the most anyways- NLP.
Is the V-Tech BioInfo Institue even reputable? Seems like a front orginization (was established by Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Committee in the 90s I think). I dunno, I'm more willing to go with the World Health Orginization than them and say 9 months
I believe Loopt was on C# stack and its founder is currently leading YC, so I'm sure Paul didn't take stack too seriously when evaluating companies. There are a lot of good reasons to use Microsoft stack, and I suspect more than a handful YC companies use it.

Paul said it is advisable to not use enterprise technologies if you're willing to attract high quality engineers only. He never said it can't be done and it is never implied that high quality small number of workforce is important to every business. If you're in consulting, for example, you'd want a larger workforce you can get for cheap. But I think you already mentioned that point, just throwing it out there.
I came expecting a free alternative to something like AutoCAD. Instead I got a blank page, and after reloading with JS enabled, a core dump from a browser that ran out of memory.

For a snappy drawing program, native code remains the way to go.
I let the expert do that for me. I freelance it out.
But...

Correlation != Causation.

I think the causal effect works more like this: People in the startup scene (and particularly in SV) are unlikely to pick PHP as the language of their choice -> Not many PHP companies started by experienced entrepreneurs -> Lower quality.

The fact that PHP is correlated with lower startup quality (whatever that means) has probably nothing to do with PHP itself. If you forced all the smart people to use PHP, their companies would probably work out just as well.
An elephant is poached (on average) every 15 minutes in Africa.

The poachers are often not of the local area, and roam between parks based on how easy the target seems. After a kill, they usually get out quickly and pass the ivory to a smuggler bound for China. China's demand for traditional medicine and ivory drives almost all of this poaching.

The poachers don't end up making a ton of money (though it's still very high by African standards), but the smugglers and other folks net millions of dollars.

I went and spoke with some folks in Tanzania about aerial/drone enforcement last year. Corruption is endemic in most of the countries, and so often these poachers have agreements with one (or many) of the local park rangers. Also, many of the elephants are killed outside of the park boundaries, since they are used to walking hundreds of miles between different parks (only recently, elephant generation-wise, has human habitation started to prevent that).

An ideal solution would be to kill demand, though that will probably never happen. Vilifying traditional medicine and ivory in China is just not feasible in the time remaining.

Technological solutions (drones, tracking, etc) would have to be enforced at a country level to avoid local corruption issues. It will probably not help with elephants outside of reserves, though they are getting killed off fast enough that the elephants are learning to stay put (which is kind of sad, changing thousands of years of migratory patterns). Often these kills are in densely wooded areas, but other than that drone enforcement should help, in theory.

Today, there is some aerial surveillance, but it is not sufficient for spotting poachers at night. There are also plenty of other people who transit through parks (people fishing the streams, etc), and it is hard to differentiate. Multi-spectral (at least IR) and computer vision will probably be needed to pick out a truck amidst thousands of square miles of area.

Rambling post, apologies.
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And doing it in SF is as old as the genre itself - Wells wrote War of the Worlds so that he could criticize British colonialism at one remove.
I'd hope I could customise the question, and thus what activity was tracked :)

I'm looking for something like http://last5.co/, but not terribly, terribly buggy :)
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He may not have. Most psych issues have a trigger i.e an emotional or stress experience. Something that violently changes your brain chemistry has the same effect.
I personally tend to use yaml files which contains matrices of compatibility between objects, used to generate CMake statements.

I know people who use the file header to autodetect the right architecture but I found it too overkill and weird-bug-prone.
This is a tough one to understand since traditional technology solutions reduce the need for many jobs with a net effect of eliminating many jobs since those workers no longer have the skill set. If you look at this differently, it's a case for new ways of thinking about worker education (Codacademy/One Month/etc.) but in a way more focused on employment (General Assembly/Hack Reactor/etc.) The former group of companies is built to scale whereas the latter is a high touch, franchise model.

Another case where jobs are being created is in the direct service marketplace with the shared economy (Uber/Airbnb/etc.) as well as the general assistance (TaskRabbit/VA positions/etc.).

With the rise of mobile, I think we'll see more situations where knowledge workers can provide quick and dirty value to lower tech industries in ways that are highly targeted and very efficient. Making money on the side should be higher value than answering surveys but easier and with less commitment that ramping up a full consulting business or getting a part-time job at a b&m store. /rant
If you want one standard for everybody it better not exclude innovators without deep pockets and require licensing fees to use the standard everybody's supposed to use. The world doesn't just consist of TV stations, video production workstations and iPhones or Samsung TVs all licensing H.26*. Participators in creating a technical standard must be compensated for the their work but if it's a standard for everyday use by everyone what are the arguments for requiring licensing fees?
She is a company. She pays taxes. Like I said, I don't know what she pays her people.
The UK uses the same policy as Portugal i.e. soft enforcement with the same immediate effects.

Unfortunately the health effects will not be known for perhaps another 15-20 years.

Then we'll see if it worked or not...
Congrats on the great job. Nobody would raise an eyebrow for this work if it were not browser-based. Does this say something about the state of web apps?
Leaked the day that FIPA (the Canada-China trade deal) gets ratified by Prime minister Harper [1].

http://www.vancouverobserver.com/news/harper-oks-potentially...
"Fairness" was never the point.

The original (written, at least) intent of the patent laws was "to advance the state of the art". Fairness to the inventor never enters into it, except to the degree that such a thing is necessary to motivate inventions; if you agree with that, then the patent laws should probably be mostly dismantled.
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What would you do in the following situation?

Let's say you are a significant share holder in a startup as a managing employee. The startup hac been backed by a single party since it's inception 4 years ago. Currently the startup is running at about a 50% loss after earnings have doubled year over year for the last three.

Recently the backer has had it's earnings drop and as such will no longer back the startup effective immediately. While the timing was not known this did not come as a surprise and the startup has been seeking outside investment since July and is close to setting something up, actually starting technical due diligence the day before the word from the backer to shutter came down to send the employees home while keeping the executive on for a time to tie things up.

We the startup executive team came up with a plan. We proposed that we would give up our salaries in exchange for 30% of the startup and that the employees would be kept on keeping the team intact for next 2 1/2 weeks. With the hope that significant progress is made on the new funding. Surprisingly the backer agreed.

Crazy or worth the gamble?

btw, I'm looking for someone that could look over the paperwork with me.
I've watched plenty of stream and I agree sometimes there can be dull moments. The same could be said for any type of live stream though. Often this is down to the streamer rather than the subject matter.

Watching quill18 fix a bug and be visibly excited about his code working (raising his hands and shouting something along the lines of 'fuck yeahhhh') during the last Ludum Dare was such a warming experience which mimicked the internal monologue I often have when a piece of code finally works as I expected it too.

There's obviously a demand for people who want to watch coding steams, my biggest challenge is ensuring there are people who can offer streams worth watching.
hey dsr_, Silhouette and sitkack,

I'm Felix, the CEO of ChatGrape.

That's a big pain point we also had with a lot of services. Not necessarily when they were gone, but simply when we decided to try something new, which is part of the SaaS-Game imho.
We are currently working on a convenient XML-Export that allows you to easily extract your Users, public discussions, etc. (no private conversations tho) at any time. To make the switch between ChatGrape and other providers easier, we'll have an option to export the data as Hipchat-XMLs, as they are already widely supported by almost every service.

Expect this to be out within the next two months.

Cheers,
F
I'm a fan of this plugin, I've been using it for a month now.

The parallel downloading is very beneficial for someone with slow internet.
Candidates referred by employees also tend to be of higher quality because the employee's reputation is somewhat on the line with every person he or she refers to the company.
No, she adds some grey paint that looks green to here, but you of course, like the bark, can only see it as grey.
> You are absolutely right. It's a real effort of architecture, and sometimes one of the marks of a great projects. EDIT (thinking of a bad experience of mine): Sometimes, this compartmentalization is also unnecessary and force the architecture to be far worse, too loosely coupled and hard to follow.

Well, the architecture of what I was working on was not going to win any awards. :P It was made worse because we were converting code that was originally implemented to run on DSPs.

> Your mileage may vary but implementing it twice can be the best solution if there was so many dependencies to the platform. You should then document the algorithm and reference this documentation in each implementation so that they don't diverge too much. That's not always the best solution, thought. There's no silver bullet in this world...

Standard practice was for systems engineers[1] to create Algorithm Description Documents and Algorithm Implementation Documents that explained in mathematical formulas (ADD) and pseudocode (AID) what the code was doing. At least. that was the theoretical practice. The actual practice was a mess. But yes, there is no silver bullet.

[1] Which was me, even though I got to write lots of code, too.
Regarding enterprise, our approach with Catalist is a combination of 1. (Making the Expensive Cheap) & 3. (Digitizing Every Industry). We are providing companies with easy-to-use solutions based on the basic systems they understand. Half our companies come from competitor's tools while the other half are just getting started with a tech solution for their general workflow. Our hypothesis is that majority of workers wear multiple hats and spend more time figuring out what to do by assessing their responsibilities across multiple tools. We give these workers and their teams one place to address their system. This gives everyone on the team a clear idea of what actually needs to be done with full context.

Our favorite use case is a medical office that has made the jump to EMR. Much of their data is digitized but there is little benefit directly to them. However, once that digital data becomes a part of their workflow they actually see the benefit in it.

We are trying to think more generally about each of these problems and providing guidance to our individual customers specific to their vertical. Although it may seem we are still finding product-market fit, the small business market is always fragmented and diverse so this is just the reality of the situation.
It's nice to see an austrian company posted here!
There is no such thing as an 'efficient' combustion engine. There are only combustion engines that are more efficient than other combustion engines but all of them are inefficient compared to other types of engines.
... but Joel Spolsky said you should never rewrite code ever ever ever...