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> That's $8.7B worth of market cap that bitcoin obsoletes.

That logic doesn't really follow. It takes over all those things even if its market cap is only $1 billion. Bitcoin's market cap not related to the industries it replaces.

If it takes over rare metals, though, as an investment, it might end up worth something close to the market cap of Gold.
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I'm not sure I follow. With OneBox.io, you only connect your email to one cloud drive, so you should be fine unless Dropbox has a breach.
MVP, MLP, MUP or whatever you want to call it needs to create value for at least one person.

Value + People

The product needs to increase the number of people extracting value from it, increase the value your product creates or both.

Facebook creates some value for a billion people, thats why it is valuable to the tune of $203.58B.

The question is what is the smallest amount of value you can create with the smallest input for one person to test your idea that you know can scale to as many people as possible or continually increase the value for that one person.

And your product doesn't need to be code initially.
> It is a fundamental principle of rationality that having better information should not put you in a worse position.

Only when you ignore a lot of troublesome real-world issues, and:

1. The information is completely free and there are no costs to acquire it.

2. The information is private and was not shared or leaked to people with other agendas.

3. The human receiving the information is rational, and many are not.

I'm sure folks can think of a few more.
A lot of this applies even to non-tech jobs, I think employers got a little to comfortable with high unemployment. Watch the hilarity ensue when those demographics change.
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It's not part of the culture. People sometimes quietly grouse about the lack of vacation time or the number of hours but no one is willing to publicly do anything about it for whatever cultural reason.
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This sounds tremendous. It would be great for educational contexts — a development environment that doesn’t require anything more than installing a browser…
That's not all. There are other parts being shutdown too - Robotics apparently https://twitter.com/AshleyFen/status/513392391467048960
This post was killed by user flags while the URL was http://www.propublica.org/article/stanford-promises-not-to-u..., presumably because that article is inaccurate.

We've switched to the url that appears most accurate. If there's a better article, we can switch it again.
> the husks just fall off when you smash the garlic.

Oh, the looks i get when i show someone that is really that easy :)
I think this is the most damning leak to date. There is no justification for freely giving information to Israel. And the part about people's porn habits being tracked is even scarier. That could be used to discredit virtually anyone (well, any male at least). Who hasn't visited an embarrassing porn website at least once in their life ? Now imagine your name being publicly associated with that website.
I'm talking about countries offering subsidies and/or setting programming standards for indigenous film production within their own borders. As an Irish person, my view and experience is that it was a good thing for the Irish government to invest some Irish money in the development and production of Irish films, and likewise I think there may be good reasons for the Canadian government to take the approach they do to supporting Canadian content. In Canada.

This is pretty much the opposite of what you are complaining about.
Rust looks a lot more like a slightly more sane C++, given the proliferation of Someclass::Somethingelse
The home page tells me nothing about the product. Why do I need this? Why do I need to pay for it? I can't even see or use the product without signing up.

The about and learn more are just unreadable boring marketing text and lost interest immediately. I would strongly suggest getting your marketing site together before posting it to things like HN.
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The first colonies won't get any help from microbes on the surface of Mars, it's too cold and dry for much of anything useful from Earth to survive much less thrive. And the timescales for anything that could a) thrive and b) have a measurable impact on the lives of colonist are way longer than (I hope) any mission will land since it'd take decades/centuries for there to be a useful impact. Eventually yeah introducing life to Mars will be a useful prospect but we're talking about kickstarting a whole planet's ecosystem not something to do haphazardly or that will show large impacts in a single lifetime.
And it is only free as long as mining new blocks covers the costs of running the network, after that you will have to pay fees.
Oh, I understand now. I originally thought that it saved it to multiple services. I apologize.
We're in agreement. Since USD is a physical store of value, it suffers from problems like robbery. Hence the need for banks.

With bitcoin, you don't need a bank. I have a 24-word passphrase in my head that can be converted to my private key—a "brainwallet". I know it, and my parents do. It's not written down or stored anywhere. It simply isn't physical.

With those 24 words, you can unlock all of the value I have stored in bitcoin.

It's utterly amazing.
Basically, they're claiming that the law says that any experiment on people, by anyone, requires informed consent. Every business with customers breaks this law. "Let's see if substituting medium roast espresso beans raises sales!" Sorry.
I cook all the time and always found it to be just an extension of designing.

1) I cook because food is fundamental to life and me and my wife want our kids to understand food.

2) No but we have often talked about it. My mom did it with us, perhaps I will take it up.

3) Everything from Coté de Beuf & Fish to Lasagne and more advanced french dishes.

4) As a matter of fact I am on a diet currently (low carb) but I am not religius about it. Instead i work out a lot.

5) Don't learn recipes learn the underlying methods (the difference between being a script kiddie and a proper developer). That way you will understand why things work the way they do and you will always be able to make something good and healthy whether quick or slow.
Your first article is based on faulty economics.

No. I'm not saying that software engineers should earn $700,000+ or that any reasonable economic model would have them at that level-- because never in the history of economics has one's labor being worth something to the employer been, alone, enough to justify floating it to that rate. I'm only saying that their value to the businesses that employ them is at least that high.

Applied to software, the reason engineers aren't capturing most of that value is because all engineers are getting more productive. The benefit is accruing instead to those who employ engineers and those who use & purchase software.

Then it seems like software engineers should unionize or professionalize. If there's no other way for them to get even a small fraction of their value to the business, then collective action is the best approach.
Yes, ParseHub works with login forms (they are no different than regular forms). Check out the interactivity tutorial. If you still don't get it after that, I'd be happy to show you 1-on-1 over skype.

Please note that the password will be accessible by ParseHub, since it needs to enter it on the web page.

Currently, we support local deployments only in our custom enterprise plan. That may change in the future.
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The Golang FAQ will help answer your questions about some of their design principles[0]. Rob Pike also has some interesting views on why Go seems to attract Python and Ruby devs rather than C and C++ devs[1].

[0] https://golang.org/doc/faq#What_is_the_purpose_of_the_projec...

[1] http://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2012/06/less-is-exponentia...
I started a bootcamp yesterday (General Assembly Web Design Immersive, Los Angeles) and it seems as if it is a good program. It is a 12 week immersive focused on RoR, JS, MySQL and Git/GitHub. I expect to get a good job after completion in December.

I think it is all about what you put into it. I studied for 4-6 months and have probably logged ~ 500 hours of study. I worked through HTML/CSS, JS/JQuery and Ruby and can do basic things like make and animate a website, host it, use the command line and short cuts and Shell into my Raspberry Pi that I use as a test server.

Obviously, not everyone prepared as much as I did and some prepared more(or are smarter). I will def take that survey upon completion, but you as of now I feel like you certainly own your own success
Odd how the most important comment on the thread, which debunks the source article decisively, can somehow be at the bottom of the thread.
> Google X is amazing in that it is about the only one left doing true bluesky R&D. Everyone else is just doing product development.

That is quite wrong, really. There are many industrial research labs that are pursuing 'bluesky' research, in pretty much all sectors, including computer science, EE, chemistry, pharmacology, etc. Just to name a few, Mitisubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL), IBM Almaden/New York/Zurich, Microsoft Research, traditional pharma companies, traditional chemicals/materials companies, GE Global Research, etc. all have 'blueskies' agendas to varying extents.
I somehow missed your actual arguments for flask, so my impression of you over-enthusiastically praising flask was all wrong, sorry.
Still, if Flask does everything for you, what are students left to learn? A lot, i guess :)
Andrew Wiles had to do all the work in secret while releasing old papers as a cover.
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Yeah, prize disbursements were handled terribly. My team won BitPay's prize at AngelHack SF, contacted them repeatedly, and were told to wait until all AngelHacks were over before anything would be done. Months and months later it arrived this week. We actually avoided BitPay intentionally at a couple hackathons after since no one was sure if they were just scammers or not.

That said, I had no problem with their API. They had an easy web checkout link that could be generated that worked fine in an Android WebView for my first implementation. Later at AngelHack SV I used their PHP API to generate invoices for specific prices for goods dynamically and was then still able to send people to their site to finish checkout and get redirected when it completed.

Didn't really see any missing documentation and their site worked fine, responding quite quickly when money was sent to the barcode it showed or the link that could start a wallet app on Android, and their PHP sample code worked trivially. Who knows, maybe they've improved the docs and samples since you used it, though. Or you were trying to hack bitcore, which is a completely different level of difficulty.
I should also note that the article there casts a negative eye on the private busses. This is one thing I can't understand. In WA, we have a state-wide commute trip reduction law that requires employers with more than 100 employees at a worksite to have a plan for cutting single occupant vehicle trips.

Microsoft, another big suburban campus, has been a role model with respect to mitigating the transportation-related problems stemming from their big suburban campus. They subsidize and otherwise support transit and bicycle commuting to campus, in addition to maintaining their Connector bus service, which is analogous to the Google / Apple busses that the Bay Area seems to hate on so much.

Here's the thing. Here in Washington we told companies that they needed to reduce commute trips. Microsoft's Connector fleet actually does that. I get that the private busses somehow are symbolic of the gentrification and techification of the Bay Area, but I view the private mass transit of their employees as a way in which the companies are helping to lessen impacts for others. The Bay Area certainly does have a housing affordability problem, and tech companies are certainly part of the root cause, but it baffles me that one positive thing they do becomes emblematic of the problem.
If they forget their passcode today, they'll be locked out the next time they restart their iPhone.
You're correct. I'm simply replying to his statement that there's no value proposition in bitcoin to consumers. My response is that it can easily replace a company worth $8.7B, thus showing it has consumer value, not that bitcoin will be worth $8.7B if it replaces Western Union.
The "instructions" at the start of the app are a bit baffling. I spent a good few minutes looking at a screen that told me to tap and drag and a weird orange circle that keys popping up above the capture button. In fact the entire selection with the ISO and shutter speed are a little on the janky side, I'm having a good deal of trouble seeing what I'm actually selecting. It's more completely random than anything with the shutter speed as my thumb obscures the entire view. Weird control usability aside it seems fairly functional, I've wanted something like this for a while.

Do you have a privacy policy somewhere with details about the information you collect from the application? I was unable to find any on your website.
Not exactly the same, but in the same space: http://www.knocktounlock.com/
Rust doesn't have classes.
Palantir has their hand in all of this.
If you have to write this post to vent because you are stuck in a job you can't afford to leave and you are scared you'll be fired if you raise these issues to management, then so be it, write the bloody post and I hope you feel better.

However in terms of practical changes, this post can neither benefit you nor anyone else. We all know about broken management cultures that this post describes, but none of those managers in question would do anything but become extremely defensive if confronted by a post like this (which they wouldn't be because they don't know what Hacker News or a technical blog is).

To the clueful neutral observer we have to weigh out whether management is really this clueless, or is the author a poor communicator full of sour grapes? Honestly it's 50/50, but I would probably be too nervous to ever hire someone who posted this vitriolic of prose publicly, it just comes off as unprofessional.
Anyone have any reliability information on hitachi's new NAS drive series? They're supposed to build on the 7k3000 etc, but specifically tailored for NAS / raid situations, like WD reds. One major difference is that they're 7200 rpm instead of 5400 which is most non-high-end NAS drives.
Why would FDIC insurance make me feel safer than elliptic curve cryptography?
I am looking for a new job these days. Fine if the first job you come across is ideal, and the test is OK. But its going to be frustrating if I have to dig into a lot of my personal time doing coding tests, because I want to apply for a few jobs and see what one is best.

I would rather code with the interviewer, and let him know my thought processes, and why I do things the way I do.
A/B testing is also illegal by this standard.
> Maybe that could be you... :)

I was wondering why no C because that is one I could use, and would like, the practice on. So for everyone else's sake, I won't.
Probably not. Hopefully you're also using FileVault, though it doesn't totally alleviate recovery risks (from undelete scripts, etc)
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They killed a 1000 unicorns to make this you know.

I can hear the screams in my sleep.
So.... are A/B testings now banned?
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Yes, it has a long way to go, but it's off to a good start. I doubt a significant portion of Western Union transactions are to ultra-remote locations, but I could be wrong.
and ~250% on the year [1] :)

[1] http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/bitstampUSD#rg360ztgSzm1g10z...
ah very interesting. thank you. I was assuming that everything would be completely different over there, and that a "POTS" would be completely different.
I'm sorry you're completely correct, I mistook them as being the same thing.
> It's no more appalling than fast food workers being paid peanuts in fast food chains that make a billion.

What are the numbers per employee?

Net income per employee:

Apple: $456,800

McDonald's: $12,530

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=profit+per+employee+app...

Revenue per employee:

Apple: $2,111,000

McDonald's: $64,320

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=revenue+per+employee+ap...

Apple has about 3x what it pays out in salaries left over after paying everyone, McDonald's only has about 1x salary per employee profit. McDonald's would go broke if it doubled everyone's salaries, Apple could afford to do that and still be hugely profitable.
Can I ask if your skepticism is specific to this project, or to the idea of a distributed, programmable VR platform?

Well, I've been down the same path before, as with others here .. judging by the earlier comments. I don't discount 3D, far from it, however my conclusion, personally, was that different people consider different types of visualizations preferable or inherantly clearer. For instance, a statistician, mathematician, programmer, poet, sculptor or gamer may wish to visualize or interact with the same information in a very different way. If you accept this temporarily for the sake of argument, then take those same different input/interaction paradigms and start to translate them across multiple cultures and languages, I believe you get an even higher number of preferences. Trying to create the one true standard for interaction with mock-physical representations of aphysical notions may just be trying to put a square peg in a round hole.
Claiming 4chan or reddit unanimously support the Emma Watson stuff is stupid. You can be a very heavy user of 4chan, not hang out in /b/, and be completely unaware of the Emma Watson site. Similarly with reddit.

The site threatening Watson was greeted with glee on 4chan and Reddit, where
commenters explicitly stated their hope that the threats would force her to
abandon her feminist campaigning.

The plural of anecdote is not data. There are misogynist commenters on 4chan and reddit, but using a handful of idiots to characterize everyone on those boards verges on nutpicking. And Amanda, if you're reading this, I'd bet good money the reason people don't argue with the misogynists on those sites is the same reason you don't wrestle with pigs. I assume moot uses /b/ as an asshole sink: the assholes go there, make a lot of noise, and hopefully leave the rest of 4chan alone.

I agree with the rest of her article -- the US and world are often quite hostile to women, and it's still true that a woman who sleeps around is a slut but a guy who sleeps around is a stud. Hopefully the Emma site is just some dickhead with $7 for godaddy and too much time on his hands who figured out a way to troll a ton of people.

I wish I knew the correct response to the people who deluge outspoken women with rape threats. Perhaps part of the answer is George Tierney of South Carolina [1].

[1] http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2012/05/20/internet-man-does-no...
yes! I remember hanging up and reconnecting like 5x if I 'didn't get a good line' :)
> Buy pre-peeled garliC.

why? If peeling it's the problem, i do it this way: http://youtu.be/Az_7uMKGtuE?t=47s
a four digit pin? not much. A strong passphrase? quite a lot actually. It means they cant get access to your data without your cooperation.
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Yeah! And this reference page only collects a small portion of the comments/essays that I thought would be useful for startups. There are lots more on big-picture "law and social policy" issues that are also good reads.
Well, I would have to disagree with your assertion that the women were not subject to any disadvantages, even the ones I mentioned. To know that outright would require something bordering on omnipotence. But feel free to believe that it must have been "some other reason," rather than the myriad entrenched disadvantages that exist in both our society at large and this industry in particular.
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Is Netfix really a broadcaster? In the cable television industry, sending content to a single subscriber or identified group of subscribers is often called narrowcast.
After using both there is a very large brick wall that prevents usability of kimono labs on most well-known web applications (airbnb, craiglist, etc). Example is data extraction from content visible via hover (airbnb calendar pricing) which ParseHub is able to handle.

Thanks a lot for building this, I am excited to save server costs/time from scraping data for projects.
Yes! It doesn't matter how expensive your wedding registry knives were, they will become dull. Once you have a sharpening kit, you realize that the difference in knives doesn't really matter that much -- you just have to sharpen softer steel more often (neglecting balance and preference). Sharpening my knives is my Zen activity.

Don't ever put knives in the dishwasher. Ever. I have proof after a visiting family member put one of my very sharp knives in the dishwasher and there are three visible nicks.
The Common Rule AFAIK only applies to places that get government funding, so I don't see how this applies to research FB does on its own.
Actually CCC and I hacked the 5s at the same time using different techniques.

They won the prize in the end but honestly that wasn't the point to why I did it and the guys at CCC are friends of mine.
This book was somewhat helpful: http://www.amazon.com/Knife-Skills-Illustrated-Users-Manual/...
I'm not sure where you get your numbers but having managed an office in Shanghai I can tell you that is not accurate. These numbers are all translated to USD. Entry level devs were in the 18-20K range. Mid to senior devs were in the 30-35K range and a Director was in the 50-60K range. We had our entry level and mid-range devs hired away for 20% more by eBay or other larger US companies from those numbers. However, in Shanghai, that means your devs are usually commuting for an hour via public transit from the outer ring because you can't actually live in Pudong or Puxi for that kind of money unless your family has been living there already for a long time. And none of our devs were in that position since they were pretty much all from different parts of the country.
It seems like this "law" as interpreted the authors to ban A/B testing would violate the 1st Amendment rights of companies to uncensored speech with their customers. I hope that they challenge FB in court so it can be overturned.
Because political power can make certain technologies illegal, or constrain their implementation. For example, encryption is not much use if the law mandates that the government gets a copy of every private key. This was really proposed in the 1990s and thankfully defeated through political pressure.