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Typeforms are substantially different in how they ask for information. Since switching to typeform for a not-for-profit social initiative [0], we've seen quite a lot of difference in form completion rates.

This is specially true in case of community building etc, where there isn't a direct reward for the user or a task to be done.

[0] http://funoonfoundation.org
I use and have used Heroku for personal projects for quite a while. I don't feel too bad, because
a) they only run free dyno apps upon request (idle most of the time) and
b) I'm a huge advocate for their products, which has led to my work and several other companies using and recommending Heroku. At work we now have a number of clients typically running 2-5 dynos and other services, hopefully easily covering my freeloading!
Big complaint is that anything in the suburbs requires cars to get to work. Several thousand people commuting by car is not green.

Maybe someone can commence Apple to build a maglev up the peninsula to San Francisco? :-)
https://github.com/swannodette/om/wiki/Cursors
Which book would you recommend instead? AI: A Modern Approach by Russell and Norvig?
Please. Coffee has its problems, but being white-space sensitive is not one of them. It's entirely a matter of personal preference, just like preferring {...} instead of begin...end or using '' instead of "" for strings; it's not even as significant as prefix vs. infix syntax, which does have some practical consequences. You get indentation based blocks in quite a lot of languages, Haskell, F#, Python, Nimrod, MoonScript and others and it works there, I see no reason (knowing them all) for it to be a problem in Coffee particular case (to be honest, Coffee allowing inconsistent indentation in a single file is a bad design decision, though).
Great site even with the lack of polish. Conceptually I like it. It makes you think more about the full process of writing code than most similar sites. I think what this does well is try to get folks to think about writing something that QA will then test. That is good for me as I come from an operations background and this part of programming is not natural to me. For me it is crank out Bash or Python and keep trying until something works... This is different it is more like "look at this framework, build the piece that is missing"

As I am a sysadmin I tend to write tools that only I would look at. Writing something fro a test suite is a great idea. A howto page detailing testing process and a testing 'hello world' would be a good addition.

I was surprised that the install didn't involve a github repo install, ie that the install script would not be part of a repo that you clone and then chmod X+ and then install. The benefit of this is that I can keep track of the cli repo and update when needed by watching the repo.
There are plenty of viable alternatives: s6, runit, OpenRC, and so on. I'm not really convinced uselessd is a viable alternative - it keeps way too much of the badness of systemd, but I guess that makes it viable if you were willing to consider systemd to begin with.

A much better solution for the problem of user-facing applications (e.g. "desktop environment" software) depending on systemd's public dbus interfaces is to provide a fake service that gives them fake data - the same way you would sandbox Android apps for privacy by giving them a fake Contacts list, etc.

As for the other main "public interface" of systemd that things are starting to depend on, the systemd service file format, it would be easy to add support for this file format to any other process supervision system.
How is enforcement going to be a large issue? Doesn't every forest have a forester (Not sure if that is what it's called, but we have people who "takes care" of forests in Denmark). If a forester sees people cutting down trees with large machinery, he would just call the police?

I doubt anyone cares if Mr. Random goes into the wood with his axe, chops down a tree he can carry and runs off with it.
+1 Thanks, that does make sense.
US government contracts.
I would never use an app that has the "feature" of broadcasting my current location and movement to friends and colleagues.
I'd like to know the pricing. Did I miss it on the site?
Based on the xkcd link I'm sure he meant plutonium decays quickly.
Ask HN: Accounting solution for B2B SaaS business
I've built up a reasonably successful business selling services to SME's in Europe. We are using Xero to do our books, and have written (way too much) plumbing between Stripe, GoCardless and Xero to try and automate the invoicing/billing/accounting process as much as reasonably possible.

The problem is that Xero has a "soft limit" of 1,000 transactions per month, and we are way past that limit already. We are about to spin off a new company that (we hope!) will outgrow Xero.

Is there a 'best of breed' accounting system similar to Xero that will scale with our needs:

- Must be able to deal with international customers, FX, tax rates etc
- B2B, so all our customers will expect to receive invoices, particularly for tax
- Scale to 100k transactions per month
- Reporting would be nice
- Compliant with UK rules for our end of year accounts
The ISS crew load it up with cargo to be returned to Earth. It makes a controlled re-entry, splashes down in the Pacific and is recovered.
I agree, but I think claims of "novelty" in academic papers just mean "we don't think anyone has done it this way before." It's almost boilerplate.
Actually yes, it's a gut feeling and I think it's justified.

I can totally understand the general idea of stock trading and how it helps both those who have good ideas and need money and those who have the money and invest it according to their taste.

But it's very hard for me to believe that something like HFT where firms go to unbelievable lengths to implement purely technological trading advantages benefit the real economy.

The fact that financial industry as a whole just recently in the 2008/2009 crash and it's aftermath were able to extract obscene amounts of money from our governments (i.e. us) to keep the world's finance system from collapsing makes the suspection that most financial products purely based on a material advantage (be it monetary or technological) are akin to a scam very reasonable.
Before answering that question... how much would you pay per team member per month?
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I also took a look at your contributions - looks a bit spotty!

https://github.com/mmcru

No activity in the last month? Something I personally would pick up on.
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If its the functional programming jargon you're interested in, you might start with Javascript Allonge [1]

[1] https://leanpub.com/javascript-allonge/read
Perhaps spreads will increase -- but that 'extra cost' seems pretty trivial: Stock trading worked just fine when those spreads were larger. The average citizen isn't reaping the benefits of lower spreads, perhaps financial firms are, perhaps corporations are?

I'd say the larger disservice of HFT is funneling resources away from anything with real concrete meaning into this strange invented money-shuffling game in the financial world. A big drain on the potential of society's best and brightest is that many are drawn to chase money in silicon valley or in the financial world. And both options often serve to create a sort of technological bubble in which the idea of increasing 'real human value' can be lost.
You are being overly pessimistic about access to these microwave paths. In some cases in the U.S. you can purchase wireless market data directly from the exchanges†. I am less familiar with the Canadian markets so I can't speak to what is available there.

† http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/content/Productsservices/trading...
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Sounds like something that should be an open-source self-hostable mail bot :). Does anyone know any such project?
Norway already got their "Look guys, we tried" credit as they continue to pump carbon out of the ground and as such all parties will be happy.
Both forking and double-forking are completely wrong behavior for supervised daemons run as part of any automated system. Forking makes sense for small systems which lack any automated supervision and where a human admin is responsible for all process starting and stopping, but it's a bug anywhere else. Modern Linux has various methods for working around this bug (like the method of assigning an alternate process for orphaned descendants to be reparented to, which systemd uses, AFAIK), but really any production-quality daemon should provide a non-forking way to start it.
The pope once said evolution can still be a fact without changing the belief system of the catholic church.

You can try and adapt your thinking that way, but it is never as smooth as a principled theory. In other words, the buy-up-land thing cannot work without changing our form of government, as you'd have to at least do away with the concept of eminent domain.
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If trees keep getting cut down, the payments will stop.

FTA:

The country agrees to place 30% or more of its forest estate under protected area status by 2020. It will also pilot direct payments to communities for protecting the forest.
Ultimately the Norwegians will pay for results, with independent verification that trees remain standing.
Also see https://github.com/caseywebdev/cursors
I love that Heroku has redesigned the UI, but jeeze. Ever hear the expression, "too much of a good thing"? Their trademark purple is neat, in small doses.

For instance, I REALLY REALLY love the ocean. I love SCUBA diving, and I love the color blue. However, you won't find me living in this house http://cl.ly/3I3R2z0q1A2S. However, http://cl.ly/0R3H3k2s3Z3x looks very appealing to me. Catch my drift?

It's as if Heroku fired all of their designers and put developers in charge of the entire UI design process. I've seen that happen, so I don't say that to be a troll. I'm seriously disgusted by the monotonous nature of the new UI.

That said, it appears to have very many useful new features, which surely outweighs most of my aesthetic concerns.
I got some info about this from my local UPS store a few weeks ago. They can print STL or Autocad files, and have a designer on call who can create a CAD file from drawings at a reasonable hourly rate.

They couldn't give me an exact rate for the cost of printing, but said it was typically around $30 per cubic inch. The actual cost depends on how much support material needs to be printed and a small object that requires a lot of support material would cost more than something like a cube.

The printer they were using at my local store was a Stratasys uPrint SE Plus.
Article title: "Out in the Open: The Site That Teaches You to Code Well Enough to Get a Job"

It's a good thing the site's originator didn't make this claim. Even a first-rate site with an enviable effect on students wouldn't want to say this.

Maybe there should be a rating system for article titles, one that measures how far the title deviates from the article itself. In many cases such a title hurts the credibility of the article. In this case, it's obviously a well-intentioned and likely effective teaching method, one that shouldn't have to live down its hyped title.
Throwing off the exchange generated timestamps doesn't mess with any HFTs. The exchanges themselves don't synchronize against one another so the timestamps are basically useless to begin with.
Getting tired over all the systemd hate. If you don't like it, don't use it. Instead of complaining and making useless-by-design wrappers and/or dumbed-down-versions, why not focus your efforts on making a new better init system and convincing people they should use it instead. systemd isn't final - it's software, and will come and go.

Not to mention, most of the systemd hate seems to be spread by only two main sources now, and both cite each other as sources (ironic a little).[1]

[1] http://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/66417/systemd-haters-bust...

systemd was really designed with servers in mind, and really does bring a lot to the table for server admins.
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Sounds like an awesome tagline for a t-shirt featuring Dragon and ISS!
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Interesting - I didn't know that. Do you know if this is due to NASA being general cautions with a new, relatively unproved vehicle? Or is it a condition of human-rating the Dragon?
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thanks a lot for your post. input from active professionals is invaluable to me.

i've actually been working on learning angular for the past few weeks. i've stopped updating my github in that time since i'm just doing basic stuff, but once i finish some more tutorials and documentation i plan on building an angular project to display on my github. are there any particular features that would really catch your eye as someone who hires programmers?

any suggestions regarding the coding interview problem? i see http://www.amazon.com/Cracking-Coding-Interview-Programming-... recommended a lot.
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True, I also wonder why so many people do not rationalize well known techniques that were mainstream longer than anybody can remember.

1. Attach ring through nose of large animal

2. Attach rope to ring

3. Attach animal to large object

4. Pull on the ring in the direction you want large object to go
"They definitely have some lock-in strategies in the works."

You are aware that the "P" in PaaS doesn't stand for "paranoia", right?
you're definitely right. unfortunately i've been busy with a move and learning angular, which was new to me, so i haven't had much new code. i plan on adding more this week. thanks for your advice =]
> I dislike the proprietary nature of Heroku platform

Most everything we do, we open source. For example I help maintain the Heroku Ruby Buildpack, and it is fully open source. This is the technology that allows us to detect and install dependencies and precompile your assets. We open source a ton of other things such as our CLI, our logging aggregation infrastructure, our continuous Postgres backup service (backs up postgres to S3). We also invest heavily in Open source, we support PostgreSQL development, and we hired the 3 most prominent Ruby Core developers so they can work on the language full time.

Under the hood, we use LXC a standard linux container. We generally don't talk about this level much because it's orthogonal to the running of your application. Most people don't know what system libraries come pre-installed on our servers, or the versions of the operating systems, or what virtualization/containment systems we use. They know their app runs, and stays running.

I'm happy you're comparing and contrasting. I think docker is a great technology like LXC and it's very useful. I wanted to chime in on the "proprietary" comment because if you feel our service ever "locks you in" in some way, it's likely a bug that needs to be fixed. I consider my work 100% open source time.
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Norway is not footing the bill as it has no money. It had to take $150M from its citizens pockets. I'm not sure how many Norwegians agreed to use that money to buy up trees. If most of them did, I guess you could say that is democracy at work. Otherwise I don't see it.
I still would like to see the reconstruction from another angle than the original. Depending on how much you accept to cheat, it is not too hard to get a good result from that anfle only.
The reason why hacker news is good is because it remains serious.

It's important to remember that Hacker News is not a democracy. There isn't a voting system so people can democratically decide what content is good or bad. Rather, Hacker News is a dictatorship, controlled by Paul Graham and the Y Combinator. Within this space, the Y Combinator has absolute control over all content.

In a democratic system like Reddit, there might be objections to changing the titles or shadowbanning trolls (reddit does shadowban, but mods can't shadowban people for disturbing the quality of a subreddit). On Hacker News, these features are welcomed because they raise the quality of discourse.

Your only choice when it comes to hacker news is to stay and be a productive member, or leave. You are free to leave. Nobody is forcing you to stay here. The source code for Hacker News is even publicly available; if you want to make Joker News you're free to do so.

In this way, Hacker News circumvents tyranny of the majority in favor of quality of content. (I suspect that it also has to do with the Y Combinator's libertarian politics -- Hacker News is an excellent example of what the world could be like it if were organized into voluntary units with absolute internal control, but free choice and movement between those units.)
As a small team (1 - 10), I would be willing to pay in the neighborhood of $5/user/month. Once we get up to $50/month, I'd like to see volume discounts.

I can't imagine I'd ever pay more than a $100/month for a team of any size, because at that price, I should probably just have an in-house dev develop a similar system.
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If your boot time was bad before and decent now, this is not thanks to the goodness of systemd but rather the badness of whatever hideous system your distro was using before, and/or because your distro is starting a bunch of useless junk that shouldn't be running in the first place. I've been using flat /etc/rc (all commands in one file, & at the end of anything non-essential) for years (decades?) now, and have always had a login prompt faster than the display can synchronize to the video mode change.
Need atmosphere to combust though
A number of years ago I visited the War Museum in London. One of the more powerful exhibits is a diorama of the front line during WWI, showing trenches on either side of the no-mans-land. I don't know exactly when that diorama was created, but it's possible that some of the men who fought on that front were still alive, or their immediate descendants were.

Granted, the War Museum is not a natural history museum, but that diorama could be placed in any museum with exhibits about the history of western Europe, including natural history museums. I don't think anyone would complain because the descendents of the depicted soldiers are still around.

Getting back to Native Americans, we've lost so much of their history as it is that it's a shame that there's a push to hide the small amount that's been retained. Sure, we shouldn't make it seem like they're extinct, but the truth is that most Native American cultures are extinct, thanks to disease and war brought by Europeans. The ones that have survived and retained some of their original culture should be celebrated and protected, but we also need to remember the rest. The best place for that is in history museums, and dioramas are one of the best ways to bring them back to life.
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I don't know anything specific about the site, but that might reflect an aesthetic bias overcoming the realization that Java is ubiquitous. It all depends on the degree to which a site's operators care about teaching what's being used in real-world projects.

If I ran such a site, I might want to suppress my own aesthetic preferences, but even I would probably exclude PHP, as one example, only because it doesn't represent an easy way to create reliable, understandable programs.
That's a replacement for the agile standup meeting every morning. I prefer to talk to my team in person.
Depends if you use exactly 11GiB a month, no more no less. Many people use a hotspot more one month, less another month. 11GiB for $70 is absolutely a great deal for some people, but not most people.
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> We note that our method does not guarantee an accurate fit to ground-truth geometry, as the shape of the face may change in each frame and single-image cues are not sufficient for this purpose. Rather, we seek to produce a reasonably convincing model (leveraging all available imagery) which optimally fits the image information in each frame.

This makes it seem like the mesh produced for each frame is specially deformed to render optimally for that camera angle, and it wouldn't necessarily look perfect from other angles.
onChange is a synthetic event which is part of React (and also used in Om of course). http://facebook.github.io/react/docs/events.html
The announcement: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.lang.awk/PfZHD7...
The remixed text from this is actually quite readable. This would be a good lorem ipsum alternative as you would get "real" text but with it mixed so you don't blatantly rip-off the source material.
There's no way to tell; that said, someone with a strong delusional disorder will probably have very few thoughts unaffected by the disorder, and if you're adequately empathetic, you can be charitable and give your fellow humans the benefit of the doubt.
This is silly. I live in Arizona, and many of our parks have dioramas that are very informative about past cultures.

I live in the mountains, and with docents from the forest service I have hiked to and appreciated about 100 ancient Indian ruin sites. I like to imagine what life would have been like when I am on site, and I do use mental images from dioramas.

Hopefully not off topic: I volunteer at a historic farm, and we all get to grow food for ourselves as a perk for doing lots of free work for the forest service. There is a very old Hopi Indian who has a patch near mine and it is more than interesting talking with him. He is a shaman and travels a lot giving talks.
Agree. And its been done before too.
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> There isn't a voting system so people can democratically decide what content is good or bad.

I'm confused. Comments have up/down voting, and posts have up voting and flagging.

> In a democratic system like Reddit, there might be objections to changing the titles or shadowbanning trolls (reddit does shadowban, but mods can't shadowban people for disturbing the quality of a subreddit). On Hacker News, these features are welcomed because they raise the quality of discourse.

I've seen both people posting "you're hellbanned and it doesn't look warranted" and productive, moderator-accepted complaints about changing titles.
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Thanks for your feedback! The pricing is not finally set up, but won't be over $4.5 per user per month. Would you like to see different plans fitting different team sizes or rather manually choose the number of users you need for your company?
Meanwhile Russians could successfully auto-land a shuttle in high wind.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran_%28spacecraft%29#Flight_i...

Buran was an amazing piece of technology. It's sad it didn't get its chance.
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besides the 150 M, Norway has to spend a lot more on regulation.
This is the same as https://idonethis.com, no?
besides the 150M, Norway has to spend a lot more on regulation.
One of the problems with the current state of this issue is that both sides abuses of name calling. I think there are no "Climate Science Deniers" out there. There is a "Climate Science" for sure!

A better description is "Anthropogenic Climate Change Deniers" (or "Anthropogenic Global Warming Skeptics"). Are this changes created by the human activities?
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The choice isn't between 30sec or 15sec boot times. It's between 30sec, 15sec, or 1sec boot times, the latter coming from dropping all of the crap and writing a flat linear /etc/rc file.