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Hey zura,

I posted this article on my blog a while back about how I gave up too soon on my SaaS:

https://mattkremer.com/how-i-got-2200-pre-signups-for-my-saa...

Since failure, I've successfully relaunched the product and am getting a lot more actual traction than the first time around :)
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I would definitely buy a car if they advertised it to never break down - if the compensation on the promise would be good enough!

But seriously speaking, a 99.99% SLA is not more realistic or achievable in itself than any other SLA promise. It all depends on the provider (how they strive to reach that promise) and what they promise in return if the promise is broken.
I'm not seeing where armed transport would come into play?

Picture this; by opening an account with our service, we get a gateway into the customer's bank account (much like any other service that automatically takes money from your bank account). When you do a request on the service to get cash delivered, that money (plus a fee) goes to us, which we can now just withdraw and send to you.

Where does armed transport come into play there?
This may not be true. The post has been deleted by the actual source.
From the looks of it, the author of these slides has written very little Scala. Take slide #7, for example, where he writes def bar() = { "1" } when def bar = "1" is perfectly sufficient. Ironically, I may very well be pointing out the bad parts of scala (i.e. that () is simply a convention for indicating Unit or side-effecting functions, but its just convention and not enforced by the type system in any way). Notwithstanding that, I don't think someone who has written very little Scala is in a great position to offer a reasonable critique.

This is a longer discussion, but in the very first slide he points to the object-orientation as a plus. In my opinion, he's already wrong. "There is no such thing as Object-Oriented programming." See: http://blog.higher-order.com/blog/2008/12/04/no-such-thing/
This is where knowing the full Knuth quote helps...

> Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually have a strong negative impact when debugging and maintenance are considered. We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%.

Another common mistake relates to the phrase "penny wise and pound foolish", which applied to programming helps us identify those scenarios where we might waste time micro-optimizing array searches rather than choosing a hashtable (or even pre-sorting the array). Time spent optimizing your architecture will nearly always offer a bigger payoff than micro-optimizations - but once that's done, Knuth's critical 3% is worth remembering.
Athletes who know they will be tested who are on PEDs will often try to down-cycle before being tested. If PEDs are allowed, no such down-cycling would occur. This is maggit's point: even if people are still on PEDs with restrictions, they are more likely to be on even more PEDs with no restrictions.

It's like the speed limit. Just about everyone goes 10 - 15 mph over the posted limit as a matter of course. One reason some people don't go faster is the threat of getting caught, and the resulting consequences. (And one reason some others don't go faster is they don't feel safe at faster speeds.) But if we removed the posted speed limits, it's likely people would go even faster.

And for the record, I don't think the possibility of getting caught is remote. In professional MMA, fighters are getting caught every month.
Is the OP the author?

If so, there's a slight typo on the "See it in action!" page (http://tristanedwards.me/sweetalert). For the "A warning message, with a function attached to the "Confirm"-button" demo, the code displayed says 'alert("Booyah!");' but the alert being displayed says 'Deleted!'
I don't think that is relevant. The justifications behind the self-delusion of doublethink can be unique to each individual.
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Have you considered that those rules and regulations will cause people to optimize PEDs for undetectablility rather than effectiveness leading to people taking even more dangerous drugs than if they were legal? You see a similar thing with recreational drugs where people can't get a hold of or can't risk a failed drug test for relatively harmless illegal drugs so they use much more harmful legal substances.

Look at Pride Fighting Championships(basically japanese UFC) which was around for 10 years without any doping tests. Where were all the problems we're supposed to be afraid of? Or hell, look at pro wrestling. The fear mongering over PEDs is absurd.
A couple quick notes here further to your point: the effective dose for melatonin seems to be around 250mcg, while most supplements are sold at 1, 3, or 5mg. There is no evidence of melatonin losing effectiveness over time that I'm aware of, but there is some evidence that larger doses are less effective than 250mcg. Try splitting your pills or titrating your liquids and see how it works for you.

Source: sorry, on mobile and just taking a quick break, this information has appeared in other discussions on HN though, and should be googlable.
I chose not to use "owner" because not all people listing on AirBnB own their property, but I think we were thinking the same thing. People listing properties almost definitely have higher retention than travelers.
Guess I'll check mine later also...
Relocating 2000 people with H1B?
> Diaspora simply isn't an alternative for the overwhelming majority of users of active social networks.

That's bunk, simply because people already use it and it is a functional alternative.
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Wow, great and inspiring video!
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That Facebook popup makes me instantly hate this site.
spotify is not available in india ..can you give me the list of songs in some other form ? please ....
Occulus Rift and Second Life
Ask HN: What software/hardware do you use to display metrics around the office?
I've visited many shops that show critical metrics and other dashboardy stuff on a TV. I need to build one and I can think of many different ways, both for the hardware and the actual "thing" it's rendering. I'm sure someone has done a sexier job than me..

What did you end up building? Bonus points for something shared on GitHub.
I agree and love the startup idea!
Define irony: HP's last CEO wanted to break up the company years ago
No (check the OP's HN profile), but would it matter either way?

edit: Ah, fair enough. The project's github page has issues enabled though.
Integrity Staffing is appealing a ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which held that Mr. Busk had stated a legitimate wage claim. That court found that the security check at the Amazon warehouse was “necessary to the principal work performed,” was “done for the benefit of the employer” and was therefore “integral and indispensable.”

I'm surprised they didn't go for the stronger (and more obvious) argument that loss prevention is by definition an integral part of a warehouse worker's job. The job description would include making sure merchandise only goes to the proper customer, and making sure all goods are secure at all times.
Darn. I just renewed my 2 year contract with an apple.
To amplify, it strikes me as in the spirit of the prize for the scanning tunneling microscope (STM). All of the conceptual pieces were present, it was not a huge intellectual leap to put it together. That said, actually working out the details of the tip and controller etc to produce the beautiful results was, well, you knew it was sublime when you laid eyes on it.

Many groups were working hard on GaN/AlGaN systems at the time, as well as various ternary/quaternary permutations. Kudos to the winners for making it happen. Some pretty big doors were opened.
I've heard this countless times: "Let's go to xxx !" "Yeah, sure! Ah I have to stop at an ATM first before we do." I see what you're saying that a lot of human beings would just walk to an ATM (no matter how close or far... or they get their friend to cover them for the night), but I think there's also a good amount that would prefer this convenience...
Setting up a development environment using Docker and Vagrant
Not specifically. I haven't really heard it mentioned, but I don't actually do growth myself. It's mostly Stranski-Krastanov growth with islands growing until they coalesce. There's not really any significant flow of atoms between islands to my knowledge. What's your interest in it?
As long as your not expecting payment by a nefarious group, there shouldn't be any issues.
Selling Simplicity
http://www.myvisajobs.com/Reports/2014-H1B-Visa-Sponsor.aspx
I edited my comment above to include why I cared.
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This is one of the best things I have seen in a while. Just when I'm hitting my head against a wall giving my pitch to investor after investor each day, answering the same questions...here comes carrot to rejuvenate me. With vitamins. And comedy gold.
HTML version: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2672.2010....

In case it's not clear why this is on HN's front page, there are simultaneous outbreaks of Ebola and Marburg in Africa right now; this paper discusses their ability to live on surfaces, something not widely understood in the current Ebola outbreak but with huge implications.
Venteo, everyones pictures at an event in one album – Thoughts?
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Completely agree - and only 2 weeks if you expect your employer to behave calmly
As someone who travels a lot, I like your top three things, especially the first. Though taken alone that starts looking a lot like a directory of directories. One problem, as you say, is that there's a lot of information out there but it's uncurated and often based on specific commercial interests.

I just discovered Rome2Rio on this thread and it seems useful for things like whether I can take a train from A to B or whether flying makes more sense.

I use Tripit for much of my organization but it obviously only captures some things and it's format for displaying a whole trip is moderately awful.
There are down-converting phosphors on the surface that convert a fraction of the blue light to other wavelengths to get close to white.
i always thought "because they're crazy!" was a fishy explanation for hundreds of thousands of people fighting against foreign oppression.
Yeah, I've always found that etymology interesting! A lot of our swear words come from that same dichotomy.
Not a replacement really; doesn't mimic the function signature, is not blocking as the alert etc etc
If the data "is being sold" then go arrest whoever is selling it. This is basic police work. Someone is making fraudulent credit card charges? Go nab the guy when he goes to pick up the merchandize, then turn him against whoever provided the credit card numbers (if it wasn't the same person).

Doesn't that make a lot more sense than charging anyone who cuts across your lawn with grand theft just because someone engaged in grand theft might cut across your lawn?
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> If you want to avoid paying a lot of taxes, build a multinational and set up tax avoidance schemes like the Double Irish with a Dutch sandwich.

It's probably cheaper to simply pay Irish corp. tax (12.5%) for all but the biggest companies. You have to setup 2 Irish companies, a Dutch company and a Caribbean-based company, a battalion of tax lawyers and advisers to exploit the loophole legally....etc
Really. I wonder how much the often fake moral outrage at PEDs in sports has stifled quality-of-life advancements for the ageing. Take a step back and ask "Who benefits from the perception of a sport being 'clean?'"

Sports promoters have an interesting in maintaining the perception their sports are fair and competitive, and they contribute to a drug-war mentality.

Perhaps the public would just shrug and say "If you want to see real competition, go watch tennis at your club tournament." Draining big money out of sport would not be the worst outcome.
Nobody claims they will give you 100% uptime. The service level agreement is at 100%, that just means that the service should be up 100%; when it isn't, you get compensated. They're saying that any percentage of downtime (modulo time limits) is bad, not that it won't happen.
Does your "successful" bug bounty program still only pays $12,50 in store credit per bug?
That could explain the lack of interest in contacting you about any bug at all.
There is one gotcha with native/custom alert messages like these: native alerts block the ui thread of a browser, while custom do not. Sometimes you want to block and sometimes you don't. When you don't - you need something nice and simple.
> The truth is there are very few places new jobs are coming from and many places they are being destroyed.

Well, given that almost all measures show that the unemployment rate has gone down in the last 5 years, it means exactly the opposite of what you say: More new jobs are appearing than are being destroyed. (other time frames lead to other conclusions of course)

> If you want an economic outcome you have to design an economy that delivers that outcome.

That is pretty much a textbook example of the "wishful thinking" you accuse me of. You really think anybody has a clue as to how we'd design an economy that would lead to a specific economic outcome?
> Plus, because Clojure is less statically typed than Java, Java typing idioms don't clash with Clojure's

Well, you made me laugh. :)

But the real deal is compiling stuff to JVM bytecode ahead of time, which Java code can then be compiled against. It's not clear to me that Clojure provides this, which is what I was getting at.
Looks great, but it seems like positioning it as a beautiful flash message plugin rather than an alert replacement might be more apt.

Hopefully very few JS developers are using alerts in their production code (or dev for that matter!), and if they are they're probably not interested enough in user-friendly design to seek out this replacement.
It's a construction set with many pieces which you can combine to make new instruments. Maybe you have a mouldable body which can be made to support one neck and several auxiliary strings... and then you have a harp guitar. Maybe add some tenor strings to that later.

It's a scalable language by design.
I hate it too. I just turned it off. Thanks!
Mathematical: A Ruby gem (wrapping C libs) converting TeX math to SVG/PNG/MathML
They might use L1's which AFAIK aren't capped.
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I think it absolutely is relevant. Our society is obsessed with the concept of self-actualization, and self-expression in the midst of an electronically connected populace. The average person has more of a 'voice' than they ever had before (at least proportional to population). I don't think that anything has changed in society that would change the results of the experiments, but the narrative of the modern society is definitely about humans "growing up and developing".
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It's not possible for JS code to replicate the native blocking of alert(), prompt() and the like. Plus, if you call this with just one parameter, it does still work:

sweetAlert('hello')
It's equally wrong to say the claim is correct because it's based on somebody else's preferred categorization. Do you see "SQL" anywhere in "small, fast, reliable"? They made a broad claim. They should be the ones to provide evidence or clarification. Why are those standards only applied to those who point out that the claim is unproven? That seems a lot like changing the terms of the argument (asymmetrically!) to fit a preordained conclusion.
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Chaotic in the sense of sensitive dependence upon initial conditions? Because human actions depend upon a large number of factors influenced heavily by their environment and their life experiences. It's far harder to find systems which are not chaotic than ones which are. Even the classical 3-body system interacting under gravitation is chaotic.

And while, yes, there is definitely good work being done in studying dynamic systems, applying those things to human beings is very difficult and dangerous. We already often face situations where humans are expected to conform to a limited set of predicted responses rather than the system being seen as flawed for failing to predict all possible responses. And human beings react very, very poorly to being restricted in these ways.
http://firstbiz.firstpost.com/corporate/full-text-flipkarts-... - Apology from Flipkart
How to teach kids to be suspicious of tech cos.? Appeal to their rebelliousness
Same here. I've been doing user research on the subject, and while there are some clear problems to solve they might not just be worth solving.
It looks like the guy who originally posted this has pretty much accused you of flat out lying about this[1]. What do you have to say to his comments, particularly about the sports servers being internal.

[1] - http://www.futuresouth.us/wordpress/?p=25
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And yet both of you lack an actual argument or any piece of evidence to show that I'm wrong. So, the first point is this:

Even if I take a charitable interpretation of what downandout writes, they still contradict themselves. First, they wrote:

> A $100 deposit generates slightly less than $1K in loans

In the latest comment, they wrote:

> Bank A receives a $100 deposit and lends $90. That $90 goes into bank B. Bank B lends $81 of that money. That goes into bank C. Bank C lends $72 of that money, and that goes into bank D.
>
> None of these banks has lent out more than 90% of their deposits, yet the money has multiplied.

I suppose this shows that they are aware that deposits are roughly equal to loans. But then why write that 100$ of deposits generates roughly 1000$ of loans? The two statements are clearly contradictory. [0]

The second point is this: Perhaps this is a confusion about where deposits actually come from? Today, most deposits are usually made electronically, but even if you actually go ahead and deposit physical money at your bank, that physical money at the bank has previously been withdrawn from a bank account somewhere.

But even if 100$ of physical money were to appear by magic in your wallet and you then went ahead and deposited those at your bank, this would not cause an increase of loans by 1000$. There is just no process in modern banking where anybody at the bank says "Oh look, our deposits have increased, let's go loan to somebody". That just doesn't happen - go talk to actual bankers!

The truth is that the level of loans in the economy is primarily determined by (a) how many people/companies apply for loans and (b) how creditworthy they are. [1] The amount of loans given out by banks might additionally be limited by capital regulations.

However, at no point anywhere does the amount of deposits determine how many loans a bank makes. If anything, it's the other way round, because the level of loans determines the level of money which determines the level of deposits.

I know that your story is the one that a lot of laypeople (and even economists!) perpetuate. Unfortunately, it's just not true.

[0] I honestly fail to see how one could fail to see this. My only explanation is that you people were told this story from when you were children, that you accepted it unquestioningly and it was never pointed out to you.

Edit: Perhaps, to spell it out and make the contradiction more obvious: You assume 100$ entering exogenously as new deposits. You now apply the statement "100$ of deposits generate 900$ in loans". Fine. Those loans become deposits, so now you actually have 1000$ of deposits additionally to the starting point, 900$ of which you have not yet applied the statement "100$ of deposits generate 900$ in loans" to. You now apply this statement 10 times, meaning that 9000$ in loans are generated. Ad infinitum. It just doesn't make any sense even disregarding how the banking system really works.

[1] Note that this is a good thing, because it means that the economy is free to grow quickly!
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Someday there will be a more powerful being than the Basilisk. I'm helping build that one.
This isn't tools being offered it is a description of how to do it yourself (tools will need to be adjusted to data). The code presented looks very clear with simple self explanatory basic calls made (mostly accessing, reading and writing files).
The "foreign oppression" explanation is also pretty fishy. ISIS is clearly focussed on gaining money and power for it's leadership.
Cost to find and learn learn new travel planning software > cost to plan trip yourself with the internet
Something I find annoying with this is that on mobile (haven't tried other platforms) it goes back to the top of the page when a sweetalert opens.
Either my calculation is wrong, or...

Check the report from Fraunhofer, i.e. slide 85.
http://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/en/downloads-englisch/pdf-files...

Produced in August 2014:

Renewable: 12.8 TWh

Rest: 25.8 TWh

Total: 38.6 TWh

% produced renewable: 33%
I left the pumped storage in "Rest" as I have no idea what engery was used to pump.
While I grok your logic here, following it through leads to a very impractical approach to science. What is one supposed to do with an existing theory that one knows to be flawed? Simply let it stand, until he can conduct a new and fully tested theory to replace it? What about all the intermediate steps?

Poking holes in existing theories is a legitimate part of scientific inquiry and progress. The whole point of science is to gain knowledge by questioning the way things work. Ideally you do that by proposing new hypotheses, and constantly testing them out. But you can also do it by challenging or critiquing existing theories. This is sometimes a necessary first step before anyone even thinks to propose new theories to replace the old ones.

"It's only by finding actual evidence in support of a theory that you can make any sort of progress."

By that logic, a great deal of theoretical physics right now is worthless. Fields like that often start with peculiar observations, around which theories are proposed, then computationally analyzed or simulated. No "actual evidence" has been found to support a lot of these theories, though that hasn't stopped people from trying. (Nor should it). In many of these cases, the technology necessary to find the actual evidence does not yet exist, or is prohibitively expensive, or is in world-limited supply.
How is it ridiculous?

They're explicitly not saying that it will never go down. They're saying that if it ever does go down, they will pay their customers a penalty. Without having any "acceptable" amount of downtime that they don't have to pay a penalty for.

Really, too-many-9s SLAs are what's ridiculous. So you say you "guarantee" 99.99% uptime, but only interruptions of 30min or more actually count? 2 incidents of 29 minutes would put you over that .001% that you claim, without either counting.
Thank you. I submitted the 'issue'.
The first lesson is here http://fork2.com/ios/fortuna/
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I'm not sure what libraries you could be talking about except the Twitter ones, which yeah, are slow, don't use them.

There really are a bunch of new features and a faster development pace than Java; look at the differences between 2.11 and 2.9 (e.g. macros).
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