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Hey tinkerr, I'm the CEO, thanks for the question.

The value in this space is in the shared data. It's analogous to Twitter -- the individual tweets might be useless, but the collective data is valuable. If you could see all the real portfolio data that people are sharing, it would be magnitudes more interesting than sentiment data from i.e. stocktwits because it represents real dollars (and in that sense we let people share trades to stocktwits, too). Actually, if someday people were to start publishing real dollar amounts you'd even see total aggregate volume. And if people were to add target holding period to their trades, you could see volume by expected holding period. There's definitely inherent value in that, but it's a very long-term play.

For now, the value is in better investment discussions. It's impossible to have one on i.e. stocktwits. The real portfolio info provides an environment for higher quality conversations. A few experiences people have expressed are valuable on Nvestly:
- Finding others who hold a stock they hold and discussing what to do next.
- Finding people who have traded a stock a lot and sharing research
- Having a little more fun by earnings investment merits (similar to badges) or getting feature as a top weekly investor

The 'business' way to describe the value to society is that the social element helps introduce the concept to the younger generation. >50% of millennials are saving for retirement but only 10% are investing even though the majority who save think of the stock market as a viable vehicle for retirement (had to memorize this for a pitch).
It is a common misconception that the SSID is used in these types of databases. What it is actually looking for is the MAC address of the wireless access point.
I think I've lost you there, thanks for your thoughtful comments though.
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I don't see the venom. I see someone who is taking a lot of flak from internet experts and probably too eager to satisfy them, when such a thing is impossible.

What is Solomon supposed to do? He explained very clearly his thoughts about standards. It's actually a very reasonable (if a bit defensive) response.
Keep going left and jump. Freedom.
I can address some of those questions based on my reading of the literature and what they will integrate with:

* This seems like it would be coordinated by fleet, mesos, kubernetes. If I recall, some of these would allow you to direct new connections to new instances. For databases where clustering requires more sophisticated upgrades, it might have to be manually rolled/scheduled, but could probably be scripted with these.

* Memory requirements: Generally yes, but the thought process is that by having a read-only filesystem for most data, deduplicating filesystems (BRTFS, ZFS) can reduce your memory and storage requirements.

* Security is the toughest nut to crack. You're right, if a package incorporates BASH as a simple shell to run exec against, then you end up dependent on the app provider to use that. Likewise, openssh, libc, other libraries seem like you could get stuck with whatever the app developer has packaged. Alternatively, it looks like if there is a security fix, it should be easy to handroll your own temporary version by unpacking a package, dropping in a new lib, and repackaging. Hopefully they're not pushing for static compilation (which would defeat my argument on memory as well.)

* Updates: Yes, but the same problem happens when everyone has long dependency chains. Instead of laziness, it becomes a hurdle to overcome to get people to up their constraints and incorporate fixes. At least this way, every app developer can ship what works for them.

* Architecture: The reusable component aspect would likely shift closer to compiler/build process. e.g.: Look at how Cabal for Haskell and Cargo for Rust work (and occasionally, fail to work.) I think the goal would be to have reliable, repeatable builds using components managed by something else, using repositories of source code/binaries to build against.
a good reflective "think" piece on how centralized systems are being undermined by innovation. it's amazing just how many potentially disruptive technologies have be introduced or come into mainstream thinking in just the past year alone.

also it is worth checking out the original article first, published a little over a year ago [1].

[1] http://fee.org/freeman/detail/fifty-ways-to-leave-leviathan
Partly it's the immediacy. In the long term, China poses a threat to American hegemony, but they're not actively trying to blow things up at this very moment. The other part is the narrative. Environmental disaster should rank higher in peoples' minds, but people are intrinsically drawn to narratives that involve other people. Terrorists are like comic book villains as far as narrative goes. Not only do they behead people, but they brutally oppress women!
Minus the snarkiness, that's not a bad question. The linked article doesn't showcase most of the interesting stuff in Perl 6 like optional typing, junctions or macros, but there are some cool things about it.

That said, I think Python has eaten Perl's lunch, and who knows how things will evolve with the proliferation of statically-typed, non-verbose, fast functional languages? Personally, I'm not going back to dynamic languages as my primary workhorse.
Seems almost like a conflict of interest though. Like the NBA owning one of its own teams.
Erm aren't android apps basically self-contained and statically compiled?
Which countries don't follow the UN's interpretation of international law on this issue?
It also assumes all bots are intending malice. Some advertisers automatically trigger videos on sites so they can review/categorize the content (see if it's porn).

They do that with the intent of making ad purchases, so it's actually desirable bot traffic.
Also, people, I feel, get this impression that because Windows 8 takes forever to load and then Word takes an eternity, that they _need_ that speed. No, you need less bloated programs, and (I would seriously hope) that missile/rocket/spacecraft guidance and life support computers are not running bloated software!
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Got an uncle who knows his way around a pressure washer. There are still some stains on my driveway he can't remove.
While I disagree in particular (because it is believed the agents of the US using this torture practices acted in secret) there is an overarching logic that is sound: to the degree a society is democratic is the same degree its citizens are ultimately responsible for the actions of their government officials.
Wow, rare to see people from the Rhône-Alpes area on HN :) I'm a student in engineering and I live in Lyon too, can you tell more about these events/meetups ? I'd be really interested !
The Pirate Bay down, forever?
So how do I get it out of my backyard?
Hey I'm one of the co-founders. Thanks for checking it out and for the comments! Right now the site doesn't filter for concentrated portfolios and we'll certainly be adding that. This is our first version of the product. Glad you noticed that! You might find more value in finding people who hold something you hold or something you're considering investing in.

We just added the "professional investors" section today and will be sure to work on the UX. Agree with your points here. That feature would be awesome, we're adding it to the list.
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Really? With enough computing power we could compile a genome? If this is for real, this is definitely in the world changing things that Moore's Law will produce category.

Is computing power really the main thing missing?
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I am interested to hear if high-school/college style teaching has been tried at the elementary level. And what were the outcomes?

Specifically, have schools tried to partition students into courses based on achievement level, regardless of age? There would be the Math 1 course that might have 1st, 2nd, and 3rd graders in it, and Math 2 might have brighter 1st graders, etc.
The new system is incredibly cumbersome when you have to type the captcha. It went from 2 key presses to 5 (plus actually typing the text of course). Obviously if you just need to tick it everything is fine, but for me the tick works ~5% of the time.
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Unless some people who claimed gift cards never use them?
Yes, latency matters a lot in aggregate.

http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2009/10/31/TheCostOfLatency...

From Marissa Mayer while at Google:

> Marissa ran an experiment where Google increased the number of search results to thirty. Traffic and revenue from Google searchers in the experimental group dropped by 20%.

> Ouch. Why? Why, when users had asked for this, did they seem to hate it?

> After a bit of looking, Marissa explained that they found an uncontrolled variable. The page with 10 results took .4 seconds to generate. The page with 30 results took .9 seconds.

> Half a second delay caused a 20% drop in traffic. Half a second delay killed user satisfaction.
This statement, as written, is false.
In both the US and the EU, it is only illegal if you use certain techniques to accomplish it, and only then, if it has actual anticompetitive effects.

For example, Microsoft performed a technique known as tying.

But even the claim was not simply "they shipped IE with Windows 98" , or that they introduced other product features to work well with IE first, but "they made IE deliberately difficult to remove, and deliberately and intentfully made it harder for netscape navigator to work". This is not the same as "we made IE the best, and did nothing to competitive products". In particular, it is not the fact that they introduced stuff to IE first, it is the fact that they deliberately harmed the other products.

See paragraphs 94, 95, and 96 on http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F3/253/...

Even then, the court held the tying should be analyzed deferentially, and that the US would have to prove this had actual anticompetitive effect.

See in particular, the court's admonition at 93

"As a general rule, courts are properly very skeptical about claims that competition has been harmed by a dominant firm's product design changes. See, e.g., Foremost Pro Color, Inc. v. Eastman Kodak Co., 703 F.2d 534, 544-45 (9th Cir. 1983). In a competitive market, firms routinely innovate in the hope of appealing to consumers, sometimes in the process making their products incompatible with those of rivals; the imposition of liability when a monopolist does the same thing will inevitably deter a certain amount of innovation. This is all the more true in a market, such as this one, in which the product itself is rapidly changing. See Findings of Fact p 59. Judicial deference to product innovation, however, does not mean that a monopolist's product design decisions are per se lawful. See Foremost Pro Color, 703 F.2d at 545; see also Cal. Computer Prods., 613 F.2d at 739, 744; In re IBM Peripheral EDP Devices Antitrust Litig., 481 F. Supp. 965, 1007-08 (N.D. Cal. 1979)."

Note that these are also tying between sold products and given away products, not just given away products. Otherwise, open source linux distributions with large market share would have tying issues (and in fact, they've been unsuccessfully sued for illegal competition before)
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These tortures were only happening in Poland, just like the Holocaust was merely happening in Poland. I hope that this is what you mean by 'creatively' - i.e. just changing the place, not the people.
Forgive me for asking a stupid question but why would someone from the LOT network sell a patent to a troll and why wouldn't companies that make money from selling to a troll join the LOT network?
Agreed, the new perl looks like Ruby. And I am willing to bet Ruby is more self consistent and easier to learn.
(Says the perl 5 expert)
"The friends we've chosen in the region also don't help us"

The recent OPEC decision declining to reduce production in the face of falling oil prices, thus screwing over Russia hard, means that Saudi Arabia is most certainly a useful US ally.
Mercola has a lot of stupid shit on it, but I found no fault in the article (except for a bit of woohoo on energy psychology).

It was the only good non-industry source I could find on the Jupiter study.
Someone willing to make this kind of deal with his "employees" is someone willing to spin down the company as soon as revenues start to approach his trigger value, and keep all the profits.
Yes obviously it's bad code, but it's bad code that's easier to write, than good code. That's dangerous. That's why Python does it better IMHO.

BTW err != nil? I don't know, it seem fragile. Maybe it's years of exception indoctrination speaking, but I am scared that someone will return false for errors and someone else will check err != nil, or the reverse, or some other misunderstanding, and it will fail.
I guess it depends on how you define the line of code, but I would be surprised if no former president has ever done anything code-like, especially considering how this was more necessary in many early computers, and considering how we practically "write code" even in using graphing calculators or Excel. It seems like even many university students in non-technical disciplines will have written at least a line of code in their life.
I think the point is that tracking already is possible, but the proposed solution was technically cleaner. So there are not new privacy problems.
I realized a few weeks ago that Dave Gamache started a 2.0 branch. Skeleton was always nice to use and very lightweight.
Great to see it is back.
It is a nice boilerplate that doesn't come in that heavy as bootstrap.
Seconding this, it drives me up the wall. Little frustrations, that mount and mount when you just want to do basic things..
wouldn't it be more: Like NBC owning a team?
Gayle Conigliaro's preschool students are jumping as they count,
to get the feeling of the numbers into their bodies — a concept
called "embodied cognition."

My 4 year-old learned all about circles by spinning round and round. Math makes her just giddy with excitement! She can't calculate circumference yet, but that doesn't matter, because I feel confident that she has embodied the cognition. I'm taking her to the playground tomorrow so she can do line integrals on the monkey bars.

Can we bring back the scowling school-marms now?
You're right - I mean BSSID, which is the same as the MAC address.
Hey yo - I write Skeleton. I haven't been giving Skeleton the love it deserves, but it's gonna get it now. I wrote a bit in a weird format here: https://medium.com/@dhg/dear-skeleton-452f4bb07d69
Maybe it's because it's such a big issue. The more minor something is, the louder the arguments seem to get.

Anyway, thanks for your work in keeping the place in line.
Can you re-submit the actual startup? The link goes to a video on Facebook and requires FB login.
I saw this in a documentary (I guess it was PBS or BBC). It also had testimonies of innocent people who were detained & tortured for 5+ years, then released by US.

Here are few links about it:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8472804/...

http://www.reprieve.org.uk/publiceducation/2012_08_30_Public...
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> If you're not using it for cryptographic purposes, then I don't see why it matters. :)

There was a program I was using that used libtommath, and used that library's mp_rand function. libtommath's mp_rand does various trickery but essentially adds two results of rand() together[0].

If you call rand() multiple times on OpenBSD you will get a sequence that alternates between odd and even, which is completely standards compliant. Because of this the result of adding two rand() results together will always be odd (odd + even = odd).

The program didn't need cryptographic levels of randomness, but only returning odd numbers turned out to be a bit of a problem.

[0] https://github.com/libtom/libtommath/blob/develop/bn_mp_rand...
At best, the citizens are ignorantly complicit by lack of attention. What did the people do about MK ULTRA? Who was punished? Oh, that's right, the CIA got off with paying their victims off and no-one was held "accountable". The republic has been dead. What's left is just the populace of the most financially successful country, and those people don't want to be told how complacently evil they and their country have become. I've argued with enough people that will reject the truth up until it's completely ill-refutable, the reason being, they like their lifestyle and make-believe country.
Hey ya'll - I'm Dave the creator of Skeleton. Grateful to see it on HN. I wrote about why I created v2.0 in a weird format here: https://medium.com/@dhg/dear-skeleton-452f4bb07d69

I'm hoping the update really helps anyone who's been using Skeleton for a while or anyone trying to get into RWD.

Thanks :)
That was an amazing read! Thank you :)
I dunno about that, at least in the U.S.: http://mic.com/articles/106084/two-charts-show-why-the-cia-s....
A program similar to this was employed in Vietnam war , however after thousands were assassinated and killed by said,South Vietnam and the program having had diminishing returns the program was halted, they believe many innocents were turned in due to localized revenge minded regional authorities.
Cheers man.
The court ruling in NL (which lead to a (temporary) forced block from ISP's of the website) was that despite them technically not hosting anything illegal, they are definitely an, let's call it, "accessory to piracy", a middle man so to speak. You know, like how Silk Road was just a middle man for drug deals - the website itself didn't host any drugs. Not that that's technically possible (yet), but you get the idea.
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I'm really curious to see what people think of this. I think this combined with bitcoin can open up some cool possibilities.

Meaning I would love to come up with an algorithm that works while you workout. Then the hash rate is timed to number of steps or kilometers taken to release a block of bitcoin. Which I think could open up even more fitness incentives.

You could even have "races" to see who can find a hash before the others in your group.

Of course people could try and cheat, but that would be where the secret sauce is... kinda like reCAPTCHA but for bio-metrics.
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Thats true. What came to my mind was the NBA actually did own one of its teams for a while in a bailout, I think it was Charlotte.
this was already the case, one example: http://d2l.gg/
"If the choice is between a tacit pardon and a formal one, a formal one is better. An explicit pardon would lay down a marker, signaling to those considering torture in the future that they could be prosecuted."

Now that's a truly strong signal to send to past and future torturers!
I mean, the issue just says "support this standard" and it's an explosion of...I guess what is deemed as non-venom? He could have just closed it and said "Not at this time" or something like that.
> Is there a name for the argumentative tactic of singling out the weakest thing a person said, then exaggerating it into a straw man and arguing against it, while ignoring everything else?

Well, yeah, its called (naturally enough) the straw man fallacy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
Or poker or financial markets.
Gift cards expire after 90 days, at which point the money on a gift card goes to our general fund for patients, so worst-case scenario, someone claims one of these and doesn't use it, the money will still go to patients' healthcare.
As one of those half million people, thank you! I used it in my blog.
Glad to see it back. So simple and clean.
There are. It means there are now N+1 instead of N things to worry about for those of us that actually do care. It signals an acceptance that this is something to be encouraged and welcomed. All behind users backs.
now explain how that is different from anywhere in the world...
Fox used to own the Dodgers. Disney used to own the Angels and the Ducks. Liberty Media still owns the Braves (I think). MSG owns the Knicks and Rangers. And a bunch of other teams own their networks - the Red Sox own NESN, the Yankees own a large part of YES. Fox owns half of the Big Ten Network. ESPN owns a large part of the Longhorn Network and the SEC Network. I could go on and on, but suffice it to say that there's a ton of precedent.
This seems to get stuck for me after a few minutes (grep stops taking up CPU cycles). I thought maybe it was getting stuck trying to read something it shouldn't, but lsof gives no clues.
Two questions: Are there hover-classes for tables etc. that can easily be applied? What about striped/alternating rows? And how come I can only nest lists 2 levels deep?

Other than that, it looks great.
Gosh...I want my next job to be in Perl...it just looks like such a different language. It makes me smile every time I read it and read about it.
I meant socialist as an adjective, not a noun. The US government has socialist policies as well: social security, for example. Also, government ownership of public transit, or the USPS. I agree the word is a bit inflammatory in the American lexicon, though that is changing as all the old people die off.
Hey aboodman, I was wondering if you've got some other recommended reading for designing offline applications. I'd love to read more about common design patterns.
It would only feel real to your fingers. You would still need some sort of hardware interface for the actual screw--a robotic dog, perhaps.
To live in the city, you really need a household income of $300K+. Anyone below that is either going across the Bay Bridge or south into the peninsula.

Based on your pricing, you're best off heading to the East Bay and commuting in via BART. The peninsula may be a better option but you won't get much relief from the rents and everything is car-based and a bit sleepier for young people.
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Can someone smarter than myself tell me how secure this is? If I was a hacker wouldn't i just hack Dashlane and have all the passwords?
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I've seen this rhetorical strategy before and I don't know if it has an "official" name, but I like the term "weak man" (in contrast to "straw man"). Straw man means inventing a weak position for your opponent and then attacking that; Weak man means deliberately selecting your opponent's weakest argument and ignoring the rest. It would be kind of like if atheists' entire argument boiled down to "Look how dumb the Westboro Baptist Church people are."