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You know what else is a terrorism magnet? US foreign policy. Employment of such technology might seem innovative from the surface, but you appear to completely ignore the real causes of why they must even consider bringing such technology into use. Their participation in what they themselves do not understand will only contribute to the causes of terrorism which originate from international actions by the USA. A human society functions much like a human being. They act and react according to what is inside of them.

By the way, I've been an NYC resident for 17 years and was born in the USA.
What specifically differentiates this from functional reactive programming?
> And yeah, when I'd go to a nightclub or somewhere I couldn't take my bike I'd get a ride from someone and leave it in my apartment.

There you have it. Your "I've never had to lock my bike up up outside" system is really "I can only cycle to places where I know I can take my bike inside". That doesn't sound like much of a way to live a life to me.
What thinkpad model do you use? What card?
Is there a performance hit because of the ExpressCard limitations?
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“children's novels” is correct. Could you try to explain why it sounds wrong to you? “Children” is the plural of “child” and so its possessive is formed by adding “'s”.
Has anyone done an audit of the content of Chilling Effect? Because while ...

> Copyright Alliance CEO Sandra Aistars describe[s] the activities of the Chilling Effects projects as “repugnant.”

... I think it's pretty repugnant that companies can spew malformed incorrect DMCA requests and let other people pay the costs of fixing the resulting mess.
>"Yes, but taxes and regulations are meant to exert a control how much more you can consume as a rich person."

A sad world we live in when people view taxes as a means to "control" the amount of consumption by the rich.
Microsoft could have pulled a Facebook (They improved the C++ server in FBThrift) and forked or rewritten Thrift, reusing the IDL and existing wire formats if nothing else, and dropped a kickass C# implementation. The result would have been D, Rust, Go, PHP, and Python developers, etc etc, wouldn't have had to go off and reinvent the wheel for the Nth time, for negligible gain in terms of tooling, and an almost certain regression in terms of ecosystem and acceptance. I don't think it's FUD to express a bit of cynicism here or cry NIH Syndrome.

> I'll put it bluntly: you have no idea what you're talking about. Bond v1 was started when Thrift was not production ready. This is Bond v3.

Let me put something bluntly. I don't care who started writing code first. Microsoft are well over half a decade late to the party. Thrift and Protobufs have been public domain since, what... 2007/8?

And frankly, at least on the C++ front, there's not much to get excited about with regard to metaprogramming here. The Avro C++ code generator already produces a small set of template specialisations for each record type, and they're trivial enough to write manually for any existing classes you wish to marshal against your schema. std namespace containers are already recognised through partial template specialisations. MsgPacks implementation also does this. Other more general metaprogramming solutions, like Boost Fusion, are also being used by many, in production, for completely bespoke marshalling.

Don't get me wrong, Bond looks really nice, particularly for C# programmers, and I have respect for the work being done, but I can't get excited about it. It's kind of like someone announcing yet another JSON library or some new web framework when what the industry needs is consensus on formats and APIs. Right now there are so many serialization frameworks that the de-facto standard will just continue to be schema-less JSON and robust tools will remain largely non-existent.
"those library authors are so much smarter than the rest of us"

Aside from your point (which is valid itself), it's not even necessarily "smarter". Comparably smart people more specialized at task X are likely to be better at task X.
anyone knows what features it offers beyond what iftop already offers (being web based doesn't count)? thanks
I think you might have misinterpreted what I said. I did not say economist are being better rewarded for supporting the status quo, but that those that did got most of the public attention. Who has control of the media and gets to set the questions being asked - it certainly isn't the sociologists.
Granted it's rather simplistic story, spoiled by the fact that you know that there is a happy end (otherwise book wouldn't have a point), but it's still solid and entertaining. It's like Gravity done well and right.

Importantly, it's distinct from other kind of entertaining books - I still read Da Vinci Code, but while it was entertaining, it's both terrible writing and story. Martian is different - yes, you know what's going to happen, but journey is the point.
I think it was Patrick Collison who also spoke about 'impostor syndrome' when joining YC. I imagine this is probably quite common.
The whole question of what it means to succeed or fail is interesting; OP's perception of failure contradicts what I thought was the common view in SV - that to 'fail' (i.e. not get funding) is part of a greater process of learning and enhancement.
I also can't understand how a 21-year-old Stanford graduate who already has experience in the market he's about to launch in could ever feel he "must have just been lucky".
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In Norway, the equivalent debit card payment system is called BankAxept.

An important factor in the adoption of these cards is the low transaction costs for both the consumer and the merchant.

Unlike credit cards, merchants arent't charged a percentage of the total transaction amount.
Good to see an article about an indie developer doing well in the age of funded startup hype. I too have been living off the success of my app Drum Kit since 2008. No longer making 5 figures a month, but it did for a few years :)
It's probably true that the YC interview process is deeply flawed, but OTOH there is no known better way to select worthy investments yet. Good startup business ideas are not only rare but also impossible to identify a priori. The only way to tell whether a business idea is good or not is to actually try it out in the market and see what happens. (This doesn't mean that any crazy idea is good, but it does mean that some good ideas seem crazy before they are tried.)

If there were any methodology that could identify worthy investments with anything close to high accuracy, there would not be stock markets and there certainly wouldn't be a VC industry.

VC investment works differently from other forms of investment due to the outsize gains on the rare successes. This market requires many comparatively small bets with limited losses and a few low-probability but huge payoffs. Compare this to a Warren Buffet style investment methodology of a few large bets in well-established companies and industries with high probability of moderate payoff. Neither is "right" in an absolute sense; it depends on the investor's risk tolerance and the nature of the opportunities.

The VC business model is to apply some coarse-grained filters to screen out obvious scammers and gross incompetents, then give the remainder of the cohort some money, knowing in advance that 99% will fail completely. The remaining 1% will pay for the losses on the 99% many times over.

Moreover, in YC's case, the amount of money they invest is so small compared to the massive returns on their few successes that they can now afford to take many of these small risks on "two guys who seem smart." Most of them will fail, and they know that going in. It doesn't matter. They're betting that sooner or later, they'll wind up with another AirBnB or Reddit that will pay for many thousands of these small bets.
There's been a lot of questions on how Bond compares to Protobuf, Thrift and Avro. I tried to put some information at this page: http://microsoft.github.io/bond/why_bond.html
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Cool story, great read! I'm surprised how negative some of the comments here on HN were. They're probably just envious about how they're not getting that sweet, sweet investor money!
On a related note, there's a new Apache Incubator project, built on these FBP principles:
http://nifi.incubator.apache.org
I don't believe in these sorts of database-free password management systems. These require users to remember too much stuff and are not flexible to be used universally. And using these gets only more painful over time as exceptions etc accumulate. These issues have been discussed fairly comprehensively in the various HN threads on hash-based password managers, which share most if not all the downsides with this particular project.
For anyone wanting to read-up / discuss FBP in depth, don't miss the mailing list, it's a gold mine of information:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/flow-based-programmi...
Though I do not have Meniere's disease, I've had tympanoplasties(eardrum reconstruction) on both ears after sports accidents. I have mild tinnitus that annoys me, but it's probably not as bad as what the chronic sufferers have.

Consequently, I started a company that makes mobile apps that help allay the pain of tinnitus. Unfortunately, there is no panacea for tinnitus, nor is there a scientific way to predict what kind of treatment might work for you. Tinnitus is a symptom of an underlying problem rather than a disease itself. That said, my apps employ a few treatment strategies including white noise/masking therapy and notch therapy. These therapies are effective for many people, but not all.

If anyone would like to try, my site is www.bxtel.com.
I like books by Tibor Fischer. I re-read "The collector collector" which I particularly enjoy for the sense of entitlement the petty criminals have.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/0099268191/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?qi...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0099268191/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?qid=...

There's probably a passive income project in scraping HN once a month for book recommendations and putting them on a page with referal links to the various formats of the books on various sites. Not sure how passive that is.
A good folding bike, at best, is a decent bike. Folding bikes have smaller wheel diameters, lower frame stiffness, and larger relative weight.
I wonder, you seem to have some sort of magical wand that conjures money and wealth out of nowhere, to support your argument. Bear with me:

Those wealthy people that you so complain about spending their money, earned their money through some sort of market process. (Aside from obvious criminal behavior). Those market processes are the accumulated spending of (probably poor) individuals. i.e. The wealth was not generated and given to the rich in a vacuum.

And here is your paragraph, rephrased to refer to those market masses instead of the targeted rich:

All those individuals had money, they had to move around. They had a house/shack/apartment, that used energy (aside from hut-dwellers). They have stuff which takes energy to make, and use also. They also have to eat, which involves transportation to the place to eat, people to prepare it, ingredients to place, waste from dishes, etc etc etc. And if they're living (which they probably are), they'll probably want to have a few kids, which is one of the worst things possible for the environment and have a kid or three, who will go on to pollute the world for the next 100+ years.
Honestly, that was inevitable.
That's clever. Evil, but clever. Had never considered this use. Sneaky bastards.
On the topic of dataflow programming I found the book "Dataflow and Reactive Programming Systems: A Practical Guide to Developing Dataflow and Reactive Programming Systems" by Matt Carkci [0] to give a pretty good overview of the different types and implementations of dataflow programming systems. I think that flow-based programming sounds incredibly cool, but I haven't found any project where I could use it well... yet!

[0] https://leanpub.com/dataflowbook
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8868045
Matt Carkci's book discusses the different closely related topics of data flow, flow based programming and reactive programming, very clearly and i quite some detail:

http://dataflowbook.com/cms

Can highly recommend.
I agree with it being arguably unethical, but mostly because it's a business model that tries to appease two sides (the techies with ideas, and the investors), which, in my opinion, easily leads to one side being product for the other side.

Some such businesses may work, like job recruitment, but I think it's mostly because the weaker side (the unemployed) doesn't have much to lose.
Yes the governments of OPEC along with the other owners of large oil deposits have been actively blocking progress. Where do think the whole climate change "skeptical" message comes from? The playbook being used is identical to what the tobacco companies used to block effective action on smoking for decades. As a society we would have been far better off buying the tabacco companies out and winding the industry up over time. If we had done this millions of people would still be alive.
Are you commenting in disregard of this paragraph near the top of the submitted article? "In this case, the study population was not randomly assigned to eat more whole grains, which means we can't know whether the people who ate them are healthier because of their diet or because of other traits they share, like their age, ethnicity, smoking status, alcohol intake, physical activity levels, multivitamin use, and family medical history."
Wow, we just recommended the same book within seconds of each other. But seriously it's a good book, if you have interest in the topic it's worth reading.
Ask HN: How to monetize this side project?
I have a chrome app that's up to ~1000 weekly users, and i'm not sure if or how to monetize it.

the website is: https://www.extempengine.com

The app is called Extemp Engine, and it's a specially designed news search engine for students participating in one kind of speech competition in the USA.

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# history

The simple description: it loads a large archive of news articles locally, offline, and makes them easy to search through.

it's a niche app i built for high school students.

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# problem

My biggest problem is that I'm not sure how to monetize it without alienating the small following that it already has.

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# prospects

I have an list of 114 email addresses of people who have incidentally (un prompted) clicked the 'sign up' link on the website, and I have a google plus group of 10-20 alpha testers. My website gets about 30 users per day, mostly (90%+) new, and most (75%) from search.

I still have connections to my local school district, so i could promote it via those channels too.

If there's key data i forgot to mention, just ask and i'll post it.

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# why monetize?

I want to monetize it because i'm hitting hard limits on my mongodb databases (I'm using mongolab). And it's causing API failures. The chrome client itself is also failing to scale with large numbers of articles. (377,000~ articles consume approximately 50GB of my mongo database). It's getting hard for me to justify spending time to fix these issues for an app that isn't generating revenue.

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>> Given the situation, how should i monetize this app?

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Thank you for reading

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extended version without [TRUNCATED] can be found here:

http://hayksaakian.com/article/54b19cbcc9e0270200137ffa/how-to-monetize-extemp-engine
Otherwise, a search for "reactive programming" in the FBP mailing list, will give quite some info too:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/flow-based-progra...
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I'm also interested in how he's travelling the world while doing consulting work. Travelling (for leisure) and working don't go well together in my experience, curious how he's pulling it off (so I can try too).
Yes of course, I don't want some proprietary external VGA brick, I want a docking station with a normal full length PCIe slot and enough power to feed it. That is, the fat AMD or Nvidia graphics card I slot into my PCIe docking station should have no idea it's not sitting in a regular desktop.
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Yeah it would be fine if they took the Cyanogen route. There are ton of Android distros that put their spin on things. But to have something closed-source and (from what I can see) is only available on their own hardware is a big no-no in this day and age.
Well first it was ridiculous enough search engines were being censored when we're so against the concept of the Great Firewall of China.

To console the people, they started the Chilling Effects project to "stick it to the man". Once enough time had passed, and the hearts had quelled, they'd eventually contest the Chilling Effects project.

Mission accomplished.
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Is this just about vice's web design?
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> NYC is a terrorism magnet, as has been shown.

You must be kidding. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Terrorist_incidents_in...
Thoughts on replacement languages
I suppose it's not entirely an accident that in my part of the Midwest, SW Missouri, and I gather a lot of it, maize and sorghum (around here called "milo") are the two most popular things to plant (the milo is fed to animals).

My mother, however, grew up on a rice farm in Louisiana. C4 rice would be very welcome as long as there's plenty of hungry mouths to feed.

As far as the biology goes, not that I'm paying any attention to the field, this is the most ambitious genetic engineering project I've ever heard of. Hope they can pull it off.
Yeah, that almost seems like a bait and switch scam.
Why do you believe "the US gov" (and which branch and agency, specifically) considers not having a Facebook account suspicious?
It's more than just sillyness.
I hate the website. Looks pretty. Very little content.
I found more details reading other articles.

I dont get it.

Looks like they created some apps that look good on a bigger screen. And they created nice big hardware. But for the most part you are stuck with the same old Android apps that everyone uses.

Lot of tablets have keyboards or at least you can buy keyboards for them. So that is not a big selling point.

Can someone clue me in here?
I think my reasoning goes that in french, a trailing s denotes a plural much more regularly than in english (or so it seems to me, I have no way to measure this in a serious way).

I know the grammar rule that says that "James's bicycle" is not correct, "James' bicycle" is (and I seem to remember that the only reason is that a double s cannot be pronounced)

Combine these two facts and you've got "no s as possessive at the end of a plural" rule that formed in my tired mind :-)
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> So, what are the YC people investing in? Two guys who seem pretty smart?

Standford CS grads.
Where I am from (Slovenia) it is completely illegal. In fact it is illegal for businesses to have cash expenses higher than a hundred euro or so. Very low by European standards, but all countries in EU have some sort of cash payment limit.

This is specifically to curb shadow economies and the grey market.

And the reason it's illegal to pay employees in cash is that the government needs a way of tracking "automatic" social security and tax payments. Where automatic means the employer pays them as the part of the paycheck that doesn't go to the employee.
I have just as hard a time remembering my usernames as I do passwords.
I think the biggest problems with flow based or reactive programming are the occurrence of glitches, and, more importantly, the problem of how to compute updates without performing unnecessary work.

I wonder if these problems have been successfully addressed somewhere.
Cool solution for folks like us. Best way to diminish password as an attack vector and secure services for the thronged masses is to reduce the number of passwords required to use the Internet. And couple a master (eg My google account) account with a second, biometric factor.
This is true in Norway.

Merchants are required by law to report cash purchases over a certain amount to the tax authorities.
As stated above, X220 + 660GTX.

If I recall correctly, am missing out on about 30% of the 3dmark points I should be getting by combining the GPU with a CPU of that speed level. As far as I know though, It's still faster than any laptop graphics chip available even today.

I sometimes seem to get a minor stutter in games, e.g. I'll lose about a frame or two every couple seconds, which might be due to the low ExpressCard bandwidth. This is game-dependent, and most games run flawlessly.
> surely there exist useful proofs that require 10,000 pages minimum

The classification of finite simple groups "consists of tens of thousands of pages in several hundred journal articles written by about 100 authors, published mostly between 1955 and 2004."[1]

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classification_of_finite_simple...
No.

let x = 100 // constant
var y = 200 // variable

x = x + 1 // error
y = y + 1 // 201
How do I respond to these price objectors who demand a whopping 86% in discount, yet interestingly enough they are the MOST demanding when it comes to support and feature requests.

Don't.

You have a product. You've set the price. Not everyone has to like it, and as long as you're meeting your bottom line, you've no obligation to come down to the lowest bidder if that bid isn't worth it.

Once you start letting those kinds of customers drag down your scale, you'll go broke.
This seems like a parody of entrepeneurship. Like instead of defying the odds to be an entrepeneur he's defying the odds to avoid getting startup funding as a recent CS grad from Stanford.

The world it full of things that sound appealing. But you may find when you get a chance to do them it isn't your thing. You may enjoy art, admire artists, but not really enjoy or be suited to the work of an artist.
In Canada we have Interac debit cards and everyone is happy, I don't even remember the last time I used cash to pay for something...
"James' bicycle" is an orthographic convention; it's pronounced as if it were written "Jameziz bycycle" (i.e. both Ses are pronounced, as Zs.)
I ride a Brompton, and that is one of the big reasons; I can just take it inside, and stash it under my desk, rather than having to lock it up outside.

However, it is inconvenient in some situations. When I go to a bar, or restaurant, or movie theater, it's sometimes hard to find a place to put it that's out of the way. Since a lock is cumbersome and inconvenient, and I don't usually need it, that means I don't make a habit of carrying one, but then I'll hit a situation where it really would be more convenient to lock it up than take it in, but now I don't have that option.

That said, I do ride my Brompton as my daily commuter, and do bring it in with me, and most bars, restaurants, or the like do have enough room for me to stash it somewhere. But you do have to be willing to put up with people who think it's a little strange, or the people who joke "hey, I don't try to bring my car into the bar", and you do sometimes need to be creative to find a way to stash it securely and also out of people's way.
It's a euphemism for not working at all, though likely with one or two experiences that keep it from being a total lie (the majority of the money lived off of being either already saved or coming from family).

The guy just failed hard in a pretty limp way. The options are either to try to "grow personally" and then to try something similar again, or to buckle down with a normal job and develop your skills and knowledge into something that really has value. When you've been drinking the start-up kool-aid the second is a hard pill to swallow - having to actually compete with everyone else - but I think it's worth it.
"Game of Thrones" and its successors, by George R. R. Martin.