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From what I gather _machine code_ has become more low level, while _assemblers_ have adopted features from "high level" languages.

Not that I would know, the last time I wrote assembler it was for the Z80, and the last time I wrote machine code it was for the 6502.
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He put it on reddit? <Headslap> I went to take a look, and people are deleting things almost as soon as they show up.

What did he expect? That people would leave things alone? It's reddit.
It is a site for/about women founders. The fact that they made a list of successful women isn't really evidence of anything. If it was a site about founders from the east coast we could just as likely see such a list without assuming people from the east coast are not accepted into entrepreneurial enterprises.
It has always been this way (at least as far as I can remember, I've had a PC since '86), you just don't remember the 1,000,000th space invader/pacman/tetris clone.
I agree with both of these points, although I don't think of the first situation as "news" at all (in a sense that it isn't necessarily dealing with current events that require time sensitive delivery).

I think what you're digging at here is that you can't just provide a platform for freelance writers to write their pieces and pay them according to popularity - this model doesn't cover all cases. If there is demand for investigative journalism (which often, but not always, requires funding and cooperation) and reporting from dangerous areas, organizations would have to form that fund these endeavors. But, no matter how profitable this might be, this isn't a scalable business, so it isn't lucrative from a startup's point of view.

It sounds like organizations like Associated Press will eventually transition to handle scenario two, which they'll publish via Twitter (once it lets content providers monetize their content), and some newspapers will transition to scenario one (once one top-brand newspaper or a startup builds a value-added publishing platform). The rest of the newspapers will simply die and many of the good writers will transition to a freelance model.

Of course this gets very fuzzy very quickly, so most of these predictions will likely not pan out this way, but it seems pretty clear where the overall trend is going - technology will decouple a few concepts that are tightly coupled today. News would be decoupled from high quality written content, and production of content will be decoupled from its publishing and delivery.
At the cheapest tier it'll cost him about $100 per terabyte. He's lucky that incoming data is free right now.

And at the rate people are deleting things, he won't pay anything, since no one can download anything.
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Launch one of 3 projects as an actual startup, quit dayjob.

1) infrastructure/platform related to security
2) hardware device with social network features
3) consumer-focused webapp in data aggregation/presentation

I've spent the last couple months since getting back from Afghanistan working on all 3 at early stages, finding potential cofounders, clients, funding, etc., and am pretty much at the decision point. Should be going full-time with one of them in January (I need to hit a vesting cliff of 12-31-2009 before doing so, counting down the hours...)
Yup, which is why self hosting is a step (albeit a very cool one) on the way. You still have to deal with all the features and idioms you don't know - I remember Duff's device and other forms of switch abuse falling into that category.

It is great dogfood, but does lead to some head exploding debugging - you are looking at a piece of badly generated code trying to figure out how many generations back the bug is.
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I don't see much new in the world now vs 15 years ago that would shift the economics to high quality publishing.

It seems to me that all the content aggregators and time-sensitive information availability via Twitter made news a commodity - there is nothing differentiating a Yahoo news article from a CNN article from an MSNBC article, from Twitter's trending topics feed. So how can a paper differentiate itself but to provide quality content?

I think what's new is the ability to personalize the information.

I agree, but I think it's only one piece of the puzzle. A "YouTube for value-added written content" would effectively be a publishing platform that connects freelance writers, content production organizations (like newspapers), and guest authors to their audience. Such a platform would have far more content than any given person could possibly consume, so it would need a personalization system (based on search, a data mining recommendation engine, etc.) But before you get there you have to build a compelling enough platform for good writers to switch to. There's a bit of a chicken and the egg problem here, so it would require a lot of seeding work to be done.

Of course this is just my view of it. It seems pretty clear to me, but there have been lots of things that seemed pretty clear that turned out to be completely wrong :)
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Mac OS (not just OS X, earlier versions as well) menus deal with this in an interesting way:

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I generally find that asking specific questions about a technology or technique is not really valuable. My preferred method of interviewing is to sit down and talk with the candidate about "stuff", which should include said technologies/techniques. After a fashion you will get a good understanding of what they know about the subject; where they are strong and where they are just blowing smoke. You'll also know more about how they would integrate into your team.

So just relax and talk to the candidate and don't worry about asking the magic questions that will answer all your prayers. :)
I think aol is positioned well for #3.

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I'm thinking you're thinking wrong, but I, as a person who often gets lectured and thinks this is annoying, bow to your opinion.
You missed the possibility that moving there would increase his standard of living, but would not do the same for his kids. There could be no good college there, for instance - and if he already did college, this would not be a problem for him. But for his offspring, it could be a significant issue.
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Since we're splitting into demographics - what's with the low number of classic ango-saxon women there, and more asian, indians, jewish, etc?
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Amazing idea, but of course the 13 year old Digg/Reddit crowd has to ruin it.
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A better simple rule: always use sizeof on typename. That always works therefore you can use typedef arrays too.
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Merry Christmas people! I'm all for Christmas spirit and all, but I do not approve piracy - not on any day.

edit:

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Macros can easily be abused, but the point of the preprocessor today is platform-dependent code generation. In higher level languages you can select with an if which branch gets executed, but at the end the platform-dependent code of that language runtime is written in C with ugly ifdef's.
Just by way of explanation, RFS 1 has not been attempted by other YC startups, right? Or if it has, it's still open for solutions. So you guys are open for applicants to pitch you startups that might address this problem.

Would you only consider pitches that involved applying at YC? Or would you consider getting involved in startups that are going a different route?
It's more of an, 'I'm feeling full. Why must I still eat the delicious cookie right in front of me!?'
All of your proposals have serious flaws.

* Bugs caught in test - testers file more bugs given the same number of defects.

* Lines of code (less is better) - People talk more, do less.

* Hours of maintenance required after release - Developers delay release excessively for testing.

* Bugs found after release - Developers look less hard for bugs.

* Downtime caused - Developers avoid working on things that might cause downtime.

* Time delayed due to developer - Impossible to measure.

* Ready before deadline - Developers test less rigorously, cut features.

* Speed of the application - Application will do less, or developers optimize beyond what is necessary.

* Longevity of code - Not strongly connected to quality, dependent more on organizational use case.

My point is not to get you to come up with new proposals, because they will likely fail too. It's to get you to realize that the entire idea of coming up with these metrics, or balance them, does not make sense. You would not say to a water colorist that you would compensate him based on how little red paint he wastes or how many square inches he paints.
I think the root of the problem exists in the simple fact that tax laws are different in various states/countries. Accountants/lawyers are paid to figure them out, and rewarded well when they find benefits to the myriad of rules and regs. I was even employed once to optimize a large corporation with 100s of entities in different taxing regions. I　enjoyed the work, but it was evil (only looking back in retrospect of course).
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on a related note, I bought machinarium several days ago. What an awesome game, a bit short, but awesome.

edit:

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Most of the names mentioned here are brand name, well known musicians. However, thousands of people use Pro Tools and Ableton to create amazing music.Problem is you do not know about them. Only the heavyweights get the big marketing.

As mentioned, the same can be said for the gaming industry, or any other industry. Technology has pushed the cost lower and created opportunity for the lowest common denominator.

The problem with "audio" in general is that it is taken for granted. MP3's on ipods sound terrible. CD's have replaced vinyl character. High end speakers have been replaced with Bose. Deflation in audio, like many other industries.

Using Pro Tool and/or Ableton is not easy and takes a lifetime to master.

As a career, like most others industries, the bids are going to lowest bidder with mediocre experience.

Audio is so important and often neglected.

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This would work a lot better if it was read/write only, no delete.

It was actually going pretty well for the first few hours. I bet 4chan discovered it.
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I recently finished a project to customize Ubuntu to add support for some USB 3G modems. For the ones supported out of the box, the Ubuntu tools "just work". Supporting additional modems was rather complicated by the multiple layers in between the modem and NetworkManager.

First, when you plug in the modem, it rarely shows up as a modem. Sometimes it shows up as a CD drive containing drivers for Windows and OS X. To turn it into a modem, a special USB sequence needs to be sent. The program we used was usb_modeswitch (http://www.draisberghof.de/usb_modeswitch/). The ubuntu package is rather nice in that it automatically sets up udev rules to switch the modems when they are plugged in. Some types of modems are also detected and automatically switched by the driver in the kernel.

After the device is switched to "modem mode", it doesn't mean there's a /dev/ttyUSB* device ready. A lot of these 3g modems don't expose a standard CDC ACM interface (why that is I don't know), requiring manual invocations of "modprobe usbserial vendor=0x1234 product=0x5678" so the generic USB serial driver can be used. The generic USB serial driver has the additional suckiness of only being able to hold one vendor/product ID pair at a time. Some HOWTOs on the net guide the user towards recompiling the option.ko kernel module to add the relevant vendor/product IDs.

After there is a /dev/ttyUSB* device, doesn't mean that it will show up in NetworkManager. NetworkManager actually installs a udev rule that runs a probe command (nm-modem-probe) to make sure that the device is indeed a modem. The nm-modem-probe command sends AT-command queries, parses the answers, and exports variables like ID_NM_MODEM_PROBED=1 and ID_NM_MODEM_IS707_A=1 (for a CDMA/EVDO modem). If nm-modem-probe doesn't think your device is a modem, it won't show up in NetworkManager. Fortunately we can run our own commands after nm-modem-probe to override the variables for modems that we support.

Fortunately the modems we tried all had no problems with NetworkManager's hardcoded, unconfigurable init string. If this had not been the case we might have been forced to use gnome-ppp which is a wvdial frontend.

This is why wvdial is still recommended in this day and age. People can just say "modprobe usbserial vendor=0x... product=0x...", "copy this file to /etc/wvdial.conf", "run wvdial" and for the most part, it works well enough for a personal user that just has that one modem.
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I disagree. I've only recently started programming in C properly, having only programmed before in various dynamic scripting languages, Haskell and Java before. Macros are by far my favourite feature of C.
The darker red is a lot more pleasing to the eye, at least IMO. It has a nice contrast with the orange 'Y' logo.

However, the 'Hacker News new | threads ...' text really needs to be white for this new background, black doesn't have enough contrast. As a bonus, white text here will jive with the white Y better.
Expressen recently listed the "top" tax-payers in Sweden [1]. What's interesting is that the second wealthiest person in Sweden after Kamprad, H&M owner Stefan Perssson, tops the list and pays more tax than the ten following people combined. It's also interesting to find one of the investors in Skype at #4 and one of the founders of MySQL at #11.

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What really disappoints me is that 40 years ago humans could cross the ocean at mach 2.5 and fly to the Moon. Not only we retired our only supersonic passenger fleet, we cannot even build a moon-rocket.
I was going to make a gash account last night to post an Xmas thread.

But there was an incident involving alcohol and I forgot :)

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Right. This is to filter out people before they waste whole days of your teams' time.
"While compensation reform is needed, it must come from within--from executives and boards, acting in the company's best interests," he added.

I don't like the pay Czar notion. However, I doubt that the executives will reduce their own pay, and boards have often been in management's pocket on this issue.
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That's the current plan.

But starving isn't so much fun either. The trick is to find the right rate as quickly as possible.
The cursor works too, but you can't reach Space easily that way. Probably it advises to use A and D for control so that you can use your left hand for keyboard and right hand for mouse.

On a second thought Up should work as space, and cursor keys would be fully usable.
I interviewed for the Gilt Groupe about 2 years back. Got to the last interview, but bounced over a visa problem.

I'm not sure I was ready for it at the time though. I cringe when I look at the code I wrote back then (eventhough I had quite a bit of experience). Not sure how it reflects on them that I got so far along in the process as a senior developer.
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The initial demo was all done with a Roland W30, and I suspect that most of the first album was just that but properly mastered.

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I have several friends who have gotten an endless series of dates from there. I've only met one person from OkCupid, but she was pretty amazing.

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Not only that, but a prospective rails developer should have at least a handful of released projects/plugins, so the last thing you should be talking about is Rails.
The original Marginal Revolution article that they cite has much more/better info: http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2009/12...
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I have a separate landing page that I use for marketing. And yep - A/B testing is critical.
Thanks Zack =)

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Or you might be sad when no one ever e-mails you, because then you'll know you only say useless things.
I might ask the interviewee about stuff from the future of rails. If answered correctly, it shows how someone can be in a continuous learning mode and eager to go the extra mile.
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I had written a mostly functional python->JS translator using the compiler and compiler.ast packages, but I suspect this is more complete and actively developed.

My package is here if you wanted something stand-alone (but only 80% complete) to play around with: http://github.com/jeffjenkins/py2js
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You finally admitted the misconception that I thought the video went back to base to be redistributed. Then you changed your position to say, okay, it's the same key management problem, but that doesn't solve anything. Now you're glossing over my 2nd proposal that builds on top of my first one, which avoids key management on the battlefield.

Congrats. Brilliant troll, and you made me look like the bad guy.
While I'm probably a bit biased since I work for one of their competitors (shopwiki), I'm not sure if TheFind counts as an answer to 20. As far as I can tell they don't have any shopping guides, or at the very least not ones which are being made obvious to a user who is trying to find out what they want. I'm not going to remove them since I have a conflict of interest, but I'm going to add Kaboodle which seems to be doing the most interesting work in the shopping space.
#3: New news

I'm a news hound. And, I started http://Newsley.com to try and find a solution to the new news problem that I had. I picked financial and economic news because it's an interest of mine that will hold my attention. Besides, advertising rates are much better for financial and economic keywords than they are for funny videos or cute cat pictures.

My hypothesis, social news sites have done a pretty good job of finding and highlighting interesting and new content (Hacker News, Reddit, Slashdot, Digg, Metafilter, etc..) But, I don't think that anyone has really done a good job of offering great news recommendations yet. The solutions we've seen so far are generally human editor (newspapers), moderators (slashdot), or collaborative filtering (reddit, digg, HN).

My goal is to build a community of people interested in great financial and economic news and analysis, and then try to build a great personalized news recommendation engine for them.

There are other sites working on the news recommendation systems. Twitter sort of fills that bill, MeHive has been trying a heavy indexing/algorithmic approach, but I haven't really been happy with what the recommendations they've been able to offer me yet.

Also, if any body else is doing news recommendations, ping me. I'd be really interested in talking.
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The Android app, Google Goggles is really worth checking out. It really is a phenomenal idea. I hope they work hard at refining it.
You mean "percieved" failings. I think they should have put the point concerning their search and ads products in bold & at the top.

In my experience ad-hom attacks are a knee-jerk reaction to an argument that isnt easily refuted. From your language it sounded like you agree with the attacks.
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