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re: 1&2 -- yep, it hasn't passed yet... which is why we're still working on getting support & attention, and why a group of us is going to DC next month to discuss the issue with elected representatives.

re: 3 -- um, "investors are people too". actually, what you should notice is that the "demand" came from people who were concerned enough to take action, and try and get something to happen.

i can't disagree that it helps to have people on your side who can help with dollars and connections, but the more important point is that people cared enough to spend time & energy to make change.

with a little luck, we might get it all the way across the finish line.
If only Windows users were hardcore UNIX users...everything would be so much easier. No GUI code, no leaking GDI objects, no Java Swing, no WxWidgets, no cross-browser bugs (curl would be the only browser), no DPI scaling issues, no DLL hell, and no IE. Just text. Beautiful, green text. And it would all be BSD licensed.

Oh, what a wonderful world that would be...
It makes sense if they need to do maintenance but there has to be some code of conduct / guidelines for a VPS provider.

Either way, I stopped using Godaddy a while back - slicehost is amazing for developers and hackers.
How about: help find missing kids by putting them in your banner ads?

Seems a lot more people see those than 404 pages.
"There is no indication that Facebook has made an actual offer to buy Loopt at this time, and in fact we don’t even have direct information that negotiations are taking place. But it’s clear that Facebook is at least considering acquiring Loopt, and/or others in this space."

You just have to love the writing on TC.
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ErlCtrl - "The Erlang Endoscope"
There has always been a need to have a good command-line interface to most system software. While Erlang is great for writing this kind of stuff, it's natural command-line can be less than stellar. If we were left to use the erl command itself, command-lines would be long to type and arduous to construct.
seriously dude, do you like to argue for no particular reason?

yes, it's likely not all investors will qualify -- not perfect, but it's reasonable to require some domain experience that can be provably audited. and yes, the investors who do qualify will likely not be completely sketchy and/or likely to commit fraud.

we picked a reasonable bar to get over that straddles both a rqmt of experience and some capital without making it so low that people could abuse it.

investing $300,000 in capital in 6 companies over 3 years does NOT seem like "virtually anyone" for "very little money".

your perspective again seems irrational & extreme.
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Asynchronous Coding For My Tiny Ruby Brain
@technoweenie talks about node.js
Awesome, I'll look into this, too. :D
This is why everyone is still coding to within the limits of NCSA Mosaic 0.8b?

Or, could be that though change can sometimes seem painfully slow for people who have to support every browser under the Sun, things do change over time. Without people pushing the standards forward we wouldn't even have javascript, let alone XHR, let alone CSS 2, or proper PNG support. Standards should evolve. It's not wishful thinking, it's forward thinking. Perhaps on a longer timetable than you're used to dealing with but unless you enjoy the limitations of HTML 1.0 then you need to thank every single person who had the foresight and expended the requisite elbow grease to push the standards forward. The surest route to defeat is to surrender.
I look at this another way, if I'm sitting at a cafe with someone else, usually a newspaper will stimulate conversation by commenting on articles.

Laptops on the other hand encourage communication with people not actually in the cafe, lowing interaction at the cafe.

Maybe a better middle ground was banning laptop use on a weekend beyond the quick checking of email, part of this would involve not allowing laptops to be plugged in.
To be honest, I don't believe Apple have even wounded Flash.

Firstly, the iPhone/iPad aren't exactly dominating the market , and it's likely that iPhone market-share will suffer a huge blow to Android/Windows7Mobile over the next year anyway (who'd want to pay premium prices for a tablet which is severely limited). iPhone's only took off because Windows Mobile was rubbish, and Job's acted as though they invented multi-touch (despite a single gesture being the only use of multitouch for ages). These days though, the competition has definitely caught up.

Also, its quite clear that Job's is hellbent on destroying flash only because Adobe competes directly against Apple's main products (Lightroom vs Aperture, After effects vs motion, etc). By trying to get people away from Adobe, it helps increase Apple's market-share against Windows too (since Adobe's tools are the most commonly used in the multimedia market on Windows). I think we can safely say therefore since they are competing that we can't believe what Job's says. Safari crashes when flash crashes because unlike Google, Apple didn't have to foresight to design Safari properly. This wont be a problem once Chrome takes off and Firefox is improved.

Either way, the main problem for killing flash is that there doesn't appear to be GOOD tools to create HTML5/JS/AJAX/PHP/SVG applications/games. For flash, you drop a few images in a view, set keyframing and woot. For svg/html5/etc? You pull out your code editor and start messing around. Flash is easy enough for high school students to create, whereas other standards mostly require a degree. You also forget that flash is an open standard, that Android is getting Flash this year and that Google can index Flash now.

Sorry, unless Apple or Google develop a tool to replace Adobe's Flash Creation tool, I don't think Flash will be killed off so easy. Yes Google may kill of Flash for video playback, but Flash is so much more than that (furthermore, Google don't appear to have much interest in destroying flash anyway).
Could they not find even one STEM professor to comment? A highly biased opinion from this bunch:

"...it is not surprising that the tenure decision is freighted with anxiety. It takes anywhere from 10 to 20 years from entrance into graduate school for the tenure decision to be made. By that point, in their single-minded pursuit of their personal holy grail, most academics have purged themselves of skills that might be useful for the private sector."

Didn't Bishop have a reasonably successful business on the side? Something to do with automating petri dishes and culturing? I can't help but think all these english, history and sociology professors ascribe so much anxiety to tenure because their fields are so poorly valued by the private sector. But in many fields, such as Bishop's, there are plenty of opportunities for PhDs who can't or don't want to go for tenure. If nothing else, you're probably a pretty good coder after completing a STEM PhD. (Hey maybe it's matlab or fortran, but that's a good start.)
Thanks for that list. The second link was particularly useful.
No Flash, but it still pegs one core, and turns on the fan. :(
impressive even without knowing it pushing the graphics development envelope.
I know it's easy to comment on how oddly (or poorly) written some TC articles can be, but this is taken out of context.

Right before the quote you posted, TechCrunch says, "Facebook has been doing background checks, known as due diligence...."

There aren't too many reasons for one private company to do due diligence on another private company besides acquiring it. When reading the actual article, the logical leap makes more sense than taking that quote out of context.
A standard library does not preclude third-party libraries. In fact, a good standard library can make it more likely for third-party libraries to meaningfully compete. Reducing the amount of incidental (utility) code that needs to be written can:

1. Allow established entrants to focus on more beneficial areas.

2. Lower the barrier to entry for new offerings.

3. Reduce the number of defects by shifting resources away from maintenance of incidental functionality.
completely agree. moreover, even in this edge case, you're still pumping several hundred thousand dollars into the economy.
And Italy adds itself to Iran, Venezuela, China, North Korea, much of the Arab world, and Australia as countries who hate, fear, and wish to destroy the internet and the horrible, horrible freedom it gives to individuals.
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If your job is like fishing in WoW, it should be automated so that you can actually do something of value with your time.

A better approach: http://www.paulgraham.com/hiring.html
"Officers of the company are the company, legally."

In any LLC or publicly held company this is simply not true, legally.
This is the problem you have people that think they need to fully support these older browsers and cripple their systems in the process. I really hope the movement of upgrading browsers and furthering the web standards starts happening more.

The real problem is that the internet has such a low barrier to entry because of the way everything is setup, this is why when you call tech support for a broken modem you have to go through thirty useless steps like is plugged in to the wall is it plugged in to the computer, people are becoming helpless towards new technology because we are letting them be helpless.

People have a very large ability to learn even when they are older, my grandfather for example has learned how to use the computer to buy movie tickets, buy plane tickets and check into flights, and keep in touch with the family without any help from me or any other person in my family. Of course I help him if he has an issue but the thing is he tries to solve the problem himself and maybe once in 3 years I have had to help him with troubleshooting.

Contrast that with the facebook login debacle, people so frustrated and helpless that they are posting on a blog post about how they don't understand why they would change the login page that they don't realize they are on the wrong site. This could be solved if they went to a class on how to use the web or even a child or friend giving them a step by step paper guide on what to do when you are looking for a site.

People learn by experience and the older generation of people that are just now gaining access to the web, many still learning how to use a computer properly, are finding difficulties with simplest of tasks for the rest of us because they are pushed into shark infested waters with no direction or guidance.

I think one of the main problems with the web is trying to appeal to every market; this is why we have people fighting to support internet explorer 6 for every website or app they create because they have to support that market to be competitive and if nothing changes soon we will be stuck in a very slow moving bubble.
Interesting tables, but he obviously hasn't read about or doesn't understand, lazy-evaluation used in Ruby (not to mention most other programming languages), as he says that "nil and false" should give him false rather than nil. I believe he just assumes that both sides of the condition get evaluated when they don't. (Edit: However he did post a correction and explanation of lazy-evaluation/short-circuit evaluation at the bottom of the post. Just goes to show how something can be thought of as simple and intuitive if you have the right concepts and frame of mind.)

Still an interesting article describing how people on the data side of the fence see these programming constructs.
Very interesting. I went to school at UC Berkeley in 2001 and my impression was that the school that spawned the free speech movement had in many ways morphed into a school that limited speech the most, much in the way the author suggests. However, while the "official" speech channels were heavily censored there was always a very active underground channel that had no censoring whatsoever.

The speed of updates on the internet is making those underground channels more difficult to suppress (as people note about things like the recent protests in Iran) so the threat from powerful bureaucracies like the government and academia on the free-flow of information is likely decreasing.
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Any cafe that's popular enough to be filled up will have a network of regulars. Regulars chat, share books, go out for drinks and, among the programmer regulars, chat about startups, collaborate on projects or hire one another for contract work. You'd probably not be able to recognize it if you go in and people are all reading and on laptops at the time, but if you start frequenting it you'd start to pick up on it.

When went out of town for an internship a few years ago, I was a very frequent patron of a couple chain shops near the office and one independent shop downtown. I could work on personal projects and enjoy a few drinks without being disturbed. I was in often enough over a six month stretch to recognize most of the staff. Even so, I don't remember seeing more than a few repeat patrons, and even they were only around two or three times. I may have just been around at the wrong time of day, but I covered pretty much every time slot on evenings and weekends.
This is called late binding, and it allows you more flexibility and productivity if you're willing to accept fewer constraints.

Its actually quite powerful and allows some things that make Io a joy to work with. Memoization for instance:

foo := method(foo = performSomeBigCalculation)
That's great. We should let anyone who can create 5 jobs into the country, regardless of whether a clique of financiers will "sponsor" them. We should let them in regardless of whether they wear pants.
Awesome. Thanks for this.
"... Why is this on HN? ..."

Good question.

Think of it as a kind of message from the future from the non-nerds ~ http://paulgraham.com/nerds.html A message from all the cool kids at school who smoked, drank and who now hit a certain age realise it wasn't such a smart idea after all, but didn't want to stand out amongst their peers. The kids that are dead or in wheel chairs probably already know this.

That's the message smokers and drinkers of my youth seem to tell me.
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Pshaw, it's raster and since it doesn't fit 80 columns in I can't play nethack on it! I've been meaning to get an Apple IIc to use as a serial terminal: http://www.bytecellar.com/archives/000113.php

I've had some Wyse terms before that sucked, and I've unsuccessfully bid on eBay for ADM-3A terminals before, but I kind of ran out of steam on pure-hardware terminals when I discovered that GNU Screen can open character devices directly!

I only need to get a serial console on something a few times a year, but when I do I really need it to work, whether I'm getting console on a network device, an embedded ultrasound machine, or a case full of modems I'm hacking. GNU Screen satisfies that need perfectly, especially since I'm always working in it already.

I like the idea of the Apple IIc terminal because it combines the warm fuzzies of ancient greenscreen hardware with the not-sucking-ass of a pure-software terminal emulator implementation. That it's cute and diminutive is a bonus.
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My perspective is that the "investor sponsorship" component of this bill is arbitrary, unfair, and will distort the market. I've been pretty consistent about this point throughout the whole "argument".

If you don't want to continue arguing, stop arguing. I don't care what bar you picked for investors, except for the fact that it seems obvious that it's modelled on the tech investor clique. If you got the investor model perfect, I'd still have a problem with conflating investment with viability or value to the economy.

I don't believe for one millisecond that you will concede anything about this bill, which you clearly passionately support. That doesn't bother me at all, for what it's worth.
When are databases ever cpu bound?
You could say it was taken from the native americans. Indigenous people or that it was in the ground, the result of decayed dinosaurs and random locations of minerals and plants and weather.
If your bank doesn’t like your startup’s blog, they may freeze your funds
Nobody is forcing web developers to deliver equivalent experiences on older versions of Internet Explorer. Look at your statistics and make an informed decision about what you should care about. You may not have to care about anything but IE8. Or you may be able to deliver a simplified style-sheet and JavaScript to IE7 and below. Encourage your users to upgrade.

People have overreacted to the bad practices prevalent 15 years ago. "This site requires Internet Explorer," was folly, but so is, "This site looks and works exactly the same on everything from IE6 to the latest WebKit build." The former lets you build cool stuff but limits your audience, the latter keeps you from building cool stuff.
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if i dont know how they work regularly, how can i spot an anomalous card skimmer?

Cmon this is HACKER news. Any chance you have to bash something that prevents hacking should be taken to bash said thing.

how can i be safe when i buy an used pump from ebay and want to make it a soda pump? Damn the dmca! Think of the children!
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Does that say we have a little more than 10 years of natural gas left that we know about? Or is that just in the reserve tanks?
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No, it's Jeff Barr - AWS evangelist type person.
Doomed by a name that's hard to Google.
Not every startup and entrepreneur out there is able to raise funding. Many are bootstrapped. Of those many, some will definitely go on to become businesses that raise money later, make money, and/or create jobs. EB6 rules out all such aspiring entrepreneurs.
no. The analogy would be someone that codes python for his job and someone who teachs python at the u.

And people that teachs despises people that "work" and vice versa.

Most of my friends despises people that teachs ("they suck on research funding for useless purposes") while most of my wife's friends despise people that sell they work on the corporate space ("they do not create any new knowledge").

I personaly think that both are right as they understand the political game at hand and play it.
Whenever I see a citibank logo, I think about these two related blog posts from 5 years ago:

http://ioerror.livejournal.com/301520.html
http://ioerror.livejournal.com/301688.html
This is precisely my M.O., save for having an active project or a definite idea. :-)
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The contribution of this paper is to implement and demon-
strate a SQL interface for GPU data processing. This in-
terface enables a subset of SQL SELECT queries on data
that has been explicitly transferred in row-column form to
GPU memory.

This is fascinating stuff, but having to keep the entire DB in GPU memory poses some obviously non-trivial problems in terms of practical applications.
Just imagine the outrage if they did this to an individual.
i get a license to use open source from my employer. Does that makes me a corsair?
Ask HN: Reccomend essays to a young, inquiring mind
I am looking to expand my views and knowledge and want to know what essays YC recommends. As well as learn different essay styles of individual writers.

Varying views on the same subject, or similar views on different subjects. Anything is welcome.

Just looking for knowledge.
Politics and The English Language by George Orwell.

http://www.ourcivilisation.com/decline/orwell1.htm
Behind this is a whole world of subtle (and less subtle) fallacies.

For example, uncertainty does not mean all options are equally likely. I'm not sure if this has a name. Agnostic fallacy?
Thank you, I just looked back in time and it seems I started playing with nginx in 2006. Here was my first blog post whee I figured out how to run rails with it.

http://brainspl.at/articles/2006/08/23/nginx-my-new-favorite...

that config file lives in infamy on many thousands of vps's across the land ;)
As a Bulgarian citizen working in Germany, this is only partially the case. Germany does require work permits for Bulgarian citizens EMPLOYED here (except for certain exempt categories, such as scientific staff) but this does not apply to self-employment. In fact, there are no nationality restrictions for self-employment within the EU, and such restrictions would be illegal. So Bulgarian/Romanian citizens do need a permit to be employed within the EU countries that are still paranoid about their employment market, but don't need one to work there if self-employed.
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I really think that we need to bring this issue to the fore-front rather than this 'vote with your dollar' stuff. I'm not in favor of government intervention per-se, but eliminating any government subsidies that promote usage of additives could be on the docket. "Vote with your dollar," doesn't really work as a solution unless you reach a critical mass of people that are willing to vote with their dollar. Raising awareness is also a crucial step.
Perhaps you should define what you mean by "absolute truth," because to me it seems you are arguing against either universal truths or possibly specifically considering "a truth" to be a statement made by some observer, rather than an actual state or condition?
As someone who's been in the US for 3 years now (not consecutive) on various work visas, and have been involved in startups, my opinion is - This thing sucks less than the current situation.

It's just not possible for the US government to fix things in a revolutionary fashion, but every little (very little) step forward is still a good thing.
If you want to be a partisan newspaper, that's legitimate,

If you want to be a partisan editorialist, that's legitimate. Leaving out key facts, say, because you claim that there is no objective reality, is wrong. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. No one is entitled to their own facts.
in other news. Libraries will be closed because they show little respect for the knowledge market.

"if you want to learn, enroll in a university. Libraries are destoying jobs" said the spokeman on the matter.
I wonder if some of these banks are perhaps a bit less solvent than they would like to be still. I've noticed that it takes my current bank an outrageously long time (4 days) to move money between accounts unless someone goes down to the branch and manually signs the transaction. It's annoying to know that the web interface, though convenient and handy will impose a wait state where the money is not in either account for several days; whereas taking 15 minutes to go to the branch will cause the money to move right away.