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the JIT compiler is itself automatically generated

Indeed it is. Compiling took 9000s on a 2GHz Dual Core Athlon with 2GB RAM. Don't even try to compile it on a machine with 1GB RAM, your system will start trashing heavily and finish sometimes between next week and never. </rant>

But after downloading the binaries, I have to say: Wow! One of my naive project euler solution is about 3-4 times faster than it was using Psyco. Absolutely impressive. (Numbers: ~66s Python 2.6, ~8.6s Psyco, ~2.8s PyPy)
Just checking.. +1 for you

Because it seems a lot of crap coming here these days, nobody double checks actually.
For a while now, I’ve been thinking about collective living arrangements specifically geared toward communities like hackers. I'm a member of the Hacker Dojo in Mountain View and its just awesome to hang out with creative people with whom I have a lot in common.

Technology and creative thinking can both increase shared housing's quality and affordability, even in expensive cities.

One thing that could be done with a large space is repurpose most of it for business tenants during the day. And for tenants themselves who might like to have space to work during the day very close to where they live.

This might be accomplished using moving walls that enable you to compress bedrooms like Gary Chang does in his apartment:

http://unclutterer.com/2010/04/26/video-incredibly-efficient...

There would also locked storage in kitchen and bathroom and systems and personnel to encourage and maintain cleanliness.

The idea is to reduce the costs of things when you aren’t using them, but still maintain privacy and security. Tenants could also share many things they don’t use often, like tools, thus reducing the amount of storage space each person needs.

There would be a system that rents the space out during the day and you would pay a fixed price that covers your compressed room 24/7 and uncompressed for, say, 8pm – 8am weekdays or whatever suits you. Then the remaining space would be leased, with some auctioned off real time so that you can always stay home when you’re sick. And you'd pay less when you're on vacation.

Overall, the purpose is to give young, single people the opportunity to live in a clean, secure, supportive situation at a great price even in a high cost area.
I struggle to think of somebody I know personally who couldn't do their job from anywhere in the world, if only they had the courage to demand it.

I have a friend who is going to college and paying for it with housekeeping. She could always unleash a roomba, but if she's going to clean the toilet, then we'll need some robotic tidy bowl man.
For hands-on work, I guess if you are a surgeon, you might have more luck working remotely:

http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/worlds-first-remote-heart...
Next generation hard drives may store 10 terabits per sq inch
The video is pretty good, but it just shows too much. It needs to be simple enough a child can understand the value. Maybe 1 minute long. Most people don't even get what multivariate testing is, or why it's important. Maybe show a name brand site or a site going from making $1000 to making $2000 or whatever. "Conversion improvement of 423% = $3253 more revenue per month".

Honestly though I'm impressed. You have a great product and good pitch. Those bastards should write about you. Either way you should also contact the dozens of smaller niche blogs (especially SEO/SEM sites).
Think of it this way: what do THEY gain by covering you? What's THEIR benefit? Inform them what they will gain.
Are there no job boards in NYC? If I wanted to know roughly what I was worth I'd look on JobSite, JobServe etc for jobs similar to mine.
> the way he left the community, without notice that he would take down his sites and code, was irresponsible

...but that was exactly what he was from the beginning; I don't believe he ever considered himself to be an "open source software author." He said himself (in the article, even) that he was only ever messing around—it was our fault for depending so heavily on what he intended to be either "art" or "toys", but never "work."

His ethic (really an aesthetic, as he was an aesthete) worked well for those who were with him from the start, but it was entirely incompatible with the premise of "software engineering." The only people sore from his loss were those on the outside looking in.
Thank you! Considered showing a video of doing A/B test on a popular site (such as Amazon or even Google) but then was scared of all legal issues it may crop up.

To try with Amazon.com, simply head over to http://dev.visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/first_time_ab.php?demo...
and enter the URL. You don't even require code on the site to start designing tests.

Now if I only could convince bloggers to at least have a look :)
I don't know of any similar tool that would prevent this example.
The author is lacking an understanding of business jargon. Very little jargon was vacuous when coined. It is the endless repetition by the uninformed that renders it meaningless.

Ries is trying to change the way people think about startups, and as a part of that effort he is consciously promoting neologisms that capture the principles of the lean startup. I like those principles, I understand that he wants to create language to concisely express those principles to help grow awareness of his philosophy.

I think "Tipping Point"--which the author cites as true "Marketing Bullshit"--is a good analogy. The general public (people who hadn't read Complexity or Chaos) didn't understand complexity before Gladwell, and so the phrase "Tipping Point" was coined and used to capture the principle. It worked: pretty much everyone understands it now. It's just that the term "Tipping Point" is now slightly irritating to anyone who "got it" a long time ago, and it has been (predictably) misused enough to place it in the Business Jargon Pantheon.

That's how business jargon works. Just consult your Buzzword Bingo scorecard for examples.
Is it wrong to say Blow? Makes me want to be a big time drug dealer.
From what I've seen, some businesses/organizations have been successfully employed open-source based business plans. However, they don't seem to be software-product-development companies.Here are the categories I see

1. Software companies like Google: Google open-sourced Android, but Android isn't their money-making business. They want to use Android to help their primary business - search and advertising. They haven't open-sourced their search code or their ads code.

2. Consulting companies: These companies focus on generating money from software consulting, not from creating software products. So promoting the open-sourcing of software-products is good for them. The software/consulting division of IBM is a good example of this category of companies

3. Hardware companies like Sun: These companies make their money from selling hardware. They stand to benefit if software is free/cheap and easily available for their hardware.

4. Non-profits: These organizations get money from wealthy individuals/foundations and their software products/websites don't need to generate revenue.

I'm curious to know of other open-source business models that have been used to build a sustainable business.
Well, my product completely beats Google's tool (which has dozens of engineers working for years). While we are a very tiny startup. I think that makes up a pretty good story.

Well, with no offence to the mentioned startups, then what does TC gain from covering Sibblingz (http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/12/sibblingz-launches-multi-pl...) or QLess (http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/13/qless-saves-you-the-annoyan...). I mean, aren't they in the business of covering tech startups?
I personally find Steve Blank has some interesting things to say and Eric Ries not so much, comparitively. The latter seems to be trying to turn a simple idea (combine agile engineering practices with Steve Blank's "customer discovery/validation" idea") into a consultingware "movement" with kool-aid conferences and such, just as with all business fads. The jury is still out on the eventual success of such efforts.

The nearest analogy is the whole "Agile" movement. There was a useful/interesting kernel of ideas but it was soon overrun by scammy consultants (e.g the hwle "Scrum Master" certification scam). I suspect "Lean Startups" are on the same path.

I do think Mr.Ries has some (mildly) interesting things to say, but (and this is probably blasphemy for at least a subset of HN readers) my "marketing bullshit" filter is on at high when I read or listen to him these days. I believe that the whole "lean startup" movement is in its early stages of being overrrun by scamsters so there are still interesting ideas there.

So yes, (imo) at least some part of the "Lean Startup" (the phrase is copyrighted by Mr Ries btw!) stuff is marketing BS. As always you as the consumer of such fads have to use your intelligence to discard the marketing fluff and find the useful core. And every fad generally has a (sometimes tiny) useful core.

Caveat Emptor. Useful idea, especially as it applies to methodology salesmen, irrespective of whether said methodology applies to sw dev (agile) or building/running a business ("lean startup").
$85/hr seems a decent contract rate, even affordable by many standards. Keep in mind that as a contractor your taxes are greater and there are no benefits. $25/hr is very, very low for a skilled developer (that's almost junior-year intern level).

You can also look at median salary data for a region at http://stats.bls.gov/bls/blswage.htm

Edit: after looking at stats for the NY metro area, it looks like you should expect 90-110k/year on average. Make sure you're clear on your units ($/hr or k$/yr) when you negotiate.
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Liam Neeson + Black Holes = Awesome
> What if corporations were democracies… free of politics?

wow.

Overall, though, it has some interesting points. I especially like what they said about values- I think values can be looked at as a set of /simple/ rules that can be used to make the best decision when the entire system is complex. Even if your 'best decision' is 'maximize long term profit' I think that a good set of values simplifies the decision making process at each step of the way.

I find it interesting that they keep using Visa as an example, though. I think visa is innovative, yes, but not in the socially positive, sustainable way. Visa attempts to lock in it's market, and then to charge based on 'value provided' rather than 'cost of production plus some profit' Of course, that happens in all markets when customers can't move. Visa is in an interesting situation because they only have one real competitor, and because they are in a situation where the people making the decision to use them or not (consumers) are different from the people who pay their fees (merchants.) Still- Visa isn't a company I'd hold up as a paragon of 'values' because of this. I'm not saying what they are doing should be illegal or anything, but it's certainly not good for society.
They are in the business of writing interesting stories. If you have an interesting story like "I totally kicked Googles ass in all benchmarks", they may write about you. Give people the interesting story that their viewers could like, and you may get covered.

Don't give them the facts and expect them to make an interesting story out of the facts, give them the interesting story straight up. People are lazy, nobody wants to convert a screencast into an interesting story.

Your tool 'beating' googles tool is mildly interesting, but it's still not very compelling. Your being a tiny startup is not too exciting either. Make your pitch with the benefit of the journalist in mind.
Google scrutinized for listening in on wifi
Wouldn't the software continue to work on PCs, or did Apple have a way to remotely kill every copy? If not, why was it any more of an issue than if it were open source and the developer abandoned it?

In other words, what happened to make the software that you were running for 10 years suddenly cease to be useful?
Gravity-defying ramps take illusion prize
Doesn't work in Google.ca, though. I imagine it does in Google.co.uk
By the way the, VPNs of choice for China are Skydur and Freedur. Cheap and reliable.
Here's a snippet from a HN submission currently ranking about as well as the Lean post:

"Introducing, Braintrust, my bootstrapped lean startup
. . . Braintrust is hosted in the cloud, works in real-time, and provided as a SaaS offering."
It looks like while this says "roommate" it really means "RoR project-mate"? Sounds like the implicit expectation is that you'll end up working on RoR projects with the poster of the ad?

I might as well mention that I want to move in with some free spirited artsy sciencey hackery types. (Currently living in a 1BR in Berkeley.)
Ngnq is a tool for quantizing PNG images using neuquant algorithm.
A small side note regarding the "gambling casino" comparison mentioned in the article, I think this is not comparable especially that casinos are much more controlled than a part of the financial activities.

In the article : "Capitalism should not resemble a vast gambling hall. It shouldn't look like a casino."

I don't think so. I would prefer to have clear rules like the one imposed to a casino than the never ending cycle of creating "model" in the financial activities that no one can't really understand :

http://www.gov.ns.ca/just/regulations/regs/gccasino.htm

In other words, comparing casino and some financial activities is not a valid comparison. I mean sometime is better to invest in a casino business than in a financial product....
True, but Woz, after his initial contribution - Apple][, called it quits on the industry and dedicated his life to hobbies and personal projects. Jobs stayed in the industry and eventually returned to Apple to turn a dying company into one of the titans of technology.
I never view mechanization as a bad thing. It just makes the game more intense at the higher levels. If you're chasing the thrill, and chess can't handle improvements in play style, maybe we should find another game that can (for instance, go).
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Well, 'talk to your customers' is a little different from 'listen to your customers and make sure you understand exactly what problem your product/service solves for them'. And I think the only difference between evolution (as you've described it) and validation is that seeing how people use what you build, and getting qualitative data on those users is emphasised, rather than something that just happens over time.

At a minor level, that could be making sure that the next feature you implement is the one that will make your software much more usable from their point of view, rather than the shiniest or most technically interesting to implement. (e.g. it doesn't matter if your mousetrap automatically telling your computer when it's caught something, if their local mice just aren't interested in $bait_that_works_best_in_bobs_house )

On the larger scale, if your customers are using your product to solve a problem you didn't expect, you can't optimise your product so it sells even better. If the largest user of your mousetrap is the gremlin-catcher's guild, then perhaps you need to look at building more gremlin-specific features, and changing your marketing a little.

And, of course, the simplest metric for validation is that if they ain't buying it then it ain't doing what they want enough for them to pay for it.

Disclaimer: I have never run a startup, let alone used these principles. They just seem to make sense to me.
This might be a matter best resolved in private with the administrator. Details for contacting him directly can be found on his website: http://www.paulgraham.com/
What I fail to understand about this whole privacy outcry on Facebook is why people thought it was some lock box under their bed in the first place. It's a public web site and the main focus of it is to (key word here) SHARE information with your social network. Why would you even consider putting something that you feel is private on this site in the first place? I've only been using the site for a few months now when I caved after seeing all my friends scheduling things on it but that's really all it is. A place to talk to all my friends (technical and non-technical) at once. If you have some private pictures to share with them or something to tell them privately just send it in an email or tell it to them next time you see each other.
In related spirit, colour photographs of early 1900s tsarist Russia by Prokudin-Gorsky are also pretty amazing.

Edit: and most if not all are in public domain. Sample: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Mikhailovich_Prokud...
Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard

Zuck: Just ask.

Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS

[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?

Zuck: People just submitted it.

Zuck: I don't know why.

Zuck: They "trust me"

Zuck: Dumb fucks.

I'm having a hard time trying to put this into a flattering (for Facebook) context.
For most of these it's a case of replacing old, poorly designed, unmaintained (and in light of the poor design, mostly unmaintainable) code with better designed and well-maintained versions.

This was definitely the case for replacing GNU tar/cpio/pax with libarchive-based versions.
That's what I meant by "there might be a replacement for binutils coming up soon". :-)
Android wasn't gutsy at all: they hired the original Sidekick developers that were already most of the way through developing a bastard medley of other failed platforms on top of a bludgeoned Linux kernel.

Palm's WebOS and HP's acquisition of them are gutsy. Google's development of ChromeOS is gutsy. Android ain't.

The Android team did most of what they could to repeat all the mistakes of NewtonOS (app transclusion), the Sidekick (mandatory incomplete instant OTA-only sync), and classic Windows Mobile (total fealty to fractious manufacturers and carriers) — and then they added some of their own absurd retardation on top of that (like anything to do with the SD card, Dalvik, OpenBinder, etc.).
Inception looks cool
Sal Khan and the Khan Academy to the rescue
These photographs are over 100 years old, yet they still have someone's obnoxious copyright on them. Intellectual property makes me sick.
"Nothing" and shame will always go hand in hand. But you can always reevaluate what "nothing" means to you. "I created a great family and brought up great kids." "I helped the people in my community." "I managed to stay a decent person." These are all "somethings" one can be proud of, even if they are not things that have changed the world at large.
They also have an ... interesting ... system of handing compensation. This is something I thought would be super important when I started my business. "Oh," I thought, "I must set up compensation so that everyone gets paid for the parts of the outcome I want" - I thought that the customer service should get a bonus when people who called stuck with us (and a bigger bonus when they didn't call back) and that sales needed a bonus when people signed up, but that bonus should be small at first and grow as the people stay signed up (and didn't call customer service) - I had a rather complex system of remuneration for all the people who would work at an ISP.

The problem is that I was designing a compensation system for myself. I really like it when my income is tied directly to my actions and effectiveness. The problem is, people like that go start businesses.

From what I've seen, good values and reasonable management motivate as well or better than small monetary bonuses.
Gladwell didn't invent that term 'tipping point'. I remember seeing it and using it long before his book came out, which according to Wikipedia was around 2000.
Instead of an OpenSSH tunnel, use OpenVPN. It has settings to automatically push DNS, and on my Mac for example using Tunnelblick (a wrapper) I can have a GUI that can give me status updates on my tunnels, and when they get disconnected, to make sure I don't accidentally sent information down the wrong line.
That's exactly what I need...and I would be willing to pay for it!
Steve Jobs to Valleywag at 2:20 AM: “Why are you so bitter?”
Please send me a link if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure he coined the non-scientific, or at least popular usage. I don't remember having heard the phrase tipping point before the book came out, even though I was fairly familiar with the idea.
Your argument seems to imply that if someone does design a perfect operating system, it's OK to distort the market to make it successful.
Some people sleep better knowing the "abandoned" software can always be taken up by other developers, because it's open source.

Others sleep better knowing there's a company with a financial incentive to keep the product alive.

Honestly, either way, I don't see where morality enters the equation. It's not wrong to release software that's closed-source, it's your choice as a developer. It's not wrong to give up some of your freedom, it's your choice as a consumer.
Express looks to still be a synchronous-oriented framework (which could just be the result of the documentation, but I did not see anything in the documentation that suggested helping write asynchronous Servers)
When I lived in LA, I'd often do both on the same day. Drive up to Stoney Point, then down the hill to Malibu. You can do the same if you live near Santa Cruz or Santa Barbara. Portland in theory has both surfing and climbing, but in practice has neither (cold water + crap rock).

These days I live in England, so there's tons of climbing at my doorstep and surfing happens in month-long blocks a couple times a year. That's actually preferable, since you get warm water and smaller crowds in Morocco/Ecuador/Oz.
This article is so wrong, on so many levels it's hard to imagine that this was in a respected newspaper. The idea that some folks should not go to college is, at best, quaint. This reason that people attend college varies a great deal. Not everyone looks at it as a means to a financial end (otherwise there would only be several majors - Finance, Medicine, Law, Engineering). Do you think an English Lit major expects a job at Goldman Sachs upon graduation? Educators are suggesting this because they are dealing with a wave of unprepared Freshman and it costs them more money to teach remedial classes and then risk these folks dropping out. This is a "business" problem for the higher education industry. Wait, think about that phrase, "Higher Education Industry". College has become a big business. No longer do Universities exist to educate our population, they are now a for profit business. In California, it's easier to be admitted to a public university if you're from out of state than if you're a resident because the schools can charge more for out of staters.

The problem is that funding for K-12 schools has dwindled leaving our US grown kids unprepared for the riggers of university. At the same time the Higher Education Industry is looking for the highest profit students to attend and they are coming from out of state and out of this country. That leaves us with a workforce that is not home grown and a culture that underachieves.
That's a good question, and I'm sure people go either way on this. I for one am definitely looking for success, but I try to find it by doing things I like and care about.

I'm comforted by Paul Graham's thoughts on this, namely that if you build something people like, you'll usually manage to find a profit somewhere.
The irc chan on freenode is frequently populated with helpful people. The community is still small enough where everything is on the main mailing list.
Don't see link to your poll, so I up voted you. Both this thread's karma and the stackoverflow's should give you a litter indication of people's interest.
It's not only about the roommates part, its about collaboration and not only with the tech industry (film making, music making, blogging, programming, etc). It's hard to collaborate with people who have the same goal as you in general (unless moneys involved upfront).