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Yes I agree. I, for one, plan to offer to host some of my good friends on my own VPS, along with my instance. (Diaspora, not AppleSeed.)
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We run probably one of the largest Ruby production systems that has ever been made and the dynamism and "monkey patching" are used daily to skillfully make the language better and better over time for the tasks that we solve.

It's absolutely crucial to teams that internalize it's power and pitfalls.
Doesn't this fly in the face of "don't deal with jerks"? (I'm not being deliberately inflammatory, this is a genuine query)
I deviated from that 'few km' by 5,000km. I also regularly deviated a several hundred km to France with my family. My in-laws regularly deviate a thousand km to the east coast of Canada. One of my bosses regularly deviates to the southern USA.

It's a very misleading assumption to say people don't deviate far from where they live. I know here in Canada it's not only common, but considered abnormal if people don't regularly go to cottage country, frequently travelling a minimum of 100km to get there.

Just because city-dwellers naively believe the city has everything they need, doesn't mean the 4/5ths of the population that permanently live outside of large cities behave like those in the cities.

Even when I lived in the UK, it was rare to know people who didn't travel far frequently.
Meh, personally I dislike the idea of building a business on top of someone else's platform. Facebook/Twitter/etc are good ways to reach out to people and spread your message, but it's too easy for them to block you or reimplement your idea.
"Kingdom come" is the tax rate at which the risk of entrepreneurship is much greater than the potential after-tax reward.

To your other question: whether nor not it outweighs any supposed benefits of wealth redistribution is irrelevant to the individual entrepreneur. Someone willing to work his ass off to start and run a successful venture isn't likely to think "I'll lose the majority of my profits to taxes, but I don't mind because at least it's being redistributed fairly."
This happened to me recently when I tried to take a picture of my wife with my iphone while we were both riding on bikes.

Wikipedia has more information:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_shutter

This site offers some nice video demonstration of how the scanning affects the final image:

http://dvxuser.com/jason/CMOS-CCD/
Agreed 100% and came here to say just this. Perfect recent example would be Tweetmeme. Plus you do not know how long these platforms are going to last there just here until someone comes up with something better. When they fold you fold unless you can adapt like those companies that made applications for Myspace and then moved on to Facebook.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtMU8nvZzOs#t=0m29s
This is true. I feel it's still ironic though, as people on HN I feel typically look up to YC and pg, and many would like to fly under YC's wing.
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> http://omahaproxy.appspot.com/

cf,dev,7.0.503.0,6.0.495.0

what does cf mean?
The claim was about deviation from the surface of the Earth, not about deviation away from some particular area on that surface. I doubt very much you have been anything like an Earth radius from Earth's surface.
In what universe does this drivel merit a single upvote, much less 9?

1) HN is not a product development group, it's a message-board. In the same way that the community bulletin-board at the grocery store is not a think-tank for the "Big Agro", "Mainstream Media", or the "Military Industrial Complex".

2) Port everything to Arc? Riiiight, because the raison d'être of YCombinator is to further PG's closet lambda cause and preach the merits of his pet Lisp dialect.
Probably Chrome Frame, which lets you run Chrome in IE.
And if you make the mistake of believing what you read in blogs, you learn that there are two theories around managing software development:

http://weblog.raganwald.com/2007/06/which-theory-first-evide...

What is it about bifurcation that appeals so readily to our minds?
Yes, but the whole point of subpixel rendering is aesthetics. Its job is to make fonts look smoother and crisper, and in majority of cases it does just that. I'll accept that OS X's rendering of bold fonts on dark backgrounds is terrible, which is where the text-shadow trick comes in handy (or antialiasing, which I think is the same thing in that case), but I'm not sure that for body fonts this is the right way to go. I see this technique popping up here and there and in many cases the fonts end up looking worse. Sure, it's up to the designer to decide what's best--it always is--which is why it's good to have this discussion so that people can better understand which choices to make.
> I deviated from that 'few km' by 5,000km.

Reread what you're responding to; he's talking about people staying within that distance of the surface of the earth, not people staying within that distance of their home city. The list of people who have been more than ~25 km away from the surface of the earth is very, very small.

It was a good answer to the previous post: staying within 25 km of the earth's surface (with a few exceptions) means we're all "predictable" in some sense, but we're all very unpredictable in other senses -- much like the pendulum is predictable in some ways and not in others.
It takes two seconds to decide upon which special-function key to press.

Why would you link to something so foolish?
I've put a few PDFs of presentation slides on scribd, and then used their widget to embed those slides directly into a blog post talking about the presentation. Linking to a PDF on another page (and asking many people to a) open acrobat, b) download a multi-MB file from my host) and/or hosting that PDF yourself is sub-optimal. Let scribd host it (you can provide a link to download the actual content you uploaded, rather than their web widget), and pay for the bandwidth.
I never saw the use for it, until I started giving talks and wanting to embed them. It's youtube for PPT :)
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You don't need a VM to solve endian issues. This can be handled at the framework or library level. For example, the NSCoder class handles most of this for you in the OSX/iOS world. Conform to the NSCoding protocol and endian issues during serialization are handled for you.
What got me is that his only justification for this (#13) is that our accents are the same. And based on #10 (culture matters) I thought he actually understood what 'culture' meant.
Thanks for the info. I'm pretty sure I won't need SAML for my application, but the Secure Data Connector is definitely something that I will be looking into.
Wouldn't it be a good case study in rapid development of a web based aggregate reporting portal? :-)
Nearly all available evidence suggests that whether the font has serifs or not makes no difference with respect to readability on the screen.

That you think of sans-serif as more objective is actually quite funny. Newspapers, books and magazines – i.e. pretty much everything we read until a few years ago – used nearly exclusively a serif font for all their body text. Now it’s serif that sticks out.
Architecture is not carpentry/masonry/tradecraft.
I don't know why so many people confuse it with computing...
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If I recall correctly, they feel like startups sell too early to Facebook, foregoing the oportunity to get bigger. Pg said this is good, because the founders are instantly removing all risk for what is alredy a lot of money. Investitors are not so thrilled, because they are not getting that much money, and would be willing to take the risk.

However, founders don't have 100 companies they are investing, so the risks are not felt the same by founders and angels.

Angel conf presentations say a lot more: http://justin.tv/ycombinator
1) I think he meant YC, in which case this new deal makes the metaphor exaggerated, but fairly appropriate.

2) That was a joke. Though I definitely would have rather coded in Arc than PHP when I was at Facebook.
Sadly I don't think this will take off. So many people rallied over Diaspora calling it the Facebook killer not understanding the true implications. Maybe I am wrong about this but wouldn't the people that want to use this have to download it and host it themselves?
> Many of the design choices in Scala strike me as simultaneously elegant and pragmatic

..and many of the ones that arent are due to restrictions from running on the JVM/having Java compatability, which is understandable.
Yeah, just do all the exercises in TAOCP and you'll be fine!
My code could be a lot better, but it works for what I needed at the time. I do wish I spent more time making it clean and organized, but the reality is that I am going to do a rewrite anyway. Pumping out the initial version gave us first dibs in the space, so having unclean code really didn't hurt us.
Sounds terrific for YC companies. Looks like getting into YC just got that much more competitive.
It isn't supposed to. It's merely more flexibility. I agree that more flexible hours and the ability to get things done with fewer of them would be a fine thing, but complaining that you only get one is like griping that "Here's a new car" doesn't mean "Here's a new car and a private jet."
Showing how clever the oval algorithm was gives us the right emotional setup to the conflict--Atkinson is justly proud of his own cleverness until Jobs, almost dismissively, demands even more from him. The central conflict of the story isn't between Atkinson and the problem, it's between Atkinson and Jobs, and the story holds itself to the emotionally salient facts about how that conflict is resolved--the rounded rectangles work and Atkinson is again very proud and happy.

Well, either that or Hertzfeld never got around to learning how roundrects were implemented.

I get your complaint, because that's not the conflict you wanted the story to center around, but given the conflict it does center around, I don't think it's that poorly composed.
It's not a mirror, its a video screen.
"Other syntax differences such as '@foo' versus 'self.foo', or the higher significance of case in Ruby vs Python"

...suddenly wonders if there's a language where both case and indentation are significant.
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One good reason: programming style (AKA personal preference). Python is a fine language. Ruby works better for me -- but that's just me.
if a company has a degree requirement for hiring, then no amount of self-learning can substitute for a lack of an accredited diploma

Yeah, but what company that's still in business has this requirement? Not Google. Not Microsoft. Not any banks (that I know of).
I think the argument being made isn't that "theories in computational form" are inferior, but rather something more pedantic - that there's no such thing as a "theory in computational form". Theories are about nature. A computer program that performs some simulation isn't itself a theory. The theory is "such and such natural phenomenon behaves like this here computer program."
Look at islamic societies, where having 3 wives and one husband is acceptable. This kind of relationship structure comes from war heavy societies which islam was born out of.
Tweetmeme isn't a great example. They didn't get steamrolled—they now power the official Tweet Button, and they'll power (they are?) DataSift, which is going to give people crazy querying capability against real-time twitter data.
Here's an entire recent thread on just one topic (installing software) from right here on HN.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1630902
Try networking with people more. I started off in my career as a security engineer at 19 with a very good company. The main reason I got this was because I just made friend with people who happened to work there. It is always about who you know and not necessarily about what you know. That at least tends to be the case when you are starting out. Find someone to give you the chance and you are golden.
That's an easy one... In Ruby, I can do string.reverse(). Python makes me type string[::-1] to reverse a string. In a nutshell, that is why Ruby is better than Python.

I must admit that I use Python more than Ruby. I like both, but know Python better. I feel Ruby is more consistent though. Either is a good language!
I generally agree, but this arrangement makes it a little different. Working closely with facebook like this, you're kind of on the inside. They're not going to block someone they are partnering with, and with an advanced look at the beta features, you're not going to be hit with broken apps with the api changes.

As far as reimplementing goes, I think they'd just buy you first. They've already invested time and resources to help you develop your app/site, so it will be natural for them just to aquire you.

It's perfect for YC (extra high chance for the startups to be bought by FB) and good for FB (people doing cool, interesting social things they can incorporate). I am still not a fan, but I guess I'm not a huge fan of Facebook anyways.
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We've seen this kind of scammy stuff before, where people overlay a transparent div on top of another div. This is the first time that I've seen them attach to the cursor and follow it around.

Other than keeping your browser logged out of facebook at all times, what's the protection against this?
I guess an obvious exception is that there is an entire industry (SEO) built on google's platform.
That statement is too general. Obviously it's a good idea for desktop software developers to build on the Windows platform. I build websites on the "IE platform" in that I rely on IE for distribution. Does Facebook have a history of cutting off services that use their API's?

Also, Facebook can implement your idea even if you're not on their platform. Look at FB Places. I don't see how using the FB platform makes it any more likely that they will move into your space.
HN Feature Request: A cron job that automatically submits and votes to the top of the front page 1 folklore.org story per week (or two weeks?).

Reason: Most of us that have been around a while have read this entire site, more than once usually, but most of the stories there are good enough to keep getting upvoted for any youngsters that haven't discovered it yet. Eg, it's one of the few links that can keep getting reposted over and over, and revoted to the front page over and over, probably till the end of the Internets. So lets just make it a cron job already.
Chaotic behavior is surprisingly simple to generate. The equation:

x[n+1] = alpha * x[n] * (x[n] - 1)

is chaotic for alpha > 3.56. In other words, if you run this Python code:

def chaos(alpha):
x = 0.5 # The "initial condition"
l = []
for i in range(100):
x = alpha * x * (1 - x) # The logistic equation
l.append(x)
return l

then

chaos(2.6) yields [...., 0.615, 0.615, 0.615, 0.615, 0.615, 0.615, ....]

chaos(3.2) yields [...., 0.513, 0.799, 0.513, 0.799, 0.513, 0.799, ....] (a 2-periodic sequence)

chaos(3.8) yields [...., 0.649, 0.865, 0.443, 0.937, 0.221, 0.656, ...] (non-periodic --- chaos!)

When we say that chaotic systems are unpredictable, it means that small differences in the initial conditions get amplified. So, if I replace x = 0.5 with x = 0.50001, then the result of chaos(2.6) will be (almost) the same because it's not chaotic, but the result of chaos(3.8) will be completely different.

The diagram at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LogisticMap_BifurcationDia... is drawn entirely using the equation above, and it's the simplest example of funky mathematics that I know of. See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_map
You have to realize that IRC, forums, mailing lists, etc are often just as good or better than some random-circumstance professor, and that programming and computer science are especially well equipped in this area.
hmmm... I read either on mashable or techcrunch that tweetmeme was changing focus to analytics since twitter decided to do the retweet. Never saw anything about them working with Twitter.

Found the link: http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/12/twitter-tweet-button/

I do see mentioning of an agreement with Twitter but it is my understanding that Twitter has a licensing agreement to use the tweetmeme technology not that tweetmeme will be powering everything.
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Nevertheless, I think big news like these deserve a little more thought, and facts, before jumping to jokes and snide remarks.

There is a reason I am not at Slashdot.
I used the "antialiased" setting a few days ago so that my finished HTML page would look more closely like my Photoshop mockup. The default setting looked too thick, and I was quite happy when I found "antialiased".
Why do people write articles like this that depend on visuals without any visuals to prove their point?

For examples of how the three types of font-smoothing choices look, try this article: http://maxvoltar.com/archive/-webkit-font-smoothing
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Um, Google might hire the occasional star w/o a degree, but you know that you're talking about a company who wants to see your transcripts in the interview process, right? So, Google's clearly not an example of the kind of company that doesn't treat degrees as a requirement (in the overwhelming majority of cases).

BTW, I agree that it's not a good hiring filter (I know a lot of folks who can't be bothered to apply to FB or Google because of the insanely long/tedious recruiting process), but it's pretty common practise, even in pretty high-performance tech companies.
Isn't one of the major parts of writing considering who the audience is?
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http://blog.tweetmeme.com/tag/datasift/

Edit: You could be right about the Tweet Button. DataSift will be run on TweetMeme's servers drawing data from the firehose.
Can you give one instance of this?
What this basically means is this: if facebook is this aggressive, and pg et al have done the due dilligence and still gone into the deal, then we on the outside should copy them and follow a similar path, because it's probably going to end up as the standard.
I'm pretty sure YC wants their companies to IPO more than almost anyone else. YC is in the same boat as angel investors. The difference is that YC is sympathetic to founders when they want to cash out vs shoot for the stars.
I went to the gym today and jumped into the pool as I do five times a week. I always picked the right most lane which was wider than the rest (so I have more room to do breast strokes). After a few laps, I noticed the lady who was sharing my lane kept giving me the stink eye. I thought nothing of it until she stopped me and started giving me a lecture on pool etiquette. She thought I was a complete ass for not greeting her before I jumped in and for not asking for her permission to share. Besides being impolite, she thought I was also unsafe. I paused for about 10 microseconds and I decided to apologize. As an entrepreneur, those are your choices. After many painful lessons, I finally learned how to pick my battles and getting in an argument with an old lady in my shorts was a good use of my argumentative skill. As an entrepreneur, it is often best to just let it roll over your shoulder so you can save your dry powder for the real fight.
I was going to vote you up, but under the circumstances the only thing to say is: http://i.imgur.com/NoDzP.png
How about if a startup works with YC and FB, will they be prohibited from working with Twitter? What if FB is developing a "beta feature" that the startup wants. Can they ask Twitter for the same feature?
>People are not entitled to get it for free if I want them to pay me for it.

People are entitled, no, people have a right to reproduce information they have. You do not own it.

If you think commercial programmers are getting paid for the value they provide, you don't understand the market or economics. (Hint: if software cost that much, no one would buy it.)
Something such as a unified desktop (OS X, Haiku, Gnome, KDE) will make you more productive rather than a window manager that optimizes for pixel real estate.

UNIX is my unified desktop. I only use the window manager to manage windows.
The only possible protection that I can think of would be for Facebook to require confirmation when someone likes a page. Essentially it would redirect the user to Facebook where they would see a page that says "Are you sure you want to like ______?" Then, after they agreed, it would redirect them back to the original site. However, this would be highly undesirable for people who use the Facebook like button, because it could siphon away potentially valuable visitors who appreciated the site enough to like it.

Another option might be for Facebook to ban likes on a domain basis. If a domain is using spammy techniques like this then ban it from being liked by anyone. Of course that means more overhead and moderation.

I don't think there is a good solution to this, only work arounds.
A lot of practical (i.e. not just gaming the system) SEO tactics are valid for almost any search engine, not just Google's.
tangentially related: I do not know if people have figured this out yet: liking something gives them permission to write to your status feed. I think after that gets widely understood people will be less promiscuous with the thumbs up, because it will be associated with being spammed to heck.

I have done this to myself, incidentally, because I did not believe the doc tha said it was possible.

If you include Open Graph tags on your Web page, your page becomes equivalent to a Facebook page. This means when a user clicks a Like button on your page, a connection is made between your page and the user. Your page will appear in the "Likes and Interests" section of the user's profile, and you have the ability to publish updates to the user. Your page will show up in same places that Facebook pages show up around the site (e.g. search), and you can target ads to people who like your content.
I wonder if this means the fbFund is shut down.
Or building your business on your government's "platform".

At some point the stability, openness, and size are enough to reduce the risk to a very low level. I'm sure it's safe to bet on: Windows, OSX, and Google. I really don't think Facebook is there yet. Not given how quickly we went from Friendster -> MySpace -> Facebook.
Even so, almost every business built on SEO would go under if they lost their Google traffic.
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How much of that is due to other search engines copying Google? I'd guess that Excite isn't a big focus for SEO companies.
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