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Given that I'm writing a client/server app that uses messaging and multi-party communication as an integral feature, you might find the node.js chatroom that Ryan wrote to be interesting.

http://chat.nodejs.org/

It's fairly basic, but I'm not sure what you're looking for given that it hasn't been available for very long. Amazon, github, digg, onion, were all built on very mature technology.
A buddy of mine is a programmer at AT&T, and they (mostly he) have developed a pretty incredible push notification and messaging system using Java on the back-end. He claims that they're getting some pretty astounding message processing rates. I keep having trouble thinking of Java as "fast", but that might just be due to really crappy desktop app experiences.

But anyway: one of the biggest companies in the U.S. uses Java to do some really cool stuff.
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> but is there no value in building consensus?

There might be "value", but at what cost?

> I've had quite constructive arguments with people from different political backgrounds here in the Netherlands - which did not end with either side being convinced, but did end up with both sides (or at least me) smarter than before.

That's nice, but what political power did you gain as a result?

Remember, we're talking about what effective politicians do.

In other news, pundits are evaluated on how many newspapers they sell, not on their accuracy. Readers are free to decide to buy, or not, for any reason, such as hair color. (Readers could use accuracy as part of their buying decision, but don't seem to.)
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This is probably only of interest to poker players in the HN crowd ...

I've soft soft launched a poker bankroll management app:

http://sessionsplus.com/

This started out as an auxiliary website to an iPhone app. It's sole purpose was to allow you to view the data you had captured with the iPhone app and download it. Fast forward a month, and it's now functionally equivalent as the iPhone app which I hope to launch by the end of the month (you can see a demo of the app at the end of the intro video on the home page).

So I'm looking for any feedback, etc. from poker playing HNers.

NOTE: You don't need to sign up through paypal. Once you've created an account, simply hit the "log in" bug in the upper right to get started.

I suspect it's buggy.

Thanks!
Whatever you do, steer clear of Acer. I made the mistake of buying my laptop off of NewEgg, which I'd always trusted when buying desktop parts. I bought the top rated laptop from them that fit my specs. An Acer Aspire Timeline 3810T. Six months later the screen died. I went looking and discovered that not only are the Acer Aspires plagued with this issue, but so are many of their other brands. My mistake for not checking it out more thoroughly and trusting the wisdom of the crowd.

Even before the screen went out I was having issues with it. The screen would blank out any time a little pressure was applied to it. And the machine overheated pretty readily. It had a weird keyboard mouse set up that required awkward hand position and the screen wouldn't fold back past an angle that was actually fairly awkward. Plus it lacked a dvd drive which turned out to be more of a pain than I'd thought it would be. Overall, it wound up as not a very good value for the cost. And not reliable at all. We'll see how it holds up once I get the screen replaced - maybe I just got a faulty screen.

My brother got a Lenovo and hasn't had any trouble with it. So I'll anecdotally second Thaumaturgy's suggestion of Lenovo.
Nice idea, but I don't see how the two services could be combined. Instapaper is just articles whereas Xmarks could be any bookmark. The only feasible acquisition might be a technology/user acquisition.
> July 5th, 1776.

Nope. The current constitution is part of the trend - America was more free under the Articles of Confederation (which has nothing to do with the confederacy).
I thought marks only offered the folders that the browsers used natively.

This was always an issue for adoption in delicious, anyway.
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I don't like to listen to music while coding because I'm not smart enough to think of two things at once.

But when I'm done, I'll pop in some Bone Thugs & Harmony.
> Defaulting on the Federal debt to China could have a wee bit of a repercussion.

They'd seize every US or American-owned asset that they could get their hands on and stop sending us stuff on credit. The former is much smaller than the debt that they hold (so we could compensate private holders and still end up ahead) and the latter is arguably a good thing.
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I think founders are too busy discussing amongst themselves how to get the most money from investors to worry about VCs discussing amongst themselves how to get the most equity from founders.
Of course, but we have a much clearer idea of what sustains health than ancient civilizations.

I agree, a variety is your best bet.

But if better than X is not optimal, where X is the standard diet and the varied vegetarian diet is the alternative - what's the other option?
I think the playbook is out there to test QNX and then to use in RIM's smartphones.

Also, if you consider the idea of working on the PlayBook using the info and data in the BB phones that is fantastic in a work environment.

Use your emails, docs etc on the PLayBook when the phone is in proximity and also utilize the cellular connection of the phone.

I think they have some really good ideas there.
That sure is an odd fellowship, isn't it?
Node is still very, very young. I think it is a good question to ask, but we aren't there yet.
Something that lets me use my email address as my ID.

I can remember my email address. I can't even remember which openID provider I used to sign up for StackOverflow, let alone how they expect me to form the URL that I use for my login.

So once a month, when my cookie expires, I get to perform a forgot-password-like action, where I dig through my email to find my username, then try several combinations of it and claimid.net (or was it .org) until it lets me in. But I'm not in. I still have to type in my username and password and, click OK, then click OK on a second screen.

That's on the order of 10 more steps than it takes me to type in my email address and password. I remember my email. And I can type it in 400 milliseconds.

The thing that replaces OpenID needs to understand that.
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Again, if death weren't a destiny we all shared we can't know what that would change in our culture, our mind sets, etc. Just as one example, how would our views of war change if people no longer died of natural causes?

Btw, saying things like (paraphrasing) "It's good that Einstein died because he really had nothing useful left to contribute" is extremely judgmental. We have no way of knowing how much the realities of our current existence affected his behavior, nor what he would have done by now if he were still alive.
I couldn't disagree more, but I suppose no productive outcome could come of discussing it further so I'll just leave it at that.
> After [2001], deficits ballooned and the debt swelled considerably.

Deficits "ballooned" for a while, and then started back down - the 2006 deficit was "only" $100B/year. (The peak was around $5-600B/year.) The deficits took a big jump in 2007 after the Dems took Congress. We currently "hope" to get the deficit down to $100B/month.

If $100B/year is too much, what do you call $100B/month?

> and that the increase on those making above would still leave them paying less than in Reagan era

In marginal rates, yes, but their share of the total tax burden has increased.
what about good old fashioned inflation? That seems the obvious, if odious, way out of this bubble.
2m users * 1% conversion rate * $10/yr = $100k = probably not enough for a VC-backed startup.

My suspicion is that because users just used the browser's internal bookmarks they couldn't easily add affordances that would draw attention, leaving no surface on which to advertise. I guess this is one advantage that delicious had, although breaking the bookmarking paradigm to do so was very painful in other ways.

I no longer believe startups who claim their value proposition is "the data will be really valuable someday."
Thats a very interesting point about books as apps and sharing them. Amazon allows upto 5 devices too. So other people in the family can use the same registered device ID and share all the books.

It is not the best solution though.
In the social web area, LinkedIn uses a lot of Java. Hi5, too -- at least before the recent games focus, and maybe since.

Lucene and SOLR for search are behind lots of websites -- public and intranet.

Hadoop and related tools -- MapReduce, HDFS, HBase, etc. -- are big in large-data, big-calculation systems, even when front ends are implemented in other dynamic languages.

Looking over all the open source Java projects at the Apache foundation may give a sense of range of uses on the net. And with the growth in alternate JVM languages -- like Groovy, Clojure, and Scala -- a bit of Java, or some Java libraries, may be part of projects in those languages as well.
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$30M seems like a steal. (Though I'm sure it's gone up since then.)
Is the donation entirely altruistic? From what I understand, Mark Zuckerberg's gift creates a new foundation with an interest in increasing the price of Facebook's stock.
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And then they would just forget about it and let bygones be bygones, I suppose.
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But we have the pirate bay. Piracy just will be widespread, like it was for software for 35 years, and for music for 12 years, and movies for almost as long.
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I'm not sure what to make of this. So far Google has largely succeeded at not being evil - as much as any large corporation can, really. Google's stated reason and the posters logic holds up to the test of possibility. And it would seem to fit into Google's general way of doing things and its ADHD tendencies. I guess we'll all have to just watch and see what happens.
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The right answer is in the middle. Of course speed up depends on what are you comparing, but if you benchmark GPU against decent four core CPU the speed up is in order of magnitude.

For dense Matrix currently is about eight times (http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=172176) on CUDA 3.1. That is before the CUDA 3.2 which claim 50-300% performance increase.

For sparse matrix the speed up against multi core CPU is about ten times (http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=83825).

All available as a public libraries (http://developer.nvidia.com/object/cuda_3_2_toolkit_rc.html).

jedbrown, please provide a source of your estimates. Of course I'm interested in some highly optimized libraries like BLAS. Hand written code would be on both systems several times slower.
Yes i definitely agree, stay away from Acer. My Lenovo IdeaPad Y530 still works well, a solid product. Bought second hand for 400 USD.
I have the latest build and can see the mic icon. But it doesn't seem to work for me on my Mac.
I think you're engaging in a logical fallacy. Using a "GUI" isn't "one true way" as there are a near infinite amount of ways to structure a GUI.

Command line tools often use graphics to display their results and GUI tools often show their results in textual form so the main difference between a command line interface and a GUI interface is how to provide input. With a GUI I have to click in the right place to make actions happen. This puts more onus on the developer to make sure everything is where it is expected. With a command line tool I have to read a document or help output about how to use it and memorize this information if I wish to be efficient.

I'm not saying there should be no command line. It's simply my view that the command line should be treated like XML: not for human consumption. I think this would also potentially make command line tools even better at providing an interface for scripting tools if this was the only expectation placed on them.
Isn't that basically the idea behind the Verizon Android Store?

http://www.androidguys.com/2010/09/22/verizon-android-store/
Can't all screenshot tools do this, just by you telling it to save them into ~/Dropbox ?
link to the interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQFLn65pxbQ sound quality is terrible though...
defaults write com.apple.screencapture location /Users/.../Dropbox

does exactly that on Mac OS.
The internet and rising computer saturation in the population empowered the people in comparison to the government. People have easy access to independent news and education, they can talk to like-minds (there is a word I just can't find), things being said are stored and questioned. All that makes the internet a scary place for politicians, but I guess it is more subconscious. I believe they really want to fight the bad and do good for the people, but they overshoot because they are so very scared and don't realise the good it does for the individual.

This is quite tinfoilhatish, but I believe so.
Why would Google do that? Payday loans are despised by consumer advocacy groups, governments, and my Mom, alike. Nobody likes payday loans, except of course the companies that make billions providing and servicing them.

Those companies and the people that actually make use of their services, of course. This author might not have noticed, but generally markets for things no one wants don't exist.

It's tempting to view loans that are typically paid back quickly in terms of an APR, but it's extremely deceptive. The reason the annual rate is so high is that, surprise, people who can't plan their budget out more than a few days in advance are also not generally the best at paying loans back on time (or at all.) And viewed in raw amounts, paying an extra few dollars a week from now for milk today isn't the worst deal in the world, if it keeps the kids fed.
I actually don't have plus or minus feeling about Google Instant. I usually typed pretty fast and the instant result won't come up before I finish typing. Also I often use the browser's quick search on the address bar, which bypasses Instant completely.
Stores frequently have extremely lenient return policies.

I worked at a supermarket where every week a guy would come to return four super-sized protein supplement bottles with various excuses.

With the return money, he would walk out with four new bottles. It took weeks for everybody in charge of customer service to stop giving him refunds.
And multitasking comes to iPad when, next month?
Unfortunately, that dataset would only stay amazing until they tried to use it to power a search engine.

History has shown that any time user-generated content is shown to users, spammers will quickly set themselves up as the ones generating 99% of the content.
I had a similar idea a while ago. But I was thinking on a global scale, you would earn points/badges for actions you take in git. And then there would be a website where you could see how productive you are compared to other developers around the world.

What do you think?
You could disable Javascript.
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But then you haven't heard the news - the iPad is making big inroads into corporate userspace.

SAP will roll out 17.000 units internally (http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2010/09/ip...). Read the statements of the CIo.

Otsuka Pharma will roll out 1300 iPads to their pharma reps. In Japan. (http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-06-07/otsuka-pharma-to...)
> When does the number of exploits reach "staggering"?

Worse than any other (actually used) OS. Really, Windows may suck, but user->root exploits are rare (possibly because most users run with administrator privileges anyway); the same holds for pretty much any NIX other than Linux.

> Is there a single software project on the planet that doesn't "silently" fix bugs?

We are talking bugs that are known to have security implications here. Yes, this is not the norm.

> Are you referring to active exploits, or total historic exploits?

Say, exploits in the last year. They are* pretty fast about fixing them.
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I complain because it has changed, while I was typing, one or more of the words I typed, resulting in a loss of time, having to go back to those (now) wrong words and replacing them with the right ones.

I tend to know better than Google Instant what is the precise search term I need to use to give me the results I want, be it either because it is technical or (some other times) because it's in a not very big language.
>gitref.org makes it really easy to understand and use git, at least it did for me.

I don't avoid the git command line as much as I can because I don't know it or am afraid to learn it. I have to use it since GitX can't do everything I need yet (and the picture seems even worse on windows). I use the GUI as much as I can because it's a much more efficient work flow.
In a GUI like GitX it is much less effort to do patch commits because I can just view the changes and select the lines I want. It takes several different commands to accomplish this same functionality (a git status to see what's changed, git add -i on the file, e on the hunk I want, edit the hunk via vi, write the file).

>No graphical tools required.

Except there is. When you do "git -p file" (which I do a lot and would not have switched without this capability) you are put into a graphical editor to pick which parts of the hunk to commit.
You're leaving out an important part of the equation: the sheer number of deals that went through YC, and the data associated with them. When you know the complete story on 500+ founders, and look at which ones were successful, patterns emerge. These patterns can be used to make better decisions and give better advice.

Anybody who's talked to PG will tell you he is a walking database of startup patterns. "I've seen X and Y do this and they failed. Don't do it". I'm sure as YC scales, that database will be externalized to a medium other than PG's brain :)

So, yes, there is a formula: it's called data.
Please, for the love of god: No. More. App. Stores.

While an app store is an effective distribution channel N app stores is not -- especially if they all have different regulations, processes, fees, and philosophies.
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Cringely suggests Google could offer payday loans at 20% interest, and further would make that same rate as a profit. That seems far-fetched; these loans are costly to offer and collect upon, with high default rates.

Various sources peg the profit margins of existing payday lenders, with their "400%" effective interest rates, at only 3-10% -- less than Google's margins in their existing lines of business, I suspect.
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We are in Clojure Alpha 1.3 v1 and allready the same speed.

The did it for a dacade and rich does it for a couple months and you bash him? We arn't the kawa guys faster after a decade.

Clojure is faster in other stoff like interop witch is really importend on the JVM. Can Kawa write down-to-java speed types?
We've used Opzi this summer at YC and, as a user, I found myself wanting a UI that was as close to Quora as possible. I was surprised by that because it might mean that Quora is really onto something. And if this user experience really works, it makes sense for an enterprise-focused company to use what works in the consumer world.
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And how much debt did we run up during this period? And since when does Congress write the federal budget? As for your comparison of boom-period deficits with emergency post-recession deficits, surely you can't expect me to take this seriously.

Marginal rates are the only thing that counts on the individual level. Share of the tax burden is irrelevant and largely reflects their share of national income. Essentially, you're saying that yes, they pay less taxes than they used to, but it's terrible that their taxes aren't even lower.

I am not in favor of endlessly rising taxation or soaking the rich. But I'm not in favor of voodoo economics either, like complaining about the debt while simultaneously arguing for drastically cutting revenue.
There's nothing wrong with being a pay day loan company. Their interest rates (500% or more) are through the roof for making high risk loans that no other bank will touch.

high risk = high reward
Such a comment is mind-boggling to me. What crazy universe do you live in where college tuitition is free? A 4 year degree at CMU is a $160k proposition, and 4x more expensive than the equivalent in-state education at Michigan Tech.

This bit of advice is like telling someone complaining that their Honda Civic just isn't worthwhile for them anymore to try out a Ferrari.
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But unlike an IP address based blacklist, this should be relatively easy to bypass, right? A BitTorrent like infrastructure, run purely by people for the people. Or a HTTP based DNS resolution, as long as it can be bootstrapped.
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Also, a better comparison than COPS might be CSI.

'Saying that MG's writing is barely a step-up from content farms is like saying The Wire is barely a step-up from CSI.'

COPS, at least, is real. Well, sort of.
Ye I would expect at least $60M+ esp for a few reasons:

a) Arrington has proven that the site can still grow even with him stepping back

b) The conference business is now theirs alone and that the value in Techcrunch 50 was Techcrunch, not Calacanis

c) They can convert their readers to conference attendees, party attendees, sponsors or almost anything else - a very large, loyal and well-off reader base.

A few ad and layout tweaks could see their ad revenue rise 30%+. I also don't know why they aren't allowing readers to fire up blogs and take the advertising. I also don't know why they aren't rolling up smaller blogs (like insidefacebook, some of the social gaming blogs etc.) using their stock+cash. With a year of solid work they could double ad revenue and then sell.
People often (in a non-formal context) use exponential as meaning "more than linear". Any idea why this happens?

(don't mean to offend the poster here)
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You always have shared state somewhere. It makes no sense to me to force myself to have it exclusively in the database by choosing a platform that cannot do shared state or makes it extremely tedious. I agree with you on the handler maze though.
Not completely...you still land on the results page.
Whenever I encounter a site that gives me many ways to login, I click the Facebook icon just for the heck of it.

And when it fails, one can only conclude: situation normal
Yeah, any replacement will need to be _everywhere_. No-one talks about PHP deployment issues, because it's literally everywhere. You have to build your own server if you want one _without_ php. That's it's killer feature.