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Pride before the fall; humility before honors.

I worked as a bagger and construction worker, then landed a job at Ticketmaster. They seem to balance in years.

On a guilt trip I took a job in a deli, then landed a job a head engineer. Both lasted months.

I know the rules.

"No one plans to take the path which brings you lower."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2D37POA11KY&ob=av2e

Meh... play the system? Take a shit job, so some angel can bless me. I don't look up to angels, I look them in the eye. Fuck you, I'm Jacob and I'll kick your fucken ass.

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Yeah, an angel cums when you bend over and take-it up the ass is my take on this: "Angels rejoice when a sinner is saved."

Don't get me started on people. Catholic are foul loathsome that way, wannabe angels.

God put it well, "Pride Money Choose." You can bow to a boss, do illegal shit and screw people over or be homeless like Jesus. God it sucked going on disability.

God says...
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to place in a fatherly role

That's still the incorrect use of the word, and I don't care if I get downvoted again. Paternalizing refers to the act of treating someone like a father (e.g. "After the death of his father, Bobby grew to paternalize his older brother").
Why are you so sure their intentions are pure or that "none of them are genuinely bad guys"? Do you know the people that were there well? If you don't, you're not really qualified to say this. People put a lot of time into image and posturing and often it has little to do with what's really under the surface.

If they are in actually involved in illegal collusion, they should be charged and prosecuted. I don't think it's sufficient to say the damage to the reputations of those involved is sufficient punishment if accusations of conspiracy are correct.
Try a Python framework - there's enough of them to work with. The good ones (like Django) have a structure and standards that make sense - and have great tutorials, for the most part.
Thanks for the information about the Swedish system.

> Sweden does not have electronic voting, and you can vote for anything [...]

That's not very connected. You could easily imagine a free form electronic system. And the German system on the other hand is (or used to be?) completely paper based: You got a ballot with the names of all the parties / candidates, and placed a tick next to the name you liked. Any writing made the ballot invalid.
If it was a courtesy email it would of been written in Engrish.
Can it be used for Java-only projects (as a replacement for Ant or Maven)? If so, is it worth the trouble to do so?
Yes. I did 5-year diploma program (it's closer to Master than to Bachelor), then completed PhD in two years. I had the same advisor at both places, so the large part of my PhD thesis was done during undergrad years.
The only reason his intersections are safer is that the lack of signage makes drivers uncomfortable and therefore more careful. Get rid of signs everywhere and that discomfort goes away.
He probably wasn't focusing on his spelling/typos when he wrote this.
Have you checked out http://beanstream.com/public/index.asp? Payment processing with great customer service - I'm pretty sure they can help you achieve what you want... but it would probably be better to look to a service like their's once you had a serious number of paying users. Still, look into them.
This whole episode was quite an impressive feat by Arrington. As one of the many "not-super" angels in the world, it validated something that was only hearsay until Arrington confirmed it -- which has then given Conway a chance to chastise it appropriately.

Granted, I still wish he'd revise the inaccuracies in this article (http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/29/guy-who-copied-digg-slams-d...) but I'll take the fact that none of you remembered it as a good sign :)

All in all, bravo, Michael.
I'm interested in learning how this works. i.e. how do you encrypt the data client side? is it a randomly generated key? (I guess not since the user would need to know it to decrypt the data on another machine). If the user picks a key, is it the same as their password? If the key is the same as their password, do you store the password in localStorage? etc etc?

(Sorry, just thinking out loud here and not sure how this'll work)
Facebook can offer what Yahoo did in the late 90s, early 2000s - a large audience and a consistent, high quality content for billions of impressions.

Since the advertising world is divided into pay for performance ads and branding ads, Facebook can choose which to suit when. Google serves the first and YouTube serves the second.

Public statements and actions both affirm Facebook's lack of true focus on any particular advertiser base. To date, my bet is that most of the revenue coming through the systems is performance based advertising for games like Zynga who is rumored to be spending double digit millions monthly on FB ads.
It's more about the externalities. Your car is fine for you, but it has strange effects on other people.

I agree though, that it's a testable proposition, and not self-evident.
The fact that the original people you talked to were not interested may be a sign that your idea need refinement. You shouldn't take the development group's interest as approval, as they get 100K regardless of your success.

Before you continue, you should conduct focus groups with people who have knowledge of the subject area. Best of luck.
Maybe this is the first a$$ covering salvo
Good point. I'll get the wood, you get the matches.
Indeed. Actually, the more I think about it, the more I like it. I have to believe it's intentional -- perhaps a conscious progression of the fluid language. Or maybe he just has a thing against the French.

Either way, if anyone gets the privilege of defining a new spelling for the word, Ron is a good candidate.

I think the community should embrace the new spelling, in appreciation. :)
What's so hard to get for those people? Roundabouts seem simple enough to me (though I may be biased, coming from Europe and now living in Britain).
I'm not disagreeing with this. However, the specified algorithm which I was posting about was read then write. It is what the parent said, not mmap then send. The two sets of calls have very different semantics as you said. For the case of

data = read(fd, blocksize, dataptr);
while (data > 0) {
write(sock, data, ...);
data = read(fd, blocksize, dataptr);
}

My statement holds true. Even if the context switching is minimal overhead, there are more context switches caused by my code, and further blocking and other processes add more delays.
It's not that others have little to offer, it's a different style of learning. Just like some people are visual or auditory learners, some are kinesthetic learners.

Seeing other people's code does little for me because I miss all of the reasoning that went into it's creation. However, when I've fought through the same problem myself, I understand very thoroughly the traps, pitfalls, and solutions the task entails. When I reach this level, I can read other people's code and clearly see why they did what they did, and how it's better or worse than my method. I have to take a crack at the problem myself first, though, in order to learn well.

Reading other people's code is, for me, a way to refine and reinforce my techniques, not to learn entirely new things. I learn much less effectively when I try that.
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The silent majority are using PayPal without problems. They support recurring payments like this, and eliminate the need for you to directly handle credit card details at all.

Just don't leave piles of money sitting in your PayPal account. And once you have things started, assuming it's working out, consider adding additional payment methods as a backup (even if PayPal mostly works, some customers may have trouble with, e.g. their credit cards not being accepted).
And keep refactoring, when you get into a mess.
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eh, If you wanted to do this, there was a real opportunity when Yahoo announced that they were going to use bing. There were many very good, very disappointed inktomi folks at Yahoo.
Digital signal transmission tends to include an increase in error tolerance, which I mentioned. The margin reduces the strain on the error tolerance, which is also needed to cope with signal loss issues.

So, no, the margin spaces aren't completely unnecessary with digital signaling.

Furthermore, I'll pick a couple nits and point out that it's only television broadcasting which has completely switched to digital in the US. AM/FM radio is still analog by definition, and there are large swaths of spectrum which use those and other signaling methods.
I don't think a lot of devs (perhaps especially the TDD faithful) appreciate how clumsy, immature, and downright primitive modern testing and mocking tools are. Even the best mocking frameworks give you nearly free reign to make up any behavior for mocked objects, many devs don't appreciate the importance of the gap between mocked behavior and actual behavior.

Which makes integration testing all the more critical.
Completely agree. This trend is happening in a bunch of different places.

Advertising agencies, historically relationship driven, are now building demand side platforms to acquire media using technology.

Brokerages went through this transition during the eTrade boom.

Video games is currently being disrupted with companies like OnLive, Gaikai and OTOY. GameStop is trying to prevent their total loss of share by offering digital content purchasing in store.

Books - Kindle

Music - iTunes

et al

And so on.
Do you just not believe that there should be such a thing as anthropology?
I just hope Karma on HN is just not a function of how cool, popular or otherwise consensual you are and that people like myself can stay on and bloom with differing styles and views from the majority

You can search and find plenty of examples of people who have become dissatisfied with the way that Hacker News has gone downhill from where it was a few months or years ago. There has been a tendency in recent months to downvote people who disagree with you, or point out flaws in your logic.

Just last year, you would only see downvotes for Digg-style zingers or insensitive comments. Nowadays, you'll get downvoted for persuasive arguments just because people don't agree with you. And there's no humor at all allowed anymore. Just the same old stories day after day (look what Apple announced, look what Arrington said, Rate My Startup, How can I scale my app, should I learn Ruby?), and a lot of people arguing about who said what about startups instead of actually starting companies. I think it's time I started reading HN less and coding more...at least my commits don't get downvoted.
Now there is a third - SkyTeam. Plus there is Virgin Atlantic who aren't a member of any alliance but have one-off deals with individual airlines.
I'm not so sure. The problem is that when send() returns, the application is free to modify the buffer and expect that the modifications won't be visible to the other side of the link - the data has already been "sent" as far as the app is concerned.

So this implies that if you wished to send by DMAing directly from the page cache to the NIC, send() would have to block - not just until the data (and all previous buffered written data on the connection) has been passed to the NIC, but until the TCP ACK from the other side has been recieved (or RST). (Non-blocking sockets could obviously never use this method - they would have to perform the copy).

sendfile() obviously has this limitation already, but if you were to do it for send() you'd at least have to hide it behind a setsockopt(). Otherwise the weird behaviour is likely to upset existing applications (eg. select() says that write() will not block - but it does anyway, because the buffer you sent from was mmap()ed?)
I'm not suggesting that those involved be vilified or "burned at the stake" as the euphemism goes. I merely think that we lack data on the whole situation, and that we shouldn't assume that there are no "genuinely bad guys" in the bunch just from their public personas. Also, that statement is premature anyway because we don't even know who was there.

I don't think that we should vilify or exonerate yet. We should just sit on it and wait for reliable data to emerge. I was surprised that your post had so many upvotes because it jumps to an irrationally optimistic conclusion that none are "bad guys".

The correct conclusion based on the data we have is no conclusion, because nothing conclusive has been presented. It seems confirmed that a dinner was had and that many powerful angel investors were involved. That's about all that has been agreed upon so far. So why are you saying that none of these are "bad guys" when we don't know who was there or what they were doing?

You'd be surprised who's a bad guy and who isn't when it comes down to the wire. It's easy to be gracious when things are going well, and easy to appear gracious in a medium that you control.

And in any case, I merely suggested the terms of the law be enforced if it is found that the law was violated. This hardly amounts to a "burning at the stake".
Crosby had an important role in the history of the magnetic recording industry.

Crosby was an early investor in Ampex corporation, the U.S. company that adapted WWII German wire-recorder technology (which used an A.C. bias signal to improve quality).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampex_Corporation
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Maybe you would, that's why you're complaining about it.

But my whole point is that there's more people like him that don't feel like writing perfectly. As you just admitted, it takes extra effort to write for your audience instead of writing for yourself. And why would he bother to hire an assistant to edit it? That also takes effort.

Warren Buffet obviously has the choice to behave in the same manner. He also has the choice to be reckless like Larry Ellison and fly jet fighters, or be like the Koch brother's and spend millions on libertarian think-tanks to anger a large democratic populace. Or conversely, why does Buffet choose to anger countless libertarians by saying he and other billionaires should pay a higher tax rate than his secretary? If he was a truly wise businessman, he would refrain from political statements like that.

My point is that wealth makes people more confident in revealing their idiosyncrasies. Whether or not you like their true personality is another story. Amusingly and relatedly I've lost over 20 karma points for telling what people don't want to hear even though I do not support Dave McClure's behavior.
Yes but he still did it with his tweet...
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Right. He's used up his "nuclear bomb" title for the year. What happens when something truly scandalous happens? I suppose he could go up to hydrogen bomb..
That's really neat. Bravo!

I've hit a roadblock in my attempt to install the proper Clojure SLIME environment in Emacs. I've got clojure-mode, SLIME, swank-clojure, and leiningen installed, and I get as far as the slime-repl showing up properly, but my Clojure forms seemingly get ignored by the swank-clojure process. It's frustrating. From my readings of various Google Groups, people often seem to have trouble getting this whole machinery up and running. While the developers have done their best to set up ways to install the whole shebang automatically, that tends to make it more difficult for those of us who like to download systems piece by piece and put it together ourselves.

For that reason, a new way to interact with Clojure excites me. However, I may not take the leap of installing this project immediately. The main thing I like about the SLIME environment is that you get the full power of your text editor even in the REPL, which is invaluable for playing around with complex forms. With this system, it seems that you can either evaluate expressions in Textmate (which is not a REPL and forces you to context-switch to another window) or connect to cake in a terminal (which doesn't give you the flexibility of a text editor).

Perhaps a special Textmate buffer that automatically pastes the output of the eval'd form after the cursor would give me what I want. I will clone the project repo and start looking into what I can do. Thanks for the work you've done.
the ebook experience is great for stuff you just want to read and not have hanging round. Like autobios, novels etc.

It's not yet great for tech books, stuff where you have to jump around randomly rather than reading linearly, books with deep TOC.
I have stated consistently for year that I invest because I love helping entrepenuers and watching them learn and succeed.

Oh please! We're all capitalists here, nothing to be ashamed of.
sbt works fine with mixed java/scala projects. So I believe it should work fine with java only.
They shared a space with Pivotal Labs. Either they were lazy and didn't think to ask about stuff that matters - ui is nice[1], but securing your app is more important - or the Pivotal Labs guys dropped the ball big time.

I'm inclined to think it was neither and they just didn't think anyone would notice. It happens.

[1] http://www.joindiaspora.com/2010/07/01/one-month-in.html
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i know this isn't reddit, but when you say "thundering herd", do you mean the processes, or the comments on the story?
sharebuilder will let you buy put options, which are probably a better idea than a naked short for most people.

Personally, I agree that Apple is way overvalued... but it is tricky to time these things. It could go up a lot before it comes down. I remember a quote "The market can remain irrational for longer than you can remain solvent" - I don't remember who said it, but it's good advice.
It's labeled as YCombinator, not HN.
The "copy-on-write borrowing" on write() is where the problem lies. To turn the writable pages into COWs you have to update the process's page tables to remove write permission, which requires a TLB flush. These kinds of games are a net loss, at least on modern hardware.

(And then the app likely reuses the buffer for the next `read()` anyway, requiring either replacing the page or faulting in a fresh one and doing the C in COW).
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Hey, thanks.

I don't see any reason to require a user to create an account to start using Historious. Just create a unique hash (user id) in the bookmarklet, and have that hash be sent along with any "historify" requests.

Perhaps once 30 days are nearing, or they are filling up their free account, you could remind them that they should upgrade to pro, or at at least create an account.

Hope that helps.
You may want to consider trying to band together and brand yourselves in the vein of Hacker Angels to get more dealflow past AngelList. It'd be great if this kerfluffle shook up the angel "industry" to make it more efficient and more competitive.

(Disclosure: kn0thing is an angel in Blueleaf, the startup I work for.)
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That was a mistake, meant to be a direct (private) message to someone on twitter, probably a fellow "super angel".
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Oh, more dealflow is one thing I definitely don't want these days now that I'm @YCombinator :) I've halted considering any new DasKapitalCapital.com investments.

That said, I love the Hacker Angels group. They represent a lot of what's right with angel investing.
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Austin = Smoking behind the bleachers for adults?
When I last checked (a few years ago mind you) PayPal didn't support recurring payments if the merchant wasn't US-based. I was angry to discover this part-way through integrating with their service, as I'm based in Australia.
Ditto.

They were actually pretty persistent too.
Nitpick: I wouldn't say the second form has been Frenchified so much as the first form has been Americanized.
I have a 'fun' side-project written in C# that I'd eventually like to commercialize...it's not a web app though. http://lognv.com
I'm happy for you. Seriously.

Extrinsic objects like money can't replace the hollowness inside most of us. It can't fill our lives with some sort of magical glow that makes everything go away. Nothing can do that. Not people. Not cats. Not computers. Not even code.

It's just who you are and how you actualize yourself that truly matters. Personally, I don't care how deep your pockets are. I would still love to spend hours upon hours learning from you. Yet again I already have. :) (trust me your comments are worth an entire book alone).