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Sammy.js does look quite cool. I've poked around the documentation, but haven't built anything with it yet.

I see what you're saying about "Javascript on Rails" but to me that's quite different than something like backbone. What you're talking about is more about "ajaxifying" a traditional browse-from-page-to-page experience. I definitely think there's value in that for improving the feel and responsiveness of a site. However, I'm more interested in truly emulating the desktop app experience where, once you log in there is no concept of browsing from page to page or "going back".
I like many languages, I just happen not to like php, sorry if I offended you. I don't know any dev who don't have a language they don't like.
The government's actual position is more subtle than the NYT title suggests:

"While the government took the plaintiffs’ side on the issue of isolated DNA, it sided with Myriad on patentability of manipulated DNA."
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How long is a piece of manipulated DNA? Would claiming prior art be mathematically feasible on all manipulated DNA?
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The important thing is freedom to modify the code you're using.

As someone who prefers to license under the FreeBSD license -- no it's not. It's about contributing code to make software everywhere better (whether or not you can modify the result or not). Now, this is just my opinion, but so is yours and you should probably speak of it that way instead of like fact.
I implemented a Python->CUDA compiler

Wow, interesting. Is it released somewhere? Googling found me the Copperhead project[1], was that what you used?

I'm not sure if "implemented" means you implemented your code for it, or you implemented the entire compiler. :)

[1] http://code.google.com/p/copperhead/
I highly doubt the submission terms contradict the App Store terms. Or do you have a source which shows that the submission terms state that 3rd party licenses are not accepted (and therefore apps based on GPLv2 source cannot be distributed)?

It's a pass through clause.

GPLv2 would only be prohibited from distribution via the App Store if the App Store terms did not include the ability for a submitter's GPLv2 to supersede the App Store license.
At what point will CA's abysmal tax environment stop Silicon Valley from being a sought-after destination for entrepreneurs and talented employees? Reinforcing the idea that CA is a great place to start a business while they're sucking businesses dry is like buying the school bully lavish gifts every time he sticks your head in a toilet.

If you opened the same company in Seattle instead of SF, you'd get to keep around 9% more of your income. That was enough margin for me to leave CA for WA five years ago. (Though the recall election didn't help my feelings toward the place.)
The first question is similar to asking, "How long is a string?" Arbitrarily long.

I think that "prior art" and "obviousness" claims for certain classes of manipulations should (in a world run by biologists) be useful. For example, if you discover New Gene X and manipulate its DNA to tag its protein product with a fluorescent protein, that's pretty damn obvious because that's what we do with every other protein.
The size of the largest bomb you can smuggle on board keeps decreasing, and the danger keeps getting smaller and smaller -- whatever you can stick up your butt it's never gonna blow a sizeable hole in the side of an airliner.

Wait until somebody implants Semtex into the boobs.
To be honest, in this specific case I'd rather have VLC.
There seems to be a trend emerging where companies/organistions are killing off APIs with no warning, and the consumer of the API is powerless.

I blogged about this recently http://andysinclair.wordpress.com/2010/10/25/your-api-killed...
as I was very annoyed that TFL (London's transport network) disabled one of their APIs which stopped 2 very popular iPhone applications from working.
Decriminalization is not legalization.
No, the GPL defines explicit restrictions about what the end user can and can't do with the software. In my book, that's less freedom.

Now, my tenet is just as flimsy as your tenet -- can't you see that your definition of "freedom" is flexible between people and that your freedom may not be another person's freedom? Because degrees of freedom are a subjective and relative interpretation all we can say objectively is that both the GPL and the App Store's EULA have restrictions and they both attempt to preserve an ecosystem that they see to be beneficial.
See also:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1822116 <- This one has the comments.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1828671

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1824895
Because you don't seem to have an accurate idea of what heroin is or does, and you're not basing any of your argument on fact, other than the "heroin is very addictive" part.

In my opinion, the fact that it's so addictive makes it more of a candidate for legalisation or at least greater availability, not less. If you have a population of addicts who will do anything for a fix, and the only people who will supply it to them are hardened criminals who are also into prostitution, extortion, theft, etc. what do you think will happen?
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Yeah... but does any of that work benefit man-kind at all? More than 500 million people also use a toilet every day. So what? 500 million people and the most interesting thing on it is a "virtual farm". That's just plain ridiculous.
True, what I'm talking about in my post is definitely a different paradigm than a more traditional web site where one of the goals is to make it widely accessible for any and all users/devices.

ps. thanks for reading my post simon, u da man!
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I'm basing my arguments on my experience taking care of heroin addicts in inner-city Baltimore. What exactly are you basing your arguments on?

And note that while you are arguing that we should legalize heroin, I'm not taking a position on that. I'm merely arguing (1) that legalization is not going to happen politically so you shouldn't weigh down the marijuana legislation with this, and (2) that heroin is intrinsically devastating even when you remove the drug dealers, etc. Point #1 is based on my hunch, but I doubt many would disagree, and point #2 is based on my experience. Do you have evidence or experience that contradicts mine, or are you just speaking hypothetically?
Hayek sums it up nicely: "The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design."
Bad example. Without toilets our cities would be disease ridden, awful places. You're obviously trolling, but I just thought I'd point that out. :)
I'm sure any pre-IPO stock issued to their employees, while not being a really rewarding thing right now, is going to pay off big in a relatively short timeframe... see: http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/01/google-making-extraordinary...
To play devil's advocate - one could argue that allowing gene's to be patented would result in a vast amount of resources being invested, immediately, to decode and determine precisely what each of them do - with the rewards from such decoding being secured for 18 years (patent lifetime) - at which point anyone would be free to use the information.

In the absence of a patent incentive, the alternative, then, will hopefully be large government and other large public investments making up the difference.
I have met some incredibly young entrepreneurs and I have to give it to them. BRAVO! You are a genius!
Now on to the topic about using it to their advantage to get noticed, funded, etc....I don't think it's as much as them using their age to get noticed as it is the media outlets writing about them like that. More readers are intrigued by a 19 year old getting funding like the story some time ago about Brian Wong. Very impressive and one I was drawn too because of the title (True Ventures Invests In 19 Year Old Entrepreneur Brian Wong) - it wasn't True Ventures Invests in mobile advertising platform Kiip.me. Would I have read that - probably, but I wasn't drawn to it like I was with the age mentioned title.
1> All the data is straight up coming from official government records. I've noticed quite a few typos coming through. At this point, its a bit unreasonable to go fixing them. Since this data is refreshed every month, chances are that it might eventually get fixed in the government records. Also this is just a past time pet tech spike app, I don't think anyone is actually looking at it.

2> Linkability and searchability (search engine bots and SEO) are certainly a problem in these kind of apps. In this particular case, I've been thinking about providing a way for other websites to embed and link to mp information.
"Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution." -- Clay Shirky (aka The Wire Principal)

Although not always, it seems. Wikipedia lists a fair about of support from police unions. (And longshoremen, FWIW.)
caveat emptor: Eric and I are co-founders, so I'm obviously biased.

I was the guy he emailed saying "want a free intern?" and I can safely say: listen to what he wrote above and execute on it. It is straight up good advice. For one, I've been writing code with Eric since he just wanted to hang out and watch me and another person write code, and he's made progress that I would've doubted was possible a-priori. Just having a resourceful predisposition is half the battle.

The reality is that it probably takes ~10 years to get to the level where you are proficient in all the relevant areas to make a scalable, robust, well-designed web application. Most projects you'll take on won't make it to the stage where those are relevant. The only way to get there is by doing and doing over again.
Not really a problem in this part of the world. Though I do like to stand a safe distance from the edge as a train rolls in. There have been a few incidents where mothers with prams forgot to put brakes on the pram has rolled onto the track as train came on. Though both instances I recall had a lucky ending. It doesn't help that the platforms which were build in the days when railways were fully staffed are built slopping towards the track for drainage.
You mean as opposed to creating tests for storage failures when my strongly typed DB complains?

things need to be tested, strongly typed DB or not.

Please quit it with the Rude manner. It's against HN guidelines and makes your arguments weaker to boot. Or leave and go somewhere else.
"A minimum wage increases unemployment among young and unskilled workers. (79%)"

The fair market price for young and unskilled workers would be lower than the minimum wage, yes. Is this a good thing? For young workers, if young is less than 18 (ie, still in school), then this is OK. But, for unskilled workers? That entire class would be in poverty, as if they aren't on the edge of it now.
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I don't buy this excuse. Atlassian is anything but struggling. github and gitorious have an impressive array of enterprise customers. The longer this concept is postponed, the harder it will be to implement as similarities will diverge.
...and, just as important, has done his "10,000 hours" and then some, on the practice of game engine development.
Dell finds it nontrivial as well. I just used their shopping cart. At one point it wiped out the entire contents of my cart when I added an item from a different section.
a carefully regulated light buzz of alcohol is sublime for that.
I won't do the full analysis justice in a brief comment, but this is an empirical question that has some evidence.

The draft human reference genome was published 10 years ago. Prior to this, dozens of genes were discovered and patented by Celera. Celera gave free access to these genes to academics, but required payment for any for-profit activity. By one analysis, genes that were ever controlled by Celera, despite these relatively loose restrictions, as of 2009 had 30% less research done on them than those genes that were never controlled by Celera.

http://www.nber.org/~heidiw/papers/5_12_10a_hlw.pdf
Cisco is a likely candidate in the tech world. If you think $9.11 billion is a lot you need to remember that Yahoo spent $5.7 billion to buy a domain name (broadcast.com).
Then why not just use a WebKit-based one like everyone else?
If there is a lot to criticize, better for it to happen early and by a niche crowd that will give you useful advice than when you're trying to launch and everyone just thinks "this sucks" and silently ignores it.

Also, If the general population becomes interested enough in your site to spend the time hunting down an old unflattering HN thread then you've already won.
You spend less time grepping for regexs, because the data is already separated from the presentations.

Or, in short

ps OUTLOOK | kill

Ie, no grepping. Yes, that's an actual posh command, as there's aliases for common unix commands.
Considering you are still using Microsoft, I have to disagree.
> Caffeine is actually chemically addictive and can kill you if you overdose, whereas pot cannot kill you no matter how much you have.

Wait, I thought THC could kill you, except you are unable to smoke enough to reach toxic limits. Coffee is weak enough I can't imagine I could consume enough to give myself Caffeine poisoning before I got water poisoning.

If you're talking about pure caffeine, make sure you compare it to pure THC.
As a founder it makes a ton of sense to sell early. Cashing out for $2M (or whatever) for 18 months work is hard to say no to. For an employee with <5% equity though it can't be all that great. If the decision was yours alone and you were acting in a purely financially self-interested way what would you have done?
that looks really nice. Is there an interactive version, like ipython but with pipelining? Also is there any way to use pipe for pipelining rather than carat (a bit sad but Im used to reading pipe as pipe after twenty years of Unix and DOS).
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That was interesting to read, thanks.

>>40 million Chinese people lost their lives to the Japanese

More than I've read, reference?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_war_crimes#Mass_killin...

(Also, see famine parts there.)

Also, that figure seems much higher than the official Chinese:
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_Chinese_were_killed_by_th...

How many did the Chinese communist party get killed with hunger in the sixties and during the culture revolution?

>>War is awful and thankfully the Internet seems to be eliminating 99.9% of armed conflicts.

I think that is more of the democratic peace theory -- democracies don't fight wars with each others (-: not even USA :-). In the rest of the world, we really hope that China stays stable and go democratic...
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I believe it's not accidental that all passwords that they crack in the demo are 14 characters or less, that can mean that they attack the hashes which are always possible to crack, the speedup they claim is 100 (they simply increased tables from 8 GB to 80 GB and put them on SSD) but e.g. 1000 seconds before was also very fast for somebody who just needed to gain access to one target.
Microsoft acts like it is the dominant player because most of its employees genuinely believe it's a question of time for their inherently superior technology becomes dominant.

It's sad in a way.
the dude who made the toilet would be like shit yeah i made the toilet.
being a mac user; having an 800x600 monitor; keeping your browser window at 575px; being blind.

one of these things is not like the others.
I cannot see them giving up client-Side Silverlight that easily; controlling the whole stack is an advantage for them just as it is for Adobe (if Flash is king, Adobe sells tons of developer tools, and possibly licenses on mobile devices) or Oracle (with java).

So, I expect their strategy is to have a full Silverlight path where supported, with a fallback to HTML/SVG/Canvas when needed. If so, Windows 7 Phone phones would currently have more need for a good Silverlight implementation than for good/full HTML5 support.

If Windows 7 Phone phones manage to gain traction, the business strategy could then well be to decrease effort on the HTML5 fallback path.
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Looks like you are right. I wish it would be possible to un-upvote a Hacker News submission.
Run a few basic, even worst case, valuation scenarios and I think you'll answer that question for yourself.
I feel bad for anyone who can't use languages that aren't supported by Visual Studio.
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If the FSF want Apple to take notice, they need to give them a reason to take notice. Appealing to Apple's sense of morality is optimistic at best.
For an employee with <5% equity though it can't be all that great

But since this thread is about acquisition by Google, don't forget that many of those employees that drew <5% now work for Google. Some continued working on the acquired product, and some might be reassigned to an existing or new project. It seems to me that isn't a particularly bad situation for an equity employee.
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Then why did Sam fuck over his loyal users?

Nobody ever asked us to pay. We would have. But suddenly, bam! It's gone.

Was it a non-negotiable part of the acquisition? Or did he not even try to negotiate?
I have been saying for a while that we should just legalize all drugs, for excalty the same reasons outlined in Paul's post. I don't care what people do to their own bodies as long as it isn't harming anyone else. However, I can see a lot of anti-drug organizations and charities popping up to educate people on the dangers of heroin, etc. Hopefully that will give us the maximum freedom while also providing some good drug education to reduce the amount of heavy drug addictions.
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all the nonsensical arguments about android being open/closed vs iOS being open/closed should apply 1000x to this project.

They deved all summer in a closed environment, then pushed a release, and then people were surprised that it wasn't any good......
Well, F# doesn't allow closures to access local mutable variables, and they don't seem "totally useless". In the case of a for loop, F# seems more intuitive: if you loop and generate closures using the loop variable, each closure will get the value at the time its created.

This isn't as straightforward in C#, as there are no immutable local bindings. It's annoying, but given the overall language, is probably the best fit.
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Facebook lets my disabled mother stay in touch with the members of her extended family, who otherwise would only be available at get togethers that she is not always well enough to travel to. It is the most important non medical technology in her life after the Wii. (Her doctors want to give Nintendo a medal, because that is amazing for rehabilitation.)
Hmm, I guess I'll just go out to 15 (or 60, safe for a few years) digits of Pi instead of 14...
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If they're really just using 80GB on the SSD (as the linked-to article suggests), why not just use a server with 128GB of RAM and avoid writing to disk altogether?
Reading this feels like dejavu beside I'm responsible for 3 little kids (1, 2.5, 4). Having three of them instead of one is a bit more demanding, but not that different. My day looks very similar.

I'm bootstrapping a game (http://www.car-battle.com), it made $0 so far which doesn't make it easier, but working in such environment you have to be super-persistent to make it work. This is what I do.
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Why was my title edited? It is so OG [1]. Think about it in the context of, this is my research project/company launch page. OG is accurate and should not have been stripped from the headline. Unless of course someone did this first?

[1] http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=og
I clicked the link, and the random band-picker picked Eagles for me. So the line on the top said "I'm in the mood for Eagles videos", and the video playing under it was Iron Maiden's Where Eagles Dare.

Just the old demo effect, I'm sure.
With a separate salt for each password the rainbow table becomes useless.

If an attacker has both the salt and the hash, they are back to computing the table (brute force)
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> I'm basing my arguments on my experience taking care of heroin addicts in inner-city Baltimore.

Nice. Maybe try leading with that next time, instead of "Heroin is a wheelbarrow full of rockets." or something, hey? :)

I'm not arguing point #1 - I'm arguing that your point #2 is flawed. Your experience likely biases you in that direction, since you will have seen the absolute worst cases of addiction, instead of someone like a lawyer or executive who can afford to have a heroin habit without it bankrupting them, or who isn't addicted.
I think then it becomes a resistance thing. We refuse in such numbers that these pat downs become too much to handle.

It at least takes the fight to them.

Unfortunately such a strategy needs strong adoption; and sadly most of modern society seem too apathetic.
True, but I suspect a 80GB SSD is a lot easier to afford for your common basement hacker than a box with 128GB of RAM.
Quite.

One can't blame companies for being a bit protective of their timetable data. If this kind of data escapes into the wild there's a genuine risk of what is known in the biz as 'having more customers'. When this happens there's a whole knock on series of problems that the companies need to deal with, not least of which is 'working out what to do with all the extra money'.

I think perhaps this chap didn't consider these factors when he cooked up his little application. Will he be stumping up to repair any tracks that get worn out earlier due to increased passenger numbers? I think not.
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> was mainly due to the fact that it's so damned hard to identify until it's beyond the point of treatment.

Yes indeed, which is why I talked about the first symptoms (though I could have added the precision of the first detected symptoms, in my father's case a strong pain in the lower back for no apparent reason). According to the article, pancreatic cancers are actually pretty slow and long-lived but they tend not to make themselves known until the very end when they've already started to metastasize and it's too late for treatment.

What I meant by "pancreatic cancers are awful" is mainly that the prognosis at the moment is one of the worst possible.