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I type it with a custom iPad app that acts like a
wireless keyboard (over wi-fi). ASCII is at the top (and of that's all you need, fine); however, if you swipe up, the board scrolls to reveal (and snap to) another full pane of keys. You can have as many boards as you want, all fully configurable (using the "server" app on the computer the keyboard is sending key events to.)

Right now, I'm learning APL using it; it's pretty comfortable for that. An important point, though, is that APL has a finite number of extra keys. Every symbol you insert in a source file is a symbol other developers have to have a way of typing—so, while this system can work for APL or arbitrary-symbol-lang-with-a-keyboard-conf-file-in-the-installer, it won't let you just define whatever symbols you please on a file-by-file basis.[1]

[1] ...for now. I'm thinking about writing an IDE hook that scans your project for symbols your keyboard can't type given your board-set, then dumps them into a temporary "project keyboard palette", that you get to by swiping to the left/right. This would let you go beyond Unicode to use arbitrary pictorial symbols (i.e. SVG images) as characters. If you could drag keys off your palette and onto your personal boards, keyboard symbology would then become a memetic process, spreading from project to project when the symbol is useful to the reader, much like words spread in conversation.
The fact that on the mobile screen there’s just not room for that stuff makes me increasingly wonder how much we really need it.

So true. It's so bad on the (normal) web these days that I often visit the mobile version even from my computer's browser.

Also:

Gosh, this notion of tying everything together loosely with addresses, data types, and a few simple verbs seems to have legs.

Sarcasm is necessary here as it's so obvious where all of this is going. We've already seen it on PCs; the web wins for 99% of all needs.
Is it legal? :)
Very good advice. Back in college, I turned to coding groups for other forms of social support and wound up meeting a lot of interesting people. Most of all, I met my wife through one of those groups so it worked out very well for me indeed :)
I'm using the term "smart drugs" to match the original post, but left it in quotes - I'd be more inclined to say "nootropics", which (intentionally) narrows the scope a bit.

Every couple months a post comes up on HN about nootropics, and within a few hours it typically gets derailed by comments about how taking speed is totally awesome. I try to remind people that 1) amphetamines are not "smart drugs", they have pretty nasty side effects and are generally unsustainable, 2) if taking nootropics (or any other drugs) it's a good idea to do research first, and HN doesn't count, 3) some are much less risky than others, and 4) they'll probably get more benefits from getting enough sleep and exercise, if they aren't already.
If there's a problem, why was the app submitted? Did the problem appear after the app was submitted? If not, if the problem existed at the time the app was submitted, then the app ought not to have been submitted.
yeah and Hannah Montana Linux

http://hannahmontana.sourceforge.net/Site/Home.html
You're trying to help someone who lost his self-confidence by making him feel ridiculous. It can't work.

Advising someone lonely to "Go meet some people" is a bit like telling him to be happy. How do you do that? If he has trouble speaking to other people, a good start could be to talk to a psychologist or a priest or anyone whose job is to listen.
And now Robin Hanson has weighed in at Overcoming Bias http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/10/goertzel-on-friendly-a... . Mostly agreeing with Ben Goertz's position. He is pretty skeptical about, and has been for some time, the hard-takeoff position.
This.

The main hurdle is actually a UI problem: How do you make a structure editor with the ease of use of a text editor?
I guess not :p

I don't know about the US in particular, but most countries have laws against intrusion into computer systems, referred as "automatized data processing" or the like. For example in France, you'd risk up to 3 years in prison and a 300,000€ fine for that kind of actions.
I don't have to work anymore, and it wasn't glorious at all.

http://www.petermichaud.com/essays/how-i-retired-at-age-25/

http://techzinglive.com/page/187/techzing-38-pete-michaud-re...

http://techzinglive.com/page/496/81-tz-panel-pete-michaud-ro...
I honestly reminds me of two talks from Startup School. One from Tom Preston-Werner of GitHub. He talked about "luck" and how part is chance and part is you. He moved himself to Silicon Valley to improve his luck. He also talked about the basic steps he used to "work his way up" to a success:
http://www.justin.tv/startupschool/b/272178966

The other was from Brian Chesky of AirBnB. He and his co-founders basically did whatever they had to, including selling novelty cereal boxes, to move up. He started his talk by saying how he was "powerless and obscure" and the moves he and AirBnB made, including joining Y Cominator to get to where they were profitable and "on the map"
http://www.justin.tv/startupschool/b/272180383

We may not start out by fetching coffee for Paul Graham's 3nd assistant (I doubt he has one), but we do all have to start from somewhere and make whatever moves we have to in order to move up. That may involve toiling at night, moving to SF or elsewhere, or whatever. But it still just needs to get done.

Enough said, I've got some coding to do this Saturday night.
Try sacrificing something real like time with your family and let me know how it feels. Not everyone has regular TV time to replace.
Google is more than happy to throw together a minimum viable product and release it, as they have with Wave, GMail, their numerous other 'beta' programs, etc. I can only imagine how much Jobs would have slowed this process, making sure that everything was just perfect.

The other edge of the sword is that some of the products that failed may have succeeded had someone paid attention to the word "viable" in the phrase "minimum viable product."

Also, AppleTV is evidence that Jobs/Apple is willing to be patient with a product if the circumstances warrant.
The startup stories you're talking about are propagated because they appeal to a wider audience. People love lottery-level overnight success stories because that's something they can understand. Only the HN crowd can understand working just as hard, being just as passionate and only making a decent to "upper-class" living. That's not a sexy story.

That said, I don't think these types of startups don't get recognition. For example, who on HN doesn't know about patio11 and BCC? What about Peldi and Balsamiq? The stories are out there - we just choose to ignore them because Google and Facebook level is sexier.

Personally, I'm entering year three of my successful (to me) company. In fact, we just past the two year anniversary of taking our first credit card from our first subscriber and things are on the up and up. I'll be blogging about soon. Let's see how many people actually care to hear the story.
Or just clear the NYT cookie
Yeah, you'd want to use a short USB extension cable.
Of course -- everyone in games seems to use Perforce. There are no better alternatives, including p4-git, and believe me, I've looked. Subversion is passable but slow.

Even though I use git for all my personal stuff, if I started a console or PC studio, I too would be setting up a P4 server the first week rather than even experimenting with git.

As you say, it seems to be the only code-oriented VCS that also comfortably handles large files (especially larger than available memory) with reasonable speed.

Traditional version control systems consider giant files a user smell.
First off, very few people would use heroin if opium were legal. But even ignoring that, heroin is one of the safest drugs there is. There are virtually no longterm negative effects on physical or mental health[1], and it's almost impossible to accidentally O.D. on, especially if you're doing it with folks who have access to naloxone. Of the 500k+ current users, there are only ~200 deaths per year from heroin[2], and a good chunk of those are suicides. In other words, it's perhaps 25x safer than smoking American cigarrettes.

[1] C.f. The Consumer Union Guide to Licit and Illicit Drugs.

[2] Not counting polydrug deaths.
Note that you don't actually know what kind of device it is. It's USB, but it's not necessarily just a flash drive. For all you know it's hooked up to a microprocessor-driven exploit-o-bot.
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A page dedicated to landoflisp on sbcl would great. clisp looks like more trouble to install on my mac than the sbcl package.
I suspect they incorporated two different pre-existing symbol sets - the Greek alphabet and a set of scientific symbols.

Added - they did; here is an older version (3.0) of the standard online http://www.unicode.org/book/u2.html
Sure, there is also the potential threat of someone breaking into my home/office and installing secret videocameras to record my keyboard and get my truecrypt password (or more easily, opening the "safe" and figuring out what string of characters in a certain notebook is it). However, I don't worry about such things, and neither would I worry connecting a random usb to my practically disposable netbook.
The Rolodex counts for more because it's almost always hard to determine from the early script stage what's viable and what isn't. Unlike Silicon Valley, there is not Minimum Viable Product or prototyping in Hollywood - by the time you can see any sort of film, you've spent 80% of your total budget. There's also a lot more emphasis on individuals - if Charlie Sheen goes to Sing Sing, then "Two and a Half Men" is boned, but Facebook can still build products without Zuckerberg
That's hard; I've been there. I tend to smile and bear it. As long as you weren't as much of a jerk to them as they are to you, hope for the best?
They've open-sourced the code they used to generate it as a general-purpose cladogram generator: https://launchpad.net/gnuclad
I agree with everything you said except the fact where you said that Apple doesn't act as a start-up, see here: http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/jun2010/id20100...

Apple has refocused their strategy on core products, in contrast to Google. Encouraged openness and debate. And finally, created cohesion across business units. Apple is a different beast than Google, but I don't think that because they operate in differing ways that makes one more of a start-up than another.
He is Indian, and therefore probably comes from a very close knit circle that has been largely controlled by people other than himself, and thus, doesn't see himself as the man he really is; and therein lies the 'problem.'
When I started developing my product two years ago, I seriously thought about throwing my product into the source code hosting ring. I knew I had a product that could compete but as you pointed out, the landscape is constantly changing and it is also one of the places where you have compete by price.

Look at the recent shift by Bitbucket after being purchased by Atlassian. Bitbucket can now afford to be a money pit so that Mercurial can gain further adoption. Atlassian is really trying to build an enterprise solution around Mercurial (they've said this publicly) so they don't care if they lose money with Bitbucket. And this is going to affect Github. Only time will tell how much of an impact this is going to have.

So yeah I'm glad I decided I didn't want to get into this market space. I decided I was better off focusing on developing the innovations and be a complimentary asset for sites like Github, Bitbucket, and other hosting sites instead. My product certainly has overlap with some of the things that Github and Bitbucket has, but it's not designed to be a hosting solution. It's more of a competitor for Atlassians Fisheye and Fogcreeks kiln.

If you are curious you can see a bit of my tool in action at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfEDwirFO1s

Sorry it has no sound so it might not make any sense.
They can't sue anyone that uses GCC because GCC is GPL-licensed and, by requiring Apple to give unrestricted redistribution rights, the GPL effectively shield downstream users.
I don't know how cryptography works, so I'd like to know why the key length for all cryptography schemes seems to go up in powers of 2. What's the reason one couldn't have a 1300 bit RSA key, for example?
I guess this is all in the constitution as majority rule with minority rights. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few except when the needs of the few outweigh the needs of the many.
:p
At that time the only argument you were able to produce was that, if Apple decided to go belligerent on whatever patented tech they collaborated to Clang/LLVM, we would have to go to a previous, pre-Apple, version and fork it from that. That would be a version from a good couple years back.

Being able to fork is the ultimate defense to certain corporate evils, but a license that doesn't provide some protection against patents, obviously, won't protect you against that specific evil.

BTW, I use GCC most of the time. And I am shielded from any patented technology Apple may have contributed to it since the NeXT days by the redistribution clause of the GPL.
Yeah, I agree it lacks a certain punch. But then again if that's the problem when you take the hyperbole out of the copy there's a bigger problem. :)
Reminds me of something I read about the advent of cheap disk-based digital cameras with video capabilities and iMovie when they came out in the early to mid 2000s. The NYT or Rolling Stone or some other magazine interviewed a couple of documentary directors about how they were using these tools to test out ideas or do simple, short pieces.

One of the directors basically said now that these tools were available, people who wanted to break into the industry no longer had an excuse to not make movies. "Lack of available time" might be considered a fallback, but as TFA points out, getting up an hour earlier every day, multitasking during your commute, or switching off the damn TV can work wonders.
Don't mess with France. They gave Jérôme Kerviel a 4,900,000,000€ fine.
I'm affiliated with a Canadian university; we cover pretty much every field except medical and legal.

I think the students who wax lyrical about their volunteerism are usually in the liberal arts, though.
Isn't that a market inefficiency just waiting to be exploited, then? Pick scripts on their merit => make better movies => make more money => starve out the studios with irrational practices?
I used to get this all the time, I once received an 'undelivered' slip for a package allegedly attempted to be delivered at 11am, but the slip was pushed through my mail slot at nearly 2pm. I was out the door and saw the truck driving off, was back in and called the number on the slip and told them, not so politely to put the manager on the phone right now. Explained what just happened, from that day on my package was always delivered.
It may be legal, but not in the sense that access to it is unrestricted. I can't think of a situation where it is possible for a black market to exist for a legal and unrestricted product.

Not that I'm arguing for or against just enjoying seeing the opinion of other HN readers.
They appear to have them for sale on ebay...
So, here's how I see what Jay brought to the table at Digg:

- Lots of contacts to close the series A (a plus).

- Did not move to SF when the company's office was established there (a minus).

- Brought in a large group of people he worked with before at high salaries to be the "management" group (a minus).

- Used Digg to subsidize the establishment of Revision3, a company that he had a much larger ownership share in (including having full-time employees working for Revision 3, but paid by Digg, as well as Revision3 using Digg facilities and intellectual property). (A huge minus).

- Failed in the one thing that a parachuted-in CEO is supposed to do, secure an exit (another huge minus).

So you're going to let him incubate your company? You're a fool.
I doubt he's going for irony, but like the US Ruling Class (a current favorite term for them is the "Gentry Class") there's no particular reason to expect you, a European, to understand American Exceptionalism.

They and you weren't taught it, and therefore without some research you're not going to be able to comprehend what's going on over here, what this latest Great Awakening labeled the Tea Parties is all about, etc.

Although if you think about what America did and didn't do in WWII and afterwords in Europe you might get a few clues (e.g. compare our "Empire" to any other in history).
It's quite possible that you might not need half those scripts especially if they're simply to deal with inefficiencies or failings in SVN.
It's hard to compare life to life but I was in a similar funk some years back and found going to a therapist very useful and uplifting. It wasn't a "psychotherapist" and I was never prescribed any drugs, but just being able to spill and self rationalize everything I was thinking verbally with a neutral party really turned my thought processes around. Therapy is rarely a solution, but it can be a great catalyst and a way to find out which direction to head off in.
So true. I commute to school by foot, train and subway every day, just over one hour each way and during each trip I get in an extra 15 minutes of walking, 30 minutes of reading/computer work, and about 10-15 minutes reading the WSJ and NYT business and tech sections on my iPod touch, when compared with my classmates who drive. Admittedly, they're usually in their cars for 30-45 minutes each way, but it's not as productive, except maybe as a place for some solitary deep thinking.
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Just wanted to give you a strong seconding. I'm most certainly an introvert, I could easily spend (and enjoy) months alone with my work and hobbies, yet I'm not shy at all and go out of my way to speak at events and meet people to benefit my work. It takes all types..
Not sure how much control you have over the remote machines, you could do something like ssh and VNC. TightVNC has a client that supports ssh tunneling.
This is a great idea with the caveat that once someone puts some nasty malware on one/all of the drives, it starts to get a lot less fun.
You know it's funny you mention that, because I just finished reading an AV Club interview with the producers of the original Saw movies. It was one thing to have a script passed around from place to place, but these guys went the extra step and made a 5-minute short to demonstrate the concept.

Telling people you're talented and showing them you're talented are two different things, and it's surprising how few people take that one step to get into the latter category. And sometimes it's not that difficult to actually do.
tl;dr from the pros please! My ferret-like attention span defeated me on this one.
I think sometimes it's more about the ability to form patterns from experiences. Like intuitive play in chess. Or ghost limbs in TED video http://www.ted.com/talks/vilayanur_ramachandran_on_your_mind...

Sometimes I think it's just me forgetting the details of what I've learnt so I can't explain it to someone properly.
I don't know about buying one from a vendor, but I bet if you knew the right ahem ring of people you could get a... used... one for whatever the blackmarket rate is
The Pantheon is awesome, but one shouldn't think, "They don't make 'em like they used to."

Almost all structures built 2,000 years ago do not exist today. The ones that do exist are all marvelous feats of engineering because if they weren't, they wouldn't have stuck around for 2,000 years. I guess it's an example of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

OK, back to gawking at the Pantheon. It's absolutely stunning that people could build such a dome using 5,000 tons of concrete, no steel, and no power tools.
Not even just that, but someone could rig up a USB plug that shorted out the power (or, worse, rammed 9V from a battery back up it) and cream your USB port..
I'm not one for conspiracy theories, but I do find it strange that this new type of threat comes days after the BA chief complained about overly-strict US security measures.

This response says, "See, we do need them! And we probably should add a few more measures too!"
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Somehow, I'm not comforted by reassurances that an AGI is likely to have a human-like value system, given how humans have often treated other humans who are 1) Different from themselves in some way and 2) Technologically more primitive.
Previous discussion on HN (Though the story was posted on Huffinton Post)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1629521
Does anyone know what UI lib they used for replacing WPF ? Qt ?
So looking at this from a scientific perspective, essentially anybody can be a CEO (memories of that classic Dan Ackroyd/Eddie Murphy movie "Trading Places" comes to mind).

Scientifically any theory about Zuck doing an "extraordinary job" is non-falsifiable.

Why then should we read the innumerable puff pieces about why one person should be CEO and another person COO?
I'm not even a game developer or a C++ developer but he gives me the same motivation. It blows my mind there's a guy who clearly has a significant level of wealth (healthy 8 digits, at least) yet gets down into the guts of coding an iPhone game for months at a time. That's world champion passion right there.
Speaking to a group of new hires at an orientation session last spring, Mr. Williams said Twitter had three goals: to change the world, to build a business and to have fun.

I see Union Square in the Crunchbase profile for Twitter (http://www.crunchbase.com/company/twitter) but I also see Morgan Stanley and T. Rowe Price. This leads me to ask: How well or how poorly do the goals of VCs and angels align with those of the founders? VCs have a responsibility to deliver a return to their investors -- what implications does that have for operating a company when a founder states that he wants to change the world or build a legitimate business or have fun?
I don't have a blog because I have yet to convince myself other people would be interested in what I have to say. I might have to start one.
It depends on your goals and this isn't just true for TV writing - it's true for everything.

I just watched The Social Network, and it's a perfect example - slaving away as somebody's assistant, pumping your connections, doing something on the side, "meeting important people", you will eventually get into one of those exclusive finals clubs, and then live a life of secure mediocrity. Perhaps even at a very high level, making very good money.

If, on the other hand, you're actually obsessed about creating something great, you end up inventing facebook. There's a good chance you'll fail, too but at least you have followed your dreams and imaginations. I guess it depends on what kind of person you are, and what your goals are.

I assume that really great writers - or great anything -never did the connections thing.
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I don't think this is really "going electric". These are new electric locomotives for two lines that already run electrified passenger service: the Northeast Corridor has since around 2000, and the Keystone Corridor (on the portion to Harrisburg) has since about 2006.
Was this told to you in confidence? If so, you shouldn't have posted this.