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Scala is and object oriented and functional. People don't count it in the functional languages listings because it's not a pure functional language, that's all.

Here's a nice 108 page presentation, named Pragmatic Real-World Scala.

http://www.slideshare.net/rawwell/pragmaticrealworldscalajfo...
> One thing is for sure: If Wikipedia managed to handle their funding through Flattr, Flattr itself would be making a killing with their 10% cut.

A serious issue and a major downside from the perspective of Wikipedia, since people still worry about community effects: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enciclopedia_Libre_Universal_en...

Of course, there have been large-scale collaborations that have worked out before, so it's not impossible: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Wikipedia#Off-line_publi...
Not yet...

Kind of a misleading headline.
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A few pop up now and then, actually.
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. Am I the only one that remembers this EXACT feature on Google about a year ago? You had to be logged in to iGoogle, and each search result had a small [X] to the right of it that would appear on hover.

If you clicked it, that result wouldn't appear for you again. I used it all the time.

Then, lately it's gone. Maybe I was part of a small, randomly-selected test group?
Well you have the answer:

"- the JVM/CLR languages: clojure, F#, scala, groovy, jruby"

Yes, it is, it's and OO and FP.
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Android 3.0 Minimum Hardware Requirements Rumor? Bunk
Sadly the most fervent prognosticators of the "cloud" either won't read this or won't understand what it all means.
As a mechanical engineer, I felt that most of my classes were pretty useless. Tons of theoretical analysis, etc etc. I then got my first job, and while they were bringing me up to speed, I noticed that I was sure glad a knew a few things from two or three of my classes.

I went back and talked to some of my friends, and they had the same reaction, but with totally different classes for different companies.

So at least in MechE, a college degree gives you a light framework for the employers to build on, and really is more-so just a certification that you're not an idiot and can learn things.
Good idea is to package it in ziploc bags or small plastic containers. That way you don't have to defrost the entire pot if you just want to make a few cups of soup.

protip: homemade chicken stock makes an excellent base for risotto milanese!
Ask HN: What advanced office jukebox would you use?
Assuming an office of 20+ people with varying tastes, varying adoption of last.fm and spotify, and a small mp3 archive, what would you use to make sure
-the music doesn't stop
-it reflects the people who are in the room's taste.
-perhaps allowing for veto's. Maybe an equal number per employee?
-maybe it could be prioritised with a random element, i.e. vote up like HN with the occasional random song from outside the top 20 that hasn't been played today.

Any thoughts? There's quite a few basic solutions out there, but must be something more advanced?
Anyone else having problems logging into LinkedIn?
You have to look at Djangy's other sites, too.

;)

just jokes
I'm with you for the most part on package management, but Spaces does some really crazy stuff. I'll be in one space, and suddenly get jerked into another. How can that ever be appropriate?
You are correct. That was a mistake from my part.
I can't find it now but I recently read a Stanford paper where they use Wikipedia relationships to do "query expansion," which seems to be along the lines of what you're looking for. I've heard neural nets called overkill but Wikipedia relationships + neural net should yield a pretty interesting product and would allow you to suggest options for queries you've never seen before.
I deleted my original post because I want to be clear that I don't believe Josh's reputation was hurt in any way. If it came across that way, I want it gone.

I think his app and business look very interesting, and I LOVE what you are doing to promote solo-entrepreneurs.

All I'm saying is that the picture he submitted, and you posted, has set the "tone" for your site, and by doing this, you've kind-of defined your marketing strategy to match his by default, and I question whether this is the direction you really want to go with your site. Which - maybe it is, I'm getting older after all, and I'm not as silly and fun anymore.

Josh is setting the tone for his business by submitting that picture. That's how he wants to paint the picture of his business, and that's what works for him, and that's how HE will become successful, but does it help your business? I have no idea.

Anyway, no big deal, sorry for yet another confusing post on Hacker News.
> Pretty bold of Apple to push it so prominently onto every Mac user's Dock as part of a point update to the operating system.

I hope you make just bucket loads of cash. However, I wouldn't call it pretty bold. I would call it "fucking obnoxious." (Also, and totally off-topic, why does Apple keep insisting that I restart my damn machines for dinky-ass upgrades like this?)
Introducing Nemo: A Pythonic Haml
I own PressOverflow.com and it's about to expire. Does anyone want it? (free)
I had plans to do a StackOverflow Wordpress site, but it fell to the back burner. It's currently registered with GoDaddy and it would be easiest if you also had a GoDaddy account for transfer. jake@madmeta.com
I should probably mention. Nemo is built on top of Mako, so there's a tiny speed bump for Nemo processing then its as fast as Mako once the templates are compiled and cached.

Mako is faster than Django templates--at least by a factor of 4--and in the neighborhood of speed with Cheetah. Only Spitfire templates are faster.

This is important for any app that is CPU bound due to rendering speed.
Ask HN: Feeback for my startup, ParkGrades.com
great idea! :)
I agree with what you said, but in a pinch the microwave can be quite versatile.

I made excellent scrambled eggs with ham and goat cheese a week ago in the microwave because that's all that was available. Takes some care to not have it turn into a frittata, but otherwise easy to do.
My biggest takeaways:

- a goldman unit with a fiduciary duty to clients passed on the deal
- a goldman unit without any such duty is doing the deal
- goldman will make money on the deal at almost any valuation (with the ipo)
- clients need another 20% appreciation to make money (break even at $60B)
What's wrong with him trying to sell his stuff to you? It's not obtrusive, the content is valuable. Heck, he's not even selling you, via adverts.

Are you under some illusion that sites run by for-profit companies have a primary purpose other than to sell you their stuff?

Maybe it's a little offputting. But I'd put dollars-to-donuts that if it was A/B tested, they would generate a lot more revenue with the notice at the top. (Edit - just noticed there was no purchase link, so it would need to be changed to easily A/B test...)
I imagine because it opens the way for being part of the various tech funds that want to expose investors to the upside of web properties. If they get out there first then fund managers are likely to want to invest.
I studied electrical engineering at WPI for 4 years. They were going to push me into a 5th to complete the degree, so I said "heck with this" and dropped out. It was the best decision of my life, and after having paid down $60k of my over $100k in debt, I consider my biggest mistake in life thusfar to be 'going to college' in the first place. I learned lots of cool theoretical stuff with respect to dinking around with electricity and circuits, but absolutely none of my classes prepared me for my 'real world' job of being a sysadmin (for now). I have maybe three people currently in my life that I consider good close personal friends that I met in college, but they're 'friends'. Not 'business colleagues'. My advice? If you're a fairly well-performing autodidact, don't bother with college and the staggering debt that ensues.
Google is probably working on integrating its auto update to the new app store, similar to how they did it with Debian.
I don't know why someone downmodded you, but this is almost entirely correct in my Linux experience. Most of the major distros (Debian and Fedora is where most of my experience is) get so many things right it's amazing that it's all volunteers. Only when you start compiling random things from source, adding in non standard software, closed source binaries, etc, is when dependency hell can really start.
#2 would be the wide variety of keys provided by a PC keyboard. #3 would be a large, high quality monitor. #4 would be the ability to upgrade video cards and other hardware from a vast secondary market. #5 would be being able to use the computer for other purposes than gaming.
We can also look to the AdBlock extension. They have prefilled lists that you can customize, so it's a "shared ecosystem" that you subscribe to, then customize yourself.
AT&T joins the 4G fraudsters
My mother grasped the idea pretty easily, actually, but then again she always used Macs.

If it wasn't for Windows confusing people by conflating windows with applications, I suspect most people's mothers wouldn't have a problem with it.
This is good advice and all, but the problem is many people can't afford to go to college with just two responsibilities like you have listed. Going to college and working to help pay for it SUCKS. Some of the most miserable bits of my life were weeks on end of no sleep because I had a job and midterms/finals.

So, if you have a well off family or you are willing to go $60k in debt and make it the most fun experience of your life, then that is one thing. But for a large portion of practical people who realize the implications of $60k in unsubsidized school loans, college is a rough four years.
Congrats to Octopart!
This part:

>its amazing how apple expected customers to pay for the same digital product over and over.

Or are you trying to pretend you didn't say that?
...and tech-savvy people visiting their relatives forced to do some tech support.
Intel's arch enemy has been AMD and IBM in the past -- and MS has supported running on architectures for both of those companies over Intel in the past.

Remember that x86-64 came from AMD and Intel supported it only after it was clear that it was going to be the 64bit architecture, not Itanium. And Intel was pretty POed that MS went with IBM over Intel for XBox360.

My point, these things happened in the past and will continue to happen.

The end of the PC era began with the emergence of the web. Everything else we're seeing a simply a side-effect of the web. Ironically, MS saw this coming 15 years ago, and their attempts at slowing it may have inadvertantly accelerated it.
More to the point: neither of those belong as part of iTunes.

(Well, maybe the music store. But device management and syncing makes no sense.)
We just launched last month and the feedback from users has been great.

Would appreciate any constructive feedback, especially on:
Homepage Design
Review format (e.g., http://http://www.parkgrades.com/parks/scottsdale-ranch-park)
*Anything else that jumps out at you...
BigQuery, meet Google Spreadsheets
Mac App Store Questions
Here is the direct link to the discussion about the problem on Apple's support forum:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2709726...
I wasn't aware that this topic/format had been done before.

Whilst I can't guarantee that the interviews will be read by millions of people, I do have a fairly large network of sites in the web development industry and will be promoting all the interviews as best I can.

I've also tried to keep the interviews pretty short, so hopefully it won't be too large an investment of your time.

I don't know where this will lead, at the moment I'm just trying to promote some great projects from some talented people.

Could it lead to a book with more detailed interviews at some point, I can only hope :)
When is the end of jumping the gun going to begin? :p

Some people are just too eager to see the PC die - rest assured that it will some day but you need to be a bit more patient. Windows on ARM or ARM based tablet announcements do not make a PC dead - not so fast.
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Cornell's Clairvoyant Undergrads
Whats the era after the PC called? Is this mobile computing era? Or the ubi-comp era? I'm inclined towards the latter.
When was the last time a gaming platform start-up who wasn't Microsoft, Sony, or Nintendo went anywhere?

I'm reminded of the other one that was over-hyped by engadget a few years back. The one whose ceo bilked investors out of 10s of millions, made an incredible amount of hype, but never delivered anything more than video of the remnants of his 200mph Ferrari crash?
(Off-topic rant)

Yes, because it's vitally fucking important to interrupt my workflow everytime there's a new "Shit My Dad Says". God, I hate Growl sometimes.
Nope, sorry. There are users with a financial incentive to game the system. The "actual measures to prevent abuse" would have to be pretty damned sophisticated. Algorithmic, in fact. Which brings us full circle...
I'm a solo. You should join http://www.reddit.com/r/solostartups

My apps at https://zetabee.com
Why can't you target your content to specific affiliate marketing promotions?

I've found the adsense ads on my sites are not contextual, but based on the search history of the user (according to Google).

Quick question: You track how many people actually want the facebook login page, but what do you do with that info? Specifically, how to you use that knowlesge to improve the user's search experience and expectation?
I disagree. The PC era is evolving, not ending. How many people still have and use a traditional desktop or laptop computer at home? Microsoft is filling a growing demand for an OS on smaller form factor devices by supporting ARM processors with the next release of Windows, but the traditional PC market is still alive and kicking, its just not "cool" anymore; it's seen as more of a utilitarian tool than a novelty at this point, whereas smartphones and iTablets currently retain the novelty factor, thus their pervasiveness at CES.
Apple Patents Rotary iPhone
Very cool and very uncool.

Cool: that it works in a decent way, and uses a neat trick.

Uncool: You can't export the image into a 3D file, making it 99% less useful that it would be otherwise.

Suggestion: export it as VRML, it's trivial format that you can generate starting from your points. Use this format (from my own code, so use it as you wish):

fprintf(fp,
"#VRML V2.0 utf8\n"
"Shape {\n"
" appearance Appearance {\n"
" material Material {\n"
" diffuseColor .5 .5 .5\n"
" }\n"
" }\n"
" geometry ElevationGrid {\n"
" xDimension %d\n"
" zDimension %d\n"
" xSpacing 0.01\n"
" zSpacing 0.01\n"
" solid FALSE\n"
" creaseAngle 6.28\n"
" height [\n", hgt->width, hgt->height
);

for (y = 0; y < hgt->height ; y++) {
for (x = 0; x < hgt->width; x++) {
height = getheight(x,y);
h *= YOUR_3D_MULT_FACTOR;
fprintf(fp, "%f", h);
if (y != hgt->height-1 && x != hgt->width-1) fprintf(fp,",");
if (x == hgt->width) fprintf(fp,"\n");
}
}

fprintf(fp,
" ]\n"
" }\n"
"}\n"

3d studio and other programs will happily import this stuff.
Disclosure: I used to work for LinkedIn.

I think there could be a first mover advantage in the social networking IPO space. In terms of Twitter, FB, LinkedIn, etc, there is not a lot of reputable data about what kind of revenue and profit levels can be generated from a big social networking site. If you're the first company in that space to file and IPO, then you might get more leeway from investors because they don't have anything else to compare to. If you're not the first, then you might be scrutinized more.
If you bought amazon at the top in 1999, it took 10 years before you broke even on the investment.

Not really what I'd call egg on your face.
I like how you can't tell it to monitor other folders for new music.
The Xbox has 2 buttons (one analog trigger, one digital) that are not visible, so it's not a totally alien concept. I'm just saying to use that idea, and move a few more buttons to the backside and leave the thumbs for analog input. Imagine using a thumbstick and a trackball at the same time, while your other fingers are available for other button presses at the same time. Desktops can't even do this type of input correctly because they're stuck with that ancient mouse-thing from the 1980's.
The PC doesn't have to die for the PC era to gracefully decline, any more than Henry Ford had to personally shoot every horse.
Congrats Sahil, on your decision to take some time. I trust that you'll quickly fall in love with the energy and meritocratic environment that is the startup world. Also know that you always can go back, even if USC doesn't normally allow it, the lessons you'll likely learn in the "real world" will make you a better student, if you chose to return (looking back I'm sure many of us wish we could do it "all over again").

I have a good friend who was offered the opportunity to work for a startup out of high school in 1999 after he finished an internship. Long story short, the company sold to Netscape and he always speaks highly of his experiences and the people he met. When he returned to school, rather than graduating "into" a decimated Silicon Valley job market, he rode the bubble until the 101 felt like a ghost town during rush hour. And he made his way back to school, where he was able to get exactly the education he knew he needed, based on experience. Now, just for the purposes of the case of one example, he is a YC W10 founder.

Obviously, dropping out of school to work as broad-stroked advice probably doesn't make sense, but in the case of a talented, driven entrepreneur like yourself, I say go for it.
Just kill Adsense, and the problem would quickly be solved.
We're not all kids.
If you are buying parts for production from Digikey, Newark, or Mouser, then you must have very low production runs. Most companies buy production parts from major distributors who don't sell in low quantities.

It all depends on the scale of your operation. If you work for a big firm, you don't order parts yourself. Someone else does that from whomever the company has relationships with. If you are at small to medium-sized company, you may order parts yourself and your order may be delayed to combine with other orders. If you are are a consultant, you really don't have the time to pour through different catalogs searching for the best price. You just stick with a few companies for most items.

In the end, most people don't order resistors from one company and capacitors from another just to save a few bucks. The time it takes to do this outweighs any price savings. This was the point I was trying to make. Many hobbyists don't like Digikey because they are expensive. I used to feel the same way until I had to order parts for freelance work. Ordering parts sucks and sticking with one company makes it easier.

Unlike others posters, I don't think this Octopart deal is going to cut into Digikey's bottom line. Like I said, Digikey doesn't compete on price, they compete on inventory.
New York growing as a base for tech companies
Must be already prepping for the IPO
Its already in the works though (release 2020) speeds faster than 1Gbps (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5G).
College students are irrationally risk averse.

Sorry, but not joining the typical startup for a below-market salary, a handful of options that will likely never pay off, and an expectation that you work 80 hrs a week may be "risk-averse" but it's hardly irrational. The main benefit to working at a startup with those conditions (not all are!) is that you want to start your own company and want to learn and build your network. But even then, a lot of these recent grads would be better off just starting a company now.
What percentage of AdWords revenue is AdSense responsible for?
As another person pointed out, "adverse events in the PDR or on product packaging are simply a list of all reported adverse events, with little data to demonstrate causality."[1] It is not implausible that the same symptom occurred in another person the vaccine was tested on while being entirely unrelated to the vaccine. If you throw away statistics - say that while it could be correlation it is much more likely to be causation - you replace science with superstition.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2076200
What federal regulations are you talking about?

I was referring to direct subway interconnects to airports being very difficult to fund, but now I'm uncertain. I was always told growing up (80's - 90's) that the reason that reason for the ridiculous off-site airport terminals for subway systems was because of federal regulation prohibited the use of certain funds for air travel. I was always amazed to see how smoothly transport to airports worked internationally, and depressed by the difficulty in the US: Boston, New York, SF.

Since then, all of the cities have changed, and now have better direct connections from their subway systems. I presumed this was a legal change, but now I'm unsure. I can't find anything directly confirming this. Here's one of the closest I can find: http://sf.streetsblog.org/2010/06/22/bart-moves-ahead-with-o...

In this case, it was determined that BART did not comply with the Civil Rights Title VI regulations regarding equity of spending for public funds, and thus was denied the use of federal funding for an Oakland subway extension. I believe this was the basis for the earlier prohibitions, based on the (reasonable?) presumption that the poor do not benefit proportionally from having easy airport access and the rich don't need the subsidy.
It was just LG caught with their pants down making up excuses, why don't they provide updates for current products.
Thanks for clarifying your point.

I see what you're saying the tone of site, but I hope the readers are able to distinguish what the site is trying to do and the personality of the solo-entrepreneurs that are featured.

And in the worst case, the picture will be replaced in a little while with another one! :)
I did say that, Pay attention to 'expectED', it is in past tense, what it means is apple used to expect people to pay for redownloads or not allow redownloads at all but now with introduction of this great new feature they are going to let you redownload or 'even redownload'. pay attention to how they said 'EVEN redownload', they are making an accent on the importance of this redownload thingy. i hope you got it now.
Not really launched, still validating ideas and such. But www.unscatter.com is all me. Not really interested in doing interviews or anything right now, it's more or less been pushed back to being a hobby rather than a project due to less time with an infant and a toddler in the home :)
This article focusses on new college grads. The questions remain, are college grads the right choice for startups and are startups the right choice for college grads. The answer will probably depend on the type of startup, the grad and time available for mentoring and training the new grad. Though I suspect the majority of silicon valley startups concentrate on hiring experienced people in the early stage before they have the resources and time to invest in new grads.

Personally I would prefer to work a couple of years for a more established company to become expert in certain technologies and learn how stuff happens at "real" companies.
It doesn't, because you're clever and knowledgable about computers. Unfortunately, not all users are like you. Tell an ordinary user to search for an app on a search engine ("what's that? oh, you mean google!"), goto that apps website, download it, and run/install it, and before you know it he'll have a dozen Bonzi Buddies stealing his credit card numbers.
I believe that Apple's iPhone Remote app and iTunes already have something similar to this. You can vote for songs from ipad/iphone devices connected to a central itunes library that plays the music. http://www.apple.com/itunes/remote/