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1.9.1 -> 1.9.2 changed the way threads were handled, which was pretty huge. And good for Ruby.
So the guy who built a multimillion dollar enterprises - Digg and Revison 3 has to resort to a newsletter now? Aren't other people doing the same thing with interviews now? Like MIXENERGY:
http://mixergy.com/y-combinator-paul-graham/
Whaaaaa?
Strictly for the purposes of (expensive) price comparisons of processor products from Intel (and yes, straying from the x86 architecture), the various versions of the Intel Itanium 9300 series processors were (are?) priced from $946 to $3838, and that's in quantities of a thousand.
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Well, it appears as if 2011 is the year that parallax web designs go mom-and-pop mainstream and I predict they'll become as common as web2.0 shiny Beta badges and Comic Sans font usage shortly.

I personally don't see much merit in this submission other than ad-spam. It's not a new technique any more and I don't even consider this a particularly good example of it.
Whoops, `baz() and baz()` actually doesn't work, because foo may not return a truthy value (and bar definitely doesn't). One fix, which actually makes it even shorter, is just `baz(), baz()`.

Same goes for `bar(bar(...)) and bar()`; all the `and`s should be commands instead in my solution above. Of course, this is Python-specific.
I'm guilty of taking this myth literally myself. Until recently, when I experienced the complex scenario that "ideas don't matter" represents. A better way to communicate this might be: "Ideas don't matter unless proven otherwise".

My experience with "ideas don't matter":

A few months ago I pitched an idea to my idea buddy. We are very committed to financial independence, so he took me seriously. And he asked all the questions he needed to clearly understand what I was suggesting. Still - despite his respect for me - he shrugged it off as me being silly and grasping at straws.

In the weeks that followed I took my hands off my "big" idea to see how well this "little" idea would turn out. The holidays where coming and I needed a smaller project to focus on for the shorter more inconsistent periods of programming time I'd have to invest in a project.

A few weeks later I emerged with a hacked together prototype. I thought to myself.. "I was right, this is cool!". Proud of my programming abilities and pleased that my idea "worked"; I presented the prototype to the same friend.

To my surprise he pretty much flipped out. He went on and on about how simple and brilliant it was. How he had not envisioned of how great the idea was based on my original pitch. I took a step back and related with him, then realized I might be on to something.

After a few more weeks of polish on the prototype, he forced me to present my idea/execution at one of our local developer Meetup's. After boring the 25 participants with other programming topics I presented my prototype. The room lit up with energy and participation, questions fired off from all corners of the room, and the presentation went on to extend past its allotted timeframe. Again, I was caught off guard.

I come up with 5 ideas a week, and there was no reason for me to believe this particular idea was any more promising than any other I spout off at random. I just picked it because it was fun and convenient. Looking back I'm in awe at how this idea was almost as useless as the rest of the ideas I file away. And while I don't yet know if this idea is a "diamond", it has already positively impacted my life for the coming months.
Although it may spark some interesting conversation and debate, this chart isn't really all that relevant in light of modern portfolio theory and asset allocation. While I don't disagree with the data itself, the premise that a reasonable retirement portfolio would include a single mutual fund (or ETF) that is composed of 100% stocks, not to mention the fact that they are primarily large-cap growth stocks (the S&P 500), is illogical at best.

Not only should a retirement portfolio be exposed to a much wider range of risk factors than simply large-cap U.S. growth/blend stocks (bonds, TIPS, international stocks, REITs, small-cap value, etc.), but holding only a single asset class eliminates the possibility for an investor to rebalance their portfolio to maintain an appropriate asset allocation that is in line with their ability, willingess, and need to take risk (not to mention the fact that rebalancing, by definition, requires an investor to sell investments that have increased in price and purchase those that have decreased in price).

In my opinion, a more interesting chart is The Callan Periodic Table of Investment Returns: http://www.callan.com/research/download/?file=periodic/free/...

Quite simply it demonstrates that the performance of different asset classes relative to each other can change drastically from one year to the next. It would actually be a much better chart if it included more asset classes, but at the very least it shows that returns are unpredictable in the near-term and that diversification doesn't simply mean holding a bunch of stocks (especially when they are all large-cap U.S. growth/blend like the S&P 500).
"By your logic, CalPERS can't invest in any fund that invests in private companies, as that investment would instantaneously tip the company over the "500 investor" limit."

No, that's not what I said. I said that the investors clearly have rights -- presumably including the right to know the financial prospects for their investments. CalPERS invests some money in private equity funds and limited partnerships, but that just begs the original question. I don't know what the disclosure requirements are for companies involved in that kind of investment, but then, I'm not a securities law expert.

Do you actually know the answer, or are you just asking rhetorical questions in the hope that people will interpret your questions as statements of fact?

"Meanwhile, what does diversification have to do with the structure of a venture capital fund?"

Risk.
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I have the same experience but then with pageviews and Twitter VS Facebook: Twitter users check an average of 1.2 pages on my website. Facebook users do 4.2. That means 1000 visitors from Facebook generate the same number of pageviews as 4000 from twitter.
To the extent that that's true (driving in heavy traffic is definitely not fun), balance it against the tens of thousands of people killed in car accidents every year, most of which are due to human error.
Ah, OK, thanks.

Still, does this count as "breakneck" change?

I'm not seeing it, but maybe I'm too close to the subject matter.
> What is funny for me is that motorcycles aren't as popular in the African countries that I have been

Could it be because they're too easy to steal, and there's less theft in China and India?
This reminds me of Diggnation's paywall a few years back.
Google's CEO doesn't think pilotless planes are possible by 2030: http://www.longbets.org/4. Part of his reasoning: the FAA changes so slowly that if this were even all possible, the adoption and certification would all take at least 50 years. I don't see why the same wouldn't be true (perhaps on a smaller scale) for the auto industry.
Honestly, when I read both versions of the e-mail, I liked the original better. It's not that I disagree with the author's recommendations, it's just that I think his execution didn't work too well with this particular example.

I'm not 100% sure what made me come away with that impression. I think he overdid the "make every character matter" part. For example, I intensely disliked the "and because we love you!" bit. Also, "Hi there" seems to me less fake than "Hello Friend". To top it off, the fourth step -- "Start to see the power of word to mouth marketing! " -- is yet another irritating, thinly veiled attempt to persuade me to "buy"; after all, either I truly participated in the beta and therefore I know what the site is about, or I didn't because I found out I didn't care.

All in all, I like the advice, but the example ended up being a counter-example.
So this is Freenet, only less secure?
Sounds like someone's jealous.
I posted the actual data last night: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2062502
good advice, I wish to expand on it with my experience:

It doesn't matter if the clients are complaining, as long as they are buying.

It's customers' job to complain about something - usually the price - and if the price is the only thing they are complaining about, you're probably doing great :-) If nobody's complaining about the price, it is usually a sign you're selling yourself too cheap.

I always look at how the customer is actually behaving, not what he is saying. If they stop buying, then change something - not before.
Bit of a goof on my part- I quoted only the additional price for running Elastic Map Reduct on top of an EC2 instance (not the full price).
To be fair, Objective-C doesn't use C as an intermediate language, it actually is a strict superset of C, and only the objc calls end up being "translated" to C for the runtime to execute.
If you follow twitter, you'll find out that the discount code currently is "earlybirds" and gives you 50% this week.

I also invited all of last year attendees with their own discount.
That's certainly not my industry. My industry doesn't involve underhanded tactics for extracting money from customers. I don't care for regulation in general, but this is not making honest people into criminals...this is making things that ethical companies would never do anyway illegal.
This has been a long time coming and if the review is worth something, we have a future cult film.
I was with you except for the part about slamming history majors. I'm not one, nor am I friends with any, but it's not clear to me that academics are hurting Wikipedia. If anything, I think Wikipedia could do better by following a more academic approach, and putting more emphasis on things like accountability.
As an occasional Ruby programmer, and frequent Ruby-based utility user, I do not want to compile and install Ruby or Ruby modules myself.

I empathize with you, I am the most non-techie programmer I know and I dislike compiling things from scratch. (deep breath) HOWEVER...

The culture of programming on star-nix platforms is built around building stuff yourself. It's great when there is some form of Ruby pre-installed by default on OSX, for example, but every serious Ruby programmer must go out and compile the latest version(s) at some point or another.

I wish there was an easier way, and I applaud the folks building package managers, rvm, and so forth. But underneath all these tools is a compiler, that's the architecture of star-nix paltforms and programming for them. Everyone needs to understand what their abstractions are hiding.

The only way you can make an informed choice about the convenience and security implications of choosing to use rvm or some such is if you understand how to compile Ruby for yourself on your platform.

If that isn't your bag, I will push back and ask why you're programming on a star-nix platform?
How does duck duck go make money?

I saw something about adding affiliate links to Amazon results. What else?
Anyone else remember when people were freaking at the $15b valuation of FB? Now it's not the valuation but rather the method of the investment.
Ah, I gotcha, thanks. I've only ever heard those called "3D printers". Google only turned up either artificial tree makers or logging equipment.

The Make magazine follows CTM/3DP stuff pretty closely: http://blog.makezine.com/
"Our web has been taken hostage and monopolized."

I'm not so sure that sensationalist line from their website is true. Currently I use AWS for a LOT of our latest work and I love how they (Amazon) keep pushing out new and exciting features/products. Amazon, I personally feel, championed the whole 'cloud' model that others are jumping into and I don't see this as being monopolized. Frankly, the Amazon entry made the difference to us of either bootstrapping a product or searching for VC funding - we would never have been able to run our system using traditional hosted machines and scaling up / down using EC2 helped us in a major way
Thanks, I will check that.
Cool idea. I wonder what percentage of the companies participating are willing to look at telecommuting for highly qualified candidates?
Building a product that people use is first step. Money will follow, eventually. Google didn't have revenue model in place since first date.
I always thought a mini-series would be a better format.
I see, this was just down to a lack of awareness on my part when I wrote the article. It was an assumption I based on the fact that I just hadn't seen these certificates around before now. It was certainly not my intention to mislead.
Let's do some math based on numbers usually reported:

total users	600,000,000

daily visitors	300,000,000

annual revenue	$2,000,000,000

average daily revenue	$5,479,452

average daily revenue per visitor	$0.02

So, unless I've made some serious order of magnitude error, on average they make 2 cents per visitor everyday. Maybe they can make a lot more than 10 additional cents per user per year.
Decades I can accept, centuries seem a bit too pessimistic. If we really need centuries I would expect technical and not social issues to be the holdup.

Automation has slowly been creeping into cars over the last decade or so. Lights and wipers turn on and off automatically, cars brake and belts tighten when danger is detected, systems help you keep the lane and cars can park all by themselves (brake and gas are controlled by the driver, the car steers).

All of this is a far cry from a truly self-driving car but all of this has been implemented without much fuss. All the imaginable horror scenarios did not scare citizens or politicians. I think that’s good sign and I also think that many debates about potential social problems of the introductions of self-driving cars are driven by overly negative stereotypes of political systems.

I also think that it doesn’t really matter all that much if the US doesn’t want to do it. There are more than enough other rich nations out there.
We want the whole world to teach each other and learn from the questions and answers posted on our sites. Remix, reuse, share – and teach your peers! That's our mission. That's why I get up in the morning.

However, implicit in this strategy was the assumption that we, as the canonical source for the original questions and answers, would always rank first.

Translation:

We thought syndicating content would give us Google juice but it backfired ...
Great chart. Would love to see something similar as an option on finance sites, with controllable assumptions/coloring, for any investment/portfolio (or pairwise comparison of two).

I suspect a reversing of one or the other axis might help: putting the shortest, most-recent holding periods top-right, for example, so those periods overlapping living memory are most prominent.
Current airliners are exactly as driverless as Google's cars: they have an autopilot that does virtually all of the flying, with one or two human pilots set to take over in case they have to, just as the driverless cars Google is developing have a human driver set to take over in case they have to. (That's what makes them compatible with CA state law, as Google has been field testing their driverless cars for some time now.)
I'm using CyanogenMod based on Android 1.6, but I have noticed this too. When this (rarely) happens in the call log, a press on one contact at the top of the list visually highlights another several contacts down.
You made a straw man argument that drew me into a straw man argument and here we are arguing about something totally irrelevant. Nobody is saying that investors have no rights.

Are you saying that if Matasano took funding from a VC that had CalPERS as a limited partner, we might have to make additional SEC-mandated disclosures to account for CalPERS investors? You're right: I can't tell you that I know that we wouldn't; I can only call "BS" and wait for someone else to add facts.
I don't think the US needs more economic problems right now. This is a huge deal breaker for many companies, and short term, it will result in relocation of systems to emerging markets, and other established countries, like Canada, the European Union, Brazil, Russia, China, etc. Silly, silly move.
Few. At every event we have 20 companies. Typically, 3-4 will consider telecommuting candidates seriously. We're considering hosting a remote-focused event within the next few months, but finding enough companies that are comfortable with a remote relationship is tough (not impossible though). In your experience, how do you go about finding companies that are comfortable with telecommuting?
If you have a problem where you have auto-updated your whole bundle with `bundle update` and your app is now broken, just remember that you can run `git checkout Gemfile.lock` to revert back to your previous situation. Not really as big a problem as the article makes out.

Just make sure you do your `bundle update` and then immediately run your test suite and then immediately commit to your repo, before touching any actual code. Mods to Gemfile.lock should always exist in a commit on their own so that you can easily trace any bugs back to dependency upgrades.

If you don't have source control or a test suite, you are fucked. But then you're probably fucked anyway.
Does anyone know how would this platform support messaging between users? Since each user encrypts his own data, any broadcast would have to be encrypted with every destination's public key... doesn't seem to work for stuff like a message forum.
That's the sensation of working with someone who's incredibly good.

And, BTW, the 6502 was a work of art. Simple, elegant and fast (even at 1 MHz), it ran rings around the Z-80's you found in more expensive computers of the time. Plus, it was delightful to program.
Gingerbread has a concurrent GC, so animation should not stop completely. However, on a single core system I wouldn't expect this to have a huge impact. But this is just my personal guess.
No, I think you are indeed correct.
Man, I don't know about that. That review is suffused with so much over-the-top ideology that I'm getting real Battlefield Earth vibes.
China boasts breakthrough in nuclear technology
Note that the subjectAltName method GitHub is using doesn't seem to work with stock version of curl and wget on Debian (throws a cert error)
Not so much in vms and more in beating current operating systems into actually working for the applications. I think a few other language vms had the same issue but instead of trying to beat Linux into usability they used bare hardware via qemu.
Any delay in rendering web pages is due to the network.

many many webapps do not use the network, and any latency experienced comes from the page's own processing, the browser & the os.
I wonder what pushed you to learn, make and ship in 4 weeks. Really, what was the driving force?
"I personally don't see much merit in this submission other than ad-spam."

Seems like a HN trend these days
I hate ads. I despise them. And I work as a small-time consultant along with my studies.

When I install/fix a machine, I always load Firefox with adblock plus due to the amount of harassing nasty ads. Being the location where I do the majority of my business, they are almost exclusively on dialup, so even a 100kb image add is literally 25 seconds extra load time.

Now, am I anti-capitalist? Not quite. I agree that someone doing work for money (be it a sole proprietor or company) has a right to 'hang their shingle'. I most certainly do. However, when I look at content, I do not want myself distracted from material that has no bearing on what I am looking at.

And yes, I full well understand that ad-click and purchase is what increases revenue for content based websites. I also know, from the many articles here, that google is THE player in this sphere, along with their multitude of complaints.

I also, control my network connection from my side. I also control my CPU, what resides in ram, what lands on my screen, and what I choose to not display. As I look at it, we have dealt with nearing 15 years of increasingly hostile ads. I'm only reacting in kind by being hostile to them. And I attribute banners and such like the 'last minute' sale grocery stores attempt by putting candy in the checkout lane.

Yes, I do know that my viewpoint is a minority. But I also recommend goods and services to others. So, yeah, don't abuse us and we'll pass on the sales.
They also allow the CPU register context to be saved/loaded with a single instruction as well, User-Mode Scheduler in Win7 SP1 uses it (the normal scheduler too afaik).
"You made a straw man argument that drew me into a straw man argument and here we are arguing about something totally irrelevant."

Not really. You argued that Goldman Sachs created a venture fund, and that therefore, Facebook is immune from disclosure laws. I'm saying that there's a substantial practical difference between a venture fund and what Goldman appears to be doing here (not the least of which are issues of investment diversity) and that, even if that weren't true, it's not clear that financial disclosure laws can be bypassed so easily (the CalPERS digression was yours). Other experts happen to agree on these points, so I don't think I'm coming out of left field.

But since I'm not one of those experts, and you don't seem to have any special knowledge beyond your own opinions on the matter, this thread is more heat than light. I'm done with it. Counterarguments aren't "straw men" just because they don't directly refute your original points.
Rename that article to "Why driverless cars would be nice."