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Tonight's Grubwith.us YC Dinner
It was great meeting with everyone who showed up tonight for the YC dinner at La Mediterranee! Thanks especially to Eddy, Howie, and Joe for providing invaluable last-minute feedback on our YC applications.

And to the rest of my fellow applicants, best of luck to us all! To innovation! :)
The ad I saw on the right side seems highly inappropriate. Or, perhaps, appropriate - I'm not sure.

http://adb.nikkei.co.jp/ad/logo/2008b/NikkeiWeekly080722-NNI...
Perhaps you ought to hone your reading skills: I'm speculating Microsoft considered it seriously enough to put it in code, not that it was a good idea.
To clarify, I am not anti-immigrant in the slightest. If anything I think we should give more people the chance for freedom here who are pursued politically in other countries. But I just cannot imagine anyone wanting to come to the USA if they can afford to be elsewhere.

For one example, you best not need medical care while you are here because you certainly will not be able to afford it and it will ruin your credit for life (one trip to the hospital with nothing actually done will cost several thousands of dollars). Secondly, if you wander outside of the more diverse college-towns and metro areas, it's rednecks everywhere (look up "redstate" on wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:United_States_Governors_ma... ).

My logic is if you are intelligent enough to start your own business that can take in money virtually, you are already way ahead of a vast majority of our own population and can have the best of both worlds - take our money and avoid our problems.
Learn the lesson of what happened to BP after they bottomed out.

http://www.google.com//finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1...
Fukushima Marks the End of the Nuclear Era
I believe estimates are that AWS revenues are somewhere in the lower hundreds of millions. Very far from rivaling their tens of billions retail business.
"the market will balance prices" - oh wait
> For instance, if the impact to transport means that we'll have to live on goods made locally and not be able to commute as far to work, that could make for stronger, more pleasant, and more sustainable communities and economic systems.

Good luck getting the rare earths from China for all those green technologies if you have to get them from local sources. The one big US mine was shutdown. The reason?

"In 1998, chemical processing at the mine was stopped after a series of wastewater leaks. Hundreds of thousands of gallons of water carrying radioactive waste spilled into and around Ivanpah Dry Lake."

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Pass_rare_earth_mine

But it's okay because, currently, we get all those rare elements from China, where you don't hear about the pollution and accidents. Of course, China is saying that they don't want to share with everyone else any more, so that may change soon.
I think the preservation is a huge, if somewhat unrelated issue. To recreate the text of one of these books people in the future will have to emulate the environment the book exists on. In some sort of apolcalyptic future that destroys the linear progression of our technological innovation (and the ability to access old content with our new technologies as they appear) everything will be lost. The learning curve for/possibility of some future society having some rosetta stone moment that allows them to recreate and run a computer program is really hard to imagine. The monolith in 2001 a space odyssey might be a symbol of what people think we are about as a society. Our iPhones, Android phones and computers just strange blocks that are worshipped in their own rights. Who knows. But the barrier for understanding our culture from some temporal outside is growing extreme.
Indeed. The genomics community is currently very angry at the FDA, as a senior official (CDRH director Jeffrey Shuren) appears to have been caught red handed lying under oath:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI-m2Cucdoo

His stated rationale is that increased FDA regulation against startups will help the"traditional manufacturers". No, really. Watch the whole thing.
It was a cute sales pitch for the company's C IDE. I especially like how they use "soccer", a word that resembles "sorcery". Talking about how one (only?) gets the gist of things and is not a kernel hacker was great to speak to the less-than-competent. Yes yes few of us write kernel modules but still. Encouraging coders to be comfortable with C when they sell a product to help, brilliant!
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Where did you get that? The article never said or implied that the Californian reactors would fail in the same way.
I voted you up.

But I think that we can make a difference against ignorance, just by speaking up. In years past, I used to make the mistake of just being quiet when political or moral topics came up, just because I didn't think it would be of any use.

I don't think that's true any longer because I realized that if you can state your case clearly enough, and it's a rational position, at least some people will listen. You don't have to immediately convince everyone, or even the majority of people. Just making the correct argument shifts the debate toward a better direction, and that's a powerful thing.
The thing is, big pharma escapes liability ALL THE TIME.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/12/29/60minutes/main7195...
That's why you need to interview all the people who had family members die during the seven year average FDA induced lag between drug submission and clearance.

That dramatizes opportunity cost.
Oberon or Modula-2 maybe?
your perception of risk may be different from others'. but the market can only express one (money-weighted) average.

also, as others have pointed out, your circumstances may differ from others'.
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Last resort, remember. I'm not saying C doesn't have its place -- I'm saying that it should be used as little as possible. While I guess there's no other option for a memory allocator, it should be quite possible to write a scheduler in another, better systems language like Rust.

edit: actually, possibly not -- Rust might be a little too abstract. My point still stands, though.
I bought an original iPhone because a colleague said "there's an awful lot it doesn't do but what it does do is so good you won't miss the rest".

I may be miremembering but I don't recall any real issues with it, and it still is the best phone I've owned.
Big pharma screws up ALL THE TIME. They simply escape liability.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/12/29/60minutes/main7195...
It's funny how different people have different perspectives on the matter. Though, I suppose that's why so much goes into research of such things.

For me, I like '$15' vs. '$14.99' or '$15.00'.

$15 looks smaller to me than $14.99 and I like round numbers.

Definitely a good question.
This is very off-topic, but I am curious about this cultural habit of Japan. Does spending 2X more hours at the office actually get 2X more work done? I tend to lose focus rapidly after 9 or 10 hours.
"Yes I have extensive experience with discrimination, and it was much worse than any founder that had to put up with being hit on. Does this make my point more valid or less?"

I find it interesting you said you have experience with discrimination and not that you are a member of a minority group, that's what I asked--not whether you've been discriminated against.

As a person who has been discriminated against, I find it completely pointless to say my suffering is worse than anothers--how would I know since I've never experienced it? I challenge you to think of the same thing in regards to this. Moreover, I never said that it would make your point +/- valid, you created that premise on your own. Your post hardly seemed like it came from somebody who has suffered discrimination, def not on the level you claim.

"The point isn't a defense of discrimination, but merely a question of total impact. A guy hit on you and you didn't like it? Tell that VC to get bent and go make money without him. " This assumes you're only going to run in to a few bad apples. Have you stopped to consider it may be way more than a few in this instance? Perhaps it is a systematic and continual thing.

"This is true, I admit I'm not a regular jezebel reader and must have missed the article where they mentioned that. Or ever seen an article anywhere lamenting this." Again, you've applied your own ideas to my words--I said that just because you've never heard about it doesn't mean that it hasn't happened. Your smart remark about Jezebel is non-sequitur to my comment and further more unappreciated. Jezebel covers pop culture and blue collar work is anything but pop-culture.

"I'd cite my stats, but looks like someone already beat me to it." Perhaps you should re-read my comment again, I asked you about methodology thus getting at a deeper analysis of the statistics you site. Also read my response to the comment you're talking about--I took the time to actually read in to the methodology on stats you talked about and expanded on it. Perhaps you take all statistics on face value but I do not.

In general, I think it's kind of funny that you typed such a long response without truly reading what I had to say.
I do not like the addition of the caps, however, I don't think I've ever gotten close to their proposed caps, either. Perhaps their DSL cap, but not the U-Verse cap. (According to my router, I've used 48GB down thus far in March.)

I have a question to which I can not recall the answer: With U-Verse, television comes over the fiber as well, correct? If so, are they considering that part of the bandwidth cap or do they look at "internet" usage only?
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Ask HN: I don't think I am a good programmer but I keep trying
I am probably one of those rare programmer/techie guys that really can't code. I have been in the industry for the past 12 years and I have been consistently making six figure salaries and getting excellent reviews at every place I have worked. I have been mostly working on the enterprise software, managing ERP packages (ala SAP) and enterprise databases (Oracle). All the while, I could not really code a program from scratch, although I could whip some shell scripts by copy pasting stuff and I was exceptionally good at troubleshooting issues and figuring out things. I also work well within teams and have also played managerial roles really well.I was always counted amongst the top 2 or 3 people in the IT organizations that I worked in. However, none of these places were cutting edge tech companies, but nevertheless all of these places have high name recognition.

I recently quit my job and started working on something that really requires hard core programming skills. I figured, I could manage it, if I sit at it for a month or so. However, I have been very ineffective in managing my time and honing my programming skills to be effective. Even when I was doing 9-to-5 jobs, even though I was exceeding the expectations of my peers and managers, I always knew that my productivity in terms of the amount of time I effectively worked, was always in the 25 to 40% range.

I want to be a good programmer, but I am starting to thin that it does not come naturally to me. I read on HN about how people started programming since they were 10 to 13 year olds and how it caught their imagination. Nothing like that happened to me when I was first introduced to computers. In fact, even though I really wanted to learn Ruby since 2004(bought my pickaxe book then), but never ended up learning. I didn't need it for my job then, but out of my own interest and wanting to learn programming, I picked it. However there was no proper follow up. That is just one example, there are many things I wanted to learn along the way and I never got good at anything.

May be I should just give up and go the management route, since all I manage to do with technology is to keep up with what is cool and current, but never able to get into any depth.

What I really want is mastery in programming, but I am somehow unable to put consistent effort to get there. Maybe I don't have the aptitude or the analytical skills required for being a good programmer. There are tons of programming videos online, but I feel drowsy and my attention shifts elsewhere within 20 to 30 mins. I however did manage to put one app in apple app store, but I took a ton of help from others to get it to the store. I know I am capable, but somehow am unable to put the consistent effort needed to get good at it. Not sure what kind of responses I am expecting, but just putting it out there is cathartic.
Indeed. I hope Linux distributions will follow with replacing Groff. It's a huge, slow, ancient system and for the purpose of formatting manpages it can be replaced by a 15-line Python script.

(this has nothing to do with C++ versus C, simply with removing some bloated UNIX legacy code)
This makes my point exactly. The cure is to oppose the FDA.

Immoral businesses love regulations because they provide huge barriers to entry for new competitors. Observe how GSK uses the FDA and other regulatory agencies to shield themselves. From the article you linked:

"GSK's manufacturing division has a strong track record of quality and compliance with current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) requirements. Various regulatory agencies - including the FDA - conduct an average of more than 100 inspections each year at over 80 GSK manufacturing sites located in over 30 countries. The FDA has raised no material issues as a result of its very thorough inspections.
...
GSK worked to bring the Cidra facility to a high level of operating performance that satisfied both GSK and the FDA."

We need to separate the state from economics, just like we separate it from church. Unscrupulous companies (not all of them are this way) use and promote regulations to keep their competitors down, and to escape legal reprecussions that they should properly face (just as your article demonstrates). Remember that Enron lobbied for strict price controls on rates charged for access to power grids. (http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/2002/04/orourke....)
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The article screwed up the units: it is likely "0.809 microSieverts per hour". Your link's figures are over one year.
AndyIngram , thanks for the info, and i thought that my friends there in Japan are in danger of radiation. when i saw this news, i thought, WTH, 23 times. it turns out im just overreacting. let's just hope and pray(if you're religious) that Japan could recover quickly. crises like this makes a nation stronger.
I don't understand your implication that striving in a career endeavor requires that you spend all your income with nothing going to savings. If anything, healthy savings will allow you to take advantage of an unexpected opportunity, and/or lessen the impact of an unexpected obstacle. This 'backup plan' will also make it easier to take risks without having to worry as much about the potential for failure. In other words, savings provides you with options.

But that's in terms of general savings. For retirement more specifically, you should definitely start now if you can afford it, due to the effects of compound interest. Try playing around with an interest calculator[1] to see why. But perhaps the best reason is that once you're 40 and have had a few curve balls thrown at you, you'll appreciate that regardless of how things turned out, you'll have put yourself in a good place financially for the long-term.

For the record, I'm in my mid-20s myself, and across my Roth and my employer's SEP-IRA, around 20% of my income is going towards retirement (with other non-retirement savings on top of that). I've set up my direct deposit such that the Roth contributions are totally automatic. It just gets dumped into three index funds: US Stock, Intl Stock, and Bonds. I basically never need to think about the accounts except when rebalancing. It's nice.

[1] Here's one: http://www.dinkytown.net/java/WaitCost.html
I fully support this guy's political statement and he should get $250.
This is way too sensible to become true in the U.S. Next.
+1 C is ugly.

- Why do I need to typedef a struct to make it look like any other type?

- Why do function pointers look so bad?

- Error handling in C? Those goto exception; if(0){exception:} sure look fantastic.

- int* var1, var2; var2 is an int,
not an int* ... The language lets you stick the * right next to the type as though it modifies the type. Which it does in casts. (how do I escape asterisks on here?)

- A system language where int can be 32 bits or more.

And probably more from people more experienced in C than me.
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What I see in those statistics is that both race AND gender play a role. Do you see that too?

It's not about oppression olympics, it's about not letting that jerk investor do any more damage by making you bitter towards the whole process. Don't wait for things to be "fair". Accept that there are jerks in life, and play to win anyway. The stats I mentioned were to put the articles anecdotes about tactless investors in perspective.

"2) If you're a white man, crying about how horrible is the specter of you getting murdered or sent to jail, in the middle of a conversation about sexism... you're just making excuses. Your likelihood of going to jail or being murdered is much closer to a white woman's."

You're completely right, my gender and race make my opinion completely invalid. Glad we could have this discussion on equality.
"until now it has been inconceivable to me that people making nuke plants could possibly underestimate the risks"

What I don't understand is why the walls meant to protect the plant from a Tsunami were too low.
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It probably can. I bet if you're using Python (well) the Google tech guy that reviews your tech and team is going to give a much more favorable review than if you were using PHP. So it probably can help a lot in talent acquisitions at least.

If you're a really successful company and the acquirer really wants to buy you it probably doesn't matter at all.

I certainly wouldn't choose a language based on acquisition hopes myself.
Also, the third place winner Tiancheng Lou is "ACRush". He is another dominating "target" at TopCoder.
Nope, didn't downvote.

I know that the US government funds a lot of research via the NIH, and I'm familiar with the fuzzy lines between government and private research in some cases (I have relatives who do research for universities but get DARPA funding), but could you cite some examples of the govt. handing exclusivity to the drug companies after NIH did all the research and clinical trials for a drug?
Are any of those things an actual standards?

Well, depends how do you define "actual standards". But pretty much yes, there is an
big effort to have this consistent across browsers. Links to some:

> * Application Cache (offline)

http://www.w3.org/TR/offline-webapps/

> * Web Workers (threads in JavaScript)

http://www.w3.org/TR/workers/

> * HTML5 Forms (validation mechanism, CSS3 selectors)

http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/association-of-controls-and-forms...

> * File API

http://www.w3.org/TR/FileAPI/

> * WebGL (3D)

http://www.khronos.org/registry/webgl/specs/latest/

> * CSS3 Transitions (for animations)

http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-transitions/

> * CSS3 Text Shadow

http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-text/#text-shadow

> * CSS3 Gradients

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> * CSS3 Border Image

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This makes my point exactly. The cure is to oppose the FDA. (Copied from my post below, just like the OP.)

Immoral businesses love regulations because they provide huge barriers to entry for new competitors. Observe how GSK uses the FDA and other regulatory agencies to shield themselves. From the article you linked:

"GSK's manufacturing division has a strong track record of quality and compliance with current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) requirements. Various regulatory agencies - including the FDA - conduct an average of more than 100 inspections each year at over 80 GSK manufacturing sites located in over 30 countries. The FDA has raised no material issues as a result of its very thorough inspections. ... GSK worked to bring the Cidra facility to a high level of operating performance that satisfied both GSK and the FDA."

We need to separate the state from economics, just like we separate it from church. Unscrupulous companies (not all of them are this way) use and promote regulations to keep their competitors down, and to escape legal reprecussions that they should properly face (just as your article demonstrates). Remember that Enron lobbied for strict price controls on rates charged for access to power grids. (http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/2002/04/orourke....)
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