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When it comes to purchasing new desktop computers for your home or office, the first question you get in your mind is whether to buy branded computers or to get assembled desktop computers. While there are good many reasons to buy branded computers, there are also good reasons to...
Meet Microsoft's guru of 'design matters'
Techcrunch articles about YC backed startups
I'm just wondering, in case no one else noticed, why do all the articles about YC backed startups written by techcrunch make it to the HN front page? are they all this awesome? or is it some kinda "Algorithm Privilege" ? what do you think about this?
Not sure about nuclear being the greenest, when you take into account mining for ore.

I appreciate these were exceptional circumstances. But to be confronted with a nuclear disaster of any proportion is horrifying. Then it becomes an environmental catastrophe.
If this is a problem or not depends on what you mean.
If a port for some strange reason goes up and down 100 times a sec then this will cause 100 "port status" messages to be sent to the controller. This might be a problem, but the controller should be able to handle this, it's still a small amount of traffic and should not require that much processing. There is also some distributed controllers, for example Onix. If you talk about convergence of the network topology i general then it depend largely on the controllers implementation.
Here's one concrete proposal: http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/cs/pdf/0103/0103009v3.pdf

I strongly suspect, though, that the answer is: The quantum magic will be packaged up into small black boxes that perform a modest range of tasks faster than they could be done classically, and programming will continue to consist mostly of writing classical code; it's just that there will be superfast implementations of a few useful things.

That might change if the number of qubits we can put into a quantum computer ever gets comparable to the number of ordinary bits we can put into a classical computer. That'll take a while.

(My suspicions and guesses are merely suspicions and guesses. I am not a quantum computing expert.)
Quantum computation does not in any way depend on the Copenhagen interpretation.
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I find running tests automatically when I save is quite helpful, for interpreted languages as well as compiled languages.
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FWIW I thought the whole aside about the VC guy felt off-topic. It didn't add value to the article and its only purpose was to make the writer look cooler than the strawman he constructed.

Frankly, I was turned off by the distraction and skimmed the rest of the article.
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The Greatest Developer Fallacy Or The Wisest Words You’ll Ever Hear?
How about 2-factor auth for unlocking ssh keys and key-based login?
Pretty nice little game, not much to play though, and gets too difficult pretty fast.
I want my 5 minutes back.
My favourite way to get started learning a new language is using the "Pimsleur Method".

These consist of completely aural courses with 30-45 hours of tapes in each language. There are no written materials whatsoever and this is intentional. Dr. Pimsleur's reasoning was that you should learn to pronounce and understand a language before learning to read it, lest you pick up bad habits which will be difficult to lose further down the line.

The courses were designed to teach the most frequently used words in any given language (such as numbers, movement verbs etc.) through sample conversations and drills. Spaced repetition is used to enhance memory.

From the wikipedia entry:

"The student listens to a recording on which native speakers speak phrases in both the foreign language and the language used for teaching (usually English). At varying intervals, the student is prompted to repeat a phrase after the speaker finishes it. The student is then introduced to a new phrase and the meaning is explained. After repeating several times, the student is asked to repeat a previous phrase, along with integrating vocabulary from the new one. More new phrases are introduced, while old phrases are prompted at random, so as to aid long term memory."

I highly recommend the courses, although the downside is that they ain't free.
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Actually, my guess is the every-four-weeks bit is to goose revenue.

With monthly, you're getting paid 12 times a year. With every four weeks, you get paid 13 times.

It's a nifty little sales trick. Most people (including me) automatically round four weeks up to a month before thinking about it.
In terms of feedback from compile errors, the important size is the size of the source file you're working on, not the overall size of the project.
Yes, I often find blink comparison useful. A keypress to switch between opposite ends of the onionskin and swipe bars would do the trick.
Is it just me or is the Name field actually a single word "username"?

I tried my name with space, it did not work but a single username worked just fine! If latter, you might want to change the Name: field to Username:.
> The second irony is that the Nash equilibrium for rational-actor based models of deterrence is not peace, but random violence.

Do you have a citation for that? I'd be interested to read further about it.
As someone who works on the pricing system for a distribution company - this article may apply to retail, but it definitely does not apply to everything. Our suppliers try to screw us at every turn by making us deal with complex cost side, so we have to have an incredibly dynamic and flexible system to deal with an international customer base.
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I managed to use Apache Velocity with clojure reasonably easy. Maybe not the sexiest template engine around, but it's what I was used to. Plus I can just plug a clojure bit in the existing java webapp and not have to change anything else.

Probably works with JSP too...
This is a total deal breaker for me. This is something that needs to work for all files in order to be useful, and I'm not willing to get tied into a monthly subscription for something so occasional and basic. This is the kind of thing that people used to charge $5-20 one time for as shareware, not $9/mo.
Just for the sake of references, the same is also possible with 280 North!
So serious around here, was referring to the picture...
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My thought exactly. People picking fights on HN make me laugh. Picking fights in general is bad enough, but come on... on the internet? Grow up.
There is one use case for Blu-Ray that Apple does not have an answer for yet. Home movies that people have taken with their HD camcorders, that they want to keep on permanent medium, play easily on their home theater, and not necessarily upload to youtube or facebook.

Until Apple offers free online storage for high bitrate movies (keeping them on a huge hard drive is ok, but even a terabyte drive wont hold more than a year or so of a typical families precious memories, and you would want some form of cloud backup anyway rather than relying on a hard drive not crashing), and we all have 25Mbps+ bandwidth to support it, AND I can watch my home movies without buying a special device like an Apple TV or whatever, then they are still not competing with Blu-Ray for home movies, or hobbyist film makers.

You know apple used to focus on the creators rather than the consumers, but their attitude towards blu-ray assumes we are only interested in consuming content.

I have a handful of blu-ray films that I bought when i got my PS3, watched once I never watched again. But I have stacks of home movies burnt on blu-ray that we watch all the time.
Try to find a large popular file (a movie or mp3 file downed from the net for instance) and put it in your dropbox folder. Notice that it'll sync almost instantly. When you put a file in your dropbox they calculate a checksum and see if they already have the file somewhere. If they do they just add a pointer instead of having two copies lying around.

Since many large files are saved by a lot of people individually (movies, mp3 files, pdf manuals, etc) this saves them a lot of space. As they get more users this advantage grows.
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Zero G on Ford's factory floor
Building things like airplanes and cars takes heavy lifting for both workers and their employers: Injuries from overexertion cost U.S. companies more than $13 billion each year. Enter a Garrett Brown, an inventor who wants to revolutionize factory work the same way he revolutionized Hollywood back in 1976.
If this takes off, it will be HUGE for Android. Everyone will be able to test drive Android apps! If I was going to buy a new smart phone and I had the choice between buying an iPhone on iFaith alone as compared to actually checking out real Android apps before buying the phone, I would probably go for Android simply because I know what I am getting into!

This actually makes me want to try Android (I am an iPhone user)! But I don't live in the States, so… whatever, at least I can fire up a VPN and give those apps a go.
Well, I'm also from Portugal and I can say that...

Actually, most relevant TV shows are available here, on cable, with proper subtitles (dubbing is very rare in Portugal, unlike other european countries). Some shows are just one episode behind their US counterparts, but most are a few months/a season behind.

Cable TV is widespread, and on more rural areas where the "cable" doesn't go, the providers have a satellite alternative. So, every one that wants to watch these shows, can.

So, it's not really ethic to pirate TV shows. But only in the sense that if most people pirate, the cable networks won't have much (financial) incentive to keep the shows close to their original airing.
Alice has a file. Bob has a copy. They both edit it, and want the edits to be synchronized (by some sort of smart merge). That's the over-engineered syncing solutions Joel is talking about. Not just rsync.

Sorry about the semantics ... I should have been clearer.
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This is not cool.
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Blu-Ray isn't a permanent medium. Don't expect to be able to read all the discs after 10-20 years.

Look at how quickly recordable CDs and DVDs detoriates. The manufactures promised a lot longer life time when they launched them, but reality was different.

There isn't any media which is permanent. The one that comes closest is non-acid paper stored in a vault.
Python: How Guido Indented It
DrChrono (YC W11) Brings "Hacker Culture" to Health Care
Well, at least there are people who could not care less for network transparency. Me, for example.

Laptops are so small and powerful these days, why would I not run X locally?
The price of a specialist skill
I'll be curious to read reviews, but they've got quite a barrier to overcome if they're putting out models at the same pricing levels as the iPad.
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Mainstream Failure
[Follow-up Results] Your favourite text editor/IDE?
Are you sure about this? if so is it good practice?
Followed by C
(Hi! Jonathan - thanks for doing this, this stuff is pure gold.)

Continuous Fundraising is a pretty radical idea. Basically, you never close your seed round since you're doing a note and the terms are fairly standard, so you just keep getting small checks from a large number of angels. Less pressure and hassle. Big win for entrepreneurs. As Naval says, you raise 50k/month for 6-12 months and you're all set.
Why does Techcrunch never provide any deeplinks? It's annoying as hell.
Quantum Computers are able to solve problems of complexity BQP in polynomial time. BQP is suspected to cover all problems in P, some in NP (but not NP-complete), and some outside of NP but in PSPACE. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BQP)
Thanks for expanding. It sounds like the main problem with non-mainstream languages is the difficulty of recruiting developers who know the language well enough (rather than some technical quality of a language like Clojure that makes code hard to maintain) . That is a pretty uncontroversial statement and is probably very true. The pool of Clojure developers is probably quite small at the present moment in time.

Would you regard the use of a non-mainstream language to be, in of itself, technical debt?
See you have just insulted both my family and friends, and it's ok. In the same sense people can joke about my family, friends or me and it is ok as well. Again, you guys need to just chill.
You can also just connect a jabber client to it. http://www.facebook.com/sitetour/chat.php
Tip for fezzi: The link is to the blog main page, which breaks HN's duplicate detection. It is better to link directly to the blog entry itself http://blog.asmartbear.com/startup-money.html so us lazy readers don't have to click twice.
Yes they are a nice bit of hardware. They emulate a usb keyboard so work on pretty much anything except an ipad. The software is open and they have several modes and you can code your own keys into them.
Exactly the same thing I thought immediately after reading the article. Yeah, Drew Houston is a brilliant guy, but we would never know how brilliant were all other founders of failed startups.
Ask HN: How do you use Virtualbox?
I installed the same Ubuntu that I run on linode on a Virtualbox on my Mac. But I couldn't find out exactly how folks work with Virtualbox.

Do you make VBox fullscreen, and just work completely inside the graphical environment? Or do you edit on the Mac and compile on the VBox? Or you have your VBox only for testing deployment, not development?

The motivation for trying out VBox was this comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1998389
A bit like any hardware/software combo. Nothing in life is 100% reliable. If you make the probability of failure small enough, and are able to detect and fix errors (very important), it will be good enough.
This dovetails with a lot of what PG went over in High Resolution Fundraising. http://www.paulgraham.com/hiresfund.html

If you learn well through video, this is very worth the hour of your time.
I actually read this all the way to the end, waiting for a "but it is a great language anyway" that never came, because I couldn't believe he was serious. It turned out he was and this article is nothing more than a misinformed and, more importantly, unsubstantiated, rant. When your argument boils down to "Python is slow because some GUI apps I tried on Ubuntu were" it is very easy to make an analogy to people that think Java is slow due to some encounter they've had with a Java GUI in the 90's.

Pointing at the GIL is old news and calling Guido van Rossum incompetent over a tweet is just weird. Sure, there is an interesting discussion to be had over object oriented programming versus functional programming, or what not, but Python is a fine language for most general purpose applications (and specifically for web apps). Even now I'm partly moving away from Python (in favor of Clojure, for now) I'm still very positive about the language.
ZK brings CSS selectors to server side
Take Joost, for example [...] I'm pretty sure they're going to be well-rewarded for it

Funnily enough, after all the startups he's mocked, the one he really liked ended up failing.
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Buffet himself does not believe that will happen. If you read the 2010 letter to shareholders, he states that going forward he does not expect growth in the order they have in the past.

That he and Charlies biggest challenge is to maintain a solid baseline of market matching, and occasionally beating, performance. They can't really go for the big wins any more - due to their market cap, a big win would have to be astronomical to give them growth like they had in the 80s.
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does it mean facebook doesn't want to be a walled-garden anymore? interesting...
I like notepad++ on Windows and vim on linux. for IDE I really like VS, and when did HTML become a programming language??
How is this different from just running a poll on HN? No analysis?

I would have at least liked to have been able to see how many people voted for the various other options.
I can't view any of the images -- they seem to have been replaced with this one: http://imageshack.us/img/blocked_login.jpg
I don't think this has anything to do with the medium. You could create one track on a CD with all the songs, commercials included. But this will be so annoying nobody will buy it. If you don't like the commercials a producer is putting on the BD, just skip the producer.
Love Komodo IDE. Don't love its price though.

http://www.activestate.com/komodo-ide
there we go.

vim.
Can you please order the tables and add bar charts?
This, plus, for example Scala appears in "others" like 4 or 5 times, why not put it together?

Also, why no relation between language and text editor and IDE?
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why was the form closed? I would have wanted to wait for more data. Am I missing something?
Well, I was born in Russia and moved to Germany 20 years ago with my family, I was 11 then. Today I consider myself as German, so far the background.
What is really true, even if you speak native German and identify yourself with the people and the country, for most Germans, you are not German. I do not mean it in the negative way, I think it is just the way it is, if you have not a German name or look "Russian". But I do not have/ had any problems with it. Moreover I realized, that although people know you are originally not from Germany, you are valued on your skills (at school, job, sport, etc) and not by you ethnical background. And those people from Russia/Turkey or whatever who claim they are discriminated e.g while looking for a job I just can repeat, no, you just did not tried hard enough.
In Russia there is a saying: You are greeted by your look, but bid goodbyed for your skills. I think in Germany this is a very reality.
WTF? A couple of yoga students don't like how one yoga school handles the information around one class ... and that equates to "Yoga does not get the Thank You Economy"? Baffles me why this would even be posted on Hacker News. Interesting that there are only four submissions from this person (http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=azulac) and all for this yoga site. I think the site and the HN user should be blocked. Namaste.
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As other people pointed out, most people don't care about the difference between a DVD and a Blu-ray, even when they have HD displays.

It would be interesting to know exactly why, but nobody wants to survey the users, prefering instead to pretend that this isn't true.

My interpretation is that when you're 3 meters from a display with the size regular people buy (between 32 and 42 inches), the quality difference between HD content and a decently encoded DVD is barely noticeable.

Some say that sound quality is more important than picture quality. That may be true, but that's not the reason people ignore the quality difference between DVDs and Blu-ray. When you live in an apartment, you tend to watch movies with a low volume anyway, so sound is always crap.

Then, there's the mistake that people moved to DVDs from VHS because of picture quality. This is false, people moved from VHS to DVDs because DVDs have are random-access media. No more rewinds, no more fast-forwards and searching for parts of the movie.

DVDs hit the sweet spot of price/quality and convenience. Blu-ray offers little more.

If the successor to the DVD had been a flash-memory card, it may have been a hit. The same movies in 1/10th the space. Now it is too late.

People will keep their DVDs until online distribution is mature. And this doesn't necessarily mean internet distributed content. Here in Portugal, the two major cable providers have a video-on-demand service (in old-school parlance) that was the final nail in the video rental shops 'coffin, and that all but removes the need for the average consumer to buy physical media.
X sucks at network transparency, supposedly its one redeeming feature. RDP is better. X is slow (xlib requires too many round trips) and doesn't forward things users care about like sound and local devices like printers, USB sticks, cameras, etc. But worst of all, it's simply ridiculous that you still can't move an X client between servers without terrible hacks.
it didn't ask what is your favourite text editor :)
Textmate :)
Woops, I literally thought this was a ask HN..!
Is Vim having some kind of resurgence of late?

I've been a vi/vim user for 10+ years now but it seems like its popularity has really started shooting up in the last couple of years.
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Vim on Windows looks horrendous. Too bad I can't use it on Windows. Too bad I'm on Windows :|
Its about low cost. You will be able to buy a router that is either completely dumb, no OS at all, controlled remotely by your cloud control infrastructure, or maybe add into your Linux server as a card. Dont pay for all that cisco os and a cpu to run it that you dont need. The raw networking silicon plus some ports is pretty cheap and will get cheaper. Commoditization...
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I have reopened the form. Closed it while I was formatting the data.
Came to read about dropbox, but stayed for the dig at KP. Amazing to think that one of the top VC firms in the world were out of the game for so long.

A new generation of killer startups were created: Facebook, Zynga, GroupOn etc. and KP just watched it all go by. It would be difficult to just quantify how much $ they missed out on, but at least now they are sorta admitting their mistake and getting back into tech investing (greentech didn't really turn out to be the second coming that many thought it would be)

Unfortunately people like 'symantec middle manager' are still around.
I hardly see further fragmenting the Android ecosystem as being overly innovative.
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Perfectly ok bc men enjoy social privilege. Come back when you are considered joint property by society as a whole, stupid.
That should be fixed now. I have moved the files to my server.
Sorry, what part of my comment are you replying to?

The part where I said the Amazon App Store's Test Drive feature was innovative? Or something else?
If the article is a reflection all the substance about design the guy could muster, I think I figured out Microsoft's problem. What exactly has he contributed?

I know nothing about this guy, so maybe he's a genius, but I've never heard of him before this article.
Are you using gvim or the console version? I've found gvim for windows to be fine.

http://www.vim.org/download.php#pc
I observed it from my own usage, and I'm hard pressed to see any alternative.

I don't see how it shouldn't be good practice. The only information you're potentially giving away is that someone else that has a dropbox is in possession of the same file as you.