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Interesting piece pointing out some possibly non-obvious considerations about future food supply. However, it fails miserably at answering "How" the suggested change in diet for first-world eaters will come about. Sure, most who care to look realize that feeding grain to animals is an inefficient way to produce edible calories, but in order for there to be a mass shift away from meat consumption in first-world countries, that inefficiency has to be accurately reflected (if not exaggerated) in the relative prices of meat and grains. Should there be a meat tax? It seems that the alternative is years of fluctuation in food prices (as we flail about seeking the new equilibrium) that mostly have a negative effect for the world's poor.
Yeah, I think Joel was right and wrong.

He was right because there are architecture-astronauts who overdesign things that they don't understand yet.

He was wrong, because the mistake of architecture astronauts is not that they want to solve a template to a lots of problems. Solving a template to a lots of problems can be a huge business. Think of the personal computer. Think of MS Excel. Think of Oracle. It is just very hard to get these things right, because it is very hard to see the market for these generic products in advance. Also generic things are very technology heavy usually, so hard to convince investors. (Maybe I am just defending myself here, because I am also working on a generic application which is about helping businesspeople to access/maintain/query their data intuitively. (Like Excel just with a bit more constraints (with relational db. server backing))).
Once again the movie industry seems to believe it calls the shots only to be bitch-slapped by the invisible hand of the market. You'd think they'd learn by now.
Where I live, most shows air a few years late. I don't feel bad about torrenting them when I want the latest episodes. However I do go out and buy the earlier seasons on disc (though I'm suspicious about how authentic those discs are - they're certainly expensive but the printing on the CDs seem to indicate otherwise)
Does the Open Invention Network accept donations, or companies without many patents to contribute to the pool?
So the High priest of the magnificent cult of Apple was right again!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsCp-1hgfxI
There is no such language. "Best" is pretty badly defined. But there are a few "Good enougth" languages. People already suggested Python and Ruby, im a python fan myself, at least for begginers. My suggestion is to find someone who already knows how to code, to help you out with whatever language he knows, if you have no such friend, python would be my choice.
I was watching a film the other day on DVD, but I wasn't enjoying it. I managed to get hold of a copy on blu-ray, and enjoyed it much more...
Does it actually make sense to talk about "respecting" "rights" granted to you by a patent before it has been proved in a court of law? There's clearly some disagreement about what "rights" they have or there wouldn't be lawsuits happening to establish exactly what they are.
There may indeed be more distracted/stupid people, but the inebriated ones cause about twice the number of deaths overall in the US:

http://www.cdc.gov/MotorVehicleSafety/distracted_driving/ind...

http://www.cdc.gov/MotorVehicleSafety/Impaired_Driving/impai...
This is why everyone (including those who love their iProducts) should hope Android becomes/remains successful. Innovation like this only comes when the competition is fierce. Being able to test drive apps on the web site itself looks like a killer feature (as long as it works reasonably well). I'd love to see someone compete with Apple's App Store and raise the bar on the selling experience, if only to see how Apple will respond to it.
Really like both Sendoid and LetsCrate - good work guys. Just to shamelessly plug another link - a project that i've been working on (for the past 6 months) aimed at super simple file sharing : http://www.filepigeon.com - hope you don't mind the plug - thought it was related and it's something I've been working on for a while !
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I think AliPay is the strongest player in this market.
http://market.alipay.com/ospay/aboutAlipay/alibabaGroupCompe...
The algorithm is private, but these sites function in a straight forward manner. Think of it as psychology coding 101.

The easiest way to emulate is this process is through a numerical scale. Take into account social indicators such as personality type (A,B), age, affluence, beliefs, values, perspectives, and most importantly what you are looking for in the other person. These scores are then "coded" by attributing a number to each answer which is then added or subtracted depending upon response. These values ultimately create a number and that number is "matched" with similar numbers (matrix matching) and you can layer this process to be more precise.

In terms of your project: trying to pair up entrepreneurial minded people. I would start with a specific geographic location, Say... the Bay area. Right there the parameters are defined to specific coordinates (numeric). I would rate everyone on a proximity rating with each other first (which i am assuming that you are trying to do with the 1 city limitation) people that are with in 10 mile of each other receive a rating of (10), 15 miles (9)... 50+ miles (1) ect. The logic that drives this the proximity principle: objects that are close together will be seen as belonging together, so people that live in close proximity to each other will perceive the other to belong.
Next I would create an in-depth survey to try to generate as much relevant information such as skill sets, interests, beliefs, values, age, what they are looking for in a "match" and also they type of company that they are trying to build. If it is extremely technical then there should be 2 very technical co-founders, if less technical then I would say 1 technical & 1 semi-technical co-founders. Depending upon what needs the project has. I would then match people who have "complimentary" scores.
I would then generate scores using my coded survey and match the people together.

In terms of your project, I think it would be a good idea to go through different online survey tests (match, zoosk, eharmony) to see how the questions are set up and then coded.

(Here is a link to good coding practices. I think it will be able to help you further understand how you generate a numerical score off a survey)
http://books.google.com/books?id=dB0fw5lf0GQC&pg=PA345&#...
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I'm no expert on the topic but I guess the real nuts and bolts will be abstracted away from the developers. One example is a new LIKE implementation in your SQL database that uses a quantum algorithm for approximate search hits (from a DWave paper iirc)
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I think the main problem with the architecture astronauts is that they are trying to nuke a cockroach.

In other words, they are trying to find an overly wide and generic solution while all they have is a specific instance of a problem in a particular implementation they need to design for.
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I was going to link to something similar another Paul had to say on the subject: http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2007/03/how-to-be-right-90-...
I don't think dropbox really syncs (i.e. merges documents). It just stores versions, right?

Architecture astronauts tried to build generic diffs and merges, on top of rich documents. Think SVN for Word docs. Then they though about metadata, like bug-reports and other actions. Then you can host the bug report (and the project management system, and the wiki) on top of the synchronization architecture.

Dropbox, at its core, just keeps your files and 30 days of history.
I recently discovered Quinoa, which is quite delicious and very nutritious (it has a balanced set of essential amino acids). It's also pretty cheap. I'm not sure how hardy the plant is though. Googling shows that it's on the short list of foods often mentioned as being able to play a significant role in world hunger.
I am similar. I'm in Ireland and use Linux. They don't cater to me, so I'll just pirate it. It's a much better service. I'm a capitalist and consumer, I've made my vote.
Yes. Solving the generic problem is usually much harder than an actual problem. Only try to solve the generic problem if you really think that there are huge benefits of it, and really know what you do, and you can take huge risks. (Like creating MS Excel instead of creating a special accounting software.)
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Just searched for "Amazon App Store", it's way too early in the morning (in ireland) for freaky results

http://i.imgur.com/2W3UK.png
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Well, you can invest in Berkshire Hathaway stock and be sure that, unlike the evil idiots at Goldman Sacks, Buffet will be managing your money in your long term benefit, and putting it in those far more attractive investing opportunities in your behalf.
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I honestly was quite surprised, but now I look back on it I realise how obviously hard to pronounce that very odd word is. It is very embarrassing to think I started with that name, but I'm glad I was receptive enough to change it and I thought it was worth sharing, as I believe many others may have similar assumptions with naming their startups. I guess that is another lesson that we always need to question our assumptions.
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One of the major changes is that you cannot inspect the process of computation until it's done, because looking at the cubits collapses them into bits..

So no debuggers/stepping I assume :)
Ask HN: What are the most popular matrix codes?
I thought that with all those camera-equipped hardware we carry around (phones, tablets etc) there would be much more utilization of matrix codes such as QR code or Microsoft Tag. Does anyone have any info what percentage of users have simple meant to read such codes (e.g. how many mobile phones have a reader installed, which is still not the same as how many people know their phone has that), and what code standards are most common?
What do you mean? Dropbox syncs files amongst the computers you own and that is the most used feature I think. It is a sync. (In fact before using Dropbox I was using rsync over ssh.)
Government regulation will not stop this, it's top secret. Just give the NSA less money.
And if they don't want to control it (by not working upstream), then we have the same problem now since they will act differently.
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And when he said "find the app they want" he meant "find the generic, non-Apple equivalent of an iOS app whatever that might be called on their platform"?
When is a stylesheet really loaded?
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I am the only one to think that X network transparency is a great and very useful feature ?

I don't see the point, if I ever need a Windows like operating system, I can just use Windows.
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Webkit barely supports contenteditable on the desktop. For some reason the fact that it's used as on every WYSIWYG editor in the frikkin' world doesn't make it high enough priority for a fix...
Last I heard, BRK.A trades at a pretty hefty premium above the market value of its assets (not something you normally want to see in a holding company), and nobody knows whether a protégé of Buffet will be able to come anywhere near his celebrated performance.
I like that stuff too. It's (in terms of taste and function) somewhere between pasta and rice, so that means a lot of dishes work great with it.
Also of note: there is no iPhone/iPad emulator, only a simulator. There's huge differences in performance, in addition to some rare bugs that only manifest themselves on either the simulator or the device.
Wikipedia claims the word Crayon goes back to the 1600s, and has photos of boxes with the word "crayon" from 20 years before the company that became "Crayola" existed.

So what name did they have to give up?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crayon

Better examples from Wikipedia are:

Aspirin, originally a trademark of Bayer AG

Butterscotch, originally a trademark of Parkinson's

Escalator, originally a trademark of Otis Elevator Company[4][5][6]

Heroin, originally a trademark of Bayer AG

Kerosene, originally a trademark of Abraham Gesner

Phillips-head screw, named after Henry F. Phillips

Pogo for the toy Pogo stick[6][7]

Sellotape, a brandname of The Sellotape Company

Thermos, originally a trademark of Thermos GmbH

Tipp-Ex, originally a trademark of German manufacturers Tipp-Ex GmbH & Co. KG

Yo-yo, originally a trademark of Duncan Yo-Yo Company

Zipper, originally a trademark of B.F. Goodrich[6][8]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genericized_trademark
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Doesn't look like service is available outside of US at the moment, guess Europeans are second class.
I guessed they lacked the V in MVP.
Today a big computer room could transcribe the entire telephone communications of all America, and store it for later view.

You can use computers to search for whatever pattern you want in milisecons. I think this makes it different from the past.
While this sounds interesting and made me check out their side, this _is_ on a different scale than the issue we're discussing here.

Two things that stand out and (deliberately) separate this site from the casual online shop experience:

"Hendricks Park is a _luxury clothing_ service for men who have better things to do with their time than shop for clothing."

"Men who enjoy and value our service the most, tend to buy at least $1,250 in clothing per season."
This is a good post, but there is the risk of survivorship bias here.
Drew Houston is a brilliant guy, but let's be honest most people only recognized his true brilliance after he became successful. (I think most people thought he is smart, but I doubt most people thought he is brilliant before his success.)

So yes, you should invest into people, but the trick is to recognize brilliance in advance. Which is brutally hard. For example recognizing technical brilliance if someone is not technical is almost impossible. I think where YC shines is not only that they try to invest into people but that they are actually quite good at recognizing brilliance. (I doubt they are perfect in this, but probably the best in the market.)
Nice Logo there H&F.tv, YC but with an H.
reminds me of StartupDigest "copying" TC's color theme :) both SD and H&F are great things, though.
this article doesn't get into what kind of future quantum computing will enable.

can anyone describe a program which cannot be written (efficiently) today, which might run on quantum computers eventually?
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Really interesting piece, but the end falls short. I would have loved to see concrete solutions and possible implementations. It felt like the article was building up to that.
Sribd are ruthless, but their SEO is not human oriented. Good (as in both ethically good and efficient) SEO should be good for both humans and robots.

That is the kind of stuff Wufoo has done here and the kind of stuff patio11 has been doing for years.
Wow. Github just turned into something that graphic/web designers can actually use for image revisions etc.
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Sure, it's awesome (and has served us well for a very long time), but as hardware and software change, it has placed limitations on how we can compose the logical components of the display server, and can be done separately anyway.

Much like X servers on platforms that don't use X as their display server (and available for practically every OS), you will be able to run an X server alongside Wayland, and run X clients against it from anywhere.

(Plus you can always run rootless remote clients with other protocols such as RDP.)

Wayland may replace the X server that talks directly to your hardware, but it won't replace or discard the utility of network display protocols (X or otherwise).
Does it mean you can't use the applications offline?
Maybe because their users are merging with previous Digg users?

The ship is sinking really fast, after all...
Just cross your eyes.
Shor's algorithm is the classic (pun intended) example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shors_algorithm
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It's more useful for problems in the NP-Complete set, where you can write an algorithm that should take a very long time to perform, but takes very little time to check.

Take the 3-sat problem, for example. It takes a very long time for conventional algorithms to produce a correct answer; but, given a potential solution, it takes very little time to check for correctness. It's this area that quantum computers could shine in. Get a potential answer from the machine and check its accuracy very quickly. If wrong, try again.

[edit: if I misunderstand quantum computers, forgive me. This is just what I thought their allure was]
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Looks like someone doesn't get the point of the whole PR branch, and #1 actually describes the biggest mistake of companies who decide not to hire PR professionals.
I know. We're getting a new logo made STAT.

We've been using that logo at Hackers and Founders meetups for the last 3 years, since we're the HN meetup in Silicon Valley: http://www.hackersandfounders.com. I actually ran it passed pg a few years ago, and he didn't complain.

But, now that we're pushing 3,000 members, we really need to change the logo. We really aren't affiliated with YC in any way. And, newcomers are starting to get confused, which is bad.
Do what I did: post to Facebook, and put in your message that you're testing it out and this is just a test post, not an endorsement. Then wait for the email (mine took ~30 mins).

Do this at late at night (like I did) and delete your FB post after you get the email (like I did).

Alternately, you can go the whole +hn route described below. It took longer than the FB route, but at least you're not participating in marketing of a sight-unseen web service.
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Factorisation is the common example. You'll be able to factor gigantic numbers like an RSA public key pretty much instantaneously, as thanks to a qubit's super-position of states you can operate on all possible states at once. But in general it's all about parallelisation - being able to perform an operation on all states (ie numbers) at once. Due to the probabilistic/uncertain nature of measurements of a quantum system though I believe operations have to be performed a number of times in order to build statistics around the "right" answer.
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Vim.

The bulk of my work involves writing - be that emails, articles or code. Vim provides an efficient, RSI minimizing way to rapidly tweak and edit text. I couldn't imagine living without it.
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What I like about Dropbox is that it just works as expected. It's trivial and it's well polished.

Dropbox is a great lesson in how ideas don't matter and how execution is king. They had the guts to compete with a dozen other players who were trying to solve the same problem, solely based on the confidence in their execution. Investing in people having the skills to execute, the guts to compete, and the resilience to persist, clearly makes better sense than investing in just ideas.
Their website says their certs work in all major browsers, but I can't find anywhere where it says which versions of those major browsers it works with.

E.g. it works with Internet Explorer. Does that include IE6? They don't say.
So, how many Apple computers can I buy in the Apple App Store?
Quantum computers are not known to be able to solve NP-complete problems in polynomial time. (Assuming for the sake of argument that we can actually build them.)

There are problems -- factorization, as others have already said, is the commonest example -- that (1) are not known to be solvable classically in a reasonable amount of time and (2) are known to be solvable by a quantum computer in a reasonable amount of time. But they aren't NP-complete problems.
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That's getting a bit ahead of where they're at. To the best of my knowledge, the fundamental assumption behind the QC paradigm, the Copenhagen Interpretation, has never really been tested.[1] It is possible that a device like this will constitute the definitive test. The question will be whether such a system can actually perform a calculation across a superposition of states. In the systems I am aware of where such a calculation has been claimed, what actually happened was that a large number of atoms were manipulated simultaneously, and the "superposition" was potentially across the specific states in those individual atoms.

My own opinion is that the QC scenario is a reductio ad absurdum for the Copenhagen Interpretation, and that when a true QC calculation is set up, it will fail. This is actually an optimistic view, because the Copenhagen Interpretation is a fundamentally pessimistic assumption: that because we don't know what's behind a certain observed random distribution, we can't. See the following link for more details. (But IAMAP, and I'm not really keeping up with this area.)

[1] For more on how the Copenhagen Interpretation evolved, and just how little empirical basis there is for it, see http://books.google.com/books?id=tTN4HuUNXjgC&lpg=PP1...
Some info at Quantiki: http://www.quantiki.org/

http://www.quantiki.org/search/google?query=programming
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