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I used to love midnight hacking. Really did. Was way more productive during the night than during the day.

It changed a couple of years back. Don't really know why.

Maybe it's just that I'm more busy nowadays and have to go to work/class in the morning. Feeling like crap - despite liters of coffee - at work because I just had to finish a pet project the night before doesn't seem worth it anymore.
Well, by the same reasoning I "can't" easily talk HTTP because I can't talk TCP, IP and 802.3 - they're all binary.

This is exactly why I wrote "high-level protocols". With just a telnet client I can talk HTTP, FTP, SMTP, IMAP, POP3, IRC and so on. And the machine just needs to handle lowel-level details.
It's like saying the arrangement of a plate is more important than what is on it. No need to hate on JS though just because it's the favorite rape-victim of amateurs.
How much??
That's all that matters, that's all I care
I don't think that's a problem for everyone (I aim for linkedin/facebook separation for these reasons)... Nevertheless, you could filter by the "hide this post from" list, weights of friendship (amount of likes, views, etc.) and other statistics... Of course, this is only viable if you have friends/family all around the place, not just in your locality (definitely not for everyone).
Still, seems like a nice advertising focus trick.
That's the goal of Arc. :)
This is awesome!!!! Calling SA just Africa is not cool in the title, the economies of African countries vary as much as they do in the Americas (almost).

This is wonderful news though!!!
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That's a really good thread, thank you!
This isn't as relevant as for how much each of this companies are eventually sold for and how much each of the founders pockets.

So please make good, informative news, ok????
Wealth and literacy are quite relevant, because most translations are not done by the original publisher, but by local actors who have to live with the local market. If there are are sufficiently many Danes who are ready to spend money on (say) books, the local publishers will do it.
don't just say... whatever company was acquired for x amount of money. PLEASE SAY HOW MUCH X WAS OKAY???
My reasons: avoid rookie and preventable mistakes, be surrounded by teams on a mission, and have some structure.
While I understand this question, I think it is a bit of a trick. I think it would make more sense to ask them to convert 1.25% to a decimal, or any percentage that did not have leading zeros.
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My results for Flash:

Your ISP appears to rate limit your FlashVideo downloads. In our tests, downloads using control flows achieved up to 6723 Kbps while downloads using FlashVideo achieved up to 9345 Kbps.

Your ISP appears to rate limit downloads on port 8080. In our tests, downloads on port 8080 achieved up to 9487 Kbps while downloads on port 42507 achieved up to 6723 Kbps.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding the tests, but if my flash downloads where being rate limited the control would be faster, not slower?

In case anyone's interested, I'm in the UK, my ISP is Virgin - it's a 10mbit cable line.
After using Samsung Galaxy S for few months and recently playing with my friends iPhone I was under impression that I'm holding a brick. I also played with iPad 2 at the store recently and concluded that I really don't have strong enough writsts to own it.
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Is this for the whole of Japan or Tokyo only?
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On desktop, but still not launching a Java app. Latency kills my browser.
In this case, Virgin is giving higher priority to streaming video or lower priority to everything else. Traffic shaping works both ways.
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Have a look at the UK's STEP mathematics papers. They're the toughest school-level exams we have, used as entrance tests for a handful of degree courses. There are three papers each year, in increasing level of difficulty and assumed knowledge, and each candidate takes papers I and II or papers II and III.

http://www.admissionstests.cambridgeassessment.org.uk/adt/st...
man, good thing you say for HOW MUCH. YC companies have to fing learn!!!!!
My best hacking hours start around 8-9pm and go until about 6am.
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Ideas:

- Add images a row at a time (threes), so that you don't lose track of an interesting image.

- Add options for other places, or to let the user enter it themselves

- Translate the tweets to a user selected language

(In case you've not seen it, take a look at TwitterNode (https://github.com/technoweenie/twitter-node), which makes using twitter's streaming API very easy in node.js.)
> Templates again... Have you used them?

Not much and I have nothing against templates. Just used them as an example of C++ features. It could have been any one of: RTTI, nested classes, smart pointers, the rules of inheritance and access control, friends, exceptions, operator overloading, streams and so on. All of this is well described but in about 1000 pages in Stroustrup's book.

> At the beginning we created a coding guidelines/standards document that outlines what is acceptable to use in the project. Problem solved.

Well that was actually one of my points. If you need a 50 page language style guide, then I would argue there is something wrong with the language. The whole K&R book is just a couple of hundred pages.

That is why I would believe someone who says "I know C" vs someone who says "I know C++".

I guess I just don't see the advantage of learning the "++" part of C++ vis-a-vis the resulting increase in readability/productivity.

> Ok, we can compare Python + C++ with Python + C, but C++ wins there too. e.g: PyQt/PySide.

Well, maybe. Most Python extensions are still written in C. Python itself has a native C API. There is the ctypes library. For every Python & C++ library integration there are hundreds of Python modules with their performance critical parts written in C. The reason PySide is so nice is because they were able to hide the C++ part very well behind Python. It is certainly a development success story, but what I had in mind was the process of implementing the prototype in Python, then finding the performance critical parts and re-writing them in C.
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Latin is and most likely already was in the XIXth century a tool to discriminate people, which is one of the role of education (even more so in the XIXth century maybe ?).

There are at least two ways to look at education from a purely economical POV: signal theory (I take someone from Harvard because he was able to go to Harvard) vs human capital theory (I take someone from Harvard because of the things he learned at Harvard).

Of course, there are still many more aspects to it: I take someone at Harvard because he met people at Harvard... and I am myself coming from Harvard, etc...

More simply, I am glad most of what I have learned was "useless" in some sense. What's useful or not changes in times, you cannot necessarily know what's useful to you when you're 15, and you could argue that one of the role of education is to teach you things you will never see otherwise (to expand your horizon).
Interesting, the shaping only seems to occur on port 8080 - standard port 80 traffic generally runs at near enough 10mbits for me.

Also the bit torrent test came back unshaped, I'd be interested to see what other Virgin UK users have.
Thanks @NY_USA_Hacker Yours is a great example of why smart people should also invest in improving communication and social skills. Half of your comment is nonsense. The other half does raise interesting points that would deserve a reply if they were written in a different tone. I would be happy to go into each of the points you mention if you decide to re-write the comment in a more constructive way.

Really, you can be positive, constructive and even happy in your life without sounding less smart by doing so.
I'd certainly be more happy to see investors pouring $40M into some local African project than into Color. (Though it won't happen, as they offer $20—50K.)
You sometimes see one or two Apple people at speech conferences, at least it was true 2-3 years ago. I cannot imagine that not to be the case anymore.
Whole of the country. Its geo centered on the Imperial palace in Tokyo though, but the range includes all of the country.
Oh man... damn blogger. Fixed it now... finally! Thanks!!!
Of course if you're doing it by trial and error on paper it is pointless tedium. But I'm sure that the point of doing these exercises were not bore you to death, but to really make you understand arithmetic so you can do most given problems faster. If all you knew was how to multiply and divide numbers by hand, that problem would take you hours to solve!

A great example is the section 'lucky numbers' in Feynman's book:

http://lib.ru/ANEKDOTY/FEINMAN/feinman_engl.txt
Easy with a calculator yes, without one, not so much.
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For weightlifting this is intuitive, because it forces the body to adapt. But for low level continuous activity, like house chores?
Allowing one to simplify to:

fibs = 1 : 1 : zipWith (+) fibs (tail fibs)

Involving zip`ap`tail, the Aztec god of consecutive numbers:

fibs = 1 : 1 : (zipWith (+) `ap` tail) fibs

Or, pointlessly:

fix $ (1:) . (1:) . (zipWith (+) `ap` tail)
If you applied to YC and weren't accepted this round, this may be a good option; there are similarities in the app process.

I grew up in Baltimore County and own a home in the city. My husband and I are moving back this summer, largely because of the emerging tech and startup environment and are SO excited about this project. There was a post about it here last month that I missed where people expressed concern re: the crime rate, The Wire etc

The reality is that most of the crime (violent and other) happens in specific areas of the city. I work with at-risk kids and have spent a lot of time in those neighborhoods during a period spanning nearly 20 years and will be happy to answer questions if anyone has concerns/questions about what's "real" about the Baltimore experience.But I want to reassure you here that you'd be unlikely to ever even see one of those areas unless you wanted to.

I own a home in Federal Hill http://bit.ly/hh93w2 , have also lived in Canton http://bit.ly/fa9y2C and Locust Point http://bit.ly/fCmbUZ , worked in Mt. Vernon http://bit.ly/dO1K2u and played (a lot!) in all of those places... and Fells Point http://bit.ly/eMEHDj ... and Hamden
http://bit.ly/hjElbI ... and Little Italy http://bit.ly/eNQvzV ... Each of these neighborhoods is a great reason to consider Baltimore. If you are interested in learning more, shoot me a note.

I'm not affiliated w/ Startup City in anyway, but will be applying. I'm just sharing this because I think it's an awesome opp for those of us that were hoping for YC...
They had a plan to get users AND customers. Look at these two lines:

beta launch: d) Display content of preferred partners who list us as elite partners on their site

public launch: f) Consider exclusive partnerships on specific things, ie. Wells Fargo for banking, T-mobile for cell phones.

This is very roughly written plan, but it covers almost everything required in early phases. The focus was mostly on creating a user base, but it is important that you work on all and start doing baby steps. Most new startups don't cover all the bases and wonder why it isn't working! :)
Some people (myself included) look awful in anything bigger than an M. Clothes are about more than just covering one's skin, and conferences and businesses are about more than just one body type. They should buy all sizes, and they should make sure all the sizes look good.
The trouble with this subject is that everybody, including commenters in this thread, thinks they already know what the solution is, even before they have a good grasp of the problem.

I recommend reading Gary Taubes ("Good Calories, Bad Calories", "Why We Get Fat"), not because of what he thinks that the solution is, but to understand the range of facts that a theory of obesity must explain.

When Taubes starts to promote his own theory (carbs are bad, fats aren't, exercise is fairly useless, insulin is very important), he may or may not be right. Nevertheless his book is invaluable for learning about the extremely counter-intuitive facts of obesity.

To name a few:
- obese 6-month old babies
- morbidly obese mice starving to death
- obesity epidemics among native americans in 19th century
- lack of obesity among all animals
- prisoners on a forced 10K calorie diet barely gaining weight

We won't conquer the obesity problem until we start treating it as a huge, extremely complicated mystery to be solved, instead of as a problem of persuasion, where the solution is to convince other people that you have the obvious answer.
From the first footnote on that blog post, this has got to be the best non-computer hack I've read so far:

One of the Y Combinator questions asked you to name one non-computer system that you’d hacked in some interesting way. My answer concerned a man-in-the-middle attack I once did on Craigslist personals. I placed an ad as a woman seeking a man, and as a man seeking a woman, and then simply crossed the email streams by forwarding mail from one to the other, and vice versa. Most Craigslist personals didn’t even have photos back then, so the switch went undetected, even after the couples had met. I handed off the relationship by telling one that the other’s email address had changed, from my fake one to the real one, and likewise vice versa. For all I know, those couples are still together and having kids. They probably don’t know to this day what happened or what brought them together.
As a South African, this is really awesome news!

There is however a far bigger problem than just funding here, I have never even heard of the Twangoo (Acquired by Groupon) mentioned in the article. I suppose its down to the almost total lack of any sort of hacker/startup community, and I don't know how that is going to be fixed.
Thanks for sharing that... I found the paper from 1998 that I took... I don't remember how to answer any of the questions anymore which is pretty scary given I did OK back then!!
Funny to see this as I was just researching Bolt and Megabus for a quick trip to Pittsburgh this weekend. I was really wishing there was a way to do comparison shopping with bus, train, and airline travel. Its something I would like to work on, but it seems as though the data is locked off for the time being. Would anyone else get anything out of a site like this?
Good article. The combining skills was the best part (you're more likely to be marketable by combining several skills than by trying to become a world-class practitioner of one in particular).

I found this bit disturbing though

' I pointed out that my friend—the soon-to-be-fired bartender—was tall, good-looking and so gifted at b.s. that he'd be the perfect leader.'
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Do you still consider yourselves a startup?
Wordpress. The database backed era this post talks about didnt really use web architecture well, or good software architecture to perform. Aimed at ease of use instead.

Mind you I am not convinced that event driven js is going to deliver high performance blogs either.

Must move my blog off Wordpress before getting featured here...
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The article is claiming that we are removing from resources (http, rest) to events, ie apps, for everything. I do think there is still space for the other style done well, with content, but a lot of people seem not to. One of the facets of the web/app war.
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There is a relationship between exercise and weight but not nearly as big as people like to believe. You're right that diet has a much bigger impact.

I had to dig out this paper the other day because someone that I was talking to did not want to believe that weight is mainly tied to one's diet:

http://www.nature.com/?file=%2Fijo%2Fjournal%2Fv21%2Fn10%2Fa...

I'm not sure if this is behind a paywall (my uni has access to everything on Nature's site), so here is the salient bit:

RESULTS: Primarily, subjects aged 40 y have been studied (39.5±0.4 y, mean±s.e.m.) who are only moderately obese (92.7±0.9 kg, 33.2±0.5 body mass index (BMI), 33.4±0.7% body fat); for short durations (15.6±0.6 weeks). Exercise studies were of a shorter duration, used younger subjects who weighed less, had lower BMI and percentage body fat values, than diet or diet plus exercise studies. Despite these differences, weight lost through diet, exercise and diet plus exercise was 10.7±0.5, 2.9±0.4* and 11.0±0.6 kg, respectively.
Does anybody know how to calculate torque? Like if two billard balls collide, I suppose part of the impact translates into new velocities, and part into spin. How much spin, that is the question.

Another example: in the C64 game Thrust, a rocket drags a ball which is attached with a stick. The ball is like a pendulum, hanging from the rocket. Now if the rocket accelerates, how will the pendulum swing, and where will it pull the rocket? Another way to view this is a big ball with a rocket on it's skin, that can accelerate in any direction. How much of the acceleration will turn into velocity and how much into spin?

Maybe I should be able to figure out the latter case by simply drawing vectors, but last time I tried my knowledge of physics was insufficient.
>while the existing contract goes until 2013

I believe the consent decree was reported to say that ITA has to renew existing contracts until at least 2016. So that's 5 years before Kayak might, theoretically, lose access to QPX. Don't worry about it; 5 years of a good job is a good run.
I'm surprised you missed Twangoo. Facebook, Megavideo and my friends all blasted it at me. It's a popular site in SA.
Math transcends time and often language.

It also helps that the field of math has expanded and progressed a decent amount since the time of the exam, (i.e. what was cutting edge and difficult then is common knowledge now) while the fields of Latin and History haven't progressed so much as just gotten older.
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I took a round trip on the Chicago to Des Moines route last summer, it wasn't a good experience. The wifi was spotty, apparently provided by the same 3G cell service that wasn't working on my phone. Not that it mattered, I didn't have enough room to have a laptop open in front of me. A shorter person may have had a better time. I now feel lucky every time I'm on an airplane in the spacious standard economy seats. I would have gladly payed a bit extra for "Economy Plus" on the megabus.
Bad/good. Forget those descriptors.

Fructose found in fruit is indeed no different. But it is in fruit, bound up with fibre, protein, and many enzymes. In HFCS it's just fructose.

The delivery mechanism is more important here than the lab breakdown.
The maths is so easy I want a vintage 1900 Harvard diploma.
Is it supposed to keep alternating between "Time to finish: 500 seconds" and "Waiting for transfer to finish"?
Right. I mean for me (while I am posting through Facebook) I didnt see a clear way back to that list.
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Hi all,

I went to a job interview yesterday for a very interesting new role; I would basically be starting and heading a new branch of the company with upcoming big projects and the company seems to be very keen to use Heroku a lot for the deployment.

I have been using own servers / VPS's for years (VPS.NET and especially Linode), so I have always had full control on what I could/needed to use, with basically no limits. But of course the overhead of the administration, while I have never had any real problems with it, is something that sometimes I would like to avoid to focus more on development etc. So in a way I like that this company is keen to use a PAAS provider.

I was just wondering however, how is Heroku doing these days? I've seen they've added a lot of addons etc, but I am wondering about performance and reliability as well. What's your experience with them so far? I am particularly interested about experiences with big projects with high traffic and perhaps a lot of backend processing.

Cost: it still looks to me like Heroku is more (or a lot more) expensive than running your own servers on Linode or similar; of course this is justified by the fact that the administration is taken care of for you. However I am wondering if you find anyway that the advantages of such a platform overcome the higher costs, in your case.

On a side note, have you experienced any big limitations or hiccups that have led you to move or consider a move out of Heroku for your projects?

Thanks a lot in advance for your insights.
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I noticed once that my traffic to various geographic locations was being routed through non-obvious other locations first, such as going through Texas to get to California (I'm in Utah). My link to California was saturated, so anything hosted there ran terribly slow. A CDN that uses naive geolocation to select a server might not be aware of these bizarre routing situations, picking a less-than-optimal server.
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I think we're moving from single answer knowledge to multi-answer understanding of the matter. This involves being able to absorb large amounts of information, rather than being able to find obscure information. We probably need more knowledge than ever before, but it has more breadth and less specificity.

A historian might be asked to discuss why Spain and Portugal were the first of the European countries to build a colonial empire. You wouldn't directly find that on wikipedia and there is not one single answer that will suffice. To be able to answer it, you need to be aware of the Reconquista, abundant military resources, conquered wealth, etc. and be able to support any claim you make about them. You can search for the details, but you need to have a broad enough knowledge to know what to search for.

A mathematician might be asked about the importance of prime numbers in mathematics. Again, not something on wikipedia, Google, or wolfram alpha, or with a single answer.
Missed a word in the title: South Africa.

That changes things a lot. If it were in Kenya or Nigeria, this would be a bold move. South Africa, on the other hand, is not really all that much different to a middle of the road Western country.

As a result, this news is more on par with opening an incubator in New Zealand or Italy. Certainly cool to hear, but not really "Startups in the Congo" cool.