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so that the grades could be meaningful to colleges, employers, etc.

Do you think that grades are that way now?

http://www.amazon.com/Wad-Ja-Get-Grading-Game-American-Educa...

Grades from some schools are completely disregarded (that is, not taking seriously as indications of learning). Lower grades can often be more highly regarded, if accompanied by other evidence of actual learning and achievement. There is substantial controversy about how much consideration of grades adds to standardized test scores as an estimate of which students are best prepared for university studies,

http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/pdf/rn10_...

but it is worth noticing that all of the most selective and sought-after universities in the United States continue to use criteria other than grades to select students, even after they look at where the grades come from before deciding what the grades mean.
First of all, wanting to get into social is accepting to play second fiddle to Facebook

That's like saying that Google getting into email with Gmail years ago was accepting to play second fiddle to Hotmail (or Yahoo Mail). We know how that worked out. It's too early to say who will be second fiddle to whom.
Made a project last weekend using the raphael.js + the Facebook API.

http://shalecraig.com/friendspore

Since it's all local (no node + etc), your data stays with you.
This is huge. If the SEC provides another exemption to Reg. D for crowd sourced funding, it could usher in a new age of financing for startups not just in the tech space but in all sectors.

I am a bit concerned that some unscrupulous people will use it to scam money out of naive "investors" through the use of crowd source financing services. The SEC would not have the resources to investigate at this scale. And I have doubts that local law enforcement would pick up the slack.

But even with the fraud risk, I believe this would be a net positive and lead to a lot more creative ventures.
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I really like the concept, reminds me of CouchApps (http://couchapp.org/).

That being said, I agree with andrewjshults that sooner or later you will need to write server side code, even if it is to proxy client side requests to another domain.

mckoss, would it be worth making a server side implementation of your service for http://www.akshell.com - a server side JavaScript platform with syncrhonous I/O and a browser based IDE. We're open sourcing the whole stack, so there would be a lot less lock in than with AppEngine. Drop me a line on our mailing list if you're interested: http://groups.google.com/group/akshell
Dude, you don't know weird. Where is RPG III? Bliss-32? Syclops? GOOFBOL?

You are listing some pretty mainstream ones.
For Acme, remember that it's an editor on a shell, with Unix DNA. Also remember that Acme-SAC is based on Inferno.

But, being nix-ish, if you want to know something, just man whatever. To start, type 'man intro' someplace. Then shift-click-sweep the cursor over the text to highlight, and alt-click the highlighted text (plumb).

Notice in the article how rsc mentions the three mouse buttons more than once? The missing buttons on the Mac are a big reason Acme SAC doesn't fly for me, no matter how much I'd like it to.

I think it would be really great on a Mac, but would need some tweaking to get there.
I've been watching the design progress of this on Forrst, great work!
Seems like a great summary, but it should probably be expanded to cover a few things that really matter these days but were beyond the scope of the article originally.

It really doesn't explain much that is relevant to how SMP is done, but there's been a lot of interesting architectural progress there: The point-to-point HyperTransport links and on-die memory controller were the two biggest advantages the Opteron initially had over contemporaneous Xeons that used a shared front side bus connected to a memory controller in the Northbridge, but it also meant bring the complexities of NUMA to mainstream systems. Intel's first Dual-Core CPUs were also just two P4s sharing a socket, which was less effective than later designs that that had shared L2 and L3 caches.

I'd also like to see a bit more about GPUs, as they use a different mix of techniques (many cores, in-order, but also VLIW) and have quite different memory and cache systems (eg. ring buses, directly controllable global/local/constant memory regions).
Did you guys miss the zune pulse for 99.84 and the references to xlr (jacks for microphones and speakers).. I don't have time but look at this through the lens of Roadie... are there references to (audio) speakers?
I really think you meant "insightful" rather than "inciteful". Usually it was the former, only occasionally the latter. ;-)
I'm nearly 2K miles from the Bay Area but I've heard of more than 3 ISPs that serve the area.

What about Unwired, Cruzio, and Sonic?
Oh please. NIO, Generics, annotations. Here's a comprehensive list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_version_history

Whatever you think of Java, it has improved HUGELY since the 90s. Though it does miss closures.
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I am cursed with the affliction of seeing both sides in many situations. Sam is without a doubt right, in that an attack on the users of pow, presumably being small in number, is unlikely. Thomas is also right, in that a situation like this is almost the epitome of low hanging fruit to an attacker with the means and motivation to attack someone installing pow.

I think both parties need to be cut some slack. Sam is in a position where he's just trying to get some things done and make it easy on the user to run some great software. Laudable, without a doubt. Thomas is in a situation where he sees the evil that men do, and just wants to point out a tweak that could potentially head off problems for people wanting to opt in to said great software. Also laudable, without a doubt.

Where I will come down on one side is the release of gosh, which is difficult to interpret as anything but an attempt to mock one of their positions. The adjective theoretical is perhaps one of the sticking points. The problem here is that the transformation from theoretical to actual in terms of a threat is unfortunately just a couple of hours of coding on my part, and I say this with full knowledge that most participants at HN far exceed my skill level. I would use bog standard tools, all of which are already installed on my laptop - even though I am not in the habit of doing such things. For a myriad of reasons, the least of which being industry health, it shouldn't be necessary for me to pull an Eric Butler in the next few hours for this topic to go from theoretical to actual threat.

At the heart of things, there is a disconnect between those in the security industry and those who aren't. If you attempt to be totally secure you'll find yourself in a recursion loop that never exits. If you attempt to just get things done, you can find yourself employing practices that are quite simply horrifying to those who are stuck in said recursion loop. If you attempt to take a moderating view, 9 out of 10 times you'll find yourself agreed with yet your suggestions will mostly go unfollowed. Until some common exploit comes about, at which point those same 9 out of 10 folks will mention that this vulnerability has been known about since the beginning of time.

In my view, we all need to meet on some common ground. Sure, if you don't have http-->sh executions going on there are still 10^10 other attack vectors out there. But for right now, that's more or less the only solution the security industry has to offer. Keep plugging away at low hanging fruit. It raises the bar.

Bottom line here is that Thomas doesn't seem like too bad a guy to me, and I doubt he's looking to tarnish the reputation of a great piece of software. But he's bringing up a good point that is refreshingly actionable. It's an opportunity to make things just a wee bit better with a minimal amount of disruption. I'd suggest that you mock it at everyone's peril.
Great article. At first it seems to match the computer architecture course, but at least my professor didn't give fine detail like that hyper-threading had a 10% logic overhead.
I would look through the "CRM" results on SearchYC - http://searchyc.com/crm
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2425577
This is great. Milestones and assignees are the only things I've found myself missing in Issues besides file attachments.

Now I just wish there were a way to mass edit issues without checking each one individually. It's going to be a pain to migrate every issue in our 1.0 tag to Milestone 1.0.
I use the plan9 from userspace[1] version a lot on both Linux and OS X, almost exclusively actually. Read the man page[2] or even the paper[3]. I recommend giving it some time to get used to, it pays off.

Acme-SAC is built on top of Inferno; the virtual directory structure you're seeing is Inferno's namespace. I find it helps if you know a bit about that first.

[1] http://swtch.com/plan9port/

[2] http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html?man=acme&sect=...

[3] http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/acme/acme.html
No. The idea is that many people who propose changes to the education system don't have much experience with it, but Woz is not one of those people. Who would you take legal advice from: a lawyer or your neighbor? Who would you trust slicing into your brain: a surgeon or some random Joe?
I love free stuff!

Small suggestion: the first instruction was to "drag zipped website here", but it did not mention that I need a file exactly called "index.html" inside. Maybe change it to "drag zipped website containing your index.html here" ? I understand that it gets too long, but then, your first response to customer would be "womp womp womp".
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"the activities of non-governmental entities in outer space, including the moon and other celestial bodies, shall require authorization and continuing supervision by the appropriate State Party to the Treaty"

thats just great!! aliens havent even landed, but they are already terrorists!!

- second thought, perhaps thats why they dont want to reveal themselves: not to get jailtime!
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Personally I have been wishing for delivering material info publicly over social media services like Twitter to be allowed under Reg FD for a while now.
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well actually we dont know whats inside the moon soil, just like you can have some sort of "scanner" and scan earth below to determine where diamonds are located.

AFAIK, there never been any digger machines located on the moon, so... :)
They open sourced datacentres so they can sell their used servers and craps later on.
I agree completely, but think you should've done without the "disclaimer" at the beginning - that always comes off as whiny (or egotistical - a martyrdom complex).
We're just finishing reviewing them all. (There turned out to be 70.) Emails should go out tonight.

So anyone who (a) started their application before the deadline and (b) doesn't hear from us in the next 24 hours and (c) doesn't find the email in their spam folder and (d) has a working email address in their HN profile should contact info@ycombinator.com.
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I also was looking for a way to select all.

The fastest way I can find to do it is through the keyboard shortcuts.

- Move down with "j"
- Select issue with "x"
- Move down with "j"
....
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I think the conspiracy theories, etc. were certainly bothersome, but they were far from overwhelming. It's important to keep in mind that basically nobody is in the business of following and publicly reporting on Microsoft's money trail, so in recent years we've only had weak evidence for their ties to SCO and their influence over the ISO standardization of OOXML. The myriad other possibilities probably were never investigated enough to have a chance of leaving the crackpot realm. We're left with only shreds of evidence, like certain lawyers being shared by everybody trying to undermine the GPL with a lawsuit, and Novell's IP being bought by a consortium that Microsoft put together.

To me, the greatest immediate loss is her reporting on Sony's legal activities. Even Ars Technica has not gone to the level of depth that PJ's analysis has, and I don't think anybody else has been diligent about tracking what Sony says in prosecuting Hotz vs. defending against the class action. There have also been several occasions where PJ has been the one to dampen sensationalism by not taking the legal filings at face value (eg. the accusations that Hotz had fled the country, or that Sony had a smoking-gun match for his serial number and IP address).
Except when they cause things like our recent financial crisis.
Couldn't you use mirrors from the surface? I would think you could easily double that temp in K considering the light from a mirror the size of a piece of paper puts out about 15W of heat.
Thanks for the links. Good read, especially the first one.
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Where?
About time they dumped these rules. They are old and archaic. Companies should be allowed to raise money from whoever they want, and people who aren't as fortunate as 'qualified investors' should be given the opportunity to invest in high-growth companies. It would level the playing field a bit - rather than keeping all tech growth gains in the hands of a select few.

The solicitation portion of it is mad, our lawyer previously told us not to even mention on our website or blog that we are raising money, incase it is misinterpreted as public solicitation.

This is all that is holding Kickstarter et al back from running full fundraising rounds.
Gmail arrived in a field where having 10 or 50MB was considered normal and it disrupted that by letting people not having to care about mail storage. It rendered email weightless to most.
Hotmail & Co. were stagnant, they thought that webmail was a solved problem and Gmail blew their little world.

Facebook is moving, it isn't resting thinking "Work's done."
Maybe Google hasn't solved it yet, but they're at least aware of it. Take a closer look at this slideshow from one of their UX guys...

http://www.slideshare.net/padday/the-real-life-social-networ...

It's all about the problem where social circles overlap.
"No cover letters allowed" but you can "write a blog" about why you want a position? Guess what, that's a cover letter.

Honestly, what I'd be looking for in someone to work with, after raw programming ability, is the ability to use traditional media to communicate well. One of the biggest problems I see at work is the inability to communicate in writing. Being unable or unwilling to write means that every time something needs to be discussed, it involves a conference call. Conference calls suck because they can go on forever, and each participant has to invest the same amount of time. If you have an idea and spend a few hours writing it up, I can read and understand what you're thinking in just a few minutes. Send the writing to a few people, and your 1 hour x 6 people conference call is now 2 hours + 5 minutes * 5 people, saving tons of time.

Making a video and posting it to Facebook and Twitter? Not so much. Everyone that wants to watch it has to focus on that task for the entire length of the video. And that is wasteful and disrespectful of my time.
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A word of caution about the name and approach. You'll find when fundraising that branding yourself as "ycreject.com" will make it very hard to raise funding. VCs and Angels are going to think, "if YC wouldn't give them money, why should I give them a much larger amount of money?"

I don't think it's controversial to say that most angels and VCs suffer from group-think and an over-reliance on social proof. That's why finding your first investor is the hardest.

This concept will be perfect for boot-strapers, but not good for someone looking for funding. You'd be better off avoiding all relation to YC and branding yourself as some sort of unaffiliated startup co-op.
I think you're not seeing the distinction between which skills are important, and how to teach and measure those skills.

I certainly think that trying to teach, practice, and test fund-raising, public speaking, etc. each as separate skills would not be a good way to train effective leaders or politicians. But if you teach a bit about each of the skills and then have someone apply all of them to a specific project/campaign/endeavor, they'll learn more and actually accomplish something along the way. (BTW, Evidence of this is very easy to find, because effective leadership always requires you to be exercising multiple skills simultaneously.)

You wouldn't teach someone to play violin by spending a month on reading music, a month on bowing, and a month on fingering, and then expect them to be able to easily transition on their own to actual performing.

Similarly, it isn't a good idea to structure a curriculum to have separate classes on data structures, assembly language, object oriented programming, networking, GUIs, etc., and then expect somebody having taken all those classes to be able to build a useful application. (Nor can you simply wait until a "senior project" to start tying things together.)

There's really very little about that insight that's hacker-specific.
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Check out https://github.com/ashima/webgl-noise for a broadly compatible, very fast implementation of both Perlin and Simplex noise. It works with WebGL and requires no textures or arrays!

The software was originally developed for my WebGL OCaml game engine demo, Ooman: http://ashimagames.com/
I have to say, I think this is really unfortunately timed. Just about everyone I know has already selected where they're going to be for the summer. I'll be curious to know if this works out for any of the companies involved.
Please end the "we are pissed because we got rejected posts"
You got rejected by YC.

That may mean that your business idea/model is flawed or you simply do not have one.

It may also mean that you have a great business going but it was not a good fit for the YC portfolio.

Move on, reevaluate, talk to customers and validate your value proposition if it is a good business prove them wrong, if not pivot and keep trucking.

Maybe the next one will be a winner.
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what's wrong with IMHO? And how does it somehow make me unworthy of correcting your grammar?

You also used "it's" instead of "its" in a couple of places.
What will happen to people rejected from YC reject? Will they form a YC reject reject group?
Does that mean there is only C++ in India?
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This is definitely a step in the right direction, but I am not sure the SEC can let go of so much control without significant regulation of some sort, specifically in reporting. It'll be interesting to see if the benefits actually outweigh the costs. I have to believe there will be reporting requirements and am not so confident that an artist could justify those costs to raise $50,000 or so..
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Adams shares the most common view nowadays that school is either supposed to prepare you for your 'carrier' or make you an academic.

In fact school is here to increase your wisdom to the fullest before putting in you in risk to gather experience.

This is relevant to any student. And explains why sometimes B students (as marks) succeed at business - they may not been better memorizers, but have the knowledge to make better choices and use this knowledge.
native apps will dominate for the foreseen future. it is easier to buy an app on itunes and then click that desktop icon when you need it, than to fire up a browser, browse the mobile internet and type / remember URLs.

apps are just easier for mass market users.
Makes reading on cell phones a pain though.
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My usage is a well-established if secondary meaning. See for yourself: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shibboleth, http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/shibboleth, http://www.google.com/search?q=site:wikiquote.org+shibboleth, even (selected at random from project gutenberg texts) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/356/356-h/356-h.htm. Can you find a better word? I'd happily replace it, but I can't think of any other that means a platitude that happens to be false.

Just to get back on topic, I'm disappointed that no one else seems to appreciate the beauty of oscargodson's question. It's one of those things that is dope-slap obvious, but only once you see it.
I may take you up on that a some point. I tend to learn by jumping in the deep end, so I'll likely write code first but if I run into any questions I'll keep your offer to chat about it in mind.

Everything I'm doing is open source, I'm planning on using the Apache 2.0 license. The Github repo (without any code yet) is here - https://github.com/joerussbowman/Scale0

The README gives an overview of what I'm attempting to accomplish.
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:( not even one more year? What about 6.172 this fall?
:) Made me smile
Yeah, but that whole single founder thing is so messed up. They don't really send you the message that they rarely take single founders on board. You have to find horror stories on the net. One of them is about a guy who had two other co-founders or so, but those couldn't just move for three months. They had families and lives. So the guy moves to SF and they tell him "we really hate single founders."
So, if the other co-founders are not there, it's like they don't exist at all. I do have a guy, an engineer who would do a lot of the required work, but moving him to the US is an idea from another planet.
He is part of the team. There's no doubt about that. He just doesn't want to be a legal co-owner. He doesn't want that responsibility. He's also much older than me and has a different perspective.
But Y Combinator, suffering from ADHD, won't have the patience to consider all that. That was kinda my whole point. I'm still not sure you got it.
Doesn't this show determination? Paul Graham's number 1 trait in a founder?
I lost interest in having the new shiny a long time ago. [..] At home that means a refurbished Mac Mini from 2006, a used Dell 2001FP 20" LCD from 2004 [..]

Is this "one of those things" that happens as you get older? To my own surprise, I've drifted into the "can't deal with the boom-boom music on the radio" zone just as my parents did in their 30s.. So will "new shinies are boring" be next? I better start stocking up on Apple gear ;-)