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While I respect your opinion, I will say that for someone from the midwest who's never been to SV until yesterday, it does feel like something out of a science fiction movie. Its just so vastly different out here in the midwest. Hell, I can't start a conversation about currying and mapreduce even if I stand in the middle of my university's comp science department and scream. And yet, in SF, the buzz is so palpable it feels outright weird. In the span of a few minutes in which I sipped some coffee, the chap next to me drew up some enterprise routing system for something called postgres. Another bloke gave a demo of some ipad thingy called doctor krono. And a third chap was going on and on about some series A series C thingy.
I dare you to find a place in Chicago where all of these things happen. Or even any of these things happen.
Not exactly surprised, appending to immutable strings is rarely fast, and rarely considered an interesting hotspot to optimize: you can usually fix it away by using arrays and joining them at the end.
That's why I said before it's homogenized not before it's pasteurized. It's no longer raw after it's been pasteurized and not yet homogenized.

The problem with cheesemaking with store bought milk is the homogenization process, not pasteurization.
The fact that the file is HackersNews.jad instead of HackerNews.jad will lead to a lot of typos if people don't click the link (clicking it didn't work for me).

Why a Rubiks cube instead of an orange HN or something?

My Curve threw the Index 0 >= 0 error, I guess I'll have to "contact my mobile service provider to get my latest APN settings." Though I don't know why.
Yea, I was thinking of the whole DC sniper thing. There was a similar indecent at an army base (fort hood), but the random nature of the targets and the length of time between attacks was far more threatening to people.

I could see a changed "Manhattan skyline" as a significant impact for many people. For a while I could see the section of the pentagon hit by the airplane outside my window, but there is little lasting visible impact on the structure. Internally, they did a fair amount of renovation for example added some glow strips on the floor pointing to the exits which seems like a good idea, and gas makes which seems less useful (and more creepy). You can even go on tours of the pentagon which seems risky, but I suspect the benefits outweighs the risks.

However, that's all fairly long term effects. As to being up close and personal, a coworker of mine was in a conference room when 1/2 the people at the table where taken yet he had no problem going back to work at the pentagon. Sure, it's a target, but numbers suggest being a truck driver to be a far more dangerous profession.

When it comes down to it terrorism is simply not that effective. Several paces have had sustained terrorist attacks for long periods of time and people don't react that much.
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When you subscribe to some ideology that can be described by a simple word, it is easy to dismiss all problems encountered while exercising that ideology by saying that "you are not being X enough", whether X is socialist, capitalist, vegan, carnivore, functional, object-oriented, static, dynamic, free, proprietary or whatever.

I used to program in Haskell for fun and school and I liked it. I find it very well thought out language. I may very well come back to programming in Haskell when I encounter a suitable project.

But there is a tendency among Haskeller's to get too caught up in praising purity and laziness, while ignoring the nice practical aspects of the language that could enable it to rise to be an even greater language.

I'm not saying that author is guilty of this, this is just a general observation. And I must admit that I'm not quite up to date of what's up with Haskell. My point is that Haskell is great for reasons other than purity and laziness, too.
I've had an Intel X-25M die after about 16 months. BIOS wouldn't recognize it anymore.
I have just launched.

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The ToS has the full gory details.
Sounds awesome. Almost guaranteed to get a sunburn and some techcrunch coverage if you come out of it with something cool, considering all the ink startup bus got.
That does sound a lot better.
How can he fit three-dimensional coordinates into a single 128-bit number? Seeing how he divides diameter, I assume he only took care of one axis.

I'm curious how many bits do we need to address a point in an universe with reasonable accuracy.
If it makes you feel better, my sense from what I've read is that you're more likely to have success once you get funding. You've been through a lot of pain, and you still believe in yourself and what you're doing. And apparently some very experienced and talented people believe in you too. That says a lot.

As for the "Somebodies", it's not all about past success; there is a lot of luck and flair to it. There are, in any human culture, people who are utterly worthless but can make the magic happen. They don't know much technically, but they're great at using the herd mentality and certain exploitable vulnerabilities in weak minds in order to make other people like them, so getting funding and press comes easily to them. When they actually have to build a product and a team and a company, they're screwed, and they tend to flame out catastrophically. Whereas the people who actually work hard and have real capability will have slower paths to success but, when they get there, they'll be able to stay where they are because they've actually earned it.
I just can't believe they do something so colossally stupid. How is the world to believe that he's dead if you serendipitously destroy the evidence like that?
It's possible that I simply haven't made enough effort, but trying to get PIL and Reportlab working from a virtualenv has been an uphill battle.

I'd really like those libraries to work on OSX, Linux & Windows, but so far it has been easier to just install those two packages on the machines I need them on.
You should move the video to the home page. It took me a while to find it. You may consider having a professional voice actor narrate the video, it's not as expensive as you might imagine, and the results can really take it to the next level. You may also want to get another domain, something like amburapp.com. Any chance of integrating with Square? Manual credit card entry could be a challenge.

You should also consider offering packages with all the hardware the restauranteur would need.
"if you are having trouble putting together a round in the first few weeks of actual investor meetings, just say, "screw it," and get back to working ASAP."
- this seems a little extreme, to say the least, not sure I agree. It might apply to some premium selected YC startups in frothy Silicon Valley conditions, but not in general. Putting together a round takes time and quite often much much more than a few weeks.
"It probably wouldn't result in an explosion and the energy output would probably be in the form of light."

That's what nukes do too. Turns out that dumping absurd amounts of light (various parts of the spectrum, but certainly including visible) into the surrounding area absurdly fast tends to fuck stuff up pretty good.
This is a really cool idea! How many restaurants do you have signed up? The proof is in the pudding, so the more restaurants that use this, the more likely it is for your to work our any bugs/process issues etc and for your company and product to just take over a huge chunk of marketshare. I know a lot of people who are building or talking about building similar products, so congrats on being early to the party! Also, best of luck!
I feel like that leads me down the path of being Experts-Exchange, and I don't really want to go there.
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That isn't true. There is an important justification for purity in Haskell. It increases the correctness of programs. There are plenty of important ideas that use only a single word, and the fact that they use a single word doesn't say anything good or bad about them.
Strange as it sounds, lots of incoming freshman have never had to figure out anything before. Their "education" has consisted of nothing but regurgitating standardized lessons for standardized tests.

These students need some time to learn how to think. That doesn't mean they can't, just that they don't know how yet.
Come, this isn't Digg. Dump the 'dude', the assumption that I don't know any history, and the assumption I'm overly concerned with America's being the target of 9/11. I don't live there.

The key word in my statement was 'impact'. Look around you and tell me which of the events you've mentioned had a comparable impact on world events and the feeling of vulnerability of hundreds of millions of people.
Cool idea! Sometimes I wish Stackoverflow had a similar functionality, where rather than getting help, I could literally offer a cash bounty for the solution. I realize the focus of SO is for education, but would be a nice option, particularly since it already has a very active community.

Hopefully this site will too!
Floats are great, you just need to understand when to use them!

If you want to use them for an application where you're doing frequent multiplications or divisions, I strongly suggest log transforming your domain and replacing your multiplies with adds and divisions with subtracts. This goes a long way to prevent numeric underflow when performing Viterbi parses without resorting to some godawful slow non-native numeric representation.

Haskell implements this as LogFloat (http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/logfloat/0.8.2/d...), and I've cloned it for C++ as LogReal (http://www.bhickey.net/2011/03/logreal/ and http://github.com/bhickey/logreal)
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no. Both are creepy. Can't people use it like a normal person? It has to be either extremely conservative or extremely nosy?
Thank you. This is exactly the reason I built this site.

I had the idea a long time ago, and then SO came out a few weeks later, so I abandoned it because I thought SO would fill that space. However, they've remained free, and it's still hard to get an answer on something requiring more than a few minutes' time.
One of the intentions of Haskell is to provide certain guarantees about whatever pure code is compiled. These guarantees are important for some applications (especially concurrency and distributed parallelism). If these guarantees are lies, then there can be a problem.

None of the examples are massively series, but hopefully it should prove the point that this topic matters.
Assuming this is even true, it was faked before the news came out and was thus an inside job. What possible reason would they have for doing this? How do these tweets improve the position of the US?
One of the benefits of iOS devices is their ubiquity. What if a server spills a drink on the cash register? Then your register is fried and you have to wait for a replacement from the vendor. If someone spills a drink on an iPod Touch, though, you can run down the street to the Apple Store (or other vendor) and drop $300 on a new one (which you can return if you get the other one working).

The fact that the whole ecosystem (app store, iTunes, backups, etc.) is designed for consumers means that it's easy for anyone to deal with. It would be trivial to teach all your management and supervisors how to reset, restore, etc. an iPod Touch in the case of hardware problems, rather than having to log a support ticket with some company somewhere when the PoS hardware is being problematic.
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Had some fun in there until someone took over with the spamming. So.. summer project?
Summary: Design it in the US, build it in China.

The difference between the space race back then and the current situation now is that "out innovating" China doesn't really lead to many jobs here in the US.
Take Groupon for example. It made something a lot of people wanted. Could most people on Hacker News have made it? Sure.
But Groupon created it before anyone else (I might be wrong about this?).

Group buying has been done many, many times before, going back to the bubble. Many millions of dollars were burned to little avail. What Groupon actually nailed was all the hard parts of the business model that don't look really freaking difficult on the napkin -- particularly "signing up local merchants" and "cost-effective customer acquisition."

That second one is relevant for virtually all businesses and gets disproportionately short shrift here.
Most of your taxes to the federal government actually get spent for Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, Defense and Interest expense.

Unfortunately, just Medicare, Social Security and interest expense cost over 2.4 trillion dollars. And yes, that's more than the 2 trillion that the government makes... And we haven't even paid for the actual services and defense!

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Can't believe there isn't one for BB already. Good Job!
Yeah, I was wrong about Racket: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchmark.php?test=all...
Great start. Just the thing to reignite enthusiasm for the rest of the framework.

You might also say this is a much anticipated response to Sencha Labs' slick ExtJS Designer. I'm not a fan of data binding magic tricks, so would encourage the project to focus on standards, portability, performance.

Note: works better on Firefox 4 than Chromium.
One could do worse than add your comment here: https://github.com/maqetta/maqetta/issues/6
That BBC article makes it sound like they interviewed him. All the quotes however come from his tweets (verbatim or reworded).
We all know services like Gmail can be subpoenaed by court to provide information. Google is big enough for this to happen to them on a daily basis, so it's very likely they have a an automated procedure. For all we know, Schneier may be talking about this.
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The app looks good, but from the video I think, wow it would take me a long time to put in an order.

I was a bartender at a downtown Chicago restaurant using Aloha for more than a year. Aloha is not pretty, but it's really fast. I don't want to scroll, or click into menus and tabs to then go find an order. Just put my tables in front of me as soon as I'm logged in.

Trying to give constructive criticism here, so please don't take this the wrong way. Speed is everything. I almost feel like I can login to Aloha (all I have to do is type my server #), and then enter in an order for a table before I've even finished finding my name and typing in the password into your "server selection dial". Passwords are really not that important at the server level. What I am going to do, go change someone else's check?

Speed. Think raw speed. How FEW clicks can I get from login to item entry. It's not about how logically organized it is. I don't want a magical experience, I want a flawless and fast experience, so that I can get back to the 500 things I have to do to service my customers.

My 2 cents.
I like what lavabit has done, but at the end of the day, if they are forced to, they can modify their server side software to log your password when you log in, and then use that password to decrypt all of your email on the server side.

It also doesn't secure the email on the client side. If your IMAP client stores the email on disk, then you need to make sure it is encrypting it in a secure fashion first.

Lavabit should offer an extra layer of encryption whereby they allow you to upload a public pgp key which they encrypt all your incoming email with using PGP/MIME.
West coast Costa Rican resorts are awesome. I stayed at this one before => (Non-aff) http://www.occidentalhotels.com/allegro/Papagayo.asp

You can usually get 30-40% off list price, and they're truly all inclusive. I suggest hitting one before or after the startup weekend since you're buying the plane ticket anyhow.
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It feels like app store ratings isn't going to be the driving force here. There aren't enough restaurants out there downloading iOS PoS software to drive you to the top of anything but a small and inactive category.

In this case, the App Store is just a distribution method, and all of the marketing and discovery is up to the company themselves. As Wil Shipley once said, the App Store should be a warehouse, not a storefront.
What if the schools' homework policy is to allow collaboration between the student and any sources (including just looking stuff up on Wikipedia)?

That was the defacto policy in my school. Homework was 5% of your grade, and was expected to just be a learning experience. The real trials were the labs and the projects.

You could theoretically cheat by copying project code from somewhere, but without the explanation report you'd still get a 0.
I really like the IntelliJ model:

* no explicit saves: files automatically autosave

* the editor keeps a max of N tabs open using least-recently-used

* browser-like navigation by clicking into symbols combined with forward/back history

The autosave part was weird at first, but it makes so much sense. Why bother with explicit saving, prompting "do you want to save", manually closing tabs, etc. Combined with the navigation features, you never care which tabs are open. Edit history plus version control are much better than a simple save/discard model.
There are systems for social networks with decent privacy schemes. Those systems also have a number of users that approximate a rounding error.

As such, the dichotomy is not false in practice.
These were in 8 different computers in 8 different people's houses (friends and colleagues).

So something specific to my environment is not a factor.
Mentors:

Andrew Kortina, Venmo (twitter.com/kortina)

Carter Cleveland, Art.sy (twitter.com/carterac)

Chris Maguire, Postling (twitter.com/revolvingdork)

Dana Spiegel, AxialMarket (twitter.com/danaspiegel)

Dmitri Tcherevik, MightyMeeting (twitter.com/cherevik)

Eliot Horowitz, 10gen (twitter.com/eliothorowitz)

Kevin Owocki, Ignighter (twitter.com/owocki)

Liz Crawford, Birchbox (twitter.com/liscrawford)

Mike Lewis, SpotOn (twitter.com/mlewislogic)

Naveen Selvadurai, foursquare (twitter.com/naveen)

Nick Ganju, ZocDoc (twitter.com/nganju)

Pete Miron, Knewton (twitter.com/petemiron)

Simon Murtha-Smith, Singly (twitter.com/smurthasmith)

Vanessa Hurst, Paperless Post (twitter.com/dbness)
Worthwhile if you use wireless networks, particularly unencrypted ones to access your email.

And with the cost of a godaddy or similar certificate so low, well worth implementing on your own box.
Did they charge for the placement exams? The school I attended had credit by exam, but it cost the same, or nearly the same, as actually taking the course.

What was the placement exam like? I think to really be fair an exam like that shouldn't be so much a C++ exam, as it should be a programming exam. In other words, C++ syntax isn't as important as understanding what polymorphism is. It should be acceptable to answer programming questions on an exam like that in pseudo code.
Are they saying that the application fee is $500?
Why would they issue such a broad patent? They've essentially patented video content distribution. What are providers like YouTube, Vidyard, Vimeo, Ooyala, 23Video, etc. going to do?

Software patent law needs to give it's head a shake. This is going to cause nothing but grief for the semi-competitive landscape.
...And you are still not telling us anything that anybody doesn't already know.
Probably this is why some startups get so much coverage from TC while others hit the wall.
No. "the per-person fee of $500 covers all the basic costs (except airfare). We supply the housing, the food, and the fun."
Well his point is that floats suck for coordinates, because they have a high precision at the origin, then become less and less precise further off. If you want to simulate a galaxy (his example) you want the same precision everywhere, and a uniform non-floating point representation is better.
I'm guessing it was this comment:

"I'll probably get downvoted like mad for saying this but I still think it's hilarious that a company valued at $65+ billion uses PHP as the base language for their software (granted, certain measures are taken to increase efficiency) and all of you bandwagon jumping hipsters still hate on it. You can spout reasons why you're butthurt by PHP and it's robustness (in the form of misguided and shortsighted attacks comparing features of other languages) all you want, but it doesn't take away from the fact that a wide range of people can understand and implement PHP. And if you think that's a bad thing, I think we've found the underlying source of your angst towards the language: with PHP, you don't feel like you're part of an exclusive nerd club."

It's not bad enough to get banned if you ask me, but I've seen this happen before. I disagree with the "silent" banning policy, since it seems to waste the time of legitimate users while not providing that much benefit in the anti-spam department.
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There's no doubt you've sharpened your saw with the projects you've worked on. It could've been way worse - I've been through the blues / in the doldrums, and couldn't get myself to do anything for weeks on end.

I happened to navigate to Paul's article on fundraising, and further, to Alexis' one on keeping calm and carrying on (http://alexisohanian.com/keep-calm-carry-on-what-you-didnt-k...) and I was blown away. There's no way I could've survived something like that. You're in great company.

I'm looking forward to what you come up with. Here's to a great couple of years ahead.
I've had 2 (n-2 gen) OCZ Vertex SSDs die within days of installing, and 3 Intel X25M-80s that have been rock solid for 6-10 months.

There's nothing like seeing 6 kvm virtual machines boot up in seconds to remind you that they're damn fast on reads.
you should be able to find the APN for your carrier online if you search for it.
I didnt want to get into any copyright issues, hence the Rubiks cube and not their logo.

p.s. clicking it works now...
imo what is worse is the lack of transparency around the flagging.

We don't know how many people flagged that article, whether it was manually pushed down by a moderator etc. All we can guess is that it is artificially moving down because other articles (with much lesser upvotes and same age) are ahead of it.

My request for more transparency (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2495953 ) was itself killed with no transparency :)
I think location may also contribute to a startups failure.