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I'm helping a colleague of mine get into a RIA start-up and the original development he used ASP MVC on Windows. Do you know if any of the RIA JS frameworks play nicely with ASP MVC?
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The problem with Flytivity is that Sonar does everything already, much better.

They have solved the chicken-egg problem in a very clever way, by mining the web for info about people you'd like to meet, who are where you are, and who don't necessarily use the service. "Sonar is useful even if no one else is on Sonar".

Presentation by Sonar's founder here:
http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/25/arrington-sonar-which-took-...

(I understand that you're talking about a way to use Flytivity for sex, but you could certainly use Sonar in this way too).
Agreed, entropy is inevitable, and a transition is required. However leaving Steve 'crazy' Ballmer in charge while you 'walk the earth' is a less than stella plan.
Good point. If I'd designed this, I would have considered restricting the name space to strings of digits to avoid the opprobrium when some domain-name speculator holds redcross.bit or teachforamerica.bit hostage.
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Isn't it equally interesting to look at the two decades just passed? Nobody does. Of course, future is always more interesting because you can theorize instead of analyze, but in the next couple of decades it would turn boring past, too.
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Seems that the author needs to do some serious research and reading for MapReduce
This is just the latest demonstration of the precautionary principle[1] at work. People in authority act as if the worst-case scenario will happen (regardless of the actual risk of that) because it's self-preservative.

We're so focused on always looking for a scapegoat when something goes wrong that the only way to pre-empt potential persecution (either by the mob or the press or the justice system or whoever) is to always cover your ass, regardless of what the actual risk analysis tells you. Warning against events like terrorist attacks and earthquakes is a win/win: if they do occur, you're the heroic prophet who saw it all coming. If they don't, no one will call you out on needlessly spending large amounts of money on their prevention.

There is quite a bit of precedent for this kind of reasoning. For examples, see Blair's role in the invasion of Iraq (45 minutes, remember?) and the United States' Homeland Security Advisory System (never lower than "Elevated"). And did anyone get nailed to the metaphorical cross for the enormous sums of money flushed down the toilet to protect against Y2K?

To dismiss this as a uniquely Italian issue, as many of my fellow HN'ers seem to be doing, is a failure to see the wider picture. Don't kid yourself, this happens everywhere.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precautionary_principle
I wonder how much (if at all) query autocompletion biases the results. I think they rank higher queries that are spiking right now, to give fresh suggestions, and this may create some feedback effect on spikes.

BTW, how does "google" correlate (0.98) with "kratom"???
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No idea, but after reading that article... I don't think the numbers really matter. If all the facts in the story are right, then one man will be away from his children for 5 years, just because he didn't want to be strong-armed out of his business.

That is enough for me to realize that something is very wrong with Russia.
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Android is a Java userspace on top of a Linux kernel.

It doesn't help that most people say "Linux" to actually mean "GNU/Linux", but Android is certainly not GNU/Linux and it can't be "Linux" either, because that's just the kernel.
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> 1 in 6 Russian entrepreneurs are in jail, 1 in 3 prisoners are businessmen

The title is pure FUD.
Crazy how they never initially planned for more than 32gb in the first place since microSDHC is only 5 years old. So now millions of devices are outdated.
I'd say it's a bit harsh to say Dale Stephens hasn't achieved "any tangible success," Michael. He supports himself fully as a professional public speaker, at age 19, and he does so without being "famous" (movie star, athlete, musician, etc.)

Tens of thousands of professional speakers, many into their adulthood, would kill to have the professional life he has. Indeed, as someone who supports himself fully as a freelancer, I'd say that's already a level of success that many adults seeking to strike out on their own dream of.

True, he's not a gazillionaire, but I specifically chose to write about him for that reason. Had I written about, say, the usual suspects when giving examples of successful young people without college degrees (Mark Zuckerberg, etc), someone else might have said, "But they're the outliers! Average kids can't expect to be like them!" He has reached a level of success which I believe is impressive for his age, and which many adults would envy.

BTW, he was just named one of the Thiel Fellows, and was chosen as one of 24, among 800 applicants, to win $100,000. I'd say that's a pretty impressive accomplishment, compared to what many 19 years have accomplished so far.

(I'm the author of the article you're critiquing here.)
The skills are critical for any front-end designer, not just the ones in startups. Companies that embrace skilled designers as their culture compete much better than others.
How about Knockout? So it's not a 'full' RIA JS framework, but in my mind, that's no bad thing:
http://knockoutjs.com/

It feels like a nice fit to MVC/MS stuff (there's certainly plenty of examples of this, and Steve Sanderson now works for MS). And it's easy to bind whatever UI you want to your view models.

Personally I now use KO for even the smallest of JS/HTML 'apps'. It's lovely :)
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Airbnb does not need technical advice right now.

What they want is cheap publicity, and it's exactly what they're getting with the actor.
Search by drawing is really cool. http://correlate.googlelabs.com/draw

A bug report: I get 500 Internal Server Error when inputting non-ascii characters:

http://correlate.googlelabs.com/search?e=santa+f%C3%A9&t...
I am Italian (although I don't live in Italy). Those seismologists are being accused to have made statements and claims of "no worry" without bearing sufficient scientific support. The trial will likely end in a mediatic bubble (hopefully).

It may also help you knowing that the main man behind this accusations is Guido Bertolaso. He is very close to Berlusconi's government and got his own, more serious, legal troubles having to do with bribes after constructions in disastered area and prostitution. As usual, things in Italy are more complicated than what it may look.

Edit: adding this link http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article70...
One word: Publicity. He will help them reach new audiences, and his audience is their target demographic.
In a way, the same could probably be said of American entrepeneurs. Drugs is a business, an illegal one, but still business. Imagine the (potential) talent wasted, although perhaps the talented ones don't get caught.
I liked the Looking Glass demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMWd1FOgr18
A compiler has both a front-end and a back-end. Both the book that is linked to by the OP and CS 652, the course you refer to, have a heavy emphasis on the front-end.

Personally, I am very partial to the back-end, which involves very, very different data structures, algorithms, and theory. Once you make your way through this, I highly recommend taking a look. I would say it constitutes a different field entirely!

Here is a list of some such algorithms.

http://llvm.org/docs/Passes.html

What boggles my mind is that some of these algorithms can be made to do useful things besides generating efficient code (which includes code that runs on several cores!), such as finding bugs and security flaws.

Have fun!
Wish this was the startup of the year 2011
actually it's the same situation in most (if not all) Post-Soviet countries.
I agree with you that many journalists are perhaps a bit quick on the draw to label any little murmur a "movement" or "trend." However, I do believe that the phenomenon of young people questioning formal higher education and striking out on their own---while certainly not at critical mass yet---will truly quality as a true trend/movement to watch in the coming years.

There are just too many structural factors coming together at once: skyrocketing tuition costs; combined with a lackluster economy; combined with unsustainable levels of indebtedness compared to starting salaries; combined with cheap and easy ways to educate yourself on the Net; combined with a cultural trend towards young CEOs (many of whom are dropouts) becoming the new "rock stars"; combined with dramatically lower start-up costs for entrepreneurialism, which usually doesn't require formal credentials; combined with a "red ocean" effect in the oversaturation of BAs on the job market---all of these are pointing to what I think is likely to be a groundswell of young people questioning formal higher education in the next 3-5 years.

Watch this space. I believe it will be an absolutely undeniable movement within a few years.

(Author of the article you are critiquing.)
Have you considered finding customers that are actually going to pay you a decent amount of money? E.g. business-to-business may turn out to be slow going, unsexy and very profitable.
I don't recall ever buying via a Google paid link, but there are a handful of sites that have made a multiple of their investment back via showing me ads.
It's a serious and common mistake to think that the majority of the challenges faced by a startup are technical, especially in a consumer facing startup. More than half the battle is getting people to know about your product, and AK knows marketing and promotion well.
And it doesn't stop at selling

Imagine if everyone who used Google to expand their horizon was imprisoned
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If LinkedIn was actually useful then it would be worth 50 billion
There has been lots of discussion following LinkedIn's IPO about whether it is really worth 9 billion dollars.

The thing is that LinkedIn is the best and only true social network for professionals.

The problem is that basically LinkedIn is largely optional, largely an amusement, and for many people, just not necessary.

It's an absolute disgrace that LinkedIn has not worked out how to actually be useful. It SHOULD be an absolutely critical, essential part of every professional persons working day.

Instead it's basically a resume storage site which doesn't do much more than say who has just connected to who. Ho hum. I am actively bored by being hit with a list of who has connected to who - I just don't care.

HOWEVER, if LinkedIn actually managed to work out how to stop being bloody useless then it would easily be comparable in value to Facebook.

The question is, can Reed Hoffman and his team manage to work out how to make the largest network of professionals into something more thana trumped up resume publication service with a dash of twitter on the side?

Problem is that there is NO SIGN that the people running this company have any idea of the value of what they are sitting on, nor to they seem to have ANY CLUE how to turn LinkedIn into something of value.

What a waste of a HUGE opportunity. Reed's good idea was to connect professionals, but that's where his good ideas ended.

And yes, I DO think I could do better. It just doesn't seem that hard.
A quick search of programming languages (C#, java, C++, Objective C) is ... disturbing ... :(
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Bitcoin has properties A, B, and C. Currency Q also has properties A, B, and C. Therefore Bitcoin will behave like Currency Q.

Except that Bitcoin has properties D, E, and F. Will D, E and F impact how it behaves in the market?

Probably.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=417368 <- This exact same video.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=594881

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=669042

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1127351 <- arXiv

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1142405 <- wikipedia

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1158269

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1474667

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1662448 <- A variant where you can choose 2 from 10

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1992510

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2060071 <- Bayesian analysis
Gregory,

I think their response is one of the things making the situation worse. If I understand correctly the reasons for keeping it are:

* If documentation isn't generated automatically, where is the incentive to write documentation?

* It's useful for newbies because they can start up `gem server` or use `ri`

So, incentive. Really? I can tell you that of all the code I've written the number of times I've documented it with YARD or RDoc because of a fear that it would be auto-generated on each client and they'd see that is was found wanting is precisely... zero. I document my projects because I want people to use them, I don't want my inbox filled with questions on how to use it, and so I can link to somewhere like rdoc.info where potential users can read it online. I just don't buy that the auto-generation is working like a big scary stick making developers write docs.

As for newbies, I doubt many genuine newbies have any idea of how to use `ri`. Even if they did, you have actually know the class/method you want. At best it's a reference, it's awful for just browsing around trying to piece things together yourself. What I suspect most newbies do is go to Google and enter "How to open a file in ruby", they don't `ri File.new`. The latter assumes a reasonable (albeit forgetful) knowledge of the API, you can assume they're more likely to know about --with-ri rather than the newbies knowing about --no-ri.

The problem here really is that there is a not-insignificant number of people who have all put this setting into their .gemrc file because they want it as the default behaviour. Is it a representative sample of the community? How can we find out? It certainly feels that rather than find out the support for this addition was deemed a "circus of +1's", ignored, and closed.

I makes it had for me to feel sympathy towards the project, reluctant to offer any changes I'd throw around for consideration, and grateful to see others take the initiative to actually fix the problem (you with your mediation, and then SlimGems as a possibly viable alternative).
before you got low UX, high customizability with Linux.

now you get very comparable effects (customizable and evolving with 11.10 too) with all of the customizability and flexibility of Linux.

I don't mind the UI/UX of my MBP, but I prefer both Unity and GNOME3 and my heavily customized GNOME2 installs. The app-indicators and control center in Ubuntu are actually easier to use than in OS X. ICS to my Xbox took 10 seconds in Ubuntu. It took 10 minutes of Googling and editting a configuration file to get it in OS X. My phone works out of the box as a router in Ubuntu, it's not detected as an Internet device at ALL in OS X, who knows why. (And those tasks took less than a minute or two to access directly from the app-indicators or control center. (And very excitingly, there is a whole new connection center planned for 11.10 which out to be even cooler/faster).

I wish more people would come back and really spend the time to give modern DEs a chance. I personally can't stand KDE even after a lot of customization, but even Qt apps are indiscernable from GTK+ apps in Ubuntu (yes, even file selection dialogs, etc).

It's also funny that no one seems to know the history of these UX elements. Spaces have been a *nix feature since the late 80's, early 90's. The Grid plugin existed in Compiz as an unstable plugin for a long time before Windows 7 came out. They simply refined it for Natty.

Also, anyone on a MBP should try Unity just to see the power of the uTouch API they've built. Compiz is actually multitouch enabled. You can move and resize windows with gestures as well as expose the dock.
I find the top answer to be very biased and poor.

For starters, he clearly misunderstands what it means for the Fed to print money. When you increase the money supply, somebody is getting "free money", even if it's indirectly. The more dollars there are, the less each individual dollar is worth. If everybody got their share of the newly minted money there would be no difference, but in practice just a few institutions will be the direct recipients of the new money. For instance, when the Fed prints money then uses it to buy California-issued bonds, the California government is indirectly getting free money.

> Or at least have constant in rate of growth? Yes, of course you would, because that's the only way to actually accommodate more people using it.

This is an elementary mistake. Bitcoins can be subdivided almost indefinitely. If they go up 1000 times in value, we'd just start using milibitcoins.

> As a quick thought experiment, let's say demand for Bitcoin grew as more people found out about them. Well, you'd expect the price of Bitcoin in dollars to grow rapidly. Now assume I own one Bitcoin. I also have a dollar bill. I would like to purchase a Pepsi. Which one of those will I spend? Obviously the devaluing dollar gets spent before the skyrocketing Bitcoin.

This is nonsense. A transaction takes 2 willing participants. If bitcoin's value is expected to go up, then naturally the merchant will prefer getting paid in bitcoins rather than the dollars.

The main problem of Bitcoin is that currencies are like social networks: they're only useful if other people are using it, and often they never achieve the critical mass necessary to be successful. This, and the large risk of being outlawed by governments.
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"There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things." Tim Bray

My personal approach is to copy shamelessly. Whenever I come accross a very readable piece of code, I add it to my bookmarks. When I am stuck with naming something I go through my bookmarks and somethin inspiring always comes up.
We have to look at numbers (and look at how these numbers are calculated) because else we're the are hand-waving and permanently-shocked.

It's obvious that you can find some atrociously bad things happening in any place on earth. The interesting question is the general quality of life.
What I find exciting is the increasing integration of Telepathy into Gnome apps. The idea is to enable easy networking for all applications so the user can just pick contacts out of their address book and never have to worry about ip addresses or nat traversal. Things like collaborative editing or music streaming can be built on top of Telepathy rather than every application doing its own networking.

More examples:

http://people.collabora.co.uk/~cassidy/talks/2009-07-07-lets...
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Maybe the blog post just read disingenuously. "New media expert", really?

I've got lots of respect for the AirBnB team. They've done a great job building their business and if this helps then good for them.
Here are some of the iOS features that Apple has "shoehorned into Mac OS X" Lion which I am quite sure will appear in Linux free desktops in future: auto-save (system-integrated save versioning, integrated with backup); resume; airdrop (local file sharing without having to be on the same wlan). Even the full-screen feature, which seems pretty funny on the face of it, is actually more akin to Opera's "kiosk mode" than a regular full-screened application, and I am sure it will show up elsewhere.
view from this parent: we’re grateful for this opportunity. our son definitely lacks the “imitation gene” so k-12 public school (and any other options within our financial means and family scheduling limits) did not adequately encourage/support his talents and ability. Furthermore,the college admission process is so formulaic that it failed to spot his potential. This fellowship is elitist in number, but not in spirit. They judged him on the merit of his idea and the depth of his abilities, not on his GPA. It was a competition that was open to all. And though it is not scalable, it offers up the notion that alternative paths to over-priced academia is possible. It is a small, but meaningful attempt to break the university monopoly on the futures of our brightest, most innovative students.
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That's because Microsoft is not familiar with the single most important principle when designing consumer products ... simplicity and exclusion.

Dropbox is useful because it's in essence a simple product. Every time Microsoft designs something, it has to include everything but the kitchen sink.
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> The title is pure FUD.

Would you care to elaborate?
What's Linux got to do with anything? Gnome and KDE run pretty nicely here on FreeBSD, and I'm sure Unity could fairly easily if anyone actually wanted it.
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Sadly, the article completely fails to mention the amazingly useful innovations made by tiling window managers like wmii, ion3 and xmonad.

Granted, they're not as new as Unity et al, but they offer a compelling, complete and fairly radical departure from tradition, and one that I really do miss on OS X.
I found a part of Sean Lynch's comment to be very insightful.

Bitcoin's deflationary nature, ironically, will almost
certainly cause it to suffer from Gresham's law, in fact
it probably is right now: when the novelty of using
Bitcoin to pay for things wears off, we'll all come to
our senses and start using our inflationary fiat
currencies to pay for things, and spend the rest to buy
deflationary Bitcoin, and nearly all Bitcoin transactions
will be for a fiat currency or for something illegal or
that otherwise has very high transaction costs with fiat
currencies.
I wonder when the last interview is.. If there were late interviews?
I agree with a lot of the criticism. But I wonder whether they have a point when it comes to indexing (our the lack thereof). Any opinions?
If there's no safe harbor for legitimate businesses, then it makes sense Russia would be one of the world's leaders in cyber-crime.