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Great work! Yehuda is brilliant, although I'm sure he's busy now and I don't know how much bandwidth he would have to address that. I think he's full bore on Sproutcore.

If I calculate (20 seconds) x (number of times I bootstrap rails), it might even be worth my time to have a go at it.

There is a bug supposed to be fixed in ruby 1.9.3 that addresses something to do with the load path and bootstrap performance, but no idea when that's due to land. If it's truly the cause, it seems like this should be a patch to 1.9.2 instead.

You might also want to see if this is related:

https://github.com/rdp/faster_require/blob/master/lib/faster...
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Sadly this days most Python frameworks (including django) are quite full of all kinds of dark magic.

If you want a blissfully magic-free language try Go ( http://golang.org ).
"Big Pharma" invest more in marketing and advertising than in R&D.

Even though some drugs are indeed more lucrative for them than others, they would not develop cancer drugs if they were not profitable.
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what is the binary representation of 2?
Hardware: http://www.ubnt.com/unifi
Monitor software: tail -f
http://www.ubnt.com/unifi
Hence why I use markers a lot.
At the risk of blog whoring ...

I appreciate links to other resources of interest, and often it's the author who knows best of the relevance, so whore away.
q: i've never attended such a conference. when the users move from room to room they would have to reconnect to another SSID ? or did you setup something like a mesh setup ?
I'm not asking you to do it, but honestly, I really haven't ever found any of these places that contain much more info about step 1 than was contained in your rough outline (but I have found lots of places that contain roughly the same amount of actionable info in longer form).

If a piece of writing does go further, it typically just advises the reader to do something like "Talk to people and find out," which is frustratingly circular. Talking to people is something most of us do every day without any profit, and "find out" just restates the problem.

It may be that this has been written about well somewhere, but I have never seen it. I figure it must be one of those things where you just have to figure it out for yourself, and for those who have figured it out, these vague platitudes look like actionable advice because they're able to mentally fill in the blanks.
If there is an article about bowel movements with "MIT" in the title, chances are that it's interesting.
Thanks for your comments. Why is a browser-based app a problem (if it does what it's supposed to do)?
I started off building something like this a while ago (and never got round to finishing it). I like your implementation better.

One interesting feature I had which you don't is polyrythms http://code.google.com/p/drumscript/source/browse/PolyTest.p... which I found quite interesting. Would be cool to see them included in this.
You created an account just to post that deep thought? Why troll?
Finally, something that Color is good for
>It's like asking Google : "I feel my competitors outrank me in results, and I deserve to be higher! Can't you see they are clearly cheating?"

\ Totally, before we know it they'll be doing drug testing in sports.

/sarcasm
The history of the Erlang virtual machine
Don't let them fool you, these people are not dumb. They know exactly what they're doing.
This looks like a great tool for new photographers to internalize the interactions of SLR controls.
No Mesh magic involved. Just set them all to the same SSID and it will magically work.
I think the moral of the story is not to get attached to ideas. Ideas in themselves are worth nothing, what matters is the execution. Also, once you're reached success, don't rest on your laurels or someone will out-execute you.
Try The McGurk Effect - Is Seeing Believing?
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Here's the link to the tool.

http://qrvie.ws/craigtrack/demo.php
I agree with this. The landscape when I was a student was very 'get a job' friendly and very much not 'employ yourself'.
Performance Problems with ActiveRecord in Rails 3
I carry a fountain pen and a bottle of ink around with me (and some toilet paper to wipe the pen after filling). I've refilled on the bus, in other people's houses, in lectures and tutorials, all without making any more mess than sometimes some ink on my hands (but I don't mind if people think I'm an artist). Only once (eight years ago, almost to the day) did I have an accident, flooding my bag with ink just before an exam (the lid of my bottle of ink was not on properly).

Edit: And as for the pens themselves, I've used a mere four pretty basic Parker fountain pens during the last twenty years, two of which are still in service. Of the other two, one was broken by a classmate in high school messing around, and the other by me dropping it nib-down onto the floor.
If you'd bother to watch the video you linked, you might notice he doesn't actually say that... in fact he says that is a stupid thing to say.
Well there is no place like the valley but there are some great things going on in the Pittsburgh and especially the CMU environment. Can't compare the pure volume to the valley but the numbers are growing and that along with the resources and makeup of CMU/Pittsburgh is a very important thing. I expect to see continued growth for a while and the new fund is a great thing (if implemented correctly, of course). This just may be the thing that ties all the great entrepreneurial resources together and helps create jobs and increase the poor CMU endowment!
aaaaand this is why we have a Supreme Court that decides the constitutionality of laws our ridiculous congress passes.
The premise of a web search for "best Chicago restaurant" to provide valid results is flawed. "Best" is undefined and means different things to different people, maybe even different things to the same person at different times.

A perfect Google could show the following instead:
...Did you mean: "Chicago restaurants ordered by their number of stars in the Michelin guide", "Chicago restaurants that your friends like"
this would only work if you aren't using encryption, like in your case ? (or encryption won't change a thing, except a lot heavier on CPU and there goes all down the drain)
The 'second tier' people don't need to be told what tier they're on, necessarily. There does need to be more thought put in to how relationships are categorized and info flow from those relationships displayed and managed. But all of that can be on one party's end - the other party just needs to know that I'm aware of and acknowledge the relationship - they don't need to know what I think of it.
I believe this is different. With Google TV they were relying on the networks providing the content, this time they're relying on the user.
I don't know what makes you say that, but your statement trivializes the medical disorders of people you know nothing about.

Surely eye patches can not replace melatonin for all cases where melatonin is used as a treatment.
Wouldn't using eval to parse JSON be quite hazardous in the same way as python's pickle, and thus be limited to pretty specific use-cases (limited moreso than just simply to JS)?
This is exactly the kind of lateral thinking we need to forge the next great entrepreneurial platform... one that is decentralized, open source, and not inherently shackled by politics.
The most important part of marketing-dev collaboration is getting the two to have any respect at all for the other one's work and have a willingness to learn about it. After that point, communication seems to become a lot easier. As a side note, all major failures I've been familiar with have toxic marketing-dev relationships, so it's worth everyone's time to make this work.
Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger on Startup Myths
Instagram Co-Founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger challenge many of the myths surrounding startups and the lives of entrepreneurs. Both former Mayfield Fellows with the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, Systrom and Krieger share their first-hand experiences of the entrepreneurial process, including identifying good problems to solve and the value in building simple solutions and minimum viable products. Systrom and Krieger also discuss aspects of their co-founder working relationship and their efforts to maintain a balance between work and life.
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That's okay, they'll just ignore the rules as needed anyway

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IJDQCYMM-A
I don't think their hold is nearly as effective as Microsoft's once was. The hypervisor API is very simple compared to the OS and lock-in is practically nonexistent. It's also not nearly as common - how many machines are running hypervisors these days?
A short summary of Facebook photo storage system: Haystack
In the personal use realm, VB (mostly the guest tools) just isn't very slick compared to VMWare. Dual screens usage, seamless/unity modes, resizing windows, clipboard transfers, drive mounting, etc, are almost always a better experience with VMWare (fusion/workstation). The biggest reason I use VB in many places is because you can't argue with the price.
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And then there is the New Yorker Who is moving to the Valley Claiming:

1. Cant raise capital
2. Cant find talent

http://www.businessinsider.com/face-it-nyc-is-not-the-best-p...
I wish I had had the cojones to apply to MIT when I was looking at undergraduate schools. I was afraid I was too fail, and I was terrified of the debt I'd accrue. Today, I think I could have made a competitive attempt to get in.

If you're a nerdy high schooler: Don't let that be you.
Yes, but (not having seen the text of the bill), the reporting implies that there is no requirement of mens rea.

If they're removing safe harbor provisions that protect some kind of clearinghouse (like a message form) from being responsible for what member post, then it must necessarily have no requirement for mens rea.
The reality is, though, that it's not realistic for everyone to start a company. Most people can't do it, or won't succeed (just as we know that most startups will fail, it's simply a fact). So I actually think CMU's approach is more realistic, since most people WILL end up just getting a regular job. If you look at your graduating class, I'm sure that the VAST majority of those people have jobs. I don't think that the vast majority are internet billionaires, or even millionaires, or even self-employed.
Lazy title: the author gives examples in Haskell, Python, R, C++, and C++0x.
When you say "performing some other action associated with your account" does that mean:

1) you can perform actions associated with your account without having been logged in? If so, could you give an example.

2) someone else can perform an action, and that would mean you would be considered active even if you hadn't logged into Facebook in over 6 months. If so, could you give an example?
Regarding Work: Hire based on interest not credentials
Smart recruiting advice particularly relevant to startups
Except that (a) they've found a way of passing laws recently that remove their subject matter from the purview of the courts; and (b) the courts have removed themselves from some areas, as with their refusal to judge the merit of blight declarations in takings "for public use".
I wonder if there are any grants available for a project like this? That would probably be the best way to get something like this going, but it would be more for the greater good as opposed to a business.
Directly, yes.

But comparing C or C++ to C# isn't completely off the mark. And comparing C# to Java isn't crazy either. And once you're at Java, there are plenty of cases where a comparison to Ruby or Lisp makes sense.

So anytime a use case starts in Java (web, mobile, and desktop applications), I think there are very good comparisons to be had on which direction to go.
I can 100% guarantee that I have a cheap and successful way of killing all cancerous cells of any type with one simple and effective treatment, with only one side effect. I call the treatment plumbum-therapy.

(Note: reported side effect to therapy includes death by gunshot wound)

I think people would prefer to opt for a more expensive treatment plan.
Personally - and this may be optimistic of me - I look forward to the day when the Internet generation gets into Congress. I think - hope? - that maybe perhaps we will see slightly less ridiculous legislation.

Odds are that our generation will create just as asinine rules, but about something different.
Contact Pascale Dianine via http://twitter.com/pascale. Feel free to tell her that Van Nguyen sent you, if not, no worries - she asked me to send people doing fashion related startups her way.

They're based in Europe but have a tiny outpost in SF.
I started https://github.com/joevandyk/slow-rails to look into this. It's an empty Rails project, except for the Gemfile and one model.
The full title of the bill is:
"Preventing Real Online Threats to
Economic Creativity
and Theft of Intellectual Property
Act of 2011"

Why do they want to prevent threats to theft of intellectual property?
Glad to hear this - I hope other schools follow along in their footsteps. This is a good way to both invest in graduates, and improve the money problems many schools are facing (though, this is more of a long term result.)
You shouldn't. The man is in the IP lobby's pocket. This is why looking at things as politics and personalities instead of just practical concerns like "This would have undesirable effects" is not a good idea.
Ignorantia juris non excusat.

(Note to downvoter(s): this is a genuine counterpoint to mens rea. You can break a criminal law with a clear conscience, yet still be convicted, when the reason you had a clear conscience is that you didn't know it was illegal. It's a fine distinction.)
Of course it's relative, that's what separates communities from "everybody." User flagging is how the community can evolve.

you could argue that a community with a lot of lamers is a community that hasn't properly attracted a target userbase

A person who sees most of a community as lamers is not a member of the "target userbase," and has no business speculating what the "target userbase" of that community should be or even whether they're doing it "properly" (h/t C&C). "If you look around and all you see are assholes, the asshole is you." Nothing wrong with this, that's why people form communities and subcultures. Not everything has to be for everyone.

It seems you're trying to work with a universal definition of "lamer," which doesn't exist. It's always in context. I'm a lamer when it comes to baseball and I'm not going to go into a bar and force people to respond to my endless questions about why bats aren't all the same size and "what is a home run, anyway?"
The crazy thing is that Pittsburgh should be an awesome place to start something. Cost of living there is next to nil, with burn rates hanging around half what they would be in the valley. There is good access to talent, as well.

Eventually, I could see it as a sort of robotics hub, as there is existing manufacturing infrastructure and affordable land for the production of physical goods.
I really don't think it's just for legacy apps - people install VMWare as the base platform for enterprise data centers - it was a pretty smart move for EMC to acquire them as it makes it a bit of a no-brainer to then have EMC SANs as well which is most of the money typically goes.
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Tips on starting a tech/blog review
For those of you who doesn't know, I work as a reporting supervisor in an international BPO center based here in Clark Air Base, Philippines. Because most of our clients are on the other side of the world, our timezone is totally opposite. So my jobs starts eight in the evening ...
In that case, I don't understand their motivation.
Yep. What's sad is that because of BranchOut's pedigree, they'll probably get the Zynga treatment. Make enough money for Silicon Valley VCs, through a few pennies at local charities and, like magic, your sins are erased and you've got the TechCrunch CEO of the year.
It should be parsed as "(Preventing ((Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity) and (Theft of Intellectual Property))) Act". The threats are to econonic creativity; the theft is a separate object.
Likewise, and thank you.
I just ran a simple test on every version of ActiveRecord that I could get running (standalone), using both Ruby 1.8.7 and 1.9.2, and graphed the numbers.

Here is the result:

http://jsfiddle.net/2bUb5/
The internet used to be cool. It was full of smart people saying smart things.

Now it's mainly a communication tool for 13 year olds and desperate housewives.
Too bad the title closely missed the alliterative opportunity of "Leaves Labels Livid".
This reminds me, I have had an idea for advancing science through investing in graduate students and I would love to get some feedback on it.

How about creating a foundation that gives grants to students to support them while they get a Masters or PhD in two branches of science?

My assumption is that encouraging people to get high degrees in two or three branches of science will help bridge the 'specialization gap' that now exists between the branches. People on this program will be able to apply one area of science to another, which may create amazing applications.

How many people are there who have a PhD in biology _and_ a PhD in computer science? What about PhD's in mathematics and robotics?

I would apply immediately to anything resembling this.
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I like this a lot, it seems like a classic example of divergent thinking, in a subject (math) that doesn't traditionally involve a lot of it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divergent_thinking
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And it's different in exactly the best way possible, i.e. that Google learnt from their past mistakes.
The PS3 got hacked. So Sony turned off an otherwise useful and legitimate feature that some people paid for. Then that got hacked. So Sony can turn the OtherOS feature back on now: it is no longer required to hack the PS3, which was their argument for removing it. Sony are clearly unable to stop hackers. But they are quite good at fucking their customers.

This "enable massive piracy" claim sounds really scary. You do know, that right now, there are millions of vehicles out there that can all be used to commit crime, murder people, crash into banks and run off with ATMs, etc. And yet, these criminal enabling machines just lying around (OMG theres two outside my house right now), there is no outbreak of "massive vehicular crimes".
This article doesn't offer any new information since the launch, and the only support for the idea that they've bungled the launch is one negative review - there have been several positive ones, as well.

Moreover, I have a hard time swallowing that "the bully at the table was Google", given that the article's only support for this is the recording industry's claim that "The discussions were confused by Google ... adjusting how Music would actually work in ways that fundamentally changed how the labels thought about their IP, and thus how to license it", particularly in light of BMI's insistence that one person streaming their own music constitutes public performance [1]. This sounds to me like the music industry insisted on fundamentally crippling the service, and given the choice to cut one key feature or another, Google found it in their best interest to cut the one that makes the music industry the most money. I don't see any evidence yet that that was the right or the wrong choice from a user's perspective.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2534850
Ha. I considered it, since I had to shorten the title anyway.
A related comic which gives away the answer:

http://cowbirdsinlove.com/43
Their motive is authoritarianism; an unfortunate disease which sadly afflicts most politicians.
If it were a reliable way to see someone smacked down, it would be done all the time. The only reason such a system would not be abused is if black hats weren't convinced it was effective.
You know, after the labels stopped insisting on DRM I really thought that they had learned their lesson, at least to some extent.

The functionality Google provides does not need to be negotiated with the labels. The user is free to upload their music. Since ripped (It's legal!) and pirated files are indistinguishable, it is not even possible for Google to prevent users from uploading pirated music (except in a way that would cripple the service in an unacceptable way).

Oh, and the law obviously allows Google to not have any measures in place that bar their users from uploading pirated music.

I don't think Google needs to get in the business of selling music (many others are and they all sell their music without DRM), they consequently also don't need to play nice with the labels. What the labels think about their new service is not so important.
How many attendees were there? I tried to find some numbers real quick and couldn't manage to find them. For conferences (or any high density user environment), the density of users has a massive impact on how the network needs to be designed (omni vs. directional antennas, output power, individual channel selection, switching infrastructure, etc.). There reaches a point where the device density is so high that even narrow beam antennas at the lowest power setting can easily be hitting max associations. Really the only way to provide good coverage at any sort of event is to plan ahead (months in advance, especially for tech-heavy conferences) and not trust that the IT department of the venue will know how to properly set up the access.
I wouldn't go that far. I'm just surprised when the internet culture dictates the zombie response.

If someone sat next to me on an airplane, heard me mention MIT, then waxed eloquent for an hour, I'd be nodding along with a big grin. Contrast that with me asking if MIT was involved in a conflict or if the speaker wanted a donation. It would make no sense.

So why do we allow and enable that attitude online, especially here at HN? It's not just mean, it's vapid.
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I usually dont laud a comment here since it doesnt contribute much, but this is one (of the many) where I cant but make an exception. Great stuff!
For games, sure. For use on other webpages: Depends on how resource intensive it is, to be honest. If I'm playing a game and browsing the web at the same time, I don't want the game slowed down further because there's a whole bunch of OpenGL things going on at the same time.
money + power? campaign contributions?
Betting on Bitcoin: Fundamentals vs Technical Analysis
At the last JSConf, 370 attendees, ~1000 devices online. You are absolutely right. At a certain density all bets are off. We were pretty close to this point at several points in time. The problem gets much harder with more people.

The blog post is very much not about technical details. Having people who actually care is what really counts. This is all, of course, presented in term of not-for-profit-conf where paying people to get it right is usually not an option.
CMU has a decent number of researchy spinoffs, like http://www.pittpatt.com/. I'm not sure if those are the same kind of thing as "startups", though the line is fairly fuzzy (Google was also a grad-school-research spinoff, for example).
It's aimed at an issue with ActiveRecord. Like I said, it doesn't mean that Rails 3 on MRI 1.9.2 is faster than Rails 3 on REE.

Also, just to be clear, I'm not the author of the linked post or the benchmark.