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> For me, a functional programming language is one that allows for closures, inline functions, and functions as first class values (allowing higher-order functions such as map and fold).

I disagree. A language may have all those things and still be imperative. Smalltalk is regarded as one of the first and most importat OO languages (i.e. imperative) and has all those things you mention.

I think functional programming _is_ about pure functions, side-effect-free code and, in general, declarativity instead of an imperative style of programming. However, even the most "pure" functional programming languages, like Haskell, have some way of writing imperative, side-effect-full code. After all, you _need_ those side effects to make the program _do_ something hehe.
Hmm, remove possible Estopple evidence before settlement talks to avoid patent lawsuit loss..that will really get Google to agree to more money ..it would seem it produces the opposite..ie Google stating we have you on estopple or maybe you settle for $5 million and call it a day..
Enough with the flying cars! That was never a good idea.
The article would suggest they just need to work on tuning the leveling system- the initial grind is too much for some newbies.
Secret Sauce = Google's search algorithm. Facebook's news feed is just noise. Let's stop pretending Facebook is innovative.
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Confirming that he is an auditor is insufficient. A sufficiently clever legitimate auditor might attempt social engineering attacks and fail you if they succeed.

In fact, this seems like a more effective way to sniff out plaintext password storage than saying "show me everywhere you touch passwords and how they're encrypted".
I never cared much about my 'follower count', yet I've had some fantastic conversations and gained a lot of valuable info via Twitter. I've got barely over 100 followers, and a small proportion of them are people I know in real life. Maybe twitter should be promoting the use of hashtag topics more, since that's where I've found new people to follow and gotten followers by contributing.
The most powerful minds are the ones that can be changed.

I should add ...can be changed after much deliberation.
Funny thing though, a well designed relational database will execute your graph queries faster. It won't do generic graph queries faster, but if your sql data model and code are optimized for the type of graph data you are storing, sql will almost always be significantly faster, orders of magnitude in some cases. Obviously not a data model argument, but a real world argument nevertheless. If you then need to scale further you will probably end up putting up the same caching layer between your database and the front end, but at least all your data will be in once place (the sql database).
But a lot (LOT) of people spend their entire day comparing the size of their ehm things with others and only 'feel happy' when theirs is bigger. Twitter (and Facebook as well) shows what happens everywhere, in most houses of most people, but then in public. That's what makes it, for me, quite bad advertising for the human race, even the more technological inclined.
You don't really list your portfolio, which is different from what Sahil did in his post(his profile lists all his projects). He was pretty well known on HN anyways because of his popular Dayta App + Gumroad etc.
I should say Thunderbird. Its IMAP implementation has always had issues downloading large volumes of mail for me.

I also live in an area where latency is normally measured in seconds, so I think you and everyone downvoting me are living in a slightly different Internet from me.

Heliotrope sounds like it might offer a good alternative without a six hour journey back to civilization.
I don't think the GP was complaining about lack of attention given to his game, more wondering why nobody else has yet released a full game when he's almost done and not going particularly fast.
It is a novel class of attacks, and bites many people squarely on the hindquarters. For example, every available Java OpenID implementation was timable back in 2010.
Isn't the whole purpose of joining Twitter is to get your ego stroked? I fail to see any other legitimate use of it.
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Also, people are probably not going to go out of their way to tune their spambots to work on a personal blog that's just one of a billion tiny little targets, so something like a static "CAPTCHA" makes sense. But grandparent implies that this extends to the websites of large companies for which people have a lot to gain by creating specialized bots, which is pretty obviously not true.
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It's clear whoever put this together put a lot of effort into making the page fancy and there are some nice effects there, but it ultimately harms the message.

Here is some concrete feedback:

- WebKit lets you make custom scrollbars if that's important to you: http://www.webkit.org/blog/363/styling-scrollbars/ . Using a real scrollbar means that shortcuts I'm familiar with (e.g. shift-space to page up -- wow, I had no idea how frequently I used this until this page broke it) won't break.

- Whitespace is nice, but the double-spaced-feeling line-height combined with the "back to founders fund" heading at the top combine to make it feel uncomfortably cramped vertically -- not enough information density per page.

- Similarly, the lines are so wide they are uncomfortable to read. (I actually use a user stylesheet that limits lines to 50em, which makes many sites including HN more readable.)

I'm sorry I don't have any feedback on the content, I was too distracted to start reading it yet.
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That would be a fine argument, except that you almost always need more than a key/value store.

Even a basic chat software, you'll want to relate users to messages. Even session management.
Yes, indeed, the post was supposed to be "a story with the twist." Had I known that I was going to have hundreds of thousands of people reading the post, I would have followed the standard journalistic practice of writing a summary at the very first section. (See http://t.co/2kJEkJW for a copy of the post. Note: I asked the post to be taken down until I repost the original article but the journalist is really playing childish games.)

I kind of felt this a few hours after the post went out, so I added two clarification points early on in the article: 1. I am not giving up the fight, I will just fight differently, please see the conclusions (link), 2. This was not about NYU and people cheating in business schools; people cheat everywhere: the story gives an explanation why they remain undetected.

Oh well, people could not even read these two points.

But I want to write stories in my blog, not papers with an abstract, executive summary and table of contents.
For that quote to be relevant in court, it would have to be construed as willful patent infringement.

But we all know very well what "defend our decision" and "making enemies" refers to. It refers to the foreseeable shit storm resulting from fragmenting the Java community, abandonding J2ME and the JCP. This quote has nothing to do with patents in my view.
Are you really complaining that Twitter is too hard? It's taken me a couple of years, but I've accumulated over a thousand followers on Twitter. Some of those came through my blog, but most came through Stack Overflow where I'm a moderator and active contributor. The point is that you have to actually do something to make people want to follow you. Why would people give you their attention (even micro slices of their attention) otherwise?

Also:

> I don't want Twitter to start looking into my Gmail and follow people who are on Twitter.

seems at odds with:

> This is why you should be very afraid of Google+, they give people an instant audience. That's very powerful.
I had heard of Founder Fund before, but I can't say I had any strong conviction as to what made them a special VC, or if they were.

Their manifesto makes me question if my current project is thinking big enough (I think it is).

I think the problem entrepreneurs who would apply to Founders Fund might have is how to present their idea as being big and bold. Often the big and bold are not understood in common terms, so we dumb them down to something that is achievable in the short term, and seems realistic, while having a long-term goal which only makes sense if the shorter term goals can be accomplished.

Facebook would be a perfect example here. They couldn't be discussed as 'world changing' in the early days as they were just another social network. Nothing seemed insurmountable, nothing seemed challenging, even the idea of this 'social graph' probably wouldn't have made much sense until tens of millions of people were using it.
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Starting a company and building a team takes tremendous effort. Most entrepreneurs are pretty dang talented and the successful one’s are great at getting things done. Once you get the company moving, revenues are growing, you’re hiring more people, suddenly the talent and skills that got you here are no longer the skill sets to get you where you want to go.
That is relational though. In those cases, Redis and MongoDB must create some kind of key reference table like MySQL would.
Twitter is NOT about mindlessly collecting a vast number of followers ... unless you're a CEO trying to market your various companies.

Seriously folks, look at the author / submitter ...

"CEO of Flaptor, maker of IndexTank (indextank.com) Hounder (hounder.org) and Trendistic (trendistic.com) among other things."

... this is the blog of a CEO who is trying to build a reputation and / or brand awareness. Nothing wrong with that, but keep in mind the intent of the author when reading the OP.

"First, let's admit that part of what makes Twitter interesting is egos and follower counts. There is clearly a pecking order on Twitter that doesn't exist in other social networks. If you have 10k followers you can tell off some loser with only 500. When you join Twitter you are the bottom bitch."

I guess this is how folks with something to sell see Twitter. It's not how anyone else I know who uses Twitter socially (as opposed to as a marketing tool) see Twitter.
What about lock-in though? What if you decide you do want some relationship or way of filtering the keys you're storing with Redis. After you already have it in Redis as keys/values.

What then?
a well designed relational database will execute your graph queries faster

Why do you say that? -- see "MySQL vs. Neo4j on a Large-Scale Graph Traversal" (http://markorodriguez.com/2011/02/18/mysql-vs-neo4j-on-a-lar...).

You can represent a graph in almost any data structure, including a relational database. But the difference between a graph database and everything else is that in a real graph database (like Neo4j), each node has an internal/local index for its adjacent nodes so it doesn't have do an external look up for each traversal step.

Watch this video on "The Graph Traversal Programming Pattern" to see what I'm talking about (http://vimeo.com/13213184).
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I'm not sure I understand what you are saying in your response. My point was that we have a system where examiners are overwhelmed and underpowered, and more recently, incentivised to "grant anything that moves".

We have a system that is fundamentally designed to reward the people who pay. Significant filing and legal resource fees. Prosecution fees, to issuance and then in subsequent disputes. Increasingly, you can't even "enter the game" without deep pockets. (Except, I guess, to "sell" to one or another IP troll. Essentially making you their agent, rather than the reverse.) Putting us on the road to a class-based system with regard to patent (and perhaps IP more generally) rights.

Decide that intellectual property falls out of common property. It is a licensed, limited monopoly. Regulate it as such. Review it closely, and grant it with suspicion and due investigation.

How are you going to define such a system? Not on the basis of fee-based service and the primacy of private ownership (ueber alles).

Monitor how things proceed, and when they start to get out of kilter, adjust. IP is not some sacrosanct right; it's a tool. Use it effectively.

But... large portions of the populace continues to be sold propaganda to the contrary. Too stupid to pay the price it takes to effectively manage the IP commons.

(A corresponding point in all this: People "lament the off-shoring of jobs", but buy all their cr-p from overseas producers who benefit from flaunting the IP rights that elevate domestic producers' costs. Too stupid to see the hypocrisy in this, not to mention the self-destructive nature of the behavior.

One might argue that they are circumventing a broken rights system. In which case, why do they continue to subject domestic producers (and so, generalized, themselves and their own employment) to it?

Or, one might argue that those IP rights are a benefit to society. In which case, why are they circumventing them in their own actions?

For myself, I'd say that some rights are legitimate -- meaning beneficial to society -- and others not. By ignoring the distinction, we reduce individual choices to immediate self-motivation and short term benefit, but abdicate any coherent policy necessary to long term benefit.

We'll never have a perfect system. But it could be made less FUBAR than it is. If not, we really are screwed.)
if it is cloud to cloud, it really doesn't solve that much, and honestly I trust google more than any individual, including those /at/ google.
if it would be a desktop based backup, I can do that with a imap client and zero fee.
"Now pick the two lowest-level and most isolated functions in the entire codebase. They're used all over the place, but are never called from the same modules. Now make these dependent on each other: function A behaves differently depending on the number of times function B has been called and vice-versa."

Why would anyone want to do this? This sounds like a really, really bad idea.

I'm sure there are legitimate problems that are easier to solve with an imperative language than a functional one (such as quicksort, perhaps), but this article doesn't provide any.
"Instead he's suggesting adding tiny self-managed globals for little values that truly are global (used almost everywhere) but aren't constant. Basically segregating tiny pieces of mutable state into their own little cubbyholes in order to simplify the logic."

That kinda sounds suspiciously like a monad.
The idea of passing around Clojure Data instead of JSON is very nice too.
Totally agreed. Markets moved up, but a decline of the various indices would be justified: Greece will need another bailout, as this "partial default" only deals with a little over half of Greece's outstanding debt. They still have 140 million Euros to go.
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I'm with the author of the article on this one. Call me egotistical all you want but yeah, I tried Twitter for a few days and got really bored with it. The author's complaints basically mirror my short Twitter experience. If I tweet something and literally have 2 or 3 followers who will see it, why not just send an Sms? Pointless.

So, I need a larger group of followers, no? But what motive does Twitter have to get me to bust ass and try to build a follower base? None. I already took the time to build a friend base some other social network and I'm in no mood to start that process again.

As a means of getting up-to-the-minute news and information,Twitter excels. But yeah, count me out.
"Users should be able to control the data they store in any of Google's products. Our team's goal is to make it easier to move data in and out."

This philosophy, or at least the "out" part, should apply doubly after someone's account is terminated in this manner. Google has determined that sinning against one service warrants terminating access to other services. That may be justifiable. But sinning against one service should not warrant loss of one's data in other services.
Backups are worthless if you don't test them regularly.

Consequently, this service would be worthless without a UI for me to read my emails and see that you've successfully backed them up. Really, I think a desktop app that lets you browse a tagged archive of emails, with an integrated Gmail downloader, would be ideal.
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But... If I'm a hedge fund, why even own Greek debt plus the insurance?

CDSes are generally used to hedge a position. If a hedge fund holds both Greek bonds and CDSes on those bonds, they come out ahead regardless of what happens to Greece.
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Sorry about that - skimmed the page and totally missed the original. Mea culpa
I hate to give UX snark back to a site called uxmovement.com, but IMO we should be eliminating "mouse hover" and such from our vocabulary. Touchscreen devices have no such concept, and it's time we begin designing our websites to work without this relic.

Someone viewing the site in the example on a touchscreen is either going to tap that without fear (which is ok) or never go near it because they fear leaving the page (their thesis statement). In other words, their UX is already poor for a huge class of existing devices.
Which one would you use? There are a lot of flags to be configured, and whenever I set up Thunderbird, I'm unconvinced it's done a thorough job. I've also seen it re-download an entire mailbox for no apparent reason. And it doesn't actually support tags.
Thank you! I worked very hard to keep it short and useful, and it's nice to see that appreciated. Thanks, too, for the link to JavaScript Garden. I've only scanned it, but I love the table of contents and I know that will come in handy.
"""ClojureScript also makes use of the Google Closure library for capabilities such as event handling, DOM manipulation, and user interface widgets."""

Kinda wished they had stopped at the language and left the DOM out of it.

Still, very cool.
If you're not famous, getting a reservation is painful...this is the truth for a ton of things. Stoking the fire never hurts. Funny thing I tweeted at this guy and got no response.
I've always struggled with the term 'entrepreneur' as it seems anybody can call themselves that, wether they are starting a project, running a franchise, consulting/contracting, whatever.

It always to me seemed like a term with so much arrogance and yet didn't have a concrete enough definition of what it is.

The google definitions http://www.google.ca/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&...

seem to imply the managing of financial risk, but really I think it is a word that has lost it's meaning.
And then there's the fact that it requires javascript to just display some simple text.
Ways FF should improve the reading experience:

- Support normal scroll behaviour (swiping my trackpad scrolls but only very slowly; I can't press spacebar to page down; clicking underneath the scroller should advance a single page, not jump ahead to another part of the document)

- Show diagrams by default (no reason to require a click)

- Add a place for comments

- Narrower line length
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Or catch the key's event trigger with onfocus or onkeydown. That way even if they are pressed, nothing will happen.
I would pay for something like that.
This has to be the only real news I have ever seen of Amy Winehouse. She died, there isn't much the news can do to screw with that story. She was an amazing musician. She died. That's it. Everything else was just BS.
During the month where I made about $277, I had around 80k visitors.
Agreed. I'm not a big fan of Twitter, but flying cars don't exist for a reason. Now self-driving cars, those are interesting. Guess who's working on them? Google.
Please post the name of the security auditor. This is completely unprofessional and insecure.
I have zero followers (I only really use it to respond to other people), and Twitter is incredibly useful to me. It lets me easily and naturally interact with well known/popular people I otherwise wouldn't normally have any reason to interact with.
Didn't read the article but I think, yes, everything is entrepreneurship. The only difference is ever the model that you are earning on. Just because you work for someone else on a w-4 doesn't mean you aren't an entrepreneur.
This is a really honest question, what are you trying to do?
As a stats person, I've seen lots of job postings for "data scientists" that are along the lines of "We need someone to turn our massive amount of data into profit!" I hesitate to name names, but if you search for data scientist jobs you will see what I'm talking about. My reaction is always, "Great, but what business question are you trying to answer?"
If you didn't bother yourself to read the article, why do you feel anything you have to say on the topic is relevant?
No. The ToS applies to all Google services.
I know nothing about Gremlin so if this is an obvious question, my bad, but does it automatically calculate affinity, weight, and decay? I'm assuming it doesn't, but would I be blown away if it did.
You can download your data from these services at any time before you commit a ToS violation.
You are right, but my files are not organized on the web so I thought it's not such a great idea to show multiple links and files that are not organized in any way and that's why I wrote
"For info contact me at: startupbay@gmail.com". I would be glad to show you some of my previous work, just send me an email if you are interested. Thank you very much for your feedback

ps I am just trying to give back to the HN community
If you succeed at the control (the one it already thinks it knows) it takes your other answer as input for future viewers.
I am looking for a first technical hire for a bootstrapped startup with thousands of paying subscribers.

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Well, there's the War of the Spanish succession, where the heir to France gave up his position to be the King of Spain.

Sort of. :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Spanish_Succession
As of about 3 minutes ago, it still works.
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This advice is mostly not harmful, but the most important thing a newbie programmer can do is actually just code. Just sit down and write some code. That's it.
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Then your curiosity, your imagination or both have failed to engage.

I got a job through Twitter once, along with countless examples of professional and personal advice, guidance and encouragement. I can easily communicate with far-flung friends without the freighted expectations of long-form letters. I can maintain a professional network and stay up to date on new technologies and open source code.

It's a decent chunk of why I have my career as it currently exists, if I'm to be honest.