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I am blown away by the number of people on HN and elsewhere who are posting about "how they must be doing it" and then calling it unimpressive or a technical dead end.

Reading the blog post, I now know how Notch would approach building such a thing, and that he thinks his approach wouldn't really work. I still have no idea how Euclidean's implementation actually works and neither does anyone else who I've seen comment on their demo video.
If you want your new code to interact with old code, there is a very significant advantage to using the old code's data format.
I get the feeling this is already used by companies. All these positive reviews for OS X Lion comes to mind.
There is 'general public' and there is 'tech-savvy android users'. The former you have probably characterized correctly, but I suspect you are underestimating the size of the latter. As the grandparent mentions, if people are posting on forums to help support the devs, then at least some people are being persuaded to use the service because they believe they're helping the developers.

Many people do go out of their way to support independent musicians or indie game makers. It's not unreasonable to believe that there are people who want to help support small mobile development shops.
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You can't prove molestation by stealing somebody's computer. Similarly, I'm looking for my keys over here, because the light is better.
He calls it a scam because they're making hyperbolic claims, very carefully ignoring any mention of any of the drawbacks to this technology, and pretending that it's all brand new technology when it's actually been done before. And they're doing this to make money via investors.

It would be _fake_ if they weren't rendering it in real time. He didn't call it fake. He called it a scam.
I really think you’re getting a little over-enthusiastic here, Kenneth. Not everyobody has signed a rigorous confidentiality agreement. Not all such agreements prevent someone from discussing technical inventions in general terms. And if someone is prevented from answering, well, they will say so and the interviewer can decide what to do next.

If this is a “bad question,” are there any good questions?
I thought the idea was that if this decision had gone the other way then Microsoft wouldn't have achieved its current position.
It varies a lot between hackers.

Someone working in say the financial sector or in gaming is much more likely to want to move within that sector than say someone working on web design where industry is secondary to technology.

Also location has a big impact how some searches for a job, someone in SF or NY who has a wide range of options is more likely to be picky about multiple factors, while someone in a tech backwater is much more likely to care about company success (as losing your job is much more serious) but may also be willing to travel much further to work.

There's also a lot of factors which relatively few developers care about (4 day work week, whether the company will allow you to work on open source projects in your own time) but the developers who care about them care a lot.

I run a developer job board in the UK so I obviously spent a fair amount of time thinking about these things :)

If you want to chat feel free to drop me an email, happy to share advice from my own experience.
Probably the major difference is that Aloha Editor supports direct inline editing. You can edit dom elements directly without wraping the content in an iframe which leads to a different rendering (inline tags, css, etc). Further we did implement the HTML5 spec and a utility API (https://github.com/alohaeditor/Aloha-Editor/blob/dev/src/lib...) the helps implementers of plugins to write plugins that modify the dom in a HTML5 complaint way. There are some other new concepts available like "scopes" or "blocks". The floating for instance menu reacts on scopes like continoustext, link, image, table, tablerow, etc. You only the the interaction items that are availabe for that scope. That reduces the number of interaction item that are exposed to the user and still provide a huge amount of interaction items, where only the relevant ones are available at the right time. Block are non editable areas in editables which is a very common usecase for CMS systems. Blocks can be copy pasted, serialized and rendered async by AJAX calls from a backend.
I have to read a couple compiler books before reading this.
Why is the product considered worthless if it can't do animation yet? The demo clearly walked through examples of inanimate artifacts that are currently rendered as bitmaps on big polygons that could be greatly improved, today, by the technology in the demo. Backgrounds, cityscapes in the distance, the trunk of a tree, etc.

The argument that it's a scam if it can't render grass blowing in the wind is ridiculous.
Im a big thinker, self-confident, self-motivated, very organized and I have good leadership skills but no experience in this industry. I am willing to take risks.

This idea was just planted in my head about 6 months ago and I have been studying how to start and systemize the whole concept and if it's even worth putting my time & effort into it. I understand that I lack the knowledge of coding but I believe so much in the idea and its success that I cant not act upon it! I will do what it takes to get my partner/resources in helping me achieve my vision.

I have not raised any money yet but I do know of many funding companies to submit my proposal to. As soon as I find my tech co-founder then he could help me hash out the idea some more, create my promo video & beta site and start attracting attention!

Yes, I know I have what it takes to manage this company, finding funding sources, keeping the vision, and strategically set goals!

So if anyone is down to get more details and help me perfect this concept, please contact me! I will be waiting patiently by.

& Thank you so much for your very informative & honest response! I really appreciate it.
It would be possible to infer function and variable names, given enough thought.
And the jquery-easing plugin.

Generates a json file with easing-sequence/timing and works it's way though it.

The demos are really impressive -
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/edge/resources

Impressively (to me), these did not exhibit a performance degradation on the iPad. Using images seems to be the trick.
Cop hit by car chases, tasers suspect. What if he had been in it?
Media Monkey does this. It's free version is more than good enough.
No libs for editing the world? What about the list at http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Development_Resources#Libr...?
Really appreciate your few cents. I am new to this industry but really believe my idea can succeed.

I am looking for someone experienced in this field and can help me hash out my concept some more!
It looks like his own car only hits him on the shoulder. If he had been inside it trying to remove the roadblock, given that he might have anticipated his car would be rammed, would he have sustained more injury than he did?

Good job anyway, but lucky.
sounds like a cult
it should be in there..but here ya go: cpj1357@gmail.com
Agree contenteditable is not implemented consistently across the browsers and with Aloha Editor we try to reduce that pain... Did you test the most recent paste plugin? https://github.com/alohaeditor/Aloha-Plugin-Paste/tree/maste....
This plugin provides a methode to register paste handlers the clean the pasted content. Imho the MS word copy/paste should work quiet good in most cases. Unfortunately there are only few other handlers implemented yet, so coping HTML may remain unhandled...
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Uh, your source also claims that Alexander burned his boats as well.
Sounds a bit like array slicing. ;-)
Minor style suggestion: it would be helpful to toss in the phrase "Google's JavaScript engine" or something similar in there somewhere, perhaps right after the first mention of V8. I drew a complete blank trying to remember where V8 is from.
Car accidents happen all the time. Why do we care about this particular case?
But you can't start and work for a company on a H1B, so it sounds like a chicken and egg problem.

Also EB2 is clogged for China and India in 2007, so they may not get the benefit of this.
Thank you, these criteria just saved me from tearing down a building.
You seem to have not heard of the field of software reverse-engineering. If you think obfuscated JS is hard to understand, keep in mind that people like DVD Jon typically reverse-engineer algorithms out of optimized assembly.
Yes, the average after purchase (AAP) would be greater than the average before purchase (ABP). However, the AAP of $10 is greater than the AAP of $X+1.

The question is to what extent the $X+1 purchases depress greater purchases, as well as to what extent the $X+1 purchases increase smaller purchases.

The answer can only be determined by actually testing it.
+100 - the biggest questions (to me) were HOW MUCH code did they throw out, and how old was it? Throwing out a few months of code you just finished writing (and which you're still intimately familliar with) is vastly different to throwing out a code-base that would be entering middle-school if it was a person.
I used the Readability bookmarklet: http://www.readability.com/bookmarklets

Here's how the page looks like after activating it: http://i53.tinypic.com/2whfjhj.png
As someone born and raised in the States I agree that YYYY-MM-DD is the only format that really makes sense. Furthermore, I don't understand why we are not on the Metric system...
Why would you be so combative? Wouldn't you grant the interviewer the benefit of the doubt and describe the most recent three things you can talk about? Is the question somehow offensive?
Start a blog and write it out!
I think you'll find you're far happier if you can avoid thinking like this. Putting any thought towards these kind of minor "misdeeds" or even keeping track of them is a draining way to live.
Thanks. I somehow missed that. Substrate seems quite developed[1]. As for it being running on .Net, I wonder how well it does on mono.

[1] http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/245996-sdk-substrate-map...
You don't need variable names to understand what the code is doing, it's just harder without them.

Try going to google.com with chrome, opening the developer console, going to scripts right clicking and selecting 'de-obfuscate source'.
I think you missed the obvious examples of content-creation applications like Word or Photoshop, where you could interrupt an infinite loop, save progress, then restart.
Ask HN: Is Node.js the right platform?
I have need to create an app that does three things-send bulk emails, bulk SMS and bulk voice calls. I am going to use Twilio for voice, one of the SMS providers and SMTP for emails. That data is delivered from an Asp.net web app.

I am wondering if I Node.js based service type app would be the best choice as I would like the service to be non-blocking and scalable.
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Thanks for the note; fixed.
I wouldn't say it's particularly targeted, let me show you the code that makes this happen: https://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/src/unroll-if-alt/pypy/objsp...
You mean, basic_string and charstar?
This may be an incredibly naive question, but is there any reason wireless communication isn't directional, to mitigate some of these interference and square of distance problems? You'd obviously need some lower-bandwidth isotropic mechanism to locate other devices, and then a number of heuristics to track and predict motion.

Perhaps this is already how these things work?
this is pretty old but good nevertheless. Prof Edwards was my prof last year and advised my group on our senior design project!
Only the USA, Burma (Myanmar) and Liberia, still don't use it.
Throwing it away is easy when there's not that much of it.

My codebase is 10s of thousands of lines, it evolves as I get better but I'm not going to scrap it.
Could anyone tell what it was making in the video?
sigh; a headline like this is little more than HN linkbait. As others have mentioned, throwing out all your code is generally a bad idea, especially if your project is of significant size. How many lines is NowJS anyway? I doubt it was much of a loss.
I'm actually doing some research on this topic right now in grad school. I think there is definitely a lot more that can be done in this area; we're looking at things like time-of-day congestion, traffic management policy, actual application performance, and reliability. I think, as you said, there is a lot more to this than just bandwidth measurements. For example, last November a bunch of DNS servers went down in Comcast's networks that essentially meant no Internet for the majority of people that don't know how to configure public DNS.

We're working to eventually get a much finer grain survey of performance (e.g. a neighborhood), by piggy backing on network-intensive applications (currently BitTorrent). In addition to throughput, we're looking at things such as packet loss, latency (the last-mile in particular), time-of-day effects, as well as using traceroutes for underlying forward-path analysis.

My point is, if anyone has any ideas for other applications (something like Netflix would be great) to leverage, metrics to include, or advice, I'd be happy to hear them. :)
How many cell phone users are in China?
Not news. Just confirming what everyone's known for years.
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I'm not sure how one concludes that getting $50k of free money is even a smart assumption to make. So they give away X amount of money per day to app developers because they are being nice?
Right.

In this case it was 3 months worth of code. I think the analogy is closer to "we tore down this clay hut we built". Easy to build, easy to tear down.

If this were a mature code base, I would be a little more shocked.
3. Sunk costs and egos get in the way of good software

Egos are what drive people to throw away their entire codebase and start over.
This isn't boiling the frog. This is eating the cooked corpse.

I really dont want the government to have knowledge of my preference for midget donkey porn. That is my business, not theirs.
I wish there was a way to hold legislators accountable/liable for badly written laws. Our statute books are overflowing with junk. It is like we have a mammoth code base with no source control and no one even trying to clean it up. Just a stream of special interest patches being thrown on top.
The old thread with discussions on why the proof works: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1321899
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I thought facebook 'deals' was supposed to kill groupon, and 'local' was supposed to kill four-square, and the news feed was supposed to kill twitter.

Competitors copying your product doesn't mean the end, particularly if you've got a huge head start and the branding that Groupon has.
EB2 is badly crowded for India and China and currently stuck in 2007, so this is not going to change anything for them but might make it worse for people already waiting.
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I don't know, but hear it is.
You're probably worrying too much about scaling right now. Worry about supporting a few users with a minimum set of features first. Then go get those users. Then scale.

That said, node.js is awesome, and good for what you are looking for at least because it is very simple to set up and I hear it's quite scalable as well.
One of those things I learned early on is that a person's nature is not always under their conscious control and something I learned much later is to remind myself that people evolve based on their experiences.

The second bit is where you have to be careful because it will trip you up. I've known folks who came out of school truly arrogant bastards and then after a few years of exposure to the 'real' word mellowed like a good wine into something great. And have known folks who were great when I knew them, and then discovered on re-connecting that they had lost their way. The short of it is, holding a grudge against a person's past misdeeds isn't really very productive. As a manager you give your employees annual performance reviews and advice on what they should work on, so if I've not 'known' someone for a couple or three years or more I reset all my specific expectations to zero to get a sense of the person they are now versus the person they were then.
None of these WYSIWYG editors approach the ease, control, and flexibility one gets by just learning basic HTML and CSS. I get it that "users" won't do this, and that it's really not reasonable to expect them to. But as a developer, I abhor all of these.
While I'm not an expert in the field, the reason it's not used for standard WiFi networks is probably both that connections would drop out really frequently and that it doesn't scale well (or at all) to large numbers of clients. Directional (line of sight) wireless communication is used in situations where you don't want to or aren't able to lay cables, and have a one-to-one relationship (or one-to-many, as with satellite tv), though.
Nobody would buy an app from a developer who did this.
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Please write all of your comments in emacs.

[edit: for the reference, see http://forums.xkcd.com/ - Religious Wars]
The hard part of scaling initially isn't the technology, it's getting the users at all. Build it on whatever you know today, and then if you're very lucky whatever choice you make will become a problem later.
It's probably easier to do this sort of rewrite if you've already got "ridiculously comprehensive test cases".

Anyway, congrats on 0.7 Sri!
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He definitely is. The developers definitely should get paid 20% of their asking price for free downloads because some people think that's what happens. Amazon should definitely be responsible of their perception in the eyes of a few niave developers.
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People have managed to achieve much greater ranges (like more than a kilometre) with 802.11 technology using "cantennas" -- directional antennas like what you're talking about.

While it's theoretically possible, I'm not sure whether this is practical for general use on a LAN. You'd probably have to have a wireless antenna poking out of your laptop, which you'd point at the access point. Seems a little bit inconvenient.
If PyPy were really smart, it would notice the unused result and take 0.00s. :)
Human advantage comes from using more energy-intensive brain hardware?
Hogwash. Looks like it changes nothing.

At [1], see Q4 onwards.

In other words, it seems like the same old thing. What has changed is that you can be the sole owner of a company instead of a partner earlier but you already must be in the US on a valid non-tourist visa to start a company here right? Will this help students? But you need an advanced degree or 10+ years exp! How does one show their company is in the national interest? It's not easy, not to mention that this is useless for people of India and China because EB2 dates are back in 2007 for them.

[1] http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.5af9bb95919f...
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I'm pretty sure this is dramatized to fish for more sales.
Google knows: http://www.mathpages.com/home/kmath668/kmath668.htm
No it's not. In the first line, it's in [0], in the second line, it's in [1], in the third line, it's in [2]. You have to scan through to find where the '0' appears
Holding a grudge isn't healthy, and people change over even short amounts of time. And biggest of all, as someone who runs a startup this shouldn't take an iota of your mindshare.

The point of the article is separate though. Hold the behavior of everyone else in the valley constant. Given that, what are the things that you should do in order to network with people effectively? The four listed are probably some of them.
This... I'm originally from New York, and I know lots of good engineers who grew up there, but quickly realized that you don't make anything more for working in New York versus San Francisco, Austin, or Denver.

Yes, you can afford a place in Manhattan on an engineer's salary. But it's going to be too small for a family, and if you want a bigger place you're going to need to do a long commute. Compare that with other cities where a well-paid software engineer is at the top end of the income ladder and can rent out a full house for what they'd pay for a 2-bedroom in NY.

(And yes, it's even a lot more expensive than SF. I've looked at apartments in both cities - while rents in SF are comparable to New York, you're still generally getting a much larger place for the same price. That matters if you have kids.)

Brooklyn and Queens are nice (if not that much cheaper for the areas near Manhattan.) But if working in New York means you have to live 40 mins outside of Manhattan, or in Hoboken / NJ, what's the point of being in NY? Might as well be in Denver with a 4000 sq ft house.

It's unlikely that NY rents are going to drop a lot. If startups in NY want to attract more top talent, they're going to have to pay significantly more than startups in cheaper locales.
Then how is this different from regular H1B anyway if you need cofounders and investors? It's not as if they're giving a concession for EB2 since you need to have an advanced degree/10+ years exp. or national interest waiver even with the new rules.
Yes, but they still pay you as if they charged full price. Sounds like a pretty good deal to me. The description thing is just odd though.
Have you seen Inkling? They're doing amazing stuff in this space.
It should be made more clear that 'memory' here isn't the only thing in play. Register states, as well as the state of any IO subsystems are also important. If you're not looking at IO, then polling for events to happen based on network traffic will be shown to never terminate, if that event doesn't happen during the testing.
I think it's pretty clear that they mean their source code. This isn't about user security, it's about their intellectual property.

(To your parent, not you): Sometimes I'm sure people misunderstand on purpose just so they have something to be indignant about.
So, I'll be a bit contrarian on this.

I get a lot of intros. I get a lot of mail. But my chief role is not a networker. My role is to make sure the company makes money.

It happens a lot that I'll have some contact of a contact do an intro to someone that they think will be useful for us. We've done enough deals at this point that we can pretty quickly tell is an incoming intro passes the smell test or not.

Often I'll do an initial call out of courtesy to the person that did the intro, but I don't bother with a follow-up unless I smell blood in the water.

I end up dropping more intros that I'm happy with. It definitely bugs me at times that I can't stay on top of every intro that comes my way. But it's important to balance pure networking with actual business development and to not confuse the two.
AFAIK beamforming is already used in 802.11n.
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So not supporting pasting from Word at all, and then forcing Word users to learn something like markdown (no easy feat for the average computer user) is better than supporting pasting from Word in most cases, and letting them edit with a UI that they're familiar with?

I've gone the markdown route in the past, but recently also put a WYSIWYG editor in a project. The client was insanely happy that he and his employees didn't have to deal with teaching/learning markdown and converting Word documents to markdown anymore. Pasting just worked.