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This something I fight with all of the time. I have a folder of designs that I'd love to build/share, but for this reason exactly, they never see the light of day. I think the author makes a great point about getting over the idea of failure and just putting your stuff out there. More often than not, there's probably someone just like you doing the same thing but also fearful of the "what if." Might as well take the chance and beat them to it. More than anything, I think we should become less sensitive to the intimidation of those who've already completed something and look at it as inspiration and not fright.
I currently use a similar environment but with VirtualBox. Does qemu offer any advantages over it? I was considering recreating my VM so I may as well try qemu.
The last time anyone did a project like this (ChessBrain), they were very careful not to give any meaningful performance results. I can tell you why: latency is critical in these applications, and APHID scalability is terrible once you go over a few nodes. Scaling YBWC is even harder, more latency-sensitive, and responds terribly if you can't effectively share memory over multiple nodes.

Using a lot of CPUs to generate heat is easy. Using them to generate good chess moves is another matter.

How about having your "2000-node chess program" play against the strongest GPL-ed chess program (Stockfish 2.1), running on a fast 4-core box?

If you can win a match of meaningful length against that, I might be interested.

Until you get there, this is a nice exercise in combining technology to achieve meaningless results.
Average seek time across a disk which is much larger physically than the disks in use today.

It wasn't rare at all to find fair sized servos (as opposed to steppers in consumer grade stuff in the 80's) in those old disk pack units (the size of a washing machine).

You can't really compare 'common 7200 RPM drives' of today with a top-of-the-line medium from the 70's, physics didn't change at all in that time. That's why there are 'servo tracks' on the drive, they help with finding the right track (in a stepper scenario you don't actually need those, the stepper resolution defines where the tracks are).

Today enterprise level drives achieve < 4 ms average seek times at a price point which is a small fraction of what that drive cost in the 70's.

That's where the real improvement factor sits: performance (both in capacity, seek time and transfer rates) vs cost.

And that's many orders of magnitude.
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More like Seymour Ghost ;-)
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Thats a great idea. thanks. After having the launch page up for about two days I tend to agree with you. I think we were targeting this like a normal product launch so we had a launch page but what really matters here is hustling the initial merchants.

Also, since users will be able to just get the deal w/o paying, we're adding a 'tipping point' feature on initial deals. Meaning users will be able to "get" their deal but they'll only be able to see/print it once they influence 2 or 3 other people from a special link.
Good points, I mostly agree, except:

> We need to spin up a little marketing campaign to get people to sign off on it.

Facebook, twitter, local news, the crazier the idea the faster it will spread. Mostly through the "Oh look at the crazy hippies building a commune" kind of attitude but there will be some in the network that might like the idea. So nowadays it doesn't all have to be paid advertisements in NYT or on TV.

> hey guys, you all also need to be pre-approved for loans.

Why not make that the first step before signing-on. It took us a relatively quick trip to the bank to get pre-approved for a mortgage loan. This is different, maybe it will fall into a 'building a house on an empty lot' housing loan category...

> We're building homes... for another 1.5 years.

Don't have to build all at once. Can build some quicker and bring in a few businesses, then extend out. Those who sign-on first get their first.

Overall it does seem like a joke. But if it is not I can see idiologically motivated people with disposable income signing on. Maybe retiring hippies who have money, or young adventurous individuals who have good jobs, and want to do something different.
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Hah, Guy Kawasaki's tweets are too small to read. Nice.
Not exactly - we're cautious of adding scoreboards / points etc because they can very easily distort the site, resulting in people gaming the system to increase their score rather than adding genuinely valuable data.

Instead, we've focused on getting the right incentives for people to add data. Speakers add events to fill out their speaker profiles for example, and attendees do it to track the events they've been to (you sometimes see people include conferences attended on their CVs, so this is actually a useful tool even for non-speakers).
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I don't think the multi-city approach is necessary. It seems to be more of a headache than anything else. Stack Overflow has a big enough following that they could hold a 2 day conference in SF, LA, Boston, or Seattle and it would likely sell out. It works for RailsConf, PyCon, CodeConf, LessConf, etc., etc.
That was an article full of derision (Scripting language derision, young 20 somethings know nothing by gabbing on facebook and posting the pictures) for no good reason.

It hasn't given a good positive reason to learn the enterprise side of things at all.
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I think a lot of these points can apply to founders, too, and not just product managers. Especially in regard to the MVP concept, I think a great point is made here a lot of people mistake an MVP for an incomplete/half-working thing. This isn't always the case, though, it's more common to see that than it is to see fairly polished work being released. One of my all time favorite companies, Metalab, hosts a series of products that look and function like apps that have gone through rigorous iteration but in reality are on their first (sometimes beta) release.
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Hi, i was wondering what the HN community thinks of this email tone check application? Do you think this can be done better with open-source?

Disclaimer: I am neither a founder or an employee at the company. Just someone who had a similar idea.
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"... These cash-strapped governments ..."

Because we all know the governments are very thrifty and efficient when spending taxpayers money? Somehow I can't bring myself to feel any pity for these poor governments.
Wait. Step zero. Who are you and why do you expect ten thousand people to trust you with a several years worth of income?

An answer of "'we' are 'you' - the 10000 people who enroll! Together we'll figure out how to manage the money and stuff!" doesn't score well.
More:

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They can be incredibly high. I've found our local barcamps to have been a mixed bag, and it really depended on the quality of the people who showed up that day. They used to run it where everyone pitched during the morning, then self organized around the pitched sessions. That made the sessions totally up in the air - you had no idea when you woke up if it was even worth showing up. Later ones set up early pitching/voting on the web, which seemed to help some, but because there was no ticket cost, the organizers were still on the hook trying to determine food cost and such in advance, when just a little bad weather might keep away loads of people.

The area ncdevcon.com (next week in Raleigh) started charging for tickets this year - a nominal $60 for 2 days - precisely because when it was free, people wouldn't show up on the day because they had no real investment.

For indieconf.com, we've charged - both for last year's even and this year's event - and are posting speakers/sessions well in advance so people know what they're getting.

There's room for all styles of events, certainly, and perhaps I have bit more invested emotionally than others, being an organizer myself, but the barcamp self-organizing doesn't always produce great results. This may also have something to do with geography as well, but I don't think anyone's done an actual study of barcamp attendee satisfaction around the globe. Maybe that's something you could add to lanyrd :)
Indeed. APHID doesn't scale well and it will be hard to distribute YBWC efficiently but we think we have a shot at it with very short compute windows for each worker. We may also look at other algorithms but currently a variation of YBWC seems the most promising.

In terms of strength, we'll add the UCI protocol to be able to run games against other engines. We'll see how it performs but we don't expect to beat Stockfish easily, even with a very large number of nodes. That will be part of the experiment and we'll be happy to publish the results.

Now, another path to get real performance would be to find a way of using webGL on the workers. Folding@home has proven it's sometimes 10x more efficient than using CPUs. If we can manage to do that then we might have a shot at being both the largest and strongest AI...
The problem, kamaal, is that to get reliably high quality software engineers and designers in India you actually do have to spend nearly what you'd be paying in most of the US (the whole country, excepting NYC, Boston, LA, Bay Area, Seattle, and a few other hot spots) and it's much more challenging to recruit than it is in the US. There are problems with candidates cross shopping offers, professional interviewees, horrendous private sector communications infrastructure, governmental dysfunction, inflation, sexism, and familial pressure to strive for ever-increasing job titles in household name companies.

I don't mean to say India doesn't make sense, and I employ about 225 folks in Chennai right now, but it is apples to oranges and decision makers do not often have the right data to make informed choices over where to hire. As an example of something completely removed from quality of personnel, the time difference can wreak havoc on its own, especially when the stakeholders and developers are in different hemispheres. This holds not just for the development process but also in post-deployment support. It naturally (and unfortunately) leads to situations where the one or two engineers in the same general location as the stakeholders end up usurping the responsibility from the remote staff just out of convenient and self-consciousness of the 1-2 day lag they've been burned by over and over again. I could write a book on this subject (I've gone from being an individual contributor developer to a senior director reporting to the CIO over the last 7yrs and have seen nearly everything), but let's not belabor it. The executive summary is that offshoring is hard and too many managers only look at it from a direct labor cost perspective, which is folly.

Yes, we live in a globalized world and it will only continue to shrink. At the point where everyone has a phone or tablet with wireless unfiltered gigabit internet everywhere they need it, we'll be in good shape.
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Well, physics didn't change, but our understanding of it did. Modern read heads are based on the giant magnetoresistive effect which was only discovered in 1988. It's actually one of the fastest transitions from fundamental physics discovery to wide use (GMR read heads were widely used from 2001-2002 or so)
Is it just me or is Shake to Undo one of the worst features of iOS on the iPad? You are happily typing an email on the train and then you screw up and delete a bunch of text. To undo it, you have to pick the iPad up off your lap or off the table and shake it pretty damn hard.

You end up looking like an absolute maniac.
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A small nitpick: Lift does (typically) use exceptions for control flow, for redirects.
On a tangent to this, what is the "Linuxy" stuff you don't get to do on OS X? (My own frame of reference being an Ubuntu user.)
In short: you should upgrade because they removed some compromised root certificates.
what i found odd about the original, that's clarified here, is that it's not really separating a concern. when, for moderate amounts of data, for nontrivially complex applications, you want to improve the performance of a call like this, you'll be digging into arel and lazy enumeration, both of which depend on how you access the datastore via activerecord.
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I feel the same .. all my state machines are lovely. There is nothing quite so rewarding as making an:

enum {
APP_START,
APP_INIT,
APP_DO_TASK_A,
APP_DO ..
APP_FREE,
APP_QUIT
}

.. the center of your applications world! ;)
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Since JSON is essentially JavaScript, I'd go for camel case. Also, it saves bandwidth.
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Kent Beck's more specific version of similar worries: http://www.threeriversinstitute.org/JustShip.html
You might have a look at Monte Carlo Tree Search & improvements they made on it for game playing. It's easy to parallelize and has had amazing results with Go.

You might also combine it with a moves/games database and play variations on these games according to a softmax distribution. (instead of playing random games with classic MCTS)

I think this will work much better than tree search but still, I think it will be really hard to beat eg. Stockfish. You got nothing with lots of processor power if you're doing the wrong calculations:)
Agreed, and I constantly trigger it unintentionally.
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because if your email account is hacked with a forgot password system you could discover it because your password would change, whereas with a login link someone could use it without you knowing.
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Hi V1, great work on Observer. Are you going to continue working on it? If not, are you going to open source it? I think its a very good tool, and can see myself using this.
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DigiNotar knew about and hid the attack. I don't believe there is any evidence that the CA/Browser Forum knew about the attack until it was made public.
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Stock performance is a not a very good indicator, as it reflects emotion more than anything else. Profits and profit-margin, OTOH, are ones to keep an eye on all the time - whatever they do, you better know why they are doing it. If you lose control of both, you shouldn't wait for the chairman to fire you - help the board find a replacement and get out.
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OOP mirrors familiar, everyday imperative concepts. FP is much more rigorously mathematical and abstract. The evidence is overwhelming at this point that the average programmer finds the former easier than the latter, despite well over a decade of denial by some of the more vociferous advocates of FP.

Those people would do well to emulate DPP's example here and recognize that the long-term success of FP depends on selling to the right audience at the right time and not promoting it as a panacea.
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A very interesting product. Integration with Gmail seems to be working pretty well. I know I would use this, along with my friends / colleagues for both personal and business emails. It would be interesting to perhaps see a web app or mobile version where you could paste in the contents of an email or simply a browser plugin which checks all text entered into web pages, rather than just for emails. But I'm sure you've considered this and there are probably many reasons why you haven't (yet) gone down that route.

I suspect a lot of work has gone into making this a genuinely useful product, so congratulations on achieving that.
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In India flipkart.com and infibeam.com are similar to Amazon and it is rumored that amazon will launch services in India within 6 months or so. some background on this: http://www.sundarsubramanian.com/post/9915856535/ecommerce-g...
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Founders are, by definition, product managers, at least until they can hire a dedicated one.
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The author might have a different experience, but for me it's mainly anything that a) depends too heavily on a plethora of GNU tools and b) anything that's about deployment and installation. You're basically running on a different Unix system, so if you deploy to a Linux server, you'll probably encounter quite a lot of differences - mostly deployment, but also libraries, syscalls etc.
Quite reminiscent of the days of different commercial Unices, where the compatibility of e.g. AIX and HP-UX wasn't exactly 100% (I'm sorry if that caused some violent flashbacks for veteran developers)

Also, OS X is usually behind even compared to Linux distros with fixed releases (i.e. not rolling). You get your basic Unix software in one fell swoop, with the occasional update through a dot version. Apple doesn't provide a pkgsrc or even a rpm/deb packaging system. There are third party efforts, like MacPorts, Fink or – as the author mentioned – Homebrew, which is more similar to BSD's package tree or Arch's AUR (basically a git repo of Ruby build scripts).

Nevertheless, these add on to your system, so aren't really integrated perfectly. Also, compared to Debian or Arch, you'll have a smaller package list (esp. true for Homebrew). So it might just be easier to install some stuff from within a headless Linux VM.

Heck, I've been doing something similar even when I was running Linux as a dev environment. Your deployment environment might be quite different, and I like to do some local testing first – doubly so if your company doesn't even have a proper testing/integration environment. I had an Arch PC, but deployed to both somewhat recent Ubuntu machines and ancient SuSe installations. Now, I often work on OS X and deploy to a CentOS VPS. All good use cases for VMs – and the way described, where it's just a small headless instance in the background instead of a useless GNOME desktop-within-a-desktop is a pretty good approach.
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I also wonder. I don't think I ever ran into a single thing that works on Linux but does not on OS X.
+1 for vagrant. It is awesome. It integrates well with Chef for provisioning. I would definitely recommend it.
> When the AI is strong enough, we’ll invite an actual french Chess Grand Master along with a Guinness official for the most epic Chess game, ever!

Ehm, what makes this so epic? Computers have been known to beat humans at chess for quite a while now.
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Great idea, it's amazing that you could build something like this so fast!

Although in my case, a single AI node is probably already enough to beat me at chess, let alone 2000…
I'm not convinced that being enterprise-y is necessary. Certainly there are a lot of enterprise-y solutions out there, but I'm not convinced that was the only way to do it... Or even the best way.

It seems to me that the best things have come from making really, really solid small components, and then combining them into larger things. Simply creating a large thing without spending time on the individual pieces of it makes a really shaky system.

When you do things the enterprise way, it almost guarantees there are pieces that get next to zero attention. Bigger things also require more management, and management doesn't actually add value to the product directly.
apt-get install gtype didn't work ;-) Googling for it led to a couple false hints, dead-ends and lots of information about viruses (not the computer kind)
We are hardwired to pay attention to faces. It happened looooong time before any book was in sight.
And marketing people do know this stuff.
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This is brilliant, they should do this in many regions around the world. Now that we are running out of communist states because they are failing, we need new working examples of why it's a bad idea.
A nice idea, but it needs a few tweaks. The vertical height doesn't change between a 3 and an 11, so they both occupy the same eye space. It'd be nice if the avatar, text and the entire block were scaled according to the size. Also, there's not much of a size difference (as far as I can tell) between 6 and 11.
It might just be me, but the people I follow that post infrequently often post nothing interesting.
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Well, enthusiasm was clearly speaking here but you can consider it epic in that one player will be thrown against potentially "all" the computers of the world. Kind of a "Man vs. Grid" thing.

But yes, in terms of pure strength, nothing epic for now :)
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This doesn't surprise me in the least.

The problem with Scala's adoption in my opinion is that everyone, Pollack included, writes about Scala being a "better Java." The Scala books out there, his book included, take that approach. assuming that its audience is a bunch of Java programmers that want a better syntax. "Instead of using this syntax to call this existing Java library, you do this instead:"

So, of course he's going to get frustrated when the Java folks don't "get" it. The article links to another article about the "perils of JavaSchools" which don't teach "real programming."

Scala, like Clojure, strives to be "real programming" on the JVM. It's exciting, and in my opinion, a very fun language and can totally stand on its own.

So, given that Pollack is finding that the benefits are not always there for Java programmers, maybe we'll see a shift in the way Scala is taught or presented. I know at least I would love to see a "so you know Perl, Python, or Ruby? Learn Scala!" approach.
Its gotten so bad (good) that cell phones are now playing at GM levels. Kind of depressing, but inevitable.

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I think he gets it. He's being sarcastic, too.
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Interesting.

I'd like the ability to tone-check emails that have already been sent... As well as tone-check emails from other people.

Edit: lol Apparently I've already started using your brand name as a verb. Congrats!
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