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Hey tekkub,

Intonation and meaning is lost over the Internet, which is often frustrating. I think this is exactly that kind of incident.

From my pov, when I come to a person about an issue and they respond with "as I noted in the other thread..." it can come across as somewhat gruff and dismissive. I totally get quickly clearing out a ticket and dealing with it simply, but the brevity and tone of the response made me unsure about how I flagged the issue. I immediately wonder if I've frustrated the support guy by giving him further information about the issue. It's certainly an inconvenience to get a dup, perhaps the support guy doesn't welcome updates on tickets? I'm left to wonder whether I've overstepped by supplying more info, and worse, I have to question if GitHub support cares about my response or if it's just been put in the bug bin of despair.

So, all things considered, you guys are doing fine, but maybe are thinking like devs rather than support people. Perhaps that is appropriate for GitHub: devs are your target market. Actually, my biggest beef with your support so far is I never was able to clear out a question about image linking in markdown files in a GitHub repo. Right now everyone in my startup has to add raw blob link to every single link, and this just seems like the wrong pattern. Why should I have to prepend https://github.com/.../../blob/master/.../images/IMAGE.jpg?r... for every image I want to link in our flat file wiki? The last communication I had on the issue was never answered, so as far as I can tell, this is the only way to get images to show up in markdown files...
Wow...kudos on having the balls to a) admit this finally - especially given the implicit pressure you must feel being a part of YC with PG's "perseverance is everything" mantra. and b) admit it so candidly and publicly.

Why could you just not leave it running (on Heroku's free plan for instance) and not maintain it for a while and see what happens?

Or did you do this already and realized that it needed you hands-on daily to work?

Or is there some pre-text to have taken money from YC and Yuri Milner that you basically have to officially kill it and liquidate everything?
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So... you're given a blank check, either as a industrial research lab manager or DARPA program manager. What "revolutionary" research in CS would you champion?

It's easy to be critical from the sidelines. There are very smart people still working in this space, including Knuth himself.
Why Economic Developers Need Lean Startups
Fantastic! SF Bay Areay by any chance?
oh man. The first time I saw a "Zagat rated" sign I was so confused. "Is this some sort of 'American Psycho' tie-in? why would an upscale pizza place pay to be related to that book?"

I was certain zagat was made up by Ellis for his book.

I'd never seen it until I moved to the bay area, where a 'Zagat rated' usually means "Yes, this is a chain, but we pretend really hard that it's not fast food."
Lambdas are a lot of fun on C#.

new Thread( => { doStuff(); }).Start();
I was expecting to see George Hotz, the famous iPhone hacker on the list.
How is this a mistake ?
Could I ask for one more data: the total number of characters and maybe lines? That way symbol/alpha/line ratios could be compared to other languages.
I love the nerdiness of their salaries:

>Salaries (Four FTE @ $28.8k annually)

That's pretty awesome. Never thought about expressing it like that.
Nintendo 3DS sales nearly triple after price cut
If you think it's bad on the iPhone 4, imagine how bad it is on a 2 year old Samsung Moment running Android 2.1. I've spent a lot of time trying to make basic touch interaction halfway responsive on older phones (read: anything but the newest phones), and all my efforts (which include trying jQuery Mobile, Sencha Touch, and jQTouch, as well as a bunch of from-scratch CSS and JS work) have been met with failure. I've concluded that, if you really care about and are paying attention to the details of user interaction in your app, the current state of native-feeling web apps just isn't there yet. The issues I've encountered are split about 50/50 between slow JS/rendering performance and non-standardized DOM event behavior.
Still worse is all the weaknesses in the existing dynamic language runtimes. It seems even harder to build a really solid language runtime than to design the language itself. For a long time I was hoping that the Parrot VM would solve these problems but it seems to have stalled out.
I see that the proposed lambda expressions can omit type annotations on the parameters. Does that mean that Java 8 will have at least some limited form of type inference?
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My $0.02 as a storage administrator (primarily NAS)

It sounds like your "data security" isn't my data security.
-"robust, efficient, zero-maintenance offsite storage"
-"offsite vs local, cloud storage robustness vs hard disk robustness"
When I say data security I mean that my data is encrypted and locked down six ways from Sunday. "Robustness" isn't security. "Offsite" doesn't mean security. I've got turnstiles, card readers, locked cages, and passwords standing between you and my local data. "Cloud storage robustness". That's security from failures, not necessarily security from hackers which is what data security means to me. You say it's encrypted but there's no mention if this is encrypted storage or if it's encrypted information transfer.

Other than you needing to re-evaluate your buzzwords, it sounds like you have a cloud SAN rather than a cloud NAS. That does sound different enough that you could definitely have a niche to pursue. There are programs that work better with SAN storage than NAS storage, but at some level I'm wondering: If I'm running my own MSSQL server (or something else I'd host in house that needs SAN storage), why would I pay for a local server but remote storage? Why wouldn't I just have a remote server with remote storage or a local server with local storage? I'm not immediately seeing the use case, perhaps you can paint me a word picture. Sure 256TB is great, but if you need 256TB you probably have more than enough money to buy your own storage or you have some crazy financial regulations or something that would require you to keep it in house. On the smaller scale, I run in to the "Why am I paying to keep a local file server around to distribute this remote block device?"

Again, a solid use-case or pain point may turn me in to a believer of why I need this product. From what you've described I'm not seeing it, but I like the technology potential.
Please back up what you say with evidence. I happen to have several close friends with PhDs in economics who support this system.
Luxr Training?? Really? 28k on rewards/fulfillment??!

$6.4k Rackspace cloud hosting and there isn't even an alpha version out- WTF!

Come on -you've got to get creative and work deals. Bootstrap!!
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Wikipedia lists close to 40(!) distributed social networks. [1] None have achieved a meaningful amount of adoption.

About a year ago I became interested in why this is the case. I'm an academic computer scientist with a strong interest in the startup/web tech scene (see profile for info). My colleagues and I have been studying not just decentralized social networks, but the more general concept of decentralized architectures for personal data. This includes "personal data store" efforts which are popping up all over the place, with similarly dismal adoption, "infomediaries" which were the rage in the late 90s (before the dot com bust ate them up), etc. Overall, we've looked at around 80 companies, projects, and proposals.

If the amount of reinvention in this space is surprising, the almost wanton refusal to learn from others' past mistakes is shocking. These projects seem to do the same things wrong and fail for very similar reasons, chief among them building more technology when it's not really technology that's holding things back.

There is the widespread — but often unstated and always unexamined — belief among the participants that moving to a decentralized setting is a magic cure-all for the problems that ail today's status quo, such as privacy and interoperability. Sadly, this belief is simply wrong.

I certainly sympathize with the urge to pat these guys on the back for trying, but is it really courage or foolhardiness? If 10,000 amateurs have tried to solve P =? NP and failed, do we encourage the 10,001th guy to give it a shot as well, or do we tell him to learn some math and CS first, and gain an appreciation for why the problem is hard and probably not worth taking on unless you really really know what you're doing?

[Our study is not out yet, but feel free to contact me if you're interested in discussing this.]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_social_network
Classmates.com settles class action suit alleging spam and privacy violations
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Jeff Moss. Founder of DefCon and Blackhat Briefings, and currently ICANN's Chief Security Officer, and Advisor on the DHS Advisory Council.
Well, I didn't get the Yuri money (that started two batches after mine), otherwise the runway would have been much longer.

The system is too custom to run on any of the Heroku-like services out there. I'm exploring other potential options, but I'm not one to give out false hope.
Complexity as Enabler
I've often griped about Classmates.com's incessant emails and the total inability to unsubscribe from them. I eventually created a gmail filter to trash them. I guess I wasn't the only one, as they've recently agreed to settle a class action lawsuit over their email practices.

I never remember to file for these things and I often pass because I didn't feel wronged by the alleged infraction, but in this case I will gladly take my ten bucks.
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After Firing CEO, Yahoo Puts Itself Up For Sale
Heh. You mean private investment.

This refers to large scale deals from PE shops.

I've personally raised twice and have invested in 50+ startups. None of this stuff happens in early stage VC or angel land.
Erm, its not?. Shawndumas was just pointing out that a decision was finally made. They were grappling over the syntax for over two three years.

Now they will just need to grapple over with what kind of scoping that Java's lambdas will have.
This is a shame. Notifo was a great service, and to add insult to injury, I just finished adding Notifo support to my side project (http://loglet.radbox.org/) yesterday.
https://github.com/sampsyo/loglet/commit/4b6923f7aaf9b076cdc...

I found the API straightforward and intelligible and signing up a new service was a breeze. I hope one of the alternatives is similarly well-designed.
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Applicable on so many levels
According to the grammar int the OP, you need ()'s, no?

new Thread(() => { doStuff(); }).Start();

Or can they be elided in C# or Scala?
Do you know why you have slightly different numbers of (){}[] characters? In C or C++ shouldn't those all be paired up to match?
I'm the author of Howl (http://howlapp.com), another alternative for general push notifications.

Howl supports notification icons, stores notifications locally for offline viewing, and is a universal app. There is an official Growl plugin, and API for integration elsewhere.
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and follow us @cofounderslab as we release more tools to help match co-founders. Good luck, great post.
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Well...just to be play devil's advocate here for a sec...I don't know if that's the case, but just based on the vote it seems a bit fishy to me.

89-9 means many Republicans were on-board. The stereotype for the 'typical' Republican positions are torte reform and less interference with business process.

So just by that reasoning alone, if this was Big Law Firm (only) friendly, it seems to me that so many republicans wouldn't have supported it.

I am just putting forth a theory, as I was not party to the negotiations so I don't know for sure.
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bleh. So part of the price I pay for a Mac is now doled out to some charity of Apple's choosing. How about they just cut prices by the total amount of the match, and let me figure out where I'd like to donate.
> I'm a huge Knuth fan, but I don't see his work as fundamental to computer science

You're talking about the guy who invented LR parsing.
The single abstract method interface type of a lambda will be inferred by its declaration site.
Good. The lambda syntax in C# rocks and is a natural fit for Java considering the origin of C#.
Just to nitpick: HDMI is approx 10Gbit/s interface. If you are talking about decoding capabilities, then H.264 profile/level would be more useful metric, ie H.264 High Profile, Level 4 (which I think is what Blu-ray video usually is, or at least close to it).

It's a hardware decoder, right? So it's decoding capabilities are not really representative of it's general performance?
As I understand it, both of these refer to the "cracker" definition; one is the "illegal hacker", the other is closer to "security consultant" with a hands-on connotation. "Hacker" in the Linus sense is totally different.
>There is the widespread — but often unstated and always unexamined — belief among the participants that moving to a decentralized setting is a magic cure-all for the problems that ail today's status quo, such as privacy and interoperability.

It's an improvement over data sitting in a central silo waiting to be mined and monitored. How would you suggest tackling the problem?
Excellent to have this finally resolved. I'm sad to not see something a little closer to the ruby block syntax like in some of the early proposals, though. Special syntax for lambdas as the last argument to a function lets you write very readable code for a host of useful cases.
Doom 3 is going to be open-source before the end of the year. I can't wait!
I guess its more about official role and what you officially register yourself as when you join the company, its really the only thing that goes down in history so no one would actually know what you do other then your official role, not the general public anyway (press, media, shareholders etc etc).

After reading that whole article i find Kaphlan to be a very interesting guy. I feel i share alot of personality traits with him and from the outcome i can see where those traits has helped and worked against him in the startup world....

Might look into a few things further cause of this article :) Thanks ...
Yeah.. I felt like Dropbox was easy to figure out how to make money (I.e. pay for storage). However, what seemed impossible was, "There's already x,y,z competitors in the field with years in advance..." And now, look at them :)
the real question is if real programmers would hate you even if it was programmed by a real programmer. Everyone thinks everyone else makes poor design decisions.
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I have a bet with random_walker that a distributed social network will gain significant traction by 2014.

http://twitter.com/#!/flipzagging/status/16766878672228352

Diaspora is a sad story: a team with great intentions but little systems experience, becoming the standard-bearer for distributed social networking. They gained attention from some random factors (frustration with Facebook at a peak, NYtimes story, Kickstarter).

I think the odds of there being a single winner-take-all provider of social networking services (SNS), forever and ever, are slight. The idea that kids are going to stick with the SNS their mom uses to play Farmville seems ridiculous to me. So we should see some amount of fragmentation, eventually.

It also seems absurd to me that Facebook will remain agile enough to shut out competitors while also supporting 500M+ users. At some point, a situation should arise where competitor SNS services will find it to their advantage to be interoperable. That could end in an oligopoly, but that still counts as a more distributed social network.

Larry Page often likes to say "don't bet against the internet". And I am old enough to remember when people thought that Microsoft's Project Blackbird was going to kill the web. I am confident that SNS, like almost all internet services, will be commodified at some point, and probably sooner than we expect.

Caveat: this hasn't quite worked out for instant messaging, so I could be wrong.
I've started lots of projects... no one wants to fund and I'm a college student without funds to self-fund
I'm sure I'm missing something but how can she make yogurt if one of the starting ingredients is already yogurt?
The empty () are required in Scala. Don't know about C#.
Also, a couple of my projects have been ramen profitable which can be expanded but again... no one wants to fund
Wow... I never knew a 'Hello World' program could look like this. Mind = Blown.

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This is a great post. As a recent converter to Chobani as well. I think it is fascinating to find individuals that love their business and product so much "having fun" that they simply don't want to sell. If there could only be more founders and businesses that felt so strongly about their products. Well stated maukdaddy
Honestly, not really sure how you could have missed his point by so much.
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Actually for just that example you don't need any of it.
new Thread(doStuff).Start();
Definitely. Seems like a good buy and a good strategic move.
>My initial reaction was to feel bad about these kids.

Definitely not. They got funding to spend a year working on a dream project and they build a project that is now the 7th most watched on Github. They're doing quite alright.
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There is an alpha version out, and lots of people are using it.
It can probably be accounted for by comments (e.g. people sometimes comment out half a block). Although the comments should be left out, so as not to mix the C and the English.
nah, it would have to be new Thread(new ThreadStart(doStuff)).Start();
so true, so sad. besides emigrants, it was popular that rich people in the mainland went to Hongkong to labor their child. Hence the new born could become a citizen of Hongkong.

People in China are lacking in sense of secure. Our apartments and houses only last 70 years, government will take these back once the deed expire. The food is made of lots of weird stuff, only the imagination is the limit.
I don't think we disagree. The partial failure mode of Kickstarter, say $5800 of the $10k you wanted; which is easier to accept than a flat "no" from YC.

Let's remember that these are pretty young kids. It's pretty easy to be intimidated.
Actually if you look at Blu-ray, then in most cases those black bars you see, are encoded in the video. Blu-ray doesn't support other aspect ratios than 16:9 (and 4:3 legacy SD resolutions). So from video decoders point of view it's all 1080p even if some of those lines are just filled with black pixels.
I am really disappointed to hear this news, actually. I would rather Amazon have fought the state's clear attempt to unconstitutionally tax interstate commerce and gotten clear precedent that forcing companies without a physical presence in a state to collect sales tax there is bullshit.

It's the same reason why I do not believe in 'use tax'. It is a tax which exists solely to tax interstate commerce (which is exclusively the domain of the Federal government) that I am stunned nobody has attempted to fight yet.

The argument that "Amazon gets an unfair advantage abloobloo" is garbage -- Amazon has to pay a local company to ultimately get the items to you, which absolutely does pay local tax - UPS has to buy gas in California, pay employees in California (and pay the associated exorbitant California payroll tax), pay for inspections, facilities, etc... The state is collecting their pound of flesh out of the transaction in one way or another.

(Not to mention the complexities of the tax code that aren't even consistent on a ZIP code basis - it's the last weekend of August, you're shipping to an address covered by the HRT district in Virginia Beach, VA, and you're selling a $105 bikini. For $500, what's the tax rate? Hint: all of those factors (date, exact location down to the house number, price, item type) play into how much the tax rate is. It is not a naive lookup table of "zip code: tax rate".)
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I'm so glad to see so many people were having trouble with GoDaddy too. Glad we transfered over a few months ago.
what happened to it being a hub for e-waste and toxic discarded electronics and unwiped hard drives?
So your solution to the problem of there being hundreds of thousands of potential tax rates for every single item is to require everyone selling anything online to pay Thomson Reuters for a subscription to their database?
The various derivatives of Brainfuck are all joke languages.

That said, Brainfuck originally had an at least interesting purpose: The idea was to create a language that could be handled by the smallest possible compiler.

AFAIK a Brainfuck compiler can be implemented in less code than a compiler for any other Turing-complete language.

Still not practical, but interesting nonetheless.
This article pretty much confirms a suspicion of mine that I've had for a while: strongly syllabic languages like Spanish, Japanese and Tagalog, with their paltry use of consonant clusters, speak/sound faster because (1) scarcity of consonant clusters without tones means that words require more syllables to be uniquely identifiable, and (2) sounds flow more easily when there is a vowel between every consonant. Unlike a language like German, you're not always stopping your speech to enunciate adjacent consonants. Therefore, longer words + easier to pronounce = fast speech.