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Most people I know consider programming languages and compilers a part of computer science. This set of people is mostly computer science researchers, some of whom (including myself) who do work in the area.
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I was looking for a job last week and couldnt find work, and this non profit has free job listings. from production to exec jobs. Thought i would share..
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So it's not a date, but you do have to have 3 men and 3 women? If it's not a date, then why the gender requirement? And why match on attractiveness?

Because when the average person wants to have fun, he or she usually is looking for a gender balanced group with attractiveness levels similar to him/her. Even a tangential experience with greek life or the party scene while in college gives you a pretty good feel for why this is the case. There's actually significant strategy and human capital that gets devoted to achieving a gender balance for your average college event.
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Is there also a setting to make a current-gen MBA wake up reliably from deep sleep?
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Everyone selling things online in California is supposed to be collecting sales tax as of July 1st. This delay until September 2012 applies only to Amazon.

Everyone else selling online in CA with similar areas (Zappos, Barnes and Noble, etc) still needs to pay the tax this year.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nbgjmohekjolcgemlo...

Crackbook, a Chrome extension to keep you from slacking off on the web too much.
You can show hidden files in an open dialog by hitting "Cmd-Shift-period". It unfortunately doesn't work in finder though.
In town hall / all-hands meetings, the question of philanthropy (or other moral issues, like environmental stewardship) came up a LOT during the 5 years I spent at Apple.

The response was almost always "we're not looking for recognition for our good deeds, so that's why it may appear as if we're not doing much".

That's why it took so long to get a public-facing "Apple and the Environment" page; philanthropy does not come out of the marketing budget at Apple.
Unix survives because it's good enough. A successor doesn't have to beat it; it has to blow it away. [1]

http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/plan9.html
Windows never stealing focus isn't a weird default, it's a sensible one. The sensible thing to do in this situation is to display a desktop notification to select the volume. I haven't used OS X extensively, so I don't know if it has a built-in desktop notification system (I remember having to install Growl to get one), but this is something that Windows and Linux have had for a while now.
tl;dr -

The measure would switch the United States from the
"first-to-invent" system to the "first-inventor-to-file"
system for patent applications. That change would put
the U.S. in line with other industrialized countries.
You obviously don't know NYC very well. Those first three questions are the exact same questions that went through my mind when I first looked at the hiring practices of the investment bank I work at. So is it a date? No, NY is really the loneliest place in the world. No one there is banging, even if they're obsessed with being surrounded by the most attractive people of the opposite sex.

Their big problem is where they're going to find all of those girls. Only going to get close to those ratios in the Northeast around college towns.
My entirely unscientific hypothesis is that serving sizes in the USA tend to be larger, and non-fat foods allow Americans to maintain these larger serving sizes while keeping the calorie density low enough that they don't become obese.

I don't know if I'm right or wrong, but it would be interesting to see a comparison of both caloric density and volume of average meals divided by culture, region, etc.
Adding two huge features like your own URL shortener and a photo sharing service is looking for things you "can edit out?" Even when the market is flooded with third-party services that do the exact same things? Color me skeptical.
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I can see you're already swamped, but I'd love to get some feedback. Our app is called Symphony Pro (http://www.symphonypro.net/). It's the premier app for creating and editing sheet music on the iPad.

Email me at support@symphonypro.net
A million times this. A temporary fix (if you have up to four spaces) is to assign the arrow hotkeys to go to a space directly -- that speeds up the super slow animation to about what Snow Leopard's animation was.

The ability to completely disable the animation (like we could in Snow Leopard) would be amazing though.
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So basically it's the business model that failed, rather than you personally. You had an idea that seemed good enough to spend time on but the market just wasn't there. No shame in that. Better luck next time!
Hey Jay, my email is tyler@betable.com
Putting a whole bunch of existing ideas together into a new form is what patent law is all about stifling.
1) It's got RCA outputs also; explicitly so it'll work with /any/ TV, including the 10-year old junker you picked up at a yardsale for $25.

2) As also noted below, the goal of this project is to produce a computer for children to learn about the computer itself. The low cost (presuming the parents are even buying it directly) means kids will be able to have their way with it without worrying about wrecking the family computer.
This looks pretty plausible; I've heard great things about other aspects of Ghana, like its education system and its safety.

I'd say it has a shot at being a regional startup hub that will occasionally produce a homerun.
Another wholly-owned subsidiary in California: Lab126, the Kindle company.
You're quite right, and it's a reasonable thing to ask. I don't mind.
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yawn, another central planner who doesn't grasp basic economics and knows what everybody should be doing. saying that "short term thinking invalidates economics" is like saying that "low gravity invalidates physics" and claiming that we need "a new system of physics on the moon".

it's called a variable for a reason.

what annoys me most is that all of his ideas have been suggested and disproven before, but these kind of people never even do basic research on that, they just assume that their ideas are unique snowflakes that nobody else could ever come up with.
Hey tom,

100% growth of mobile apps overall doesn't constitute 100% increased mobile app usage, it just means more downloads. This is usage, meaning how much people are engaging with the app.

Even so, given that mobile gambling is in its infancy and that serious marketing dollars have not been put behind it to the same extent that it has been put behind the app industry as a whole. We expect mobile gambling to increase dramatically as things ramp up.
Java 8 lambda syntax decided - same as C# and Scala
Part of the troll is that it's programmed on top of Ruby...
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I really enjoyed this one:

Beautiful Architecture: Leading Thinkers Reveal the Hidden Beauty in Software Design - http://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Architecture-Leading-Thinker...
The $25 model (which they describe as being aimed at education) doesn't have any built-in networking; so the only reason to be concerned about security is if they get a hold of a NIC and figure out how to connect it to a network (at which point they probably deserve bonus points :)
$200,000 from Kickstarter = 1 year of runway for Diaspora
Not another scripting language. Google announcing Dart and now this?. I think I like the syntax improvements though.
Forget the triple date part, look at this -

We applied to YC with paperbuff.com. In the 36 hours before
our interview, we ditched paperbuff and built qomments.com,
were rejected, then decided to build a product people would
actually want

I am sorry, but this is ridiculous. This is not only a waste of everyone's time in YC, but it also takes away an opportunity from other people who could have pitched in their place. There is really nothing "LOL" about it.
The IHR music festival was to build buzz for the launch of the new IHR app. The concert will also be livestreamed on the IHR site and app.

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Thank you for your post as it gives us a much needed dose of realism when everyone dreams of hitting it big. It's not to disuade people from following their dream, but to realize the extent of challenges they will face.

I look forward to your post-mortem article. I wish more startups who do not "make it" come out and write about their experience so that we don't hear only about the successful ones. I certainly admire people who are successful, but I truly respect those who fail and are not afraid to admit it and learn from what went wrong.
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Example: some hobbyist will write an amazing web app with it and then some small studio will pick it up and it can grow from there. A lot of hobbyists are also professionals.
> Everyone else selling online in CA with similar areas (Zappos, Barnes and Noble, etc) still needs to pay the tax this year.

As Amazon owns Zappos, I would have assumed that they'd be covered by such a deal as well.
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I see why this could be confusing. Essentially, online gambling is 100% illegal in the US, but we are working with multiple US developers whose lawyers have confirmed that our API is legal to use. It is also important to note that players must be in a legal gambling jurisdiction to play.
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As someone who has seen invention at the individual, small business, and large corporation level, this bill saddens me. Regardless of other complications with the system, I was always proud that our country stuck up for those who invented first but filed later. I understand that patent applications have quickly been dominated by large companies, but this legislation will only serve to solidify that trend all in the name of simplicity.
Didn't Jobs cancel the existing charity/giving program at Apple when he rejoined the company as CEO? I'm trying to find my source for this, but its hidden under all the recent controversy with the Sorkin article

Here's an interesting read from the late 90's - http://reason.com/archives/1997/06/01/how-green-is-the-valle...

Apparently Jobs started (and later gave up on) a charitable foundation. What's also interesting about the article is how much it berates the new dot-com millionaries for not giving away their personal wealth, attacking Gates, Jobs, Filo & McNealy

I wonder if this was a common viewpoint or if the article in question was just biased
It was a great ride! Have fun with Twilio and come by for a drink after your first day. :)
Where/how do you find a pallet of cheap LCD monitors?
From what I can tell, it does nothing to raise the "obvious" bar, especially where companies take every patent over the last 50 years and append "on the Internet" or "on a tablet" to them.

It also doesn't obviate the need for huge patent arsenals. Why is this a positive change, or is it only one for large companies with stables of patent lawyers?
Sorry, meant to vote up.
I want to believe, but every time I try their menus on my iPhone 4 I'm disappointed by jerkiness and delay. In particular if you scroll down on the demos page and click a menu item, you see

1) the page *jerk* to the top
2) a loading dialog with a spinner over the whole page
3) a *nice* smooth animation into the new page

Then when pressing the back button:

4) a nice smooth animation to the *top* of the screen

I've lost my place! Actually navigating a hierarchy with this is painful, slow and disconcerting.

Can anyone from the project comment on what the technical reason for this is?
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This idea is really good! (I'm socially average I would say, more on the outgoing side, and I see my friends totally going for this. If I think of 10 friends randomly (single or otherwise), and give them $20 credit towards either eHarmony or this, I see them all - except maybe one or two who are aggressively looking for a relationship, choosing Grouper). However, if I think of 10 random friends of mine from those whom I think are most likely to join a dating site - 9/10 of those would go for eHarmony or something because they are looking to get in a relationship and not just play around. Bravo! You just have one thing to look out for - mismatched expectations. I think females will like this more than males because they will feel more secure and they like to get input from girlfriends generally.
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That's at a very high level. It's part of, but it's not the driving force behind what is possible. That is the constraints of the universe and consequentially mathematics, on which there is little focus these days.

Programming languages and compilers are the easy part of the problem. Translation is almost completely solved. However, the abstractions over the top at both the conceptual and structural level (logic->machine) are definitely not solved.
This is so hard to say that as a founder. You've went through all the YC programs, see lots of friends/startups succeed, you keep hearing things like "Never give up".. but there's come a point where "You see things from a new perspective" and at this moment you need to decide either to continue, stop or pivot.

I always liked the concept behind notifo.. but also was wondering how it'd make money. But then, you can think of hundreds of startups and think the same way "How would they make money!?" and still, they're there for years and years. (Twitter someone?)
My understanding is the bill puts the decision of "who invented it first" to the courts instead of the patent office. You'd still have recourse to claim you invented it first.
lambda is quite crippled I agree, but if you have to port your code to C for performance reasons, it's good not to have to port them as well :)
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Major changes:

- pushState support for clean URLs
- beforechangepage event (for apps that generate HTML server-side)
- Support for iOS 5's true fixed toolbars & better transitions
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It's unclear (at least in this article) whether the legislation makes much headway in the "little guy" vs. "patent troll" problem.

Will this allow companies to file like crazy--everything under the sun--and block the "first-to-invent" people? Or would the change allow smaller companies more power once they file so bigger companies can't come along later and claim something had really been invented earlier that was similar...?
Now, what would they have done had they only gotten the $10,000 they asked for?
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Applying Zagat's methodology, HNers generally "like this move strategically", and think it's "good from the PR perspective" to buy "the prestige name in local reviews". Some think it's a "me-too" "un-Google" buy of a company with a "not very scalable" model.
HN Rating: 23/30
I remember Curl, an "web Lisp" programming language startup spun out from MIT in the late 1990s, had intended to charge users for the number of bytes served by Curl's web server! Surprisingly, the Curl company is still around and just released Curl 8.0.
Sounds like this may all be resolved with the new improved fixed toolbars/page transitions in iOS 5.
That may be a strike against being a single founder, but it seems like a strike in favour of single-founder startups: Because they don't have "talent acquisition" as an exit option, they're more likely to avoid dying.
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Does anybody thing this is a good reform?

My understanding that this is a bill promoted by big law firms to make more money and to protect financial industry against patent trolls. Also, 'first-inventor-to-file' is something which big companies were pushing anyway.

We are doomed...
Does anyone know if the US First to File system will come with a 12 month grace period? What about published prior art, aka Defensive publishing?
Will not change anything about patent trolls... pffff
This basically means we will have more trivial patents filled which can be used to extort small companies. Correct?
So true - for that matter, Dropbox, anyone?
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I contend that the lack of fat just makes the product less filling so we eat more. On top of that it tastes terrible so we add a bunch of sugar.

I love plain full-fat yogurt (ex: Fage total or brown cow cream top). Unfortunately non-fat yogurt tastes terrible once you've had the good stuff and is all you can find outside of specialty stores. (I have only ever seen/tried Chobani 0% so I can't rate their 2% fat yogurt)

Anyway, after years of never finding the good stuff I gave up on the system and dropped $30 on a yogurt maker on Amazon. Now Yogurt is $1/half gallon (price of milk) - 2-3 times that price for strained/Greek yogurt since you throw out the whey, it's super-easy to make (pasteurize milk, add culture, let it incubate for 6-12 hrs), and it's always just the way I like it.
update from SDG&E: an event happened between AZ and CA, both major connections for the region have been lost.
I don't think Americans have anything against fat. If anything now they are anti-carb more than anti-fat. Walk down the aisles of a grocery store and you see way more "low carb" than "low fat".

Fat happens to be the most calorie dense of the required macronutrients, however. At 9 calories a gram versus 4 calories for carbs and protien it's the easy culprit for people trying to cut weight (by reducing calories). For a while it became the diet fad because of its supposed links to heart disease as well. People want a silver bullet to get thin, once it was fat, then carbs and now, probably more sensibly, it's processed foods like HFCS.

In the end it's not that hard: Eat less.
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I would have thought it is because when familiar patterns of syllables are heard we tend to concentrate more on context and meaning. While the other makes you concentrate more on the syllables itself.
Probably go around & ask for funding. The $10k is a reasonable display of consumer interest.
So, with no money left and no business model in sight and (most important) no enthusiasm about Facebook killer and with G+ in the wild, is that the end of Diaspora?
Most Emacs lispers turn on Paredit after a little while. The major win there is never having invalid structure to your code, but there is the handy side-effect of never having to type a closing paren: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/PareditCheatsheet

Note the images in the article are done by static analysis of text files, which is very different from measuring what people actually type.
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https://github.com/afriggeri/jump

Bringing autosuggest to cd on OSX. And I quite literally coded that last week end.
pg's said many times that they primarily look at the people rather than the idea. It probably wasn't (just) paperbuff that got them to the interview stage. Just sayin.
I really need to do reading and research on this, but I'm pretty sure that's what Hidden Markov Models are for. You could watch a webpage go from HTML to javascript and back!
Honestly, both possibilities suggested above sound like a win for patent trolls...
I'm in that one percent, but I gave up and started making my own yogurt. I don't know if that cuts into market share, but I would be curious how much niche "artisan" grocery store food sales are affected by people who just make their own. Microbrews might be a good place to start looking as well.
Is there a way to avoid creating .DS_Store files on specific local volumes?

I used to have my Dropbox folder on my secondary (NTFS formatted) harddrive so I could use a symlink to share my Dropbox folder across OSX and my Windows 7 Bootcamp install instead of having duplicate Dropbox folders for each OS. It ended up spewing .DS_Store files all over my employer's company dropbox folders.
Here's my latest one: http://itunes.com/apps/Caltrainer/
I'm curious -- I still buy Chobani and I still prefer it, but I've had what I consider to be a disappointing spoilage rate for unexpired yogurt (estimating 3-5%, for something I eat most days). Has anyone else had a similar experience? I realize I'm fishing for anecdata here, but I'd really like to know.
I believe these are exactly the type of people YC wants. A couple of friends know they want to start something. They do not know what. Instead of brainstorming over beers, they toy with concepts between redbulls. One mvp catches on. Proves profitable. They stick with it.
http://boilerplateinc.com/

http://cantwa.it/about/
I put stuff in my (homemade) greek yogurt, but mostly it's real stuff. Not corn syrup, food coloring and flavor that may have met a fruit at a party once.
Well, it doesn't matter. Do you think it makes much sense to invest in people who decide to pitch an idea that is not even 2 days old? Or rather - in people who think it's acceptable to do that? Hm.
Ghana is very pro-business. I have worked on several mining projects in the country. I really hope it can set an example for the rest of Africa.
Y Combinator incorporation transfers?
How does Y Combinator treat companies accepted to their program which are already incorporated?
is it a coincidence that this coincides with their announcement about continuing the project? I got an email an hour ago, http://pastie.org/private/5xrgn6cmuyrylbwngvv5a

on the topic of that email, taking credit for changing things? ha ha ha.
I agree. This is the first time in one year I wish I had a FB account.
For the record, the "Auction House" is something my buddies & I refer to as the "Vampire Cougar Bar."

The place has fancy red velvet furniture, oil portraits on the wall, and a dark feel. It's sometimes full of older women who seem to be looking for younger men. We don't fill that bill anymore, but sometimes someone younger friends can be suckered^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hconvinced into coming along. Good times, good times.

Decent scotch selection. Not great, but workable.
I wonder about this too. Having the full technical documentation for the board, schematics, datasheets, etc. would seem to best serve the mentioned educational goals as well as giving you a wider open source audience which should help with ongoing development and maintenance.
My initial reaction was to feel bad about these kids. Then I remembered about Theodore Roosevelt's speech about the man in the arena, and I congratulate them for giving it their best shot. Whether they continue or not, it was worth trying and they've had an amazing experience in the process.

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."