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Thanks for linking to my article! There's also http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/... for a longer but more 'bulletpoint' list of items.

The key with 1.9.3 is it's essentially work on producing a better implementation internally. The language is mostly unchanged since 1.9.2 but 1.9.3 is a lot faster in specific situations. Couple this with the newly customizable GC settings (I'll be blogging about this shortly) and 1.9.3 is shaping up to be a fine release. 37signals are already using it in production, even.

(Plug: And for anyone on 1.8 who's ignorant of what 1.9 is about, I have something to help you at http://rubyinside.com/19walkthrough/)
A warrant is very similar to an option: the future right to buy X shares of stock at a (normally nominal, in this case) fixed price. Your allocation is how many warrants you get. How much money they are eventually worth is very dependent on (biggest risk factor) whether you exit, at what price you exit, how many warrants you own relative to the total number of shares outstanding at exit, how much dilution has happened, and whether the money guys decide to screw you at or before the exit.
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Thanks for your feedback. I will definitely be working on the design.
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One year in, http://trackjumper.com is doing well. The only downside is that working alone has reduced the speed with which I can improve the project.
Even at the start, he was drawing significantly better than I can--but he actually did put in the 10,000 hours of focused practice (with feedback from a forum-full of artists to focus him) so I don't think you can attribute it all to native talent.
New York is one of the most expensive place to live and work. This is not just the cost of housing, but also food, travel, and hiring.
NYC is more cut-throat than SF - you know the old song "If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere." This is a problem with so many people working so hard that it is almost an uncaring attitude for your fellow man.
However, NYC is where the money is and a good surrogate to Silicon Valley. New York is a very active city, and has the best mix of culture, food, and experience that you will find anywhere in the world. There is good infrastructure to live outside the city (but you will pay in time for commuting). If you do decide on NYC, I will gladly help - look me up on my profile
If you want to draw, buy a Wacom — even a cheap one. All the other are really crappy device that will make you miserable — and then, they will not last.
If it's to learn to draw, don't bother with a tablet : take a pencil, and draw !
Thank you for your honesty.

May I ask, what exactly do you do that you feel justifies your 800k per year? It seems to me that your career is ripe for disruption.
I sell revision notes from college students at http://www.oxbridgenotes.co.uk. One module, £25.

I started the project by selling my old law notes from Oxford law school online, and, after a lot of work, the project makes enough money to meet my basic needs.

I've just added a commission-based system so if anyone, particularly smart Hacker News types, has typed up notes from college (their own material, not lecture handouts), I'll share the profits with them.
what's the usr.sbin in the path? why isn't that usr/sbin? this looks like some convention i've never met before (and i have no idea how to google for it...)
Being not gifted are an excuse to not do something. MindCandyMan was not good at the beginning, but he stick with it. I've seen him struggle, but never loosing is focus : draw. He's doing the hard work everyday. He has the courage to do it.
I'm not sure mere mortals can really implement secure cryptosystems.

The only normal/personable coder that could is probably cperciva.

OTOH, you have Theo.

shrugs Point stands.
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Not really - this account has been submitting spam for 12 days:

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=emily_hines
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No, but the bit after you finish medical school and spend the next eight or twelve years as a sleep-deprived zombie working thirty-hour shifts for a crappy salary at a hospital you probably didn't choose is due to it being a competitive field.
I wrote a free weight tracking web app based on this idea. You track your weight daily. It gives you some simple analytics on your weight over time. It's a small thing, but tracking your weight every day helps it drop over time and keep you accountable to your diet.

I'm 285 days in a row and I've lost right at 40 lbs. It works.

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Indeed. It's like a badge of ignorance worn by people that have never used a real database. Sometimes the people telling you something is better are just trying to do you a favor. The Postgres folks are a model of advocacy, in my opinion, mostly leading by example.
rand(1..10)

is now possible, cool!

Also:

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might be useful.
Lesson learned: If you do fine without sleep, and manage to wind up in the most lucrative specialty^, medicine may just be for you!

Speaking as the son of a psychiatrist who didn't marry a radiologist: you got lucky, and your wife got luckier. Good for you guys, but that's not what a student should expect from med school any more than a CS student should expect a $10mm exit.

^Barring, what, the specialized surgeries?
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It's hard to change when you've used a tool effectively for so long. How long did Linus resist using ANY source control software?
On the contrary to what you ve heard, there is a huge startup network in NYC. You ll have the support you seek when you need it. Everything else is just expensive.

Most of the questions you asked have been answered already. So I ll give you some pointers about the housing question.

1. Craigslist. - http://newyork.craigslist.org/
2. Padmapper - http://www.padmapper.com - maps all the apartments on craigslist.
3. http://www.nybits.com - for apartment listings from building managers.

The average "decent" studio apartment in Manhattan will cost you anything from $1000 - $3000. It might be a little lesser if you get a bigger place and share. Living costs are very high, but the fact that you could go shopping for groceries across the street at 3am makes up for it.
You are discrediting The Onion. They have eerily posted articles that have later come to fruition.
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Technical solutions, such as the friend muting, can't solve cultural problems - of which Facebook has aplenty.

MySpace was destroyed by cultural problems. The technology wasn't at fault. If it was populated with HN-types, we'd see clean typography and beautiful blogs - not the epileptic-fit-causing profile pages that caused everyone to migrate to Facebook.

Culture is the difference between MySpace and Tumblr.

Building a community is everything. That's my thesis, at least.
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Medium-related comment (sorry), but I wanted to point out a great video of Cantelope Island played by Herbie Hancock. This really is a good example of jazz fusion (With the C -> Ab transition)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrgP1u5YWEg&feature=related

If I had the chance to see Hancock, I'd surely want to see some jazz like that.. So I somewhat can understand the 'purist' in the example. I wouldn't however whine about it as I'm sure it'd be some epic music.
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Right now we have a two-person office at WeWork on 34th. $1,000 per month, month-to-month lease, decent facilities (conference rooms, phones, printers, etc.) About what you'd pay renting desks at another company, less than you'd pay for shared space at an incubator. I'd start with a short-term office rental like we've got, or possibly a sublet. Commercial leases in Manhattan are a pain in the ass.

Manhattan is expensive; the further you go from Manhattan, the lower the rent. I live in Hoboken, right across the river in New Jersey. New Jersey carries a moderate stigma (snotty Manhattanites won't travel there) so you end up getting more for your rent. I wouldn't overlook it if you're trying to save money, as long as you're walking distance to a PATH station. (The PATH train runs 24 hours, just like the NYC subway, except it's slightly cheaper and cleaner.) I used to live on 138th St. in Manhattan, and now I have the same amount of space in a nicer neighborhood for less money - and my commute to the relevant parts of Manhattan is both shorter and more pleasant.

The tech community's there if you want it, but it's not omnipresent like it is in San Francisco. If you put in an effort to meet people you'll be fine. I wouldn't describe it as 'more cut-throat' at all. People are both nice and social.

Recruiting is brutal. Then again, I hear recruiting in San Francisco is also brutal.

Health insurance is a pain. If you've got real funding, a professional employer organization (PEO) like Ambrose is the way to go - they take care of payroll and health insurance. If not, talk to a broker and get something with a high-deductible - you're getting it in case of catastrophe, not for every sniffle. Don't go without.

I'm an immigrant, but I had my permanent residency sorted long before I started starting companies, so I can't help much there. I can tell you that as a Canadian, I found U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services inefficient and irritating to deal with, but not malevolent. They'd probably have a similar attitude towards you - Ireland's a first-world country. Just be completely honest and make sure your paperwork is perfect.

If you do relocate, send me an email, and we'll get lunch.
If you're speaking with investors, and are good about networking with funded startups chances are you can get office space for free for several months.

Regarding rent, you'll be paying a lot, and finding an apartment in NYC is a grueling process. But, there's a reason rent is high -- people love NYC!
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You should try getting in touch with @meetforeal and @amonter5. They both came over from Ireland with a similar story and now work with us in WeWork Labs.
Sorry. A peer-reviewed research paper in computer science is supposed to be an original contribution to knowledge meeting the usual criteria of new, correct, and significant.

Okay, how do we present knowledge? Text? Yes. Text with math as in, say, a book on math or mathematical physics? Yes. Code? Nope! Sorry 'bout that!

Yes, coming from the programming side, many programmers have accepted that code, especially with mnemonic identifers, actually is meaningful and a substitute for good text possibly with good math. Sorry, guys: In principle, it just ain't. In simple terms, the code is meaningless; code with mnemonic identifer names and careful indenting is still meaningless and at best a puzzle problem to solve to identify the intended meaning. Sorry 'bout that. Yes, often in practice, with enough context from outside the code, can get by with just mnemonic names and pretty printing. Still, it's just ain't knowledge.

Really, for being knowledge, the code should be like the math in, say, a physics text, that is, surrounded by text. The math does not, Not, NOT stand alone and by itself is just meaningless. E.g.. F = ma is no more meaningful than a = bc. For either equation, the meaning has to come from surrounding text where the equation becomes just a nice abbreviation for what is in the text. So, for code, the comments play the role of text in a physics book and the code plays the role of the math in a physics book. As in a physics book, the text (comments) are MORE important than the math (code). Again, code just AIN'T knowledge. Sorry guys.
Yeah, but in medicine, by the time you're making the big money you're working much less. Or on whatever schedule you like.

At the age of 29: $45,000 for eighty hours a week.

At the age of 49: $600,000 for forty hours a week.
Judging from your comment, you haven't read past the title, have you? Because there are actually quite good starting points for some people who don't know where to start. The title is pure link bait though
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I have no problem with Facebook or how they monetize their business but I know the average user aren't aware of it and they should be.

What I also I hope is that algorithms get better so it can know how a photo, video or post should be shared so the user won't have to think about it.
I'm gonna flag it for this reason.

Come back to us when you're using sensible titles, Mr Ferris.
Oops, thanks. My bad.
Disruption is learning about and becoming healthy, or for example, one may spend their life savings on some supposed cancer treatment involving chemo, surgery and radiation.
I'm sure that would be a great idea to take it as-is. Personally, I'd rather select what I would need in the utils and gateway respective modules and inspire myself from the models.

That'd be cool to create a small library wrapper around some Django Apps to be reusable in flask and other lightweight web framework.
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Finding an apartment in New York is not that difficult a process. It's just expensive.
It basically says the same thing. Just with out the grammatical mess. Most of the signatures of come from either here or reddit and I've posted the suggested update text in both places to similar reactions.
The best part is that if you ever do manage to build a million-dollar business, nobody will be impressed any more. "Oh, I heard you could do that in one weekend just by building a website to sell some crap."
A shame these stories never gave credit to Ryze. Johnathan was an early member and basically copied Ryze feature for feature.

[Disclaimer: I was asked to be an early investor in Friendster and chose not to]
Oftentimes, it is easy to overlook whether that real-world overhead affects the asymptotic performance of your algorithm in either an ideal sense or a pragmatic one. If memory allocation were free or memory were infinite, true constant time rather than amortized constant time push back on dynamic arays/vectors would be possible, etc.

Also, initialization often affects correctness, so it's much less frequently skipped even in pseudocode for an algorithm.
I didn't hide them, I clicked "Remove Post", "Remove Comment" etc. for each. Of course, Facebook probably archives them somewhere anyway.
Link bait and sensationalism aside, there are definitely some good pointers in the article. Treat the article like an apple eat all the good parts and leave the core stems and seeds. The point is to motivate you to get started with your idea. Where they able to condense it into a weekend or week using the analytic tools that's mentioned in the article is never a bad idea.
No, but I do remember Mad Magazine making fun of get rich quick schemes!

If every kid grew up on a diet of satire, they might grow up to be less gullible.
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Google for "Cocoaheads". If you live in San Francisco, hang out at NSCoders.

Go to hackathons, often you'll meet Objective-C devs.

Find an indie Mac developer whose products you like and pitch the idea to him or her.
You're saying "I don't care what reality it, my morality trumps reality."

I said I'm against unsupported speculation, not against data. We have plenty of good reasons, supported by data, to believe that men make better professional footballers.

I am not aware of any peer-reviewed study that shows men are better suited to computer programming that women. What I said was that throwing around speculation in the absence of data was prejudice and I stand by this.

I also did not make the claim that men and women are equally suited to every type of activity. However, making the leap from "there might be some activities for which men are statistically better than women" to "computer programming is once such activity", especially in the absence of evidence in the form of rigorous peer-reviewed studies supporting your position, is sexism.

That is labeling something as an unacceptable thought.

You're free to think what you want. However, I suggest that you examine your thoughts closely and study whether there is any truth to them before posting them on a public forum. I'm asking for honesty not thought-policing.
It looks like this way of organising the source (src) tree started in 4.1BSD (1982?). Before that, all the commands lived under /usr/src/cmd/.
See http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=4.1cBSD/usr/src and http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=4BSD/usr/src

I guess it's there to flatten the source tree depth and probably had something to do with tiny disks of the time, shells without tab-complete or it was just a whim. In any case the convention stuck and it is now that way in all modern BSDs.
The title is total linkbait. "a number of potential options" does not equal "selling" - not to say that's not their intention, but it's a large jump to make.

It seems Yang and co. are progressing on the "defining Yahoo" question - they've determined it's "an internet company."

This "memo" seems more like it was written as a press release. At least, PR-speak abounds. Is it standard practice for large companies to write employee memos as such?
Of course, the real question is: is this legal? Not just in the sense of whether EULAs in general are enforceable, but whether one can really give up their right to sue with a clickthrough.
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I would say: do it. Then again, I'm already in New York.

Manhattan is more expensive than Silicon Valley but the "greater metropolitan area" is not as bad as the Bay Area. In California, even far-out suburbs are expensive. In comparison, you can live 45 minutes from New York pretty cheaply.
Has the legality of these sorts of things ever been tested? I can easily imagine that the courts wouldn't actually stand for the idea that someone can throw away their right to sue by clicking on the bottom of a thirty-page ALL CAPS agreement.

I'm not even sure whether someone can waive their right to sue by signing a single sheet of paper labelled "Waiver of right to sue".
I wonder i somebody took a time to really read what the petition says. The title is anti-sofware patents but the body is more complicated:
"The patent office's original interpretation of software as language and therefor patentable is much closer to reality and more productive for innovation than it's current practice of issuing software patents with no understanding of the patents being issued".

I think it should read:
"The patent office's original interpretation of software as language and therefor not patentable is much closer to reality and more productive for innovation than it's current practice of issuing software patents with no understanding of the patents being issued."

Or am I missing something?
As a businessman I really don't identify with this world of entrepreneur snobs who don't read shit and critiquize everything they see.
The funnny thing is that you say that you don't like overnight succes but you write for TechCrunch.

By the way, if you dont like checklist I have something for you
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Sorry for my bad english.
For what it's worth, I routinely delete status updates and have never had one come back in a redesign. Other activity might not be as fortunate.
I just did the Leaving Cert in Dublin in June and I'm currently interning at Hunch. You'll hear a lot of people going on about just how expensive New York is, but, honestly compared to Dublin, it's cheaper or the same price for pretty much everything. New York is exceptionally expensive in comparison to the rest of the US, but, in comparison to Dublin, it really isn't at all.

As for camaraderie, the tech scene here feels very friendly and there're plenty of people helping each other out (I don't really have anything to compare it to though). Get in touch if you have any questions.
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Why is this on eBay and not Flippa?
+1 to the previous posts. Only additional link I'd add is for the NextNY list - http://groups.google.com/group/nextnydigital .
> If you are using non-standard mysql specific syntax, that will be a bit of a pain, but it won't take more than a day or two to fix a few hundred queries.

One issue is with non-standard MySQL functions (such as inet_aton/inet_ntoa) and aggregate functions (such as group_concat). While most have great and superior pg implementations, it's a lot of work to cross-reference each one, grep the source code, and hope the pg implementation is sufficiently identical.

Another issue is that MySQL considers the 'as' keyword to be optional. I'm sure pg has good reason for requiring it, but there's probably about a thousand 'as'es to be added.

And that's about where I gave up last time, if I recall.
Oh, all you have to do is write a million dollar product and find a million dollars worth of customers? Is that all?

This is old advice. From Steve Martin. On SNL:
"How to make a million dollars: First, get a million dollars." - Steve Martin
If by "hit" you mean "we still need many signatures," then OK. Just that it's the most popular petition amongst a few hundred people who have signed petitions at all does not smack of "hit material" to me.
Late to the party, but every ad network I know counts 100% of the money they receive from the advertiser as revenue, and the money paid out to the publisher as cost of goods sold (COGS). This includes Google. Why's that dishonest?
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Not at all. The people who are against software patents are simply convinced that they (software patents) stiffling innovation.
I wonder if the creator of the petition even noticed the mistake, or he can't edit it anymore. Would that be a real problem giving the title and some of the body are clearly anti-software patents?
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Facebook was designed to provide corporate America with your email addresses. There are over 400 known hacks. Every-time you click on a link to Facebook - it's moron+1.
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Is there a way to abstract this into a service that has an api ?

You could setup your daily goals and the Tenacity API ( a name just invented http://declancostello.com/tenacity-api/ ) could be updated by different clients.

Tenacity could check an RSS feed to see if you've blogged every day ( like yahoo pipes )

It could parse an email sent to a custom address ( like idonethis )

Flashcard Software like anki could have a plugin that would access the API

twitter hastags, github checkins etc.

It would provide you with a dashboard of all the things you care enough about to be doing every day.

I'm not sure I'd like it to email me like facebook when I've missed some goals, but it might be a productive option.

I don't have the mojo to develop anything like this but would it interest other developers?