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Sorry I'm late getting back on this. Since I did a lot of the low-level work getting Inferno running, I suppose I have as much knowledge about it as anyone ;)

For your first question, that depends entirely on whether or not the Android command-line tools allow you to set up an ad-hoc wireless network. If so, then yes. If not, then no.

As to the second question... I have never tried it, but you should at least be able to import /dev/draw from another device and do stuff with that.
Could it be that the "fear-mongering" and subsequent outrage is a major reason why we didn't have this kind of lock-down 5-10 years ago?

I thing mjg's wait-and-see approach is good to do. Not panic yet. But certainly not to forget either - keep an eye out, see how it develops, and be prepared to oppose lock-down through various channels should it come (and hopefully before it is to late).
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That would be nice! I poked around djangos source to see how they created decorators that take parameters but never thought how that worked was very intuitive.
nice - was using their beta for a while. looks like they improved it a ton
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Wow ... I hope my kids feel that way about me when I leave this world. I know you'll miss her physical presence, but I get the sense that you carry so much of her with you that you'll never feel that she's left you.

But I'll add my condolences for that physical loss.
For one thing, you can't just scoop out 2-5 bytes, replace them with a jump, and assume that things will work. Detours, the alternative to wired-in hot patch points, includes a small disassembler that ensures it's working on instruction boundaries. Detours is significantly more complex than the patching strategy Chen outlined.
I hope not. But you should not need assistance for everything, like a form.
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I wish that some of the professors my 2nd year at business school shared your point "Be authentic & have an opinion." Some were very old school and we spent ten frustrating weeks building a resume by talking about more font sizes and margins than content. My resume is usually the most helpful when interviewers see that I was the president of a rock climbing club and we have a truly organic conversation about the sport. Now after they see 50+ nearly identical resumes they still remember the climber. Always share some personality.
Thanks! Re 1), it does seem to be a compiler switch /hotpatch, not the default behavior.
OK got it. You have to allow @pragprog.com to be one of your "allowed senders" on your Amazon Kindle management website. @free.kindle.com is set up automatically, so that wasn't the problem.

EDIT: BTW, hadn't heard from support when I found the fix.
I actually don't know how Windows hot-patching works, but I'd assume they'd just replace the whole function. You wouldn't need to execute the replaced bytes (like you do in Detours, which is usually hooking functions, not replacing them).
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Sorry for your loss. I hope Sharing this among your community will ease the pain.
Having a hot-patch point avoids race conditions when overwriting the code. The patch target needs to be 1 instruction, so that any OS threads executing that code either see the old instruction (and run the unpatched code), or the new instruction (and run patched code), and never some mishmash of pre-patch and post-patch instructions.

(It also needs to be possible to overwrite the patch target with 1 instruction, which isn't possible for a far JMP as they are 5 bytes in length.)
Hey! am actually in the same position as you are. I think I have a good idea but I can come up with a million reasons why i'm not developing e.g. being in school taking 7 classes, studying for the GRE being in debt bla bla bla.

Anyways, to remedy this, it was pretty much just a basic decision. I told myself that I'm wallowing in self pity about problems and not doing anything about it. I decided to act now.

This is not enough though, I think it's important to hold yourself accountable to someone. Maybe get invovled in a startup competetion that requires an update every week, tell a close friend about the idea ( this helps to validate it maybe, and they might keep asking you about it forcing you to build it). Set minimal goals (like oh, i'm going to get my login system working today). And just start building.

Products really just start out as features. If you can implement just one simple feature, you'll be well on your way. And don't be afraid, just be the man in the arena http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/trsorbonnespeech.html I hope this helps.

PS - Stop reading too many blogs and news and stuff! Just build..I know I always get carried away by tech news instead of being the news
For those that are interested, the Linux kernel does almost the same thing (if compiled that way):

https://lwn.net/Articles/264029/

The mcount feature piggybacks on the profiling instruction added into every function when you use the gcc -pg option.

Edit: better link is probably this one:
http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/trace/ftrace.tx...
The best part is at the end when he plays back all 200K Emmy tweet in 6 minutes and says "I feel like I'm narrating a horse race"! Hilarity ensued.
That's mildly hilarious -- "Boeing is designing planes with the Chinese market in mind.." I guess that means they're designing planes that can fly themselves or at least be operated by a high school graduate who has never been in a Cessna. Or, perhaps Boeing is going to hard-code a 90 minute delay so as to save the overloaded Shanghai and Hong Kong air traffic controllers the effort of letting planes rot on the tarmac due to traffic mismanagement. Yeah, I'm not a big fan of Chinese airlines or flying around China.
On the whole I really agree with the writers stance. But in the spirit of getting shit done, you gotta start somewhere. I personally have a tendency to do too much or start something that should never have been started on in the first place.

A start-up environment and Skynet are quite different with different objectives.
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We’re about to start promoting our coming soon landing pages and wanted to get some feedback from the HN community first.

http://soupnextdoor.com - Marketplace for dinner parties

We’re running a competition about where our launch will be. This will give us something to promote other than the fact that we’re coming soon and hopefully get some conversation started.

We’re looking for feedback across the board. UI, color scheme, browser compatibility issues, problems with our idea, marketing ideas, issues with how we’ve worded things, etc

We’ve left Django in debug mode for the time being so if you get any errors give us as much detail as you can. If you want, you can email screenshots me. (Email in my profile)

If you want to sign up to test it, just use a clearly fake account and I’ll delete it if it makes it through.

Thanks!

[Edit] I think HN is broken right now. As soon as I post, it disappears. ed209, I did get your feedback. Thanks. I deleted the old thread to repost in an attempt to get it to work. Sorry for the confusion.
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Care of Wikipedia :A Yahoo is a legendary being in the novel Gulliver's Travels (1726) by Jonathan Swift.
Swift describes the Yahoos as vile and savage creatures, filthy and with unpleasant habits, resembling human beings far too closely for the liking of protagonist Lemuel Gulliver, who finds the calm and rational society of intelligent horses, the Houyhnhnms, far preferable. The Yahoos are primitive creatures obsessed with "pretty stones" they find by digging in mud, thus representing the distasteful materialism and ignorant elitism Swift encountered in Britain. Hence the term "yahoo" has come to mean "a crude, brutish or obscenely coarse person".[1]
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That's true, but sadly they don't put as much effort into compatibility of development tools. Old code has to be ported to new versions of Visual Studio. Even just sticking with C++, I ran into issues with winioctl.h and unicode fstreams requiring different code for different versions of VC++. I imagine other people may have a longer list.
If you're never had a chance to play with it, Detours, the more complex alternative to the hot-patch strategy Chen is talking about, is really slick.

What you do in Detours is, freeze the process, disassemble the first several instructions of the function you want to hook, copy out enough of them to make room for a full jump instruction, copy in your hook function somewhere in memory, followed by the instructions you stole to make room for the jump, followed by a jump back to the original function. Then you patch in a jump to that location and unfreeze the process.

The example programs for Detours do this, for instance, on every libc function to implement library tracing.

That this "just works" with Microsoft's Detours package is kind of mindboggling.

This is a great project to tackle if you want to write programmable debuggers. We've done it for Win32 (you need a full build environment to use Detours; we have the whole thing in Ruby), OS X, and Linux. It's crazy useful.
It's not Yahoo's radar. It's individual(s) who work for Yahoo that have their fingers on the censorship button and also happen to be part of a tight-knit oligarchy.

Some New York government official phones up his old Harvard buddy at Yahoo and asks him for help in avoiding civil unrest and an outbreak of violence. In exchange he promises undying love and future favors. The Yahoo guy realizes he has plausible deniability and so is happy to indulge.

How do you climb the status ladder in America? You do favors for powerful people.

Who wants to avoid the scary possibility of a massive viral wall street protest that inspires the nation to rise up? Lots of powerful people.

Powerful people are by definition capable of getting shit done and influencing others. This is why the cookie crumbles in their favor so often.
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I remember trying a prototype from Microsoft about 5 years ago. It looked like a giant touch screen coffee table (http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en/us/default.aspx). The price at the time was 50k euros if my memories serves. I remember thinking I would wait a few years before getting one:) Looks like this time is coming soon!
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Maybe it's just that I'm damaged too much by resistive touchscreen terminals (rural startup flashbacks…), but I wonder whether this really will be the future. Someone at the BUILD conference mentioned that we'll be looking back in wonder that there was a time when monitors didn't have touch input. On the other hand, didn't we try stuff like that quite a few years ago? If not touchscreen, then lightpen input… "Gorilla arm syndrome" comes to mind.

But just like the recent wave of 3D movies, I'm not sure whether it's a case of "the technology caught up" or "those who don't know history…". Zeus, I sound positively luddite here. Don't get me wrong, I really like my ipad, but the applications, the form factor -- the whole use case is quite different. Well, let's see… Wonder if I'm repeating the words of command line geeks after they first saw a Macintosh in '84…

Didn't want to digress from the post that much. It is a cool project, martythemaniak.
With cheap enough screen and support hardware, we'll probably see a lot more terminals in the wild. A bit of sheet metal and plastic, a portrait '23 inch screen and some custom Android-based firmware and you could make some great info and tourism terminals. And if no one's working with them, you'd have a reasonably large area to show ads.

Or VESA mount it, and you'd have a great info panel similar to the Panic Status Board[1], with some direct interaction possibilities.

[1]: http://www.panic.com/blog/2010/03/the-panic-status-board/
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I speak based on the fact that every profile of Steve Jobs has been consistent on the fact that he was usually involved in even minor details on products they release.
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Agreed - seems like the terms could potentially defer the top-quality companies (although most would be happy to have the $ in their pockets), while the start-fund structure makes it attractive to any stage.

I'd hope the money is elective though, as that would certainly solve the problem.
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How does LiveATC handle multiple frequencies? Can you follow ground, approach, departure and all of that at the same time? It seems like you'd need to do that to deal with all of the handoffs.

For the talkgroup filtering: noted, thanks! It'll become even more important when you want to switch other cities and agencies in and out. The other day with that nutcase in San Jose, I really wished I could just add their special channels to my personal feed. That's my next big hurdle to clear.
I used zsh from 1993 to 2009, then switched to bash in a fit of conformity, and now zsh becomes popular? Oof.
Sounds good. I own and operate http://www.radioreference.com and we have a large live audio streaming platform for scanners (2800+ feeds). Something like what you've developed definitely interests me. Great work!
It's great to see a lot of incubators really coming to life recently. What's even better is that entrepreneurs have options. If you agree with one ethos, you can apply there and if not, look for someone else. My only hope, though, is that this becomes a staple in business and not just a fad. I also hope that the quality of these incubators remains extremely high and that they continue to select companies with a fine tooth comb. Congrats to TechStars for moving forward.
Something I have noticed about the VC community is that it is very much dominated by an insular mindset that only permits introductions by companies that are already connected in some way. Companies without these connections don't have a chance, regardless of idea, model, revenues, or earnings.

This article does a good job of confirming this reality, from the initial introduction, to the diligence process. It's unfortunate that capital allocation has turned into a popularity contest.

Not to detract from this article( I don't know if minor self-promotion breaks HN etiquette )but I wrote on this topic recently, with particular emphasis on the AngelList model: http://haploid.com/post/10453313166/the-cool-kids-table
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Very nice. Reminded me of a smaller touchscreen project I saw online - the iPhone-inspired, touchscreen, WinXP-based kitchen computer:

http://www.studio-lights.com/blog/iphone-inspired-kitchen-to...
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I haven't thought much about the concept, so I won't comment on that.
Regarding the design, it doesn't really say 'dinner party' to me.

A good way to start is to look at google images for 'dinner party' http://www.google.de/search?q=dinner+party&hl=en&biw....

• I would have 4 or 6 larger dinner party images as a background

• I would change the tag line from "Eat with your neighbors!" to something more like "Make great friends right next door" - so sell the outcome, not the literal act

• colours are not bad, just think food

• this is actually your selling point "meet great people, eat amazing food, and you'll always have a lot of fun"
This is a pretty old school take on VC evaluation (maybe because he hasn't been a VC for very long?).

Things that matter in today's world:

1. Team (how do they know you/what have you done)

2. Traction

3. Industry (to some degree, more as a blacklist)

That's pretty much it for anything Series A and earlier. If you don't have a very high ranking in one or both of the first two categories, you will not be raising money.
Apotheker needs to go. What's happening to HP is a real tragedy and he should be stopped before he destroys the company.
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How did this person become a US Citizen if born in the UK? She got citizenship to work a summer job?
What an excellent way to remember your mom. She sounds like a great woman and I can tell she'll be greatly missed. Thank you for sharing this with everyone.
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I'm with you there. I would feel comfortable with the idea that an experienced front-end developer should be able to design and implement components of a website - since they should have a reasonable amount of UI/UX experience. But to design the full look/tone/feel?
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Right, because the only thing better for the stock price than making a major, disruptive, and possibly wrong-headed change to how the company operates would be to fire the CEO in the opening stages of that change and leave it completely rudderless for the next few months.
Strata definitely does eat its own lunch. :) You can view the source of the website here: https://github.com/mjijackson/stratajs.org

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How do you "Hire For The Ability To Get Shit Done" when your interview process is going to drive all of the non-masochistic talent away?
Great job! I think 13" would be THE size to experiment on since it would be almost the same as an A4 sheet of paper.
What I'm interested in is why there isn't the 50 bitcoin stories a day submitted anymore. Actually, I'm glad the bitcoin stuff stopped getting submitted so frequently. Might as well submitted links about Amway or Metabolife.
For networking events such as this, I've had the most productive experiences with one of two "plans":

1) Target one individual or small group beforehand and interact with them. This could be a YC partner, a YC founder, or a future cofounder. Don't follow them around like a dog, but make an effort to schedule a follow up meeting or phone call with this individual, get on their radar, and strike up a meaningful conversation.

2) Don't have a "plan" -- just go to meet cool people. You never know what will happen. Have a 1-2 sentence blurb prepared about who you are, and what you do (or what you're building), and don't be shy. Everyone's as awkward as you are at these things :)

I've gotten jobs from both, and richer networks from #2.
Here is the TechStars data. Anyone know if YC has published their results anywhere?

http://www.techstars.com/companies/results/
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LoL is an excellent book. I read these books when I wanted to dive into Lisp: Land of Lisp, Practical Clojure and Joy Of Clojure. I recommend each one highly.
For existing large applications (in particular, Adobe’s and Microsoft’s) OS X’s relatively quick change has been somewhat frustrating, and for any application there’s no need to replacing working code with newer different code just for the sake of it... but for new projects, OS X’s API “churn” has been great news, letting smaller teams tackle harder projects and create richer user interactions in less time.

I think it’s pretty reasonable to argue in favor of using new language features and APIs for new projects, assuming enough of the target audience is using platforms which support them.
We're waiting for this - http://libcxx.llvm.org/ to be finished and then ported to FreeBSD/Linux.
The names on the funding aren't quite in the Ron Conway, Yuri Milner realm - access to that network is one of the most important pieces of Startfund for follow-on, BD, etc.

That said, it's still awesome to see expansion in funds available for early-stage companies.
Frankly I'm surprised that they keep sinking money into this, they've clearly failed to establish a profitable beach head, meanwhile google is making money hand over fist in the exact same domain.

Well, what else are they going to do? It's very clear that in the foreseeable technological future, search will continue to be an immensely important lynchpin of all sorts of services. Microsoft are in this because they realize that. You can't walk away from this table, however much you're losing.

Bing is definitely going to be bouyed by the Xbox, Windows Mobile and Windows 8 integration, so that's good.

FWIW, I like Bing, and I want them to do well. The results aren't as good as Google's yet, but their ancillary properties, like image search are pretty good. Video search is certainly better than Google's half-baked offering.
The official predicated catastrophic failure rate for the Shuttle has been about 3% per launch from the time that the design was finalized. Various upgrades to improve safety haven't changed this number, since the "unknown unknowns" the dominant failure mode.

This failure rate, of course, was close to what we observed in experience.

What's funny about this is they were planning about 50 launches a year at the beginning, which, if they believed their own numbers, would have mean the loss of a vehicle and crew every year, and the complete destruction (or replacement?) of the Shuttle fleet on the time scale of five years or so.

The first failure (much like Three Mile Island) could be dismissed as a fluke, a problem which could be fixed. The second failure (like Fukushima) represented a typical failur e mode -- there was a lot of hand-wringing over the ceramic tiles on the first few shuttle flights, and after a few flights without a disaster, NASA assumed there was nothing to worry about, and that was wrong. The shuttle program was ended because there's no way to make the ceramic tiles safe.

Now, Fukushima is an extreme case of a failure -- it was probably the worst built nuclear power plant in the most dangerous location, but it represents the most likely LWR failure mode: not a stuck valve or simple operator error, but a major catastrophe that prevents cooling of the core and spent fuel. Unlike the shuttle, we can make that a lot less likely.
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Cool, yeah I'd link this from the website because it's good to see how a real site would be built with it.
I used C++ for years, and then switched to C#, and recently switched back to C++ in my new company (choice of language reflects only the nature of the software we develop, not language superiority). Just yesterday I was evaluating the new features of C++11, and I was pleasantly surprised by (1) the new language features, and (2) the extent of support already by existing compilers (gcc 4.4 and VC++ 2010).

I can see that we'll immediately benefit from a few improvements, such as auto variable, lambda support, standard support for unique/shared/weak_ptr. Even old school C++ users who have no interest in fancy new idioms would benefit from these "syntactic sugar" features found in other modern languages. There are a lot more that I'm still exploring, but so far I like what I saw.

Also these new features just work on the compilers. Given how long the standard process has been, a lot of the features were already baked in. Modern g++ and VC++2010 both have very good support. I listened to a BUILD presentation on C++ and the Microsoft folks are very committed to full C++11 compliance in VS11 (next version of Visual Studio), but AFAIK, VS2010 is already quite capable.

So, I agree, if you have a choice, switch NOW.
Looking through the feature list, is there anything that stands out as something bash cannot do, that is useful and not superfluous(like checking the mailbox?!)?

http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/workshops/zsh/why.html