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Ada (not ADA) was largely the product of one man, Jean Ichbiah.

The notion that it's some kind of commitee-created monstrosity seems largely to have come from ESR's wildly inaccurate writeup of it in the Hacker's Dictionary. It's actually a fairly small and nice language.

The object oriented extensions didn't follow the "standard" Java "." syntax, though, which probably hurt Ada 95's uptake more than it should have.
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Are they? They don't take equity. In fact I am not sure there is a direct benefit to Chile at all. I assume it is a bet that some companies will stay, locals will develop support infrastructure / services and ultimately create an ecosystem that is Silicon Valley like.
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JQTouch is definitely still buggy. One of the problems is that there are only maybe two css3 transitions that look identical between the Safari Mobile and whatever browser Android phones typically run.
I'm the solo founder of PrintFriendly.com

Two years ago I applied to YC, and was turned down in the interview process. They asked, "how is PrintFriendly going to make a billion dollars"? I'm still trying to answer that (or at least a more modest version of the question).

Today PrintFriendly revenue is about $10k/mo, 1.2M visits/mo, and slow but steady growth.

I'm happy with the results, delighted actually. However, I'm not travelling the world, or working from a beach. I work hard everyday and reinveste the capital, to try and build a stable/strong/significant organization.
I will admit that under this functionality it would, in theory, be possible for one to grief a user in an Unfuddle account if one knew the correct email address. I say "in theory" because this has never happened in Unfuddle.

In any case, I am pleased to announce that this is no longer possible. In the last two days we have completely changed the password recovery process in Unfuddle. The process looks something like this:

1) User requests to recover his/her password by entering email address in reset form (just like before)
2) An email is sent containing a secure link to a password reset form
3) User clicks on link to access the form only if he/she actually wants to reset the password
4) User enters desired password and confirms it
5) Password is reset and never sent through email or transmitted unencrypted.

This takes care of all your points with the exception of #3. As cheald mentioned below, if someone gains access to your email you are in trouble anyway. Take some responsibility and use good password sense when protecting things which are important to you.

Finally, I want to make it clear that we do not store passwords in plain text and never have. Please confirm such speculations with a service provider before posting things you don't know in public.
His comment was actually misplaced sarcasm, hence the downvotes.

He is implying you can't use alternative payment methods for an iOS app, which just isn't true. He is probably not an iOS developer, and he just misunderstood the media coverage.
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I worked as a gov't contractor at a federal office where there was one guy who was actually tasked with putting together puzzles and framing them (for wall decorations), because his technical skills were completely obsolete.
But only if someone goes back in time after you to make sure that the discovery does take place so that you can go back in time to prevent it.
This is common with every kind of government contractor.

They pay twice what they would for military to do something to contractors too.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/opinion/sunday/runaway-spe...

It's everyone taking a cut down the line.

At least with IT it's not war profiteering.
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"You agree to be responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of any passwords or other account identifiers which you choose or are assigned as a result of the registration process; and all activities that occur under your account or password. You further agree to notify SendWrite immediately of any unauthorized use of your password or account"

I like the idea of your service, however this part of your Terms of Use put me off somewhat. How am I responsible for my data if your site gets "liberated" of its data? If your site gets hacked the attackers do nefarious things under my account, am I still responsible for the actions?

I may be splitting hairs, but I am a tad confused by this statement.
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> This is one of those one-in-a-career, truly groundbreaking results.

And if it's wrong and you overstate it, it's again one of those one-in-a-career results, but merely because that's where your career as a scientist ends.
Of course it's not like Chilean citizens won't see any of that money. The startup founders need places to sleep, to eat, hang out while they're not working, etc. I'd wager a substantial amount of that money will go right back into the Chilean economy.

It's actually a fantastic kind of stimulus (though on a very small scale obviously).
From the article:

One reason the high-frequency traders can beat others to the punch is that they often locate their computers in data centers run by the exchanges. The New York Stock Exchange, for example, moved its computer infrastructure last year to a facility it built in Mahwah, N.J., where it also leases space to trading firms. It can command premium prices for that space because close physical proximity means fast access to the exchange's raw trading data. Most other market participants don't see that data until milliseconds later, after it's been consolidated and combined with information from other exchanges.
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Been fun watching the log, it's non-stop. Cat at FB did a nice screencast on how to use new Open Graph features in a new heroku app: https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/564/
At least don't use a VPN on the same jurisdiction! That's a big WTF.
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I seem to have lost edit ability, so here's revision 3:

The US Patent system is badly broken with respect to software patents. Patents are being issued to companies for “inventions” that are, in fact, common knowledge included in any introductory software textbook. The result is that the large software corporations are buying up reams of patents and using them to bully small, innovative companies out of business or into paying ridiculous licensing fees.

Quite apart from encouraging innovation, patents are now stifling it.

The software industry is one of the few industries still strong in America. Even in a time of recession, there are not enough computer programmers to fill all the available positions. Startup companies are forming and growing readily. But if every line of code written brings with it a potential violation of someone else's intellectual property, this will cease to be the case.

To solve this problem, we petition the Obama Administration to direct the Patent office to cease issuing software patents and to instruct the judicial system to take a long hard look at existing patents for validity. With these two steps, those of us in the software industry can stop worrying about mutually assured patent destruction and get back to doing what we do best.
The first thing you should ask yourself is "can I spend money to acquire users?" The second thing you should ask yourself is "is it a price that makes it worthwhile?"

The Deck is probably not a good investment for an early stage startup, but The Deck isn't where you go if you're measuring conversion based ROI on an ad campaign either. Companies that use The Deck are buying brand recognition from an audience that they feel should know about their business. This is an entirely different advertising goal than Ilya is talking about.
At those rates you start running into the backwards-bending supply curve. In other words, instead of making $312,000 a year working 52 full weeks, tons of people would be more than happy to make $200,000 working 33 weeks and a couple extra days, or some other point along the line.
> "But today, this system is in collapse, jeopardizing the very foundation of what has made the U.S. healthcare system the envy of the modern world"

I'm pretty sure there are no modern western nations that "envy" the US heathcare system as it stands. I know that in Canada it is viewed as something slightly more sinister than Satan himself. (To our own detriment, admittedly)
Does Section 11.2 not prohibit the publishing of apps that use in app payment processes other than Apple's IAP? If I'm mistaken, I'd be interested to be told how. You are right, I'm not an iOS developer and I will accept downvotes for the snarky sarcasm, but I believe my core assumption to be true. If not, please forgive my ignorance and point me in the right direction.
No. I already have a Chrome tile and didn't have to anything special to make it happen. It showed up when I installed Chrome: http://imgur.com/xhnDi

I believe what this is saying is that Metro Apps cannot launch non-metro executables.
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Good testimony. The comments seem like a pretty smooth way for Google to:

-(As the writer identifies) try not to seem like a monopoly

-try to simultaneously reassure investors. It sounds like parody on purpose...nobody can take it seriously except an official record

-acknowledge that any tech is ripe for disruption, even in the face of giants. Google, especially, knows this.

edit:formatting (I'm a noob here!)
If the pulse is wider than the error, this opens up the phase velocity / group velocity avenue to explain the paradox.
90% of my affection for a letter is for being handwritten, not merely physical (and printed).
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Thanks for the encouragement! I like your photo printing idea!
I think this is a broad generalization. I work on two different projects that both invest heavily in Google AdWords and both have revenue small enough to be considered a "start-up."

If a start-up is focused on a particular vertical, or is a solution people are actively searching for, or has a revenue model built in from day 1, then advertising makes a lot of sense.
I am curious, how would you compute market share of Bing when Yahoo! uses Bing as its backend? Combined with Yahoo, Bing _powers_ 35% of the searches.
RSS Feeds so that you can subscribe to a channel as a Podcast in iTunes.
I'd add that contractors were a permanent fixture at that agency. The head count fluctuated a bit based on what projects were active but there were no apparent plans for the government to begin managing IT itself.

(fluctuated slowly...project timelines were measured in years, I witnessed random but simultaneous resignations affect the contractor head count more than any project ending, it was rare for a single contractor to work on a project from spec/design to release)
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@il: Thank you, this is really insightful content.

I might be digressing here, but since you've offered to answer a few questions, here goes - I'd love to know what categories / sites I want to be looking at if my product's a small business CRM (like Highrise). To be more specific, it's a CRM tool that integrates deeply with Google Apps.

Maybe it's just me, but identifying a list of target categories that fits your audience well seems just as hard as optimizing the spend, especially when the audience isn't exactly niche.
Good point. Where else do they provide the backend?
I read it as him saying if your account is accessed using your email or your password you take full responsibility.
Here's our media kit: http://www.onedayonejob.com/media-kit/

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The goal isn't to make money from equity. The goal is to jump-start a community there and maybe, if they're lucky, have a company be known as "that Chilean startup".
It's a valid point: Neither Google nor Apple allow alternate payment processors. In that case they should be extra careful to make their service have lots of redundancy.

In fact their services (especially Google's) are not nearly so reliable as one would hope. Such is the danger of a monopoly.
An anecdote: About a month ago, just to experiment with websockets I built a tiny app using Tornad. I spent a long time trying to figure out why it didn't work before I realized that the latest versions of Tornado and Chromium spoke different versions of the web socket protocol. When Tornado 2.1 came out, the app started working.
Baidu...soon -- at least for English searches.
Agreed. The price will be more transparent during the web reg process. I was really trying to keep it simple on the landing page since it's a bit confusing. Frankly I didn't want to hit people with an out-of-the-ordinary registration process and the price both at once. But I certainly don't want to lead people on. I'm curious, did you expect it to be free?
hmm .. click2mail.com, email2postal.com, and postalmethods.com seem to have had the same idea.
Hangouts has lured most of my team to Google +, at least for quick stand-up type meetings. I have two guys who have Google Apps accounts and can't yet use Google + for whatever oddball reason that Google hasn't fixed that.
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I knew a government employee who was known to be actively damaging to the projects he was assigned to. This was known by everyone due to formal complaints up and down my contracting company's and the government's chain of command, and was propagated to everyone in earshot due to escalated verbal exchanges.

I wish that guy was sidelined to puzzle assembly.
Exactly. Even if the Opera experiment turns out correct, your GPS will not cease to function all of a sudden.
Americans also have an atrocious diet and don't walk or ride bikes anywhere. There's only so much medicine can do if you eat and drive yourself into obesity, diabetes and heart disease.

At least before 9/11 and the increasing paranoia over foreigners, the US was actually one of the leading destinations for medical tourists, particularly wealthier ones.
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This is getting interesting.

Cheers HN.
Fifty years ago, a 'harmless' sedative was withdrawn from the market because babies were being born without arms or legs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide

Once bitten, twice shy.
see http://hazelmail.com or http://postinoapp.com
being colocated dosent mean anything if your infrastructure sucks. e.g. what switch(s) you use, which PHYs/transeivers are used, what NICs you use, what kind of cables (fiber/copper) and what kind of hw/sw stack you run on. You might be surprised there`s 10s of nanosecconds difference between a twinax 10Gb copper cable, 0.5M 10Gb SR fiber and a 2M 10Gb SR fiber cable... which does make a difference. The differences between different vendors of NICs.. etc etc.

...this aint no FB/Google/blah.1M.requests.a.minute datacenter - its the latency not the thoughput that matters.
I like your second idea about the email addresses.

WRT price. I just can't afford to offer the first card free. I've received nearly 200 cards in the first hour. Once I get going though, I'll definitely consider promotions like this.
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>Compared to what America got out of the space race, the bailout was a complete waste. America got something like 100X their ROI in going into space.

Oh please. This isn't even close to being true. If you actually go down the list of things NASA fans claim to be commercial space development, what you find is a whole lot of half truths and exaggerations. The space race was expensive, and we never even came close to recouping what we spent. You can try to justify it on scientific grounds, but the space race was clearly not worth it from an economic perspective.
Thank's steverb, that's good news.
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You do realize that proving "Einstein was wrong" is a favourite activity of the many physics cranks who hang around sending letters to physics departments year in year out?

And that of all the thousands of folks who have claimed to have a "proof" that relativity is wrong, the they break down as about seventy percent simple misconceptions and thirty percent complete nonsense, with the remainder being zero?

At the time, I would engage the other members of the lab in an ongoing debate about Einstein, where I'd take the position that Einstein was wrong (About anything, or everything, whatever the handy topic was.) I was, and am, an Einsteinian skeptic.

It's a good thing you left physics for programming, because it doesn't sound like you have a particularly strong commitment to scientific principles. To get a Nobel Prize it would be perfectly sufficient to show convincingly that Einstein was wrong about one thing [insert caveats here, obviously I don't mean trivial things]. If you believe Einstein was wrong about "anything and everything" then you're just committing the cardinal sin of believing things because you want them to be true, rather than because there's sufficiently convincing evidence that they're true.
I think he means that gatekeepers are a step down from the web, which is not censored.
Currently, I've been most "successful" (if you can call it success) by first tracking down software companies operating in Chicago and then checking if they have any available internship opportunities. Is there a better way?

Why not contact them anyway? Whether they've posted an internship or not? I know it's easier said than done, but this is a scenario where you'll lose nothing by emailing interesting companies. Give it a shot!
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Great tips. I appreciate them!
I find myself really bothered by the fact that you would be reading all the messages. Granted I realize that in order to stuff the letters manually you would be able to see them if you wanted to, but the fact that you have to search each message for the address and then remove the address from the message seems very human meaning you're at minimum skimming every message. I would much prefer some other method like a web form that included a separate box for address and the message itself.

I too would be interested in an API for this in combination with some kind of developer pricing model.
I remember my old boss Bob Wyman said in 80's when Digital Equipment Corporation got connected to ARPANET. Because only few in the world then has email addresses, so one guy wrote a program that print out emails with snail mail address in first paragraph on typewriters and let mailmen deliver printouts.

Everything new was once old again.
Almost 35% of the startups are from US. I wonder why they chose Chile, instead of applying in the numerous US based incubators.
Also, I believe one of the requirements is that founders must hire locals. And I imagine they have to pay the nations taxes as well?
There are some theoretical computer scientists and FP geeks who haven't made the leap yet. ;)
I'm thinking of applying for the next round.

Even if your product doesn't suit the local market, and even if you don't plan on keeping a presence in Chile after the six months is over, consider this: you'll be spending lots of time around hundreds of other interesting people, all of them getting paid with no strings attached to work on an idea they're passionate about. In a completely unfamiliar country. It's a grand experiment in anarchy, I think, and who knows what will emerge on the other side...

I'd consider going to Chile even if I don't make it in the official programme.
What a steaming pile of junk.
http://ifile.it/mdk43ht - this link will probably be dead in a week or two

(BTW, if you save everything you find interesting, you realize just how much disappears from the Internet. The half-life of the average link is about 4.5 years.)
Wait, Google forces you to use them for in-app payments as well? The Market obviously uses Google's Google Checkout, but alternatives markets and distribution channels exist for Android. I thought you could still use your own in-app payment system if you chose...
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As a former government IT contractor, I can say that all the government employees in my office were beyond incompetent. They didn't do any work, and would lash out at you if you suggested that they pitch in.

It was widely accepted and acknowledged, by the contractors, by contractor management, and by government managers, that our jobs as contractors existed entirely to do the work that the government workers did not and could not do, due to incompetence and laziness.
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The point being missed is IE is the only program that can wrap Win32 with a metro UI. Only IE gets to maintain a single rendering engine/ code-base. Chrome/ firefox have to maintain a Win32 and WinRT version.
Can't stand the new update not letting me middle click videos to open in new tabs.

Also a way to block accounts would be great so I don't see "John1" "JohnsGames" "JohnsIphoneVideos" "JohnsTuesdayRants" covering the Browse page.
Does this include the (presumably) thousands of people who 'created' an app in order to get access to the Timeline feature, as explained on Techcrunch?
Hiring locals is not a requirement. In fact, they hardly have any requirement apart from the fact that you need to spend 6 months in Chile.
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General comment on display advertising -- it can be surprisingly effective for consumer brands in particular (b2b can be really tough). It sounds like Mixrank is talking about a specific technique (direct site buys), which can work great. There are additional techniques you can use (retargeting, audience buying, automated optimization) which include transparency (to varying degrees) and direct ROI, which you can get started on really quickly.
"knowing it's not ready yet and there will be pissed off people because of the bugs."

I realize the conventional wisdom these days is to try to launch something earlier than you want to, but has the goalpost really moved back towards launching products that are "not ready" and full of bugs? I don't know how good or bad the OP's product is, I'm just commenting on the sentiment that its admirable if he did launch something that sucks.

I think there's a certain level of craftmanship and pride in your work that should override the urge to launch early for all the usual reasons echoed on HN. Launching too early can be as disastrous as launching too late, I think this lesson often gets lost in translation because the natural habit is to launch too late.
Would be cool to have a website that list people who just turned off their facebook account :).

The latest Facebook Timeline feature is creepy and I'm starting to think in your direction as well. But having said that, I'd like to know what my friends are up to once in a while and have casual sudden conversation with them.
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As a sci fi geek I like to imagine that these new technologies will propel us into to a world where there are those that share everything, and those who live completely anonymously. A polarization of introverts and extroverts.

One group of people who automatically share everything they do on the internet and write status updates for every emotion or thought the have.

The other group of people a mysterious, silent, black hole to the advertisers and others who seek to profit from knowing our activities.
"SOLR Netherlands"

Can a startup succeed with a name that's most likely already swiped on every major social network platform, besides being a very well-known search platform?
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