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Personally, I was thinking it would be way cooler if a few million hackers got together and donated to cancer research in Steve Jobs' name. Steve isn't the only person who died too young from pancreatic cancer (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/) and it's still almost always a death sentence. I'd like to see the money go to basic research somewhere. What are the best cancer research institutes?

The "One More Thing..." fund? Steve probably would not approve, but hey, we're the ones who are going to miss out on another decade of Steve's product announcements. Can a few million hackers get together and help solve a big problem? Have computers, will fold...
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Who's lobbying to have secret laws? Smells more like government conspiracy by non-elected officials.
Take a lesson from the Kansas City Star, Forbes: Don't feed the Phelps Trolls by reporting on them. That's what Phelps and his other bridge-dwelling clanspeople want: publicity. Please ignore Westboro Baptist Church.
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reminds me of this onion video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWfKdKWJEkM
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I agree. It was thanks to your comment that I tried the challenge. I didn’t win, but the challenge was totally fair and I feel like I could have won had I been more familiar with algorithms. Even though I failed, I did get a quick refresher on the algorithm in question and learned a new Python standard library function. So next time this kind of opportunity appears, people, try it! (I say next time because I think the Quixey Challenge is about to end.)
Though C99 and C89 could be described as different revisions of the same standard, they could also be thought of as separate standards too.
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I never said I thought motorbikes were safer than cars; in fact, I explicitly said that they were dangerous, but not as dangerous as e.g. skydiving (IMO - I've seen multiple people break ankles in perhaps 20 days total on dropzones, and three reserve parachute deployments).

The risks apply differently to motorbikes than cars because of how much less there is between you, the vehicle, and the environment. Alcohol affects you worse on a bike; misjudgement affects you worse, because most bikes brake worse than cars yet accelerate far faster. The temptation to twist the throttle and feel the acceleration, and the extra relative width of the road compared to the narrowness of a bike, all make you more likely on average to speed on a bike. Because of the acceleration, agility and small size, you can get away with maneuvers you could never do in a car - if you risk it.

In terms of fun - this is obviously a subjective judgement. You asked if I was put off by the risk profile; I explained why I am not, and clearly part of it is because I find it more fun than you do. It's particularly fun in London, because in the UK it is legal to filter / lane split: you generally skip to the front at red lights, overtake or go down the middle of traffic queues, and generally never have to stop for long because of traffic, even in the narrow streets of central London. The UK equivalent of US double-yellow lines are rare in urban areas; riding on the "wrong" side of the road to skip traffic is common. If I was condemned to ride in the multi-lane highways of the US, and forbidden from lane splitting, and didn't have to deal with London-style traffic, I'd probably drive a car too most days.

(When I ride bikes in California, where I can lane split, it's still not as fun as the UK, because there isn't enough traffic; the highways are too wide, too straight, have too many lanes, while the back roads have poor surfaces and low speed limits. Better than most of the UK again is the Eifel region in Germany / Belgium / Luxembourg, but it's a different kind of fun.)

As to regret, I believe you end up regretting the things you didn't do more than the things you did. I regret not learning how to ride sooner; I wish I'd done it years ago, when I still lived in Ireland. I rode a scooter in the UK on a provisional license for over a year before I got my full license and was able to ride something bigger than 125cc, and regret not passing sooner, having found out how easy it was to pass - it would have lead to lower insurance rates if nothing else. Growing up, I cycled everywhere, and I was always ambivalent about cars. I never had a desire to drive, and didn't learn until I was 29, and it still doesn't appeal to me. I drive reluctantly in rentals, mostly. But motorbikes were different; with every step, I've become more and more convinced that this is the motorized transport for me. It's become part of my identity; it's one of the best things I've ever done, and I regret much of the time I could have spent riding, but didn't.
If the Windows Phone platform was doing famously, you can bet there'd be an article touting exactly the opposite. '"C# and XNA are vastly superior to HTML5", says industry expert.' would be the pull-quote.
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So the V8 lineage of VM's (including Strongtalk and Self) has two major tricks: type feedback and optimistic inlining with deoptimization. They can see what implementations of a method are actually being reached at given call-site and then optimistically inline those specific implementations, transparently deoptimizing the call-site if that inlining later becomes invalid. You can support a lot of dynamic features on top of this framework:

1) Sensible numerics. Dart numbers are represented as integers until they can't be, overflowing to bignums if necessary. The semantics are similar to Smalltalk's or CL's except without exact fractions which is a reasonable design decision in this day and age.

If a given invocation of '+' is always operating on integers, the VM can emit a regular integer addition plus a type-check. If sometime later a float appears and the type-check fails, the VM can fall back to the generic implementation of '+'.

Unrelated to the above, we've known pretty much forever how to efficiently represent integers in a tagged fashion so they don't need to be treated as a special "primitive" type.

2) Generic operators. '+' and '-' are methods rather than special functions as in CL. For the reasons outlined above, there is no reason to special-case '+' or other common operators in the VM. The VM can always inline whatever actual implementation of the operator is actually being invoked at any given call-site.

3) Generic iteration objects. There is no reason to special-case iteration for arrays versus lists, etc. If a loop always ends up iterating over an array, there is no reason the use of the Iterator.next() method can't be optimistically compiled down to a simple pointer increment plus dereference.

4) Higher-order functions. There is no reason to discourage use of higher-order functions in tight loops (e.g. with map or similar functional constructs). If the same function is always called in the loop the VM can optimistically inline that function.

Some of the things that Dart leaves out are introspection related. There is no Python obj.__dict__ which would make it hard to implement objects as linear structures. There is no introspection of the stack frame as in Python's locals() or Javascripts arguments object which make it harder to allocate local variables to registers (or represent them as SSA values in an optimizer). LuaJIT is at the cutting-edge of optimizing-away some features like these, but it's not well-understood yet.
http://www.ubergizmo.com/2011/10/android-market-and-gmail-ap...
I can't even count how many 't's there are.
Yep, just keep vigilant on the routine maintenance and at least store it indoors so it's only outside while you're riding it.

The scrappy-looking dependable workhorse also has a side benefit of you not having to worry as much about it being stolen vs. something that still shines.
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Exports from Harmony modules are frozen and cannot be changed at runtime. Classes are too if you use Object.freeze().
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Where is the raw data? how large is the sampling? how do they measure traffic?
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Whining about publishing/distribution costs for standards in 2011 is laughable. The only excuse for printing virtually anything these days is small quick reference cards, invoices and packing lists (mostly for shipping), and labels.

Most of the people that actually work on the standards are paid for their work by companies in the relevant field.

If the organization was running anywhere close to correctly, their costs would be limited to typesetting, some organizational work for meetings, and bandwidth. All of which could be trivially borne by modest contributions of the governments and corporations involved.
I suppose that means demand for the service is greater than supply. The question might be, do you wish you had more supply, or better quality of demand?

Maybe charge $5 application fee to weed out the worst :-D
Search is replacing the need to know URLs or even the names of apps. I use command + space all the time on my Macbook Air to open apps. I use Google Chrome and never enter in URLs... I type in a few letters of the site I'm looking for, and the browser is intelligent enough to fill the rest in.
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The CIA is not involved in the decision. It is a political one, made by the State Dept. and the Administration. The U.S. provides a visa but subjects the Dali Lama to other indignities:

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/The-Vote/2010/0219/At-...
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Totally.

I much prefer C over C++ because, at least in comparison, C is a much simpler language.

However, the motivation for Google's Go is suddenly much clearer...
Where in Cleveland do you live?

The RTA is very good for getting downtown or to University Circle (and possible Ohio City). Unfortunately the jobs have all moved to around 271/480. I did the 48->7 reverse commuting from Shaker Sq. to Highland Heights when my car was in the shop last year. Let me tell you, that sucked. Nearly an hour and half vs. 30 min driving. And there's only 1 bus the entire day that took the special route I needed.
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Check out Crypto by Steven Levy for an example of large gov agencies like the FBI/NSA influencing the government. In the 90s there was a big push for crypto and the government was afraid that it would loose all ability to obtain unencrypted communications so they created the clipper chip(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip). Basically a secure encryption device with a backdoor held by some government agency requiring a warrant to obtain.

While this scheme was being hatched, an election happened and Clinton was elected. The FBI and NSA went on all out propaganda mode with the new elected officials to convince them that the end of the US was near if this wasn't forced on the people. While Clinton and his entourage were against this stuff during the campaign and seemed pro tech industry they quickly switched stance in favor of the new plan. The public outcry at the time prevented the clipper chip from ever getting accepted but it took a lot of bad press about it, something we don't see today with the new crappy laws.

So frankly I can see how this could happen to Obama and his administration. The FBI was one of the worse groups in this story, they wanted even more than just keys obtainable by warrant they wanted a phone away ability to get the decryption keys. I don't think they are any less power hungry today. And with a monster the size of the DHS the misinformation/influence must be even greater.
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Comscore: iPad is 97.2% of Internet tablet traffic
> My jaw just dropped upon seeing what can be achieved considering the amount of resource that was used.

He's kind of cheating: even though the microcontroller contains only 2.5KiB of RAM, he's using an LCD controller with 172800 bytes of video RAM. The microcontroller costs US$3.79 in small quantities; the LCD controller plus some LCD (maybe not the same one) costs US$36 from Adafruit https://www.adafruit.com/products/335 or US$22 from Mouser http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Microtips-Technology/MTF....
That's why I drive a 11 year old Toyota!
It's not "five hundred milligrams" (500mg), it's "five-hundredths of a milligram" (0.05mg, or 50μg).
They probably don't get any credit because the signal-to-noise ratio is so low. I'm sure you've got a few decent contributors, but my impression of your online opinion section is that it's little more than a soapbox for any idiot to the right of Paul Krugman. No barrier to entry at all, and certainly no requirement for intellectual honesty and rigor.
If there's a reasonable conclusion to be made from app overload it's that apps must die. Web, desktop and mobile apps, the way they're presented are a pain for the end user. He has to think in terms of apps, not in terms of functionality.

Apple's Siri is a good example. You're using many apps simultaneously through one interface - calendar, weather, alarms, maps, etc. You don't have to worry about how someone decided to bundle functionality into apps, you just access the functionality.

If this new genre of apps appears it doesn't sound like the user experience will be improved.
Simple, don't let people vote on it.
Just move somewhere that isn't insane. It's time.

(I did, for this very reason.)
Yes, I think “Shutttr” has one ‘t’ too many. “Shuttr” would be better. They replaced an ‘e’ with a ‘t’, but they should have just removed the letter instead. Similarly-named sites “Flicker”→“Flickr” and “Forest”→“Forrst” are still readable because a letter is repeated at most twice. “Shutttr” is harder to read because English has many words with twice-repeated letters, but few or no words with thrice-repeated letters.
Tim's analysis in Forbes _is_ the source of the misleading "480%" statistic -- and the Forbes headline trumpeted the equally-misleading 60% statistic. So, while I think that Forbes' blogs are frequently quite insightful, this wasn't one of your better moments.
yes because spreads were wider and stock trading was routed to specialists on NYSE who could "jump the queue" and peek ahead at who they wanted or did not want to trade with. Also stock commissions were a lot higher in those days. Also, it was unfair because to have "fast access" required presence on the exchange floor which is much harder than putting a computer in the colocation facility
Oh I'm sure Steve-sies wouldn't mind people donating to the "One More Thing..." fund. I mean, come on! It's his wife's organization.
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I just integrated stripe on http://i.crowdfunded.it last week. Super awesome and easy to use.
I live in Chicago. I am moving from the suburbs to downtown next weekend.

The higher cost of rent offsets the savings in travel costs.

It's not inconceivable that many people have their offices in a crowded area like downtown Chicago - so they'd be facing the same issue.

But I'm doing it to save time and energy.

Although, again, suburban areas tend to have cleaner air and bigger houses - much better for health than a studio apartment near a high traffic road.

I'd say if you can telecommute, to live in the suburbs is a no-brainer.

If you have to travel, car-pooling and public transport are better options than driving yourself to work everyday.
Yes if you write it like that, it removes one of my complaints, but it leaves the other. You now have inconsistency in the language because LINQ is basically being used as a new type of language added to an existing language. You are working with two languages at once. Why stop there? Why not add python to c#? And every other language. The super language that has everything from everywhere. It is a total mess.
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I completely agree. I have been saying for a year that FB would never release an iPad app unless they had a deal with Apple to have the native app be able to set cookies in Safari.

The good news is that I was wrong.

I downloaded the app and promptly logged out of FB on Safari.
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Maybe.

Why is it so hard to imagine a world where we have both? I don't use Google's dedicated iOS app because www.google.com happens to load just fine in Mobile Safari. I do use the iOS Maps application because maps.google.com doesn't work as well as I'd like in the aforementioned browser.

We have to let go of this notion that for web apps to win, mobile apps have to lose (or vice versa). [1]

[1] http://www.edibleapple.com/2009/08/06/when-apple-and-microso...
I think this only solves part of the problem. Apps need to become addressable in order for discovery to properly work. I think its a great startup opportunity. I wrote a longer thought on this at my blog earlier tonight - http://www.byte.org/2011/10/10/mobile-apps-need-more-than-go...
You are correct: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_River_Rouge_Complex. It is on the Rouge River, which is what was in my memory.

I had a chance to visit it before they stopped the tours. The most impressive part was the plant where they took in a huge chunk of steel and heated it red hot, then repeatedly rolled it until it was thin, then rolled it up.
trading activity is information because it is real people putting real money at risk and expressing their views of what the assets are worth. As in any competitive market, HFT traders cannot make money if they only trade with themselves - that is a mean zero proposition. But by trading with people who price the assets incorrectly at a point in time, they help move asset prices to their "correct " levels
You mean not fair to iPhone 4 right?
Not trying to do anything more than make a side comment, but:

> If she could also make the perfect waffle, that would be desirable, too.

is the sort of casual sexism that I'd love to see less of.
Now it works! Thanks :-)
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"We're sorry, but something went wrong.

We've been notified about this issue and we'll take a look at it shortly."
Because Python's semantics are fucktarded.
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that would reduce liquidity drastically. Think about this. Suppose all the quotes show up once a second: if the values of the assets in question are momentarily mispriced relative to some other assets somewhere in the world, HFT algorithms will attack those quotes and make money from taking liquidity instead of providing it. That would also increase adverse selection and reduce the incentives to provide liquidity, resulting in less liquidity for small investors
No. 5x more traffic.
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And yet still a decidedly non-mainstream audience:

http://socialstatistics.com/top/people/followers/0

G+ has no hope unless they can somehow break into the mainstream. It's not looking good right now.
cool idea, similar to another product I saw at minneDemo last week, zyngram (https://zyngram.com/)
I bought it and it looks terrible on my Kindle, some sentences repeat themselves and there is a "Paul Graham" string shown 3 times per page. The about Paul Graham text was actually behind his picture, so overall quality of this is extremely low.
I believe that the best time to start is right now.

PG has said, many times, that he's more interested in the team than the idea.

A solid team isn't really going to change that much over a few months, as they've probably known each other for years. Show that in the interview, and you'll have a better chance of getting at-bat with YC than a few months of polish on your startup.

On top of that, showing real progress between submitting your YC app and actually talking to YC speaks worlds about your ability to execute, far more than having a polished last-minute entry.
yes but if there is an obligation, you could end up with less total liquidity because if you oblige traders to trade when it is a losing proposition to do so, you will get less traders and less liquidity all the time, including volatile times. That's why exchanges actually pay traders to provide liquidity and charge liquidity takers. Imagine if you ordered convenience stores to sell twinkies to people even if they have no money. How would that work in practice ?
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You know where this is going, don't you? Next up: opting in to use torrent sites.

They always use the porn strategy first to "get in", because it's easier to amend the future stuff to it, than try to add them from the beginning.
Do server-side events find their way to the client event bus?
they already are :)
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be careful about the idea of clamping down on legal tax-paying businesses based on how much "social value" they are producing. It is very hard to judge that and it is subjective. One could argue,I am not arguing it but one could, that lots and lots of web startups produce very little social value. Should we ban them too?
I truly, honestly feel like you're fundamentally misunderstanding what has happened here. Apple made a technical decision to follow the newer partition table, booting, and "BIOS" (EFI) standards from Intel rather than continue to use the legacy systems from the 80s.

Apple was an early adopter in this regard, but the standard is openly documented, and most recent x86-64 operating systems, including Linux and Windows 7, have support for it, even if it's not always used by default.

The last thing I remember Apple doing that could be remotely construed as "locking down" a Mac was when they still used a proprietary/undocumented memory controller, but that hasn't been an issue in many (10-15?) years. They stopped doing that long before they even moved off of PowerPC chips in 2006.

Thinking there's anything remotely nefarious here is very closely akin to arguing that any breaking of backwards compatibility is evil. This is just a new platform -- albeit one using the same instruction set as an existing one, and extremely easy to port to. It really isn't Apple's responsibility to ensure legacy operating systems they don't control support this new, documented platform.
"Abso-friggen-lutely" on top of "three cheers" lacks qualification about the thing you cheered being less than good for anyone. You were abso-friggen-lutist.

Anyway, the open web standards are not failing. Dart is not a clearly better solution. I get your point about XHR, but do try to take mine about the whole history being a mixed bag, including what IE did. We can do better.
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