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I like baseball. I get that a lot of people don't, and that's fine, but I do. And growing up where I did, there weren't a whole lot of options for watching baseball; there wasn't a local major-league team, and the ones geographically closest weren't on our list of cable networks. WGN was on our cable, though, so I grew up watching -- and eventually loving -- the Chicago Cubs.

Boston fans used to complain about their streak of 80+ years without a World Series win, but of course that's all over now. The Cubs, meanwhile, have passed the century mark: since they didn't even make the playoffs this year, the streak stands at 103 years, with the last win in 1908.

Thirty years into my personal fandom, I've grown accustomed to shrugging and saying "there's always next year" because, well, there is. Of course, "next year" never really happens; even when they get so close there's always something, like Game 6 of the 2003 NLDS when the wheels just completely came off in the space of about an inning.

But then, "next year" probably isn't going to materialize soon anyway. The Cubs have spent too many years in a row now chasing over-the-hill ex-stars, giving them huge contracts and then living with the results. The farm system's a mess and there's no cohesiveness to the team or the organization, and won't be for a good long while.

Which is why a lot of people probably think it's crazy to keep betting on "next year", when what's really needed is a massive overhaul and then four or five years of rebuilding effort. They probably think it's crazy, too, to just pretend there aren't systemic problems in the organization, to talk about how this year's problems were different from last year's problems, to act as if bringing in a couple big-name hired guns and slapping some lipstick on the pig will lead to winning it all, and soon.

But I've been watching the Cubs for three decades now, and I'm a devout member of the Church of Next Year. I'm a fan, and I'll always be a fan, and even if there isn't a championship in the cards I can be proud of the fact that at least Wrigley Field will always be packed, which is something you can't say for a lot of teams that actually win (heck, Tampa Bay fans didn't even turn out to watch their team mount an epic September comeback and make the playoffs on the very last day of the season). And, of course, a stadium full of seats is probably worth a lot more to the owners than a championship, right?
He wrote "I'm sure some of the gap is because of mere correlation", so I think he IS grasping the point.

Personally I thin it is OBVIOUS that TV is damaging children since it is unnatural the same way sugar is. The kids of our ancestors have been crawling around on the floor exploring and playing for millions of years - sitting in front of flickering lights for hours on end for just 30 years.
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Awesome, would you have a link to your PhD thesis? Couldn't find it on your blog. Also wondering how you're using OMeta for your startup?

Since you mention CoffeeScript, since I've found out about OMeta last week, I've started a little work on a CoffeeScript compiler in OMeta. Have some basic stuff working, but error messages for parsing kinda suck: the best I can do with OMeta/JS as currently implemented seems to be noting the position at which there's a parsing error.
PHP's acceptance at the shared hosting level ended up being a curse of a sort IMO. While it was easy to install applications, it was nearly impossible to know what libaries were installed. You could never rely on PEAR or anything else.

You can imagine what kind of solutions people will come up with when the standard library is anemic (compared to python)
and it was difficult rely on certain "standard" 3rd party libraries.

Python folks rarely had to deal with the shared hosting issues (until very recently) and by virtue were freer in what they could install and how they could secure the system.
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The most mysterious thing is that people actually donated to diaspora? If we've seen what they can achieve with $200k I somehow doubt $40k is going to get us more than... nothing.

> Obviously, PayPal’s behavior is unacceptable, which is why we have asked our lawyer to get involved.

oh wait, that's where any money is going to go.
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Everyone heard the warnings as children not to mix electricity and water. But as adults, what seems like common sense can at times be forgotten. If an appliance is turned off and falls into water, do not reach in and remove it! This is an electrical hazard, as there could still be a current running through it. Immediately go to the circuit panel and shut off power to that specific circuit. Before using the item again, be sure to have the approval of an electrician to prevent further electrical hazards.
Even simpler:

curl icanhazip.com
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Surely someone can find a better issue than this?
What about the lack of any option to dismiss the red circle notifying you that an update is available - sometimes you don't want the updated version.
Remember for EU companies, there are limitations to what (personal) data you can export outside the EU.

So if FB & Google & Amazon etc. were to 'leave' EU, then lots of EU companies would be legally unable to use their USA services.
On one hand I feel the same - Shen looks incredibly nice. And it features a lot of things that I hope Clojure will have in the future (such as an optional static type-systems and high portability due to Clojure in Clojure). Then on the other hand a language's usefulness is to a large degree determined by having a minimal viable userbase - you just cannot write every library yourself. And by being highly pragmatic, running on the JVM and so forth (and probably many other things I don't comprehend) Clojure has achieved just this. So I think right now its the most practical Lisp. If Shen has a lot of nice features maybe we can learn from it!
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Well yeah, it's a smart decision to have a product before applying. However, the question now is "Why don't you have a product yet?". You had several months to do that after the primal rejection, and yet you still don't have it. You just shifted the deadline forward. I'm currently doing the same and beating myself for laziness.
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As far as actually choosing one or the other. You really can't go wrong with either. Modern PHP frameworks have done a great job in making it easy to write secure, flexible, and speedy applications.

As a long time PHP developer (but dabbler in many others) I really can't thank Rails enough for forcing the PHP community to really push PHP libraries/applications forward.

Cross pollination FTW
I've never used either, but remember that this legal disclosure has to be everything that they have on you. For the "Download your facebook", facebook get to decide what to include.
Replying to this, but directed to the original authors: don't make it $20, it's too cheap for a product like this, make it $49 and plenty of people will still pay for it. I'm assuming you will be offering a WP template as the output (nobody's going to move to your blogging platform).
New Proxy in Town
Greetings:

I'm Writting you from a little Mexican startup called Xenode Systems and the thing is we recently launched a very interesting webapp wich you might like, The Webapp is called "Calyphrox" and it's a webproxy with several built-in utilities, such as:

- Guaranteed Anonymous Web Browsing + https
- Megaupload Premium Links Generator
- Megavideo Bypasser
- Built-in Torrent Downloader
- API

Among others plus a very cool and eye-catching design. Here you have the official release announcement we made:

http://marker.to/owGPYr

And the webapp is in:

http://www.calyphrox.com/

So if you're interested go ahead and try it out!

Thanks for your attention.
this is a very elitist way of thinking of things. Some people just aren't able to afford the luxury of a "good software" as you put it. So does that mean they shouldn't have access to a solid operating system and access to mobile web. In many parts of the world where they buy their phones outright, does smoother animations really justify the extra cost for access to email and web. Get real.
Through Like button and widgets FB also tracks people who are not their users and never consented to that in any form. Does this sound OK too from your "unenlightened American perspective"?

Arguably this lies outside of the complain domain, but it does
relate directly to the "not a big deal" stance. I find it
*shocking* that people accept it as a perfect norm what would
never fly in a physical world.

How many business owners wouldn't mind a post office retaining
a copy of their every mail? And furthermore using it to better
the type of junk mail being sent to the company.

Or how many regular folks would be OK with their alumni club
installing surveillance cameras in public and private places
to track their movement? Still not a big deal, eh?

Why do then things change when the very same businesses and people go online?

/rant
I prefer http://ifconfig.me. It tells more information than just IP address.
1024 or 1000?
Hey, I hope this question is appropriate as I couldn't find any up to date information on this.

Problem: I have to evaluate some bandwidth numbers and put them into a chart. Those numbers are all in bytes. Now because they are quite big (we're talking about several Petabytes) I have to convert them into a more readable format. I'm unsure wether I can go with 1 Kilobyte = 1000 Bytes, or 1 Kilobyte = 1024 Bytes.

If the numbers weren't that big, it would'nt be such a big deal. But in this case it does matter.

Whats the rule? What can I go with?

thanks!
Aside from the points mentioned by others, the 5DMKII captures far greater dynamic range; look at the detail in the shadows. The 4S produces dark buildings with no definition.
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This is something that's been going on for a while - Google killing small web apps; Convertors, calculators, movie listings, ip finders, weather stats, stocks. It's not all low-hanging fruit. I'm not saying they shouldn't be doing this, nor that it's intentional. Their goal is to be the best search engine which means connecting searchers with answers as quickly as they can. But even so, it sucks for the web apps who get made redundant by Google.

Also, it's interesting to compare this with, say, Yahoo's approach. Yahoo would have put an "IP" widget and a "weather" widget on their portal homepage. Google waits until the user searches for the info before giving it to them - which keeps their homepage clean and more importantly keeps their message strong "we do search well", while Yahoo's always seemed to be "we do a whole bunch of stuff, some of which you may need". I know Google/Yahoo comparisons aren't really du jour, but still it's interesting.
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And as soon as Dropbox becomes liquid, it will certainly be the biggest homerun.
A co-founder is also the minimum social proof. Find at least one person in the world who is willing to bet on you and your startup.
also,

http://myip.dnsomatic.com
http://whatismyip.org
> I don't understand where the fixation for multiple founders stems from

Basically the YC model stems from PG recreating his experience with ViaWeb. He started a company with his
best friend and another expert programmer, so that's the model that seems like the "right" model to them.

Others have very different experiences working with other people (e.g. the much-maligned group projects in
college) so they have a different mental model of what works and what doesn't, at least for themselves.

There are extremely valid arguments both ways which largely boil down to individual variation, but here's a
key point that gets overlooked: Perhaps if you haven't done it as a single founder, you don't know what it
takes, and so you don't know what to look for.

He has done it in a group. So if you're good at picking twos and threes, or feel you are, you can fill up
your whole complement with those.

And then it becomes self-reinforcing. You get more and more confident with the one than the other which is
avoided. Some pitchers rely on their fastball and don't develop their slider.

So eventually you're looking at, let's say for sake of illustration, 90% confidence in picking groups, but
hardly any confidence still in picking solo founders.

So when you're looking at the last slot, do you want to add another group you are 90% sure of, or say no to
someone you are excited about and go with some solo founder you are dubious about? And what about the
second-to-last slot? And all the way back... Surely your FIRST choice isn't going to be a solo founder!

Even though YC claims not to have a fixed limit, obviously there is a practical limit. And when they say
they fund everyone they find promising, you have to take it with a grain of salt, because in their model,
being a single founder already isn't promising.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibibyte might be a good starting resource. But if you are doing this for a report or a presentation, it's more important to understand the context and requirements of those who you're reporting to. If the context is in kb/1000 and you report in KiB/1024, that will be less useful than if you can find someone who can tell you what they are expecting the units to be.
Security vulnerabilities aside, I just don't see people gravitating towards this.

Pick up phone, hold it out at arm's length in front of you. Hold it real still. Now wait. Bloop bleep boop now it's unlocked!

Compare with:

Pick up phone, swipe your unlock gesture. Hurray!

For something the user is doing constantly, many times, every single... I just don't see why anyone would pick the more uselessly time-consuming (and more effort required) option.
I prefer 'curl ifconfig.me'
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Have you tried Caustic? That seems to be hitting a sweet spot.
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I am surprised that some members actually took the effort to down vote my comment because I expressed my honest reaction to the author and did not add the extra flair to seem super smart.
Ask HN: Where do you+your startup friends go to University?
Just trying to gauge places where the environment would be good.
It's not just the deaths.

If you contract malaria you suffer from it for life, and you become a carrier so that mosquitos can pass it on from you to others.

Most people who contract malaria don't die from it, but you do get VERY sick. It's an incurable disease that comes back year after year for the rest of your life.
Same for me on Chrome + MacOS. I opened it in incognito mode and it worked.
I'm also concerned about this. It seems the main function of horizontal swiping is switching screens. So why do they also use it for removing items? Then you can't remove items in an app that has multiple screens.
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"No, the other half is getting people to use the product."

More than 45 million people use Dropbox. I think they have that part of the problem solved.
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Earlier this year I only knew PHP, not ruby or rails. Then I stumbled upon Rails, It seemed clearly superior, I stopped everything in favor of Rails. Because, Rails development seemed a lot faster than PHP development (for me). I think it is a good decision as well, Since development with RoR can be much faster, We'll actually be ahead in product sometime in the future, even if we had started with PHP earlier. Hope that makes sense. Note: I built prototypes using Rails in hours, which might have taken days in PHP.
As a single founder who's about to close his seed round (and was rejected from YC), I'm deeply concerned that opinions toward single founders are devolving from aversion, to bias, to self-fulfilling prophecy. With every step, investors are forfeiting the ability (or inclination) to evaluate this issue on the merits.

I personally have no trouble working with others, nor difficulty enrolling others in my vision. I am extremely emotionally stable—I don't take things personally and have little trouble riding the ups and downs. I acknowledge that there are benefits to a cofounder that I'm missing out on (as well as drawbacks I'm avoiding!), but simply put, it's disappointing to see many investors marching lock-step to the beat of someone else's drum.
Upgrades are why I really appreciate the developer community, doing hard work that vendors drag their feet with.
Buckland is great
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I am a law student, as it happens. How do you mean?
Thanks for the answer. The problem is I don't know what context this is in. I'm unsure what people expect to be 1 Kilobyte. Is it 1024 or 1000.

The Kibibyte isn't really standartized and I can't use that.

From your Link: "the kilobyte continues to be used to refer to a power of ten as well as a power of two"

What's correct now? I mean depending on what I use the resulting numbers will be completely different.
Probably YC's way of saying, target this niche of single-founders because they are too mainstream. If you can handle investing in single-founders, you can rival YC I suppose.
It's not applying without a working product that would put people off, rather that the founders aren't agile enough to produce new ideas fast. Flexibility is key here.
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Actually, the comment about mind-stretching was referring to the languages in his “Perlis Languages” post.
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Genuine question: did they announce when the source code for ICS will be released? AFAIK, http://android.git.kernel.org is still down, I can't seem to reach http://android4.git.kernel.org and http://source.android.com/ still lists Gingerbread as the latest source code drop available.
Killer app?

iOS has had Cisco VPN support since 2.0.
There's a lot more people using PHP compared to Python, naturally there's more support of PHP in terms of libraries, support, etc.

But for a startup? Means nothing pretty much. Whichever helps you execute best. If it takes 10x longer to learn Python compared to PHP, do you really want to switch to Python? Or vice versa due if your founder has to learn PHP?
How about the source code? Anyone know what the status of that is?
also,
http://tnx.nl/ip
The pixel density is high, but the subpixel density is less impressive.
How about Ubuntu One? They have Ubuntu, Windows, iOS, and Android support plus 5 GB of free storage. Mac support doesn't exist yet, but hopefully it'll be coming soon:
https://one.ubuntu.com/
Did anyone bother to do some fact checking? As far as I can tell Android phones are massively outselling iPhones in Japan. Look at any best selling list for phones In Japan before the 4S shipped. Check again in month once the upgraders have upgraded.
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> with just a name and an e-mail to identify you.

try harder.

from TFA:

Even though we’ve complied with every PayPal request, including providing them with our certificate of incorporation, they still won’t give us an explanation for any of their moves.
In addition to my list of eight, in another comment here, I am throwing in Logtalk. I wouldn't label it as "9", given that it came out in 1998, but it's worth noting, because it is still developed, and because its depth fits with the spirit of the original post.

"Logtalk is an object-oriented logic programming language that can use most Prolog implementations as a back-end compiler. As a multi-paradigm language, it includes support for both prototypes and classes, protocols (interfaces), component-based programming through category-based composition, event-driven programming, and high-level multi-threading programming." - http://logtalk.org

"Logtalk is an object-oriented logic programming language that extends the Prolog language with a feature set suitable for programming in the large. It provides support for encapsulation and data hiding, separation of concerns and enhanced code reuse. Logtalk uses standard Prolog syntax with the addition of a few operators and directives. Logtalk is distributed under an open source license and can run using ISO-compliant Prolog implementations as the back-end compiler." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logtalk
The site has changed to a trove of eulogies.
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When are the old nexus devices gonna see their version?
If you're unsure, read the small print: which standard they are using should be explained there.
Would be interesting to see such a comparison done between iPhone, and one of its toughest competitors - say Galaxy S2.
Have you heard of something called Java? ;)
IANAE(pidemiologist), but it's my understanding that if you fast and hard enough, the critter doesn't have time to adapt. See smallpox.
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...still no unified Gmail inbox. “It’s harder than you think,” he tells me.

Can someone explain why? I'm not a mobile developer.
The choppiness in the UI is awful, but it's not solely the result of a lack of hardware acceleration (though it's no doubt a contributing factor).

Google have said [1] that it's primarily the result of lots of GC rather than drawing performance.

[1] http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=6914
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> A process can't change the address space of another process, period. Even if one is a root process. Separation of address spaces is a basic security service provided by the operating system. So I'm also puzzled how they are able to modify memory in Finder's address space.

Sure you can. Every major PC OS (Windows, Mac, Linux) has a debugging API that, in fact, does allow you to read and write the memory of other processes. Windows even has a convenient function to allocate blocks of memory in other processes' address space, and another function to spawn a thread in another process with an arbitrary entry point - which makes this sort of thing relatively easy to do.

Mind you, the primitives provided can be a bit difficult to work with, but it's far from impossible.
Is expecting Paypal to give you your money really that naïve?
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It looks like Cisco already has a few VPN clients for Android, although it looks like they are either device specific or require root.

https://market.android.com/developer?pub=Cisco+Systems,+Inc.
This is awesome. I really love this.

Really lowers the barrier to entry for Ruby developers.
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Really? That's a shame: I was hoping vaguely that the OpenMax AL stuff might get that bit closer.
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I agree that they weren't the ideal recipients of $200k, but they have produced a fairly functional and usable product. I don't understand the hate they get on HN.
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