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> > "String +(Object other) Converts other to a string and creates a new string by concatenating this string with the converted other. "
> This is a bad idea, now I have a gripe with dart.

I don't think this is right, and seems to be bad wording on part of the documentation. I don't have any access to an interpreter right now, besides the Google AppSpot in-browser console, but adding a String Object and a Date Object to a new variable does not alter either object or do a forced alter on the existing objects, but rather creates a new string object.

Though, I can't tell if either the date object, or the first string object in this example are altered, it appears that they aren't changed during concatenation: http://try-dart-lang.appspot.com/s/KSAX
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Sure my point is that this article is mistitled. They're not increasing the emulator speed 400%, they're switching to Android x86 and achieving speed ups. This may be a good thing to do but is entirely different from improving the speed of the emulator itself.
Not everything can easily be itemized into a bug tracker or project management system. Sometimes you just need to tell a story. This is particularly true in disciplines outside of engineering.
Right. It wasn't clear to me in the video that Adobe is using "blind" deconvolution. I did catch a glimpse of a small black square within a pure white field (on the right side palette in the video). I'm assuming that it is a spatial domain motion blur filter - variable by which the interface tweaks the effect.
I think it's because a lot of people think they have a lot to say but after they start they realise they have very little to say.
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Another great example of Google randomly removing sites based on flimsy or nor evidence. The fact they don't give you a chance to plead their case is pretty scary.

My hunch is one of your competitors got the site taken down. I've had a few clients who had their competitors file complaints with Google, or inform them they were using black hat SEO to get on the first page of the SERPS. In one case they were successful, but I had the site back up in less than 24 hour,s so it wasn't a huge deal.

It sounds like it might be an ongoing issue and are not going to put your site back in the SERPS for a while. I feel for you brother.
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From http://www.crunchbase.com/company/spotify I see that spotify received A LOT of funding this year, but were they funded prior to that?

This life cycle is strange to me. I understand this is talked about all of the time, but, help me :

They built the product, are operating at a loss, and could not survive without funding.

So they grow their user base before their business mode can afford its own infrastructure. The VC model supports the infrastructure and the user base becomes a capital good.

Is it accurate to say that a funded company's value is much more complex, and abstract, than a bootstrapped company's?
Thank you for the response. Philosophical discussion aside, I think most of us can agree that there is a huge difference in reliability between self-reported results, and the more objective examples I mentioned.

I appreciate the videos, but I'm really looking for controlled studies. (In principle, I'm very open to the idea of using drugs like LSD for the treatment of things like alcoholism or cluster headaches. And I think it's a shame that, given the relative degree of safety associated with these drugs, it's nearly impossible to legally runs such studies. But at the end of the day, there looks like a huge lack of evidence and I'm very skeptical.)

Thanks again.
There are hardly any source contributors to begin with. Igor is notorious for being very slow to accept patches for anything but simple bug fixes, it's only recently that other people have gotten access to SVN, or that the SVN was even public.

Meanwhile the nginx wiki is completely community run and maintained. The nginx company would cripple itself if it ostracised the community behind it.
The government doesn't need a search warrant to rummage through cloud data, that's the point.
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Have you ever traveled to work? Even one hour each way irritated me. It's a huge waste of time.

Don't do it unless you get compensated for the time and the transportation, there's no point.

Easy to calculate too.

Let's say your monthly subway/train/bug pass is $100

Let's say your hourly rate is $50/hr. If you spend two hours a day traveling, that's $100/day.

There are roughly 250 work days in a year.

So your opportunity and transportation costs are:

250 * $100 + 12 * $100 = $26,200.
Exactly. Imagine for a moment how many novels started were never finished. How many brushes were left to collect dust after a few paintings. Or ab-rollers that never produced any six-pack abs. Or gardens abandoned after a couple salads.

The more amazing number here, in my opinion, is that 5% of blogs stick around. That seems incredibly high for a broadly popular pursuit. Even a 1% follow-through would strike me as a far better success rate than most common human endeavors.
I'm a long-time user (created: 1668 days ago), and I hate this error. I understand why it's occurring, but it seems bizarre that such an obvious flaw has gone unfixed for so long. It feels amateurish. (That said, pg has bigger fish to fry, and he's probably right to ignore this. C'est dommage.)
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Just as a datapoint (I did this test before seeing the comment), in 32-bit cygwin a hello world written in C compiled to 12KB. In C++, it compiled to 497KB.
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Nice little bit up there, but it was absolutely frustrating at first since I wasn't able to go down the page with my up and down keys and I was wondering why for almost 5 minutes.
Google's definition of a bridge page:
http://adwords.google.com/support/aw/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...
I would recommend Arch Linux as more current. It's fun to build up a system from base, and there's plenty of help available on the IRC channel.

I believe you are thinking of this HN story:

http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Arch-Linux-It-is-what-...
My Adventures Raising VC - AMA
Briefly, this is my 4th company or so, first time trying to raise capital. We currently have a few employees and do 60k/mo in revenue (profitable). I met with a bunch of VCs over the past few mos trying to boost the company into hyperdrive. We are in a not so sexy part of the consumer internet space. Ask me almost anything. Almost all intros were done by a portfolio company c-level or someone who knew a partner - unless noted.

I left out about 10-15 VCs we are currently still speaking to or I can't remember. Currently we have no funds committed to our Series A and looks like we might not be able to raise. Luckily, we are profitable, but growing slower than I'd like.

In no particular order:

Sean Marsh - Point Judith - No response.

Mark Suster - GRP - Very difficult through email - very helpful if you can get in front of him.

All of Foundry Group - #1 VC IMO - super helpful even though we aren't in their theme.

Alfred Lin (cold email) - Sequoia - Very nice & honest.

Charlie O'Donnell (cold email) - First Round Capital - Nice, helpful, busy.

David Skok - Matrix - Very nice, responded to all emails promptly.

Jon Flint - Polaris - No Response.

Jeremy Liew - Lightspeed - Very busy, nice & honest on phone.

Tony Conrad - True Ventures - Quick response time, quick no as we weren't in a market he knew.

Michelle Goldberg - Ignition - Not friendly at all - maybe we got her on a bad day.

Ian Sigalow - Greycroft - Friendly on phone - didn't respond to follow up email.

Axel Bichara - Atlas - Very nice even though he knew he wouldn't invest.

Patricia Nakache (cold email) - Trinty - Helpful as she could be.

Jim Robinson - RRE - No response.
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I agree that it would be better to not compare a null reference at all. A better option would be to return multiple values or have a tuple type and pattern matching.

Like I said, I'm not particularly a fan of Dart.
- The lack of payment gateway options in Australia sucks - CORRECT

- There is no startup community in Australia - INCORRECT

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There is a massive amount of community activity for those who care to look for it.

Here are just a few examples

- PushStart - http://www.pushstart.com.au

- StartMate - http://www.startmate.com.au (NB: Alan, the OP, is cofounder of http://www.bugherd.com which went through StartMate's first Sydney program and is doing incredibly well)

- Fishburners - http://www.fishburners.org/

- AngelCube - http://www.angelcube.com

- Startup Weekends (here's the next Melbourne one) - http://melbourne.startupweekend.org/

- Silicon Beach Google Group - http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia/

- Sydney Tech Startup Meetup (Open Coffee) - http://www.meetup.com/open-coffee-sydney/

...or just sign up to The Fetch (http://thefetch.org/) or Sydney Startup Digest (http://startupdigest.com/2011/05/24/sydney-startup-events-2/)

From a funding point of view you have more and more angel / super-angel sized investment $$$ coming online all the time. There's also an ever increasing amount of large scale investment into top Aussie startups from leading Valley firms.

This has led to a good number of successful startups and more that continue to be started everyday.

I could keep going on but I won't... :)

The point is, let's not get confused. The post is about a specific issue with being a non-US based startup not about the Aussie startup community as a whole.
"Whereas Stonehenge was orientated towards the sun, the more then 100 meter width burial mound of Magdalenenberg was focused towards the moon."

Reminded me the fact that in most languages (e.g. Italian, French) "sun" is masculine and "moon" is feminine whereas in German it's the other way around (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_gender). I know Latin-Greek mythology assigned a female moon goddess but I'm not familiar with Germanic mythology.

Could this be why they the two structures are oriented differently?
I have to ask - what is your issue? You are all over this thread, bashing Apple and talking about the G10.1 like it is the best thing since sliced bread. However, you have not given any evidence of this anywhere. You are arguing against respected names (both the OP to your comments and the poster) who have experience and data backing them up.For instance, if I went up to someone on the street, and told them that a tech journalist and analyst says the iPad is amazing, and hold 97% of the web browsing share, and then showed them your story, who would they believe?

Please, back up your posts. Your anecdotes do not really hold water against even the weakest of data. For instance, I am tech savvy, have spent time in management, and love my iPad, as do TONS of people I know. However, most of my friends who have used Android tablets hate them - especially if they have spent time with an iPad. I did not buy my iPad for prestige - I bought it because it is the best tablet on the market, bar none. Bashing Apple and having no proof is not something that goes over well on HN (as far as I can see)
"The backblaze 2.0 pod has exceeded expectations when it comes to data movement and throughput. We get near wire-speed performance across a single Gigabit Ethernet link." - http://bioteam.net/2011/08/backblaze-performance/

Oh my. These guys' expectations were very, very wrong. Many single-drive configurations can sustain 120MB/s+ at the beginning of the platter. A single drive! It should be no surprise that a 45-drive beast can saturate a GbE link!
Dropping out of the organic results sounds like a result of the Panda update (http://searchengineland.com/official-google-panda-2-3-update...)

My best guess is that you'll need to include some additional 'unique content' on the site to get it back in the listings. At the moment the Google crawler will see not a whole lot of text, quite a few Javascript buttons and some links, and will probably flag it as low quality.

It may be a bit of a hassle, but may be worth adding a kind of 'interesting/unique filler items' blog to the site to increase the content to links/js ratio.
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Panda, too, did screw a lot of small businesses as well while promotion the likes of Walmart, Youtube and Bestbuy. Google's coffers are full though http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/15/technology/google-earnings...
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Unfortunately, deleting an AdWords account won't remove the violation; it may actually make it worse. Google will look back several years and disable ads that haven't run for a very long time. Sometimes they even ban accounts that are inactive or deleted!

It is very important to remember: when dealing with Google AdWords, the definition of a violation changes with time. If you violated the current policies in the past, you may still be banned. You take a great risk running there and any and all warnings you get should be dealt with immediately.

That said, seeing an exclusion from organic based on an AdWords suspension is extremely alarming. That may be exactly what the DoJ is looking for in terms of violations by Google.
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> Think of how many "to JS" solutions there are. Seriously, google that. Like 20? 25?

What do you expect? The most important platform to write software for only accepts a single language. It doesn't matter how good the language is, people will be writing things that get converted to that language.

> How much "to C" solutions do you see getting on the front page of Hacker News these days?

Well, there's ShedSkin, and HipHop. But that's not the point. Anything that can run C can run [arbitrary other language]. Because, often enough, that arbitrary other language was written in C. Surely, by your terms, everyone who programs in Python is a desperate grasper hoping to escape C?
> And in the meantime version 2.0 of a real systems programming language that is innovative and kick-ass is largely going unnoticed.

Which one?
There is a difference between a ban and demotion or penalty. He is not even in the index.

I wouldn't be surprised if the Adwords team clicked a box or sent an email to search
Anyone wanna bet this is the article no one reads because it's not link-bait enough? Sorry for being so cynical, but I can't help myself.
Google should really get some healthy competition.

filleritemfinder.com is reacheable from google, and as far as I can tell, has the same functionality, with better design. Maybe some google guru could comment if a redesign would save you.
From google's bridge page definition:

Not acceptable:
"Websites that feature links to other websites while providing minimal or no added functionality or unique content for the user
Added functionality includes, but isn't limited to, searching, sorting, comparing, ranking, and filtering"

The page in question provides the added functionality listed (searching/filtering at least)
It's not a feature so it's a flaw.

You're right that pg did it this way in the beginning to save time but years have gone by and the site is now more central to his business - especially as a tech demo. This back and forth argument presupposes that there isn't a better fix than the naive 'use old-style code' solution.

Anyways, the discussion is worth having. Only by pointing out problems do you fix them.
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Glad to see this idea finally come to fruition - I tried getting this exact same thing off the ground last year with no success, but hoping you'll be able to succeed where I failed!
Exactly. Status reports are effectively a black hole. In the best case they duplicate data. In the worst cases they contain irrelevant data or they eat important data.
I'd hardly take the analytics numbers from mobile web browsers on an Apple-focused blog as substantial evidence in any way, shape, or form.

Here's the numbers I come up with. According to Google, 1.8% of current Android devices that are activated and have accessed the Android Market in the last 2 weeks are running Honeycomb (their tablet OS). In July they were up to 130 million total activations, with 550,000 new ones every day. Assuming that number hasn't grown at all (which is being extremely conservative considering that number shot up from 400,000 only 2 months prior), that would put the number of active Android devices around 180,000,000. That puts the current number of Android tablets that are sold and active on the Android Market at over 3 million. Apple's numbers look to be about 30 million iPads.

Assuming that Apple and Google are the only players in this market (hint: they're not), then that puts Android at around 10% of the tablet market. Still dominated by the iPad, yes, but at least these numbers have weight to them. It'll be interesting to see how this pans out over the next 8-12 months. The iPhone having real competition served to improve the entire smartphone market all around. Hopefully we've only begun to see what tablets can do.
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Pretty pointless. Very shallow feature comparison. No benchmarks or performance commentary at all.
You really put it accurately. When I came to psychedelics I had expectations and excitement and stuff. It didn't turned out exactly as expected.
I disagree with the 90% / 10% thing.

I was a very active blogger in my native language at some point, but I had only like 50 subscribers and maybe 300 page views in a good week.

I then switched to English and wrote only a dozen of articles or so. One of them was hard to write, basically a HOW-TO article who's implementation I had to write and test before I wrote the article. I also work full-time for a living and it took 3 days to write that article (a really long time for most bloggers).

Enough to say that a single well-researched article was more valuable, bringing in more subscribers than my previous shitty blog on which I talked about shitty things in a fire-and-forget style. And this was also kind of depressing, as if you want to be a successful blogger, you need hundreds of these good articles that take a lot of effort to write.

The way I see it - it's the same as with software development - 80% development / 80% polishing / 80% marketing.
You have an autogenerated web site that consists of practically nothing other than affiliate links to Amazon. You can make an infinite number of autogenerated pages on your site, e.g.

http://www.filleritem.com/index.html?q=hacker+news

http://www.filleritem.com/index.html?q=31.69

http://www.filleritem.com/index.html?q=teen+sex

and each autogenerated page consists of literally hundreds of affiliate links stuffed with keywords for unrelated products.

When Google's webspam team takes action on websites in our websearch index, we can pass that information on to the ads group so they can check for violations. But it's a one-way street: we can send the ads team signals or information about spammers or other violations of our quality guidelines, but the ads team doesn't send information over to the quality/webspam team.
Kim - he's clearly a jaded west-coaster.
Why should they resemble each other? They are unrelated languages produced by unrelated teams for unrelated purposes.
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Ask HN: Can seed funding be partly used for basic salary?
I am applying to an accelerator program that gives 30,000 euros for 6% and also gives all the mentorship and support for 12 weeks.
I would quit my full time employment if I got accepted but am just wondering how I am going to live i.e. food, mortgage etc.
Is it acceptable to use part of the seed money for basic living expenses or is the frowned upon?
I see other posters have covered the benefits quite well, of which there are many.

One possible drawback is HPPD:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucinogen_persisting_percept...
If it fails it's because it has no value. If criminals need it to transfer funds (and they have quite a business), then it might make BitCoin valuable. It doesn't matter if there is a limited amount of BitCoins if the end point is to exchange them.
Ask HN: Equity for first hire?
A startup with four technical founders and a great deal of potential is in the process of closing series A at a $25-30 million valuation.

A potential first hire currently makes $190k. He would bring significant value and take a leadership role as an engineer. What's appropriate equity if he's making $115k pay?
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You must contact the accelerator program to answer this question - some (like startupchile) allow for you to pay yourself a salary - others may not.
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But often there is a reason why a site vanishes from the Google index. We would have to exclude all possible violations of the Google guidelines, before we could safely claim that this is a great example for random removal by Google.

Edit: In a comment above Matt Cutts from Google gives an explanation.
Haha, thanks for the explanation, much appreciated. Never occured to me to Snopes something I heard IRL instead of via silly email forward. I feel so gullible now...

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/drugs/orange.asp
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This is what I like about CoffeeScript too. It wraps the module in a closure, so globals are opt-in. By default, the variable will be scoped to the generated module, but you can simply attach it to the global namespace (window.foo=x in the case of a browser-side CS).
Are you taking direct advantage of the iOS Developer Library for the iPad? If you're not, then maybe all you need is a fancy HTML5 app. It's not as sexy as an app store app, but you control all of the content without worrying about having future releases rejected.
This is huge news. GAE's making advances that are making it more of a viable prototyping way to get MVPs out in absolutely no time. I'm excited by the possibilities!
Wow.

This is simply one of the best guides I've seen to anything...ever. It's uncommon for an online guide to have well-written text, even rarer for it to leverage HTML's structure and organization, and almost unheard of to incorporate interactive useful elements that gel with the textual sections.

Well done.
Thanks kitcar!!!
Try using the iOS simulator to see what you're missing. The development time is greatly reduced because you're not having to constantly wait for the app to be deployed on the phone. The differences between the simulator and the actual phone are quite minimal.
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It is too bad they didn't bond the two ethernet links. Reading through I didn't see a mention of what the other ethernet link was used for. That should have given them a jump in speed.
"I appreciate the videos, but I'm really looking for controlled studies."

Here is the first of probably many controlled studies with 2-bromo-LSD for cluster headaches:

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/06/lsd-alleviates...

The MDMA research on PTSD also has placebo controls. There are several different studies on this, you can probably find them via maps.org.

And James Fadiman writes about actual research done on problem solving in his book, although it isn't really possible to control since each person's long-standing problem is different.
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