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Well, here it is, a crowdfunding bill in Congress
A bit surprising to me that a subcommittee of the House Financial Services Committee has approved this bill, but there's not much fuss over it that I can tell. Seems like it would make sense for entrepreneurs to leave comments on the site? Zero so far (are they screening them?), and the news has been up there almost a week.
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I use Google's repository/Chrome and have no problems.

$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list
deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
$ dpkg --get-selections |grep chrome
google-chrome-unstable install
Anyone knows if Siri can keep a todo list alongside with the calendar? That would be great, actually. "Siri, what's the three most important things I need to do today?"

Also, something I really need assistance with is to be aware of the time it will take me to get to the appointments I have. I always leave my office just a few minutes before I need to be somewhere, no matter if it's within walking distance or fifteen minutes by car. I'm like an infant in this regard. "Siri, let me know when I need to leave for my two o'clock appointment" would be great if it worked.
If Entrepreneurs were SetCPU Governors(A fun post)
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Dennis Ritchie  Steve Jobs
Dennis Ritchie > Steve Jobs

nuff said
A bit surprising to me that a subcommittee of the House Financial Services Committee has approved this bill, but there's not much fuss over it that I can tell. Seems like it would make sense for entrepreneurs to leave comments on the site? Zero so far (are they screening them?), and the news has been up there almost a week.
Don't litter the frontpage posts on our heroes

Speak for yourself. Steve Jobs was not my hero. I respected him but did not like him one bit.
they are payed to work

FYI, the correct spelling in this context is "paid"; the spelling "payed" is only used in a couple very obscure cases which you'll probably never encounter.

(I'm only mentioning it because I'm pretty sure you're not a native English speaker, and I figured you might like to know.)
For functions declarations, K&R style says braces open on new lines.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indent_style
[Glad others have pointed out this acquisition is probably false rumor.]

Maybe if you're a startup being acquired by bigco, it is a feather in your hat. A bigco being acquired by another bigco is a failure for acquiree and not something to crown yourself about.
When I was in high school, I took a summer job setting up large canopy tents. One of our regular customers was Galvin (or his various philanthropic organizations, etc). I only met him once, but I was a young nerd, a bit starstruck, but he had some words of encouragement when he found out I was saving up for an engineering degree. He was pretty respectful of our set-up crew, asking our opinions about how to place stuff rather than just ordering us around, and offered us sodas and sandwiches. In contrast, most customers just ordered us around and were sort of rude to us. Maybe I was just at a particularly impressionable point in life, but I took a lesson from that -- I mean a guy like that probably had better things to be doing than chatting up some guys hammering stakes into the ground -- I decided that no matter how successful, I should probably be having real interaction with people doing the actual work, even if it doesn't have an impact on the end result. Applying this to my life I certainly have gotten unexpected and pleasant results in a variety of situations.

RIP Mr. Galvin - thanks.
Unfortunately while the language matters, the ecosystem matters even more.

It isn't enough that Java is fast -- if all the libraries you're using are slow. And if the libraries you're using are slow, maybe you're measuring the wrong thing ;)

My biggest gripe with Java is that it is basically useless for anything other than big-scale web applications. And for those kinds of apps, many companies still go for C++.

I mean really, for scripting the startup time makes you want to puke. For desktop apps, I've never seen a Java application that I liked because the GUI toolkits available are brain-dead, and because Java apps have this nasty habit of freezing the interface in response to user events. Also, all Java apps are freakishly huge in regards to memory usage. I've seen Python apps that are tolerable, but nerver Java. Eclipse, the golden example, makes me want to hurt myself.

For small web apps you can get decent performance out of Python/Ruby/PHP on a 512MB VPS -- 200 reqs/sec at least is really not a problem. If you need more than that, it means you're successful, so why not throw money at it?

What else? Android is using its own VM that's not-Java. This means you cannot use libraries that do bytecode manipulation, and is essentially what http://www.ikvm.net/ is doing on top of .NET or Mono.

So in what cases does Java really bring value?

Don't get me wrong; I would love to see Mono being popular for web apps for instance -- it's a kick-ass open-source VM, with performance mostly on par with Java, but using less resources and being a better citizen on Unix (kind of ironic if you think about the roots of Java).
Every great and every great person has had moments where there seemed to be no looking up. But, have faith and keep your head up bc time heals all things. I routing for you!!
As far as I can see is this more or less what Memonic, a swiss startup, already does:
http://www.memonic.com/
recursion overload!

That reinforces the goal of porting NumPy (and PyPy's trackrecord at achieving such ports). That is all the people not using pypy cause it lacks numpy will, after this port, have the option to.
Qnet: Genuine money making oppurtunity 
In today’s time everybody wants a little extra money so they can live a life and maintain a lavish lifestyle. Most of the people are unclear of where to invest money in order to get the desired results.
Another nitpick:

> Creating processes by duplicating existing processes.

Most systems have moved away from that toward posix_spawn.

Still!
Sounds like Apple has validated your idea for you - it's a good one, change the name, release the app. People like choice anyway and if you capture a piece of the pie from good keywords and app description, you might be able to ride on a demand that Apple will create for you through their marketing.
Microsoft Announces Big Data Roadmap, Adopts Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure
Your title is a tiny bit misleading.

Google provides up-to-date repositories for a variety of Linux distributions if you are using Google Chrome: http://www.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel#TOC-Lin...

Your issue, however, is with the open source Chromium package provided by Ubuntu. This package is in the "universe" repository, which is "not officially supported".
Anandtech did a decent piece on this last month [1].

To paraphrase their description: every other year Intel keep their manufacturing process the same, but release a new microprocessor architecture (Sandybridge was one of those years), but in the other years they introduce a new manufacturing process (e.g. the new tri-gate 22nm transistors which will be found in the Ivy Bridge).

[1] http://www.anandtech.com/show/4830/intels-ivy-bridge-archite...
Ritchie, Stroustrup, and Gosling interview
You are being over pedantic. This isn't a debate, which btw. Debates aren't about arriving at the truth, they are about winning arguments by whatever means necessary.

Much like business.

Do you read this? http://reason.com/
> C is far more important than anything SJ ever did

That's like saying the paintbrush is far more important than the paintings of Michelangelo or da Vinci.
I use Debian and I welcome that.

the slower I get those fixes means the longer they were reviewed by the fine package maintainers. Not to mention that when a privacy invading feature is included, the fine maintainers set it to sane defaults, not big brother defaults like the google-chrome.

I'm using debian stable on the computer with my personal data for a reason.

...It always scare me that people have google and gasp skype repositories on their boxes.
Almost as though the journalist has some sort of bone to pick? Perhaps.
There is Zwapp, the community, and there is Zwapp Connect, our service that helps developers reach the users that are actually interested in their app. We use our recommendation engine to match between user needs and app to drive downloads. We've tried several app download services and found the quality of the downloads very poor. By using a lot of social/app and meta data that we have build up we can target much better and help devs to drive downloads to people that are more likely to use your app. (sorry about the pitch).
It is actually a tough problem to crack that involves reach, matching tons of data, providing the right call to actions and then measure the success and improve the process again.
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Actually, my copy of the second edition K&R seems to have the opening brackets on new lines when it comes to function declarations, so:

main ()
{

but: while (){
and: if(){

I don't have a copy of the first edition at hand but I seem to remember that it uses this same style.

//msl
Here are quotes that I refer to when I'm feeling down

"There will always be obstacles in life but, they are only stepping stones to a great future" -me

" The Man who thinks He can!
If you think you are beaten, you are: If you think you dare not, you don't! If you'd like to win, but think you can't, It's almost a cinch that you won't.
If you think you'll lose, you're lost. For out in the world we find. Success begins with a fellow's will; It's all in the state of mind!
If you think you're outclassed you are; you've got to think high to rise. You've got to be sure of yourself before you can win the prize.
Life battles don't go always go
to the strongest or fastest man;
But sooner or later the man who wins Is the man who thinks he can!
-a poem by Wlater D. Wintle taken from "Launching a Leadership Revolution"

"If you wait for all the lights to turn green before you set off on a cross-country trip, you'll never leave."

"If we feel afraid, it isn't what we don't know that frightens us, it's what we think we do know. The problem is.... our ideas about what we don't know."
-Allen G. Johnson

"Our purpose in life is to find purpose in life"

"Every man should be embarrassed to die until he accomplishes something great in this world" -Douglas MacArthur

"Whether u think u can or u think u can't u r right" - Henry Ford

"Seek... the counsel of those who have achieved the goal for which you strive: for in all matters, the words of the one who has prospered are far better then the words of one who has not." -Author Stevenson Willis

"Study while others are sleeping: work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing." -Willam A. Ward

"A leader is driven to change the status quo...." -Chris Brady

"Nearly all men can handle adversity but if you really want to test a man's character- give him power" -Abraham Lincoln

"To become a leader worth following you must give time and attention to the inner man. To leave a legacy that goes beyond accomplishment alone, a leader must devote himself to matters of he heart." Andy Stanley

"What counts is not the number of hours you put in, but how much you put in the hours." -"Anonymous

"We don't control where we start our journeys, but we do control what we do once we've started"

"Success is always located on the other side of inconvenience"

"Remember, no one one ever does anything worthwhile for which they are not criticized."

"Great leaders learn to find defeat in every victory, and victory in every defeat." (There's always room for improvement, always!)
"... the study found that the number of new employer businesses has fallen 27 percent since 2006. ..."

that's the bit I couldn't explain with technology. why the sudden drop over such a short time. has technology really improved productivity in just 5 years?
I admit that after the paparazzi photo of him was released, I loaded up HN every morning expecting to see the announcement of his passing away at the top.

But, I was also hoping that it wouldn't happen. I think part of me thought of him as so fundamentally stubborn that if anyone could cheat death, he could. I liked to imagine Death showing up at Jobs' side, and Jobs fixing Death with his patented steely glare, and saying, "No, wait, there's one more thing..."

I was saddened by the news of his death in a way that I haven't been in a long time. He was a human being, with all the requisite faults and foibles -- and some people are trying to ignore those now, and others are trying to hilite them -- but he aspired to greatness, and he accomplished it in a way that so few people do. In a sometimes dispassionate world, he seemed to be a passionate exception.
Steve Yegg doesn't use Twitter either.

If he was someone who was active on Twitter then yes, you'd have point. Otherwise...
Ask HN Surely all the good niches aren't taken?
I'm trying to think of an niche/idea. I want to build a lifestyle business, and I'm really struggling to come up with a niche that doesn't already have someone playing it from every angle.

I've read PG's ideas [1] and Start Small, Stay Small [2] and I laughed my way through patio11's 'Hello Ladies' [3] ... BUT I'm still really struggling to find a niche that looks a) worthwhile b) addressable and c) not already saturated.

Any thoughts appreciated.

[1] http://paulgraham.com/ideas.html

[2] http://www.startupbook.net/

[3] http://akshat.posterous.com/patio11-says-hello-ladies
Here's a list of bills that got through the subcommittee: seems to include expanding the 500 shareholder limit; getting rid of the general solicitation prohibition when investors are accredited; and more (in addition to the crowdfunding bill).
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Rockstar.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3105029
I never noticed this! But now, I do:

http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/Review%20images/TechRadar...

on both sides too!
Akamai's footprint exceeds 100k servers worldwide now, and that's just what they publicly disclose. It is likely more if you count in their DoD contracts. They're probably on par with Google now.
You obviously weren't around when the Bile Blog was active. Eg: http://www.bileblog.org/2006/12/open-sores-scams/
Our heroes =
Your hero (Richie) +
my heroes (Richie, Steven)
I've used Besperk back in their early beta stage and was impressed with the design and thought they'd be something like Disqus someday. But then, what Besperk focuses on is a discussion on a nice looking website. I have facebook, google+ and convore(for private discussions) to do that already. So, why use this when all the folks are out there on other networks? Again, coming back to the point. Besperk looks neat. Say if @KindSidharth sells Besperk to a company and think they've done a good job, the product is gonna go nowhere as many companies look for features that simplifies stuff and empowers them at the same time. Say this is a product X that they would be using. When someone showcases product Y to the company, there is a high probability that the company 'will' go for Y. Cuz its better. I would suggest Open Sourcing the product as "Evolution of Design happens only when its copied" as quoted by @KingSidharth himself to me once. There is a high chance that 'I' could use some of the design elements of Besperk on the next product we're building cuz it looks nice and I can showcase it to a broader audience. Looking at me, there could be several others who could use the code that is Open Sourced and there you go. Good looking forms and websites! That's my view.
I'm really sad...
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If the deal goes through, it may require Facebook to take a different approach with their CDN strategy. They will probably either begin to roll their own (given their size and budgets), or move to a blended environment where they utilize multiple CDNs based on region and traffic levels.

For example, Apple historically has used Akamai for their content delivery, but as of around ~2009, they began to use Limelight in conjunction with Akamai. Just today with the iOS 5/OS X updates, I noticed at home in Los Angeles that the delivery from Limelight was terrible. I tried it again about an hour after release, and I was then being sent to Level3.

Suffice to say, Apple is now using three CDNs.
Having read K & R long time ago, and enjoyed the concise book, it is a sad day. All C programs in the world must be returning success today.
The conciseness of this book is what I enjoyed the most, just think it could have been 1000 pages, even more...
RIP: dmr's HN account
Is it dmr's HN account? According to Richard Heathfield, he once said "Usenet is a strange place."

What was his remark on HN?
good summary, we owe gratitude too him for so many things...
Digital Sound (fun code in C; RIP dmr)
Congrats, Gary!
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Cool, there are also some iOS apps explicitly for "app discovery," but I still think it's impossible to break out. I read somewhere that 4% of app downloads account for about 3/4 of all app revenues.
Me also. Very sad news.
I don't think power is it. Your saying the K7 generates more heat per computation (more inefficient use of transistors) than the newer cores? I was about to conflate power usage with computational work, not necessarily the same thing... The power will drop using the new process because the voltage is much much lower (1v vs 2v)

I remember the K7 doing just over 1 GOP (giga operation per second), so that would put the whole cluster in 50 GOP range (if clocked at only 1Ghz like the Thunderbird).

I wasn't being directly literal, I will allow these mythical engineers that work for me using all the 2 billion transistors to refine things from previous designs.
Good luck, would love to know what you end up doing.
Here's everything: http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/1stEdman.html
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Banned users are not informed of the ban. New comments are quietly autokilled. This particular user, iirc, was a frequent poster who was notable for their additions. Which I'm guessing is why they've been told.

Viewing comments with showdead on is good but it makes viewing the new page difficult when half the page is auto-banned links.
The programmers like D Rithchie and his generation are like the philosophers of ancient greece, they are profound, mystical, and have a large effect on our present.
Ask HN: Compensation for joining 2 month old startup
Hi Hacker News readers, I'm looking at joining a 2 month old startup. They have showed me a detailed website mockup and initial functionality of the site. The plan is to have the site go live in 6 months or so after working on it on nights and weekends. I'm more interested in equity upfront and little pay in order to be in more of a cofounder role. What would you suggest I take? There are two dedicated founders, one part-time tech lead, and one part-time developer. So that's 4 people total who are working on this product already, but only 2 or maybe 3 are really committed long term. Also, one founder is in college (as am I), while everyone else is working full-time. I'd hate to make a really bad decision so early on. Any suggestions?
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I would almost say there is not one piece of modern computing today that is not touched by something Dennis Ritchie did.
Here's some slightly crap code derived from all that. It just generates one second of a 2600hz tone: http://pastebin.com/e63AMaEC
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It's already done: https://code.djangoproject.com/changeset/16964
I'd love to see the list of ideas they get.
Meaning his comments don't show up to anyone except for himself. A way to ban someone without him noticing it, so he doesn't create a new account.
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Some small business seo companies have had to alter their image in these times, moving away from representations of extravagance, power and greed.
pg is right. If anything, companies that attack really
difficult problems and aim to address them will emerge. In short, we can expect to see some unbelievable startups in the near horizon doing stuff that will be uncomfortable for many established players. They will focus on getting to profit way more than focusing on investors, WSJ, Techcrunch etc.

This is the time for giant killers.

" It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only."

- Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
I've worked with a number of tech/advertising corporations. The parent poster is right. The real product is eyeballs, and the customer is another corporation called the advertiser.

For example, The New York Times offers some value to the owners of those eyeballs, but note how they work: they lay out the advertising first, then what's left is what they call the "news hole" and they put some stuff there. The news hole lets them farm the eyeballs. (The ripe juicy professional-managerial variety.)

This is not something programmers like to think about, so they tend to wear ideological blinders. They don't simply observe the money flow: who is buying and who is selling? The eyeball owners are not participating in a market transaction as either buyer or seller. Their attention is the product.
I give Amazon money for AWS and no customer support in sight.
Zwapp is one of those app discovery apps. And it is a platform for developers wanting to promote their apps to passionate app users. See : http://itunes.apple.com/app/id426360184?mt=8&ls=1
In the "Why professionals should use..." section, the names (i.e — A.G. Blankenship, Artist) should link to the relevant galleries.

Also, you might want to work on better layout for http://faso.com/artist-websites/ and showcasing galleries to drive traffic to your clients (perhaps directly to their art).

It would be great if you could create a feed that presents a random set of images for those people who want beautiful backgrounds for their desktops. An app that presents random art and takes you to the page to buy it with one click would be nice.

Well done so far. Looks like you have a nice mature product. Keep taking it easy - much better to take your time and make the right feature than to hurry and make several poor ones.
I'm not tired of Steve Jobs, but the idealized adulation is not only off-putting, but also opposite of what Jobs valued.