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Stop right there. There is no slavery here. Nobody is forcing anyone to use a proprietary service or software product over a free alternative. Users now have more of a choice with FOSS alternatives than ever before.

This is a(and I really hate this term) first world problem of the greatest order. "I can't use Facebook because it's proprietary and they're evil." So what? Just don't use Facebook.

At this point(and RMS and the FSF have been a major contributors to this, for which they should be thanked), users have a choice in the software that they use. They have the freedom to choose what they want, whether it's proprietary software, OSS, or FOSS.

Slavery doesn't come into this. You believe that a product or service doesn't respect your freedom? Don't use it, or use an alternative that gives you what you want. That is the choice that Stallman has helped bring about.
Depends on the desired outcome.

For self destruct systems you probably want all three to agree before going bang - while for an emergency escape system you probably want any one of three to be sufficent to deplay.
It's true, and there's always a lot of outrage over the matter on the net.

Here's a funny post about that stuff. :) http://www.ministryoftofu.com/2011/09/daughter-of-chinese-of...
It's more consistent (no wondering what's a method and what's not for most common situations) and it stops the global namespace getting littered up with functions that are only relevant to certain types.

To a Rubyist, knowing that Ruby is an object oriented language, it is clear one is sending a message to i. With the latter example, it is not clear what even? belongs to and what it expects to receive.
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I think that VCs seem to look heavily for patterns. Partially because they can't take the time to evaluate too much of the deal (it's already possibly a product or business model that's never existed before) so they tend to read unusual, out-of-pattern stuff as higher, non-understandable risk.

Often "that's the way it's always been done" ends up like that because someone, somewhere got burned. Not an excuse but often the reason.
The IRCTC website was frequently cited as an example of "what not to do" during the training phase in my company.

Cleartrip on the other hand is a shining example of stuff done right. It's one of the friendliest websites I have ever used. Don't have an account? No problem. You can still go ahead and book a ticket, Cleartrip will drop a gentle reminder to set your password to create an account, after you have booked your ticket.
Forgot your password? Again, no problem. Cleartrip will allow you to go ahead with the booking, and send the link to reset your password to your email.
Just to remind some people:

- Damien Katz (creator of CouchDB) was also rejected[1]. He went on and got $2 million from Redpoint Ventures [2]

- On this video[3], Jessica Livingston interviews Drew. It shows that he was also rejected the first time he tried out YC.

- The oscar of rejected but finally accepted: I got into YC after applying six times [4]

- Peteris Krumins also got rejected with his browserling idea, got rejected[5], and went on to raise his own seed funding[6].

[1] http://damienkatz.net/2006/11/how_not_to_pitc.html

[2] http://damienkatz.net/2009/12/relaxed_inc.html

[3] http://ycombinator.posterous.com/dropbox-interview-now-onlin...

[4] http://iamwil.posterous.com/i-got-into-yc-after-applying-six...

[5] http://www.catonmat.net/blog/launching-browserling/

[6] http://www.catonmat.net/blog/how-i-raised-money-for-browserl...
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What is the probability, over the next 10 years. It might be worth it for server farms, even if the probability of a nuclear EMP is only 1%.
Thanks for archiving this and how prescient this was about color.com: "Nothing could be less cool, at this point, than calling a startup “cool.com.”
Thanks for reminding me why I like Haskell so much.
All they changed is the tone of the language, and nothing else.
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> One founder wanted to negotiate out of having to pay $10K in lawyer fees.

Are these fees for the VC's due diligence investigation, or are they for putting together good paperwork for the company? For the former, the company has just bartered legal services and needs to issue an IRS form 1099 to the VC who has to pay taxes, and may be committing securities fraud by colluding to book the fees as basis cost rather than operating expense.

Anybody know?
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You filed a late application. We don't read those till later.
The biggest one for me is that contact photos resize down to tiny thumbnails after any sync with Google Contacts. There've been a thousand complaints in Google forums for the last two years and it's still unfixed.

Google Contacts also uses a different set of field names, and will frequently sync "main" to "other", for instance. Or just mess up field formatting, or break gtalk ids...
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I'm contemptuous of his coding practice, not his writing or grammar. His writing is pleasant to read... but so what? where are the multiple layers of defense standing between a simple syntactical or semantic error and a full scale business-impacting technical fuck up. that is what I meant by being vigilant and paranoid.
The applications were about the same in terms of details and content required. I work solo so that could of had an effect on my YC "denial".
Problem: Can no longer access old "notes" or "shared items"

Solution: Turn them into "starred items"

Details: You can only access notes or shared items from certain mobile or desktop clients. I don't know exactly which ones but the one I used was MobileRSS (iOS). Go into the "notes" folder and manually star every item (you don't need to star "shared" items because all of them are notes, but not all notes are shared items). If you want them in chronological order, you'll need to start with the oldest first, the second oldest second, etc. It took me less than 10 minutes to star my 131 items.

If you don't do this, you can't view or search for anything in "notes" or "shared items." However, you CAN view and CAN search them so long as they are starred items.

So far as I know, there is no longer a way to get content into Google Reader via the "Note in Reader" bookmarklet. It is no longer supported. This means that any site without an RSS feed cannot have any pages brought into Google Reader, so far as I can tell.

I wonder if there is a service that turns a site into an RSS feed on the fly? Then you'd be able to subscribe temporarily and star the item. Probably not convenient enough to use as a read it later (or archive in Google Reader) service, as I've been doing for the past couple years.

I've found that the easiest way to search for archive-worth web pages I've read years ago is to search my stash in Google Reader. Using a search engine doesn't always find old stuff which may be buried in search results or no longer on the web.
The whole point of having such a weird system is to make it "difficult" for you to book a ticket. Think about the "common man" standing in a queue for 4-8 hrs trying to book that ticket when you could ideally book using your coolest newest gadget in seconds. Now that would cause a riot at the railway station booth. In Indian you never have enough resources available for the 1.3 billion people. So everything is rationed, including the online train tickets. It's like the IIT's or IIM's conducting the world's toughest entrance examinations only to select a statistically insignificant 1% of the applicants. Great Indian politics demands badly run government services. Private services are still banned in a number of areas including private universities, public transportation, power, Aeronautics ....
I think saying 'Maybe I'll...' is a perfectly good way to poll if there's enough interest to make the effort worthwhile.

Getting upvotes and supportive comments like "Please do, I'd like to see that" would make the follow-through posting more likely. Critical complaints like yours make the follow-through posting less likely.
good and non-obvious (at the time) advice, at the end: "Whatever name you choose, be careful. Names stick."
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one of couch's strong points is that it is great at giving away your data. most startup bros find that antithetical to their business model
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Email is indeed one of those dead things that just keeps on going because the network effect driving it is so strong.

Most improvements to email have taken place in walled gardens like Facebook and enterprise products like Exchange and do not benefit everybody.

Google Wave incorporated some of these ideas and even combined mail and IM into one communication medium, but alas it never took off.

A viable replacement needs to:

1. be an open protocol
2. do everything email can do and more
3. be open to future enhancements
4. play nice with the current email infrastructure
5. be easy to setup/install/administer

It's more of a marketing problem than a technical problem. We already know how to help people communicate. We need to create something worth adopting over email.
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It's the same experience most of the indian railway travelers have faced (including me) and so i have put my 2 cent by creating this website which helps travelers to track their ticket status on mobile/email.
site: http://www.railpnrstatus.com

I think as a HN reader you should also think in those line and give ur 2 cents by improving the system.
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You can jump into the thread (or read back up the list for context) on ES-Discuss, if you're in the mood: https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2011-October/t...
To think about how much time I use to spend on slashdot to go to seeing one of my developers reading it the other month and actually saying "You're who keeps slashdot around?!". It's a weird feeling.
But the dumb government has stopped them from providing full fledged service. These other sites cannot book "tatkal tickets" from 8:00 - 9:00 AM, after which there would be no useful tickets anyway. The least Indian Railways can do is to fully deregulate. So, right now IRCTC is monopoly and that explains why it is like it is.
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Google gave out notifications about the changes in Reader (including taking away social functions).

You can still download everything you had before and it wouldn't be much work to put all those followers/followees(?) into a circle and share with just them. Although I do agree that should have been done automatically.
Does that actually run? I don't have an interpreter handy, but the += operator should refer to `smu` before assigning to it, resulting in a NameError.
I agree. I was trying to offer a data point to lambda's question about how someone might "stand against" Stallman. I suppose I went off on a tangent. I agree with the gist behind the article that we should not attack Stallman based on the fact that he is not typical.
Awesome, really the only thing that I missed on my Android phone. Now just need a native gmaps app with navigation.
We were down on music startups the first time after seeing so many get hosed by record labels. But you guys proved there's a great business model there.
This was a problem of laziness more than anything else. To the beginner developers out there: Learn to write good code and to pay attention to the details. Don't become just another co-founder trying to do the bare minimum just to make a buck. Take pride in your work and use best practices. Be careful to avoid the careless mistakes made by the author...

1. Did a major last minute code change
2. Did not run jslint
3. Did not use strict mode
4. Did not run load tests
5. Did not use an editor that catches scoping problems
also

* you could view the shared items and their comments in the same interface.
Plenty of real science happens in SciPy. http://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=2086009121748039507&... is the list of papers on Google Scholar that cite the SciPy website. Biology, machine learning, physics, and more.
Why is an extra app necessary? Is this only about bringing a different UI to the table compared to the default Mail app? What am I missing?
One of CouchDB's standout features is that it handles synchronization of data across devices (not that it doesn't potentially do other things well, but I think the conventional wisdom for a while was: "If you want to do synchronization use CouchDB.")

That's nice, but I think that synchronization in general is less of a need as we've all become more and more connected and internet access has gotten more and more ubiquitous.

The core CouchDB devs are ex Lotus Notes guys and I get the sense that with Couch they are trying to "do Lotus Notes right" not thinking that the environment has really changed and synch is not the killer feature it once was.
Matlab and Fortran are influences for Scipy; in fact, there is Fortran code inside Scipy.

I'd love to hear more details about the deficiencies, or how it might be more influenced by those.

I agree that the ideas of statistical processing in R are absent from Numpy, but Pandas is attempting to remedy that.
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Color's name wasn't the problem.
This is a real issue.

And, it seems even the most capacious Mac (that's not a Mac Pro) only supports 16GB of RAM. That's not as much as I'd like, although with an SSD for swap, maybe it's not as painful.
I dislike it too. I signed up with serverdensity to try it out, and after 4 separate email exchanges with support -- each one asking for my account to be delete...it still hasn't happened. I keep getting brush off replies like 'have you tried X?' and 'Are you sure?'.

The service itself wasn't bad (I had some feedback that was likewise ignored/brush off), but I would never recommend them to anyone for this reason alone.
Go to one of the http://www.couchbase.com/couchconf-world-tour CouchConf days and ask your question again. The San Francisco edition was exciting; anyone know how New York turned out?
I may be biased here, but I don't understand the animosity toward exact-match domain names. The claim is made that such a name is uncool, but an explanation, for why this is so, is not self-evident.
It always creates a local var. You can only assign to globals indirectly, through properties of the global object e.g. window.foo = 123.
It all depends on your budget and what kind of lifestyle you want, but if I had a choice I'd live in the Mission or Mission Dolores. The Mission to me feels like the most vibrant area of the city. There are a lot of the best restaurants and coffee shops around there as well. Since BART is right there, you can easily get to SoMa or downtown really easily. My second choice would probably be SoMa - a lot of tech companies there and some stuff open during the day, but at night it feels pretty dead.
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I have two responses, one speaking to the social logic of the situation (which I think is essential to what's going on) and one speaking to his merits as a human being (which I think are a red herring.) I don't know how to relate them to each other, so I'll just lay them each out.

First, the social logic. No amount of achievement makes you less of a dork. Bill Gates is an incredibly rich dork, but he's still a dork. Most of the country can revel in their superior social appeal, their superior ability to add life to a party and make every kind of social situation more easy and enjoyable than Bill Gates would. Oprah is rich and accomplished, but every skinny woman in America can read about Oprah's weight problems and think, "I may have my own problems, but at least I'm not Oprah." These things aren't amenable to reason. They go right back to childhood pecking orders and insecurities. It's just raw, ugly aggression, plain and simple.

Second, though I think it's irrelevant to this childish mockery, the merits of the man. To make a case for Richard Stallman is to accept that his dorkiness is something that needs to be apologized and compensated for. Is it? By most accounts, he has worked hard to be a good ambassador for his ideas and has only tried to retain the aspie qualities that he felt were helpful for his life and his goals. Like any other person with a weakness, he can only be blamed to the extent that he indulges his weakness in a lax or perverse way. I've read enough about RMS to guess that he gets his fair share of legitimate criticism in that vein, but (as you would guess) the stuff that is noised about in public is always just mean and nasty, meant to ridicule and discredit him, not to push him to be better. Legitimate criticism deserves a legitimate answer. Bullying only deserves disdain. Bullying depends on the perception that it elevates the bully over the target, and we should make it clear that we don't see it that way, that it degrades the bullies and doesn't have the slightest pertinence to Richard Stallman himself.
I must admit, "visualizing how a population grows" gave me another mental image.
I have to amend my previous statement, these guys are right. I created this Python script here https://gist.github.com/1329943 and ran it. If global context were not shared, then each request would receive a new random number, but they don't. Each request gets the same number.

Even without doing this experiment, the result is obvious. There would have to be some meta process to start new interpreter processes here in order to prevent the same environment from being reused. Since that is not the case, because you have to invoke the python interpreter manually here, you cannot get multiple distinct results.

(Theoretically, in this code, you could get two different responses if they both entered the `if ... is None` clause in send_head() before one of the requests could cause the global variable to be set.)
I can't give you an exact example for recruiting, but it seems like a very similar process in picking stocks. If you can imagine why lessons there might be applicable, you could look up the criticisms about mutual funds/"actively managed" funds vs. broad indices.
I completely agree. I like how most responses to your rant hone in on the fact that it's a simple syntactic change, but utterly fail to get the point that composition of stateless functions a la Joy is totally magical, and opens up a whole world of possibilities that mutating, unchainable, uncomposable methods cannot.

For starters, and given that this is a thread about scientific computing, having stateless functions that mirror mathematical ones gives you robust, efficient approaches for parallelism and optimization that are completely lost (or horribly intractable) once you start boxing numeric types just so some OOPhead can put a dot after them.
I don't think either of those two blog posts support your point that randomly picking candidates is as good as actively trying to select for good ones. If none of the candidates applying to YC were good enough to pass some minimal threshold, pg and co. just wouldn't take anyone, unlike the horrible companies in your links who will always take what they think is the top 1%.

I think your last sentence doesn't make sense either. Since when did technical competence not count for anything? Both competence and teamwork are necessary, but neither alone is sufficient.

Point is, randomly picking candidates is a crap idea.
depends a lot on if you count capital gains. My understanding is that if you include those, (which really, you'd have to; most really wealthy people earn most of their money through capital gains rather than salary) you have to be well north of a million a year to be in the top 1%.
(Apologies for going off on a tangent)

Personally I don't like domain names like cool.com or color.com because they are impossible to google. Apple is probably the exception that proves this rule.
To quote Paul Graham from the article: "A company with a name like that could not have arisen organically. 'Cool.com' smells of a media conglomerate trying to create a web spinoff."

In other words, it indicates you have more money than brains.
Are Github's comment contrast or color adjustable? They are almost completely unreadable for me.
I'm a physicist by trade and every colleague I've introduced to SciPy vastly prefers it to Fortran, R, and Matlab.

What do you find missing in SciPy?
Yes, you are suggesting exactly that. You don't want anyone to cover NewMe because there are bigger, similar organizations around such as Startup School and Y-Combinator.

CNN's reason for covering NewMe is obviously because NewMe is focused on minority-led businesses and CNN wanted to do a piece on minority-led businesses. It would be irrational for CNN to do a piece on minority-led businesses and either exclude NewMe and/or focus on Y-Combinator.

You've failed to demonstrate in any way how CNN creating a piece on minority-led businesses is inherently bad. You've certainly failed to demonstrate that CNN did that for the "whole purpose" (your words) of playing the race card.

Discussing race is not playing the race card, sorry.
I just happened to download the Google+ native app today for the first time. It is terrible.

Hopefully the gmail app will not follow suit.
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As someone who used Android (with GMail) for a few years and recently switched to iPhone, it's painful to lose archiving, labels, starring, priority inbox, complete thread history and a good search. Additionally, the UI for threading GMail has is much better than the native app.
It may be superficial, but I wonder how much naming and marketing could be a factor. The name sounds a little bland if you don't know what it is. I wasn't that interested to learn more about it until I went to a meetup where a guy explained it in much clearer language and gave some examples as to where it could be useful.
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a bit of self-ego inflating (feel free to bust me down a notch though), but between the C and D points in the MongoDB line, which was quite a spike, The Little MongoDB Book and the mongly.com tutorials went live :)
You're right. It should be
smu = sum + v
who receive the email? all the co-founders or just the one who applied with his account?
You mean your career as a student? Have you taken any CS courses? (It's okay if you haven't, it's just an easy way for me to know what you know.) What kind of programming and design do you do at your job?
I still don't understand how you can "stand against" Stallman, as opposed to particular views of his. He has lots of opinions. Some of them you may share. Some of them you may not.

Just deciding that you disagree with some views that someone has and thus you stand against them entirely is a bit extreme.
That is a fair point, but what about product domain names, e.g. shirts.com, beer.com, etc, for companies that sell those specific product types?
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