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It might sound obvious, but I would have written more code. In school you work on such small scale projects it doesn't give you a good sense of what happens in the real world. Work on a large scale open source project that you have a passion for. In addition, learn C. My CS degree was wholly based around java and I regret not forcing myself to learn pointers, memory management and functional programming.
This one? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3310873
So the gist is: Both experiments at LHC looking for the Higgs (CMS and ATLAS) see a bump at an energy of around 125GeV, but neither have enough data to conclusively proove or disproove the presence of the Higgs boson. More data in next years run will likely bring a definitive answer.
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Range.foreach optimization just landed in Scala trunk
Not quite: Steve Blank's class will be available to everyone online next year (http://www.launchpad-class.org/). Not sure how they will handle the logistics, though...
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Side question: have you been tempted to grow much bigger? If so, what was your rationale for sticking to it alone?
How easy/hard/logical would it be to implement this for a medium-size website with about 250k monthly visits?
Thank you for the positive thoughts. I'll have to check back here next time I have doubts! :)
How about opening shop in canada, a couple of hours flight away, almost the exact same everything.
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Not really. At this point unions don't have enough money or membership to do much more than try to maintain their own existence.
I think the last part is what really scares investors / incubators / etc. when it comes to single cofounders... "Fighting alone is not easy" but if you have the experience, vision, etc. it's still possible to pull off. At least that's what I tell myself.

It sounds like you moved from a tech co-founder to a biz / tech founder. Is this a fair summary? Would be curious to hear more!
> the performance of a historically technologically poor language like PHP

One of the biggest reasons PHP supplanted Perl as the de facto web programming language ~10 years ago was that Perl running through CGI was incredibly slower than PHP.
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Thanks for the link. That's a great article and something I'll keep in mind as I start working with more people.
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My understanding is that it's the solicitation that is prohibited. You can raise $1000 each from 50 people if you want, but the SEC won't let you "advertise" the offering on the internet. You also get into the whole accreditation mess, but that's sort of a different issue.
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Fair point. Moreover, collecting pennies over the internet is a known hard problem.
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I don't think it's logical. Stock PHP can easily handle a website with 250k monthly visits. Or, rather, your speedups will most likely come from talking to the database less, doing less IO, that sort of thing. CPU probably isn't your bottleneck now.
Why dont they talk more about SpaceX? I think they are the coolest
this is a bad idea on the level of the TSA idea
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The present rules came into force with the Securities Act of 1933, which was written during the great depression to protect people from the kind of predatory "investments" that caused a lot of people to lose their savings in the crash.

The last part of the bubble in late 20's was characterized with the lower middle class, which previously didn't have much investments, getting involved with the stock market. A lot of companies of all sizes advertised their stocks and "expected returns" in everything from radio to milk labels. Too many people bought into it at the worst possible time, on the top of the bubble.
Yep, exactly what I was saying: just write more code. Functional and C are excellent too.
I downvoted you because your 2nd sentence consists of 107 words.
Thanks I will try it.
About Scala maybe it will, just give the Typesafe guys some time( or help them) and hope for the best :D. I myself will not quit studying it because of this, I do it because I like it.
I've come to the realization that you're right, jen_h and mjs00. I'll likely be doing the cashless transaction (if offered). Basically, I didn't play this one as well as I could have and am trying to find a way to recoup now. I think it's a bit late and I should take whatever's on the table when the lockout ends (assuming there's something left)
No, it was one more specifically about the one startup's plan to anchor a big ship 12 miles out from SF and ferry in workers each day.

Although it was a different article in the first place, and so wouldn't count as a dupe, just same startup/plan. (I wish HN encouraged posting summaries and background links along with the story links like on slashdot and LessWrong.)
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Ask HN: Does anyone have experience with re-vesting of equity?
I've been asked recently by my company to sign a document that will effectively convert my vested equity to restricted stock with a new vesting schedule. Has anyone else ever been asked to perform such an act, and if so, what did you do about it? Also, does anyone know what kind of tax implications that might occur with this event?

A bit of background... I co-founded the company 5 years ago with three other co-founders. My initial terms of employment enforced a 48-month vesting schedule for my equity, and I executed an 83(b) and paid the applicable taxes.

The company has slowly grown organically over the previous five years with minimal investment from family, but we recently received an investment opportunity that the business leaders do not want to pass up. One of the terms of this investment, however, is that all employees currently convert their vested equity to restricted stock to be placed on a new 48-month vesting schedule.

The most valid reasoning I've heard for this thus far is that in the event of an acquisition, the acquiring company already has a built-in clause to give the acquired employees incentive to stay, as there is no acceleration clause on an acquisition event. My personal feelings, of course, is that this kind of a thing pushes people away more than keeps them around, but anyway...
If I were you I would skip paypal all together and use someone else. Paypal's IPN (a sort of API that you can use with free business accounts) is beyond terrible, and their real API is only available with paid accounts. If you live in the USA there's no excuse for using Paypal. If you live outside of the USA, you just have to look harder for alternatives (I found fastspring, for Canada).

To answer your question - if you're using the real API (not IPN) then you can handle the full transaction on your site, without ever sending the user to paypal. I think you get this with paypal 'website payments pro'.
Thanks for the explanation, but where is the rule in English that states that a sentence cannot have 107 words ? I see posts with far more than that everyday here.
I don't think anyone outside of the app-development ecosphere seriously thinks that the Web is dead. It's a pretty absurd thing to say.
But if there was hypothetically a law that was good for wikipedia and bad for the people in general, then should they just keep quiet? I'll protest because it impacts me isn't such a viable strategy. You either protest everything that is "wrong" from some view point or you protest nothing. And this is where we get on the slippery slope.
you do realize that post is a joke right?
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Truly awesome, but could need some interface improvements.
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Hats off.

I have no love for Facebook's product or business model, but their engineering is diesel, and it's very cool that they're sharing such a deep piece of work.
I'm referring to the quality of the implementation, its performance profile, the soundness of the type system and syntax, and -- like the original post -- measuring relative to the state of the art in JITs, including the JVM.
Ah, here are a few HN mentions of the same plan, although (still!) not the recent one I was thinking of:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2830122
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3223706

Again, it doesn't help that each story's title manages to avoid the terms "immigration, ship, hack, anchor, foreigner, visa", and, as mentioned before, HN doesn't encourage summaries. puts on flamesuit
I think a tempered approach with all the sites blacking out their logos in protest to SOPA and redirecting to a page that details why SOPA is wrong in an accessible way is the way to go.
True, those are also good examples, though with the non-Haskell examples it's a bit closer to the Eiffel model, where a company develops a high-quality proprietary compiler/environment to sell.
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Has anyone figured out how to stop the font from resetting? I know he said it was in tm_properties, but I'm not sure how to set this.
House panel to move forward on Stop Online Piracy Act
Time to fight censorship.
... like, say, any synthesizer?

For free, I suggest:
Synth1 - www.kvraudio.com/get/214.html

You'll need a VST host, for which I suggest www.reaper.fm
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They can't be capturing photons in motion, or capturing anything "moving at the speed of light." That doesn't make any sense. According to relativity, photons don't actually "move" at all. (As I understand it.)
It's every federal employee's role, including the TSA and Congress, by the oath they take to protect and defend the constitution. The military, as well as some state employees, all take similar oaths. It's job number one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oath_of_office#United_States
That's an amazing story, thank you for sharing it.

It reminds me of a different, fictional, but also interesting story:

http://nasredin.blogspot.com/2008/01/random-acts-of-kindness...

The sand of the Black Sea coast was covered with myriads of starfish washed ashore by the storm, doomed to be soon dried out by the sun. Nasreddin picked them up patiently and threw them back, one by one, undisturbed by the hopeless immensity of the task.

A passer-by wondered and asked him,

“Why are you wasting your time? It’s all Allah’s will. Don’t you see that all you can do doesn’t count at all?”

“It counts for me, and it counts for this one,” answered Hodja, tossing yet another starfish into the tide.
Id rather see a currency that cant be stolen by governments who print the currency like mad causing hyperinflation. A hyperinflation protected currency where it takes millions of computer-years of time to print more cash.
Scams are going to happen.

The accredited investor rules have been around long before the internet and all of the tools we can now use to follow up on start up companies and the people behind them.

I am certain that if this bill passes, there will be plenty of services offered to dig up this kind of information and make this kind of due diligence easier and more complete.

Sure, grandma and grandpa might be targeted by scammers (not that there is any shortage of Utah based pyramid schemes and other n'er do wells out there doing just that) but there should be /severe/ penalties attached to discourage bad actors.

I don't think we should be protecting people from themselves as much as we do as a society, and I really think this is going to be a net positive when all of the wrinkles are ironed out.
Fair enough answer. Thanks! I'll report back when we hit 800m. ^^
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Good call on no copy and paste. I'm in constant learning mode and the difference between copying and pasting code, and typing in code, even if it's code that someone else has written, is huge. Same goes for reading a programming book vs reading and doing all the examples. Sometimes I think that when you program you're thinking with your fingers or your fingers are an extension of your brain. Exercise them!

Also, thanks for the link to google code university - it's new to me.
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Inevitably there would be some kind of misbehavior by either the employers or employees, and I'm curious how legal conflicts would be handled. What would the jurisdiction be if, for example, if a worker needed to take a company to court for not paying them?
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My apologies. I forgot to include that I was viewing this from my iPad. You can see how this is kind of annoying, right?
More details: That's about one hit every ten seconds. While I know that you'll get bursts, you still shouldn't be exceeding 10 hits per second very often. Any web framework can handle that; the reasons why you can't sustain that or can't get good performance out of that are going to be found in your code, not the framework code, and linear speedups probably won't be the difference between "working" and "not working".
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That's only the case if you NYC intends to follow in Silicon Valley's exact footsteps. IMO, it would be stupid to.

As you say, NYC's tech ecosystem isn't as big. But its finance ecosystem is bigger. Also media, and fashion. I'm pretty confident that NYC can map out it's own path, playing to the city's strengths. I don't think it needs to have the same tech ecosystem that SV has.
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I used them a bit with some image processing. Was awesome to see all 8 cores pegged w/ one line of code!
"Visualize each of the apps they want you to use on your iPad or iPhone as a silo. A tall vertical building. It might feel very large on the inside, but nothing goes in or out that isn't well-controlled by the people who created the app. That sucks!

The great thing about the web is linking."

I'm not convinced. I see the "app" response to "linking" as being something like Windows 8 contracts. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if iOS and Android have something similar to contracts in the next 2-3 years. At least I would hope so!

I think that there are applications that make more sense to implement as a traditional app, and that there are applications that make more sense to implement as a web app. I don't see this changing anytime soon. I really don't.
agreed, and it is not only a deep piece of work, but the core infrastructure that powered their business.
You can link with apps. Intents do this.

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Inten...
He also gives the impression of being a bit of an arse when reading that post.

Not very professional, if I had to have someone other than me design my website, it would not be him.
I am going to use the hell out of this site.

I kept hitting randomize and got this: http://t.co/Av3WNjzB

Now I want to make a game around it.
Got it - .tm_properties goes in your home folder, wasn't sure if this was project specific. Example contents:

fontName = "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono"

fontSize = 16

tabSize = 2

softTabs = true
“A man with money is no match against a man on a mission.”
I agree with the sentiment of the op, however, I dont think you can ignore the fact that so many people are willing to spend a dollar or two on an app whereas paying for access to a web site seems relatively rare (outside of the business world).
I do it manually, buxfer cannot sync with banks neither.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3286693
"the amendment would prohibit courts from issuing orders that harm the DNS, and it requires a government study on the impact of the bill on the DNS"

I love how the Washington version of potentially scaling back a bill involves requiring a new government study...
While I like the content on Quora, I can't stand the UI/UX.

I find it difficult to find new topics, the choice of font/color/font size makes it hard to skim the main feed quickly.

I would far prefer JUST seeing the question titles - and not the other information around each question.

The inability to expand or collapse questions better also makes navigating difficulty.

All the while they pat themselves on the back constantly over their innovative design.

I think they need a reality check.
Of course, xkcd has an img for that: http://xkcd.com/552/
I'm an app developer and I certainly don't think the web is dead. But I don't think apps are going to go away either. Both have their own use cases. And I think one of the biggest advantages of apps for developers has nothing to do with technology. It is the ecosystem. It is A LOT easier to make money with an app, sold through an app store, than it is to make money from a website. Especially on a mobile device where users don't want to type in lots of credit card information every time they visit a new website.
I believe you're referring to the Ars Technica article which was submitted two weeks ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3286693
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To an extent you can do this on iOS as well with URL schemes.
I think one potential answer to this is the ability for mobile/tablet apps to embed a browser inside the app. So you see this already with the twitter app on the ipad, when you click a link, it opens a browser in-app. The app makers don't reaaaally want you to leave, so the in-app browser is a nice compromise for them. And as a user, I like it. I don't necessarily need/want to leave the twitter app on my ipad. I just want to read the linked content real quick and jump back to the app. Works for me :)
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That's what I thought of. The model of Intents is also a lot more powerful than simple web links, but Web Intents[0] are already on their way to fix that.

[0] http://webintents.org/
I'd love to see a reference to the Caribbean company.

There was sea-code.com in 2005, proposing to operate offshore of San Diego. As far as I know they never got past the vapor stage.

Back then I thought http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2005/04/20/really-offshoring/ it wouldn't work out as ships are expensive, but it might be a good seastead-based business. Now former seasteaders are planning to use a cruise ship (I see they say such is inexpensive now due to low demand).

I very much hope Blueseed succeeds, but it is going to be very difficult.
Absolutely. PHP just works and it's easy to make it work. That's the most important thing when choosing a platform. Asthetics are always secondary. It's certainly a pain to deal with inconsistent syntax, but fighting your toolchain is a far worse fate and with PHP, that's rarely an issue.
It's too late for that. Scala's community has been branded as a bunch of condescending intellectuals. Just like Ruby's community was branded as a bunch of pierced, macbook users in 2005. Neither are really true -- but first impressions mean everything.
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I've been finding the LD entry posts all quite interesting; they often have stuff (like bfxr) that I didn't know about, or at least, didn't know was that popular:

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/
Hah, it looks a lot like TermKit!
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As plain English descriptions go, I think it's satisfactory. If you know enough to know what's really going on, the video still has plenty of information to describe what they are really doing. I rather suspect they already know that.

Also, photons don't "move" in their own reference frame, in which the entire universe is a zero-dimensional point with no time; for everybody who has mass, they are moving. At the risk of being mass-o-centric, I think it's not that wrong to speak of their "motion". Some of my best friends have mass.
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Last week the Houston Lean Startup Circle enjoyed a Skype talk by Steve Blank. One question was about forming teams for the Februrary online class, and he was very clear that the online system cannot handle team formation from 30,000 students (at least not yet).
mod_perl also had serious performance and memory leak issues.

PHP sucked at the time too, but it sucked in ways that were easier to track down and fix.
Well. Sounds about right. For some people having ownership is what makes their day. And that's why they join start ups. It is much harder to get ownership of something in more traditional company.

There are many exciting things in many areas. I am glad someone find their job at traditional company exciting - this fulfill two very demanding parts - financial stability and fun.

Start-ups offer different thing, but core reason why people join these is the same - they like what working in start-up gives them. :)
The mechanism the OP referred to was picking up an existing product and providing a more or less uninterrupted user experience. It's a great benefit for a start-up to be able to hit the ground running with a user base and traction.

In the case of Wave, there was a major gap between the product being declared EOL from Google and until the various bits and pieces for running Wave as an independent vendor was in place - and in that gap all reasonable people ran away, so non-Google Wave offerings are starting from scratch.

As for money, no, certainly not impossible, but it's one more hurdle to hitting the ground running.
Photons do in fact "move" by any reasonable definitions of the word. In fact, unlike massive objects, photons are moving in all inertial reference frames. They travel along "light-like" paths through spacetime:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacetime#Light-like_interval

You might be thinking of the fact that no proper time elapses along such a path, which is true but not relevant from an observer's perspective.
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Awesome. Glad you found NoSQL. Scaling MongoDB is a breeze, you will love it.
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Interesting. Here are two similar bills:
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/191669-bills-eas...

One of them passed the House recently:
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h112-2930
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Are you finding that your visits are starting to actually make a performance hit on the servers? For that kind of scale, assuming your code isn't doing weird things, the lowest tier Linode VPS or similar should be more than capable of serving the pages.
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so x30 more to go..
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Regardless whether the author is right or wrong, "I don't care" is not a valid way to dismiss a counterargument. It's an effective way to resolve cognitive dissonance however.