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> Yes, but NaCl provides direct access to GPU interface libraries. You can code for OpenGL directly, rather than running your graphics code through several layers of abstraction, slowing it down exponentially along the way.

If shaders are the bottleneck, and not graphics calls, then NaCl and JS will be the same.

If graphics calls are the bottleneck, then sure, NaCl will be faster - but likely you need to do more batching in your GL code.

> JS has certainly had some significant advances in speed over the last few years, but there's only so much optimization you can do. It's still running in a VM, so there will always be that overhead.

NaCl is essentially also running in a VM: It's sandboxed, so it has performance limitations. There are types of code that run slowly in NaCl, just like in the JVM. However, VM code can be fairly fast in general, the JVM and NaCl are speedy on a lot of code.

The point though is that JS can be fast too - once it has as many years of effort put into it as the JVM and native compilers has, it will be. It's just still very new. "Being in a VM" is not the issue.
I live close to the DC/Baltimore area right now. 95% of the positions I see advertised as either junior or entry level are looking for someone with a Top Secret (SCI) clearance and 3 years of professional experience. In addition to the ridiculous requirements they typically offer 40-60k a year.

On the other hand for people with 5+ years of experience there seems to be tons of high paying jobs.

Five years ago you could get a job around here as a security guard making 80k if you had a TS clearance.
There comes a point where the breadth of human knowledge is so vast that's it's not possible to have even a basic understanding of it all; I believe we passed that point long ago. All men are necessarily ignorant about a great many things.
Their natural imperative is to raise children and nurture them - not to do startups.

[citation needed]

There is no evidence that women naturally want to only raise children. And the implication that a woman who doesn't want spend all their life at home is a 'unnatural' woman, and there is something wrong with her, is a terribly, false, harmful meme to spread.

I find this comment offensive, since it spreads a meme that's completly against the Hacker ethic, which values meritocracy above pety ideas like gender, race etc. I'm flagging this comment.
There's nothing stopping them of course

Institutial misogyny?
This might have been just a poor choice of words, but beware the naturalistic fallacy.

Trunk believes that more women are choosing not to do startups. That's not exactly the same thing as saying it's their "natural imperative". Because then those who choose otherwise are being "unnatural".

Also, the "natural imperative" thing implies that our current state of affairs is somehow the only possibility. Maybe the way investment works is currently broken somehow.
there are many interesting posts about ATS on Chris Double's blog

http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/tags/ats/
You posited a situation where a group of people (the artists and/or their representatives) got together for the purposes of tricking UMG into illegally issuing a DMCA takedown notice. You don't have even the slightest shred of proof. That is a conspiracy theory. Do I really need to give you elementary school lessons about your own words?
Given that the translator does not seem to handle CL:DEFMACRO, there is not much chance to translate anything serious into runnable Dylan code.
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Show HN: Startup Frontier, an email list of interesting startup jobs
Startup Frontier is an email list that I've been building in my free time. It highlights interesting new startup and small business tech jobs.

Unlike traditional job listings, these also contain an interview with the company to try and examine the product/leadership/culture. It's my hope that this format will give potential applicants a better idea of what they are applying for. Something more friendly than traditionally sterile job descriptions.

The model is simple:

-Startups tell us about an opening at their company.

-If we think the company might be a cool place to work, we interview the company

-We publish the answers to our email list

This list is intended for both people actively looking for a job as well as those already employed but keeping an eye out for a better position.

I have several companies already in the pipeline and wanted to start building a larger readership. This is all free, just a labor of love at the moment. Any feedback would also be appreciated.

http://www.startupfrontier.com
A desktop CPU probably has about an order of magnitude more power per cycle than a mobile chip.

They have bigger caches (less time spent waiting for memory), more logic units, deeper pipelines, and can handle far more 'in-flight' instructions.

That said, the smart phones of today probably do have more power than desktop computers of about 10 years ago.

edit: now that I think about it, a order of magnitude is probably generous, but I would still guess that it's at least a factor > 2.
And clickable: http://www.startupfrontier.com
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Yes. What's a startup business, or even a traditional career, going to get you in the end? Admiration? Adulation? Money money money?

As most people with children will be able to tell you, all of those things are vapid and empty compared to spending time with your children. Perhaps many women choosing to stay home raising families instead of pursuing careers have found something more rewarding to do with their time.
what is this piece arguing for? the abolition of copyright, or a revision of fair use law? copyright can be a very useful tool for keeping things free, such as using open source licenses for software and the creative commons licenses for other works.

edit: though clearly to be good for free purposes, people need to actually understand copyright. I would say that the rather modern "everyone can create" (or remix) thing, rather than just people with a background in a creative field (which would probably include some education on the topic of copyright) has created a bit of a problem. Some sort of effort to educate the public would be pretty beneficial, in my view (imagine if everyone knew what creative commons was).
There are many women, myself included, who have directly benefited from the message that I could (if not, should) do a startup.

I was previously on an academic treadmill. It was more or less assumed that if you were capable, you wanted to be a professor. It took awhile before I could really see the pros/cons of tying my research to that particular structure.

I think a lot of women -- highly competent women -- are stuck in similar treadmills -- Law School, Finance, Consulting, Grad School. If they're not presented if this alternate life path, it may take many more year for them to get started.

And that may be when they have a family, and that may put a damper on startup ambitions.

Absolutely people have the right to make their own choices, and it's possible that different genders/families/ethnicities/what-have-you will make statistically different choices.

But I really don't think we are doing such a great job with presenting women, or the population at large really, with the full range of what's possible. There are a lot more people out there who would be happier doing a startup, or any kind of entrepreneurial endeavor focussed on something they are really passionate about, than are actually doing one.

There's really a lot we can do in this arena, and I don't think this industry's exhortations or encouragement really represents some kind of dismissal of women's choices or co-opts free will.
I wonder why people write their opinions on facebook music experience sharing without mentioning that last.fm already solved this problem at least once and the solution was a meaningful product that worked for some people. In this context, reading claims like "a constant pipeline of what's queued up in Spotify, it all becomes meaningless" make me laugh. People figured it out and it wasn't meaningless.

If they don't know about last.fm, why do they bother? They obviously don't care about music very much.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Aging_of_Japa...

Your standards for national success in fact drive (or at least indicate) this sort of trend: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Demographic_t...
I wrote it out in python for you: http://pastebin.com/5hX9ZMvB

and the solution written out in words below, also in python (I like this one better)

http://pastebin.com/PapfMhfU
Your anecdote against hers. Thrilling.
Copyright isn't a normal, naturally-occurring thing. It's an artificial construct made to incentivize people to make more things. So people aren't going to understand it instinctively. You have to explain it to them from scratch, show them the difference it makes, and show them their place in the system:

If you want to incentivize creators, you shouldn't copy their stuff.

That's the message that never got communicated to these "kids".
The relevant part of linked statement (PDF):

* Drew's Closing Statement / 12.05.11

Drew's eatery: established in March of 2008.

Drew set out to open an Eatery that was both sustainable & organic. Over the course of 3+ years and listening to his customers requests we expanded our menu to offer more vegan and gluten free options. Our latest menu is about 50% vegan and offers over 70% Gluten Free. Trying to keep up with our competitors we began working with the online deals (groupon, plum, kgb, living social, reward network, price bunch, and others) We soon realized that these deals are not what they seem but yet are silent killer and only build false hope. We accept full responsibility as nobody forced us into Groupon or any other deal. We stopped doing any future deals in October and had hoped we could recover, but it was too late.
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Look at the bright side ... Maybe one day we can download a driverless app to the car . That will be something
Surely the fact that all these people have no understanding of the law means they are less likely to do anything to get it changed than if they were posting videos with "disclaimer: this is copyrighted material but I don't give a shit".

And that scares me more than anything. Not that they're breaking the law, but that so many people are this ignorant. Every time I read one of those disclaimers I want to literally rip my hair out, how can anyone not realise that it's the equivilent of shoplifting while holding a sign that says "no theft intended" is beyond me.
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did i just miss the roguelike part?
Isn't this a matter of now it is too late? Today, I would consider Clojure, Scheme (in particular Rackit), (J)Ruby, and maybe Go as good alternative languages for production use.

I was also excited with Dylan and played with it a long time ago. I think it was about 20 years ago that I had lunch with Larry Tesler (at Apple he worked on the Newton, a general Dylan evangelist) at a genetic programming symposium at Stanford. He tried to talk me into basically rewriting my first Springer-Verlag Common Lisp book to use Dylan. I thought about it, but decided not to.
Although (intellectually) you know that there's no reason why if this guy or that guy can do it, you can't - there's something somewhat sobering and potentially disheartening about almost everyone being "different" than you.

I do lots of activities where everyone is "different" than me in some way.

I work in fashion, though I definitely stand out from the typical fashion crowd. (Most people who meet me assume I'm a tradesman of some sort.) At my company I'm an ethnic minority of one. I'm also an ethnic minority at my primary hobby.

In my experience, it's mainly women who think "omfg, everyone is different from me, what'll I do?" Men just think "those people are doing cool things, I'd like to be like them."
Although the other "special offer" kindles have been jailbroken for some time, the kindle hacking community seems to be doing a good job of refusing to (at least for the relative layman) disable advertisements on them or enable any sort of tethering over 3g.
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It's an interesting phenomenon, not so much that many people are ignoring copyright, as that they genuinely seem confused about what it is. My guess is that it's partly actually caused by the rhetoric around intellectual property, which can backfire:

1) The ubiquitous trademark-ownership disclaimers ("All trademarks are the property of their respective owners") combined with the conflation of trademark/patent/copyright under the umbrella term "intellectual property", leads to confusion about this area, and a misbelief that a disclaimer like the one used to avoid trademark infringement can also be used to avoid copyright infringement.

2) The rhetoric around "stealing" causes people to apply a more intuitive understanding of what it means to "steal" someone else's work, which then gets interpreted as being a question of plagiarism or profiting, so uploaders make sure to clarify that they aren't "stealing" the work in the sense of claiming it's theirs or trying to sell it.
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You or others may be interested in the "Magic Catalog" for Project Gutenberg. It's basically an ebook that you put onto your kindle that is a catalog of all the books on Project Gutenberg. You select any that you want and it automagically grabs them for you.

After the initial effort investment (not that hard, since you can download it with the kindle's browser), I would say it's actually easier.
Are you saying that only 2-3% of interns at Google end up with a Google offer?
Because it's not the equivalent at all.

It's more similar to going into a store. Looking up the ingredients on a box of cookies and writing them down to make your own batch at home, while holding up a "no theft intended" sign.

The basic premise of theft is that you are taking something away from the original owner so they don't have it anymore. The only thing you are "stealing" with copyright infringement is fictitious profits that may or may not exist at a potential time in the future.
Or, these "kids" figured out the message is a lie.
Exactly, piracy is the boogeyman they use to excuse any hit in their revenues. Since a downloaded song does not automatically equate to a lost sale there's no way to know how much of an impact it had. Plus the industry often ignores the long tail potential of a downloaded song, i.e., the person downloading the song likes the band they just found and goes to a show or buys merchandise. Of course, in that scenario the artist directly benefits and not the corporate members of the RIAA.

I would like to equate a dip in revenue to the bad PR the industry has gotten over the years by suing grandmothers for downloading songs, requiring purchasing songs multiple times because of multiple devices, making it difficult/illegal to copy purchased songs from one media to another, bribing politicians to create laws to their advantage over the consumer, so on so on. But I have no way to prove much like there's no way to prove piracy is killing their industry.

I'm willing to bet a dip in revenues could be attributed to the fact that we can legally stream music all we want either free or a small subscription fee through services such as Pandora or Spotify. I for one haven't felt the need to purchase music in years and I don't obtain music illegally.

Based on these kinds of reports though, the industry just seems to be doing fine to me. A dip in revenues from 13 billion to 12.6 billion is not a disaster. It's a statistical blip.
There is often low level collective hostility toward transplants, or matter where you move to. High prices and congestion are blamed on the outsider/newcomers, rather than life just changing. This can affect a transplant's attitude a lot.
I wasn't comparing the crime, I was comparing the excuse. It's the equivilent of punching someone while holding a sign "no pain intended". Theft no longer comes into it, happy now?
Impressive. Scratch, in a browser, for 2 different languages. He could even do it to Ruby, giving you "Script Text" for use inside Shoes, which ends as an alternative to Hackety-Hack.
From my limited experience hunting from a job in Austin, I think one of the reasons is that there literally aren't that many firms (small or large) doing software engineering.

The other vibe that I get is that culturally most of the older companies are from a different era which kind of doesn't make them too attractive a destination for a new graduate. Surprisingly enough the situation for EE grads is much more rosier: Anecdotal evidence over the past three years suggests that most of them get hired and stay in Austin.
> America wasn't founded in order to take anything from Natives; this was a very unfortunate side affect.

I'm not sure. The whole point of the conquest of the Americas was pillaging and exploiting the new continent by and for the European nations. Even the words "conquest, conquistador" etc speak volumes.

America (as in "the US") itself, was just some of those people descendants that declared themselves a new sovereign nation. But they too had to take the land from its previous inhabitants, an operation that started before the US established and declared independence, and continued even after that.
> You seem to have some kind of chip on your shoulder, because you are reading a bunch of things into what I said that were not intended and are way out there.

I wouldn't read my response as a line-by-line rebuttal of your post. It wasn't.

> In short, the company you describe does have technical culture.

By that measure, all companies have a technical culture.

However, big company culture (outside of Google and Apple) is usually not appealing to junior engineers, but is to senior engineers -- which is the opposite of your original point, and what I intended to address.
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Hardly the equivalent of shoplifting. If I steal your gadget, you no longer have that gadget. If I torrent your film, you still have your film.

Evidently the copyright industry is enjoying some success in their ongoing attempts to equivocate piracy with theft, but it's still disappointing to have to point out the distinction among geeks.
In this page there are a lot of libraries:
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See above reply.
"Are we really still talking about "natural imperatives"?"

I am puzzled by this sort of comment. There are certainly things that I do as a male that I consider to be built in behavior. I do not see any reason to think that women would not have similar.
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Postgres had this hstore for structure free storage and nobody ever mentions it. This post will hopefully bring attention to something we ignored long ago.
I wonder why you got downvoted...all you did was make a third party generalization.

Interesting stuff.

Upvoted.
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Well, that's because of Aging of the population --not exactly the same question.

How about this: which is preferable: incentives to counter the aging of the population OR embracing immigration?
Come again? I was agreeing until I read your conclusion. Your references are agreeing with Penelope from a position of hindsight: sacrificing family for your job is a bad choice.
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Aging population is countered by immigration, something that Japan is notoriously harsh on. "Success" appears to have the effect of lowering birth rates, as my second link talks about.

There are of course efforts and policies in place to encourage people to have more kids, but focusing on those is ignoring the obvious and proven solution. Furthermore, they do not seem to work. At least not well enough.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Aging_of_Japa...
Well hope they are as smart as they think they are. In 2009 they thought the word mating started with an F !
IMO this is interesting as a technical exercise, and stops there.

Its dynamic layout, dynamic stylesheets, customizable
painting and conceptual simplicity beats modern
desktop/plugin/platform-locked technologies

That sounds like HTML+CSS+JS.

Bitmap drawing is nothing new. What are the expected advantages of creating a whole new renderer, graphics library, and UI kit inside an enviroment that already offers essentially the same?
>all of those things are vapid and empty compared to spending time with your children.

Yes, for some. Come to think of it, spending time with the kids is probably the number one reason men downshift (by choice) as well.

What is complicated and not fully understood by me is how accurately we have accounted for women who voluntarily choose to downshift in all of the 'glass ceiling' statistics. I think that the glass ceiling is very real, but I just wonder how trustworthy the stats are. It's complicated.
I only have experience with Apple. I wouldn't be surprised if the number was similar for Google, given that internships are seen as a low-cost, low-risk trawling mechanism.
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recommend reading this article to get the backstory for him writing this article: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/foremski/googles-highly-profitable... .

I agree that he goes a bit sideways in the post. However it prompted me to start paying more attention to the results I was seeing in various Google searches and I was sincerely shocked by how little "real" organic results were being returned for many searches. The top of the results page are now taken up by 3 ads, many of which now feature rich snippets and the +1 button (which make them take up more screen real estate then before). The Rich Snippets that I saw were largely review stars that would show up for product specific searches. However the ratings/links were not for the products searched for.

After that you would either see a large Google Products Display or 1-2 organic results, followed by an even bigger Google Products Display.

I'm not a SEO so have no stake in their industry's success of failure. What bothers me is the level of hipocracy in them doing this. Since Panda was introduced earlier this year their search algo penalize sites for doing this, supposedly because the practice creates a poor user experience. They have basically cut out small businesses using this rationale and replaced them with an even more deceptive form of the same thing. Look at their earnings for the past year - that's what really caught my attention.
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Was the message you responded to a generic "startups are a viable path for you" or that message, but aimed at women? I am assuming the latter, and that you're making the case that for women to receive the argument, it has to be promoted from a women-centric perspective, is that right?

If so, I can definitely believe that. I understand and agree with the author's point about women empirically being less interested in a startup lifestyle and disagreeing with how some people pitch startups to women. However anytime you're marketing an idea to people, sometimes it's best to take a niche approach to reaching them.