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Um, that's not a dumb measure of simplicity, it's just a measure of code size. You might as well look at the average number of characters in the names of the authors of the two projects; it would be equally irrelevant.

Here is a real measure of simplicity: how long does it take to explain to a Numpy user how to wrap an array expression in a string, versus explaining how a JITting compiler compiler works and how to interface its runtime to their existing Python installation and how to build it and what the limitations of RPython are.

Heck, I'm an actual developer (not a scientific programmer) and it took me a little while to understand what PyPy does.
I don't actually understand why this worked, but it did.
Can a startup do YC and Imagine K12 in parallel?
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It would be great to see if there was a market for a premium bus service, but your competition is probably municipal buses, not subways, since your bus can't compete with subways on passenger capacity (limited to 62 feet) or speed (subject to traffic signals and congestion from other vehicles).
Do you think the two hundred and fifty MDs and PhDs that just this month signed[1] his petition[2] are also loons?

Or perhaps you think Walter Willett M.D., Ph.D., and David Ludwig M.D., Ph.D., of Harvard--two of the foremost nutrition authorities in the US--who agree with Taubes, are also loons?

Maybe you think all of these individuals simply don't bother to do due diligence on what they read? Or maybe you think they are suffering from insufficient intellect such that they're incapable of detecting your accusations of cherry-picking and snake oil?

I'm also a bit lost with your characterization of a low carb diet as a fad diet. Surely you understand that this is the diet our ancestors were exposed to during millions of years of hominid evolution?

[1] http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/response-to-nytimes-the-f...
[2] http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/response-to-nytimes-the-f...
there's a great TV show called 'Black Books', if you want to truly understand loathing towards users you need to watch it.
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Just because programming for YOU comes naturally doesn't mean it does for others.

You obviously didn't read what I wrote. The point is that people can always learn to be adequate programmers. But if the experience of programming is so different from the way they process information, that the act of programming is mentally uncomfortable for them, then they will never be great. The discomfort has NOTHING to do with hard work. It's like sales. You could spend your whole life being a decent salesperson but if you hate interacting with people you'll never be a great salesperson that closes multi-million dollar deals. It's as simple as that.

If you can't visualize a map, if your spatial abilities aren't strong, then having to interact daily where you need to do that would be frustrating as hell and you would hate it.
As far as technology goes, we are using the industry standards. Jason will be on later to describe it from a technical standpoint. We have several very large companies using it which to me is unusual. They were the first takers to tryout our software. You would think they would be the most protective over their data.

After speaking with the newer signals they see, to be tending towards the small business side. Any suggestions?
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What's so special about "humanity" that it needs to be preserved?

The frustrating thing about your nihilistic argument is that there's no practical way we can divide humanity into the grasshoppers who live only for today and the ants who live for the future. A consequence of the advance of democracy -- itself arguably a prerequisite for survival -- is that the grasshoppers will always be with us, and will always have a voice.

If there were a way we could magically reserve the benefits and spinoffs of human space exploration, up to and including the potential preservation of the species, to those who agreed to pay for them, I'd be much more accepting of this kind of question.

But colonization of other celestial bodies is too big a job for only part of humanity to tackle. We all need to pull in that direction, or we'll fail. So the fundamental problem becomes one of how to convince people of all walks of life that this is a worthwhile goal that can, and should, be achieved. It's a tough sell -- like the great European cathedrals, it will take longer than any one lifetime, and cost more than any one king can afford. But it seems possible to make sound, rational arguments in favor of such a mission. There are times when I almost believe that the necessary case can be made, and that the necessary work will be done...

... at least until some overly-clever bozo asks an unanswerable question like, "What's so special about humanity that it needs to be preserved?"

Then, I sink back into my usual unproductive attitude: "Fine. Screw you. Stay behind, see if we care." And sure enough, as usual, nothing changes.
I want my kids to grow up, be happy and have their own kids if they want to, but I really don't care about what happens 100 generations down the road.

Stop trying to think 100 generations ahead -- that's pointless, no one can do that. Instead, think 100 generations back. What if the people alive at the time had been happy with their lots in life, content where they were living, and/or too afraid to try anything new? Where would you be now? Do you really feel good about being part of the generation that finally dropped the ball?
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You could always find someone with suitable skills to freelance for you. Pass off these clients to? So you keep them, but you don't actually handle their project. Of course you will have to state this to them.
I essentially taught myself how to program after graduating from college.

I took two computer-related courses throughout college because they were prerequisites, one being a CS101 using Pascal and another in my junior year doing assembly language on the 68000, which I did poorly in. I actually thought computers were dumb and was planning on going into electronics, but my senior project ended up being about assembly language programming on a DSP chip, and despite not knowing what I was doing, I actually enjoyed it. So that, coupled with the fact that programming jobs were easier to find than hardware, I spend 2-3 months after college teaching myself how to program, and I've been making my career out of it ever since.
To be fair, medical errors are a "TRULY" big problem, and I'm sure that poor/inaccurate/incomplete record-keeping isn't helping things.
Fixing Hubble was really important. I'm not sure how much the shuttle's work was of the same magnitude, or couldn't have been done with automated gear.

Although a staunch supporter of Zubrin and his Mars strategy, as well as a supporter of the HST maintenance effort, I think he shot down his own proposition in this particular article. He points out that Hubble cost $5 billion, while elsewhere, he casually mentions that each of the 125 Space Shuttle launches cost $3 billion.

So for the price of just one additional Shuttle launch, we could've simply launched a new (and potentially improved) copy of Hubble instead of risking anything at all to fix the old one. That's what I call a no-brainer.
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Increase your rate. Let them know that 2012 is a new year and every year, at some point early in the year, you increase your rates to reflect the growing cost of living, but more importantly, the growing value of the skills you've acquired during the preceding year. There is no reason you can't double your rates if you have enough clients who are willing to pay at those rates. If they don't value your work at your proposed rate, they'll drop themselves.
Can you give us a breakdown/comparison to Octopress (http://www.octopress.org)?

Which I use for http://www.MikeSchroll.com and seems to have many similar goals (and also can be easily deployed to github pages, which is where I host mine)
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I'm not confusing the two; he's misusing the phrase "big problems." In ordinary usage, when people talk about solving big problems, they mean hard problems. If you said "back in the 1960s NASA was willing to take on big problems like landing a man on the moon," no one would argue that what you were saying was false on the grounds that it didn't make our everyday lives significantly easier. Someone might claim (probably accurately) that there were more important problems the government should have focused on instead, but no one could honestly claim you were misusing the phrase "big problems."
> That's one giant leap closer to where the money comes from (people).

That statement is backwards. Facebook sort of knows what I kinda like, but Google knows exactly what I want, right now. If I type "Escort midtown manhattan" and click the Google ad, Google will make about $4, which is more than Facebook will make during an entire year by guessing what I want.

Search ads are 1-2 orders of magnitude more valuable than perfectly targeted display ads.

* The escort example was to only prove the point that wants are where the money in advertising is, not people or interactions.
So it is safe to assume your'e not the rms?
It's a bit high....that's part of my trepidation! I wouldn't mind it if I were a little more confident in the outcome.
He probably didn't want to go down as a monopolist that enjoyed crushing others companies. Humans are flawed and neither is better than the other.
> The problem in healthcare is the lack of engagement from many consumer/patients plus a private industry reluctant to standardize.

I don't think patient engagement is an issue -- there are gazillion health related niche disease communities/blogs on the Internet. The challenge for consumer oriented startups is to scale beyond their specific niche to become successful in terms of revenue or as a widely used App/Service.

For all health IT startups targeting to the enterprise -- Good Luck with the PBU (Payer, Buyer, User) problem.
Not just for YC folks - Microsoft has their BizSpark program, which is pretty awesome for startups - it gives you access to basically every Microsoft product ever made for free.

http://www.microsoft.com/BizSpark/
It's pretty amazing that you guys would do something so stupid and post it here to HN.
Nitpick, why do people insist on typing "$" for the shell prompt? It makes it impossible to copy/paste.
In 1970, the price to fly coach from LA->NY was about $555 in 2010 inflation adjusted dollars. Comparing service then to now is silly. If you pay $555 now, you'll get decent service.

Furthermore, I think you might have a skewed sense of what a fair price is to fly 2,500 miles. A flight from Lisbon to Moscow (about the same distance) is more expensive than a flight from LA to NYC. It is a long way and expensive to operate planes. Last minute tickets and upper class tickets subsidize "cheap" fares. If you want to convert an airline over to fixed price tickets, the ticket price would likely be considerably higher than what you deem "fair."

Finally, the way cities are built in the US does not lend themselves to public transit. NYC has decent transit because the population density is so high as to make it the only viable option. There are no other cities in the US like that with the exception of maybe San Francisco which has a significantly smaller population. In Europe, many cities are high density and have good mass transit. Unless we encourage density, we're unlikely to see good urban mass transit since most people would rather drive all things being equal.
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One is now. It's an experiment.
Couple of points here:

You need to add some information as to exactly what this is doing. By clicking around I finally get to this page, http://www.ofx.net/. What, exactly, is OFX? This is something I've never even heard of.

How do I know what my bank's "BanksOfxApiURL" is? Am I submitting my banking credentials to your 3rd party API and you're somehow logging into my bank account and returning some XML or JSON data?

Please provide a lot more information.
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Much more effective, and doesn't botch the code. The blog post's code would actually return 16, due to reduce being a fold left, and the sum function incorrectly being x+x.
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Very nice idea and so far the service looks pretty good. Congratulations :) I did find it a little hard to find the different pricing levels/what I get for them. I think having a page dedicated to the different account types (free, premium, etc) linked off the main menu would be good.
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/opt/local is already used (by MacPorts).
Masturbating won't make you blind but this will.
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About the PBJ exercise, last semester (I'm in grade 10 right now), we had to do the same thing in Chemistry, except for a lab. It was teach us to provide detailed instructions in the lab write-ups. Almost no one in the class had detailed enough instructions. It worked like a charm. After that, on the rest of my labs, I went in a lot of detail in the instructions. I have to agree that it is a great way of teaching, and it would be amazing if every student encountered it at least once in their schooling. Especially at a younger age, it would instill an attention to detail in the student, which would serve him well for the rest of his life.
# or $ gives the reader an indication of what type of account should execute the command.
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Could you elaborate on why you would think this? Because it seems a bit hard to believe. I mean, the oldest students in your average CS 101 class will be, what, 22? Maybe older if they're non-traditional? The human brain's frontal lobe isn't even completely myelinated at 22. I'm not saying they have the same potential as someone who started at 10, but you make it seem like there's no hope for anyone who didn't start when they were 10.
Big companies can't solve these problems either. They're due to bureaucracy and government regulation. The way to fix them is to elect different representatives who will push for reforms.
(I maintain jekyllboostrap)
Two main differences:

1) The core implementation difference is that Octopress is customized through Jekyll plugins whereas JB is customized through native liquid code.

2) JB's purpose is to build a standardized API for Jekyll Blogs. Octopress has no such api.

1) Has a few consequences. Since GitHub Pages does not run any plugins, Octopress basically pre-processes your website and then pushes the final rendered pages to GitHub for hosting. JB is able to just push your change itself and GitHub takes care of the Jekyll processing.
This has a couple advantages. Firstly your codebase is cleaner (I'm a developer and that mattered to me =x) and secondly for larger blogs (imagine 1k posts) you are basically letting GitHub do all the work rather than preprocessing it yourself.

TBH the plugin thing has become something of a debate with me. I originally _challenged_ myself to not use plugins because I just wanted to make a damned blog, I didn't see why Liquid needed to be so damned difficult. So I'd thought I'd save other people the hassle of figuring out liquid. But I can see how people don't mind hosting a pre-processed website if it means getting what they want.

2)
The plugin problem highlights the need for a stadardized api. It's very easy to use plugins to do everything you want for your blog. But your work doesn't benefit the larger community because there is not an established integration point for plugins. Jekyll is like 4 years old and there are a ton of plugins but nobody cares because its still too hard to get up and running. You need to read the docs for every single plugin to integrate it. Jekyll community is segmented exactly because of plugins imo.

With JB my (technical) goal is to build a common API for Jekyll-based blogs. An api for themes will mean plug-n-play theming. An api for javascript will mean badass javascript plugins that drop in. Ideally I'd like to make community support (js widget that allows people to follow, like, vote, explore, blogs etc).

Octopress supports nor advocates no such api. It has a (very nice) theme but no theme API so you can't just install a theme.

Honestly I think Octopress is a lot more fine-tuned at this point. But I'm trusting that once the APIs are solidified, you will see a larger community developed around the JB framework which collectively means everyone's experience will only improve.

I'd say stick with Octopress if you are comfortable customizing it to fit your needs. Go with JB if your main goal is to run a technical blog and (eventually) benefit from "JB community" improvements, themes, js plugins, etc.

Btw Brandon Mathis (https://github.com/imathis) has given me great advice on how he promoted octopress and made it into what it is today so I definitely take inspiration and respect his work =).
> I'd count Ubuntu's Me menu as integrating "the social web" into the desktop.

I don't see that on my Window Maker desktop.

(People either forget or have never been told that Ubuntu is still actually Linux, and can run all the same software Arch and Slackware and CentOS can run. That's the charitable explanation, anyway.)
Funny I just installed my first nixos yesterday. They indeed can move away from FHS even if they support it.

As said before GOBO does that too; there was a handful of distros at max.
That headline meme sounds impressive: corporations hoarding cash.

Until you dig deeper and find out that US corporations are accumulating debt at the fastest pace in world history. Their cash is required to continue to offset the massive debt being acquired. If interest rates go up at all in the next ten years, bankruptcies will skyrocket. A lot of companies are being irresponsible with debt right now because they can issue it at hyper low rates.
When I took cs 100 as a freshman in college, I had never programmed before. I was in the "bottom hump." I would have failed that little quiz if I took it my first semester.

Unlike every other discipline, programming is a completely different way of thinking from what we're exposed to in public schooling. It takes time for your brain to change the way it thinks.

It's not impossible to learn; I learned. It just took me more than one semester of being exposed to something for the very first time. The reason for the two humps are people who have been exposed to programming and those who have not; it's why it appears in intro classes but not in the later ones.
Seeing that language platforms that perform way worse than Java are the currently the hot stuff I fail to see how a mere 20% performance penalty is the thing that is holding Java back.
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Every company that has ever tackled a big problem was once a startup. Startups can't solve big problems right away, but some (mine included) intend to get there some day.

Right now, my company is a tiny star in the oligopolistic slow-moving galaxy of the US healthcare system. We grew 10x in 2008-2009, and grew 10x again in 2010-2011. We're still gathering steam, but we (and healthcare companies like us) are crafting the building blocks that will one day grow into the solution to this big hairy problem.
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a good idea would to have it be part of the layout so highlighting it would only highlight the actual text you want to highlight ... hmmm! good idea ..
Commandar beat me to it, so far Caustic is top of my heap. I wish all the knobs were script-able though. For a straight-forward drum machine Electrum Drum is not bad.
Wait, so are you saying that we should be more outraged when business models and customers are stolen in a borderline illegal way? This is a valid point and we probably should be more outraged.

Or are you saying that it should be ok to rip off someone's design and hotlink to their assets?
Yes, that would be ideal.
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How much is scribd paying for that link?
The CL app can do that for you. Say, you save a search for "refrigerator" in a certain area, in the "Free" category, the app would notify you (it puts a # on the top bar of your phone) letting you know there's a new listing for "refrigerator". Same thing for "roommate" or "carpenter" jobs, etc.

It's pretty cool, wish I've known this app when I was looking for a free carpet.

Interestingly enough, just last month, I bought on CL and sold a pair of girl's snowboard boots for $15 more in a matter of 4 days. Mostly because I really didn't want it.I was just practicing on my selling skills. I'm more inspired after reading this.
It would be nice to see directions on how to host your blog on your own server instead of using Github. I assume these directions are lying around somewhere, so most likely it is sufficient to just link to them.
>The problem with getting into space is you need to get 10 miles then go another 200 miles up and accelerate to mach 22.

Can you expand on this? (Especially about the Mach 22)
There's a deployment page that, I agree, can definitely use some work : http://jekyllbootstrap.com/usage/deployment-and-hosting.html

The link to the docs are at the bottom: (custom jekyll deployment strategies)
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Stated another way, it's perfectly understandable that a large percentage of incoming undergrad students can't program at all, when their education up to that point has failed to introduce them algebra and higher mathematics, logic, or reducing complexity through abstraction.
I assume nothing; they're a YC company, and that link has been there essentially since they launched.
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A non-profit for the good of the people company (like Salvation Army, etc.) could tackle these problems.

For instance for the government taxes one; a group could build a website that handled it and offer it for free to the government.
I don't think age is as big a factor as you make it. I learned how to program at about 19 and got right into without any previous programming experience. If programming is indeed a skill, then why can't someone learn it at any age? My father, in his early 50s, is learning the skill of "debugging" his iPad when he needs to do something; instead of calling me, he's starting to use forums and search engines to find his answer. I would consider that a skill, yet he's learning it without having any computer experience at all.

What basic skills are the foundations for programming? Abstract thought? Deductive reasoning? Maybe someone is more inclined towards programming versus some other field, but I believe everyone has— at any age— the ability to learn how to program, much like everyone has the ability to learn a new spoken language at any age.