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Here's the elaboration:

Groupon: not making money. Twitter: Not making money. AirBnb: Not making money. Linked in is, kind of, but may be overvalued. So what is so remarkable about making a claim of, "look at all the billion dollar companies this guy invested in"!. Anyone can invest in billion dollar companies. There is nothing amazing about it. The fact that Conway's are tech sweethearts and he got in "early" is a product of him being a SV insider.

Sorry, but I'm not entirely impressed with what may turn out to be a second tech bubble and the people who get rich pumping then flipping the shares.

Edit: From Wikipedia: "Some Valley observers, notably VentureBeat, have been critical of Ron Conway for his investments during the Internet boom, believing them to be "symbolic of the era’s hubris."[6] Conway developed a reputation for throwing lavish cocktail parties and raising cash from a diverse group of celebrities, sportspeople, and political figures such as Henry Kissinger, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tiger Woods, and Shaquille O'Neal, which he then ploughed into start-ups."

Again, Ron may be brilliant, but making money as a tech investor during a tech boom doesn't require genius.

Finally, people seem to talk like getting these investors in your fund raising indicates that your startup is...something. The fact is, these guys are open about their model: throw money at lots of startups and hope that a few turn out. For example, the other day there was a hiring thread that said "money from top investors, including 500startups". To me, that means you're just one in a bunch that, according to the head guy at the fund, is probably going to fail.

As for the guy who said that these companies would have loved my money at the time Conway invested, I'm not sure about that. You go to Conway first; that's the advantage of being an insider.
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It seems Chrome actually implements the old proxy API, not the new direct proxy API.

It has the old Proxy.create() instead of Proxy.for(), which is the way to define a proxy as per direct proxy API.

So if anyone wants to implement proxies in current Chrome, they have to refer to the old proxy API (which is why they have linked to it).
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I can see an art gallery picking this up, that would be great.
I am pretty sure AWS (like most major hosts) does not allow the operation of TOR nodes. [this statement is wrong see below, my bad sorry]
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It is also a wonderful way to teach your own children, and more importantly discuss issues that frustrate them.

Spitting out answers without having an question makes the answer a useless fact. Understanding is acquired. Understanding can never be forgotten.

I would never have gotten through my teenage daughter's high school years without it. I am a single father so relying on other traditional methods don't work as well as reasoning directly.

She earned a full scholarship to Dartmouth, was a Intel Semifinalist (genetic research), and is now studying Biology with a course concentration in Neuroscience.

I only taught her how to think about things, never facts.
There is some interesting stuff here, but if you want a one-sentence explanation of why Tcl has declined I'd suggest: It doesn't have a hook.

What does Tcl offer? Half this article is about Tk, but Tk is (a) a generic GUI toolkit, and therefore competing directly against everything from Java Swing to Flash to (the big winner) HTML/JS/CSS. And (b) not Tcl-specific, right? Didn't I see Perl bindings for Tk go by?

As an embeddable language Tcl somehow got eclipsed in the branding battle by Lua (don't ask me why; not my field, all I can do is repeat glib rumors) and in web-app land it got crushed by PHP just like Perl did. If you want to toy with extensible syntax in your language you can use Ruby DSLs; if you want the real thing you go to a Lisp. Tcl's a lousy language for mathematics and I can't imagine replacing a shell script with it (I think I vaguely remember a Tcl shell, but maybe I dreamed that, because it has no mindshare). It doesn't run in the browser. So what is Tcl for? Just tell me in a sentence. And, no, "being a nice average general-purpose language" is not a brand worth anything.
Thanks, but actually I got the idea from jamesjyu's comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3438802

It sounded like a good idea so I decided to execute on it. :)
One way to include pandoc support would be to expose it via a webservice on your server.
What is the real cost of getting this "wrong"? For example: Backbone.js is following the MVP pattern, more specifically the passive view variant. The catch is that Backbone.js calls Presenters Views and Views Templates.

Should we be encouraging "correctness" here or is it ok that every new MV* framework reinterprets these patterns?
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Might be good to ask this where major-league hosting providers hang out like webhostingtalk?
absolutely not.

it is common - https://cloud.torproject.org/

tor is not mentioned on the aws site - http://aws.amazon.com/search?searchQuery=tor&searchPath=...

there is nothing related in the customer agreement - http://aws.amazon.com/agreement/ (no mention of tor, proxy, etc).
You could use obfuscated minified source for the previews and sell the original readable CSS and HTML. Everybody needs to customize their theme.
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Out of curiosity, what prevents Iran from just blocking all Tor end nods ?

If del.icio.us is able to do it[1], surely Iran must be able to too.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3567996
What kind of an idiot are you, anyway?
Not to derail, but the depressing headlines from Syria suggest the need there for secure communication with the outside world is particularly urgent at present.
This seems pretty alarmist. More than ever parents know where their children are(I don't think its a good thing).

To me it didn't seem all that alarmist, but probably because I recognized it as reference to a bump that FOX affiliate stations run, a narrator asks "Its 10 PM, do you know where your children are?" over the 2200 station ID.

I can imagine the kind of parent that would implement a family "location services policy". It's the same kind that ...

Apparently you can't imagine that kind of parent correctly. My father was an IBM-er back in the day, and when we got dailup at home he spent a bit of time explaining to my siblings and me how to be smart on the internet, and part of that was a "location policy" (pretty cut and dry, because back in the AOL days basically all he had to say was: don't tell anyone where you live). They didn't spyware the shit out of my computer, they were surprisingly hands off, to the point that months passed between my switching to linux and their noticing the computer looked different.

The world is not such a frightening place. Let's not make it one.

For an article that basically boils down to "make sure your kid knows what their phone is doing", I don't think its all that frightening of a piece. Seems like solid advice.
That would be a fantastic way to go about it actually. Thanks for putting it in my head!
Yeah. That would solve a lot of trust issues.
This is great. I would love a nicer home page for http://www.sharelatex.com. I looked at ones on theme forest but didn't want one framework for my homepage and one for everything else. Will defiantly look at what comes up there.

On stealing the css: your market are people who know the effort it takes to build something and are probably likely to pay $15-$50 for a big time saver.
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I meant "LPs in the fund", sorry.

(I guess I've also heard about him going to bat very aggressively for his portfolio companies with later-round investors, too.)
The 787 is designed for this long of a trip. There are a lot of trips out there, like the central US to the Far East where a direct flight is amazingly useful and economical.
People who don't care enough about being caught committing copyright theft will never pay anyone, whereas those who care will usually pay.

cf https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3523024
Here's the beauty of an interconnected world. You can actually help someone else directly. People can easily organize around the globe to let those in power know they can't just keep doing whatever they want. Keep up the good fight!
> I can't imagine replacing a shell script with it

I can and have. Whenever a shell script starts getting at all complex, I grab a scripting language. These days it's Ruby, but in the past it was Tcl, and it did a fine job: it has a bunch of built in commands that are convenient for system tasks, and plays very nicely with the environment it lives in. So, quite the contrary: due to the OO (although this is being fixed) and 'GC/reference' problems, I'd be more concerned about big systems in Tcl, and not at all with little scripts, where it still is an excellent choice.

You're quite right about "the web" being the big winner in terms of "cross-platform toolkits" and as a bonus deployment is also way easier. Tcl can do the web though. See: http://flightaware.com/ . But of course in that field, things didn't play out like they did with Tk, where it was probably the most popular option.

Also, while I use Ruby these days quite happily, Tcl has it beat in terms of DSL's, IMO, due to the extreme simplicity/plasticity of the syntax.

Why Lua (probably deservedly) started beating Tcl in the 'embedding' space is covered in the article.

Python, by the way, does pretty well with being a "nice average general-purpose language", although I do sense some envy on their part over the popularity of things like Ruby on Rails. So I do and I don't agree with your conclusion. If Tcl were where Python is today, it would be a much healthier language, even if not the biggest thing out there. Also, by having a 'reservoir' of people using a language, you're more likely to get someone doing something that turns into a big hit.
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The idea is simple and in a way inspired from Show HN posts. Every time someone posts something cool here, someone asks how did you make it? So Swym provides a simple way to share the tools and people you built your projects with.

I put it on the shelf after presenting it last year, but it's one of those things that kept coming back at me. So, I decided to bring it back to life. Here's the full back story - http://swym.me/story

If there's enough interest, I may also add a store component where you could sell what you make too.

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They can only do that on sites they control.

Iran wants to prevent users from getting into the Tor network and going to sites that they do not have control over. Since it is easy for them to block the public routers Tor uses "bridges" which are nodes that will allow people to connect to the entry nodes through them. The lists of these nodes are then treated as semi-secret (in that they try to limit any one person or organization from learning all of them). This is exactly what they are looking for people to make, more bridges, not more exits.

edit: They actually say that Iran does very little active blocking and are just throttling anything that looks like TLS, so the bridge vs. entry node distinction does not really apply in this case, but it is relevant to the attack you are trying to describe.
It's a test flight, so you want to keep near some sort of airport in case something goes wrong. So yeah, you could duck over the ocean, but you really don't want to be flying in areas that could be problematic for too long in an untested plane.
but Ruby seems to be the most in-demand so would like to pick it up first

One thing to remember is that almost every field is undeserved as far as developers go, so all most all languages have more jobs available than their are people to fill the roles. While I agree you have to ensure that their is a market for your interest, most of the first and second tier languages have plenty of market to not be a risky proposition.
Does everyone who competes with Google have to resort to personal attacks and pathetic complaints?
The objection is that the standardization process is too slow. Not a little bit too slow, but so glacially slow it's almost indistinguishable from abandonment. So, progress of key web technologies needs to be put into vendors's hands.

CSS border-radius is still not a W3C recommendation. It's been a draft for nine and a half years. So far. It was last updated one year ago.

With a standardization process that broken, vendors need to take things into their own hands, and them doing so, especially webkit doing so, has been an astounding success, IMHO.
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Given that in the last quarter the iPhone alone generated more revenue than all of Microsoft combined...
I don't really understand that quote. Will someone explain?
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We need more minimalistic apps like this.
I hope to get some more sellers on board soon so there's more to offer. I'm glad most everyone seems to feel the same way about stealing the live previews. There is honor out there.
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Scott knows where my kids are?! Creepy.
I was unaware that themeforest didn't cover their themes markup either, then my point is obviously proven wrong, congrats on a great idea.
If it becomes a problem for you and you think there are people who would steal them without that but pay you with then go for it. But it will make it harder to evaluate themes for people who do actually want to buy them.

This is an awesome idea by the way. I love the choice on Theme Forest but I the flexibility of Bootstrap is brilliant too. I'm also using Bootstrap whenever I prototype anything and being able to just buy and use a theme later on would be incredibly useful (obviously it's not quite that simple, but it could be close). I will almost certainly be buying lots of themes from you assuming you get designs (which I'm sure you will!).

I'm surprised ThemeForest don't have a Bootstrap section yet actually...
It's a cool idea—but I think it'd be even more awesome if you could post without having to sign up.
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they can already use tor. this call is for additional work needed because iran is actively blocking access.
Well, there are the people who don't want to learn and improve their bad practices. They're awful. I worked with someone like that-- the only time I actually asked someone to fire someone. He was brilliant and had a lot of experience, but he had some awful practices that he refused to improve, and that made everyone else less productive. He manage to position himself as the "star" kicking out 4000 LoC per week, until it became clear that not only did none of his stuff work, but it was illegible and couldn't be made to work.

That experience tested me. But if you have someone who's very junior, he's going to make the same kinds of infuriating mistakes, but not out of malevolence or a negative attitude-- just being new to the whole process. We were all there once.
I'm not sure how that would work. People are a key part of this.

I'm working on adding Twitter, Github, Google, FB logins, so that should reduce the signup friction.
Very strange that they did that. Any one care to guess why they only allowed it in some countries? Is it just because the developers forgot to check all the country boxes?
Just wanted to give you a head up. On the /sell page it says earn 55% - 75% on each sale but then in the paragraph it says you earn 35% if you sell it non-exclusively.

Edit: Sorry to be annoying but the sign-in link has a padlock icon next to it which usually indicates a secure connection/SSL neither of which you are using.

Great concept btw.
This is such an awesome idea. It will be interesting to see how many themes you get. I would never have thought of making a marketplace like this because it seems too niche. But I won't be surprised if you prove me wrong!

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True, any obfuscation would make it impossible to judge the quality of the source. Good point.

I'm surprised that ThemeForest hasn't jumped on this yet either.
We do code reviews, which complements working directly with each other and helps to correct/improve sub-standard code.
It would be good to be clearer about licenses. It just says "Single Site" right now but it would be good to have a page that clarifies exactly what you mean just in case my idea of what that means differs from yours.

Will exclusive and multi-site license options follow?

Also, on your /sell page there's a heading that says sellers earn between 55 and 75% but in the text of that block it says the non-exclusive share is 35%.

Anyway, as I said below this is awesome and I wish you the best of luck.
Gecko has a really nice css feature called -moz-element (https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS/-moz-element) that can be used to apply a _live_ view of a dom subtree as the background of another element.

People have done some awesome stuff with this, such as reflections, transition effects, and even recreating the blurred aero skin, by combining it with svg effects.

http://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/08/mozelement/
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And what's even cooler, this has been added to the CSS3 draft spec, so it might actually soon be implemented in the other layout engines!
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great idea, and excellent timing as well tbh. The TW Bootstrap look is getting very common out there. My site is built on it and I can see the vanilla TW Bootstrap look ageing very fast.
What's the goal / point of swym?
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Can someone explain why this is useful? I thought the point of Markdown is that is easy enough on the eyes that you can comfortably edit the.source (and I certainly think it succeeds in that). Why would anyone abandone the comfort of their favorite editor to edit Markdown?
I seem to have the same problem, i browsed through the site and wasn't really sure what exactly it does or is used for.
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I'm a long time Tcl/Tk user - it's still the defacto standard in the electronic design automation industry.

My own tl;dr for this comment: David makes good points and his experience mirrors some of my own. I think the biggest mistake was not going with a "batteries included" strategy for Tcl releases.

1) Tk got left behind by Qt, GNOME, etc.

I whole-heartedly agree with this. We spent a very long time making our Tk apps fit in on user's Linux based desk tops - tweaking color schemes, widget dimensions, and even adding new widgets that Qt and and GNOME had that Tk didn't (trees, tables, buttons that could show images and labels, for example). Tk has since made this a lot easier but at the time it was frustratingly time consuming.

The author's other point that there were too many ugly Tk apps. Maybe. You definitely could spot a Tk app a mile away. But there are plenty of ugly X apps where X is any GUI framework so I don't buy in to that theory as much.

2) The debate between making Tcl batteries included or not.

In think this is the #1 issue. I love Tcl for quickly stitching together a few apps or processing files. Tcl makes working with the system really easy and it's "everything can be a string" roots can be tremendously useful. But... if you want to do something that's not in the core language - you had to build it yourself. There were quite a few useful external packages but they were often incompatible or tied to specific versions of Tcl etc, etc. Comparing that to the first time I built something in python and needed to process a gzipped file. Just import zlib. Wow!

Every big Tcl project I'm aware of had to devote a lot of energy adding support for some fairly basic - in comparison to other scripting languages - features. Tcl's philosophy was very much like the C language. Keep the core small - let the users work out the rest.

3. Missing default support for object orient programming.

Sure. Maybe. That kind of goes with point 2 above. It wasn't ever so much of an issue for me or any of the projects I worked on.

4. Missing support for some modern conveniences (no PNG, no readline based shell)

Sure. It goes with the batteries included or not theme. It was (and still is in some cases) a sign that tcl was falling behind.

5.Everything must be representable as a string

I spent a lot of time dealing with this. It's incredibly convenient when writing Tcl scripts. It's incredibly difficult when writing C extensions. The Tcl_Obj structure is actually really clever but managing the life cycle of objects is frustratingly complicated.

This is advanced enough of a feature that I don't think it impacts that many people. That said, fixing this flaw might have allowed for more interesting extensions.

6. (I'll add one of my own.) Multi-threaded tcl is not built in. You have to make the choice at compile time. Compiling in support for threads slows down tcl enough to be noticeable for the kinds of people that are interested enough to do multi-threaded programming with Tcl. :-)
"You are signed in as x@y.z, but you don't have permission to access this item."
But couldn't they simply block on a combination of encrypted traffic and whitelist? That is only allow encrypted traffic to known 'good' sites.
If I ever made a tool with a command interface (like gdb or ftp), I would probably use Tcl as the command language. The only alternative seems to be a homebrew design. None of the other scripting languages I can think of have a sufficiently convenient syntax for interactive use. But that's a very small niche these days.
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I've not looked properly but future suport is quite important. I have been upgrading to bootstrap 2.0 and there are a lot of breaking changes, having future versions available would be something I would want to see, even if it requires and upgrade fee.
Thanks for bringing that up, I'll get that wording fixed right away.

Regarding the padlock icon: That was an item on my todo list that I moved to "not critical for launch." And then someone mentioned it. :)
Moore et al. kept the industry relevant for more than they should have. VfV and Watchmen are a few of those works that keep selling 20 years later, while 99% of the US comic production is crap and gets forgotten after six months. The market is what it is because there are too few Moores and Ellises and Gaimans , and too many self-referential comic-fans-turned-writers.
I like the concept - but what's the big picture?
If there's a market for something, however small, it's always worth giving it a chance because you will always discover new things in the process, things that can often allow you to expand the business beyond what it already is!
Upgrading from 1.4.0 to 2.0.0 was kind of a pain. I definitely am on the same page as you. Sellers attach a version number (of their own invention) to the items they upload. When a seller comes up with an update to their item they would upload it and update the version. At which point anyway who has purchased it in the past would be able to upgrade for free. (I don't like the idea of buying a theme and then paying to get the latest changes.)