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I hope a Florida school does this. I'd also put $20 in on a kickerstarter if someone started it. It would be amazing and may bring awareness where we need it.
So I found this blog post http://blog.kicksend.com/weve-enabled-file-sharing-on-your-i... and it seems that they consider "previously" to mean "sending photos through email" which is apparently limited to 4 at a time. I wouldn't know though because I've never considered trying to bulk send photos in email before.
Why not package them as a gem?
Those numbers a re bit small to get a full view of the way the pypy jit works:

user=> (time (reduce1 + (range 100000)))
Elapsed time: 903.011083603 msecs
4999950000
user=> (time (reduce1 + (range 1000000)))
Elapsed time: 777.748823166 msecs
499999500000
user=> (time (reduce1 + (range 10000000)))
Elapsed time: 8764.57095146 msecs
49999995000000
user=>

Clojure via hotspot:
user=> (time (reduce + (range 100000)))
"Elapsed time: 174.768593 msecs"
4999950000
user=> (time (reduce + (range 1000000)))
"Elapsed time: 267.60421 msecs"
499999500000
user=> (time (reduce + (range 10000000)))
"Elapsed time: 1131.77367 msecs"
49999995000000
user=>

But yes, we still have some room for improvement.
Great article with great insight, but this makes YC sound like a frat house, imo. What startup founders want to hear is that they will be successful. They don't want to hear about how it is going to help their networking and how they are going to become great friends with people, even if that is really what is important. It is, btw.
Perhaps they don't want others to hide their improvements and simply released the code to foster learning and collaboration. Id software uses GPL for their game engine releases as well. So I'm sure they both have their reasons.
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I think my only objection to that is how the new start screen comes up in a jarring Desktop > Metro transition.

But then again I disliked the Windows7 Superbar until i'd been using it a while, so I'll reserve my judgement until I've used the Consumer Preview for a month or so.
Based on the system requirements MapsGL should be available much more than 10% of browser. WCIU... pegs "partial" WebGL support at 46%. Evan if you remove a generous % for lack of hardware support you are still significantly over 10%.

http://support.google.com/maps/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answe...
http://caniuse.com/#search=webgl
I know, it's totally wild how he did 9/11. re-reads article Oops, rong Khalid Shake
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we just got started using it at my company (serpIQ.com). We're tracking a SaaS signup funnel though, so we're only collecting a few hundred data points a day. It was tricky to get setup, but I would imagine we're an ideal use case for them.

Also, they offer a deal where if you put a banner of theirs on your home page you get like 150k free data points a month extra. Definitely sweetened the deal for us.
I do believe it would be beneficial if there would be the opportunity for new companies/teams to live with each other if they choose so

What's stopping them from doing so?
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That's a good point, actually; I hadn't thought of that. Maybe "gmusicapi" would be a better choice? Anyone else got an opinion?
I just bought a new pm tool for work on iPad first and then the desktop. I chose it because it was developed iPad first, and the Mac version is a follow on. I'm not suggesting I'm typical, just one data point.
Neat idea, although to be fair the examples are straw men. I think most people would indent their LISP much more readably.
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Some thorough advice from Spolsky that I agree with: http://answers.onstartups.com/questions/6949/forming-a-new-s...
I was in the D2 beta back in the day, and I had a similar feeling I did now in the D3 beta. It was kind of tiring that the best thing that could be done in the game was killing the countess I think it was (fairly early in act 1) and getting the best low level items and using the first couple tiers of skills. I think there was even less to do in that one, even. Both games are definitely fun in the beta, but lacking something. I think D3 will be pretty fun when it's actually released and we can do everything in the game.
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Ok, what's the use case? What is the benefit to this versus regular ol' Python? In what situations might I write clj-py assumine identical performance to Cpython or pypy, instead of just Python?

I agree that this is a really cool project and I plan on reading through the source when I have time strictly as a learning exercise, but I cannot think of a use case.
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I have some amount of knowledge about this these days, since I help my clients implement it. If you're interested in hearing more, say so, I'll try to blog it (some day when I get out from a mountain of work and email).

We're thinking of launching our 'enterprise product' in a SaaS format, so yes, I, for one, would very much be interested in free consulting^W^W a blog post about it.
> how visually distracting the parentheses are (and yes, experience Lisp hackers learn to tune them out; that doesn't change the fact that they are visually distracting

I wouldn't call myself an experienced Lisp hacker, but I don't think the parentheses are visually distracting, any more than I think that the curly braces in C are distracting.

The only problem that I can really see with the parentheses-based S-expression syntax is the fact that it's not always immediately clear where a given S-expression begins and ends. This is a that's-a-feature-not-a-bug situation, though, because that visual ambiguity is a byproduct of the list-code symmetry that makes Lisp so powerful. This comes at the cost of some initial visual ambiguity. Even in Lisp, some sacrifices have to be made. The one thing that's a huge help, though, is Vim's auto-highlighting feature, which lets me know easily where the other half of a parentheses/brackets/etc. pair is. (This isn't unique to Lisp - it will do that for any open-close token pairs in any language).

Pretty Lisp seems to be an attempt to correct that more than it is an attempt to 'correct' the parentheses, which I view as a strength rather than a shortcoming of Lisp. A much simpler way to achieve that end goal would be to write a short Vim keybinding/plugin that would either automatically or manually (toggle on/off) highlight the entire function/list that the cursor is on, instead of just the opening and closing parentheses.

To me, that would be the best of both worlds, and it would probably be a very simple task for someone familiar with Vim configuration.
yes, like NameCoin :)
IIRC "engines" were never built into rails (before 3.0). I believe you were referring to this plugin: https://github.com/lazyatom/engines. Honestly, before rails 3, the whole plugin initialization process was a mess. Things are a lot better now. Props to yehuda katz for great work on refactoring on rails 3.

What's wrong with cutting backwards compatibility with old apis after a while? The core team does provide deprecation warnings when they plan on changing stuff, so it's not a complete surprise.
Either they created more bandwidth where there is none or this is really an announcement how their app can now do uploads in parallel. Woohoo! You finished the tutorial level, you may continue.
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I'd love to see livestreaming from Exec workers. That would help "human telepresence" tasks like these:

http://www.taskrabbit.com/tasks/attend-a-talk-at-uw-and-writ...

http://www.taskrabbit.com/tasks/please-help-me-shop-for-furn...

http://www.taskrabbit.com/tasks/help-me-attend-a-conference-...
Programming is hard. It is really really really hard. It can also be really enjoyable, especially those ah-ha moments when you figure out the reasoning behind a certain pattern/style/idiom.

You are dead right that callback spaghetti is a problem, but instead of blaming the language/library you might want to reevaluate your implementation. There are a number of ways to deal with node callbacks. This is an excellent easy to follow article: http://seanhess.github.com/2012/02/20/functional_javascript....
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I'm a business person and would never think to ask a technical cofounder to join my business for 10% equity unless I had cash to pay them a salary, or some massive intellectual property advantage, or some other advantage that will make success extremely likely at a major ending valuation. (The third thing I cannot even imagine how it would work)
Let's see some of your code on Github before you ......
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Make the app zip and unzip the pictures automagically, tell people that it'll use less bandwidth than email?
No place for passionate students?
I saw a post earlier today where a guy was looking for a job in another state. I have a much simpler request of HN. How can I become more appealing to a company? I understand OO concepts, TDD, and have been taught C#, C++, CB.NET, Java, XHTML, CSS, in class, and outside of class I've used C#, Java, JSP, Servlets, and Hibernate on my own for self-study and trivial software contracts. I'm approaching the end of my degree though and I've been applying at places but I get similar responses everywhere.

Nearly all of the positions I'm applying for are entry level, with some of them outright stating "No Experience Required!". Yet I'm getting passed over despite being told that my drive is great, or that the code samples I submit are good, or that I seem qualified. Often they'll suggest an internship with them at a later time, but all are turning me away for what reason I cannot divine. It's very discouraging when I note how I have a (much) higher proficiency and love for the craft than others in any of my classes and often end up tutoring them. Some of them are so incapable in fact that it ASSURES me that I'll have a job.

Advice? (I'd really love to be a web application developer, JSP, ASP, or Python I don't care, although I do enjoy Java)
An exponential function which suppresses early costs would be ideal. Something that approaches billions / year some time around year 40, for example.

I'm not sure whether it's the right approach for patents -- pharmaceutical companies for example would just keep cranking up the prices until they reached the maximum economic return.
> I doubt anyone would be buying music if Napster hadn't been shut down.

Did you actually use Napster during its heyday? Of all the P2P software I've ever tried, it was probably the worst--or perhaps just the one most poorly suited to casual piracy. The search system was a joke. Even when your search turned up results, it was hit or miss whether they were actually what you were looking for. My favorite example was a file named "Beethoven's 9th symphony - by Mozart" (it was actually a Handel piece).

Now it's easy to find private torrent trackers with huge, well-maintained collections in very high quality. Comments and ratings make it easy to decide which of several versions to download, and moderators will even help look for rare files if someone can't find what they want.

I think the death of Napster was a big favor to pirates everywhere.
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The price of one license doesn't matter. What matters is the dollar amount of a sell, and I promise most of those products are being sold in the <$1k or >$75k range. The exception is Smart Bear, but they are one of the few "doing it right".
Thanks for the information, batista. It does not surprise me to hear that JSON has gotten popular in Javascript applications and the datastores that interact with them, and likewise with key-value datastores since the data mapping seems rather straight-forward when compared with XML (element attributes would seem to pose some problems). However, it would pique my interest to hear that other kinds of datastores prefer it. Do you have any links handy that show this about other data-stores and the technical reasons behind the preference? And at the risk of requesting too much, any links that show JSON besting XML in many RPC/SOAP use-cases?
Possibly. (Not necessarily at exactly the same time.)

I read the study, and they did attempt to isolate this effect from others, but correlation is still not proof of causality.
Right. Simple deflate will compress these 30 pictures down so that you can send them in an 'instant' over 3G as the article says. No. That's not how it works.
They said it improved hitbox accuracy, easier headshots :)
I agree, if you're into Python, use python. However, I find things like macros, protocols, and multimethods drastically reduce the amount of coding that has to be done to accomplish a certain task. But I'm biased there ;-)
My apologies, I also understand and utilize the importance of regular builds, prototyping (and being willing to throw away prototypes/codes based on analysis of work needed to reuse it), I push myself to learn the toolchain for everything I know so that I can write in Notepad++ and use G++/Make and work my way up into an IDE, and I love learning new technologies. I also use versioning software (mercurial right now), and am familiar with design patterns such as the facade, builder and others.
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Just curious, how did you find your sales guy and how did decide on the revenue split?
One of the products I used to work on at one of my old companies supported a huge number of languages. We were really scraping the bottom of the barrel for new languages to add - every new one was even more obscure than the last. But we never supported Farsi - IIRC, it was because simply developing a product explicitly intended for consumption by an embargoed country is considered illegal.
if httperf is using select() with 65k odd sockets then that could be a bottleneck...

the "dumb" C impl can be faster too!
it should probably fork() a few times so multiple accept()s can fight over the socket, which should probably be put into in non-blocking mode, and should also turn nagle off.

for even more points you can reduce the copying of the trivial response from userspace into the kernel using sendfile()/splice(), if you mlock() it into RAM first!

the printf likely reduces the throughput by a large amount too!

(I've spent far too much fiddling with various syscalls for synthetic benchmarks!)
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We do the same thing on my team of 12, 9 of us in one office with 3 remote people. The remote people dont feel any more remote than the person 30 feet from you.
I agree but that's not a "today" solution. That's a long hard slog.
The original and Warcraft 3 are still very heavily played in the ubiquitous PC방 (an internet cafe but darker, allows smoking, 24 hour and focused on gaming). Recently, Starcraft 2 is getting even less love from Koreans because Blizzard either opened up the login process or merged servers which has allowed far more Chinese, Taiwanese and Japanese players onto the servers (which is affecting pings and causing more games to lag out). I saw one other guy in a 300 seat PC방 playing Starcraft 2 while I saw about 50% of people playing Starcraft 1 and Warcraft 3.
Have they? I remember an article on HN a few months ago of some guy doing all his programming on an ipad. Beyond that most of what I see ipads used for is browsing and watching movies.
Eh, I think you have no clue what the actual customer wants. The problems of the average computer user are probably more of the "I don't want to get robbed from this scareware" kind.

Really, get out of your tech bubble.
Shipping containers are great for packing full of stuff, but dreadfully proportioned for living space -- less than 8' ceilings (before insulation and finishes); less than 8' wide (before insulation and finishes); and forty feet long with a door at only one end (horrible for circulation and functional zoning because you have to walk through one space to get to another).

Just because a shipping container worked for Stewart Brand when he put together the Whole Earth Catalogs, doesn't mean they make good habitable spaces. The length was useful for laying out lots of pages in a production line and the steel walls allowed him to use magnets for 'pinning up' pages. These are not features particularly relevant to most activities including software development. [See Brand's How Buildings Learn].

The predominate feature of shipping containers is that they make great archiporn images of the sort shown in the article - a high road building masquerading as a low road building (something Brand also talks about in How Buildings Learn).

BTW, it's probably a summer house given that it has no garage, which is even harder to imagine as a design decision for a Maine winter.
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When people are having to move to the Bay Area just to be in YC, finding a place to stay etc. is distracting, not to mention stressful.

I think framing matters. If it's presented as "when you take my money, you must live on my land, be overseen by me" etc., it's almost feudal, and of course no-one with free choice would choose that kind of environment. But if it's "if you want to be mentored by me, I can host you for a short while along with a bunch of other ambitious folks", it seems different.
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This sounds like the kind of work that most people I know would choose matlab for (image segmentation). I personally have never used either for such, but do you have any thoughts on the matter? Is Mathematica getting better at the things matlab used to be best at?
$ gcc -v
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gcc version 4.6.2 20120120 (prerelease) (GCC)

When it comes to diagnostics, GCC isn't even competitive.
IANAL but I do not believe you have to answer any questions about your travels as a citizen re-entering the country. It probably worth your while to avoid lengthy delays but they cant deny a U.S. citizen entry into the U.S.
Why would you need to?
Most of your data is probably stored in "the cloud" anyway so switching between using 2 devices should be simple.

All you do is save on the cost of having an extra CPU in the desktop system and this is partly offset by power considerations (since you can have a faster chip in the desktop).
This is a very smart acquisition. From what I saw SeaMicro has a great innovation in the form of their 'virtualize IO.' It is a great idea to share IO of machines in a cluster. They can make big headway by integrating tuned CPU's into those clusters. This is going after the entire stack of an IO bound application.
What Tim Draper is planning on doing with Draper University, which is a former hotel in San Mateo, may end up being pretty awesome. http://www.mercurynews.com/san-mateo-county-times/ci_1984021...

I think the rise of "hacker houses" is indicative that people really care about community and like living with like-minded people who they can collaborate with, be inspired by and socialize with.

I think there is potentially room for a hybrid residential university and incubator model. I don't think making housing required but making it optional for those who want it would be awesome.
I don't know Github's reasons, but I can tell you mine!

Unnecessary statefulness for what should be a script sucks.

Running a whole VM just to run an app is immensely irritating.

Also, Vagrant breaks in the same ways the usual bundler mess breaks as well.
Yeah, there's still time to buy Apple Stock. I asked myself the same thing this time last year when it was around $300. Prediction: $800 by 2014.
We switched from graphics to text a couple of thousand years ago and it's helped us a lot. People have been killing the command line for decades, yet anyone who uses a search engine is working with a cli.
I just launched a site and browser extension combination that does exactly that. I wrote a Show HN post about it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3649551
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My video card driver allows it in Windows 7. The driver can also rotate display to portrait mode - one of these days I'll get a 3M monitor stand for that purpose.
That's also something I meant by getting involved in open source. I'm sure for some projects you'll have to figure out its local rules, sometimes maybe even explain to the developers what's clang, why the change is required to support it and why they should care. It's the whole experience, not only code change ;)
I think possibly the corporation doesn't supply them. Employees simply provide their own hardware in the same way they buy their own cars.

The difficulty here is of course with security etc, but most of the corporate apps are probably web based and hidden behind a firewall anyway and none of the data is cached on the users device.
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I just don't see that this is what we are currently approaching with automation, etc, but rather huge poor masses and an middle class in decline.

Can you support claim with some facts?

Note that in our current society, it is easily possible to be both richer than the 1970's middle class (in absolute terms) and live a life of leisure. We apply the label "poor" to people who do this, but that's just an arbitrary label.

...beyond the basics, "needs" are themselves a social construct.

Yes, this is the game played by most people who complain about the "middle class in decline" or "increasing poverty". They increase the definition of "middle class" more rapidly than the living standards of the middle class actually increased, and then whine when reality hasn't met their artificial benchmark.
I'm aware of several people that have been driven away from gaming by this kind of culture. It's not as harmless as it seems from the inside, I think.
I totally agree with this. At Twilio we worked out of the Founders Fund offices for about 5 minutes after our angel round, but it wasn't a good idea. We ended up happier texting each other with a coffee shop choice for the day. We did it for 6 months (and they did it for a YEAR before I joined). Its okay to be alone.
Sivers has some insight which is applicable here as well: http://sivers.org/multiply
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I would argue that some of the most successful people are where they are because of the powerful networks they belong to... The YC network is an amazing resource of driven, talented and super smart people... wouldn't you want to be great friends with these people?