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Filling in Tax form PDF files programmatically
I don't recall. I remember knowing the the Galaxy Nexus was supposed to be the first Android phone with NFC (and Google Wallet) for several months and then I recall learning that GW was blocked by Verizon, but I think I learned this after I received the phone. Either way - it was highly disappointing.
This has been a subject that caught my interest recently. For those that don't know a lot about SMPC, this library can be used to implement distributed cryptographic applications [1].

In other words, a group of peers that don't trust each other with a key can perform RSA in a distributed matter that is Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT). Specifically, all parties can generate a distributed key pair and then decrypt a message without specific knowledge of the private key. A fixed number of attackers (usually less than one third of the total number of participating clients) can behave in an arbitrary manner during the process without affecting the ability of the trustworthy peers to correctly decrypt the message.

There are of course performance issues and caveats involved, but fascinating stuff.

1. http://viff.dk/doc/applications.html#distributed-rsa
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I like the single page intro, but feel it could contain a little more information on the feature set. I agree with blakeperdue that a screenshot would help as well. The signup process is super simple, which is a big plus and makes it trivial to get started / explore the product.
Instead of a long list of tweets, an actual story with an interview or response would have been ... informative.
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I didn't say I thought it was a good approach. I was just clarifying the GP's misunderstanding.
My four-year-old says "I amn't". I correct him with "I'm not" but I've long felt his usage made logical sense. But I never realized it was at some place and time an accepted usage! Amazing how the brain acquires language and independently applies its rules.
0x10^c in base 10 is 16^12, or how many years into the future the people woke from their sleep.

I think you're referring to his tweet: "What happens if you try to read a 64 bit representation of 1 in a 16 bit system, but you get the endianness wrong?"

In other words, the endianness and 64/16-bit comments in that tweet weren't a puzzle, so much as the back story. (Check the paragraph beginning "In 1998"). i.e.: "What happens if you specify something one way and a program reads it a different way? You end up a 200 trillion years in the future!"
Better still, how about instead coming with reasons why they would of course want to talk to you, because you're building things that will solve identifiable problems for them?

Bingo.
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Any chance of you guys allowing AXFR transfers? I really like the ideas behind the service, however, I have reservations about moving production DNS given your relatively young age. Being able to have secondary DNS elsewhere eliminates the risk of switching over but maintains all the upside of your excellent interface.
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The analytics platform discussed in the article is http://keen.io

They've since been working hard to nail their product down with more specificity. :)
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You post them in your stream, you can choose to only show your photos to people who you've friended or you can choose to post them all publicly. There is no middle ground.

You can share the photos outside of instagram on Twitter, Facebook, Posterous and via mail. People can view the images in their browser if you send them a URL or if they use a third-party website to browse photos.

It's quite flexible and a lot of fun sharing and commenting on other's photos. If you want to get more activity on your photos, you need to #tag them. Some people go overboard with obnoxious 20-30 tag posts.
Red flags for performance reviews
You know, all the countries that matter, the ammerican one.

</Canadian who wanted to watch the The Daily Show's extended interviews>
hi all. typically not a sharer myself, but i've found it useful enough that i'm comfortable sharing. if you're not ok authorizing your github with some mysterious app, and you shouldn't be, the code [0] is on github (of course). there are some glaring bits missing, which i hope to finish in time. also, in the spirit of jsconf, i added a manifest so this will work with b2g devices. thanks!!!

[0] http://github.com/catshirt/github-mobile
The "learn more" link doesn't do anything for me on Chrome (works in Firefox).
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I just wanted to say you've brought up some good points and given us some things to consider. That being said, I would think that someone who had the guts to throw themselves out there and say let us prove that we're worth your time is the kind of guy who could make the next Dropbox. This may seem like a cheap stunt to a lot of the people on here, but we're just trying to prove that we're more than our credentials and we're worth a shot.
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Yep, we definitely need to make it possible to sign up with Google. Just haven't gotten around to it yet. Working on the tutorial exit right now, but in the meantime you can just invite a fake email address ;-)
Send me photos of your code please!
Right, but this won't be filmed, it will just be watched in our minds until the moment of failure or triumph, at which point we will pepper the internet with generally useless comments.
Who affords comforts on minimum wage? I don't know anyone making that little who can even afford to move away from their parents.
Burglar targeting startups in San Francisco
He stole two laptops from us this morning in SOMA and looks to be part of a crime ring involved in other burglaries according to the police. Stay on the lookout and contact me (amal@getliveloop.com) if you recognize him from other burglaries. $2,500 reward for conclusive information.

His MO is to be extremely well dressed and knock on the door first, and pry the door open with a screwdriver before opening the latch with a metal card.

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Shattered Horizon isn't nearly as fast moving as Quake. It's more BF2142 In Space than Quake In Space.
I first heard this quote in the context of learning the game of Go. If you're not familiar, Go has very very few rules, and the game starts off with a 19x19 grid. Two players alternate placing stones on the grid.

A beginner sees 361 positions to chose from at the start, 360 to choose from after the first move, 359 after the second and so on. An expert has a much, much narrower view of the board.

To reword the quote, tear it apart a bit more (ruin some of its beauty even): A beginner sees all possibilities because the beginner does not see past the first step; an expert sees a path even though the field is wide open because the expert knows where to step 100 steps from now.

Edit: I should add, if you find the style of the quote a bit obtuse, it is in keeping with much of how Zen is taught. A key point in Zen is the idea that the universe of knowledge can be split 3 ways: that which you know, that which you don't know, and that which you don't know that you don't know. The goal is to decrease the size of that third portion, but you cannot simply "show" someone this knowledge. Each person must discover it on their own.
I watched that onstage office hours session on Youtube and the same thing struck me "They need to be more clear and more specific" My startup is based in an industry that I have been working in for six years so specifics are not the issue, it's condensing all the details down into just a few minutes.
I wonder how fast laws would change if Google decided that Australia just wasn't worth it anymore, shuttered all Aussie operations, and blocked Australian ISPs from accessing any Google domain.

edit: Didn't see DiabloD3's comment before posting this.
"The details are not details, they make the product" - Charles Eames

One my favorite quotes on design. And as you pointed out, details are key to make something outstanding.
I'm curious: What are specific examples of "variety of tasks" and "crowd applications" that the author is talking about? Are we in some kind of cyborg software revolution?
Can't really see what the site does before you sign up - that's a major problem.
Dear Verizon, Best Buy or To Whom It May Concern...
> Is there such a thing as a suite of standardized performance tests for large-scale, multi-core databases?

There is: the TPC family[1] and their opensource dopplegangers, the OSDL-DBT family[1].

I don't think they've been applied to non-relational databases as yet.

[1] http://www.tpc.org/information/benchmarks.asp
[2] http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/osdldbt/index.php?titl...
You have alignment problems. I talk about it more here:

http://www.chrisnorstrom.com/2011/05/quick-fix-up-redesign-o...

Also your call-to-action button ("Try it free") and the text above it need to be on the right, not the left. On the left you should have a screenshot of your service or a video.

Actual product wise, I like the look. Love the yellow, like the header. Unique and different yet predictable and usable. There's something odd about having breadcrumbs up there on the right and the tab bubbles centered but I'm going to give it a chance to grow on me.

I really like the guided tour. The first tutorial though, "We created a team for you", "Yeah", "Go ahead and rename it" should all be in one speech bubble instead of 3. And I suggest avoid casual lanuage like that. I've seen other startups do it and it just looks really awkward and forced. One startup had a "People kind of like us" header with testimonials underneath. "kind of" like you? I just don't think language like that belongs on something as massively used as a tutorial or landing page.

On the project task page I really think you should switch the placement of the "New Task" button and the search box. Search boxes are always expected to be on the right and I feel the new task button naturally should be the first thing you see. The average user without a doubt will create new tasks MUCH more often than searching through tasks. So naturally new task should be seen first. All the "add new ____" buttons and associated buttons should be on the left I think. That's usually the default place where they are.

Lastly when I uploaded a picture of myself, my picture wasn't completely square and it ended up being re-sized incorrectly and now looks squished. It should be center cropped.

When I hover over different date boxes on the calendar my mouse arrow should turn into a hand and that date box should subtly highlight.

Amazing job though. I really like the simplicity. I wouldn't pay $25/month but it is a very nice service that's easy to understand.
Whoops, too late to edit now I think. I meant American companies.

Also, to those downvoting me: this isn't a troll, I am honestly asking as I am not a lawyer nor a CEO of a multi-billion dollar company.
The second interpretation of that quote is that beginners can also see/find things that experts would miss. Not surprisingly, that quote is from Suzuki's book "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind"[1]. I view both interpretations as valid.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoshin
I'll quote Brazilian writer Alexandre Soares Silva (the translation is mine so please don't blame him if the quote doesn't match the original Lovecraft's):

> Critics always laugh at H. P. Lovecraft, the American horror writer -- they laught at his style. They laugh at stuff such as "the stars shone sinisterly". They ask how can a sinisterly-shining-star shine any differently from other stars. In short, they claim that the adverb is spurious. But it isn't so: that adverb makes feel that the stars are shining sinisterly. I can imagine a star shining sinisterly -- can't you?

> The prejudice against adjectives and adverbs will be regarded as a 20th century fad.
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> Canadian who wanted to watch the The Daily Show's extended interviews

Try this: http://watch.thecomedynetwork.ca/the-daily-show-with-jon-ste...
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What did you mean by "converting"?

As in they signed up when you announced it was open, or paid? 100 signups on launch is still extremely useful for starting out.
Funny thing about words: each has its own peculiar niche, even the exceptionally arcane ones.
As a programmer I know I can use my prior experience building similar things to estimate how long each feature will take to implement.

Here's where this breaks down for me: it's never similar. Sure, the functionality from the user perspective might be similar, but with the pace of change in development tools, platforms, and frameworks, it's never the same. Seems that every project involves some major piece of kit that I've never used before. In the last five years I've used ASP, ASP.NET, C#, PHP, Lua, Python, Erlang, Oracle and PL/SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server and TSQL, OpenLDAP, XML, XSLT, JSON, javascript, jQuery, Scriptaculous, and other things built out of those, and probably a dozen others I'm forgetting at the moment.

Yeah at some level databases are all basically the same and languages are all basically the same but at another level they are not and that's where the time sinks are.
I don't see why 2 minute response times can't be sustainable, you just might need help with it down the track. I launched my SaaS product in June 2011, so am a bit further along than you and am still managing to maintain it.

I really hope people take your advice on board, I think those techniques made the difference for me.
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It's the same basic situation, just not as severe. Alice undoubtedly has some inkling that she may become pregnant, even if she thinks it unlikely. If Barbara isn't pregnant or planning to become pregnant, and has taken steps to prevent pregnancy, she is still a better hire than Alice, all things being equal. In a competitive market for labor under complete freedom of contract, a company could ask both Alice and Barbara about their plans to become a mother. The employment contract could also include clauses contingent on pregnancy, such as indemnifying the company against the lost productivity caused by unexpected maternity leave. The details would be determined by the relative bargaining power of the company and prospective employee. Those offended by such practices could simply decline to apply to such companies.

In short, under freedom of contract, company policies with respect to pregnancy would depend on free negotiations between buyers (employers) and sellers (applicants). The solutions would likely vary widely, each tailored to the needs of its particular industry. In effect, the status quo consists of a mandatory one-size-fits-all (or perhaps one-size-fits-none) solution that has many more negative side-effects that its proponents are prepared to admit. (Exercise: Show that compulsory compensation for maternity leave necessarily increases unemployment and lowers wages.) The idea that current policies necessarily benefit women is naïve at best, evil at worst.

Incidentally, there's nothing necessarily wrong with governments subsidizing procreation. But deciding whether and how to do so requires judgment and wisdom—qualities not particularly evident in those currently in charge.
Well, we are. Kind of :-)

http://www.amazon.com/Race-Against-The-Machine-ebook/dp/B005...

There are many software applications today that are being seamlessly powered by a combination of human and machine intelligence. For example, Google Books is mainly digitized with OCR but then ReCAPTCHA is used to bring human intelligence for fixing the mistakes of the OCR process.
I have never written them down before, most of the ideas I have are so out there that I am not sure words are the right way to convey them.
Thanks for the feedback, we were just talking about that today with Garry Tan. There will be some screenshots on the home page in another day or two.
Well said. Indeed (again in keeping with much of Zen), it is best to regard this quote as an observation without judgement.
I think it takes more guts to do what patio11 says.

If you look at business as if it was dating, this just makes you seem needy; while getting an introduction through a mutual contact is always a better way to go...
Patents are killing the damn industry. Sigh.
Why isn't the title of this post How Y Combinator Scales Itself? or just How Does Y Combinator Scale?

Is it supposed to be copying this post title? http://zachholman.com/talk/how-github-uses-github-to-build-g...
I created haiku_robot (http://www.reddit.com/user/haiku_robot) on reddit and, from experience, found that it wasn't too worthwhile optimizing for accuracy. The cases where I got the syllable count wrong seemed to have an equal distribution of upvotes compared to the ones where I got it right and regional variations in pronunciation meant that I was accused of being wrong more often when I was right than when I was wrong.
"I would think that someone who had the guts to throw themselves out there and say let us prove that we're worth your time"

The problem is what you are trying to do lacks creativity and originality. And without that I would question whether you could in fact build the next "dropbox".
When i ditched .NET I went OSX :)
Thank you for the submission, sorry you missed out on >500 upvotes.
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The guidelines http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html specifically call out politics as being off-topic.
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I think a lot of clients offer estimates based on how much money they have to spend regardless of the complexity.
You're describing Squarespace and a dozens of other offering like it, as well as any CMS.
Edit the title: it's a plug-in hybrid, not an electric car.
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It's worth hesitating before introducing a confirmation-email step. You're certainly going to lose people every time you increase the complexity of the signup process.
What am I looking for? Formal written usage or informal spoken usage of the two phrases? Clear and succinct or acceptable?
> Their writing is filled with generalities about the work and/or author; very few have the training or discipline to talk specifically about the work and to examine particular sentences.

It's easier to bullshit and fluff your paper with generalities than it is with concrete arguments. It also requires less critical thought. Gotta get that word count up. This is a tactic students use on purpose.
Great feedback, thanks for going into detail on everything.

It's funny that when you've been building (and using) a site for a long time, everything about it starts to feel natural. I've never even considered moving the "New Task" button to the left before.

The good thing about asking others to check it out is we can get a fresh perspective and draw a line between what's actually good and what we've simply gotten used to.
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we use this algorithm for our office ping pong game tracking system. it's great because the person who just plays one game and wins doesn't get bragging rights.
It's essentially a partial retraction of the overall "Jobs was a total asshole" impression the book seems to have generated in many quarters. The point is that his unpleasantness was part of the package, not a character flaw.

I think it's a pretty lame article. Nothing new. Really just a tone shift from the presentation of the same points in the book.
Since databases are the bottleneck in a lot of apps, it makes a lot of sense to spend a ton of money on them. $10k will cover roughly the monthly wage of a good DBA. It won't cover anywhere near the costs of getting a software team to optimize everything for "web scale performance". The only reason you wouldn't want a 64 core machine is that Oracle will try to charge per core, so a machine with less cores and better per-core performance might be more cost effective.
depends on the quality you want, and what parts you require to be printed.

the current reprap style uses all printed fittings for threaded rods. you could replace the horizontal rods with printed racks (http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:14537), but your xy precision would suffer. This is homemade, scrounged parts kinds of solutions. If you have access to a nice commercial printer, you can print everything but the electronics and steppers at very high quality. I don't think anyone prints conductive inks as part of the process. I think you can steal this inkjet print head (http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5152) and incorporate it into an existing system without to much effort.

There's nothing standing in the way of starting with magnets and wires and a 3d printer for motors. you'd probably want some cleverly placed metal sleeves for heat dissipation.

The electronics might be really hard, but they might not. Lots of universities used to let EE students fab their own VLSI chips. I don't think it's outrageously hard, it's just toxic. a lot of this might be solved with cool inks. I know there have been a few printable electronics doctorates handed out over the years.

so.. not long. not long at all.
that is one of the goals of the reprap project.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RepRap#Construction

fingers crossed they get there.