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His point is that the owner shouldn't be getting any more than the workers. IE, they are all "equal".

This sounds strangely familiar...
See also: One combinator basis for stack based language http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.concatenative/1915

Two combinator basis for Joy: http://tunes.org/~iepos/joy.html
there's also the case of being able to set a breakpoint for the code that executes only when !isActive == true
The problem here is that you are posing this as an either-or question. It's certainly possible that Apple and Facebook are destroying the internet as we know it AND Google has their own agenda. You don't have to pick one or the other.
In startup land the products usually are simpler. Below a certain order of complexity most of the "best practice" is unnecessary or even harmful.

For projects measured in manyears instead of manweeks or months, a solid IA is essential.
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http://000fff.org/getting-to-the-customer-why-everything-you...

For some more thoughts on what is wrong with the field. (shameless plug)
Zoomooz goes 1.0: declarative syntax, page scrolling
Reader macros are also very handy. This is a feature unique to CL.
Have you read http://craphound.com/down/ (Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom) yet?
I do feel strongly that if the only benefit you can name about writing code in one particular manner is that it is aesthetically pleasing to you

Isn't that exactly what's happening here? A bunch of people piling on skipped semicolons and infix if's because they think they're "sloppy"? Refusing to support ASI (which is, in fact, precisely specified) in their transformation tools because it's "broken"? Why are some people's aesthetics more important than others?

Again: you use the language you have. You will never get the community on board your private yacht of your "sane subset" Javascript. It's been tried for decades. It doesn't work.
At a quick look in one case this function was generating more 1s than 0s.

It seems also that it generated very often a 1 after a 0 (more than twice as many times than it generates another 0).

Now I got curious, I'll do more tests and look at the documentation for Math.random

Certainly I won't ever use it for any important feature of a website!

EDIT: it seems that with large enough numbers it's not too bad, so I might be able to say more after reading the documentation.
At any rate using the strings generated with the khanacademy link I was able to win few times in a row.
Yes. As others have mentioned BizSpark is a fantastic resource. As a developer mostly using the .NET and MS ecosystem it’s enabled me to build using tools and technologies I am familiar with. I use Amazon EC2 to host the applications as Azure seems a bit more expensive. If you are experienced in the .NET space definitely look at Bizspark, even the exit fee isn’t much when you factor in all the tools you get to use for YEARS.
Pretty much everyone who deals with fraud has to accept a certain percentage of false positives. And if you reveal too much about how you detect fraud then the fraudsters start to adapt and become harder to detect, supplying extra information has a very real cost.

There's also a reasonable chance that even if they wanted to tell you they might not be able to do so. More and more this sort of detection takes place using machine learning algorithms which use hundreds of factors to evaluate risk rather than just being a simple rule which they can inform you about.

Whenever you use a platform for financial transactions you should always consider what risks the platform is taking in letting you conduct that transaction and how they mitigate that risk.
Visual Studio, especially when paired with Resharper is a tremendously productive dev environment. C# is a fantastic language and it's got a host of new features that make it possible to write in a more functional style, stuff like lambdas, expressions, type inference, dynamic types, anonymous types.

The main problem is that people don't think about any of that when they think about .Net. They think about that festering bog of evil and spaghetti code that is WebForms.
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Wow. Yeah. TortoiseGit. Wherever my brain is I hope it's happy and it writes soon. Thanks!
Come now, that's hardly fair - you are asking them to unilaterally open their doors And be open with their data, while the others would obviously not reciprocate.

Your standard for credibility ensures the speakers suicide, at which point there is no conversation to be had because the remaining players don't give a damn.

How do you suggest they go about handling this?

Edited for brevity.
He meant Wikipedia time. I've spent three hours reading Byzantine history and related articles in about an hour.

Check for yourself with a timer:

1) http://www.online-stopwatch.com/

2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire

go.
Of course you can. People spend far, far too much time worrying about what programming language they should use for their project. You should not spend your time learning Ruby/node.js/Scala, you should launch your MVP with what you know.

If you have to, you can change later- though from experience, there's little need to with .NET. I work for RecordSetter (http://www.recordsetter.com) and we use ASP.NET MVC- back in the early days of the company, the CTO knew .NET very well, so he just used his existing knowledge. C# is a great language, Visual Studio is a great IDE, MVC is a great framework. And so on and so on. We aren't really suffering any ill effects as a result of our choice, and as others have noted, BizSpark membership is actually a great bonus.

If anyone out there wants to play around with C# for the web but feels like the ASP.NET stack is too heavy (it can be), take a look at Nancy.FX (http://www.nancyfx.org/). It's super lightweight and allows you to keep most of .NET out of your way.
Other intelligent life will probably have a huge effect. But simply finding life, even complex life, won't.

The question now is the reverse - suppose we find nothing? Suppose we find no life even in an environment that should have it?
We are a BizSpark startup using a combination of free tools and open source technology. Haven't spent a dime yet.
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If you're into this type of thing, I imagine http://throneofjs.com/ would be up your alley as well.

Speakers:
Alex MacCaw — Spine.js
Steve Sanderson — knockout.js
Dan Webb — Top Secret
Erich Ocean — Blossom
Miško Hevery — Angular
John Bender — jQuery-mobile
Jeremy Ashkenas — backbone.js
Yehuda Katz — ember.js
Tom Dale — ember.js
Nick Small — batman.js
Harry Brundage — batman.js
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tldr from the article:

So, if your code needs syntactical changing when it gets extended, to me you’ve optimized prematurely. Code will always change and making sure our maintainers have a hard time breaking it is a very simple and good idea.

In other words, a good programmer writes code for project maintainability, not to signal dominance by showing off knowledge of the parser. [+]

(Corollary: One's cleverness is always a finite resource. I'd rather work with someone who devotes that resource to what's good for the project, not his own fame and ego.)

[+] - Unfortunately, the way teaching CS sometimes works, students are rewarded for showing off clever and elite code every chance they get, to show the prof they're a "real" coder.
BTW, Azure is a nice scaling solution but it slows initial development way down, it's a pain to debug, and it locks you into a single hosting provider. Not a good solution for me and I think it's crazy that Microsoft keeps pushing it as a platform for early stage startups.
Holy shit!

Edit: Are you sure MC942ZM/A is a real apple part number? Try googling it. Your point stands, though.
I think it uses also a built-in compass and a central server for communication. There is also a small bullet spread.
I'd say that it's not that risk isn't appreciated. Rather, risk tends to be taken in a rather bi-polar way.

99% of the time, the government goes with the giant, ossified consulting firm. However, 1% of the time, they decide to take a risk. They don't just go with the local start-up, though. They hire Bob's nephew, who's "a real whiz with computers." Bob's nephew puts together a minimum viable product, then Bob's 12 year old nephew accidentally sends out a mass e-mail with everyone's medical records.

The agency then gets accused of not taking privacy seriously, so a whole new set of privacy rules are enacted. Only a industrial giants have the patience to wade through this paperwork, so they scoop up every job for a while.

Eventually, someone looks at the insane standards and points out that the government could save millions of dollars that they're paying to IBM by just hiring a startup. Bob then points out that they could save thousands of dollars on this bloated startup by just hiring his nephew.
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It's not only lookalikes that plague Amazon, but also counterfeit products. E.g. my girlfriend once bought a Playstation 3 controller from the Amazon marketplace. When it arrived, it looked virtually identical to the controller that came with the PS3. I did notice that the quality seemed a bit worse, but assumed that Sony opted for cheaper production.

Fast forward a few months, and suddenly the controller stops working. After checking some websites, we found out that Sony disabled some series of counterfeit controllers.

Luckily, Amazon refunded the money. But it is still a nuisance.
>Remember what you were asking for funding for - the game.

Actually, from the kickstarter page:

The funds generated from Kickstarter allow us to:

Hire extra talent for things like music, sound effects and additional platform development like Android
Promote and market to help sell the game and fund future expansions and possible sequels
Localize the game to other regions like Europe and Asia
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I hugely disagree with this. I'll give 3 examples and some more explanation:

I'm not sure about others, but playing GTA 1 at 10 years old didn't make me a serial murderer as far as I know, nor did it offend me to shoot people's heads off on the PS2 with GTA III later. My parents did actually return this game though, they thought it went a bit far. Or my father did, my mother never got to see it, probably for the better.

Earlier, I think at about 7-8 years old, I played Command and Conquer 2: Tiberian Sun. I think it was 16+, might have been 18+. Yeah you really could see a few pixels blood for like two fifth of a second. Now that made me a real dictator, and afterwards I was screaming under the table. Sure...

Then the last game I really played a lot is OpenArena, mostly a Quake 3 copy. So with real pixels resembling some 90's version of blood and gore. Must say I never noticed it until I started playing a bit more pro, and I noticed the gore was actually in my field of sight. Then I set com_blood 0 and my visibility was improved... I was about 15 when I started playing. The game is 17+ but I only noticed that when I was 17 (I'm 18 now). That, too, didn't quite offend me.

So WHY do I ask? Why are we even bothering to print these things on the covers anymore? It is a very slight indication of what age category the game is for, but much more useful would it be to put on the covers something like "Blatant sex" or "Dull game good for children under 10". Now that won't happen, but the equivalents wouldn't be such a bad idea. Then they could stop making judgments of which size fits all (since you can hardly put up a personality test in the shop before getting an age recommendation).

Also something people apparently fail to notice how it's called an age recommendation. Here at least. Still though, as 15-year-old you won't be able to buy a 16+ game. Like the expansion pack for Command and Conquer 3. It doesn't even contain blood or sex or anything! Maybe in the cut-scenes of the campaign, but I never even played that (skirmish and online ftw). How could they know? They can't! So why make anymore judgment than a recommendation?

Moral of this rant: Parents: Don't you dare looking at the age rating! If it says what's in the game, like drugs or violence, that might be of some use. Best would be to just watch a gameplay trailer someone put on Youtube, then make the best decision for your child. Can you really trust other's to make the best decision?
I have used several versions of Visual Studio, and while it's not Eclipse/slow/broken, I never really saw why everyone loves the hell out of VS's IDE. Can you show me a page highlighting why it's so good? (Not trolling, really trying to understand the love).
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Sorry, but I agree with the GP. When I read your title, I expected you to be describing how Kickstarter cheated you.

A better title: "Want success using Kickstarter? Start with a business plan."
Lisp languages have virtually no syntax.

Example: Write a function that generates a string of all the numbers in a range from a start and end value.

Java (lots of syntax, many tokens):

String rangeString(int start, int end) {
String oni = "";
for(int i = start; i < (1 + end); i++) {
oni += String.valueOf(i);
}
}

Clojure (almost no syntax):

(defn [start end]
(apply str (range start (inc end))))
Are you kidding? JSMin is open source. If you care so much, send a pull request. JS has plenty of weird corner cases. It's up to the author to decide whether he wants to spend time dealing with every single one.
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cool site,good luck, I bookmarked it in my Blogs Folder.
Show HN: building an iOS app with my friend
I already told this to vilpponen directly, but it's wonderful to see that this particular company is being discussed out in the public finally. Finland has (had) this weird culture where you can't publicly criticize a person who's achieved a certain "position" in the minds of masses - Mr. Ollila being one of them. I think not only is this a great lesson about funding "air" but also how the Finnish society is changing.

Happy to be a part of the change through Startup Sauna. Hopefully we can "fix" this sinking boat during the coming years.
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Doesn't FB keep shadow information as well? Information onpeople who,likely exists, but aren't on FB yet?

So how do those people get their info out?
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It would be cool if you included the "Before" in the blog post as well. Nice work on the design, especially for a medical student!
That is what I am thinking too. I know they said they cant respond to every last application to explain why you weren't accepted, but I'm hoping they at least let you know when the selection process is over, or this anxiety might dip into tomorrow...or the whole week, who knows! ha. Good luck on your application. Let me know if you get a response!
User interface designers invade Silicon Valley after success of Instagram
This is a dupe of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3833850, except this points to a useless G+ page rather than to the guy's actual article.
Given the age of g+, it will take a little time before it reaches FB levels, I'd think.
If this is a significant problem in the market, then it also an opening for a site which filters out the copy-cats and tries to make money on affiliate links to various stores.
FWIW, you described a good part of the overall vision I have (we just haven't really talked about it yet). Our goal is to build the platform used to create things and our plans for the business side ensure that anyone who wants to use it will be able to. There's much more than just an IDE here, I wholeheartedly believe that.

In any case, it's going to be a wild ride.. just gotta take it one step at a time :D
A couple things about this one that didn't click with me:

1) You mention "iPhone" at the top. Sorry, I've already clicked "Back"--I'm an Android user. Except Pebble is the first thing I've ever funded via Kickstarter, and I'm ridiculously excited about it, so I'm clearly in their target market.

2) I don't get the "Beam your music, Scotty." part--it's not the biggest draw for me (and I'm not a Star Wars/Trek person, despite being a huge geek!) My biggest interest in Pebble? It's a watch that lets ME do what I want with it--I can display the time in weird fonts, or make it say:

seven

thirty

THREE

...or any of those other cool things. In other words, it's the design and flexibility that interest me more than the features.

Pebble lets me be crafty...with my WATCH. That is freakin' awesome. It is SO awesome that I will be wearing a watch for the first time in years. And that's exciting. I feel like this page misses that genuine excitement that got me to buy a Pebble and tell all my friends about it.
Honestly I don't understand from your post what the reason for not applying to YC was.
My friend wanted to buy me a kickstarter-backed card game called Cards Against Humanity which has been sold out for some time, so she forked over a good bit of money (several times the retail price) to buy what she thought was a rare unopened copy on Amazon. Advertised clearly as such, complete with pictures of the actual game.

It turned out what she actually got was a crappy homemade set of print-outs made off of a PDF the company provides for people to make their own copy of the game for personal use. Their site specifically states '...you can use and remix our game for free, but you can’t sell it. Please do not steal our name or we will smash you'. Needless to say, she was pretty disappointed. She returned it and got her money back with no issue (except for the shipping she paid for both ways); the seller claimed he had no idea he was selling counterfeits. I imagine they made quite a bit of money doing this and taking advantage of people too lazy to go through the return process. It's really a shame, but sadly policing the market seems to be an extremely difficult problem (at least economically) considering how many products are listed.
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From PONG to this.

This is perhaps the most accessible way to appreciate just how much the increase in computation (both 'general purpose' and 'graphical') can be done on high end hardware these days.

True story, I was a big fan of Empire (ran on terminals, later became known as Bright's Empire) and when I went to Intel and worked on their 'high end' graphics chip (82786, used in exactly one video card from Number 9) we thought maybe someday you would be able to see the units battling cities rather than have your A turn a city '*' into an 'O'. Little did I know ...
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Nervous Kremlin seeks to purge Russia's Internet of 'western' influences
To paraphrase the well-known maxim, you can never go broke underestimating the good taste of the american public (over a long enough timeframe). The IP status of the voice is a really fascinating question though, given how complex the current songwriting/master/recording breakdown is already.
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Microsoft does the right thing here to give licenses away to startups. However, I would try to stick to their mainstream products which are likely to survive a few years ahead and avoid the "to-new-unproven" ones, mainly to make sure the product is still developed and maintained 3+ years down the line.

I'd go for open source any day, but that brings other challenges instead. :)
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If you're going to do this, I would suggest configuring your webserver to redirect the hashed URL to the canonical one. That will make it less likely for people to bookmark and pass around the URL with the big hash, which is there just to generate the picture.
Crazy shipping prices would only happen with shady 3rd party merchants. Filter with "Prime eligible" to only get items that are shipped out of Amazon's fulfillment centers.
This is not a new problem. It's been common long enough, at least, that Monty Python made a lovely sketch about it several decades ago: http://www.montypython.net/scripts/bookshop.php
If something is crawlable by Google then it should be crawlable by Bing or DDG or me if I want to try and make something.

Certainly a more 'open web' would help Google, but it would also help Bing, DDG or any other dev who would like to make something interesting.
I'm pretty sure with enough voice data you can make people say just about anything, and Tupac left behind a ton of voice data.
They send you an email whether you get accepted or rejected. I believe if you get accepted you get a link to calendar system to pick a date/time for your interview.

If you get accepted after the interview they call you to let you know.
I am currently writing the a style guide (for a small agency), and I have added semi-colons as preferred for JavaScript. And abusing the && operator like in the now infamous code snippet is definitely out.

Our code needs to be maintainable for inexperienced developers. I don't want to make it easier for them to make mistakes and I don't want them to ponder rare (though valid) syntax. I feel this is a valid reason to maintain this rule.

// This we can all understand
clearMenus();
if(isActive) {
$parent.toggleClass('open');
}

Once a developer understands ASI and other details he is free to feel elated with his new-found knowledge, but I'd prefer if he choses to know rather than to apply these powers.
So is recordsetter still on ASP.Net MVC?

Regarding the language doesn't matter thing I think that's mostly true. If you're choosing between Ruby and ASP.Net MVC I don't think you can loose. But sometimes the framework does matter, like if you want to build a startup on webforms (don't).
Hi, I develop in Python and js. Idle is ok, but I'm sick and tired of Eclipse and I almost freaked out when I saw your article. The video seems pretty awesome and after taking a peep at the code, I'm thinking of learning Clojure just to be able to participate in the project. Visual Studio has finally proven itself useful (developing in it make you imagine better ways to develop software apparently) XD

My request is if you have some link for a let's say "decent" coder who wants to understand and maybe try to compile the code on his own computer (debian). Perhaps even recommend an IDE for Clojure until this one is ready.
Violence is essentially fictional to the vast majority of Americans. It's something you see on television. Sex really happens. There is an awful lot of this [sex], largely because of the total lack of anything else to do.
Ask HN: Advice on creating a LLC before a kickstarter project?
I've been looking into starting a project on kickstarter and am wondering whether it makes sense to form an LLC before the project, or whether it is wiser to wait to see if the project becomes successful and then form one.

Any advice?
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Because all you see it as is an argument about syntax. It's actually an argument between the old guard and the up-and-coming hotshots.

Nobody really cares one way or another, and while it would take Twitter more time to append changes to their code than it would Crockford, my guess is the trouble for either would be negligible.

That said, this is very obviously a pride war between those who stick to convention and those who undermine it. The question isn't "should we use semicolons", it's "who is going to start dictating the direction Javascript goes from here on out?"

Clearly, both of these individuals want that spot, but if there's anything I've learned in my short time of coding, convention always wins out.
This is a fantastic idea. I love the breadth of frameworks covered. Are you having to solicit developers to create their own example? Nicely done.
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