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I think airbnb needs to either raise the money to buy them or merge. If Craigslist worked like airbnb the world would b a better place.
I wonder if the anger could be redirected by the realisation that if they were running their own client software, they would be in control of the interface. To realise the dream of free software. But I suspect most of the "rage" will blow over in fifteen minutes.
The server code for AirMech by Carbon Games is written in Go: see http://carbongames.com/ Basically, a modern Herzog Zwei.
s/microsoft/yahoo/ig and it would be dead on.

After reading this rant, I'm starting to think that all software companies become like this after a while. Extrapolating, I'm guessing Google has 2-3 years to go before they are ruined...
> all of the Cypherpunks, Crypto-Anarchists and techno-libertarians seem to have gone into hiding, or disappeared.

Maybe they joined the Pirate Party?
My advice would be to network with other students interested in startups, and build stuff with them. Twice a semester, there is a business pitch competition called "Pitch Dingman," and there's an annual business plan competition through MTECH. Make it a goal to enter them at some point with friends you make! You'll learn a lot in the process and meet other aspiring entrepreneurs. The Pitch Dingman events are open to the public, so I'd encourage you to check them out and see what UMD entrepreneurs are up to.
Very cool, and nice code. Just to be pedantic (I mean it in the best way), this isn't quite literate programming.

A very basic explanation would be: literate programming is the result of writing a program in a sort of psuedo-code that explains the program in the order of the programmer's thoughts, and then running it through a compiler of sorts which "untangles" the literate program and outputs machine-readable code.

The linked post is nicely formatted and well-documented "regular" code.
It's not safe to be vocal as this requires one to verbalize and linguistically behave as per needs of audience.

Most of the time the jargon of technology upsets the cognitive sensibilities of the layperson. At the same time, negative feedback to the presentation of one's technical views generally determines a depressive curve in one's perceived value of one's abilities.

This is why khanacademy.com, coursera.com et al. are becoming successfully: the technology _is enabling_ general audience to see the posterchildren of our industry. We are expected to not simply learn from their exams, but are at once being forced to adopt a teaching method. They're talking about what we are supposed to already know. Are they doing it better? Their demonstrations are tests of our capacities as contributors to society a al Google, all the way down to overworked Java veteran. Your debt to society is the repetition of your reputation. You'd rather be talking about optimization than sitcoms anyway, and most people are talking about sitcoms or Facebook. As social media blurs the line between what is on "TV" and what is on "the screen," those in the know will more readily experience the curse of knowledge. It supplies a baseline for conversation, for one: one is able to engage in demonstration and dialectic, which is antagonistic to idle conversation. It's constant what one's professing of one's Web-enabled escapades outlines a narrative pre-established by user interface workflows and business and advertisement initiatives. Constantly does this run through the minds of rational technophobists. And we are fast approaching a reality where passive adoption of the narrative of another as regards one's Internet identity sharply delineates character of lifestyle, more readily than simply wearing a certain manner of garment or having certain sense of taste. One is deciding on a question of openness, the last vestige of autonomy. Our opinions, then, I believe rest on principles of assessment for qualities of openness: organized openness, informed openness, civil openness.

A society can be "open" where information in general may be a clutter of human desire, -- or an organized system of thought. Many question the "aesthetic" of technologists, the ethos. How much of that have we mismanaged, or is simply outside of our control, in a world rife with political disorganization and corruption? It is now easy for anyone to cook up Hitler-esque ethical quandaries against groups of programmers who only want to experiment with people, as Spinoza would put it, "as it follows from the nature of a triangle." We are seeing it now: the social risk of projects like Google Glass, tacocopter.com, etc. This is our experiment style, and now humans are the experiment.

Most people in developed countries are practicing hedonism. What more do you expect from the rest, in a world full of free info on how to compile apache or use beef and cheap Amazon supercomputers?
As someone who works for a university, I can say that in some cases the athletics budget is completely separate from the educational side of things. They are independently funded and draw no resources from education.

I do not know if this is how UF handles its budgets.
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from amazon
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Remember, Erlang scales between machines.

Erlang's actually all about reliability. It's the secret decoder ring to its design, not the actor model or message passing, which serve as the ways it gets to reliability. (Even to some extent its syntax. Excepting comma-period-semicolon which is just dumb.) And one of the principles of Erlang is that you don't have reliability when you are running on only one set of computer hardware.
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disclaimer: This is a political rant from the articles facts.

This is a huge opinion article with a little bit of fact sprinkled over it accusing Gov. Rick Scott of doing the wrong thing.

For anyone that has been to Florida or knows what Florida Economics are currently, I think Rick Scott did a good thing. I think more so, the University staff ought to be to blame.

For some fact. Florida's economy has been hit the hardest out of almost every state except Nevada. But with budget cuts, Nasa employees being laid off, a staggering 18% unemployment, roughly 25% of children homeless/living in motels or living in poverty, and Florida's homestead/business taxes being some of the highest in the country, he is only trying to cut government spending to the levels it should be lowered to. Instead of blaming a governor for his cutting of education, maybe this article should look at how he is trying to rescue a state from over spending so that taxes can be lowered so the economy may rebound a bit.
Here's a non-literate, Javascript version I made using WebGL for the graphics: https://github.com/jl2/WebGL-Stuff/tree/master/life_game

And the "live" code: http://jlarocco.com/life_js/index.html

Seems Conway's Game of Life has been popular lately.
A lot of intros to Erlang miss an important point: Erlang is about fault tolerance, not concurrency. The concurrency is a means to an end -- if your systems has to survive process crashes, hardware failures, and so on, it needs to have multiple components that can supervise and restart each other. Unlike (say) node.js, in Erlang, error handling is priority #1. Its ability to juggle lots of concurrent connections is just a consequence of its priority on localizing errors.

Also, Erlang tries to address many failure cases that other languages/platforms do not; this isn't free. It's often a good trade-off (making systems resilient after the fact can be quite an undertaking), but worth noting.
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It's very relevant to this particular article because it's nerd linkbait.

I, personally, can't see a reason why a CS program would not be a priority for a university. I, personally, am also not an administrator at UF and don't need to have an opinion on it.

I'm sure this will pop up another 10 times this week though, as if there is a war on computer science.
Fixing a bug or adding a feature to a huge open source project an be fairly intimidating at first. I find it's the build systems, test styles, and so on that get me stuck and often where I give up.

But the first time I received a software update and my name was in the release notes as a feature contributor was quote exciting :)
I think the argument is that looking back and laughing is a fundamental issue of design trends. To put it differently, do you think that people won't look back in twenty years and laugh at today's fashion trends? Fashion design has had a few millenia to mature and we still haven't got it right. It's a little unfair to hold web design to a higher standard.
This style (using no circuit boards) is pretty popular in the BEAM robots community, where it's known as "freeforming". Here's a random example http://www.flickr.com/photos/mohitbhoite/5708836052/in/photo...
Perhaps it just has to do with modern practices and libraries encouraged by modern IDEs. I approached it recently, so I can't speak for times before the IDEs were there.

Strong typing is certainly very helpful for making smart compilers and tools---I can't deny that, I'm a Haskell junky. I don't think it's always a best practice though. Being able to handle horrible codebases means that the language/editor environment also allows horrible codebases to survive longer.
I live in Gainesville and many students are very upset about this and have shown it online and in protests.

I'm not 100% certain, but I do believe the athletics budget is separate from academics.
That will do wonders for UF employment/salary stats.
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Another idea for colors is to use progressively more transparent pixels for older generations. Add a bit of a hue shift and it renders some really beautiful decay visualizations.
Great comment. Unfortunately, Libertarians get too closely associated with Republicans, because the sad truth is that many people do not even know what Libertarians stand for. I have always said that in the simplest terms, Libertarians are really just interested in freedom - social freedom (like Democrats) and financial freedom (like Republicans).
lthread allows you to do so by message passing.
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A small piece of advice: Don't try to do everything at once. I think it would probably be better to start with something similar to a standard text editor with one or two bonus features and evolve that over time to your final product. Bringing in a bunch of radical new ideas all at once seems like it probably isn't going to work very well.

I put in $50. I think this project could be really cool if it turns into more than just vaporware. Best of luck to you.
And yet amazon.com has, at least now, an awesome logo. It's got an arrow from a to z which makes a smile. Three elements related to what it does, or at least aims to do.
This would be a perfect Kickstarter project. I'd like one.
Oh what the heck, because we're all sharing our Conways Attempts here is mine:
https://github.com/JAStanton/conways-game-of-life

And the live version:
http://www.jastanton.com/experiments/conways-game-of-life/

Mine acts more like a game, you can start and stop with 's' and enter draw mode with 'd' and draw on the cells.
Why not do it the normal way of submitting a proposal to suitable publishers?
> Recognizable, fast-loading, but outdated as hell website

Wait. What? No webfonts or gradients? No parallax scrolling? NO FACEBOOK LIKE BUTTONS? Damn that's old.
A bit of a quibble: Florida has high taxes in some areas because it's one of only 7 states with no income tax. Overall taxation, considering the no-income-tax part, is pretty low, and its state+local spending is roughly in line with that of other states.
If you are pitching to a potential investor about this idea for an app, and they ask you "So are you technical?" what they mean is "Are you a technical (co-)founder?" as in "Are you the guy who will build/design the prototype/app to a working level before we pour enough money in for you to actually hire decent coders?" When you say yes, but later reveal you don't know how to code but you studied nutrition, they are going to get annoyed.

Once again, it's context. In many worlds technical means other things, but to North American VCs looking at software/apps/etc, it means you know how to get the app/site/whatever running. Since we're talking about the startup world, I really can't see how a potential investor would see it as anything less than deceptive if you said "yeah I'm technical" and then revealed you don't have the capabilities to implement your idea.
> I do wish that there existed a forum for some of the discussions that used to actually happen on the cypherpunks list

check out the bitcoin forums. Honestly, I think the op has been hiding under a rock for the past couple years. Bitcoin and tor are great examples, but there are plenty of other disruptive projects out there, like loom, open-transactions, ripple. Crypto-anarchists didn't go away, they got to work creating practical applications that can change people's lives, and not just for the geeks.
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100s of thousands of App Store items comprise largely of crap than appears to be there only to push the app counter where it needs to be for Apple's marketing purposes. If Microsoft is to release a two-click FartApp build wizard, I'm sure they'll manage to catch up quite quickly.

In other words, I have this faint sliver of hope that Microsoft will get their App Store right, in which case I'd gladly take a set of 99 decent apps over Apple's wide selection of abysmality.
There's more to it. See HN's previous discussion, ten days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3832685
CFselect too, and possibly Corbin.
There has to be a connection between them. The athletics draw no resources from education, but how can this be so? Instead of increasing the budget of athletics, why can't the education budget be increased instead?
To be honest, more crypto got shipped outside the cypherpunks than within. PGP (of debatable utility now) and otr (the chat encryption) are the main useful systems produced by cypherpunkdom (mixmaster and tor (sort of) too); SSL, Start TLS, IPsec, ssh, ... came from outside.

I'd rather see security and cryptography packaged so it can be widely used by normal app developers, vs. relying on privacy/security aficionados to do everything.
On one hand MS's huge cash cow can hide so many horrible decisions, but as a company they are doing great. Especially for a "dead" one. According to some bloggers they should have been decomposed by now but they are making almost $25 BILLION a year in pure profit, while investing in a lot of new stuff that can always be put in the market by another mgmt team (imagine what sits on those Microsoft Research labs /hard drives /notepads)

This company is becoming the McDonalds of computing. Cheap, mass products, available everywhere. No nutrients, no ideas, no culture.

I love McD's. I love getting the same burger almost anywhere in the world and it's exactly what I expect it to be. No, not cholesterol lowering food, if I want that I'll eat salmon or some other stuff. But McD's is great and it does what it promised.

Windows 8 is a fine example. The new Metro interface displays nonstop, trivial updates from Facebook, Twitter, news sites and stock tickers. Streams of raw noise distract users from the moment they login.

TURN it off on your system. The world is spending a gazillion hours on FB and Twitter, do you expect MS to ignore that? Image the "MS ignores reality on Windows 8" headlines had they not done this. Companies are notorious for moving slow, those wildly profitable even slower. Don't expect them to change a winning formula because you write a few emails. Start your own company and beat them.
The technologist in me says that is pretty awesome.

The cynic looks at $320M price tag and wonders why I don't have better schools for my kids and DARPA doesn't have a better video of this thing.
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What's your gripe on in-browser JS crypto?

Is it worse than nothing, or just bad?

What alternatives would you suggest?
You are talking about small projects, which, in the scale of things, are insignificant. They are all DevDiv projects, and even within DevDiv, they are fairly small. It's a company of 92000 employees, with some of their projects worth billions quarterly. Your perspective, from your examples, is completely skewed.
Lets not get too carried away here. At least in the US, the defense department, specifically DARPA, invests a lot in research that doesn't have immediate value but has a proven track record for being invaluable years or decades later.

50 years ago someone might have made an argument that investing 380m in health care would be more useful than some crazy thing called 'ARPANET', but i think in the end it turned out better for everyone. Add GPS and self-driving cars to that list too.
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Ask HN: CodeAvengers.com vs CodeCademy.com
CodeAvengers went live 3 weeks ago. Initial users claim that CodeAvengers is much more fun and effective for Javascript novices than CodeCademy. What do you think?

Try http://codeavengers.com and compare with http://codecademy.com/courses/programming-intro
The education budget is set by the state (mostly).

Athletics gets money from donors, ticket revenues and private funding. This allows them to spend as they see fit.
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A blown electrolytic cap is not hard to diagnose. The top of it pops open and crap comes out of it.

I figured out both what they are and how to tell if one has been blown when I was a teenager, all by myself, sans internet.
I'm not, - if you mean you are not calling it HN, the title is HN 2.0.

As far as your site, perhaps being a minimalist, I prefer the current site design, as it serves my needs nicely.
Actually, I think you're vastly underestimating the amount of resources for each Lang to work out well. The key point is semantics. As currently presented, light table is exploiting languages whose semantics can live on a js substrate

If anything, I think they're optimistically underestimating the engineering work for addin js backends for other languages (assuming that's how they plan to have es languages integrated in.) :-)
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Thanks for pointing that out! I had assumed that Literate Programming was simply any programming with a focus on human readability. I've changed the title of the post and credited you at the bottom.
Learning to solder mostly requires practice, so you could probably train someone to do it. You just have to make sure they don't destroy a lot of expensive parts learning. But you're right about all the other stuff.

I wouldn't be surprised to see something like this on Kickstarter, though.
I find the "compact" setting helps a lot on smaller screens.
I'm pretty tired of all the gratuitous peacocking of web sites too. At this point I wouldn't mind much if all the HTML5 stuff just got tossed in the trash in favor of a simpler stack that made the important things like making CSS layout less agonizing work. I'm sure a lot of us read HN partly because it's so refreshingly unornamented.

This drive to make web "apps" has a lot more to do with politics than it does with user experience or good engineering.
I think 18-22yo who do startups are more likely to have something they're passionate about and build something awesome for the long haul.

The 22+ yo who have graduated college and need to find something to do, or those who have worked for one startup and now want to do something (but don't now what), seem a lot more likely to do a "fund me!" perfunctory startup.

I don't think it's really that related to age, though.
That's cool. I've been split for a long time between close souring my stuff or making it open. My gut wants the things I make to be free because I love getting other people involved, but my brain wants to keep things closed so I can make $$$. But really we all are decent programmers, finding work and making money isn't a problem. If I had tons of cash I'd still spend my day programming and the rest with family and friends. So what's the difference? yay open source. Let the people who haven't figured 'it' out yet kill themselves to make more money and then wonder why they still aren't happy ;) /end rant
AIUI the main problem with Microsoft's implementation was that they were calling it "Java" with the implication that it was compatible.
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I think SETI is horribly misguided. It may be there are other civilizations, but that they are smart enough to avoid each other.

I posit that the only aliens we want to meet are ones that are not interested in us. Any interest, given the likely difference in technological levels, is unlikely to end well for us. The book Guns, Germs, and Steel painted a not-so-rosy picture of the meetings of societies at even small differences of technological advances. These differences are likely to be magnified for races without a common ancestral history and similar starting point in time.

The wishful thinking of people hoping to meet alien civilizations includes assumptions like:

* Alien civilization began just like ours.

* Time passed.

* ????????

* Magically altruistic alien society arises.

If this is true, great. But do I want to bet humanity on it? Hell no.
To manage a startup, you need to manage your time first.
I don't read Slashdot or Reddit but on HN I have felt a slow drift from core technology topics towards design and UI. The Applemania is one of the culprit here, I believe.
Anyone else appreciate the irony of the lone Google ads appearing between the description and screenshot of Google's page?
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I went to UF. The athletic department is completely self-funded through donations, sponsorships, media rights deals, ticket sales, etc., and actually contributes about $5mm per year back to academics.
the CSS could be created on the fly, outside of a unified stylesheet.