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The important part is not the money, its the opportunity for people like me to invest in growing companies. The money is just the way the risk is transferred.

Obviously, I would want the crowd sourced company to be a part of YC. The mentoring and the contacts are what make their companies successful.

But all that work takes energy and costs money, so we (the HN community) has to assume the risk. PG could structure it so that YC gets a stake in the company we fund. YC puts in the energy and the mentoring, and in exchange gets a stake. We put in the money and assume most of the risk.

Its a low-risk way to fund another applicant. I say low risk because there still are risks, namely that having more investors spells trouble and there are legal costs associated with us. But that's not a hurdle, merely part of the equation into how the profit would be distributed.
Excepting the extreme minimalism of Forth, this is the first language I'm aware of where simplicity of the implementation was a concern.

Actually (and I don't have a reference now, but) Guido van Rossum specifically rejects certain speed or other improvements to CPython because they add more complexity than they're worth to the interpreter/compiler.
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Excuse the old crappy wordpress theme - I haven't blogged on that domain for 6 years...

Just thought it was something fellow Hacker News readers would be interested in and chose somewhere to post it.
We did something similar with KeepAlive on http://settleapp.com - we figured that a new user with an empty cache (it's just a holding site, so most users are first-time visitors) would need to load the index and 23 other assets.

We set keepalive to 24 requests over a single http connection - the whole site loads noticeably quicker as a result.
Kind of looks like you're loading jQuery and not using? That's a good chunk of bandwidth and execution time there!
Yes however it could be for YC companies only, so you know you're less likely to get a dud. However I'm not sure how it would workout and it could get messy fast. I see a lot of potential pitfalls in crowd funding startups, there will be bugs at first.
Yeah, it's probably a choice. Both in Gnome and in Unity. Let's not confuse users by too many options and make our phone support as efficient as possible. Or something like that.

I might not like that but there are valid reasons to have dumbed down options. And if I'm not mistaken you can get some configurability out of 3rd party tools.
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It's much more fun to code a robot than to hire a journalist :-)

But also, once you get to massive robot production, then the amount of journalists will seem small. Think of content personalized to each user. Real time description of things around you in your software. In our startup we plan to have a robot write the plot for user generated games based on their custom settings. Hiring a writer for each use would certainly increase our costs.
I'm not sure what benefit this would have to the YC partners, unless they have an unwanted barrier to funding more applicants because of lack of money, which I doubt. While it may be fun (and profitable) to crowdsource-fund at the seed level, why would YC give its services to a company they have no stake in for the sake of making the HN community money?

I'd see more value if the HN community itself were to pool together money and invest in the various classes, though this benefit may be completely negated by what the Start Fund does.
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Who cares if Murdoch lobbied?
Well, you have to remember two things.

First, publishing (whether it's papers, broadcast, whatever) is a big lumbering business. There are entrenched interests, people who fear or loathe technology, egos, and all of the other perils which modulate large scale human endeavors.

There are people within the news world who have been working on computer assisted reporting, doing all sorts of cool stuff for decades now. What hasn't happened is a uniform and widescale adoption of all of these practices, because much of the workflows involved in the business are tied to their legacy business, and those legacy components are really difficult to shed for a pile of reasons.

Ben may be talking about this stuff as a good idea, but it's not that nobody's been doing this stuff... it's that stuff like this isn't standard practice across the industry (yet).

Also, please remember that Ben is talking about automating these processes. Reporters have been filing FOIA requests manually, and getting info from the government essentially for as long as there has been a government and foia laws. That's where part of the tepidness about technology comes from. The government isn't particularly friendly to efforts to stream line processes that get more information to reporters.
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Actually I cannot decide the placement on the homepage. Our important areas are: "Users online", Signup form, and "How it works" video.

Maybe I should replace Signup form with the "How it works" video.
Ask HN: How does everyone do it?
I've been a programmer (coder, whatever) for about 6 years now. I had worked as a Mac repair guy for about 9 years before that and took a job with an SEO company that turned out being more marketing than technical but it sparked my interest in HTML and Javascript.

I started with PHP and MySql and tinkering around with my own things and eventually landed a gig coding the stuff for a local web site that was going up. I started out way out of my depth but figured things out as I went along and ended up getting good enough to recognize my earlier mistakes and improve my code as I went along.

Fast-forward about a year and I landed a job doing web development for a local company. I worked there for almost 4 years before recently taking a new job and learned a lot in the process. I started to branch out and try other languages. I've played around with Ruby on Rails but haven't built anything with it yet. I've messed around with trying to make some of my own command line tools in C (still have a lot to learn there). I briefly played with Java for something different to try. Most recently though, I jumped head-first into working on an iPad app. Much like my beginnings with PHP, I learned my way through a lot of stuff I didn't understand at first and am now able to recognize the crap I was making before. But it took a very long time.

This is the part that gets me. I see posts on here all the time about people that just decided to take up programming one day and wham, some ridiculously short amount of time later they've published their first iPhone game or a web site that's already making money. This stuff takes time, so where does everyone find that?

I'm like a lot of the people on here. I've got a day job, wife, dogs, and pretty soon a kid. All of these things eat at the time I have in a day. So how does everyone else do it? How do you find time in the day to work on your side projects and actually accomplish something?
Is Unity proprietary software?
If it was open source I'm surprised it has not been forked by now.
So very cool. I think there's a big future in automated personal metric tracking like this. Keeping a log of everything you eat is an incredibly powerful tool, but too onerous for most to keep up with - imagine if your glasses automatically recognized everything you ate and logged the calories / estimated nutrition?
How about the opposite: I assume high frequency traders use algos to interpret whether news stories are good are bad for stocks and trade accordingly
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This reminds me of the jQuery docs situation. Every month or so somebody comes up with an alternative way to access them that's flashy and uses <div> frames with low contrast text and lots of shadows and gradients. I play with the site for 60 seconds thinking "this is neat", and then go back to using the official docs because they come up in a Google search.

I don't think I've ever actually accessed the Python docs in any other way in fact. Same goes for Django. They're clean, static HTML, totally trivial for search engines to index and you always get just what you think you're getting when you click over from a search engine.

Also, unrelated: I learned something today. I read the claim that Python and Ruby are roughly the same age and thought "no way, Python is old-as-hell, Ruby can't be nearly as old". But then Wikipedia pointed out that Python is only 4 years older (1991 vs. 1995).
Given that a big part of the dietary changes is getting rid of as many carbs as possible, does anyone have any advice for eating out at lunch on this kind of diet?

Going out and grabbing some food is a rewarding part of my day, but I'm struggling to think of any options for low carb, almost everywhere seems to focus on bread, pasta or rice.
Yes, I think that would be the best solution.
That law doesn't mean you can invest in any privately held company. True, there is a lower bar to entry, but the startups need a reason to want you to invest in them.
So, you want analysis and flavor text.

Not everyone does necessarily. There is a place where good writing and journalism overlap, but that's not the totality of what journalism is for.
What about Flipboard or Pulse on iPad? And Flipboard does have existing curated topic feeds, for free even.
If you will that falling in love...
Falling in love...

Think if you will that falling in love is controlled by the random act of just a little fellow within a diaper as he flies aimlessly all through the world shooting arrows at those around him. Just realize that you'll be able to run from it, but you can not hide, and that when you are infected there's no implies of erasing the truth that you are indeed in adore.

The emotions which we knowledge when we are falling in really like are almost enough to set off fireworks. Love is a powerful emotion and one particular which the majority of us will luckily have the pleasure to knowledge at some point in our lives. Enjoy knows no boundaries and it is going to infect any person irregardless of one's race, stature, age or intelligence.

Love is possibly one of many most potent natural drugs accessible for us to knowledge. It truly is raw emotion at it's best and it's around attempting to locate you.
Love changes your emotional chemistry...

The signs and symptoms of a cold last in between seven and fourteen days, and although a cold could be annoying, it turns out that it may possibly really be a simple disease course in comparison with falling in adore.

Enjoy will take you around a year, and perhaps even two, to recover from. The physical symptoms that adore imposes on your body last significantly longer than a negative case in the flu.

Enjoy attacks the brain and its ability to preserve rational thought, so count on becoming emotionally unstable, or in layman's terms an emotional wreck, for at least a year immediately after your initial exposure. Be conscious that these signs and symptoms can last upwards and effectively into the 3 year time period.

There are no known treatments or cures for enjoy as well as chicken soup won't assist to alleviate any of its symptoms. So crawl into bed and pull the blankets up more than your head in case you like, but if cupid has shot his little arrow in your direction then sooner or later you're going to locate a silly little grin plastered across your face, and you'll need to acknowledge the reality that you've been struck by adore.

As you fall deeper and deeper in to the complex state of disrepair known just as love, your brain begins releasing a host of dizzying chemical substances into your method, and one particular by one particular it truly is these chemical messages that force you to exist inside a new state of heightened reality.

It's just a little protein molecule inside your brain that is suspected to become partially accountable for the unnerving physical modifications that you just experience as you fall in love. Recognized just as "nerve growth factor" or NGF, this tiny protein experiences a rapid enhance in numbers whenever you fall in enjoy, and it remains proportionally high within your brain for approximately 1 year immediately after the initial assault that adore delivers to your physique. For males or girls falling in love these chemical alterations are essentially exactly the same.
The SEC is still reviewing the crowd funding portion before anyone can utilize it. Crowdfunding equity in startups has major governance problems that will be very difficult to solve.

I'm genuinely confused how people think it is a good idea to open up a class of investment with no controls. Why not just buy stocks where the companies have transparency and solid corporate governance?
This article is moronic. OS X has adapted elements of iOS yes, but the Win 8 Metro experience is essentially the same on touch and pointer devices.
The article attempts to paint Apple as hypocritical for criticizing Microsoft over their plans for Windows 8, by saying their approaches are largely similar.

But that's not true.

Apple is borrowing some conventions from iOS and reimplementing them on the Mac. Unlike Microsoft, they are not attempting to deliver the same operating system to both touch based and desktop computers.
This is great. I would absolutely buy one of these.
Well, I don't know if this is the way to do it, but there have been times where my mind has been blown by projects submitted to HN where I wanted to communicate my utter amazement at what they had accomplished. I remember the time where a guy was offered a job by joshu in the comments for his submission.

Maybe we could start it out as a crowd-pledging venture where the community can pledge a commitment to contribute to the success of a product without the need for the creators' consent. If the creators accept the commitment, they can hash over the details with the committers subsequently.

One way to go about it would be to create a separate "pledge" economy from karma that still utilizes HN's default interface (for, say, karma>1000). Very flattr-like, I guess.
No, it won't break them; it will just make them confusing to read. The scope of the function arguments would be more local, so they would hide the declarations further up the scope chain.

What's more of a problem is if you have something like this: https://gist.github.com/2499913

The problem is that the "var p" in the for loop will be hoisted to the top of the scope, and so when you call p() in the first line, it will actually be undefined.
Great article! The process of using hardware to count calisthenics is certainly not trivial. Thank you for sharing your data and process.

Recently my consulting firm was tasked with detecting the calisthenics exercises (push-ups, sit-ups, and pull-ups) involved in the Navy SEAL physical screening test. After much research, we were able to use the accelerometer and gyroscope on the iPhone in tandem to achieve this. I was surprised at the level of success we were able to attain. You inspire me to write up a bit about how we were able to make this work.

If you are interested in this app, feel free to check it out here: http://itunes.apple.com/app/sealready/id520161454
Which would you rather do? Get 8 hours of sleep everyday, or exercise 5 hours a week?
>> Hibernate (suspend to disk) has been disabled by default, as it was found to be unreliable, very slow and confusing to have two suspend modes.

I'd guess from the phrasing that suspend-to-disk can still be enabled, it just isn't by default.
I'm in the same boat as you. What I've discovered while learning rails is that while you may have a hard time tracking down function names, you'll almost always remember them for next time.
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I think the invites are better in this case.
The author made a similar point of Google+.
Essentially, by not letting anyone in right now, and only having invites. That means no one can come in now and see it as a barren wasteland.

When they send out the invites, they'll probably send it to all the people who registered at the same time (hopefully a lot by that time) and when they all join on at once, they all see each other online. No wasteland problem.

Seems like a good solution to me.
We actually use the term GP in the US
> I'd rather eat on wooden plates than stay with a head-ache

As a hobbyist wood turner who makes my own wooden plates and bowls, I suggest that eating off of wooden plates (or "treen" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treen_(wooden) as it was called) is actually kind of nice. It takes no more time to wash, the texture is earthy and solid, it's hygenic, and it makes you feel in touch with your environment.

(NOTE: I'm not a crazy hippy. I write Ruby, build CNC machines, and look forward to living in the asteroid belt some day...but it's still aesthetically nice to use stuff that has a personal imprint and local texture to it)
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I've found that sports are the best way to get cardio as well; a high-intensity game of squash burns 816 calories/hour and is a lot more fun than an hour on the treadmill.
One data point here. I found the Recipes with Backbone well worth the $24 asking price. Aside from the PeepCode screencasts, it was the source that most helped me get up and running with Backbone.

I've also seen it recommended in several threads so I'm guessing (b) is also satisfied.
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For background, the JOBS Act that was recently signed removes a ton of regulation from the funding of small companies and specifically allows the creation of "funding portals" that allow non-accredited investors (ie. regular people) to invest up to $10k/year in startups.

Seems like a "curated fund" where organizations like YC pick the companies and crowdsource funds would be one of the better applications of the new legal permissions (the potential "worse applications" being boiler rooms pushing hot new photo sharing startups to midwestern pensioners).

However, it's not like YC and other funds are hurting for cash so what's the incentive for PG to need to crowdsource funds in tiny amounts like this when they have plenty of institutional funding? The limits are 2,000 investors and $10k/investor for a max of $20m of crowdsourced funding per company (assuming every investor makes $100k+ and maxes out on one company which would be stupid).

It'd be like Scrooge McDuck stepping outside his money bin to pick up pennies off the street.

I'm very interested to see how established VC firms react to JOBS Act. It's not like startups are finding it difficult to get funding right now, so doesn't this just create a subprime market for companies that the big players have no interest in? Coupled with the lifting of advertising restrictions and the appeal to amateur investors, this seems like the potential makings of the next big bubble...
Robots have much better memory and access to want you call "experience" than a human.

Robots only do what they're told and are only as good and creative as the coder. If you can write an emotional heated narrative. Then you can code a robot that does the same. There's nothing intrinsic to programming that makes it impossible for good writers to coffee a robot that mimics their style.
> Using petrol on personal transportation is such a waste. I'd like to see a heavy carbon tax so that this fantastic, but finite, resource would be directed to things where it really adds value.

Forgive me if I respect the decentralized distributed thinking of 6 billion people, including millions of economists, engineers, materials scientists, etc., over one random commenter on HN, but I personally have no reason what-so-ever to believe that your judgement that the ROI on oil is higher in plastics mfgr than in transport.
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Why do skills matter in the software industry? It is the economy, stupid
(Disclaimer: I'm the author of one of the books linked at the end of the post.)

Design is not just important for usability, but also for marketing. If you have an awesome framework, you have to get the word out so people know about it and want to use it. It's not the same kind of marketing a business uses because it's not directly tied to revenue, but it is important if you want said framework to be used and its surrounding community to grow.

How many blog posts do you see complaining about or even advocating the new framework hotness? People are jumping ship to Node.js now and saying Rails sucks, and there's consistently a new framework du jour. I'm not saying that's a good thing, but it is definitely proof that marketing affects framework adoption.

I know it sounds kind of scummy to talk about marketing OSS. The point isn't to position Python as the sexy new language everyone needs to switch to, but to represent the community and quality tools and knowledge it offers. If a new programmer visits the Django site and then the Rails site, might they assume Django is a smaller community because the site isn't as pretty? Maybe the first impression is that Django isn't as well maintained, when we all know that's not true.
This is why I went to Mint then back to Debian. Still, having to deal with terribly buggy ATI/AMD proprietary drivers, because I need openCL.

If you can avoid ATI you shall be fine in Debian land.
The JOBS act makes this technically possible, but there are a number of roadblocks that would need to be surmounted before this could happen. First of all, any crowdfunding platform that plans to do this would need to register with the SEC. In addition, the crowdfunding site needs to do pretty thorough diligence on the companies listing equity and any major shareholders of those companies. Both of these provisions are mandated by the law.

Overall, it will happen, and there are people trying to make it so right now, but it's going to take a little while to sort everything out fully.
Sounds like a great idea for an app for Google's Project Glass.