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Well I think Lua would be a better starting language than Python, but only on its merits as a language.

My core point about Javascript is that it also comes very well integrated into a familiar environment (the browser) which makes it very easy to write beat programs not tied to a CLI.

In my experience, that is much more difficult to do with a normal GUI toolkit, especially for a beginner but also very exciting. Making a neat GUI program, especially when starting out feels great and really motivates you to learn more. Or, at the very least, that was my experience when starting out.
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(and I'm in a similar boat too). I'm already healthy, but just want flat abs - I started this tool because I wanted to get a better idea of what I had to do to get that - how much weight to lose, or if I needed to be building muscle and not losing weight. I'm on MyFitnessPal, and a lot of women seemed to have that question. Working to get all types in here!
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>> Stripe has targeted a niche, not a vertical.

Isn't that the textbook (Christensen) method to successfully attack larger entrenched interests?
I've been following the match since it started and can't fathom what this has to do with hacker news.

Though I can't help but mention that interested parties would be much better served by the coverage at chessbase than the dry 'game-score+laconic-engine-commentary' as presented here.
Opting out of a privacy violation that should not take place to begin with is insane.

Also, way too little way too late.

Ten years ago this might have been seen as constructive contribution towards industry self-regulation. Now it's just a sick joke that won't do anything to change the fact that tracking without explicit permission will be illegal in many parts of the world.
I call it the early adopter effect.

Some people call it riding the wave.

Most VC startups begin with a kernel of a good idea (large bubbles do as well). Now this idea is either self-supporting or supported by funding (both due to the assets of society - not that of the founder). As you are at the beginning of the wave, you ride it, and good people find their way towards you. You then hire these people for below market rates (most equity is worthless) and then use them to make you into the great success that you are.

There are no barriers to entry to becoming a "founder". You just have to be there, and be ready. The competition is low at the beginning. Hence you get drop outs who go on to succeed. The success is not because of themselves, but because of the situation around them.

Own all the land in America 400 years ago, and it's worthless. Wait a few generations and your descendents are some of the richest people on the planet. The founders of America look like absolute geniuses today, when it was the work of the millions who came after them that made them look like gods.

The world isn't about people. It isn't about societies. It's about complex systems, undergoing transformations with a nearly infinite number of variables, and where the slightest changes in any one of them can lead to vastly different results.

1000 possible billionaires are born everyday. Most die in the third world. The remainder come from low socioeconomic backgrounds. Cuts that to about 100. Of those 100, few are located in places like Silicon Valley. Now you are around 10. Of these 10, some go study medicine/law/engineering and disappear from the pool. Down to 1-2. Most of these guys fail.

You only hear about the successes - not the failures. The world is really fucking complex. Randomness is by far the greatest factor in people's lives.

But people want reasons damn it! There must be a secret, right?

Sigh.
Wow, that was effective story-telling. At first I agreed that accessing the US market was crucial; and then that growing the present market was crucial. It's easy to see explosive global growth like dropbox's being necessary; but usually growth is segment-by-segment, especially with geographically or socially based businesses (e.g. Airbnb began in US, craigslist began in SF, facebook began in Harvard).

Melbourne doesn't seem as ideally placed as a world travel center... however, Australians and New Zealanders are disproportionately world-travellers. It's a great place to start. Lonely Planet actually started in Australia, and grew from there (they didn't even have Western European books for a long time, because not their target). They sold their last 25% stake for $67m - it's not "a billion dollars", but it's OK, and they made a difference.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonely_Planet#The_Wheelers.27_f... Bonus coincidence: their head office is in Melbourne.
They've drawn each game up till this win by Gelfand.

Beautiful mate at the end: Anand, the world champion, playing black, marched a pawn across the board, but Gelfand will checkmate in two moves regardless. The knight checks on G6, the King is forced to G8, then the Rook checkmates on G7.

Incidently, Kasparov just called out Anand as old'n lazy while visiting the match in Moscow. Gelfand came through candidate matches as a surprise challenger. He's been around forever in the top twenty.
I don't think refusing to pay the debt you took voluntarily and spent is ethical or moral. Charity is laudable, even one that I think is misguided, but I don't really think suggesting people defraud their lenders an masse is a good idea. OTOH, I think chances of such campaign to succeed is extremely low, so it becomes just pure charity.
>And am I supposed to be impressed with two windows? A whole two? How much extra for three?

Can you have two windows side by side on an iPad? Android?

Didn't think so. You can on a Windows RT tablet. So it's definitely a feature worth mentioning.
Perhaps because Chess is a fascinating thing for Hackers!
I'm just a casual Chess Player and I play while I relax or get tense with work.

I don't really follow the championship but they were unable to win for quite a while, right? So, this is the first win. We'll have to watch how Anand comes back.
Python isn't exactly known for its anonymous functions either. If you're looking to learn CS, I really suggest Scheme a la SICP (you don't really have to start with SICP because there are a bunch of other great books, but they trend to have similar motivations). Scheme also has the advantage of being a much simpler and more consistent language than any of the other ones mentioned here.
For what it's worth, I agree it's a poor comparison. I posted as much to ponder how it might have arisen during the interview as to address the GP's statement "that plumbers make as much as doctors is insanely inaccurate"
It's too bad Theil mostly just complains instead of actually solving the problem by starting a group to provide an alternative credentialing mechanism.
Though of course if the HTML is requested again you could just add another script tag.
Really nice game. That's the sort of elegant finish I always hope for in my games.
It was popular in the past. I think it has become less popular since. One of my favorite professors was a big proponent of Logo, but now he seems more interested on variations of Scratch (a neat visual language developed with didactic aims).
While I don't know why the poster put this up, one could argue that hn is about learning from others opinions, victories and mistakes.

Here, we are given a chance to analyze two great chess masters and replay their strategic battle. What decisions made one lose? How is the strategic deployment of pieces similar to running a company? What attracts hackers to chess?

Or it could be that bunch of people on hn like chess, and this got voted up. Who really knows what fuels articles to the front page of this community?
Moms can be a great way to get down your public relations pitch. Moms want to understand what you are doing at least to an elevator pitch level. Moms are often asked what their kids are doing these days so they will usually want enough details for a solid sound bite.

Is this a important and glaring problem? I'm assuming you have tested this assumption somehow such as asking friends/potential users.

I would imagine most people are googling terms that they don't know and are not directly searching startuplawyer. Is that not a good solution? Why is what you are doing better?
Could somebody that speaks legalese phrase that in standard English?
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It's so easy to purchase apps from the app store for $1, I buy an app with ease without even thinking about it because $1 is nothing. I have a few friends who regularly buy the hottest apps out, not to mention friends who buy in-app purchases and it all adds up.

I just wrote a short blog post with two images of the highest grossing app in the app store at present and it's a slot machine game that is free to download, but you can buy coin packs, the second most popular purchase is $20. http://ilikekillnerds.com/2012/05/this-is-a-little-worrying/

Have Apple created a new generation of problem gamblers? What is everyone's opinion on this.
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Yahoo! must be getting desperate. While it was probably the best thing to do, Alibaba is quite profitable is it not? It's worth something like $35B, crazy.
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Since people won't be talking in person (are you going to walk into someone's office to interrupt them?),

What? That's totally ridiculous. Of course I'll walk into someone's office, if the door is open. I've worked in offices where developers have individual offices before, and there's plenty of "in person" conversation that goes on. The difference is, the "in person" between, say, mindcrime and jrockway, isn't disturbing / interrupting joerandomuser. And, jrockway has the option to close his door, which is a very strong signal indicating "I don't want to be bothered right now."
Trajectories can be both useful and non obvious so I can see the patent angle. Think of it like this someone had to come up with this orbit 30 years after we started putting satellites in geosynchronous orbit's or the patent would have expired. And they only get to keep the patent for 20 years so any of the early 'gold rush' patents should have expired.
'not memory intensive' is an ambiguous term. he meant 'does not use a lot of memory, but may access what memory it does use quite a bit'. you meant 'does not access memory often, and performance thus does not depend much on memory access latency'.
It's the [shortest|simplest|easiest] electronic link to keeping up with family for hundreds of millions, and that is a network effect beyond all network effects.

While grandparents have grandchildren, Facebook endures.
Infantrymen on patrol are also taught to scan their eyes from right to left. I can save their life, by increasing the probability of spotting something unusual.
That's very useful. I wish shells like bash/zsh had this instant auto-completion!
+1 :) I'll forward this to my young brother, he really needs some motivation, but we use kg/meter here in Brazil too. Thanks!!!
This is missing the point. The indicator colleges provide occurs upon admittance. Dropping out is perfectly fine, because you can still say you went to (MIT/Harvard/Stanford). And therefore were good enough to get the degree, but had better things to do.
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Modern chess matches like this require a huge amount of preparation. Computers are much better than even the best humans at chess, and they are (in the last decade or so) the number one tool for grandmasters when preparing. Each GM has a support team, which at this level includes HPC compute specialists. This match includes two players that over a year, beyond rigorous practice, include in-depth computer analysis of an exponential time problem (more possible chess positions than atoms in universe, etc).

Beyond that, the top 20 in the world are downright geniuses, locked in a fierce mental competition. Not directly hacker related, but there is an overlap in interest base.
The future is forever?! What the f* is that supposed to mean. Interesting article though!
One thing a lot of people seem to be arguing is that Thiel is only advocating certain people not go to college. Thiel in this video, and in most articles / videos I have seen him in, advocates that the reader shouldn't go to college. Does anyone have any links of specific quotes where he is advocating for some people to go to college?
Black could avoid the mate by sacrificing his rook with h1+, then promoting the pawn with a check, then sacrificing the new queen by taking the knight at e5. No point in that though. He has lost.
That's very pessimistic and doesn't happen in practice. Basic politeness is key to interacting with other humans.

If Dorothy happens to do this, give that person feedback and address it on a human level rather than putting walls between people (figuratively and literally).

Edit: And, sorry, just reread and saw your first comment. And, apologies because I laughed at the comment. You're talking about replacing a high bandwidth, instant communication channel with a low bandwidth, asynchronous communication channel? There are instances when firing off an email to the person next to you is better than the alternative and you should be making those decisions.

Also, I don't think anyone on our team would call it "disturbing the entire workplace". It's how we work.

I'm not trying to pick a fight, really. I think people in these two camps just cannot empathize with each other for some reason.
"Many people are logged in to Facebook all the time. I would think that an explicit login overrides any DNT header."

As a user, I want to be stay logged in to Facebook when posting a TC comment. But I don't want Facebook to track me when I visit some random site with a like button. How do we draw the line here?
seems like a great idea. toolchain support may be an issue for a while, especially if you link against libraries with a different ABI. one thing to keep in mind is that the performance gain from e.g. more registers may not be as big as you'd think, since the hardware already plays lots of tricks to get around i386's limitations (e.g. register renaming) and likely extracts a good bit of the available ILP.
I'd be interested to see what percentage of them later went home and masturbated with the aid of said Internet.
This is a poor example since python can chain the comparison:

if 1 <= c < 20:
# statement

I think this is more intuitive for someone first learning a language.
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Does that mean the access_log should omit visitors who set this header? Does this mean log analysis tools should omit such records in the logs?

I am confused as to how this works for statistics purposes.
To be fair, I think we tend to hear what we want to hear.

Peter Thiel occurs to me as someone who sees the world in stark terms. He holds a libertarian approach to society and government. Considering this, I don't think it's a stretch to assume he truly means college is mostly, if not altogether, pointless.

That said, his opinion doesn't seem to be the prevailing opinion in Silicon Valley. By and large, people (even in SV) realize that not everyone has the chops to start a company or follow their ideas to fruition, and it's essentially still a success touchstone in the minds of most.
> while the owner has the responsibility to carefully choose who operates the dangerous instrument.

Anyone with a driver's license and enough money can walk into a car dealership and be "operating the dangerous instrument" an hour later. In this case would the car dealership be liable for a crash? Should they be vetting who they sell cars to? Or what about the state that issued the driver's license? After all, it's their actual job to vet drivers. By your logic the DMV should be liable for every accident caused by a driver with a valid license.
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This was on HN previously, but not at this domain, they said the key generation and link formation was performed client-side, at no point does the key get sent to the server.

You send the encrypted message to the server and the javascript serves the url that combines the client side key and the servers uid for the paste.

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This is very interesting, but I wonder if it falls under the domain of things that CSS should do, in a real app you probably shouldn't CSS so much. (This is not an affirmation rather a question!).

Even so I think it is a great proof of concept and the font style was cool idea.
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It's not fair to say Thiel is against education, as the professor claims. He's all for education, just not the current institutional education.
It's a wtf because you can't draw any good lines on statistics. Web server admins have legitimate reasons to track (i.e. log) all requests to some extent against their web sites. We have good tools to help analyse a lot of this.

Consider a real world equivalent. Suppose you walk into a bookstore and buy a book with cash. The store might not be able to track you individually but they can track how many people visited, how many books they sold, etc. You can't say that's not legitimate.

So I could see an argument that the line that should be drawn is one that involved tracking cookies, but that is quite a narrow exclusion regarding statistics of individual users. You can still get pretty good stuff from the access log and there's no case to be made that DNT means Do Not Log.
I believe Facebook has definitely made the world a smaller place by creating an intuitive social interface for the Internet. Part of me wants to see their momentum disrupted by some new disruptive start-up, but how can I when Zuck is still very much a start-up CEO who just so happened to reach astronomical heights at a very young age. As long as they continue to find ways to find ways to help users live better lives, they will have my vote too. I believe in Mark and trust that he will not trade great user experience for a few billion more dollars. He deserves to be here more than MySpace or all the other no-name networks.

Interesting to see what will happen next. I hope this really isn't the death of Silicon Valley like many people are saying...
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At first my inner neckbeard scoffed and proclaimed why? I looked at the source and realized I don't know jack about CSS3 and how easy something like this is to implement in less than ~150 lines of code was like ramming a sock down my inner neckbeard's throat.
You can also jabber for the session initiation, but don't, it's slow.
As plastic trinkets go, at least Legos are much more durable and reusable than most toys.
Sure, people like all the things the author listed, but the author doesn't say why /Facebook/ isn't a fad. Didn't Friendster or Myspace have huge amounts of personal data before they went under? The author mentions it briefly with Myspace, but he doesn't really elaborate. How much longer will it be until another even more innovative and capable company comes along and eats Facebook's lunch?
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I just began using this today and I really enjoy. I wonder if you've considered the negation of a habit? i.e. I love eating donuts but need to cut back on them so I would only like to eat one a week. I've set this up as "Didn't eat a donut today" with this repeating 6 times a week. What about keeping track of "bad habits" and set maximums?
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ChessNetwork on YouTube has the most clear and concise explanations of what's going on. They're incredibly easy to follow even for patzers like myself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh9KTUiimzE

ChessVibes has good summaries of the event with post-game interviews: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI7Jbf_Kkqc
This is just another example of why Microsoft is never going to succeed - trying to force yourself into a market almost always produces a poor product. Microsoft is always going to be losing to the startups which evolve a product from an actual want.
Among the reasons are that the Lego Group is doing their best to prevent such impact. 88%* of the waste plastic from the production. Their products, in sharp contrast to all other toys, can be assembled and disassembled ad infinitum, they can easily be combined with all other Lego products and the high-durability means that Lego is more often resold or donated rather than disposed.

On the other hand, do you have any examples of this "horrifying impact"?

* I remember being told it was a 99% figure, but the Group's website [0] lists 88%

[0] http://aboutus.lego.com/en/sustainability/the-topics-we-work...
I would say authentication isn't tracking... its authentication.
One thing that struck me as odd was that the author apparently is not an experienced programmer, but she tried to learn Python from the tutorials designed for experienced programmers; she saw that there was a list of tutorials for non-programmers, but she "didn't look at any of those". Why not?

One possible answer is that the term "programming" means something somewhat different to the author than it does to, for example, me. When I look at the Python tutorial topics, even those for non-programmers, I see stuff that looks like programming: loops, conditionals, generators, etc. But the author apparently saw a lot of stuff that didn't seem to have much to do with what she was interested in: getting the computer to do something cool. Processing apparently gave her an easier way to do that.

To me, getting the computer to do something cool, in and of itself, is not necessarily "programming". For example, the beginner's tutorial for Processing that the author links to tells you to type the following into the editor: "ellipse(50, 50, 80, 80);". This, of course, draws an ellipse. Cool! But this, to me, isn't "programming"; it's just invoking a magic incantation to get the computer to draw an ellipse. "Programming" is what the person did who wrote the code that interprets that line you typed and figures out what to draw and where.

It's quite possible that this is just me; maybe most people are OK with using the word "programming" to describe something that doesn't seem like programming to me. But word choice aside, I am not trying to say that only what I call "programming" is worth doing. I think the point is more that maybe "programming" is too narrow a term to describe what many people are trying to do when they want to get the computer to do something cool.