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v8 is not actually much faster

I'm not concerned about raw performance. I'm concerned with Apple forceably making iPad 1 (along with all older devices) unnecessarily obsolete by restricting the web browser on the device.

A really good example is the iPad 1 is still using an obsolete version of the WebSocket protocol. That means web servers that want to support iPad 1, must run libraries that support an outdated version of the protocol (one that contains security vaulnerabilities). The protocol can never be updated because Apple won't allow new web browsers on the device. It's a two-pronged approach which both forces obsolescense, and forces developers to needlessly add backwards compatibility layers to cover all the bases.

This is many times worse than the nightmare web developers have been facing with IE6, IE7, and IE8 support requirements because in those cases there was always the option of installing another browser, or something like Chrome-frame.
Its difficult to " drive " people as smart, well connected and funded as YC. If a team's in such elite position, there would be no explicit posturing required. Basically, quality revenue and traction is inversely proportional to number of questions asked by potential investors ( including YC ).
Did anyone compile the data to check if the premise of the article is even true? Is the percentage of IITians starting their own businesses significantly less as compared to other engineering colleges? Is it less than all undergraduate programs? Is it less than all <insert a control hypothesis>? Also do the IITians working for a startup count?

May be it is just a perception thing? I believe that to be the case. When compared to their peer group from other engineering colleges, I am quite sure they come out favorably.

Disclaimer: I am an IITian and so is my partner and we are both entrepreneurs. Perhaps it is self selection at play but I know a lot of entrepreneurs in my IIT network.
It's 13 miles according to Google Maps. At $3.80/gallon and 25 mpg (both should be realistic), that's 15.2cent/mile or just under $2 for the gas. At the 1/3 you state (does that include insurance?), that makes the ride a total of $6 in costs. At SF minimum wage ($10.25) and assuming 50% occupancy (probably a bit on the low end), add $5.13 for a total of $11.13 for the floor price for the journey.
Far more than you might imagine, at least if they develop a more sophisticated geometry model. The real limitation may be the pure in-memory model. Many of the high-value applications have enormous working sets, much larger than what will fit in a small RAM-based cluster. Hundreds of terabytes is where the applications just start to become interesting. In this sense, focusing on game worlds is probably a good idea because it is one of the use cases that will fit within their immediate scaling targets.

They are correct that traditional database spatial indexes are slow and scale terribly, being designed for relatively small and static data sets. It does not sound like they are pushing the state-of-the-art, just meeting an under-served need in the gaming space, a market which I can validate as existing but with somewhat limited revenue potential even if you sign the major game companies. It is a good "base hit" startup opportunity if they can execute it well. (I have designed massive-scale real-time spatial database engines for a number of years; we passed up the gaming market because the size of the market was too small relative to other markets for this technology.)
2d and 3d only. Data of higher dimensions is usually not as dynamic (the data points are created and deleted but rarely moved), and SpaceBase is optimized for lots of updates. Also, higher dimensions require a different data-structure (see: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.53.6...)
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"Don’t waste your time in crappy startup jobs."
Sometimes your app just stops working because of some typo in your code

I don't know of any programming language that will auto-correct typos for you.

or the spaghetti code becomes just too unreadable.

If you don't write spaghetti code, you won't have a problem

PHP just doesn't seem exciting for me anymore. There doesn't seem to be anything exciting happening.

PHP isn't some 0.6-pre-alpha release software that douchebag developers use for production apps and get excited about when the core API changes every 3 weeks.

not much has been happening with the language and nothing interesting as far as apps or frameworks.

so you, as a developer, are complaining that no interesting apps are being developed in a specific language..?

Since I'm not a sysadmin, I prefer to pay extra to have my code managed by someone.

Sysadmin's don't manage code. You are a developer, you should be managing your own code.

Interfaces and reflection are awesome.

both of which PHP has.

Go helps me write cleaner and more maintainable code

I doubt it. You claimed that your code "becomes" spaghetti. Which implies that it starts out "clean and maintainable". I'll wait with baited breath for how long it takes your new code to also "become" shit.
The issue is not with licensing and regulation. It's that only a limited number of taxis get authorized. That is most definitely an artificial limit, and does not help safety.

And then there's proposed laws like this, where they force a higher cost _just to prevent competition_.
Given the lack of Nitro support for non-Safari browsers, you'd likely need to use another browser to better support a site which was largely JS based.

Also, for some reason I can have many 10s of tabs open to pages on Safari (with a jailbreak tweak) whereas doing the same in a non-Safari browser causes a crash.
You don't need to sync folders for this to work, though. When you search your data you still leave all of it "in the cloud", you just download a few relevant bits of the index database.

As far as the user is concerned this provides efficient full-text search without heavy bandwidth or storage requirements and without giving the storage provider access to any plaintext. Maybe this is still a "local" solution by your definition, but who cares? How does it fall short of an "online" one?
Dolphin > Chrome if this were for Dolphin now that's a movement I could get behind!
Uber isn't YC backed.
> Legal arguments are ones that are essentially saying "I have government violence backing me up."

Even if this phrase served your larger argument regarding Craigslist's moral position -- and I don't think it does, given that thus far, Craigslist is really the first to threaten to make this a matter requiring state enforcement -- it'd still be a bit mixed up.

A legal argument -- like any other argument -- can be about persuasion based on established principles instead of compulsion. In fact, that's essentially all it is through the point the parties involved are subject to an arbiter whose decision is still essentially based in the relative persuasiveness of the arguments.

It's true that at the stage where a ruling is either ignored by an unhappy party or enforced by another party, violence of one form or another may be required (if there is to be a system where there's enforcement -- and not all systems choose this). But between that point and the "legal argument" stage, there's enough of a buffer zone grounded in discussion that any easy equivalence between the argument and violence itself should make a careful thinker suspicious.
I like the spirit of this idea, but I don't think the code is complete. I installed Chrome but do not want it to be my default browser. If apps started doing this, I'd just uninstall Chrome. A better choice would be to present a UIActionSheet asking the user which browser to use and then save that preference to the app's Settings bundle with NSUserDefaults.
I obviously can't speak for every city in the world, but typically the reason taxis are expensive is severely limited supply (e.g. medallions in NYC). In most cities in the developed world even the best insurance policies money can buy would not allow me to legally run a taxi service.
I think you made a decision to use Go without explicit reason beside that you've been hearing about it and now you are coming up with reasons to back your decision.

In other words, you are moving backwards from decision to made up reasons.
Every reputable website with details beyond the "scary, scary news" headlines have made mention of the legal aspect. There's a lot of information in this thread over at Bimmerpost.com as well:

http://www.1addicts.com/forums/showthread.php?t=712717
That's not what qualified immunity does.

Qualified immunity gives immunity to many government actors who violate Constitutional rights unintentionally, because the law is not clear at the time. Getting qualified immunity on remand is basically a one-time victory. If you win on qualified immunity because the rights are not clear, but at the same time hold that there are such rights, then that gives fair notice to government actors and they don't get to do it again.

The idea is that you don't want to make the government too cautious because they might get sued if they arguably violate someone's rights so you give them the benefit of the doubt, until the law is clear enough and there is no more doubt.

There was a recent case of a woman who was tazed in Seattle for refusing to sign a parking ticket. She lost on QI grounds, but they also held that it was excessive force. That basically establishes that if the police do it again, the next person can successfully sue. That doesn't mean the police are free to taze people for refusing to sign traffic tickets. It just means that the court says "this is your only warning" and lets that case go at that.

This is different from absolute immunity, which means for example, you can never sue a prosecutor for unfair prosecution tactics used in the courtroom, and you can never sue a judge for ruling unfairly.
This is true. The story might break with ruby or JS, and no doubt the abstractions and assumptions of the behavior of how the programming language works will break the minute you go to a different execution model.
Some of the data sources of interest for location-based applications generate tens of millions of updates per second. I love PostgreSQL but it does not operate at that scale. The index locking alone would kill it even if you weren't touching disk.

Extremely high spatial ingest rates concurrent with queries requires different architecture and algorithms.
n-dimensional would be useful for realtime machine learning applications.
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It wasn't so much that the medallion system is bad, as defined as limiting the total number of cabs on the road, it was the exemption that the medallion owner didn't have to drive. This leads to cartels of medallion owners that make huge profits off the backs of other drivers.
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I don't know the area that well but it appears to be ~11 miles from SF to San Bruno. Lets call it 11 miles, or maybe 1/2 a gallon of gas. That's <$2.
So, say hypothetically, if I wanted to try my hand at implementing a toy version of something similar for fun, what would I need to at least have a grasp at?
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What a terrible article.

> Oracle and Redis are examples of traditional, spatial database environments.

Redis is traditional? Redis is spatial? What are they talking about?

> Spaccebase is an in-memory technology, which is how it can be so fast. Thats’ what truly separates it from the rest. It tracks not when or what happened but where it occurred. And that all occurs in-memory. It’s like any application that runs this way. It’s very fast in getting data. In this case, we are talking about spatial data.

This entire paragraph is ridiculous. Just a bunch of buzz words repeated ad nauseum. What database does not use "in-memory" technology? I guess that's why "it's like any application that runs this way". Yeah, and French cuisine is like any food that's cooked that way.
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Forgive the basic question: Is cost the only limiting factor for pure in-memory with large datasets?
If pad and pen are what it's replacing, you aren't taking full advantage. Get your team on there.
You can already get Jelly Bean for the Galaxy Nexus, if you're willing to do a manual install. I've been running Jelly Belly[0], an LTE Jelly Bean rom, on my LTE Nexus for the last couple of days. There were a few issues with Jelly Belly v2.1 (tethering and camera), but as of Jelly Belly v2.4, it's been running without any hitches, Google Now and all.

0: http://rootzwiki.com/topic/28677-rom-jelly-belly-v26-0709201...
"The single worst part of driving in the city is dealing with agressive or incompetent taxi drivers."

That method of driving is not unique to taxi drivers - and those issues exist in several other Asian countries, regardless of the number of taxis on the road. I'll leave it at that.

"people are less likely to use the state of the art elevated train and subway, both of which run under capacity."

That's not accurate. Taking the BTS from Thonglor to MBK is faster than driving or taking a taxi at nearly all times. Thats an extreme example but traffic is so bad that its faster in a lot of cases. That's why both the BTS and MRT are always packed, with people of all classes.

You make some good points otherwise, some I disagree with like whether Bangkok is an example of an unregulated market failing or thriving, but I don't want to get too off into the weeds of a political discussion :)
Honest question: would a client-side implementation be OK? As in, the only person making any requests to the CL servers is the end-user, and then a browser extension/app maps the listings? Is it wrong to automate calls to CL's server from javascript in a local app?
If no one else is doing a client-side padmapper, I sort of want to myself.
I may have chrome installed, but not want it to be my default browser. That is, in fact the case on my phone.

If apps started doing this, I suppose I could just delete chrome, but as with my Mac, I like having a few different browsers installed.
I think the author's biggest failing is that he assumes that just because Google is spending time designing tablets, Google wants to make money selling tablets. He could not be more wrong. The entire Android venture is a defensive play. Google is perfectly happy to pour tens of billions of dollars into Android without seeing any direct revenue from it.

The reason for this is that Google's real core business is still the search advertising. So long as people "google" stuff when they want to find something, Google's future is safe. The walled garden device model is a direct threat to it -- even if the manufacturers never directly block Google, if they make using Bing or whatever easier and more convenient, Google might lose their money press.

So Google makes sure that walled gardens don't win. That's really all they are in for. The Nexus 7 exists because IPad was soundly beating all tablets competitors. All the relevant IP in it has already been distributed to basically everyone who could possibly want it. Google wants it to be cloned.
To be fair, before smart-phones were invented, the free market wouldn't have worked well for cabs. Cab drivers have zero incentive to compete on quality, because which cab/company you hire is based on who is nearby, not on your previous experience with that cab/company.

Now that you can dial up a cab on your smart phone, things might be quite different.
Here! http://osxdaily.com/2012/02/18/install-os-x-mountain-lion-de...

While my Macbook does run ML, I know how you feel, even more so as your machine has better specs than mine. I also get the feeling Lion is a bit slower than SL for the small things, like opening apps. I know SSDs are faster for IO operations in general, but previously it wasn't like this for HDDs, even on fresh installs.
That's interesting, because the very first economics study material I read specifically used rent control of an example where government interference leads to a less efficient market.

I'd love to hear the argument for rent control, though.
Thank you for pointing this out. I found it very difficult to keep reading with an objective mindset once I hit this gem.
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That's nice. Then it'll come with a notebook's battery life too.
There's an argument to be made that there's not a macro-economic bubble right now like there was in 1999, but that there IS a "Silicon Valley bubble". That is, there are so many early-stage startups proliferating and getting angel funding that there's a bubble for companies that provide services to other startups.

If this is true, there's a doomsday scenario: if the SV bubble collapses (say, due to some macro-economic change that dries up the glut of angel funding), then a lot of those companies that primarily provide services to other startups will collapse with it. There's more. As the companies go out of business for lack of (other startup) customers, a lot of the remaining startups that depend on those outside API's could go down for lack of infrastructure to stand on. Things could spiral down to a bad place pretty quickly.
And there is why you don't take business strategy from random Forbes writers.

* The author took his wife's behaviour and generalized it to represent the entire marketplace. I use the Kindle app on 2 different tablets in preference to my Kobo, and anecdotal evidence is just as relevant as his.

* He claims the copy-catters will beat them both [on price]. As has been previously discussed on HN, Google has priced the Nexus 7 pretty close to cost. No copy-catter is going to going to undercut that with similar features for a while yet.

* "Office is the Microsoft weapon for Surface" The iPad seems to be doing just fine by destroying the Office monopoly in the enterprise.

* "Business apps from Microsoft's parters will be MS's secret weapon." How's that working out for Windows Phone 7?

It's pretty clear the author is a MS fanboy who hasn't accepted the fact that MS has to do a lot of work to remain relevant. An "Enterprise Strategy" is great, but the iPhone showed CIOs back in 2008 that all the strategy in the world is useless when your CEO decides they want an iPhone (or, now, and iPad).
In part, because I did.

I started with BASIC, but didn't really get in to it before being introduced to Hypercard. With that, I could make cool stuff almost immediately. A year or so later, I was told that real programming meant programming in C, so I tried that. It made me lose interest in programming for quite some time, as I couldn't imagine making any of the things I wanted to make with it.

It's more or less the same issue that affects technically cool products that don't actually address the needs of consumers.
So, an iPad 1 running the latest iOS still is stuck with an old WebSocket implementation?

If correct, that is just astoundingly crappy!
Price regulations are often linked to safety regulations. You specify minimum prices to enable the service providers to afford the safety regulations.
Agreed. Reliability is extremely important with email programs, so I prefer this class of software be very conservative.
I've actually never heard of that! I'll look into it right now, thanks!

I was looking for PDF solutions months ago, but if this works well, it could come in handy in the future.
That sounds much better than just defaulting to chrome if available.

That said, this is a bit too much overhead for most developers to actually implement. For instance, you would also need to create a settings bundle, so users can reset this setting if they want.

What I'd really like to see is Apple enable this at a system level. FireFox for iOS would be nice to see, and we don't want developers to have to revisit this issue if/when it comes.
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No. I don't ride in unlicensed cabs. That doesn't keep me from wanting significantly less regulation.

I have been ripped off by licensed ones, though - twice, I think. Both cases involved foreign counties and drivers who conveniently and suddenly lost their command of English.
I do use Bitbucket and it does exactly what I need: track changes to my private source code repos and manage issues.

Does GitHub do some things better than Bitbucket? Sure, but I don't believe that those differences justify a valuation approaching a billion dollars.
I've always seen Google's "Nexus" line of products as essentially prototypes that Google releases into the market to light a fire under device manufacturers to raise the bar for the latest Android OS.

I would be surprised if Android isn't already nearly the dominant OS for enterprise mobile apps. A cheap, stable tablet is a big win for business, as the iPad is pretty expensive. So who says the Nexus 7 isn't a strategic move toward more of Android in the enterprise market?
I've designed my dotfile repo to be easily installable on any machine I happen to be on with the help of a script that backs up any existing dotfiles that may conflict with those in my repo. This allows me to backup any existing configs, link my own temporarily, then restore the old ones and 'rm -rf <my-repo>' so it's as if I never even touched the original configuration.

If you want to try it out just run the following commands:

git clone git://github.com/acx0/etc.git ~/etc
cd ~/etc
git submodule update --init # my link script is in a separate repository so it's a submodule in my dotfile repo

cd link.sh
./link.sh # this will show the status of any conflicting files
./link.sh -b # backup any conflicting files
./link.sh -wf # force write (symlink) my set of config files

And everything's set up. If you want to install the vim plugins I use, just run

vim -c 'BundleInstall'

and let Vundle download the plugins (you have to restart vim to use the plugins).

Then when you're ready to restore your ~/ back to its original state, run

./link.sh -r # restore any configs that were backed up

which also takes care of deleting the configs you didn't have (so if you backed up with no conflicting files (backup dir empty), and then restore, it'll just remove all the existing symlinks)

If you didn't run the backup command, you can simply run

./link.sh -d

to delete the symlinks for all the files in the repo. Then just remove any traces of the repo with 'rm -rf ~/etc'.
No, you're thinking about another picture (which has been written about but not shown). This is probably the real deal and indicates that the money has indeed come through.
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Supposedly he had it for only a couple of hours, just to take pictures.
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how about using some scripting language inside your web app written in C/C++,

just like it was being done in game development for decades already, it's not like web app is much different from computer game
This great story "Why You Can't Get a Taxi" about Uber in the DC metro area got buried a while ago.

> “I want to get a license to drive a limo,” I told him.

“There’s a moratorium,” he said, and pointed to a memo posted on the wall.

I’d like to tell you exactly what the memo said, but the commission wasn’t giving out copies—“We had some, but we ran out,” said the security guard, and no wonder, given that the “temporary” moratorium has been going on for years. The gist was that there would be no new limo licenses until the commission decided to hand them out.

“Take a picture with your phone,” suggested a nice driver who was waiting for an appointment in front of the desk.

“No pictures!” said the guard.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/05/why-you-...