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First thing I thought of when I read the heading Actionsteps was being able to tailor actions specific to each email. For instance, you receive an email from Twitter saying someone's following you, and you're given the options to either "follow", "@reply", "ignore", etc, and similarly for Facebook. Receive a bill from ATT and your next steps are "pay bill", "file as important", "put on to-do."

You're essentially containing all of the work necessary to resolve the subject of the email within the client itself. You could allow for app plugins/extensions so that others could develop hooks into various services.

Other than that, it looks clean and simple. I'm eager to try it out when it's launched.
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Average time for startup to go from founding to exit is seven years. YC is the only one to have even been in existence for seven years.

Not only that but even for YC non-exited companies are worth significantly more than the ones that have exited. Dropbox and Airbnb (both five years old) are individually likely to be worth more than the sum total of every YC exit made so far.
Undoubtedly it depends on the charity... hiring someone helps both the charity + the person hired, though.
I think this is probably the wrong community to ask. I know a few social media consultants who manage all sorts of facebook feeds, twitter, google+(just kidding who uses that), along with other social networks and it might be useful to them, but I can't really say.

Try asking people in that circle though, and you might have a lot better luck getting honest feedback from people who would use the site.

For instance, I think it looks cool, but I don't really post to social networks all the much and when I do I don't care about aggregate statistics...
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Does a good idea promise success? I thought it was PG@YC that was looking for smart people with a clue. Maybe then they would work together to produce a successful venture.

Anyway, ideas are cheap. This is a business and it has been funded and well-positioned to control their exit.
Funny because he had a mediocre talk/presentation at UC Santa Cruz where he came off as an arrogant dick to a bunch of game design majors. And he is definitely not humble.
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Exactly. The article correctly outlines why "curly hair" is a large business market. It does nothing to explain why these people need their own dedicated social network, why was the whole point behind the offhand comment in the NY magazine.
and what exactly mongodb has to do with it?
really pushed the conversational view and presented it in a single-screen way that was innovative (compare how long it took e-mail clients to catch up with that... and no, "group by thread" did not compare).

I love GMail's conversation view, but AFAIK, not really many other desktop email clients have adopted it. Who else has it?
You can edit the PKGBUILD from the AUR. change the pkgver to 0.3.8, and update the md5sums to a292c8d0cd2e9269ea71bcd45f2f7908 and 9a7077a8dd3e5a2c9531e2943cba2f43, respectively. This worked for me.
Caltech study: how a simple design trick affects consumer choices
I like most of this but Gmail's tagging has been so burdensome and then hard to use the results of such that I've given up on it entirely.

I like being able to sort things away that I don't read often, but GMail told me I didn't want a "read untagged messages" view so it wouldn't let me do that.
I don't get it. My Android has a widget on my homepage that shows me the current weather for my location, updated live. Is that all this is doing?
"Actionsteps solves the flagging problem, where every email you know that you need to respond to is of equal importance."

Wouldn't it be interesting if the sender of an email could specify what Actionsteps are required for a given email? i.e. The sender specifies that an email should be: read by the receiver, replied to by the receiver, forwarded to a specific department, complete a specific task, etc.
What could we eat but our dead friends?
I've suggested this before (and not done much about it), but that is not going to stop me suggesting it again.

How about a crowd-sourced 'Siracusa style' review of Ubuntu 12.04? Or Debian Wheezy, or Fedora (large integer, preferably 18 because that is the version that RHEL 7 will be based on)? Or the safe and conservative CentOS/SciLi/PUIAS version 6.3, now being targeted by Oracle. Or your favourite GNU/Linux, or BSD?

So many of the free software reviews are shallow.

I think the Penguins have done enough work to merit something with depth
Whoo boy does that site ever not work without javascript... Sort of ridiculous since it's a static page advertising a desktop app, neither of which should require javascript at all.

EDIT: Oh God, and hot pink highlighting does NOT complement their color scheme. And for all its javascript fanciness, it doesn't handle resizing at all. Sorry to be so negative, this site just pushes all my buttons.
Oh, the rhetoric is arrogant and self-congratulatory even by the standards of Lisp books. It's either amusing or aggravating, depending on your point of view.
He edited that post after you posted this comment, it seems.

It now reads "Currently I'm developing a prototype and then move into development. A MacOSX app is going to be the first release."
Did you read the article? Your comment is exactly the perspective the article is addressing. They cited acknowledged experts in the field, whereas you've cited "common sense", a subjective term that means nothing without context.
It's mathematically simple for a space to loop without being curved locally, although I am under the impression that there are physics reasons to infer we don't exist in such a space.

The pac-man universe acts euclidean until you have universe-sized effects. For example, a circle will satisfy circumference = diameter * pi until its diameter is greater than the span of the universe. Basically the universe could 'hide' the fact that it is a torus from pac-man by simply being really large.
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does that mean the results will be shared? not sure if this is legal, but i would be interested in the final pdf (or whatever)... andrew@acooke.org - thanks. (i am getting upvotes, so others too...)
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Well, I know of at least one very large SFX shop that skipped GPUs for now because the results were not consistent with results from the host CPUs.
But you're correct, man-hours to rewrite are more expensive than the CPU time in that application.
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I have a copy and I don't find it that very useful.
No, and
1) That's not a reason for it to shut down (I'm sure some people use it!)
2) The title of this submission is totally biased
They look very different now, so if this got them to C&D, congrats on the effort!
No, in fact this particular implementation will only update the icon AFTER you load the page (from what I can gather anyway). Not sure why that is valuable.

It may also be pertinent to note that there are no widgets for iOS, so something as basic as live weather becomes a bit of a chore.
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IMHO better than any book on that list.
$11m (implying a valuation of of over $20mm) is a lot of money. (Although in a world of $7 rent, $150k developers, etc, it isn't as much as you'd think).

However, Meteor looks like it has some chance of being a huge platform, maybe the next big one. Even if it just dominates a niche, that is more than enough to justify the investment. A bigger series a reduces risk for the company, and a lot of the other interesting hard tech companies out there raise that amount of funding early (eg Bromium).

Red Hat does a pretty good job of demonstrating how open source companies can make a lot of money.
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seconded. there's also the clos book (amop), which is generally recognised as a classic (i think? personally i own a copy but didn't finish it...)

clos book - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_the_Metaobject_Proto...

apropos absolutely nothing, except that i finished reading it last night, the book (and manual for) ggplot2 is both a good introduction to that software (ggplot2 generates plots in r) and would serve as an excellent start for someone who wanted to implement the same in other languages. the whole thing is based on a domain model for plotting, which makes a huge amount of sense. after reading it, i am convinced every language will eventually have a similar package/dsl for plotting. i don't think even incanter (r in clojure, sort-of) has a version yet, so as far as i know there is no ggplot2 in any lisp. it would be a great project for someone...

this is (a review of) the domain model - http://www.jstatsoft.org/v17/b03/paper
> and it's not useful to the job.

I absolutely can't agree with that at all.

Any developer that needs to talk to product people, customers or other teams spend a substantial amount of time negotiating. Even when dealing with other team members you're constantly engaged in negotiation.

In my experience there's a strong correlation between ability to assert yourself and negotiate, and your ability to get your point of view through to a team and develop consensus around your solutions.

A developer can write brilliant code, but if they struggle to assert themselves enough or negotiate to get buy in for their views, they can often get steamrollered completely and the team end up shipping some mediocre solution that wasn't as hard to defend, written by someone who isn't afraid to make their voice heard.

Conversely, I've seen teams where some "high profile rock star" team member leaves, only for the rest of the team to breathe a collective sigh of relief that it's now ok to throw out his code and change most of the decisions he made that they disagreed deeply with but that they were unable to stand up to, despite in some cases outranking said developer.

As a result of those experiences, I want developers that can stand their ground and that are not afraid of fighting for what they want and believe is right, and that know how to do it in a manner that isn't confrontational but wins them respect. And no, I don't believe for a second that the meriot of the code itself is sufficient - so often it boils down to heated opinions.
Oh, please. Fundraising is a point of success. Equity is not debt. As is more than clear, "healthy profits" are not necessary for an acquirer to find value in a property. It is easier to argue that they are closer to more success.
"2 million monthly visitors": that sounds like a market to me. Additional articles show that the startup is already profitable: http://techcocktail.com/the-naturally-curly-network-2011-07#...

Natural hair is political in a way your examples aren't. In fact, your reaction is a perfect example of what the original article is talking about: people projecting their own experiences onto the rest of the world and thus making wrong assumptions about what will succeed or fail. In this case, those assumptions are both gendered and racial in nature: this is a profitable start up that most white men would never have thought to create.
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"Funny - I've stopped reading every article from the marco.org site. I can't stand his style and I really can't stand his blind Apple - cult thinking. But to everyone his own's." So why even bother commenting? And if this is typical of your comments then I'm going to stop reading them because they are self-serving and content-free.
It's a brilliant book, a professor at my university used it for teaching SECD machine implementation. I'm glad that I could get it from the library. If you're interested in these kind of things, Henderson's "Functional Programming -- Application and Implementation" might also your thing. (IIRC the list did not contain it.)

The original lambda papers might be on your want-to-read list, too: http://library.readscheme.org/page1.html; I liked the AIM-453 TR, "The Art of the Interpreter, or, The Modularity Complex" by G. Steele and G. Sussman.
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Oh no, not another Bootstrap-based web site
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IMO 500+$ bikes are far more about fun/ego than transportation. A cheap bike that let's you comfortably travel 3 miles and not really care if there stolen is worth a lot. A bike that weighs 10lb's less but is more likely to be stolen and costs 2-3 times as much is far less useful.
Yes but less. You see iOS does not have desktop widgets like android/windows, so this is a creative way to show the updates within the app icon.
Nauseating. Trashing my academic career is probably the best "mistake" I've made.
A bone to pick with the name: Leading "." in filenames usually causes the Finder (and ls) to omit the files in listings.

Maybe not a great look for an email app.
I am very interested.

I just wonder about performance and deployment practicality.

One thing is certain though, the days of wondering "Is Java fast enough for this?" are long gone. These days, people have no issue promoting deep stacks far above and beyond any OS platform.
Thanks, I know about Henderson's book and all the lambda papers--I've read or at least skimmed pretty much everything there is to read on Lisp, which is why I was surprised not to have come across The Architecture of Symbolic Computers.
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You are worrying prematurely.

"without taking on consulting work or trying to create some other application on top of Meteor to sell" != "Meteor will be built without real-life feedback"

debergalis cleared this up below: "We use meteor to build the meteor site".

Furthermore, I'll bet you hard cash that they are already working on partnerships to get people using Meteor for real applications.

Your post was valid, but everyone jumping on the band wagon has raised MY red flag. I think we're seeing reactions of either:

(1) worrying prematurely

- or -

(2) "I secretly want other people to make bad decisions and fail"
I made a SuperDuper backup of my entire drive before upgrading to Mountain Lion. 3 days after installing I used it to restore Lion. Mtn Lion added nothing I care about, and made several things break (terminal tabs started taking 5seconds to load... a dealkiller for me).
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According to the article, they're getting 2 million uniques/month, which suggests that demand exists. And with such blindingly obvious product/advertising tie-ins, it seems like there's the potential for actually making money here.

I'm certainly not in any position to make intelligent comments about this market, but I'd be wary of dismissing it because it's something that's not important to you personally. Fashion is another example of a market that many people here don't care about at all but that generates quite a lot of money.
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The sample code (presumably) uses mongoose.js, a mongodb library for Node.js. As for functionality specific to mongo? Not really.
I read they're putting $1.4M into it, which isn't crazy for a site like this. If it was $14M I'd say something different.

I think of how it's been obvious for a long time that a shoujo site vaugely like Digg or Reddit could take a piece out of Oprah Winfrey's empire, but Pintrest was the first sharing site to really click with women.

And note that Pinterest comes from Iowa, not SV or NYC!

As much as outsiders blame SV for being centered in "worthless" social media plays, my view from a distance is that SV lost interest in early stage social media companies some time ago and lately there's more interest in SAAS and "Freemium" business models, things like Dropbox, github, basecamp, etc.

Part of it is that the technical aspects of running a "good enough" social media site are getting easier and the real challenge is connecting w/ an audience. You can do that from L.A. or Atlanta or Des Moines.
Everyone already knows about PAIP so I didn't originally include it; however it seems that popular demand wins in this case.
The article makes no mention of people with curly hair meeting each other as a market. It discusses people having curly hair (and, mostly, taking care of it) as a market.
Sorry for not being clear: The second paragraph was meant as a somewhat humorous summary what an informed non-expert would think about Chomsky and his work.

But even in academic circles his name had a bad vibe, like Anakin, who started out with so much promise but then went to the dark side. This is partly due to the huge backlash in the 70s (see page 2 of the Atlantic article).
Well, within a week someone can decide to turn a prototype into an actual project. Thus, not necessarily vaporware.
The problem is Time. You would have to save (or predict) the state of the universe for measuring the distance somehow. And the universe changes constantly over time. Lets say the universe evolves by the speed of light, that would make it impossible to measure it at all. This would mean to everything inside the universe, that it is infinite.
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yeah i completely forgot about that. that's a really cool program and its for people who work in essentially the lowest income positions available in the state.
And I don't find your point in the least bit compelling. Unless you're a leading expert in the field as he is, your points mean jack squat to me. And since I'm not making the argument, it's not argument from authority to say his book is far more convincing than your assertions without evidence. You're trying to debate me about a book I recommended; you're an ass. Goodbye.
Really nicely done. I think this is a huge market that extends beyond just conferences, but also the next generation of youtube stars, popular podcasts, bloggers, etc. The idea being that anyone out there with an avenue to market to their audience can quickly and easily seek out sponsors. I think it'd also be a great way to allow smaller companies that don't necessarily have the budget to afford highly sought ad slots to tap into the many lesser known media channels.
Ask HN: We are launching our first service today - any advice?
Hi all,

We have been working on our site [1] for about a month and we think it is ready to launch now, but we are not entirely sure how best to go about it. Obviously we have a few ideas but we would love to hear some more experienced opinions.

Many thanks,
Sam and India

[1] www.nusic.fm
This is not news. The cell phone industry has a long history of petty non-novel patents, such as for vibrating _and_ ringing at the same time. A phone with a screen, a grid of icons and round corners sounds equally petty.
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As a curly haired woman, who read the article, I'd add that there is a small cultural shift afoot. Curly means natural, not straightened, not brazilian'd, not a weave, wig or blowout. Curly power: claim it. Next up: naturally grey hair. Straight + dyed hair = how women subjugate ourselves. Read somewhere that Paul Mitchell Hair Products and Patron tequila are behind the Curly Hair Network, and if that's true, then this curly network is content marketing.
280 Slides seems like the opposite data point for me. It seemed like merely a demo of what you could do and that Cappuccino overall is fairly bloated and searching for real-world problems to solve. And 280 Slides is of course now gone, having never had much viability.
Mountain Lion eliminates 32-bit code from a number of libraries, so YMMV for 32-bit code that links to private frameworks and random stuff in /usr/lib.

libpq.dylib is a actually a good example I ran into myself (using Python packages I had installed myself under Lion with pip): a fat binary in 10.7, but 64-bit only in 10.8. Quick fix if you've installed a fat libpq elsewhere: for each Mach-O binary that links to /usr/lib/libpq.dylib,
install_name_tool -change /usr/lib/libpq.dylib /path/to/fat/libpq.dylib /path/to/binary
This only works if your fat version is binary compatible with the pre-upgrade version, of course. If this command has no effect, verify the exact original path specified in the binary via
otool -L /path/to/binary
because, AFAIK, install_name_tool requires an exact match. The "preferred" solution is to rebuild whatever broke, making sure that it links against the right libpq in the first place, of course.

Note that this problem shouldn't affect tools bundled with a freestanding PostgreSQL installation, as they'll (presumably) be linked against the correct version already, nor tools installed by MacPorts, as they'll link to /opt/local/lib/libpq.dylib, but if things you've built and installed yourself start failing with "wrong architecture" errors from the dynamic loader, this is a likely cause. I've never used Homebrew, so I have no idea what it links against.
I suspect the "pure awesome" part is at the IHttpModule and IHttpHandler level, where you can do everything except receive and produce grievously invalid HTTP requests. If you need to do that, IIS is extensible via WCF to host more than HTTP.

If you don't use the legacy static accessors like HttpContext.Current, it's actually quite testable. HttpContext.Current is especially bad because it uses thread local storage, so you have to be very careful about when and where you access it.
The default for Unicorn is to start a whole new set of processes, but it's pretty easy to set up a custom script that uses signals + the before/after_fork hooks to do various custom rolling restarts.

The same goes with user switching, you can just use Ruby to do it (example at the bottom of https://gist.github.com/206253).

Unicorn also already has "error resistance" in that it won't switch to a master/workers that aren't booting properly during a restart.
I thought it was a rather funny post, but that is because I know and appreciate the Siracusa reviews, and I understand the references.

Satire and parody are generally reactionary.
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From my cursory review Meteor a few months ago, I got the sense that it could be a game-changer like Rails. However, by raising this money they're going a very different route than DHH and company.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out over the next few years.
All that it established, if you read between the lines, is that there is a clear market for hair products for women with curly hair, and that the companies that produce those products are looking at targeting those women to sell those products.

It does not address exactly what a social network would accomplish for the consumer beyond acting as a conduit for advertising. That's where the issue is.
YC companies have collectively raised over $1 billion in funding
This is often what the pragmatic/practical approach prioritizes (easier for users), as opposed to the idealistic/academic.
Maybe, but probably not. I suspect AH believes 1) it can make a big financial return and 2) if it does, it's a model for funding this type of "company".
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