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We (http://devbootcamp.com/) host the Bloc guys in our office, and work with them on a ton of cool stuff! I see them in constant Skype calls with their students, discussing all kinds of cool things. These guys are great.
Yup. It's often hard to test that change if the rest of the working copy is borked, though.
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Sure. I'm not saying there aren't arguments to be made about the difference. What I am saying is that Marco needs to actually make one if he wants to be convincing here.

That being said, I'll make two other points:

1. File managers aren't a good example of the benefits of Android's relative lack of restrictions for non-geek users. Good examples are alternative browsers (like Firefox - the best Gingerbread browser, IMO) and alternative, full-featured stores of all kinds (app/books/music/...).

2. Given items like this ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4292754 )suggesting that Apple is trying to bring the iOS file system concepts to the Mac, I don't think I'd base an argument on how today's Mac users use the file system.
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> Are there any apps that use a dictionary other than EDICT?

Look into the second app I mentioned (DroidWing). Like I said, it supports EPWING-format dictionary files, the same as 電子辞書 use, meaning that comprehensiveness is no longer a distinguishing factor when it comes to 電子辞書 vs. smartphones. The specific dictionaries I mentioned (from 研究社) are considered to be the authoritative E-J/J-E dictionaries, both printed and digital. You can of course get other speciality E-J/J-E dictionaries, or J-J dictionaries, if that's what you desire.
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This all sounds amazing, but why only 12 people?
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"lack of knowledge about how things work" and "The problem is hosting". Are you people insane?!

An open information policy, regardless of it's supposed higher morality, reduces a social network's ability to compete, because a) it gives competitors an advantage in acquiring your users and retaining them, and b) the vast majority of users do not care about this. We have the current equilibrium in the social networking market because of many forces, including ease-of-use, social feature set, up-front monetary cost, and social group inertia, but information policy has empirically proven not to be one of these factors. It has, however, been an important factor in shaping the self-publishing/blog market. There are different solutions suited to different markets.

And you cannot explain people's indifference to this issue by proclaiming (arrogantly) that they have a "lack of knowledge". People have other more pressing concerns in their lives. Making the rent this month. Dealing with a child who is not performing well in school. Internalizing stress from their job because they are not trained enough to get a better one. Even if the average person did know about information accessibility, privacy, and sale to 3rd parties, why would this issue rise to a level comparable the issues listed above? The fact that they can smile for half an hour when they get home from work by reading/looking at a personalized listing of information they find valuable, and do this for free, is all they need to know about the web. This is not for better or for worse. It's reality in all its complexity.

If or when this free-but-centralized/closed system fails them, by directly affecting their pocketbook or by itself has becoming insolvent, is when they'll take notice. And if this does ever happen, it is probably decades away.

Lastly, if you aim your service at just "the people that care about information access", don't overestimate your market size. You going after a much smaller pool. With social/communication services, we're not just talking about a pool of individuals, we're talking about a pool of friend/colleague/interest groups. In this case, the specific pool is basically all friend/colleague/interest groups which are comprised entirely of libertarian-minded nerds that actually want a communication service beyond email/mailing lists, github, and blogs/comment threads.

Ferchrissake, this comment thread on Hacker News only generated 19 comments; what do we need a whole social networking service for?!
Anyone who has purchased any IAP content at all has an IAP receipt that you have access to even across installs.

This leaves the problem that v>1 first time buyers will have to IAP something immediately after buying the app, kind of pushes you to have a free trial mode.

Hopefully apple will eventually introduce time-limited free trials and upgrade options. If their history with iOS and Mac versioning is any hint, the current simple system is not a religious thing for them and they will listen if they see enough negative feedback. Which we should provide.
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Looking at MattJ100's link (http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/gre...), it seems like POSIX grep actually does not have any recursion.

Hence, only lubutu's comment ("-R is the recursion flag for ls, cp, rm, etc") is true, while _delirium ("-R is the POSIX-standard flag for recursive grep") is wrong, which means AIX is free to do whatever it wants with both the -r and the -R flags.
I'd actually love to have seen Instagram been acquired by Twitter instead of Facebook (if any acquisition had to happen). For me, I don't really use Facebook much anymore except for the occasional sharing of photos, and for everything else I use Twitter. Most status updates I see on Facebook now are about the length of a tweet, I'm not involved in any groups, don't "like" any pages; it all pretty much comes down to photos and text.
Not predicted Bush? Not predicted 9/11, more like. Which is strange too: one of my first impressions of the US was how vulnerable the country was. (Resilient too, but that was not surprising.)
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Thanks for mentioning that. I had been using isup.me but ran in issues when checking while some images failed to load on a site I volunteer for - it would check the responsiveness on the URL of the server itself, which gave a 404 as it wasn't supposed to be accessed by public and isup.me would interpret that as the server always being down... downforme.org seems to deal with that better, thanks!
And still, the same shitty UI on the Mac.
Would be a start!
$3500!!!!
I'll use that to take a course from Harvard thank you.
> A lot more of them have survived to be embarrassed by their predictions

Predictions are hard, especially about the future. -- Yogi Berra

But seriously, I was in my mid-20's in 1987 and not a lot of these predictions seem outlandish having lived through that time.
A few:

- Go has language-level support, in the form of goroutines, for multithreaded concurrency. Python is single-OS-thread-only, and PyPy doesn't change that.

- Go has enough static typing to help you write safer code, without the verbosity of "bigger" languages like C++ or Java. If you write a lot of tests for your Python app, you might not have variable typos or function argument type mismatches, but in Go the compiler catches these things.

- Go is compiled to machine code. This means that, barring a miracle in JIT/VM research, Go will probably always be faster than PyPy for most tasks.

These, together with the fact that many of the niceties of Python are available in Go (lightweight syntax, first-class functions, iterators and list slicing, etc), make it, in my opinion, a compelling alternative to Python.
Javascript can do real-time audio decoding in modern browsers, and can almost do real-time video decoding as well. While in general a site should use the standard components rather than reinventing them, the ability to do so allows experimentation with creative ideas that browser vendors haven't thought of yet. The more you can do without increasing the surface area of the browser-to-site interface, the better.
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That's a really obvious thing. Did you guys proofread? It's the little slips that make people doubt an organization i.e. "if they missed this tiny detail, then how will they perform on the big things?"

I don't mean to be a jerk. Best of luck with your event and everything, but if you're going to plan a 12 week hack vacation for people, then details matter.
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What's your selection algorithm?
Besides being at the top of HN, what sort of validation does this have as an actual viable event. I mean, can I get a tropical picture with some water, make a simple one page website, and just start harvesting your guys emails to?

I'm not trying to be overly negative, it just seems like there is sooo little information being given to be making the top of HN
Hey, I'm also trying to hire coders to work on a remote tropical island [1], although for a little longer term than you. Where is this located? I can recommend some places in the Seychelles if you haven't yet decided on a spot :)

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/jobbit/comments/x2x1w/hiring_mobile_...
All of the node.js kids get really defensive when you point this out; as if async was supposed to be heinously ugly despite the fact that the entire raison d'etre of node.js is to be async.

Programming advances so slowly because all of the training required to become familiar with it eventually becomes a blind spot.
There's some history behind this. You can read some of it from Russ Cox, one of the Go authors.

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/golang-nu...
http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html

Edit: missed another good one. There's a lot of discussion about this on the mailing list. https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/golang-nu...
Yeah, I wasn't expecting this. It's an idea that is in my head that I want to make a reality, but only if there is enough interest. I can promise you I won't do anything with those emails except keep you up to date on what happens next.

Now that it seems like there is enough interest, we can go to the next phase: figuring out wether it would be a paid thing or a sponsored thing. Opinions welcome...
> To be fair, no programming language has really taken a first-party approach to those specific problems.

APL (and it's descendants J and K) has everything needed to do justice to SIMD/GPGPU. And it had them since the early 60s. I am not aware of an APL compiler that actually uses GPU or SIMD instructions, but one is possible, and wouldn't require any change to the base language.

Not surprisingly, this is because the idiomatic model is closer to the SIMD mindset than to the "standard" (algol/pascal/c/java/python/go) mindset, which is why it is unlikely to ever become popular.
Most likely it will be in the Phillipines, but right now that is just a first idea..
If I was on a remote tropical island, that last thing I would want to do is turn on a computer.
It will be partly personal interviews, partly skills. In my previous experiences with communal living i have learned that even the most skilled people can be a total pain in the butt to live with. I wanna avoid that at all cost :)
I was 19 in 1987. :-)

Old enough to be aware of the voices of Gloom and Doom even then.

There's always an excuse to believe in them. And there's always a choice to see it otherwise.
Well, no one's forcing you to come..
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For what is worth, the job_seekers/opening ratio is usually published by the same agencies that provide unemployment rates.

For instance, a quick search reveals that ratio was 3.5 in the US in May 2012 (down from 4.5 one year before), while it was only about 1.25 in Japan.

https://mninews.deutsche-boerse.com/content/japan-may-job-of...

http://www.labor.ny.gov/stats/job-seekers-per-opening.shtm

However, if we assume a 3.5 seeker/opening ratio then 600 applications/opening implies 171 applications per seeker, which sounds too high.

Looking at the methodology, it's clear what the problem is: the denominator in the official seeker/opening ratio is simply the number of currently unemployed people. Those 600 applications must include people who are working, perhaps part-time, so technically not unemployed. I think your estimate sounds about right.
Given your experience, what locations do you have in mind?
>which arguably is one of the most important factors in its rapid rise

There is debate over the actual effectiveness of the policy. The really optimistic numbers seem to come straight fromt the Chinese government, and there are a lot of people who disagree with them.

Additionally they are going to have a huge demographic problem as the one child generation ages. I was just reading an economist article that said estimates are that over 1/3 of Shanghai will be over 60 by 2020, and by 2050 the median age in China will be 49.
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> Python is single-OS-thread-only, and PyPy doesn't change that.

Neither statement is really the whole truth, and Python does have some nice ways to do coroutines and futures now, but I see how Go is better here (those 2 features do need to be in the core of the language) and with your other points, thanks.
I've only used -R, because of it's posixness.
Finger memory from adminning Solaris.

Not to say that this is a good or bad change.

-R matches the -R in chown/chgrp

They should really introduce -r for those two to NOT follow symlinks. Following symlinks for those is bad.
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I'm all in favor of better python interfaces for excel, but you need a better example, computing rolling time series statistics, and visualizing them? That's a job for pandas.

If you want excel as the front end (I understand why you would want that) you could use pandas to process the data, and use excel as the frontend, instead of writing all that code.
Sounds like a great idea. What is your timeline?
That's cool, I'll bring my own tent.
On the surface they feel similar in that they are both quite concise.

Concurrency is a hugh difference. Python's approach to concurrency is the "global interpreter lock" which means only one thread can be running at once to prevent you from trying to access shared objects from multiple threads. Go has lite weight "go routines" that are multiplexed across os threads in parallel and channels that can be used for passing variables between them and the defer statement to help clean up. This sounds complicated at first but it is the simplest system for reasoning about concurrent code I have used.

Go also has pointers, mutexes, fixed sized arrays (with easy to use dynamic slices over them) and other things that let you implement low level data structures when you need to.

Go has interfaces and embedding but no inheritance which leads to iterative development of organization instead of needing to design from the start. The standard library makes extensive use of these and is extremely well organized...I much prefer go's http client code for example.

It doesn't have as extensive a corpus of library implemented in optimized C/fortran and I really miss things like numpy...in many cases python code can be faster because the libraries do all the heavy lifting.
Agreed, and it's pretty dumb. Then again, we weren't aiming for big exposure like this. Also, both of the people involved in this are not native English speakers, can I put that up for a valid excuse? :P
Every young person is switched onto that. It's the only useful thing some schools teach.
How about Pitcairn Island? You can't get much more remote. Two months fits in fairly well with the supply ship coming and going for transport to/from the island. 12 people would increase the local population by almost 25%!
I was lucky enough to grow up a few miles from an Air Force Base. When we did the "duck and cover" training thing, our science teacher told us it wouldn't matter because we'd turn to ash almost instantly anyway.

Recently there was mention of a poll of evangelical Christians and some large percentage thought the rapture would happen in their lifetime.

Honestly, that's pretty much literally the same psychology at work as those who believed in impending nuclear holocaust then and imminent climate doom now.
If you're still unable to get a hold of the source, maybe this would help: http://i.imgur.com/u2nVg.png

I just moved around the pixels in the .png. Working off the native file would probably produce a nicer result.

Cheers!
I'm looking forward to it :)
You should offer more than just the trip. Preferably have some mentors/advisors available to the group. There is no point in spending thousands going to a tropical island to do exactly the same you can do at home, that's just spending money on a fake vacation.
I concede the point. I'm definitely wrong.
The link below says that LG is about to introduce their own very very cheap HDMI compatible ips 27 inch, the IPS277L-BN
for just 30,000 yen. OK in USD that's like $385, but you get HDMI and a real company behind it. Also that price is for Japan so who knows what the US price would be.

(in Japanese):
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[edit: m3koval rightly points out that this monitor is low resolution so only really fit for gaming or video viewing. My mistake. ]
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You need to go to cahuita costa rica. They have villas with wifi for crazy cheap (less than 25 a night), and a beach that is probably where that picture comes from. Plus if you want to recruit any ticos, intel and hp are some of the countries biggest employers. Consider it, message me if you want help, I've done business down there.
http://www.google.com/search?q=cahuita&hl=en&client=...
How is the Internet there?
12 weeks on a remote tropical island, luxurious villa, 12 geniuses... a cook and housekeeper.. airfare.. time away from current projects... that sounds like a pretty hefty price tag per genius if it's a paid event. I think you may have trouble finding hackers to sign up when the reality sets in. I'd recommend you get to work finding serious sponsors because right now it sounds like a nice dream. Good luck good sir.
That's directly contrary to everything I'd ever heard about Google before. Interesting, maybe they've learned their lesson.
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Haskell isn't just used in academia. It's used a Facebook for example, and no-one would accuse Facebook of being an academic company.
"git stash --keep-index" to stash everything except for what is in the index, or "git stash -p" to choose what changes to stash.
Fair enough -- and do know, that I wish you the best, and expect that this will be a lot of fun, and that you will probably produce some cool stuff.

It's just that, speaking for myself, I am now Old, and have gone from having a love/love relationship with computers, to a love/hate relationship.

Meanwhile, my level of interest in plants and birds and bugs has increased tremendously. So if I were in on a tropical island, I would really want to spend a lot of time with the bugs and the birds and the plants.
That is exactly what we hope to achieve, but that all depends on how we shape this idea next..
I've been to cahuita. The chances are bigger that this will take place in Southeast Asia actually.
With other simple regular expressions Perl and Java will be millions of times slower than Go: http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html
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Since 'there' isn't defined yet, I don't know yet. But rest assured that it will be one of the primary things we base our choice for a house on..
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I'm in Sydney after living... all over the world. I'll be in Melbourne next Thursday if you want to grab a coffee [my e-mail should be in my profile].

I do contract work on the side, and I have worked for other start-ups as well.
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Thanks. We are fully aware it might be too expensive for people to cough up all the dough. Preliminary research show that a house for 12 people doesn't have to cost more then 500USD/person/month though. With a bit of smart marketing it should be possible to find some people interested to sponsor this..
I definitely agree that stash is useful, but I'm more of a fan of committing early and often, then squashing using git rebase -i.
Most likely we'll aim for late 2012, early 2013. Depends on how things develop from here..
You can compare the hacker schools here: http://blog.bloc.io/comparing-hacker-schools -- if you're interested in learning about the economics, I'd recommend reading Race Against the Machine: http://www.amazon.com/Race-Against-The-Machine-ebook/dp/B005....

One of our students was just hired, and we've got another who just graduated on sponsorship from another well known startup as part of their hiring process. If you want a full list of the apps our students have built e-mail me at jared@bloc.io.

The bootcamp is really what you make of it, although our focus is on building an application that you could do many things with: show an employer (who appreciates seeing code that you've written as opposed to a resume), show to a potential cofounder, or bootstrap it.
Hey guys! I am the student in question. As someone else said, we are all adults (in our 20's and 30's) and I wasn't hurt/isolated/crushed/etc. when our teacher didn't come with me. In fact he's a wonderful teacher and person, and instead of protesting against security (who doesn't care), he posted this, which gained a lot more attention.

It turns out someone causing problems at numerous Yelp events has the same name as myself and they were on the "no-fly" list. I'd say the security needs some improvement, as they couldn't tell the difference between us after checking my government-issued ID.

Thanks for all the discussion.