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Yeah. But isn't the whole point of high level constructs that you can use and conceptualize them more easily than, and without prior understanding of, what happens at a lower-level? Just like you don't have to learn exactly how CPU registers work to learn C, you also don't have to learn all the principles of computer science behind 'each' before you can use it....

also - maybe you mean 'imperative' rather than 'iterative'?

In terms of 'abstract', I can see where you are coming from that there are more underlying principles and its more abstract from this point of view. From the point of view I was at, they are both referencing the same variables doing the same thing so its the same abstraction from a programmatic(?) point of view. Probably a poor/confusing choice of words on my part...
Surely at some point these same people would realize there's no admin.php on my web server, but there they are, still looking for it...
OK, I appreciate your openness to understanding my point of view. I will articulate/respond respectfully.

First, some quick points:

1. I must apologize for misinterpreting "Math Wars". I though it was referring to the recent little "skirmishes" between certain math professors and Khan Academy (as found here, for example: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/khan-a...)

2. Your tutorials sound fantastic. I haven't had the pleasure of working through them, but they certainly sound like they are raising the level of worldwide math education.

So, before I go any further, let me ask -- are you at all entangled with (or even on the periphery of) the skirmish referred to by the link I posted above, between Mathalicious founder Karim Kai Ani and Khan Academy? Or the skirmish triggered by some of Frank Noschese's criticisms, as in http://fnoschese.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/you-khant-ignore-h... ?

The reason I ask is because this is what I (perhaps mistakenly) though you were referring to, and it is many of these criticisms that I feel are baseless and petty.

If those criticisms really have nothing to do with your current post or even your current mental outlook, then all that's left for me to do is apologize for jumping to conclusions and getting overheated for something that has nothing to do with you.

If those criticism are relevant to your posting and current outlook, then perhaps it would make sense for me to continue onward by listing those criticisms that I feel are baseless. If so, I will proceed.
I'm already using a VPN in the US to handle that (Netflix), but they reject my credit card (french one).
Any idea of a workaround ?

EDIT : typo
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But the idea is that the site presents itself in a way that is optimal based on the medium being used by the user, right?

Why would "degrade" be the better way to refer to that idea?
Actually, 9gag does release their numbers, via Quantcast[0]. According to those, they have a long ways to catch up to Reddit, which even in 2010 [1] had more than double the visitors (3mm vs 8mm "people" monthly).

Incidentally, the 65mm visitors from that quote seems to have been actually referring to page views, of which Reddit had 429mm monthly in 2010.

[0] http://www.quantcast.com/9gag.com
[1] http://blog.reddit.com/2010/07/experts-misunderestimate-our-...

(disclaimer: I work for Quantcast).
I would prefer that a mod change the title to remove the implication that Starbucks caused the outage. If a user believes that Starbucks did cause the outage, or that the the temporal proximity of these two events is significant, I suggest a blog post explaining the significance.

"Square is down" is a perfectly acceptable title, IMO.
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From what I understand, node.js packages are not, in most cases, intended to be installed systemwide. You can install them to a system directory (with the -g option), but by default, it assumes that you want to install to your current project, in the cwd.
I wonder what happened to Diaspora. http://allthingsd.com/20120511/diaspora-says-its-back-on-tra...

I was really expecting to see what kind of product they would launch. Did they just not launch at the demo day but still working on it, or did they actually pivot into something else?
Quite pleased that the donation link is an actual cancer donation link.
The main take away for me wasn't that Pocket Books introduced 25 cent paperbacks when hardcovers were priced at $2.75. The main take away for me was that Pocket Books changed their distribution model too to disrupt the book publishing industry.

From the article:

"Quantity was key. De Graff knew that if he could print 100,000 paperbound books, production costs would plummet to 10 cents per copy. But it would be impossible for Pocket Books to turn a profit if it couldn’t reach hundreds of thousands of readers. And that would never happen as long as de Graff relied solely on bookstores for distribution. So de Graff devised a plan to get his books into places where books weren’t traditionally sold. His twist? Using magazine distributors to place Pocket Books in newsstands, subway stations, drugstores, and other outlets to reach the underserved suburban and rural populace."
This article was published in 2009 dude. I am almost certain this would have been posted numerous times.
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I would venture to say that almost every start-up begins with 1 or 2 driving forces, and branches from there. I am hard pressed to remember any that haven't. Anyone here think of one?
... aaand it still uses flash.
> I really don't get where you're coming from

ok. we can can disagree. I never intended to convince you of anything. have I failed? lol
i thght its easy for children on breast feeding..so there is no intuitive one in the world....
I'm also bad at spelling.
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My work in concurrency with C++ has been from the AAA games angle. I have found that it's a field where knowledge of parallel programming is incredibly valuable but few people end up putting the effort in to make their code take advantage of the hardware. People who are interested in parallel programming are a rare asset to have.

At least within my company we haven't used much in the way of parallel programming languages like OpenCL/CUDA/Cilk, preferring instead to use a task based concurrency library not entirely unlike Intel's TBB, but more cross platform. There's more investigation into GPGPU happening these days -- I'm curious to see if it'll pan out for more than just rendering applications. I'm also curious to see if the other (physics/audio/animation) areas can pull GPU time away from the rendering guys :)

The trajectory in this field is predictable. You get a hardware platform, have 5-7 years to figure out how to use it, and once you finally have it figured out something entirely different comes along.
I am anxious to give Hulu my money, however the paid "plus" membership has way too many ads. I understand they have their business plan numbers worked out, but the payed membership shouldn't have the same number of ads as the free version.
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Una fiesta de cóctel es básicamente exactamente lo que su nombre implica - . . Un partido donde los cócteles y aperitivos se sirven para un cóctel sin duda tiene un código de vestimenta. Así que sigue leyendo para saber cómo vestirse adecuadamente para una fiesta.
I love the idea. It's really great to see something innovative here. I was almost going to say a little bit of genius, but i have a few more reservations now i have thought the idea over-- mainly that i don't think i'd see value in the 'game' (that is, saving potential) unless i really liked all the tees on offer. So that sets the proposition to me[1] as very close to any other online t-shirt retailer (would anyone suspect their favourite was going to be least liked?).

BUT in the very worst case scenario, you have a fantastic marketing gimmick to drive people to the site, and keep many of them coming back perhaps. I really wish there was a 'control' to compare this to, to see what effect this has on sales- it seems it will be hard to know how much the game is driving sales vs people just liking the tees. My current feeling is the idea might function better slightly tweaked.. eg. offer the shirts at $18 normally, or $20 with the freebie game.. only count the $20 sales toward the totals.. might offer some balance-- for example, the 'better' (popular) one won't currently have a lot of appeal WRT. the game, because most will rightly assume it wouldn't be least popular. Add the tweak and there is an element of double-guessing that might make more people believe they have a chance of 'winning'? Hope that made sense.. it's not a fully worked out idea, but worth thinking about perhaps.

Also, consider following OKcupid and having an onsite blog.

[1] perhaps not everyone is like me (or us here), though
Taking a few minutes, looking around, it's fine. In fact, I dig it. But was design ever the problem for Hulu? Content is king here, and Hulu just doesn't have it.

As a viewer, I expect a site like this has to either be niche, or truly all encompassing. I think things like Stargate or Highlander could support their own sites. Comedy Central was smart to do their stuff (South Park, Daily Show, Colbert) by show. CBS even does Star Trek on StarTrek.com. Hulu seems to try to do everything, but fails. I genuinely think they could do better if they spun off niche sites, crediting them all as "Brought to you by Hulu".
Thanks for this, especially the exporting to txt files!
Beats requiring Silverlight (Netflix).
All those cabs in SF that have worked out how to dodge the taxes they have to pay would have felt the pain.
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Has anyone had any real-world experience using X!0? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X10_(programming_language)

It came out of IBM (Eclipse license) at about the same time as Watson, and I've gotten the impression that it (compiled down to C++) was the main language used for it.

One of the authors was a guest professor whenever I took my parallel programming course and wound up teaching about half the classes, so its abilities and use may have been exaggerated slightly, but it has a lot of constructs built in that I'd imagine to be terrible to implement otherwise - good globally synchronized clocks and memory management across everything on the current "place" (roughly one physical computer), although you could still had to manage memory you sent to different places manually.

But Wikipedia says Watson's built mostly on Hadoop, where the coolest features wouldn't really have much of an effect, so it may be just a crazy research language. I was just curious.
> how do we know it wasn't converted an an unmanned vehicle

We don't, but I don't think anyone would be considering that had 'UAV' not been in the HN post's title (whilst not in the link's own title or description of the vehicle).
Every conversation about Hulu gets highjacked by this kind of talk. We get it, its not changing anytime soon, and its not even Hulu's fault.

Now back to the topic at hand...
wow...nice...guess i have to agree with that.. but only partially....may be a baby smiles..but in the present world people(mainly girls and managers) even try to make artificial smiles...i remember in college my batch girls trying different smiles for the batch snaps..
What happened to Diaspora?
The one startup I've been really expecting to see launch today at YC demo day was Diaspora, but I didn't see them. I know they got into YC (Remember seeing them on an article about that), what's going on?
www.virool.com - Platform to distribute and market videos. Company makes $0.12/second.
That's about right. One of the biggest surprises to me as I learned more about how startup equity works was the HUGE dropoff between cofounders and employee #1 in terms of equity.
No bitterness, but intense frustration when usability takes a hit. Based on experience, the bigger preview images and the gee whiz animation will be found to be appreciated among test subjects and the redesign thus proclaimed a success. But the new difficulties in finding shows to watch, and to comment on and thus engage with, will result in fewer views as time goes by.

Animated transitions, slow alpha fade ins for menus and popovers, and huge fonts are the latest design fad and is a must have for 2012 sites. If it makes actual usability worse, it doesn't matter.

This evening I went there, saw a clip for The Office. This caused be to wonder if it had started or was about to start, so I went to the show page. No longer are there air dates shown. The clip I saw that was featured it wasn't clear if it was a preview from the next season or something from the past (I didn't remember seeing it). Went to find the episode list and found it doesn't exist anymore. Went to find discussion to see if others were talking about when the shows start and comments were empty. Couldn't accomplish anything I wanted to. I'm going to say that's a usability failure, at least compared to last year's design. There's a lot of room for improvement on Hulu so a redesign is not unwelcome. It's always been challenging to find what recently broadcast TV shows are available, one has to click on multiple next/prev tabs on multiple layers of sliding shows. But rather than add a list that shows a lot in a compact space, they removed the list from other areas and copied the difficult parts of their site onto the parts that were actually working.

Not all the changes in the last few months are bad. The hover text on the play controls are nice, explaining that clicking the volume icon does mute, and that the round arrow means 10 second rewind. But overall the new design has many things that are a step backward.
dvse, see my response to kalid. I thought "Math Wars" was a reference to a specific set of criticisms levied against Kahn Academy recently, when perhaps it was not a reference to that at all. If so, the whole thing could be a misunderstanding on my part. Waiting for kalid to clarify.
Maybe I should buy an instant video to compare quality -- I was assuming they'd be as bad as the amazon prime instant videos.
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Cool! Thanks for the insight, so did they mix page views with unique visitors?

Also, off-topic question: How do you measure a visitor's income or education level, do you deduce based on location?
He could just turn on object versioning.
"Fantasy"? That's absurd. Copperplate is a letterpress type. Papyrus, meanwhile, is a joke, but it's meant to look like bush strokes; it's hardly fantastic.

I would like to see the information about the support visible, rather than hidden under a mouseover. Maybe 2 thin horizontal bars where length = %, 1 for Mac, 1 for PC?
One thing I noticed is that the content doesn't fit the screen as well as it used to.

The graphics are all really big and takes a bit of scrolling to explore the frontpage, which I don't think is an optimal design choice.

However, its a great redesign overall. Reminds me a bit of Netflix.
I've been thinking about odesk, but didn't know vworker. Good to know it can work, thanks.
They're a lot simpler than printf, strxfrm, or mktime, all of which are in C90!
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Dropbox stores their stuff in S3 a little different. It's not a 1:1 correspondence between user files and objects under Dropbox's S3 account. The fact that they use S3 as their backing store means very little. It certainly sounds good to have S3 in back when you talk about scalability and durability, but 1) they could just as easily use something else, and 2) depending on their sharding strategy, a single lost object could impact multiple files at the user level.
There are prostitutes at the Rosewood that had to get their johns to bring cash! It is a disaster!
There are many many vastly easier and lower risk ways to launder money, which don't leave a well documented audit trail throughout the system.

I think your average individual or organization laundering money would want to invest in the kind of things he understood, like small businesses, in the later stages of laundering money, too.
What's wrong with creating a SaaS for $80/month and finding 500 users? $40k/month is more than so many of these clowns will ever make.

No love from your peers? Seriously, B2B is way undervalued around here...
Yes. The forthcoming S3 Lifecycle Policy API additions should allow for exactly this, automatically.
http://blog.diasporafoundation.org/

Read yesterday's post.
If it works to get people started then it works. I honestly don't remember how I got started programming - some people rhapsodize about that first moments coding, but for me it was mostly rage at a capricious Java compiler that I felt was always either finding a creative way to do something other than when it should or throwing an error completely unrelated to what was wrong.

After I got past that point everything was gravy. I've always been kind of confused by the learning curve metaphor (If the learning curve is steep, doesn't that mean you learn faster? What's the x and what's the y in this?) but tech now is getting closer to the ideal linear curve, where additional learning and productivity are at a relatively constant proportion no matter what stage you're at rather than being a floor function until you hit a certain level.

Which is awesome.
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"The artists we've spoken to love our service but can't afford the price"

So, why is lowering your price a bad idea?
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Data cryonics indeed. One of the early names kicked around (and, indeed, its working name for over a year) was Cold Storage.
Right. Or just use org-mode. As an example I switched from Textmate to Emacs about a month ago because of org-mode. It is an absolute killer app! Before that, I was merely using Emacs to write commit messages or make small changes. Now it is taking more screenSpace*time per day than the browser :-)

If you are on the Mac, I [1] can recommend using Aquamacs [1] in the beginning. It supports shortcuts like Cmd-z, Cmd-c or Cmd-v in addition to the Emacs shortcuts. It does not allow for marking text with Shift-<arrow key> and does not support Emacs 24 yet, but org-mode is already pre-installed and will work like a charme. Just create a new file with the ending .org, open it in Emacs and you are already in org-mode!

[1] Carsten Dominic, the creator of org-mode recommends it, too!
[2] http://aquamacs.org/
Checkout http://www.unblock-us.com/ to get around this, i was able to watch olympics on bbc which was great
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See my post up top: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4416065
There's a wildly successful and profitable business model for getting money for TV content. It's cable and satellite subscriptions. More than half of all households in the US pay for a cable subscription.

Everyone (in the US) gets TV content from the major networks for free -- just connect an antenna to your TV. You can pay to get more content, and access to previous seasons, by subscribing to cable or satellite. Subscribing doesn't reduce the ads at all, just gets you more things to watch.

Hulu is an exact replica of the business model, except using the web instead of radio and cable lines, as the delivery method.

Everyone (in the US) gets TV content from Hulu for free -- just browse to their website. You can pay to get more content, and access to previous seasons, by subscribing to Hulu Plus. Subscribing to Hulu Plus doesn't reduce the ads at all, just gets you more things to watch.

The only difference is that a cable subscription averages more than 10 times the monthly cost of Hulu Plus. To expect to not only pay 90% less than cable, but also eliminate the advertising, is unrealistic.
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You could try purchasing a prepaid Visa, Mastercard, or American Express gift card online and have it shipped to you. I see that amazon.com has various prepaid gift cards. Another option I'd be less excited about is a "reloadable" (i.e. Green Dot) debit card. I believe most US issued reloadable cards require a social security number however.
I think you can buy a US gift card[1] and use that instead. I haven't tried it, so don't quote me on it ;)

[1] - https://www311.americanexpress.com/BOLWeb/bolfeOrder.do?requ...
I buy most of my hardware from Little Bird too - I could easily source it cheaper but they provide awesome service. I attended a great presentation of theirs showcasing http://ninjablocks.com/
I agree with the article, but I wonder whether it'll mostly happen in the Valley, in the way that internet companies very much mostly happened in the Valley. Focusing so much on web web web web technology might have driven the non-web engineers of many trades away from the Valley, to other places in the world. Wouldn't these places be better equipped now to be the new "Silicon Valley of <field>"?
This has been killed. But:

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> as a coder turned entrepreneur ...

As an entrepreneur turned doer-of-everything, I recommend you reconsider your path unless you're truly confident in your ability to execute on whatever skills you learn in RL, for real money. I'll give you vague suggestions anyway, but please realize you not only must have the sales and marketing down pat, you need serious money and cajones to go "solo", else you better have an impossible string of luck or one idea of the century after another.

This is not directed at you in particular, but HN is no different than other forums in other industries: you have a ton of people fronting like Jesus but who make shit revenue, then you have the people who make shit revenue, meanwhile 5% or less of the total posters are truly raking it in. Don't be willing to forefeit your field of specialty and competitive advantage after getting starry eyes on [insert website here], and 2) when you go to learn sales and marketing it is critical you learn only from truly proven people.

Well how about some suggestions: everything from copywriting classics (Ogilvy), contemporary marketing video course legends (Kern), to psychology and successful sales trainers.

stackthatmoney.com (not an affiliate)

If you are a coder, you have a significant advantage in that - assuming you're willing to approach your marketing and sales learnings like you approached learning to code - you can become better at sales and marketing than a (surprisingly) large number of life long salespeople and marketers. The question is, are you going to make the sacrifices necessary to both learn it all and then go out and do it.
Most of these seem like derivative of other successful startups, like most of YC companies. They all just seem "done" already, so what's the point? On another thread there was the release of a YC-based iPhone controller which was no better than 5 or 6 other competitors in the exact same space. So what kind of advantage do these fancy-pants YC companies really have over their competitors over the MEGA HYPE of demo day?

Probably nothing. The consumer putting up his bucks is what really matters.
It blows my mind that those photos was taken over a quarter century ago, hidden by some playful programmers, and are only now unearthed by an entirely different generation of playful programmers. Cool stuff.
First thing I did was click Browse->TV->Popular. List of shows. Click on a Show. Right under episodes to the right there is a drop-down with the list of available episodes.

I am not saying its perfect, but is it nearly as bad as you are making it out to be?