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Typical myopic "bubble" comment. We have talent in South Florida.

The problem we have, is it's a small community. Poaching is out of the question. Cause word does get around. So we interview hoping we nail someone good before someone else does.

But being South Florida no one considers us tech heavy. Even though we are a "banking" & medical center and wealth is everywhere.

I was complaining about this to some state senator a while back. There was talk about creating a tech area in Miami/Fort Lauderdale (they talk about it every year). He told me, "You take care of your yacht here; your computers in New York".

And that sums up Florida's tech problem.
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Well, it depends a bit on what pre-internet era you're talking about. When I think back to the 1960s and 1970s in the US, the first difference that strikes me is that we were resource-bound.

* Hardware was expensive, so back in the age of minicoputers _you_ went to the computer. And perhaps first to the card punch room to make changes to your deck. (Painful memories.)

* Connectivity was both expensive and slow. Anyone remember acoustic couplers? Don Lancaster's revolutionary TV typewriter? Their financial heart attack when the first BBS phone bill came in?

* Information was obvious scarcer, but it could be found if you networked in meatspace. Lots of interesting conversations to be had at the local electronics shop or campus computer center.
We can go after the scam artists today because of the same regulations that disallow this party.

The only reason people think these regulations are unnecessary now is because they've never experienced the types of fraud that these regulations were meant to address.
This is some kind of bright shining moment for HN, but I'm not sure how to articulate which one it is. \o/
Not me, sorry.

Btw my return across all angel investments starting as convertible notes is rougghly .9x. Whether I am any good at allocating funds long term remains to be seen.

For my own startup, we allocate equity per a model we built based on historical allocations. And then we beat it by a fair bit.
It was posted a week ago actually, but the point still stands.
Explosive growth can't be maintained forever. All those employees you needed to manage a meteoric rise just become financial burdens when your company begins to stabilize.

Layoffs are a shame and suck for everyone involved, but it's not always an indication that the business is failing, but rather that the business is settling in.
i'd like to point out that those devices are going to waste more energy in a year, than the amount due to the A(C
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I describe myself as "hard-working generalist". I'm good at coordinating teams and getting things done. I've been working on short and long term goal planning, customer dev, testing, documentation, and I wrote a rails dashboard that uses our API. I'm also involved in our design and strategy discussions. Lots of early startup stuff :)
QR codes might be workable if the camera app automatically detected them.
I won't pretend to know enough about all drugs to advocate legalizing them all, but certainly some like Marijuana aren't exactly making Amsterdam and Vancouver collapse overnight.

If you make something illegal you make them more scarce and therefore more valuable. Erase the value by erasing the scarcity and the problem actually just goes away.

For harder substances I am not certain if this makes sense.
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There are no "Math Wars!"

There is only the Khan Academy, doing great stuff, and a group of disgruntled, jealous math teachers such as the author of this post, who have levied silly, petty, baseless criticisms against the Khan Academy.

After launching the silly criticisms and stirring up a little controversy (but by no means a "war"), they now want to cast the whole hullabaloo as a "war" because it glorifies their role in the whole thing.

It's like a flea trying to recast his battle against the St. Benard he rides on as a "war."

Khan Academy is doing great stuff, and getting great results right now. If you're a jealous math teacher who thinks you have better answers, then quit spewing a bunch of FUD-like rhetoric with no substance, and fucking DO SOMETHING to help some people learn math right now. If what you do is so much better than Khan Academy, then it will become obvious in short order.

P.S. And by "help some people learn math right now", I don't mean your day job as a teacher/professor. Do something that helps improve the effectiveness of math education on a grand scale ... as Khan Academy is doing.

P.P.S. The whole thing makes me grumpy as hell, and I'm sure that comes out. But the reason is this -- if the "math teachers" side of this "war" is so all-fired passionate about disrupting the status quo and raising the overall quality of math education in the world, then why on Earth would you take potshots at Khan Academy, who is doing so much towards that very goal??! If that truly was your goal, you'd celebrate and help. I think the potshots show that the greater motivation is jealousy that some outsider has gotten so much more traction on the problem so quickly.
In Windows 8, Notepad and Calculator are still desktop apps only.
I think this may be an issue that will be popping up a lot, people thinking that everything has to be started from the start screen when everything works just as it always has from the desktop (minus a start menu, which is actually the start screen).
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Also see http://www.sec.gov/divisions/marketreg/tmjobsact-crowdfundin... for an FAQ explaining the crowdfunding provisions of the law.

But also note that crowdfunding is not yet legal. There were certain enabling regulations that needed to be passed to make it possible for crowdfunding platforms to operate which have not yet been issued. See, e.g., http://venturebeat.com/2012/08/21/congressman-secs-foot-drag... (posted today!).
He's quoting what sounds like a market small-group PPO normal-deductible rate for family coverage in the US.

You can get the rates down by opting for an HSA-qualified HDHP plan (the deductibles for those plans in IL are in the range of $5k/$10k-family). I'm not sure how much lower the rate is, but normal-deductible insurance is not a good deal for most people.

If his founders met at a cancer remission support group --- or, for that matter, the support group for any of a list of hundreds of self-evidently nonfatal medical conditions, most of them affecting women --- he would not be able to get insurance at any price. At any price. He would not get "dicked over with worse rates"; he simply would be unable to set up small-group health insurance for that group at all, under any circumstances, unless he excluded members of his group (or fired them). People with those conditions, which (it should not surprise you) are very common, and which very rarely implicate expensive treatment demands down the road†, can obtain insurance only by accepting jobs at companies with large group health plans.

It is sad for me to have to call this comment out for being naive, because is naive in the face of a terrible injustice that also happens to be a thorn in the corneas of many startup founders, but it's naive.

I know several very smart startup founders that have families who are opposed to guaranteed-issue health insurance, but I cannot personally for the life of me fathom how they arrived at that opinion, having myself had to go through the shitshow that is securing family health insurance coverage on the private market.

† But actuarially incur high costs enough to fuck over multiple percentage point-sized swaths of the whole US population
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with json-schema, the instance objects would have a $schema property referring to the schema of the document.

the schema has a links section, where you can define all the various related paths to use.

a 'suitably intelligent validator' should be able to resolve the links for you.

[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-zyp-json-schema-03#section-...
Metasploit runs on other phones too. The Nokia N900 for example. The PwnPhone (http://pwnieexpress.com/products/pwnphone) is a commercial supported version of packaged tools for the N900 but the tools can be installed separately.
Asides from being more readable than underscore/lodash, the neat thing with sugar is that it doesn't actually modify Object.prototype by default. You create extended objects as you need them. Only if you explicitly choose to, you may make all objects extended.

See http://sugarjs.com/native
Asynchronous logic design tools. Imagine a world free of the hack that is the clock signal. Current processors are all designed at this local optimum, since it would take years to build the tools necessary for processor designers to make self timed logic.
Postgresql 9.2 supports json, btw!

You can store json, or, even better, you can write sql that returns an arbitrary json structure.

So you can have one sql query return a nested array of hashes of arrays of hashes... handy if you need a retrieve a lot of different data at once that doesn't fit into a neat set of rows.
I'm curious.. would you do that if you were buying?

I'll admit i had a think about which it might be, but then i think if i was going to put $20 down on buying one, I would just buy the one i wanted, and take any freebies as a bonus.

FWIW, my money is on #2. I only just realised they were all from photoshop, and i've used it quite a bit. It's also far too long for a 'geek humour' t-shirt- no one would read the whole thing, let alone understand it. Add to that a 'lovers' connotation which would limit the appeal even further.

But coming back to your point; I don't think i'd want it. So, IMO, for this to have value for me, I would need to like all the t-shirts. (FWIW, i like 1/3/5).

e: also, yes.. needs bigger images.. can't even read the whole thing on the modelled PS tee image, not good!
Sounds abOut right, thanks!
Yeah, it's mostly a tongue-in-cheek comparison :). The meta-point is that the entire online learning space has a small fraction of society's collective attention, scraping by against the popularity of a rap artist who will be forgotten in a few years.
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There's been an explosion in easy access to high quality learning material now. Sure, it's always been possible to teach yourself. Higher level languages and frameworks have sufficiently lowered the barrier to entry, that more people are willing to take the first steps. Being able to easily find answers on Google, to problems that might otherwise be sticking points, also makes it easier than ever to keep going once you've started learning/building. It's possible to learn to program without access to any of those, but it's certainly much easier now.
Ah yes, the venerable array type. I remember trying to normalize applications written in VB6 and Access that used arrays with foreign keys instead of many to many relationships. Good times.
Phones are computers. We really should be past the point where someone is impressed that a phone can run $PROGRAM.

Well, after our Lords and Masters the Glorious Carriers have been bypassed and the phone is rooted, anyhow. I really loathe how successful they have been at closing the computers-we-call-cell-phones off. Did I mention that we shouldn't be living in a world where running $PROGRAM on a phone is something that impresses people?
1. Valid concern if adding an extra mouse click here and there bothers you

2. Only a concern if you think that everything has to be done from the start screen/MetroUI. Everything feels just as it did in Win7 from the desktop in my experience (except Win8 is a bit faster).

3. Once again, only a concern if you intend to only use Metro apps. Windows on the desktop work just as they did in Win7 and multiple instances can be opened with a shift-click on the taskbar or right-click -> click on icon, just like Win7.

Honestly, Windows 8 has been my daily driver since consumer preview came out and after a little time acclimating myself to some of the new nuances, I found myself feeling much more productive in Windows 8 than I was in Windows 7. However, maybe that is just me and I pick up on newer UI/UX better than all of these people that have been complaining and put in the time to give it a try.
Nice site, just wanted to say I really like the phrase "style degrades" instead of "responsive design." It's much more accurate and I will be using it from now on, thanks.
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That is precisely what I was alluding to, yes.
I'm a happy Arq customer today and I'd pay for an upgrade to Glacier! Longer term I'm sure you will have competitors on Glacier that you will be competing with so best to move sooner than later.
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Java is a verbose language, but it's still awesome for a large category of projects. Are you a rails guy? how about those 50-500 lines of boilerplate code in the config files? Same thing as the Spring config files. Does that lead me to say "Why not Rails?" No it doesn't!

Saying it politely as possible: don't be a hater.
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Cool, you must hate Objective-C too. I've done initWithParamAAndParamBWithASideOfAnObsurdlyLongMethodName but that doesn't mean I hate Objective-C.
Definitely agree on turning off some of the feeds. Regarding hover vs. click, that was a decision primarily made because of tablets. I usually visit the site on my iPad and hover doesn't make sense in that context.
INteresting when you put it that way. There are 75 in this batch and this is only 10 of them. Being in ycombinator in earlier years almost guaranteed you'd be covered in the big blogs and well... heard of. There are some of the 65 remaining startups in the bunch I'll probably never hear of.
Looks cool. Love the fact that it's native web and not Flash based.
Dennard scaling: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_H._Dennard

It's about the shrinking of MOSFETS that happened over the 35 years since he wrote about it. My electronics textbooks mentioned the scaling, but did not make this named attribution (perhaps just a bibliographic reference).
Cilk/Cilk+ is not the answer, despite years of Intel promoting it and open-sourcing it. Intel has touted many other || technologies in the past: OpenMP, TBB, and now Cilk+. These are all useful tools, but none of them is the way of boldly moving forward with || programming, IMHO. I believe the easier || programming will come from actors, CSPs, channels and other technologies that provide safe concurrency as the working basis.
What do you prefer about it? The format, the content or something else?
Was the install expensive?
That's definitely fair. Thanks for the feedback, I will try adding those features as time permits.
Thanks for the detailed requests, it helps to prioritize what needs to be done.
It seems in the ideas pond, people are combing up dry or Y Combinator have set their standards at a new low. Seriously, 9GAG, Imgfave and Kippt are the most unoriginal ideas for websites I have ever seen. I hate to be negative and cynical but am I the only one that sees no true value in these particular "startups"?

For starters any startup that pens itself as "A Pinterest for..." or "A Reddit for..." I wonder what is going through the minds of any investor or person who thinks these are legitimate ideas for websites trying to mirror the success of other sites by doing nothing new.

One of the startups that almost didn't make it into YC, "Bufferbox" is probably the best startup by far YC have opted to support. As for the others, most will fail because they're nothing exciting.
Somewhat related- foreign correspondent (a news show in australia) ran a story last night on the new goldrush for people creating apps. Besides the cliché camera work, it seemed to be full of 'founders' who had written a single, sometimes unproven phone app and were talking about getting hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding, and getting acquired for a billion dollars.

I'm not sure if you can watch it outside of australia, but it's available here: http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/content/2012/s3572792.htm
I'd love to get in to a part of the industry where people care about stuff like this (purely for selfish reasons... web development is fun too but the barrier to entry is a lot lower).

Can anyone comment on the number and quality of "hard core" C++ jobs and what you think the trajectory will be like? Right now I use C++ almost exclusively at work but the code/concepts involved aren't too difficult.
I just saw this and thought wow finally cheap mass storage. After reading the comments (and the Amazon Glacier web page) it's clear it's cheap archiving but not cheap retrieval.
You ensure quality by writing automated tests, not by the language you pick to write software in.

And for the record Groovy is awesome. I used to develop in it alot, but now do more Rails and JavaScript, and I miss it's power and simplicity.
I'm also from Australia and I could list at least a dozen places I would buy an Arduino from, before using your website that's less than a month old, and provides no contact details.

This blatant advertising is poor form.
While I probably wouldn't store things in an array, it's useful to get data back out in array format sometimes.

select array_agg(email_address), home_state from users group by home_state

Will give you a list of home states and all the email addresses that belong to that state.
Wolfram Alpha also uses Alexa which is next to useless for traffic estimates.
I think that should be qualified. Computers weren't as ubiquitous back in the 70's as they are now, nor was learning material. The TRS-80 with monitor was released in 1977 for ~$600 - about $2200 in today's dollars. I only knew of several kids with home systems.

When I took Computer Math (my high school's programming class), we had to learn programming on a piece of cardboard! It was the CARDIAC, Cardboard Illustrative Aid To Computation - http://www.simnia.com/it/cardiac/cardiac.htm.

After we became adept as manually running programs on the cardboard, we transitioned to dialing into a mainframe. Nothing says fun like dialing a rotary phone over and over until you finally made a connection. And of course, mainframe time was limited, so our BASIC and FORTRAN programs had to be written out by hand before hand. The CLI was an unforgiving beast and disconnections were frequent.

Could people teach themselves to program in the 70's? Sure, but there's really no comparison to the learning opportunities available today, and I don't think it's right to disparage anyone who blogs about their learning experiences.
My understanding is that you get raw SMS data similarly to raw TCP data - via Serial assuming your GSM shield supports that sort of functionality. You would likely need a prepaid sim card as well, but it is possible to get SMS directly to your device without any intermediary server.

Personally, my comfort zone was with web development and I had the WiFly handy so I used Twilio and Pusher - worked out alright :)
Yeah, building it yourself isn't the cheapest solution - but it is the most fun and interesting in my opinion. A Belkin WeMo (which integrates with IFTTT) costs $60 per outlet, so it ends up cheaper but again..less fun
Did you mean CPS instead of CSP? Not trying to be snarky/pedantic, just making sure there isn't some acronym in this space I am unfamiliar with (not entirely unlikely :)).

Edit: nope, you probably meant CSPs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communicating_sequential_proces...), sorry.
My suspicion is that EA has relationships with all sorts of overseas shops that do things like testing, artwork, prototyping etc. Part of PopCap's integration into EA is leveraging these low-cost service providers.

Would be nice if the article actually defined head count. Is it just full-time employees in Seattle? What about part-time employees and employees in Dublin? If the artwork for a game is completed by a team on contract in Bangalore is the "head count" temporarily increased to include those workers? What if they're only part-time? What if they outsource the work to an even cheaper local service provider?

My point is "head count" is vaguely defined if at all. I think this all boils down to "we can do the work for less money with other people or less people."
It seems pretty clear that they were using the economic/political privilege form of minority -- which includes most hispanic people except the very top echelon of mostly-Spanish people in Latin America.

The South American largely-Indian guy who came across the border and now works in a chicken processing plant in the Southeast or a farm in the West is not part of the traditional white European power structure in the US, which until now was a majority.

(I am pretty convinced racial issues in the US will be a lot less important over the next 30 years, and outright economic and social class will predominate. I have much more in common personally with an Indian IIT grad H1B in the Bay Area (or a startup founder) than I do with an nth-generation white guy from my hometown in Pennsylvania working at a Wawa.)
Yeah, context matters a lot. And right next to 'tamper' it has 'damage' and 'remove'. Tugging a handle should be equivalent to staring in the window. Very suspicious but not a violation of this particular statute.
That's a $1.11 CPM ($4.76 per unique) for fairly decent coverage. TheOatmeal.com is actually closer to a celebrity endorsement. If being pro-Tesla fits into their marketing strategy, this is a steal of a deal.
That's the problem exactly. Too many me-too knockoffs are flooding the market and consumers are likely to get option fatigue soon with so many duds to sort through.
Former S3 employee here. I was on my way out of the company just after the storage engineering work was completed, before they had finalized the API design and pricing structure, so my POV may be slightly out of date, but I will say this: they're out to replace tape. No more custom build-outs with temperature-controlled rooms of tapes and robots and costly tech support.

If you're not an Iron Mountain customer, this product probably isn't for you. It wasn't built to back up your family photos and music collection.

Regarding other questions about transfer rates - using something like AWS Import/Export will have a limited impact. While the link between your device and the service will be much fatter, the reason Glacier is so cheap is because of the custom hardware. They've optimized for low-power, low-speed, which will lead to increased cost savings due to both energy savings and increased drive life. I'm not sure how much detail I can go into, but I will say that they've contracted a major hardware manufacturer to create custom low-RPM (and therefore low-power) hard drives that can programmatically be spun down. These custom HDs are put in custom racks with custom logic boards all designed to be very low-power. The upper limit of how much I/O they can perform is surprisingly low - only so many drives can be spun up to full speed on a given rack. I'm not sure how they stripe their data, so the perceived throughput may be higher based on parallel retrievals across racks, but if they're using the same erasure coding strategy that S3 uses, and writing those fragments sequentially, it doesn't matter - you'll still have to wait for the last usable fragment to be read.

I think this will be a definite game-changer for enterprise customers. Hopefully the rest of us will benefit indirectly - as large S3 customers move archival data to Glacier, S3 costs could go down.