skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The ideal case would be complete interoperability, where you could use git locally, yet collaborate on a daily basis with people using the project's non-git VCS

My impression is that this is the goal of the git "svn remote" work which has been slowly worked on for a quite a while, mostly by Google-Summer-of-Code participants.

With svn-remote support, subversion repos would be handled as a special types of remote at push/pull time, instead of requiring the user to use special commands and a different workflow. This same discipline would work for other repo types as well, and I think much of the infrastructure work being done now will be useful for implementing remote handlers for them.
Dance around all you want, but we're still stuck with the "inconvenient truth" that poor people in the US are almost always over-fed. They're not starving. (The exceptions are folks who don't like the free food, which makes them a lot like the folks who are homeless because they don't like the free shelter.)

Where else are the poor as well off? (Inequality does not make someone less well off. Well off is what you have, regardless of what someone else has.)
Vivre avec les nouvelles technologies, un fardeau ou un avantage de taille?
Man uses software fault and social engineering in casino thefts; is arrested
On 40th Anniversary, Atari offers 8 free classics playable in the browser
I'm not a PHP / MySQL guy, but this might help:
http://stackoverflow.com/a/110576
And the sole purpose of this site is...
That argument is getting old. I can buy some things from Walmart, and the things they don't sell from some other store. In the mobile apps world this is not possible.

Apple has a monopoly on iOS app distribution, and that makes their behavior so worrying. And of course it has enboldened Microsoft to follow the same model, something they probably would have never attempted on their own.
> Even assuming you've got your own situation handled, you are going to be at a huge recruiting disadvantage if you don't offer health coverage to your employees.

So?

You're going to be paying for it one way or another, just as they are.

Where's the disadvantage based on how the payment happens?
What they mean with unlimited: We will permanently restrict the connection speed to 10 Mbit/s if more than 10,000 GB/month are used (the basis for calculation is for outgoing traffic only. Incoming and internal traffic is not calculated). 1 Gbit/s speed can be optionally restored by committing to pay 6,90 € (incl. VAT) per additional TB used.
Oh, so an irrelevant company is now running almost all on Go. No implementation details, no tooltips, no "we have learn this in the process". Just it.

Yawn.
I think lies are the nature of our industry: it is a self-propelled train, with each element of a chain working mainly to 'sell' everything to the next one, with little regard about its intrinsic value, more to the ability to be sold to the next one (which goes straight to the IPO, see Facebook). In the end, public and pension funds pay for that, so we are basically cashing out people's future pensions now (as we know, almost all pension programs are underfunded, mainly for this reason: their managers invest in shit, for the lack of anything else). This is much like how MLM works, except the last level (victim) is more clearly defined.

I am not telling things are totally that bad, but i am sure it is a big part of Silicon Valley success: it is a collection of top sellers in the world, and they are more successful in mortgaging other's future that everyone else.

People who are trying to play it fair are labeled 'lifestyle businesses' and ostracized.
Are you really a famous actress? If so, I would like you be a cofounder in my startup.
Don't care.

It only matters, when I want to view something like the newest WebGL demo.

Additionally, it matters, if a version update breaks a plugin, but this is not specific to a certain version number.
It's on Limelight's CDN

www2.nissan.co.jp is an alias for nissan.vo.llnwd.net.
This might also be a technical reaearch project. test the weapons that are avail, etc. Go back and improve, before the real war.
You can't do the caltrop trick at 50 locations for weeks on end.

The thing about lasers is they use a very narrow slice of wavelengths. Environmental light like sunlight has very little power within that slice, so its easy for the LIDAR to see its own laser. But that makes it really easy to jam. You could probably build a jammer today for a few hundred dollars, which means that in the future every disaffected monkeywrencher will do it. Ergo the approach is not suitable for the mass market.
SASS vs. LESS (CSS Preprocessor Languages)
Actually I think I/O was my primary bottleneck. Once I addressed that I started hitting CPU/memory constraints on Dynos.

The database definitely wasnt unreasonable at $400, but for a bootstrapped project (especially something thats a side project for me), that was a big consideration.

I probably would have toughed it out with Heroku if I could have gotten things to perform better. At one point I was running 20 dynos trying to get enough CPU for worker tasks to actually keep up, and I unfortunately couldn't solve the bottleneck to where the cost was reasonable.

The application isn't typical (what Sentry does pushes some boundaries of SQL storage for starters), but it was costing too much of my time to struggle with optimizing something that really shouldn't have needed that much effort.

I definitely like the redundancy provided, and the ability to add application servers with zero-thought is a huge plus, I just couldn't justify the cost of the service in addition to my frustrations/time of trying to scale it on Dynos.
It's the fear of the unfathomable for them.
Also, doesn't BBC America have advertising? I don't think you see the full, uncut versions of shows because they need to put ads in.
I think it's really important not to forget that this is for getting funding, not necessarily for having a successful startup/business. There is a really big difference there and often this type of advice ends up getting repeated but without the appropriate context.

"Instead of trying to do everything well (traction, team, product, social proof, pitch, etc.), do one thing exceptionally. As a startup you have to be exceptional in at least one regard."

That might be great advice to get funded, but it would be terrible advice to try and create a profitable business. To get a profitable business you really need to a do a lot of things well, not necessarily exceptionally.
It is 2012, and i am surprised these "marketplaces" still exist in the same format, instead of a thoughts.username.com, books. username.com, tutorials.username.com etc, and a totally unique discovery algorithm powered by past analytics (a google scale algo version of stumbleupon).

Device lock-ins do not help either. just adds to the we have a marketplace hence users give us x percentage model.twitter, for example shd have been a protocol and not a private firm.
I'd like to, but I suspect this kind of thing: http://imgur.com/ZIVd4 is best done in an HTML-based IDE like Light Table where you can take advantage of SVG.
> Healthcare is always a concern when I choose to start a company or move to a company.

As is rent and food. So what?

One of the interesting things about this argument is that I'm arguing against self-interest. The programs that you folks are advocating end up subsidizing old people, even those who are relatively well off, like me. That subsidy is paid for by younger folk who are, on the whole, less well off.

Back when I was young and less well off, I found that absurd and wrong. Now that I'm approaching the other side, I'm beginning to see the error of my ways.

It's like social security. How many of you think that younger-than-you people will be willing to pay the benefits that you've "earned"?

I was pretty sure that your generation wouldn't stand for that wrt mine. I was wrong but are you sure that I just wasn't early?

If you want to rely on "a greater fool", be my guest.

I suppose that I should just take your money and shut up.
The eye is broadband and the desired light is bright, so it takes a very high power density to jam it. LIDAR receivers are very narrowband and the desired light is fairly dim, so jamming it will be quite easy. Modulation does not help when the light detector is saturated.
So basically nothing has gone wrong yet, therefore it's a slam dunk case for Doing It Yourself.

I'm sorry, but no.

You don't pay an ops guy or Heroku buckets of $$ for when things are going well, just as you don't pay $$ for software that only handles the happy case.

You pay $$ for someone who has fixed shit that went horribly wrong and has the scars to prove it. "That deep purple welt on my lower ego ... is where I only had a backup script and never tested the backups. This interesting zigzag is where I learnt about things that can wrong with heartbeat protocols ..."

Edit: though see below for a more nuanced discussion of reasons from OP.
The slavish devotion to Ruby sounds like cargo-cult. I use Objective-C when targeting iOS, I use Java when targeting Android. I use C when targeting the the kernel, and I use C++ when using OpenCV. I use assembly when writing code that can't be expressed in C. I use C when targeting microcontrollers, switch OSs and IDEs to match the target environment. Windows 7 for Atmel Studio, Mac OS X for IntelliJ (Android).

Considering your idea of using the best tool for the job requires switching to the OS some IDE runs on, I wonder why you should be taken seriously. It seems you have a "slavish devotion" to IDEs like Atmel Studio and IntelliJ. I've managed to write production firmware for Atmel chips without having to use Atmel Studio; I have instead found gcc and gdb to suit my workflow better.

In other words, I use the tools that were specifically made to produce the best possible results for users, while using standard and ideally optimal methods that produce the minimum amount of pain for both myself and for future maintainers.

Can you point us to any studies that indicate which tools and methods have been proven optimal or shown to produce the best results for iOS applications?

You're not making any sense. Use what works for you, but don't assume everyone else is wrong because they don't see things the same way you do.
I am concerned that this might provoke a reaction from whoever holds the rights to the name 'Marauder's Map' (probably JK Rowling?). Is that likely?
I've just used an alias file for some of my more common typos ('sl' is probably my most common) - nice to know I'm not the only one who makes silly typos with enough frequency to warrant some kind of technological solution!
As someone who's tried (and failed) to learn Rust in the past:

I'm going to elide any commentary about the syntax for now, as I know why it is the way it is (the type system/annotations). I'm basically just going to expound on one thing for the sake of emphasis.

For the love of god make Rust more accessible. I don't mean dumbing down the type system or abandoning regions (I really hope that works out). I mean the frickin' documentation. Digging through the core libs to figure out how to dp fairly common case stuff is obscene.

Part of the reason I like to tinker with Go in my spare time is that it's extremely hygienic, clean, cheap, and cheerful.

Look at the way the "go" binary works, it does everything. It does builds, automatic formatting of code, the works. And it just "works".

On top of that, I'd consider getting somebody more knowledgeable about Rust and get them to team up / pair-document with somebody who is a goddamn dumbass like me and start building tutorials/documentation together.

I can't imagine the language's syntax and features are so nascent that tutorials and docs for core functionality/libs would be out of the question, you're already prototyping that web browser engine.

Documentation is a UX problem, like syntax. Syntax alone crippled Erlang, please don't let obscurity harm a language I am very excited about.

If there's any way I can help (maybe a trail of bread crumbs/notes from me as I try to learn it?), let me know in this thread or via email.
A bit off topic but this is a good thread to ask in:

Those of you running startups that don't colocate your own hardware, and don't run in a cloud, where do you rent servers from these days?

Most of my stuff is at Softlayer, but their RAM pricing is killer ($25/mo/GB).
It's a Marauder-like Map.
BYTE: What are you going to do when you are done with the GNU system?
Stallman: I'm not sure. Sometimes I think that what I'll go on to do is the same thing in other areas of software.

He's 60 this year. He was crying on a staircase this year in Spain. Someone stole his laptop.
The results...aren't great.
Technically, you only know you didn't break the tests.

But assuming well thought-out tests, that's a good indication that you haven't broken the code.
SL has become very expensive in the last couple of years (we host primarily there at Disqus).

For Sentry I'm using Incero, but will likely be switching to Hivelocity (or something similar), as I currently don't have internal network and that's a big, annoying deal for me.

Also, if you're loooking for deals or more information on hosts: webhostingtalk.com
How Anonymous Picks Targets and Takes Powerful Organizations Down
Cookies are stored on the client just like DOM Storage, so nothing is free when it comes to requests and communicating with the server. I understand that both still have their place. Though I generally prefer to use DOM Storage for most things now depending on the use case. I also complete agree about keeping server-side session data.
AAPL Vs AirBnB: Comments From Fred Wilson
I pulled up a link from avc where Fred had mentioned that he sold AAPL at 90 -

HN Link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4447514

fredwilson 1 day ago | link

we would have made 10x or more on airbnb. apple has only gone up about 6.7x since 2009. and i only had a couple hundred thousand at work in apple. we would have invested millions in airbnb.
but we've made plenty of great investments at USV since 2009 including Kickstarter, Foursquare, Stack, SoundCloud, etc, etc

so i doubt Apple would even be in the top five in our 2008 fund when its all said and done.

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1 point by npguy 1 day ago | link

Fred, first things first - I cant believe you responded to this post - it was a pleasant surprise - Thanks !!
1. AAPL has gone up 7.4x since the day you sold.

2. "we would have invested millions in airbnb" thats the whole point, you could have invested millions in AAPL as well.

3. Your other investments are stunning. You are so right, some of them would blast past the 7.4x AAPL benchmark - hey thats a new term for vc - the AAPL benchmark!

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fredwilson 18 hours ago | link

we don't invest in public companies at USV
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You have a wise co-worker.
Publishers pony up $69m in ebook price-fixing settlement
You forgot a few TM and R superscripts. Not having these is one of the main distinctions of Apple's marketing copy.
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You're saying before Heroku (or the cloud) everyone paid an operations guy to do anything?

Nope.

I don't need to suffer the same acts of terror operations people have gone through to be able to avoid, prevent, or recover from them. I'm paying myself to be the operations guy, as well as the engineer.
As much as I type git, I just alias it to 'g' and be done with it.
> This is all speculation, of course, but I’m convinced: like the leaked Dock connector, this move is so ingenius that it’s most likely to be what Apple has really done.

Did I miss something? Why is the new Dock connector ingenius? It seems like a major pain in the ass (all new accessories, even really hard to change ones like those in cars).
I think the comment advocates simpler solutions, not vim-golf style "compress as much as possible and use single-character variable names".

The idea is to remove as much accidental complexity as possible, to focus on the essential. Signal-to-Noise Ratio, basically.
My point is that whatever you want to call the governance model of Linux it isn't anything like a (non-joking) dictatorship. A real dictator could and would have stopped the Android team from leaving (i.e. made them do things his way or not at all). Linus not only didn't stop them from leaving, he couldn't.

When the benevolence is built-in, it isn't a dictatorship, it's something else. And something else doesn't support your argument about walled gardens, it undermines it.
We're gonna keep doing it 'til we get it right ;)

-- an amateur language designer
C++ is better for abstraction, as Go does not have generics yet, and C++ is better for performance.

Go is faster to compile. Maybe Go is better for concurrent programming, but this is hard to measure.
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Funny that we'd run into each other here again - Hivelocity is super cheap, I still have a massive, single server there and have used them for ~3 years now and actually all those servers I replaced were with them! They usually have really good specials, incredible value. But their live support is useless, the best thing they can do is log tickets on your behalf for the real support. Most of the time that doesn't matter.

SoftLayer have much better support, geographically diverse locations and a wicked suite of offerings. They're also giving startups $1000/month credit for 12 months, I got almost instantly accepted... I was still asking questions and then the rep was all "I made you an account here's the details".

https://www.softlayer.com/partners/catalyst
Comparing the differences in memory consumption between Firefox & Chrome is apples & oranges. Chrome will always use more memory because it has the overhead of sandboxing (almost) every tab into separate processes. It's a tradeoff of that design -- security & stability is enhanced, at the expense of increased RAM use.

Check out the Google Chrome Comic, which goes into detail on the browser architecture: http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/
Why not get a job as a teacher or open a school then?
Fact-checking politics: Why we need “open journalism” more than ever
There's a podcast for that:
http://www.manager-tools.com/2005/07/the-single-most-effecti...

One on one is not a working session and it is not an all-hands.
Thomas Keller and Alinea's kitchens are a minority position in the world of fine dining and also have the luxury of being able to maintain an almost 1:1 ratio of cooks to diners.

Most kitchens, even kitchens of good restaurants, maintain themselves on an edge of controlled chaos, with order and disorder in constant battle.

It's a cute analogy but I wouldn't draw too much into it.
It's about value delivered and opportunity cost paid.

You're betting foregone engineering time against Heroku's value-as-delivered.

I don't think that the hours you will inevitably spend fixing the ops infrastructure will turn out to be very profitable.

For a large business, moving off Heroku to inhouse operations is probably justifiable, because they can capture sufficient value from a smart ops team to offset the potentially very high monthly bill Heroku would levy for their business.

But for a smaller firm, Heroku so abundantly oversupplies value compared to the bill that you will simply never be able to capture that value from internal work at anything like the same price.

It's like saying "I should stop buying food from the supermarket, it would be cheaper to grow my own vegetables!"

In a naive dollar-cost analysis this is true. In an actual consideration of whether raising a vege patch, bearing the risks of starvation, doing it poorly because you're new at it, spending the hundreds of hours of labour it will require -- means that letting a professional farmer do it is much smarter.

Gains from trade are gains.

I have a pretty strong opinion on this given how much time I've already sunk on similar work: http://chester.id.au/2012/06/27/a-not-sobrief-aside-on-reign...

And for my secondary startup I am thinking I will just let Heroku handle it.
You have no idea what I know or don't know. In any case, getting funded isn't some sort of proof that you've built an exceptional business, it doesn't even prove you've built a business. In other words, you don't automatically have an "exceptional startup" because you got funded.
I wasnt aware about that credit, that's actually really nice!

I used to have a really good deal with SL about 2-3 years ago, and when I was looking around for Sentry they were my first stop. Unfortunately the prices had gone up a lot while I was gone, and for a reasonable DB server it was looking to be pretty pricey.
His laptop was stolen in Argentina, I think.
Is it bad that when I hear David Rose talk I just want to skip to the Richard Branson video?
Rangers reporter seeks revenge after Elvis Andrus drapes towel over camera
The best field reporters are the ones who don't give an inch, the ones who stand their ground and get their segment completed using any means necessary. At any rate, we can add Emily Jones of Fox Sports Southwest to that list of resilient reporters after she quickly responded to Elvis Andrus' attempt to block her camera shot on Wednesday night.
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New York poser: Lies about how much money they have, how much they enjoy investment banking/BigLaw, the cool bands they know, etc

LA Poser: Lies about being friends with celebrities, deals they're working on, movies they're making etc

Cambridge poser: ??? How many books they've read? How many ancestors came over on the Mayflower?
I think you need to buy a proper ssl certificate.
From the view of some consumers (I might be one,) a car may be considered to be a black box that is used to transport someone/something(s) from point A to point B. I do not automatically assume that it is always better to instrument a machine to control such a box rather than having a qualified person control it.
this shouldn’t be against AdSense TOS in my opinion since we aren’t resizing the ads or modifying the JavaScript code...

Until Google themselves come out and recommend a method, I'm not risking my entire Google account on a should or shouldn't. I've read the TOS a while back and changing an ad after it has been loaded or using js is pretty forbidden.
I don't understand what this does that can't already be done a hell of a lot better with the combo of firefox/firebug and the web developer toolbar?

What is the value proposition here? Perhaps I'm missing something but it just looks like a CLI interface over the top of JavaScript (as opposed to the GUI/CLI approach with firebug - which is a far more scaleable approach).

Is this thing going to need 1000 plugins installed within the plugin just to offer the same functionality as firebug?

I didn't understand the 3d view of web pages either and their GUI for their version of firebug is completely inferior (even though it looks fancier).

Looks are not everything.

Why has any of this stuff even been allowed to be prioritised over core browser performance and functionality.

It is a sad state of affairs to see what Firefox has devolved into compared to how it was in its glory days.
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