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YC Result Announcement is Today OMG Moment
I'm too tensed! After attending Startup School 2012, I believe this, YC is the perfect platform and stakes to get in are higher! :D

If I get in for the interview I am going to dance like crazy! Though the flight is 20 hours long from Pakistan but its worth it! :P

Best of Luck to everyone and Kudos! Remember, if you get rejected, just don't give up on your dreams.
Hey Cedric! A blog is a fantastic idea, one of the potential downsides is that we're focusing on a pretty tight geographic area - and blogs have a very broad reach. Inbound marketing is definitely something we're keen to develop over time, but with with limited resources, I'm wondering what might have the most impact right now in terms of kickstarting things..

I guess to clarify a little we see two sides of the equation: We want to reach people in NYC with a large volume of things to give away (movers might be a perfect example). We need to a) reach these people at a time when they're in the mindset for passing things onto others, and b) equally have enough people who're keen to pick things up so the transaction's as efficient as possible. Classic chicken-egg :)
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I can't be the only one who upvotes good comments from hellbanned accounts in the hopes that the vote will have some impact.
"Writing to interfaces" is a core concept of OOP.
MPC-HC is a good player on Windows, but VLC 2.0.x has been better in my experience. MPC-HC cannot handle some files that VLC plays fine, and I have not noticed any video quality difference between the two. I have stuck with CCCP for MPC-HC, which requires putting a bit more time into MPC-HC than just downloading VLC.

There are some files that MPC-HC does play that VLC does not, but these are fewer in my experience than the reverse case.
Show HN: Harpy, an Open Source Version Checking Utility for iOS
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I'm quite surprised this happened. I recently used their services in NYC for the first time. There was a lot they could have done to increase growth for their service and to optimize for revenue. I would have paid money for the service (and I rarely pay for any services), but alas, I don't think they're able to do that.

It is possible that their price tests just didn't yield a very high margin for them, which is essential in these AirBnB type of companies.
Use thrust (http://thrust.github.com/). Or just learn CUDA. It's really not that bad.
I prefer to read non technical books on my phone - it fits better in my hand.
Red Hat Developer Demands Competitor's Source Code
Isn't that exactly what calling a method of an interface does?
Oops. Typo. Fixed.
They discuss inflation more and talk about a lot of other stuff in the longer version of this story.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/11/13/165046113/episode-...

One interesting thing they didn't include in the short version for Morning Edition was that Coke experimented with the idea of something called the Single Coin Plan to resolve the nickels-only vending machine problem by leaving every ninth bottle in the vending machine empty. If you got the empty bottle when you paid, tough luck. On average this increased the price by .625 cents. Clever idea but I think they realized this would just infuriate their customers.
I always assumed that the syrup being sold to bottling plants was done for Tax Avoidance purposes, like Starbucks does now. (i.e. bottling plants make a loss because of high cost of the syrup, so no taxes to pay).
We use Balsamiq and are pretty happy with it.
A blog, as suggested is a nice way to attract some people, but you must write interesting things, please don't just write to get visits other way you will get the opposite effect. Also please don't try to force "virality" with social networks and other things. They are really annoying, focus on creating something that people will be genually willing to share. Word of mouth(and not virtual) is still the best way to go. Trying to force your website down the throat of users will just piss them off.
I do something similar on OSX with OmniGraffle. You can generate an HTML output that it's basically an image with links to other pages. It even works on PDFs.

Anywho, I like this for mobile
mobileOTP is what you are looking for:

http://motp.sourceforge.net/

it supports a number of OTP flavours (OATH-HOTP, OATH-TOTP, mOTP etc.). GOOG and others also provide OATH apps, ie:

http://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=OTP

all FLOSS and work with standard services. If you prefer a hardware token, inexpensive Yubikey tools come with every Linux distribution.
We've been loving BrowserStack, particularly all the mobile emulators they've got available. Something like two dozen Android devices.
Deep down inside, even though the venture-backed guys get all the glamour. Everyone really has envy for the bootstrapped company that had exponential revenue curves and never took outside investment. It's almost impossible to find those types of companies though.
But that seems to assume that FizzBuzz is the defining test of a candidate. I guess if that works for the interviewer then that's the way to go.
As with many things, the bias toward object-oriented programming (OOP) rather than message-oriented programming (MOP) reflects a tradeoff at implementation time. There is more to MOP than just the interfaces (OOP has that), it is also about methods for optimally scheduling message flows, preferably asynchronously or even out of order.

MOP has upfront costs that you do not have to pay using OOP if your software system remains reasonably small. Many software systems start out with the limited goals that suggest it would not be worth the effort to implement a MOP architecture. As an aside, this partly a reflection of the fact that our software tools for OOP are much better than our software tools for MOP. A good MOP implementation still requires rolling a lot of your own infrastructure components.

However, MOP architectures scale much better than OOP architectures if you need them to. The clarity of resource boundaries implicit in MOP architectures eliminate a lot of coordination and decouple nominal dependencies. Even if you start out building a MOP design on a single computer, where every core has its own process and set of resources, the design leap to putting those components on different hardware or different computers is relatively small. The interface is the same, only the latency changes, and there are many methods for making that abstraction efficiently scale this way. This is the reason large-scale parallel and distributed computing systems are all based on message-oriented architectures.
TermKit, the next-generation terminal project, is dead.
Was Firefox ever the default on anything?
Sorry, this comment doesn't necessarily add to the discussion, but as I noticed the founders posting here, this is directed at them:

Just looking through the Django implementation docs, it appears as though it defines a pyuploadcare.dj.FileField model field to use on my models, which is great and all, but seems like it's limiting at first glance. Is that to mean that each model can only have one file attachment?

What's the recommended workaround for the pretty common use case of having multiple files attached to a single model? A separate model table with a foreignkey?
There is a version that is 5 times longer Planet Money did for their regular (excellent) podcast.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/11/13/165046113/episode-...
Throwing a 500 :\
Thanks; I'll take a look. But OpenMP is CPU-only right? Apple's got their (currently less portable, admittedly) Grand Central Dispatch that does something similar. But as far as I know, if you want portable GPU code your only option is OpenCL, and even then it requires optimisation depending what device you're using it on (or so I've heard).
Shipping a Conference - CascadiaJS
I think it'll be more akin to the situation with through hole and SMD components. The former allowed one to tinker with PCBs with a simple soldering iron, while the latter require a reworking station no matter what you want to do.

Thankfully, these stations have dropped in price a lot - you can easily buy a good one for ~$200-300, which would allow you to repair your phone, modify your motherboard, resolder memory chips and whatnot...
A minimum competency test is reasonable. Better to know such things before the interview stage IMO; its a terrible waste of everyone's time to show up, fail fizzbuzz and leave.
I'll tell you the only secret you need to know: create something people might be interested in.
LifeTopix Tips for Managing Your Weight During the Holidays
Benchmarking the new AWS M3 instances with Redis
Two weeks ago, Amazon launched its next generation of standard instances (M3 instances),
we wanted to know whether Redis on the M3 double extra-large instance (m3.2xlarge)
would really perform better than on m2.2xlarge high memory instance
Their expenses are nuts. Over $100 million?! What's going on there?
I've been wanting to play some ARG since I read Little Brother, can't wait to try this out.
Your GPLed video player wouldn't stop that in the least. Were I a government in such a situation, I could very easily either claim sovereign immunity to any sort of copyright questioning, or I could write a function that monitors what files were opened by the user that used well-exposed file system APIs, like inotify. The GPL would not stop human rights abuses at all.
Hmm. Are you a gamer? I'm not, and I don't play Shadow Cities anymore for the same reason but it seems to be doing well with people who're more active gamers, which is why I was wondering if there's a way to make the games more casual for people that don't want to live in that universe all the time.

Foursquare is close, but it doesn't feel like a game at all.
The primary theoretical advantage of Larrabee's descendants on Intel side over the GPGPU lineage stuff from Nvidia is that GPUs were never designed for things like branch heavy code, or debuggers.

Compiler support for CUDA is further ahead of Xeon Phi. I haven't seen any evidence that Intel has been successful yet extending the auto-vectorizing capabilities of ICC to massively parallel environments.

For CUDA, one can write code in Python, Haskell, C++ etc.

At this point, Xeon Phi only offers Vectorized C and Fortran. There is a narrow domain of HPC code designed to run on Multisocket Xeon processors that could probably be re targeted trivially to the Xeon PHI.
I obviously took the "because you need the job" as a statement of a snob, or in my words a jerk. Despite the reasons for the statement, it would have given me a negative impression of the person. If that person was management then it would give me a negative impression of the workplace. As someone else points out in this thread, an interview goes both ways.
Board level: Lots of empty space and jumper wires, mostly single-sided (and single sided boards with screen-printed conductive ink are surprisingly common). Almost OCD approach to service markings. Wave soldered SMT on bottom side of single-sided THT board. Two-sided boards on phenolic paper with screen printed carbon vias. Process testing structures (trace impedance etc.) on each board and not common for whole panel. Incredible amounts of test points each individually marked in silkscreen. Affinity to build complex single-sided boards. Japanese specific components, mostly hybrid ICs combining different standard dies in one package, in Sony's case often completely standard components that are manufactured by Sony itself as second source with completely different markings and sometimes packages and pinouts.

System level: boards are mostly not self contained modules but designed all together (I have just seen some Yamaha design that essentially uses board to board connector and whole connected board as jumper wire). Lots of glue logic placed on random boards of whole system. Many instances of mostly empty single-sided boards with only connectors and jumper wires. Complex interconnect topologies between separate boards.

In my opinion this comes from history of Japanese electronics manufacturing, they after all started doing SMT in 60's or 70's. All this looks to be optimized for small scale prototyping runs and custom robotic assembly of large series, while most western designs are optimized towards mid-scale series using existing automation. Generally you get designs that look like simple Chinese designs optimized for large scale manual assembly (toys etc.), but are orders of magnitude more complex.

Look inside random DVD drive (as most of them are ODM'd by Sony, and by the way, when you want to buy new DVD drive try to find one that has Sony brand, as it is significantly cheaper) to see what I mean, in almost any HP laser printer it is painfully obvious which part is designed by HP and which is unmodified part of Canon's print engine (although there it is mostly because of different manufacturing processes).
Passwords should die a horrible death. They are a mere fallacy. An illusion of security.

I'd bet that only a small fraction of a percent of accounts are hacked in a given year (by password or otherwise).

Though there's room for improvement, lets not pretend that currently popular security measures do nothing.
Introducing Enlist: Turn your iPad into a beautiful subscribe form
Brilliant!

Feature request: audio track speaking the numbers as they appear

UPDATE: 'Popcorn', the electronic pop instrumental, might do too, with the counting synched to the beat
Evernote 5 for Mac is Here Packed with Over 100 New Features
[Edit: Looks like I currently have no invites left. As I get more, I'll give them out and update this post.]

I think I have a few invites to give out. Let me know if
you'd like one.

P.S. I'm Resistance using the name drew
It also hurts the Web in general, because phones with old OSes can't upgrade their browser.
Hmm, why is that? Is it the whole domain or that particular URL?

It doesn't seem especially offensive.
> You know what would help those kids a lot more than your medicine? Copies of all existing textbooks in an electronic format and access to all of our patents.

Dead kids can't read.
I think the templating library you are looking for is cl-mustache. I am using it currently for a SQL template engine in one of my internal work projects.
Hi! We're working on several things you can do to avoid having a separate table, make sure to be in touch :-)

Please continue to provide feedback, it's very valuable to us, thank you!
Yep, this is basically how SmallTalk works: message passing.
Unless you actually randomly select the words, I'm fairly sure that the analysis of strength of that strategy is flawed. And if you do randomly select the words, I'm not sure how easy they are to recall. And, I'm really skeptical how easy it is to recall different word sequences for 100 different web sites.

I've quizzed most of the people I've encountered who claim to use this technique. They all use four words that "pop into their head". That's quite a big different from using random words, and almost certainly much weaker.
Thanks for the link, it looks interesting. My reluctance in learning CUDA (aside from the time investment in learning, which I'm happy to believe isn't actually too bad) is that the lower-level I have to work at, the less time I'd be able to spend writing "useful code" and the less flexibility I'd have in future if I'd want to move to something non-Nvidia.

I'm sure many other people are in the same position. I don't mind sacrificing a little performance for a much easier programming environment.
I personally have no issue with the word trust in this context. My concern is with the many people who vote and who aren't educated about what its specific meaning is in this context and react to the word emotionally. In the case that the participants in the conversation are trained in economics, "trust" seems exactly the right word to use.
Well, it's the default in a number of desktop GNU/Linux distributions, but that's not really the point he was making.

I assume most people install Firefox because it's better then the default browser experience. The argument in the parent comment is that this isn't the case so those that would normally go out of their way to install it have no reason to do so.

e: Or maybe I read it incorrectly? Firefox is a better mobile experience? If that's the case, I'm not really sure what the parent comment's argument is.
Woah, that is awesome! This is a pretty ingenious idea. Literally anyone who can sketch an idea, can prototype an app, and unlike other prototyping tools, there are no pre-built pieces to choose from, so the sky's the limit.
Yes, but it certainly was not what it became. I'm less impressed by one guy's stated goals forty years ago than what it actually became.

That's not a criticism of Alan Kay. It's an observation that his saying a thing a long time ago didn't and doesn't change what actually was created, and what OO is today is not message passing.

The very, very core of what we call OO today, the feature without which you can not call yourself OO, is the binding together of a structure with associated "methods" for operating on it into a single unit. It's a way of structuring programs (note I do not say "language"; C can be programmed in OO, for instance) that chooses the OO answer to the Expression Problem: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ExpressionProblem There's other frippery... there's a LOT of other frippery, actually, tons and tons and tons... but that's the core.

It is not message passing. And the attempt to map one to the other is pretty klunky and generally lossy in both directions, another sign they really aren't the same thing. Alan Kay's description of message passing, when read in English rather than Smalltalk, always sounded a lot more like Erlang than Smalltalk to me, but I observe that Smalltalk is what he in fact created as the manifestation of his ideas, not Erlang. I think we can't ignore that fact.
I agree with your core points: Passwords are not enough for accounts that need to be secure.

But one thing that a lot of this glosses over is that different accounts need different levels of protection. I really want things like my bank account to offer stronger protection than a password. On the other hand for things like my hackernews account and my dragongoserver account they are probably plenty and its not worth additional inconvenience to have more.

It would be like saying your average bike chains are dead because they can be defeated by bolt cutters. Bike chains are plenty of protection for an average bicycle, but I want something more protecting a safe deposit box.
There are technicalities you can (and will) skip on as you run your first company (pg has a good article touching on this, btw), but basic incorporation is not one of them.

Incorporating shouldn't take you more than a week and $200, and that is in parallel with everything else you have going on. Just do it and protect everyone.

There really isn't a reason that you can't do it.
Isn't the same thing happening right now even if there is no visual monopoly situation? Do you really think people will switch to Firefox and Opera when default offering is good enough? Also, though I haven't used IE6 at that time but several commenter here and reddit says that IE6 was ahead of completion at that time, netscape was also partly to blame for their demise. So what was the point of blaming Microsoft for bundling a Better browser at that time, while same thing is perfectly acceptable now?
Of course, according to the article, gerrymandering only helps the reds. The blues must not have any of their own gerrymandered districts (see Maryland for a case in point).
Location-Based Massively Multiplayer Game Ingress Hits Google Play
Creative Placemaking: From Here Until Now
Your SSN was never intended to be a secret, and the fact that anyone ever treated it as such was a flawed idea.
I think that it appears for users that are not logged in.
You're right, I got the wrong impression from the podcast, which is stupid since I knew about the gold standard and price stability of the time.

As for the "scare quotes", I'm aware of the drawbacks of fiat money, but it's still money. Gold is just non-fiat money.
I wonder if Majestic would have done better if it didn't launch a month and a half before 9/11. People were on edge then, and a game that ends up making mysterious phone calls to you probably wouldn't go over well.

I actually thought it was a pretty cool concept from at least what little I played of it.
DTracing in Anger
I'd like one, email address is pheartheceal@gmail.com
Maybe I'm missing something, but do in-order architectures even have much use for branch prediction? They can't speculatively execute based on the outcome of a conditional, right?
Which could, of course, be avoided by:

> 3.frozen?
=> false
> 3.freeze
=> 3
> 3.frozen?
=> true

Just in case, I'd better add: :)
Justin.Tv's Live Video Broadcasting Architecture
I was expecting to pay $5 for this...
The World's Richest College Dropout Urges Colleges to Stop Dropouts
What the Petraeus scandal says about digital spying and your e-mail
This concept is novel because it replaces the need to "design" the app in a separate piece of software (and learn yet another UI). Although I like Balsamiq sometimes sketching is quicker, and more convenient. I think ideally having both options would be good as sometimes the urge to sketch an idea arises, but normally I would use the software.

Also

Idea: They should sell app mockup paper/pads as a side business.
They did add some building/decorating with new housing and towers and I guess group halls were on the roadmap. There are also a few small competitive aspects. But it seems like either they didn't know what the core "endgame" mechanics were going to be or they put off implementing them too long.
I hear that used sometimes and I think it's better than trust, but it still holds some connotations that seem undesirable for the purpose: right now, a significant number of people in the USA seem to dogmatically believe that the government "can never be trusted"; these same people, if asked how much credibility the US government has, would say "none"! Etc... basically, there are lots of people that see "government" as pure evil and they make their decisions and form their beliefs around that. IMO it'd be really nice to change that, of course; but as long as people have extremely emotional responses like that, it might also be worth looking for ways that word choices can be made in order to make communication more accurate.
Can you expand on this difference?
FDIC does not insure money in vaults against theft, they insure it against runs on the bank or if the bank goes under.
So I am very curious with TF2 hats affecting game play.

I am under the impression that some hats have particle effects. If you are playing a spy who is impersonating a character with that kind of hat, the particle effects aren't duplicated.

I would appreciate it if someone who plays TF2 more than me can say how much it affects the gameplay.
Just to re-iterate. It's dead simple to get boiler-plate protection.
dplynch@gmail.com pls
The idea of a nation-state considering itself bound by the GPL is absurd.

Only users can keep themselves safe -- developers can't.
I can imagine using it to trap geeks in the same way that the cat gets trapped by mirrors in red dwarf.
Google makes more money from ads than print media combined
in fairness, the USA based baseball teams harvest players from all over the world. If you're at the professional level of skill and consistency, no matter where you live, you have a shot at playing in the majors in the states. The most recent world series teams provide ample evidence of this.
Google Analytics update will make the web faster
Good MMOs are supposed to last for years. Perhaps they pitched it as a "casual WOW".
Bureaucrats Paid $250,000 Feed Outcry Over College Costs
So you support suicide bombing and rocket strikes against civilian targets?
No argument. My comment was meant more as a lament- "oh, Object Orientation, what you could have been!" - than as a claim that we don't need something else.
Check out: UI Stencils http://www.uistencils.com

Can't wait to try POP and UI Stencils together.