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I still don't really why nobody else has tried to compete with the Mac Mini. Dell had their Zino, but it looks like they've since discontinued it. I would love to have a Mac Mini sitting on my desk running Linux, but I can't justify spending $600+ for it. Some other PC manufacturer needs to finally step up to the damn plate.
I've had great success with nginx as the main entry to serve static files and direct the traffic at a django w/ gunicorn. Add a small supervisor system and you've got a very simple but robust server.
And not far from PlentyOfFish, another Vancouverite solo founder was Milun Tesovic who created MetroLyrics which sold to CBS in 2011.

I don't know figures on MetroLyrics, but being the 3rd largest music site on the web for a time, they would have been doing pretty well.
....and then you're sitting there working while loud, open-plan loving boss is having an impromptu with a few people in the middle of the floor, you catch his eye a few times and take off the 'phones to see what's up, and it's nothing of your concern. Many times the difference is simply a people problem.
It's about time. I do wonder to what extent the brand damage already done will be a drag on their usage numbers.
And their lead in process technology. I would think that alone would drive some demand from third parties wanting to one-up their competition in a way that can't (easily) be countered.
I think he meant something more like "office server".
I wonder if that has come with an influx of new users also?
"We're at risk from upstarts in every sector of our business. Developers hate us."

"All hands on deck! We've got to get the communications team together and put out the best damn press release we've ever done."

"But we don't have anything to announce."

"Just announce that we'll be making an announcement soon. An aggressive announcement."

"Ok, I'll put it in with the cheque for our last batch of commercials - that should ensure we get prominent coverage and see off the likes of Stripe - I'd like to see them get an empty press release onto CNN.com this fast."
It's not an issue of installer checkboxes - it's an issue of abuse of trust. Would you feel the same way about the no-doc home-loans that were handed out just so that some brokers could make some money? They were simply some checkboxes too that nobody cared to read through - and look where it led us.
The article doesn't mention Bitcoin as an alternative :(
Do you sleep with headphones on? If not--there you go, quiet environment.
I never took funding with either of my two startups, but I still had massive roller coaster moments. I'm glad you had the emotional fortitude to get through it without a hitch, but that has to be an exception and not the rule. Starting your own thing is extremely hard and can be a very lonely place, even after you've hired employees. And that has nothing to do with "pace".
When this marvelous device with processing power, large battery and keyboard comes to the market in a serious way, I propose we call it a "laptop".
AFAICT "congress critter" is a fairly well established pejorative term. And nothing particular to do with Reddit (wiktionary cites 1979).
I've never understood this line of reasoning.

It is entirely within YC's right to fund businesses that a portion of the Internet find scummy.

Shockingly, it's entirely within the rights of that portion of the Internet community to then whinge about them funding said scummy businesses.

And it's YCs right to care, or not, about that opinion.

Someone once wrote a blog post that had a paragraph on cheating (on your spouse etc) and what constitutes cheating. He said that it doesn't matter whether you think what you did was cheating, only whether your spouse thought you were cheating. Your worthiness is entirely in the eyes of the other person, not yours. The other person is who you're 'selling' yourself to.

And so it is with companies. If McDonald's customers suddenly care about healthy food, McDonald's has to too.

The question is, is the portion of the Internet community that thinks these people are scummy YC's spouse? Should YC bend to their version of reality?

That's for YC to decide.
Actually, I think it does. It implied action taken by Google to find the data and add it to the map. Huge difference between Google decided to take these actions and add the data and Google built a tool that allows others to do the same.
There's no nice way of saying you have a gun.

Also handling stolen goods is a crime. So even if you didn't personally rob the bank, if you know the money is dodgy then you shouldn't accept it.
I will slap my wife a little, here and there, not much, she deserves it, but damn, have you seen what Joe have done to his wife, he broke her arm and sent her to hospital, he is a monster!
Thank you! I've written one blog post about my experience a few months out of high school, and I need to do a follow up with almost two years out now. My new company is launching in March and I'm super excited about it. Hopefully I'll have an even more interesting story to tell after that.
This is great news.

Not because I care at all about PayPal's practices anymore, but because it might mean that enough people have joined the backlash and boycott to make PayPal take notice.
There is a "startup industry," where VC's, small companies, and acquirers are the players, and deals are the products. Bootstrapped companies aren't a part of this, they aren't "startups," they are simply businesses. In other words, the word "startup" is a signal that someone is talking about the deal industry.
Close. The aggressive change they are making is, in fact, the press.
IE Paypal is making aggressive changes (in how they communicate to the press that they think they've done nothing wrong)
Good ideas. I am a Windows user but I fully agree with #1. No reason to assume that everyone wants Windows.

Of your ideas, I like #6 the most. People decry the death of the desktop PC, but for years now I have been of the opinion that none of the PC manufacturers are trying to do anything interesting on the desktop. Hence, no one feels any incentive to upgrade.

My highest-ranked idea for breathing life into the desktop PC is ultra high-definition very-large displays. Everything else falls into place from there. Ultra high-definition requires new GPU technology, potentially higher storage capacity, higher bandwidth, etc.

I've written about that here: http://tiamat.tsotech.com/displays-are-the-key
I think everything you're saying is right, and in fact you may have gotten yourself better through your mental habits. I have learned some "interventions" through practice, I think of them as habits like hand washing. You can't wash away a cold infection, but you can get it off your hands before you touch your face, so hand washing is an incredibly important way to fight the common cold.

All the little things help, from teaching yourself to intervene when a mood starts to swing negative, to challenging negative explanations and beliefs, to working on core beliefs, to drugs, endorphins, everything.
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I had literally no idea what the smiley face was until I clicked it.
I am worried that so much of the "integration" people are calling for is integration with the services of just one company, Google. And most people that want to replace the built-in iOS app defaults want to replace them with Google apps so they can use more Google services. Is that healthy for the web?

Now, Google offers the best-in-class web services in a number of domains. But I've never been very fond of many of them, and where Google apps are less than great I prefer to use the alternative--Yelp instead of Google Local, standard IMAP email instead of Gmail, Wolfram Alpha for some searches, etc.

To Google's credit, it is easier to use an alternative search engine with Android than it is to use just about any alternative service on iOS. But I don't think we're going to see Google Now integrating with Bing maps or Duckduckgo or Yelp anytime soon.
Re: tax and data protection rules in Europe, over 1/2 of our clients are located outside the US, the majority of those in the EU, and so we have been handling the key EU issues (VAT, euro payment methods & currencies, EU language support, etc.) for some time now.

In terms of cost, there's a major distinction in that FastSpring's pricing of 5.9%+$.95/txn or a flat 8.9% is inclusive of the cost to process credit card and other transaction types globally (typically costs 3-4%+ of every transaction including chargeback fees when you get your own merchant account, assuming getting one is an option for you) because FastSpring is the reseller, the merchant of record. The other reason is the vast functionality FastSpring provides as part of its full-service, all-in-one solution, enabling developers to skip the months or even years of dev work and instead focus on product dev and marketing. You can view the difference here: http://bit.ly/uuklQu
As someone who's been asleep at the switch with regards to responsive design I get the sense that it's, well, hard. Has anyone written about the "responsive design vs forking the website for mobile" tradeoff? If I were to start hacking together a site today I would probably just create two or three completely different layouts and DRY things up as much as I could in code, instead of trying to get the stars to align and get my browser to render the same assets correctly in all browsers.

In other words, responsive design seems to bring under the fold a use case that does not exist: physically resizing a browser window from a desktop size to a mobile size and having a page render correctly as you do it. Its a nice trick, but unless you assume the same client is going to need to see the content "respond" to changes in window size, then it seems prudent to take that use case off the list and simplify the implementation around the real use case: a client with a pre-defined browser window size hits a page and renders it, full stop. (with some small flexibility since users on desktop browsers do resize their window by some % occasionally) (Ie, if you focus on this case, simplest solution may be to fork it at render time in code where you have to and keep the CSS/etc straightforward.)
Why are we still saying "Wintel" when Macs have been using Intel processors for years, and now non-Intel platforms are a much more significant part of Microsoft's strategy than ever?
None of that will help.

1. People don't want barebones systems - they want a fully working computer they turn on and use. People who want a barebones system do it themself, and are not a large market.

2. That just increases costs, and will not increase sales. You want it, obviously. But it won't help the seller.

3. Same as #2 - that doesn't increase sales, and does increase costs.

4. Good luck with that. Microsoft is trying that with secure boot (with hardware support), and people are screaming about it.

5. Gorilla Arm. Assuming you are talking about a PC, it's not practical to use a vertical touch screen.

6. A good suggestion. Market computers the way kitchen appliances are marketed: By how they look, with some discussion of functionality, but looks are paramount.

7. It's nice I guess, but I'm not sure it'll help all that much.
There is a documentary on this: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2149190/

Have not seen it yet, but I saw the cover browsing around on Netflix.
"I'd love for Congress to permit the publication of all correspondence done by the prosecution in this case."

Similar things have happened, although not always with the government's enthusiastic cooperation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pentagon_Papers#Leak
> Take the legend of a chosen redhead. Even as a child he cast a spell so powerful it blanketed the entire world ....

Can anyone tell me what this is referring to? None of the web searches I tried give me anything that seems to be helpful (most of them give me this article as the first hit, and the only hit that is relevant).
What you say is coincidentally true. Typically the higher the level of effort, the harder it is to ignore. But the reason it's more effective is that it's harder to ignore.
Why would grandma want to buy a powerful $1000 tablet when a $200 tablet can do everything she wants to do perfectly fine?

The main issue is that the vast majority simply don't need all that much computing power, it was the lack of alternatives to the PC form factor that kept CPU power, prices and Intel's profit margins inflated.

I don't doubt that there will be a market for powerful tablets. But it's a small market; the grandmas of this world won't be buying them any more than they used to buy powerful workstations.
"They don't rip off sites (i.e downloading the HTML and changing the logo) or anything unethical like that, they create real competitive businesses from scratch extremely fast without compromising the quality."

They come as close as they can. I simply can't trust people like that.
To save everyone the trouble... This article is just a PR parrot piece, with no real substance or timelines beyond "aggressive changes" and "the next several months".

It just feels like a desperate attempt to convince potential clients not to go with competing services for a bit longer, like the new guy who took over at the top, showed up in person on a few on-line forums to say positive-sounding things, and then disappeared without trace.

Amusingly, the PR rep quoted in this article actually seems quite proud that when they screw up and freeze an innocent client's account and then demand a bunch of non-existent and inappropriate records to release the funds, the client won't be expected to submit them in the mail any more.
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Well, that depends, if you willingly chose not to treat yourself when you were able to, you might have had a choice.

Just like when you have cancer and willingly choose not to undergo treatment.

There's the choice. of course it's not an easy choice, treatments are still lousy enough in both cases to be worth thinking about whether or not to take them.
I also graduated from CS at Dawson. I've been told that Taz and François Paradis know each other quite well and this is probably the result of said friendship. But this is all heresay.
I think we all need to revert back to the days of 3 sometimes 4 days battery life on old school Nokia's like the Nokia 3315. It's amazing how battery life on phones seems to get progressively worse even though battery technology is better, we're still cramming in battery draining features when all someone needs in an emergency is the ability to make a phone call or send a text, not a web browser, email client and a Facebook app.
Prosecutors enjoy a broad array of tools to do their job. It is up to them to use these tools sensibly or risk Congress taking them away.

AG Ortiz needs to go not only for the prosecutorial bullying but also because she was dumb enough to expose how these tools are abused by prosecutors around the country.

Smart politicians will get rid of her soon, they don't want to risk this to grow to the point Congress needs to actually do something about it.
Does anyone know why Taren is consistently referred to as "partner"? I would have expected "girlfriend", which some sources do use, but I'm curious if there's some reasoning or decision behind the choice of term.
We're currently working on replacing CoreAudio with portaudio. Stay tuned!
Lately?

Like a good book, movie, or music, repeat enjoyment isn't necessarily bad. It doesn't detract from my enjoyment of HN, especially when you actually through the links from previous submissions. It's been reposted a number of times for obvious reasons.

Regardless, if the point of the comment is to note the number of reposts, then it's purpose harms HN more than simply using existing means to resolve reposts. Again, within the context of trying to make a point, it is worthless.

If the intent was to post additional commentary found elsewhere, then it's valuable.

Yes, their is a distinction between the two.
That's because it's a commercial for Paypal.
To their credit, they didn't use the word "terrorist," once.
> GNU sort is designed to sort on disk though. If you actually watch it working on a giant file, you'll see it generating lots and lots of files in /tmp containing the merge lists.

The number of files created is just an implementation detail; you could easily do everything in one file if you wanted to, or at most 2N files if you're not allowed to seek or overwrite files at all, and you want to do N-way merges.

Maybe GNU sort is just trying to avoid creating files larger than 2 GB (which is a problem on legacy file systems).

> Specifically here: sort is making up for the lack of memory by exploiting the comparatively (relative to virtual memory) fast streaming behavior of storage media.

Yes, also the fact that GNU sort can sort multi-terabyte files on 32-bit platforms, which otherwise wouldn't fit in memory. (Though systems with smaller process memory space than disk storage space are an oddity that will soon be outdated, I suppose.)

> I'm not at all sure a Haskell merge sort of the form used in GNU sort would do well at all

Well, even the on-disk sort starts by sorting chunks in-memory, which we have already established Haskell is bad at. However, the merge sorting part of the algorithm may well be I/O bound in practice, in which case Haskell should be able to do it just fine.

The only good reason I can think of why C could be faster, is that if you can merge more efficiently, you can choose a higher value of N for your N-way merge,

> stateful filesystem I/O is also an area where Haskell tends to fall down

What do you mean by this? AFAIK Haskell can read/write files just fine through the I/O monad.
Similar to sukuriant, I googled the name half of your email in your profile, clicked on your Trello profile, copy&pasted the text from your first entry (I did not recognize the language) into Google. Google Translate told me it was Polish.

Also, on your twitter account (same username as on Trello), you mention Warsaw a few times.

I was completely unfamiliar with the matters you mentioned in your comment.
Maybe my undergraduate institution failed mebut I don't feel that having taken linear algebra, multivariable calc, applied stats, and graduate probability over the summer that the PDF below contains readily accessible information to me. Does it require graduate linear algebra? Graduate multi-v? We're my courses not rigorous enough? Am just not smart enough? I graduated summa cum laude, so maybe I should be okay.

All I am saying that is that there seems to be a huge leap between having taken the prerequisites everyone says you should take and then seeing Cramer-Rao bounds on page 70.

http://alex.smola.org/drafts/thebook.pdf
What are good alternatives? I'm considering taking online payments for my freelancing work, but I'm gunshy that it could kill my cashflow without recourse if a company acted toward me like PayPal often does to others.
> My experience with NFS failures is that they're an order or two of magnitude higher (and much more binary) than local storage issues.

Usually that's the fault of lower down in the chain than with NFS itself. If you're building a home brew SAN using NFS, then there's a lot of kernel tweaks and such like that you can implement. The Linux kernel is a great all-rounder, but if you're building your own enterprise-grade appliances then there's a lot more work required than just vi'ing /etc/exports.

But anyone using NFS to run databases or for caches needs their head examining. It's purely a protocol for file system sharing, caching should be ramdisk, databases should be using dedicated TCP/IP channels preferred by the RMDBS in question and so on. Using NFS as a blanket solution like that is a little like running websites over NFS and wondering why PHP isn't compiling properly. In fact some versioning systems do use HTTP as their method for syncing.
As the author of the "ugly and short-sighted essay" in question, I want to just mention that I meant no hard feelings to anyone of any age, and tried hard to critique the behavior, not the person, Sorry if it came across as ugly. However, I stand by my opinion. I believe that there are plenty of other places these teens can go for blanket approval and yes-men, such as friends and family. HN is, to me, reserved for unbiased and fair commentary. As an aside, I think everyone's post should be considered carefully and encouraged; however, it shouldn't be based on age. Also, in response to those who raised comments about how Mozart's age was relevant to his accomplishments, I must say that in our day and age, teens making apps is hardly that noteworthy anymore. Yes, it is impressive, but not exceptionally so.

Lastly, why exactly was my original post killed? What happened to it? I may not understand HN fully, but I thought something that fostered a good discussion would be kept. I can't even find the post anymore! Would it have stayed up if I had said I was 16?
I refuse to believe the PC is dying, evolving perhaps but not dying. People have been saying PC's are dying for the last 10 or so years and yet here we are, commenting on HN using our PC's and Mac's (which are PC's at the end of the day). Tablets in my mind will never work for programming or designing. I will always need a large screen and peripherals like a keyboard at the very least to do my job. Could anyone else here imagine developing on a tablet screen? I couldn't.
What about their arbitrary policies about freezing certain types of businesses' funds or not allowing them to operate using Paypal because they don't like them - like say if you sell a certain type of books?
> However you feel about copyright

What do you have to say to those of us who disagree completely and fully with the entire concept of intelectual property?

With the way I feel about copyright, I believe distribution of other peoples work, with permission or otherwise is something that should be actively encouraged and praised.

Whether they profit off of it or not is completely irrelevant.
That article is talking about how Chrome is less secure when run under XP, due to XP lacking security features found in later versions of Windows. But Chrome still runs well on XP, and probably has no worse security on XP than IE8 does.
If you want to see another Daft Punk movie, I recommend checking out "Interstella 5555"
Apache reverse proxies are very easy to setup once you have done it once. I've reverse proxied Tomcat,PHP and ASP.Net apps just by copy-pasting a few lines in the config.

The main strength of Apache though is the ability to separate apps run on the same system by different users without reverse proxy via .htaccess files and stuff like mod_php.

Apache also has an excellent security track record considering it's vast numbers of deployments and years of service.

Perhaps though if you are a green field developer with no Apache experience and deploy with stuff like EC2 you may as well just skip apache and go straight to nginx.

What nginx's security record will look like in 10 years if it becomes as popular as Apache though remains to be seen.
Might I ask what browser you're using?

Older browsers used to just resize the font inline, and leave other elements alone, but most modern browsers resize everything these days when you use those commands, so sites shouldn't look any different when scaled up or down. It's been this way for a long time, it seems.
This scares me. How do you draw the line between someone having no choice to kill themselves and other actions that some majority might not consider to be choices?

Yes, death is final. I still feel it's my choice, other's disagree. What makes their view more valid than mine?

(I don't necessarily believe in a free will, but if it exists it's hard to tell who has with concern to what decisions.)