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I know this will sound like a refrain, but would you be interested in preparing a test for Node that uses a better ORM? Or if you can demonstrate that another ORM would be clearly superior, perhaps it would make more sense to simply modify the existing Node test code, replacing Sequelize?
I'm surprised nobody in the comments or even in the OP has mentioned the prevalence of "How to get into YC", "How to hack your way into YC", etc. submissions that pop up on HN every cycle. There really have been a lot of those and they usually try to spell out a concise set of rules or patterns for each question/step. Even when PG gets interviewed and asked the question "What kind of companies do you accept?" I wonder if he realizes that this is bait for prospective applicants and blog post fodder instead of a genuine opportunity to endorse the quality of startups accepted into YC (to make these companies look good).

Has there ever been a write-up on "how to get into YC" by someone who followed such a guide and got in?

- Someone who was rejected 4+ times, and doesn't believe in that kind of stuff anymore
Following along while listening by looking at the linked German text of "Der Handschuh"

http://www.has.vcu.edu/for/schiller/handschuh_dual.html

helps immensely in sorting out the speech from the noise (at least for me, with my beginner's knowledge of German). It's amazing to hear the inventor's poetry reading diction from so long ago.
And of limited real value. A CPU only miner would yield about 10 MHash/s or less on standard hardware, and a malware/junkware loaded PC will do even less.
From the experience I've had, I tend to think that all things being equal, a mention on a popular blog in your market will drive higher quality traffic than a television mention.
I wish the 3D printing enthusiasts would spend some time learning about the fantastic capabilities we already have in making useful things. We have CNC mills and lathes and grinders and cast makers and mould makers, we have industrial robots and super spiffy warehouse robots, we have automatic measuring machines and moving machines, we even have pneumatic flying cranberry sorters, we have many, many amazing things.

3D printing isn't the first, and it still can't make good machine parts.

I realize well enough that what some dismiss as toys may in decades to come be foundational to how we do things, but the point is that future isn't really here yet. To those who believe they can bring it faster, good luck and godspeed.
> said about 150 employees had been fired while about 50
senior managers and executives had been retained.

If that is true, it says a lot about the internal culture. And it ain't good.

IMO they aren't going to try to get the company afloat again; they're just shoring up the edges to sell themselves to someone for their IP and other assets. (at least I'd hope so, since only retaining execs/mgmt if you're a tech/manufacturing company with the intent to somehow turn this thing around and stay in business is just insanity)
Proof please.
"As a general rule, it's not possible to securely allow arbitrary user-provided content on a subdomain."

This rule is also good to keep in mind when choosing a domain for non-production environments!
Well don't Ferraris have that reputation too? :P
There will be "Good and Donkey Engineers" everywhere. Doing MS from stanford(assuming you are not lying) did not stop you from being a donkey here. :)
honeypot anyone... create the appears of a hacked machine that is successfully mining... keep'em busy for a few weeks ...
What's next, redesigning half of the English language because it contains so many words derived from Latin?

It doesn't matter where icons, words, or any identifier comes from so long as everyone understands it. If you're creating a new icon then it's a good idea to make the design intuitive as this improves its chance for adaption, but doing so to an ubiquitous icon such as "save" is just counter-productive.
Can someone tell me why some of the players keycaps are missing in the APM video?
Believe me or not, its actually like rolling a dice, taking chance on the entrepreneurs where sides of dice reads (1)skills (2)passion (3) Commitment (4)traction (5) smartness (6)Duh

Its just that they can make a move only after three dice rolls, and if they see 'Duh' appears once, they would have to throw the dice and consider a new dice for the game of start-up.
Are you suggesting they hoard the animals in some warehouse?
Do I love the guy, no. But, he is doing something. I've "completed" quite a few side projects (video game, chat server, etc) but I've never got anyone to actually use them. To do all three sides of the coin, technical product development, artistic design, and marketing, earns you respect in my book.
The early versions of BigDog had support cables to protect it in case it fell as well. Eventually the stabilization hardware + software got good enough to where they weren't needed any more.
Sorry about that. It seems my reading comprehension skills are still flawed. ;)
ngx_lua [1] will beat all of them no matter which JSON library used, end of story.

BTW, LuaRocks is supported [2]

[1] https://github.com/chaoslawful/lua-nginx-module

[2] http://openresty.org/#UsingLuaRocks
Nobody would argue that mkdir is a more major operation than cd. Which is my point.
Counterpoint: As a customer, I don't want to pay for the kind of redundancy that encourages employees to shut down the whole data center when a single tantalum cap pops in a power supply somewhere.

The fact is, there aren't that many flammable things in a data center. Nobody is going to die because they wandered up and down the aisles after they "thought they smelled something burning," in the absence of any visible smoke.

The guidelines in the highest-voted answer on the SO page make sense to me. 1: If you actually see smoke or fire in any significant amount, evacuate. 2: Make someone else aware of what's going on before doing anything else. 3: Keep your escape options open. 4: Think about how much time you can safely spend "guessing", and don't exceed it. 5: Don't second-guess your own common sense. You aren't paid to be a fireman or a hero.
Until you need to use that PSD for production. There are a couple things in PS which make it terrible in day-to-day usage:

- no way to quickly export a layer or group on it's own with a transparent background (FW: click object, cmd+c, cmd+n, cmd+v, export)
- can't copy layers with transparency to other applications
- no 8-bit PNG export
- auto-select sucks
- takes minutes to load a 100mb file in an up-to-date computer with loads of RAM and scratch disk space. hangs when you move/resize too many layers at the same time - font rendering doesn't match system type at all

Not to mention that 99% of the time layers are not cut to size (have extra transparent padding) so you can't even get it's dimensions without a pixel ruler. That is, after you finally figure out which magic layer contains the actual objects. Please, make it stop :(
I was just reading some posts about potential BitCoin issues:
http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1009
http://www.loper-os.org/?p=939
If the conclusions about the vulnerabilities of BitCoin are correct, then I'm not sure it can qualify as an "existential threat"
Has anyone beat me to it?

Where BitCoin is concerned, the answer is always "yes".
Couple flaws I see here: first, I'm not convinced that 10k hours is a reasonable estimate given how vastly different any given discipline is from another. Some disciplines allow for fast iteration and thus more practice in a shorter amount of time, for one thing.

Second and more important, we need to remember that none of us learn in a vacuum. How much faster did you pick up programming because you already understood the concept of grammar, and had taken a logic or debate class in high school? Even in wildly different fields of study, there are dots we connect, analogies that we construct, and skills that we posses and bring to the table. It is reasonable to assume that we gain some efficiency in learning new skills, by virtue of the masteries we already possess.
HTML5 Sandbox - a bad idea
Maybe they did a good job at rejecting your application, and this is my assumption based on this posting of yours. You fired back because your ego was hit. You're going to have to refine your ego if you ever plan on running a successful business.
No I haven't. Thanks for the reference, I'll look for him next time I'm at the library.
A Simple HTTP API for Creating Ebooks
The HN title is a much more interesting conversation than the articles
Senior developer based out of an Eastern European country where the dollar stretches out well! :)
They left 320 $100k+ cars out in the open without insurance?
That idea came, and went, two years back.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=9042.0
I also believe there are so many things I've learned in starcraft that help me in my startups. In no particular orders:

- Taking calculated risks
- Understanding Macro vs Micro
- Timing vs Economy vs Technology
- Opponent psychology
- Focus / Intelligence / Hard work
I don't know about SF, but many localities limit the ratio of occupants/bedrooms. A family of four might not (legally) be able to rent a 1-bedroom apartment even if they were willing to live in one.
At a glance, this is a very creative way to fuse the best of digital prototyping with the spontaneity of hand drawn prototyping.

However I believe that digital linking and editing stages would be easier if it were on a browser than an iphone.
Ha, ok thank you. With archlinux, /usr/bin/python is now linking to /usr/bin/python3..
This is a good point - we've moved to a place where function no longer needs to dictate form to the same extent that it once did. A cassette tape was shaped the way it was in order to fulfill specific mechanical requirements.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2566365
Application deluge for high-tech visas forces lottery
jaquesm also wrote an amazing and comprehensive article on this topic: How to Sell Your Company[1]

[1] http://www.jacquesmattheij.com/How+To+Sell+Your+Company
The problem is that there hasn't been a good interface to represent that change history, which will allow me to prune dead ends, and visually identify the version that I want to use to start again from. I can't identify that revision as "the one from 1:52 pm" because I don't know when the auto-save happened. What I do know is that I want the one where I used the phrase 'When Sally Met Harry' in the third paragraph, but not the one where I used it in the fourth paragraph.

Remember - it has to work for non-technical users, so saying "just make it work like Git" won't fly.
A new market for malware opens. This is even better than spam.
Bring Me The Head Of That Threatening Lawyer
the DIAL-A-PIRATE!

I still have it somewhere!
Learning Through Teaching
Wouldn't work. The right API calls aren't exposed. You would need something like webCL.
Going to go and play Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis after reading this post... For the 5th time.

Today's game are total crap. Just kids shooting and killing each other, DRM issues and a corporate veil set out to destroy the experience. Bullshit
NASA to get $100 million for asteroid mission, senator says
Isn't it more offensive that the authors of this article assume the females involved couldn't possibly be engineers? Why? because they aren't white, male, and look like they are having too much fun? Seriously?
I can't stand Intel syntax exactly because it is "backwards" compared to M68k syntax.
this nothing speaks better about the continuing viability and vibrancy of this genre than this company
Personally, I think in a perfect world there would be a more widespread distinction between "save" (something that happens automatically whenever changes are made, to "save" the data from some unexpected calamity like power failure) and "commit" (what you're talking about, which most people think of as "saving"). I doubt it would realistically catch on any time soon outside of tech circles, though, due to the confusion it could cause the average user - "New, open, print, commit, exit... now where the hell is the damn save button?!"
Part of the problem is defunding of programs to help them.

It's not like homeless/mental-illness has a lobby before congress or even a local level and is not exactly a strong voting block, so it's an easy target to axe.
Hearing Republicans hyperventilate about Solyndra et al drives me up a wall. Private VC firms invest all the time in companies that fail, but somehow the government is supposed to have a 100% success rate in its VC investments? Please spare us your concern.
"e" crossbar | Typophile
Your work looks good! Keep it up! Try sourcing projects on odesk, guru, elance, freelance. You work is surely hire-able. Love hearing about a 16 year old designer who's out looking for freelance work! You've got a bright future!
It's surely automated, in which case, there's nothing to "keep busy" like a human manually hacking into the average lousy computer one by one.
I commented on the page why the author should not give security advice.

You should use a different domain as there are tricks to leverage arbitrary js on a subdomain.

Sandboxing is to help protect the client from arbitrary crap. It was never intended to protect the server.

And as for UI Redressing (aka ClickJacking) browsers that support the sandbox attribute must support X-Frame-Options.
Well, they actually copy and host almost the entire internet, without permission. But maybe that's another story.
TL;DR Author is wrong about clickjacking and sandboxing is a good thing.
US Student Loan Debt will hit $1 Trillion soon
http://www.dell.com/us/p/alienware-x51/pd.aspx

> Equipped with the new NVIDIA® GTX 645 graphics card

Don't bother. They want you to use proprietary driver
blobs without any source code for them.
You failed to address his realistic criticism that many websites are not yet using X-Frame-Options. Browsers that introduce the sandbox feature have now broken those sites' security.
I wrote my first compiler in M68000 assembler in a similar fashion to your steps. I started by allowing it to recognize M68000 assembler opcodes, and when found it'd just copy the line to output, otherwise it'd parse and compile the line. You could use register names and sizes directly in the statements.

So e.g.

D0.W = 5

Would translate into:

MOVE.W #5, D0

I didn't use macros though - handling basic argument passing is simple enough.

As soon as I had the basics of procedures/functions, simple expressions and argument passing in place I started rewriting the compiler using it.
They are pretty much extinct in the US. Not because of theft, but because transaction in them are hard to track.
Consider that the outer rim of a 45 rpm vinyl record moves at only about 16.5 inches per second. This means that the effective sampling frequency is equal to 16.5 * dpi, so even at a relatively modest (for film anyway) 300 dpi you'll get 5,000 Hz sampling, enough to reproduce many sounds moderately well.
Here are a few I can think of, not all are necessarily things that I miss, but people do miss it.

- Gmail old style compose/reply dialog

- Windows 7 had a search everything feature, now windows 8 has search by App/Files/Settings

- Github used to have a downloads tab for you to upload binaries associated with your code.

- Internet Explorer 9 supported extensions (via plugins), IE 10 is plugin free (although a step forward) doesn't have any customizability (no potential ad-block / vimium)

- Twitter List functionality (it wasn't implemented well but it was useful to help separate your stream).

- OneNote- Older versions of OneNote had OCR functionality, newer ones don't, one of the reasons I prefer Evernote
> Just piling redundancy on your stack doesn't make it more reliable.

Yeah, in a sense it actually makes it less reliable as far as mean-time-between-failures go. As an example, the rate of engine failure in twin-engine planes is greater than for single-engine planes. It's obvious if you think about it: there are now two points of failure instead of one. Why have two-engined planes? Because you can still fly on one engine (pilots: no nitpicking!).

What redundancy does do is let you recover from failure without catastrophe (provided you've set it up properly as per the parent).
They used a hacky method from the old IE Toolbar. That's like me scraping a website and blaming them when they change it.
Do you really think about floppy disks when you save something? Most people don't. That's what makes it an effective symbol. You don't have to think, decipher, or read. Everyone has learned it and has become more productive by it. Why change that? Would it be wise to modernize traffic symbols as well? If you're going to try to force users to learn something new, there better be something in it for them (I don't see what that would be) and you would need just about every developer to agree upon and use this new symbol (good luck), otherwise you've pretty much asked Christians to change the cross symbol to a new modern torture device.
You are right. I assume that the share of the Bitcoin transactions that are handled through BitPay were roughly the same in February and March.

This may be only an assumption, but I do believe it is correct. The other data points I added to my post seem to confirm it: trades and transactions are widely increasing everywhere.
I would hope so, as the technological side of things are moving briskly forward. Yet, if I'm honest, I don't see things panning out as idealistic as I'd wish. 'It's complicated'.

Unfortunately much of these advances cited above are academic efforts. How this translates to a product usable 'in the field' is perhaps more clear in the medical device world than in environmental monitoring.

I'd like to believe one could 'crowd-source' pollution monitoring. Open source sensors, drive costs down, collect data, throw it atop an OpenStreetMap layer and somehow the populus as a whole could make better informed decisions in resource consumption/politics/whatever.

Yet these types of studies (presently) are best carried out by governments and academic researchers for a number of reasons (land rights, use of 'mixed use' satellites, calibration, etc). Take water pollution for instance. The USGS builds 'The National Map' [1] which has a data layer for water runoff [2] (rivers,streams,etc), pollution sources [3], and whatever data sources are hidden in EPA, private mining/gas industires, Army Corp of Engineers, etc databases. The GIS work to make sense of even existing data is daunting. Add to it the polical winds of Fiscal Sequestration and 'less-regulation' and things look grim.

That said, microfluidics and biomarkers are moving more ino the Hacker realm and out of the cleanroom. And ultimately it's how well the Hacker community interacts with academia/goverment...

[1] http://nationalmap.gov/

[2] http://nhd.usgs.gov/

[3] http://water.usgs.gov/nawqa/digmap.html
This change just reset all the Tweets and G+ count for my project to 0. Is there a way to claim those back?
The more pages you send to a user the costly a single byte on a page is. Conversly the more costly a single byte is the more money you can save by compressing or removing said byte. Owning lots of bandwidth is often highly correlated with sending lots of pages. I think you may find that it's more cost efficient for them to "waste" time and power recompressing than you think.

Scale challenges a lot of your preconceptions when you actually get there.
The OP is not to be taken seriously, thanks to deep ignorance about how currency works in general, and how bitcoin works in particular.

In 1998, Paul Krugman described the fatal flaw that will inevitably sink any currency that includes it; a flaw that Bitcoin's designers have overlooked.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/pascalemmanuelgobry/2013/04/05/k... …

So no, Bitcoin is not an "Existential threat to the Modern Liberal State". Not even close.
"For an organization that fishes for ideas like it already owns them, its application process sure does suck. Not too innovative or creative there. "

Okay, so you think it sucks. How about offering up a solution. As it stands, you are still a part of what you perceive as a problem. Why not become part of the solution by proposing ways to "fix" the process? It seems like you are just complaining to complain. That sucks.

I am not sure what you mean by "For an organization that fishes for ideas like it already owns them" because by the definition of their business model if they invest in you then, well, they do own part of your business. Investments are best treated with objectivity and as if you were the owner, that is one of the basic principles of the Graham(as in Benjamin) and Dodd approach.

" It's not like I'm going to go into the scientific details of what I have in mind, what I am actually doing, or how I am doing it, when asked about having ever hacked something besides a computer."

You are missing the point of that query it seems.

"I know that I have the technical ability to accomplish what I have in mind."

Okay, so do it. Stop whining about the Y-Combinator process and execute on your vision. Why is seeking capital so important if you know you have the technical ability, since the implication in your statement is that the technical chops are all that matter. Go build and make them regret not investing. You realize that YC is one of many capital management companies that do early stage investing right?

What happened? Why are you angry about the process? How can it be improved? If you hate something, work to improve it. If all you do is complain about the problem and never attempt to fix it, you are part of the problem as well.

I hope that I see dgabriele running a successful company by the end of the year. That would be awesome.
I really, really like this.

Thanks for making it, and thanks for putting it on github too. It's the sort of thing that's so simple that it's not really that a big enough thing to make a business off, so nobody puts much effort into it.

But you've done a really nice implementation and shared it with the world, so thanks!
I like to see that Tapestry is rising high in this latest round. I have a lot of production sites running Tapestry and I'm always impressed with how fast it runs.
"act of god"