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Hippy :) I kid of course. I've never been able to get in to the jam bands. Many of my friends love Phish, the Dead, Umphrey's McGee, The Big Wu etc etc. I've tried to get in to their music, but every time they do those long jams I get bored.

What's interesting though is that I love a good solid 20 minute epic trance tune. It's basically the same thing, so I'm not really sure why I prefer electronic "jam" music over more traditional jam bands.
You may know the author, Robert Krulwich [1], as co-host of the insufferable Radiolab [2]. He's made a career out of "explaining" science like this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Krulwich

[2] http://www.radiolab.org/
For a group of people (programmers) that presumably have been ostracized, shunned, and picked on in their formative years, why do so many in the valley do this to 'MBAs'.

It is hard to classify any group as being monolithic, but it has been my experience that an MBA really prepares you to be a good middle manager or consultant. Indeed, this is what MBA programs were originally designed to do and it still shows.

It also makes sense that middle managers would be the last people you'd want to hire at a startup (literally, middle managers are the last to get hired).

Of course, there are exceptions. A lot of exceptions in this case. If you have the startup bug, MBA or not, you'll start a company, but let's not pretend like this train of thought is completely unwarranted.
Well at least he has the best name out of the ones listed. Am I missing something though, his site seems to just be a description of what he's looking for a link to a contact form? Do we consider this a product now?
Perhaps the answer to your question is that the code is being written inside of http://jsbin.com/ which does that combining automagically.
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Here's the thing...

I'd never heard of any of those sites, I checked them out none made me want to sign up right now.

I clicked through on okcofounder here wanting and expecting to be able to sign up only to be disappointed.

Ideas are essentially worthless without effective implementation. This roughed out one page implementation was effective for me and I'm clearly not alone.
I got to play with one of these at the Computer History Museum during a field trip. We went to the back and punched our names into a card and placed all our cards into a stack where the machine sorted our names and printed everyone's names out. It was cool and it smelt like oil. I wouldn't ever want to program on one of these ancient relics though.
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So what data is Google Maps using for its predictions then? It's definitely not the same as nextmuni (at least last time I checked), and in fact seems much worse. I had always assumed there was a schedule and that Google was using it.
I like this concept and I too was disappointed I couldn't sign up to check it out. I have a co-founder but I would love to try a service like this to bring on early employees.
I think you have absolutely no idea what it is we do.
> It's really depressing to see Haiku come so close to completion, only to have project direction taken over at the very end by Linux developers

If you find it so depressing, instead of criticism, offer help. You are not helping. You are only offering your opinion.
Is there a particular font that works better than others for this? I've tried all my fixed width fonts and the clock is barely readable in any of them.
How does this not run afoul of consumer protection rights?
I made one of those comments (although worded a bit better). I certainly wasn't paid :(
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> I keep on typing that in, but due to the nature of Fish, it can't (or won't) recognise it. But the excellent history functionality does make up for this a fair bit.

I was interested in this comment so I looked into the documentation to find out why this is. Here's a link to the FAQ for anyone else interested:

http://ridiculousfish.com/shell/user_doc/html/faq.html#faq-h... (last question)
The only part about this post I found informative was the citation from Google on California laws. The other points were just garbage. Google deployed in rural Kansas City, there's demand. Perhaps this post should be called "If You Live In California This Is Why Google Fiber Is Too Expensive for Your City".
A bit. However (and this entirely dates me), I saw Phish off and on from the '93 period forward and it was clear the audience was growing at an unbelievable pace prior to Jerry Garcia's death. I remember a show in 1994 in Winston Salem where the opening band was Dave Matthews. And half the coliseum was curtained off (most of the top of Lawrence Joel?) . . .

I think later that same year I saw a really nice Phish show in Boone and the crowd felt larger. A few years later people seemed incredulous at the thought of Phish shows with four-digit-sized audiences . . .

What was super interesting to me at the time was how intensely the audience was "bonded" to Phish shows. We were already joking a bit about how they had a group of "lifestyle" followers. In the current lingo, I would have said they had gone viral already. Fun times.
I use Source Code Pro. Consolas used to be my favorite.
You will always have to compromise with people. That will never go away. But the social relationship between you and your investors - and definitely not with your fellow c-levels or co-founders - will never be quite like to that between a regular employee and their boss.

Your mileage may vary if you're on the brink of collapse, of course.
The NSA is cracking your SSL encrypted Facebook session so they can read about what your friends had for breakfast. Right.
> (there still isn't a sprockets-esque one-catch-all solution for django like in the rails world)

This is definitely a little frustrating. I'd kill for a solution that handles minification, versioning & can upload to S3/etc. You can pass things through boto to get to s3, but the rest requires a bit of fiddling.

I've seen a few solutions that come close, but then they have extremely odd versioning systems. I should just fork something so I can add an ISO8601 timestamp to my CSS & JS; which I like because having granular dates helps when debugging front-end issues.
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I don't like that one, reminds me too much of cold fusion.
I did a little more digging, and I think it was Pascal. Here's the most informative page that I found, which discusses the origin of the quote: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/
Salts are considered public in terms of if they are leaked it's not damaging in and of itself. The entire purpose of them is to prevent people with the same password having the same password hash. Now if the salt was your name or something that's a different problem.
The story of the name "OkCupid" is here: http://www.quora.com/OkCupid/Whats-the-story-behind-OKCupids...
That is an impressively long lost of tools to pick up and get running professionally on top of being a web newbie. Hat tip to that man.
Why are you so defensive and rude? I think I have an idea what you do. You check applications for security vulnerabilities. While doing this, you may access information that usually would be considered information that the company you are investigating would not be allowed to give you. But with CISPA, they would be allowed to give you.

FYI, you have a dead link: http://www.matasano.com/services/shipsafe/
I disagree. Many entrepreneurs would love to work for a big company IF they were at the controls and not the cogs.

Steve Jobs. He had full control over Apple and could tell it to build whatever he wanted. He worked for a big company. From what I've read, he was happy working there.

Larry Page and Sergey Brin, they seem happy working for a big company.

Larry Ellison loves working for Oracle. I have yet to hear any disappointment from him about working for a big company.

All in all, I think many entrepreneurs would love working at big companies - as long as they are in the top 1% of the company who have control over the rest.
I wonder whether one could do something similar to concert tickets, and allow resales at face value, but not greater. Louis CK did that for his recent tour, and there wasn't (unless I missed it) widespread outrage; rather, people were happy to keep tickets out of the hands of scalpers.
That when we're developing, you edit a sass file, and when you request the CSS file it compiles the SASS to CSS before serving the file. It has been a little while since I set it all up but I think for the SASS example I've made a gist[1] showing the settings you need to make it work. If I recall correctly the key bit is using the .scss as the source file. Then, in production make sure to set `PIPELINE = True` to stop compiling per request.

[1]: https://gist.github.com/Bockit/5408958
I am an entrepreneur. And I now work in a big company. It has been 10 months since they acquired my company. As far as I am concerned this article is completely inaccurate. I don't give a damn about compensation. IBM gave me enough money for my kids to retire - I don't need more money from them.

It's not easy though. My number one issue is inefficiency. My number two is politics. But I wish I could make it work as within a company like IBM I have the potential to do things that I couldn't have dreamt to do in my own company.
So that's a municipal line running through the subway? I never knew that.
Regarding 15 - if you want that behavior, you'd be better off with using your own model subclass:

class ValidatingModel(Model):
def save(self, *args, **kwargs):
self.full_clean()
super(ValidatingModel, self).save(*args, **kwargs)

Then inherit from that everywhere.

Signals have a not-insignificant overhead. They are most useful for tying together code that comes from different places. (If you want to do full validations on 3rd-party app models, then you might this signal approach, but it might also be a bug in the app that the hook isn't just there for you.)
Given the naming scheme of Android releases, it seems like Google would let you eat cake instead.
LinkExchange did that. It was a bit broader, though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LinkExchange
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjective_theory_of_value

> advances the idea that the value of a good is not determined by any inherent property of the good, nor by the amount of labor required to produce the good

This is what most economists agree upon.
Saying you have to 'keep printing money' to cover debts is meaningless. All money is printed (or keystroked) into existence. Governments impose a tax burden payable only in the state's currency (so that people are forced to offer their output for sale in that currency), then they provide that currency.

The way to be fiscally responsible with your currency is to print enough so that everyone has a job, but so much that you're overrunning your output capacity and increasing inflation. Keep interest rates on bonds (if you choose to issue them) lower than your GDP growth (and since you're the monopoly issuer of your currency, you have control over interest rates) and you won't have issues with expanding debt % [1].

The first response to this is usually "well, Greece" or "well, Zimbabwe". The crucial difference in those countries was that what they owed was not their own currency, but foreign currencies.

[1] http://www.cfeps.org/pubs/wp-pdf/WP53-Fullwiler.pdf
> I'd kill for a solution

Would you code for one? I, too, am sorry that we don't have a thing like asset pipeline. I'm pretty sure it would be welcome...
They could well have been responsible for some of them, but there are certainly a lot of us who feel that way reasonably strongly.
> According to the efficient-markets hypothesis (EMH), which still dominates the analysis of financial markets, this should be impossible. The EMH states that the market value of an asset is equal to the best available estimate of the value of the services or income flows it will generate. In the case of a company stock, this is the discounted value of future earnings. Since Bitcoins do not generate any actual earnings, they must appreciate in value to ensure that people are willing to hold them. But an endless appreciation, with no flow of earnings or liquidation value, is precisely the kind of bubble the EMH says can’t happen.

No. No no no no no.

EMH doesn't say that everything must be priced according to the "best available estimate of the value of the services or income flows it will generate." For example, if I pay $20,000 for a car, that doesn't mean that the present value of the extra income I'll earn thanks to that car is $20,000. It might mean the car makes my life more pleasant and convenient. Dollars are valuable for exactly the same reason--since everyone I know will accept dollars instead of whatever it is they'd like to buy with dollars, having dollars makes my life extremely convenient. That, not the fact that I need them to pay taxes, is what makes dollars so valuable.

The issue here is that there are network effects. Just as dollars are more valuable to me because they're used and accepted by everyone I know, or a fax machine is only valuable to me if I know someone who can receive my faxes, a currency is only valuable when someone else is willing to accept payment in it. This means that, as a currency is adopted by higher and higher proportions of the population (or as the perceived odds of that rise), its value also rises.

Bitcoin definitely looks like a bubble to me. It's a small market, it's dominated by people with strong philosophical positions that predispose them towards BTC. And shorting is difficult. But the reasoning in the article is absurd.
Pinterest replaced Celery and RabbitMQ [1] with their fork of pyres [2], presumably because it's 1/100th the codebase but does what they need to.

[1] http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/4/15/scaling-pinterest-...

[2] https://github.com/pinterest/pyres
If you read the terms @http://www.google.com/glass/terms/ Specifically the 'Device Specific Addendum' at the bottom you can see that this restriction only applies to the Explorer Edition. I believe this article may be intentionally omitting this detail to create drama.
"tolerate" makes it sound like it's a negative system.

My experience is that corporations contain systems which startup founders would absolutely love to utilise given the chance.

I have built technology within organisations that within months is in use by multiple clients who have $1B+ market caps. I've seen projects funded with higher risk profiles than most VC's would tolerate because those funding it truly believed it was a good idea.

The idea that corporate systems are something that should be tolerated vs. something that can be navigated and leveraged for a positive outcome is, as I said above, terribly shortsighted.
Hash the decompressed data and check the result returned by zlib.
Oh my god... this explains so much.
This is extremely good news. At one time, back in 2007, Runescape was the elephant in the room for western MMORPGs - if you counted it amongst them, it made all the commercial ones clearly the long tail, not the short peak of success - http://www.raphkoster.com/2007/05/29/mmo-long-tails/
As bronson said, it is indeed Cruzio. There was 26 hour outage yesterday due to a fibre cut in SV. It didn't affect people on Cruzio's DSL service but did affect those of us on the resold Sonic Fusion service.

http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/capitola/ci_23040335/at-t-c...
Bitcoin intrinsic value:

It can be transferred (spent) electronically over a decentralized network without double-spending risk, chargeback risk, inflation risk and confiscation/bailout/haircut risk.

How can anyone say this has no intrinsic value? You can say that you don't care about this properties, like I don't care that gold is shiny, but that doesn't mean it has no value.

I think many analysts confuse intrinsic value with being tangible.
Watch out for these Celery gotchas:

1. Tracking tasks status in SQL will result in a lot of queries! (Even when using Redis/RabbitMQ as brokers.)

2. Crontab style tasks are great... until they take a long time to complete and Celery kills them. And then you're back to regular crons (and there is nothing wrong with that).

3. Use UTC everywhere! New projects get this by default, but don't make this mistake.
I'm not defending Apple. I'm not a huge fan of their stuff. But, they are their market's leader and the parent post mentioned the outrage that one might see if Apple did the same as Samsung in this case.
Forgive me for not reading all of the comments, I've had a busy couple of days. (I'm the Chief Defender Against the Dark Arts at AgileBits, the makers of 1Password.)

We didn't explicitly call PBKJDF2 twice. We called it once, but asked for 256 bits of data, while giving it SHA1 to work with. In these circumstances, PBKDF2 acts as if we'd called it twice.

Anyway, there is a blog post about this here: http://blog.agilebits.com/2013/04/16/1password-hashcat-stron... The final part of it contains my analysis of what did and didn't go wrong.
> If you find it so depressing, instead of criticism, offer help. You are not helping. You are only offering your opinion.

So you're saying that reasoned constructive criticism is not helping?

You can't offer 'help' to people that don't want it. You'll waste your time and theirs.
Certainly 10 years ago and debatably 15 years ago Linux already had graphical installers and more comprehensive out of the box drivers (in certain distros) than Windows. Mandrake, RedHat, SuSe were all very user friendly around the turn of the century.

BSDs took a little more work, but were relatively friendly to install and worked on a wide variety of hardware around that time as well.
That might be true, but the fact is that Bitfloor wasn't required to have anything on hand. Their reserve might have been 50% in that instance, but customers are putting their faith in Bitfloor to responsibly set and maintain a reasonable reserve rate. I find it ironic that people who distrust their local banks and government to that extent will put that much faith into a Bitcoin exchange.
Apparently as a Full Tilt user I'm a "fraud" "victim".

Excellent work by my government to protect me on this one.
The point is that the lines will no longer be owned by the city.
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Can I ask why you'd ask?
It didn't sound to me like this is an automated system. Just humans pretending to be who they're not.
In my workflow, I almost always want substring match as that allows me to input either the filename (object) or the command (verb).
I was speaking for myself. Since this is Hacker News and people are interested in business, I wanted to talk about what's unique about Phish and what they're providing that nobody else is willing (and quite frankly, able) to. While there are some bands that I prefer in their studio-album form, my overwhelming preference tends toward the excitement of live shows if they're good. I was originally a music student before I switched to writing software, and so perhaps my hours spent in the practice room shaped my appreciation for music more in the direction of the performance. But the real point of my original post is that in the world of pop and rock, almost everyone is leaning on the studio to craft their music and very few are properly good at singing or playing their instruments. And that's the interesting part about Phish, because they're not necessarily very good songwriters (sorry fellow Phish fans, but their lyrics are just not very good ;) ) but they are actually very good musicians and performers. Even if you don't get into their music that much, you kind of have to hand it to them for being basically the only band out there that is willing to sell you a download of their concert almost immediately after it's done.

I'm aware that Led Zeppelin wasn't a famously great live band. Even Jimmy Page has written about how difficult it is to find any decent recordings of live shows of theirs. But "How the West Was Won", even though it has had a lot of studio enhancement work to it, is just so much more exciting than their studio recordings. It has a more improvisational feel to it in many places, and you get a sense of ensemble and of reaction between the band members and between them and the audience.

I didn't mean to say that all live music is, by definition, better and I certainly didn't say you're required to like live music. I'm sorry you're choosing to interpret my original comment as some kind of personal attack on your music listening habits, but I hope you'll get over it.
Mail as the proto "personal cloud" - open decentralization vs. Web 2.0 silos
DevJoist is language agnostic so I think there will be a need for it regardless of what happens with Python. I'm actually a backer of Andrew's kickstarter :)
> My comment is based on how easily I understood the two projects at a first glance and user feedback I saw.

You understood the cofounder project because of your background. But for the vast majority of people, residen.se would be easier to understand.

And besides, how easy it was to understand from the site is something that can easily be changed with a few hours of work. What you really want to know is the viability of the underlying business model. And I find it difficult to see very many situations in which serving entrepreneurs tight on cash is better than trying to take a cut of the (very large) real estate pie.
Add the words 'lean' and 'disruptive' to that list. Is there any startup that doesn't claim to be lean and disruptive?
As a long-time affiliate, I've never really had to pay attention to GAN. This is a shutdown that is completely justified; there are a half dozen companies who do a better job, and Google hasn't put the time and effort into making their affiliate network successful or compelling.
Because that's a surprising decision to make, whether or not it's a good one, and I'm interested in why someone would decide that.
The problem is that when a company owns the last mile it has a natural monopoly. An incumbent being overthrown isn't the same as having long lasting competition.
nginx+uWSGI emperor mode is such a nice setup.
I disagree.

1) If you work on multiple machines avoid heavy configuration and remapping of keys. It will frustrate you to no end. "Oh I forgot on this machine it is the up arrow on the other it is Ctrl+R" etc.

2) Up/Dn Arrows already do a useful thing -- they cycle commands in historical order. That is also useful in addition to the Ctrl+R history search.
I think this is good that they are getting called out, but I'm not surprised. I'm sure a decent number of big companies do this. My brother bought a new truck awhile ago, and the dealership ended up filling the gas tank for him for free. They just asked to fill out a comment card for him.
Ah, well that sucks. :P
The guy who wrote django-compressor fairly recently released a library to address the settings.py problem, django-configurations https://django-configurations.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

It uses classes to define your settings, and you can use inheritance to override and mixins to augment your bits of configuration. I usually have a "CommonSettings" class, with a few others extending it (Production, Development, etc.). At runtime the correct class is set based on an environment variable (you have to add a line or two to manage.py and wsgi.py to start the magic).

Anyway, it doesn't seem that popular but I've enjoyed using it (and done so without problem).
There's definitely a learning curve, but CBVs will give you much DRYer views. Being able to use mixins is a godsend.
I recently had a phone interview with the CTO of a startup. I checked out his blog beforehand and read an article describing his approach to debugging. I brought it up and it led to a great conversation, which I believe got me to the second round.