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I realise this is a different unit, but I tried the BeagleBoard-XM and trying to get it to display Ubuntu on my run-of-the-mill Sony TV was an exercise in frustration. The instructions for it were fairly opaque, and between relying on random shell scripts, random online build systems, and endless conf file changes, I never got it to work.

Plugging the Raspberry Pi in and having it display immediately on the TV almost brought tears to my eyes. Maybe the situation is improved for the BeagleBone?
Is the Ethernet PHY connected to the main processor over USB or something faster/more efficient? One of my biggest complaints about the Raspberry Pi is that the Ethernet is capped at a few dozen mbps, presumably due to constraints associated with USB.
Why did Teespring take $1.3M in funding if they were on pace to make $1M the following month? Why dilute your pool when your figure was just a month away (plus whatever else was saved)

anyone have any insight?
Tava Indian? They're in SF as well now, I share your experiences.

http://www.tavaindian.com
> "Is the best algorithm for the problem used?"

Rather: "Is the algorithm good enough?"
I believe I tried it once, but the UI wasn't very appealing to me. The key features I'm looking for are: fixed width of 16 bytes, clean interface, process inspecting (not sure how easy that is to do to be honest) and raw disk access.
I have no problems with the Nvidia driver on Arch, and haven't had an issue in over a year. Everything runs rock solid, I've never had the display freeze or crash, and it runs a truckload of games in Wine.

Linux becoming a leading desktop OS is all about defaults. Unless it is sold in Best Buy on laptops as a default option, priced below the Windows variant license costs, it will always be a niche product because it requires users to go absurdly out of their way to find or install it.

The Steambox is much more likely to rectify that. Consumer Linux PCs in the guise of game consoles will get it wide deployment.
With a thread pool shared by actors, even yours, if one of the actors fails, that thread is gone until the pool creates a new one (as needed). That's one less available thread until the recreation occurs. To minimize the impact on other actors, you put known dangerous tasks on their own small pool so that their probable thread death has no impact on others.

What you're not seeing is the relevance of a supervisor hierarchy and OTP. Yes, you want to let it crash. But you want isolation of failure as well, and only with failures of increasing criticality do you want it to be escalated through the hierarchy. There is a difference between a database call failing because a SQL command failed and all database interactions failing due to network partition. OTP via Erlang and Akka allow you to model that in your actor tree.

Important data kept in a shared data structure? Globally visible? Managed with what, STM? That won't fly at scale - STM is great only when you're dealing with small datasets that don't change very often. Immutable, persistent data structures? Also not good at scale due to fixed size allocations constantly happening as structural sharing is enforced. Allocations are cheap and hopefully the objects are short-lived and GC-friendly, but it's still far from a free ride.

The whole point of actors is a concurrency abstraction. They are meant for isolating mutable state from being affected by multiple threads at the same time. OTP and supervision is just a nice way of organizing them and learning when failure occurs on another thread.

Should an entire app be modeled with actors? Probably not. A subsystem certainly can be. Depends on what you're doing, of course.
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"I think the US needs its own Free Trade Zone. Let's put it on the US / Mexico border, allow anyone to take up work there. Promise 0% taxes for a decade and put up no trade barriers at all. Maybe that would bring some of this production back home"

Unlikely, what would likely happen is that foreign products that can be produced cheaper and normally sold cheaper with tariffs would flourish. Although I'm all for this so I would easily be able to get a Volkswagen pickup!
I'm pretty sure Google will ban it. They don't allow competing app stores (same reason Amazon basically forked the entire stack for their Kindle devices).

Maybe Valve will distribute Steam Android devices, but that seems silly.

If Valve wants to get mobile, they need to hope for the success of Ubuntu Phone / Plasma Active / Tizen. Even Ubuntu Phone is probably going to block in the Canonical app store competing markets.
I love it for visor mode. Basically in the preferences you can set it up to toggle the terminal (slides down from top of screen..) with a global hotkey. It manages themes nice as well.
I'm so GLaD !
Upon reflection, I'm not sure how gutsy the call is. And I wonder what one of Nook's recent investors (Microsoft) thinks. This could easily be "Throw on Google Play to help clear out this inventory so we can focus on our new Windows tablets."
I'm afraid i'm going to have to agree. Cygwin is wayyyy better that vanilla cmd on windows.
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MMOs solve this extremely well: you pay for access to the world, content, and community, not for the code.
You should look into clojure/compojure. You can get higher performance and write even less code.
I think if i had known about this before it would have been in my top 10! This is awesome! #thanks
You get really good at using cmd+q on everything
" They don't produce in China because it's cheaper, they produce there because it's the only place you can."

That's hogwash. This kind of stuff doesn't happen overnight, it is business adapting to the needs of marketplace. If apparel manufacturing made a comeback in the US then something similar to this would also springup to suppor that industry.
I think the OP was smiling at the notion of Java as low-level. It's anything but.
I think it was just a personal investment.

However, if we're talking VC investment in food service, both Philz and Blue Bottle raised $20M from VC funds over the past 12 months.
I have a fancy Logitech G500 (which is odd, because this mouse started as a cheapo MX510 and RMAs made it better and better over the years... haha, Logitech tech support is amazing and I always buy their stuff) and I'm surprised KDE recognizes all the buttons out of the box.

I also converted entirely from a Windows-only XP world, to a hybrid Ubuntu / 7 for gaming setup, and now I'm just running Arch only. I always got my pointer acceleration to align perfectly between them.

Hell, even the DPI switching on the G500 works. I think it is built into the mouse, though.
I've never heard pg actually call it "dday"; I didn't even realize he'd used it in writing on demo day a lot. I honestly would have assumed a reference to WW2 or some kind of military attack if someone said "are you ready for D-Day?" even in a startup context, or maybe a reference to a specific company's launch day, not demo day (by which time most companies have launched)
What's up with http://daft.ws/ ?
"fear and greed" (usually the slogan of wall street) immediately came to mind.

Greed for a huge exit. Fear of being overtaken by a VC funded competitor.

I think it's a legitimate concern.
Oh gosh the speculative bubble money you could make off that happening.
Valve has a history of being as short-sighted and callous as EA and I wish more people would see that [2].

Your citation [2] doesn't in any way support that viewpoint. Actually, there probably aren't any citations which support that viewpoint, because EA is about as far opposite from Valve as a gaming company can get. (Zynga is likely the polar opposite.)
As I pointed out elsewhere in this thread, Quantom computer languages literally do this.

Also, if you want to perform Bayseian inference, then it is equally as difficult computationally whether or not it can be expressed as simple 'if' statements. However, in terms of code simplicity, expressing it as simple if statements is easier.
They didn't take "dumb money" -- they took money from people who would both make it easier for them to grow and who would make it easier to either raise huge amounts of future money (for expansion) or to sell the company in the future.
From what I've experienced, I find iOS and Android font rendering is equal in quality, and Android uses freetype so I wouldn't be surprised at iOS using the same.
Yeah that sort of thing makes sense, in the same way that Facebook taking VC did, however, it makes little sense to take VC for a prototype with no users.
What better material to steganographically hide lots of data in than porn?
This is how OSX is by default now. I'm relatively new to Macs but I was pretty surprised when I had to go into my preferences to enable the ability to run software downloaded from the internet (not from the Mac App Store).
Nodejitsu down?
Yeah, after the Reconstruction there was a mass defection of Southern Democrats or "Dixiecrats" (aka unabashedly racist politicians, many of whom were Klan members) from the Democratic to the Republican party.
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The U.S. was very prosperous long before World War I and II.

And also, I see that argument and my take away is that the solution to our economic woes is to sabotage the industrial sector of places like China.
I agree that it's not everywhere in China that's like that.

At least in Beijing and Shanghai you can find malls full of electronic shops. But nowhere near that scale anyway.

Also, there doesn't seem to be much of a maker scene here anyway from what I can see. Just a few spread individuals.
Almost all of my development work is via SSH to a Linux box. I still use a Mac though, because it comes with a gorgeous 256-color terminal, with the Unix shells and enough of a local Unix environment that I can just type "ssh my-linux-box" and it works. You could get something similar running on Windows, but it would feel weirdly shitty and alien.
Seems to be based on self reporting by students and they may have gotten the casual link wrong (ie happy people are more likely to volunteer to help others, therefore those who volunteer are more likely to be happy but volunteering doesn't make you happy).

At least it seems to me that people like me who don't care about strangers would get very little out if volunteering.
I think experience has shown that YC is pretty good at that by focusing on the problem the startup is trying to solve as well as understanding the founders well enough to know if they can solve it and exactly how they are going to solve it. Whereas some of the more spectacular startup failures of late have been from companies (like Color) that promise a revolutionary new thing but don't really have a basic problem statement written out.
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The secrets thing doesn't even have to matter.

The guy STOLE a computer from NASA.

The "at worst guilty of violating NASA policies" is complete nonsense.

Theft of items exceeding $200 in value is a Grand Theft and is a felony in Virginia. This person committed a felony which in Virginia has a minimum one year prison sentence and up to twenty years. He should have been arrested and it is completely absurd that he wasn't. It's bizarre that the author of the article believes that a person can just steal a computer and it's not a crime.
"I think most the people who write these posts are clueless as to what burnout is."

Absolutely, he has no idea. Burnout means you have made the furthest progress you can take over a long period.
How robust are the boards? I'm moving a hydroponics setup from an arduino to something more flexible, and need them to be fairly robust. I use a thick plastic case to protect them, but they will be on 24/7/7. Also, how is setting up WIFI with these? Better than the RPi?
I'll second this question. Terminal Vim has always been there for me, and when you're used to it, there's nothing stopping you from coding over an ssh connection.
| As soon as the waters have an owner, the owner has
| an incentive to protect them

What if the owners don't care? What if it's not possible to police it (it's not like a local stream is monetizable in the way that a section of the Mississippi would be).

What if major waterways like the Mississippi were owned? What if a section of the Mississippi were owned by some guy that would only allow people/companies through if they were (e.g.) Christians?

What happens when I dump toxic waste on my own property but it seeps into ground water that the entire area (or just my neighbors via pumps) uses for water? What happens when it runs off and onto my neighbor's property? What if my neighbor is a farmer and this wrecks his livelihood?
You're forgetting that they are talking about the companies getting $1B valuations, not all startups. If you line up 100 companies that are Instagrams, Pinterests, Facebooks (when it was valued at $1B), etc, one of them getting to $100B can absolutely be a 1% chance.
"Given that the size of batches have gone up, I do believe that number of sentences exchanged with PG/partners per startup must have gone down."

I didn't read this whole comment, but that part at least is false, because we've hired new partners at a higher rate than batches have grown. We now have 5 people doing for 50-startup batches what I used to do alone for 20-startup batches.
I am newbie to go, but running the go version took about 186.053167ms, wonder how to explain this behavior
http://play.golang.org/p/flK5QV-mDC
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Hey, what a coincidence. I just wrote up some notes from the time I spent this evening tuning up the Debian Wheezy base image for the BBK:

http://github.jfet.org/BBKNotes1.html
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Pity I nooted my tablet last month, as soon as it had gone out of warranty.
Please explain why you think reality is inherently better than a virtual reality.

Mostly because of an entire youth's raising and training designed to not only enable me to cope with things that don't go away when I stop believing in them, but a whole lot of built-up pride and enjoyment at being able to force reality into my desired shape despite itself.

edit: By the way, I get the sense that you think this is a grim future. I do too, but I think this is irrational.

Angry Birds? That is grim. In fact, any Matrix-y future based on a video game is grim. Video games are designed to provide some entertainment for real people who are taking a break. Or, sometimes, you get World of Warcraft and the game is just designed to keep you paying and playing.

To replace most of life, you need to move away in the solution space, to something that's either far more realistic (the Matrix), or something far less realistic, enough to be a fun way to spend all your time.

It's like car-culture: it caters to precise fulfillment of individual preferences, probably in a market structure, at the cost of shared communal life and space people actually enjoy.

Actually, for the latter to work I think you'd have to raise a whole new generation of people to whom life without significant external challenges or struggles would be as natural as YOLO and SWAG and neo-feudalism are to Generation Z. Wow, I think I've found what I'm going to lecture children about when I'm elderly. You kids these days and your completely self-designed lifestyles!
At least 90% of the projects I see don't need the $100,000 for a nice office space and whatever else they spend it on.
They certainly aren't improving their transparency.
No, I've never had to download some weird proprietary driver for windows, keyboard or mouse. Doesn't work to me on vanillia ubuntu, dug around for a few hours trying to find a solution before just giving up and uninstalling.

The lack of games is my main issue - if that was solved, I may go buy a keyboard that works on linux :p
Actually, introverts can be exceptionally comfortable on stage since they're not there to have conversations. This is often especially true of musicians, who can be very shy and retiring in daily life, and totally at ease in a spotlight with tens of thousands hanging on every note.

If you're bad at presentations, it's not because you're an introvert. It's because you don't know what you're doing. Holding a stage, as any well-practiced performer will tell you, takes attention, skill, and work. Talent helps, but that just makes it easier to develop what's essential: skill.

You wouldn't pay to hear a performer practice scales. Nor (generally speaking) would you pay to hear a performer who hasn't practiced scales. But disagreement about the cause of bad presentations aside, I fully agree; leading (as opposed to managing) an organization demands the ability to tell a story that can bring together a broad range of people and interests to make the thing work as a whole. And that's a skill so important it borders on an art.
Sorry (for the tardy response)... minor emergency came up.

Anyway, the relevant part of the manual is:

http://vertx.io/manual.html#concurrency

Also discovered you are running the equivalent of a single threaded environment anyway. (8 workers on an 8 core machine)

Any reason for that???

Maybe more confusion about Vert.x concurrency??? If so, here is the relevant documentation on worker verticles:

http://vertx.io/manual.html#worker-verticles

Long story short, you dedicated the entire machine (8 cores) to the equivalent of database connection management, (the persistor). Very little of the machine, (whatever is context switched in effectively), is dedicated to request handling. Try something a bit more fair... like 4 workers and 4 web request handlers.

Also, I was going through the Node.js tests and I had a question... do you guys do any clustering for the Node tests at all? Or are these results from the tests run on a single Node?

Sorry for all the questions, just want to make all of the tests do the same thing across all of the frameworks so that when you guys run it again, we can use that data here in a more meaningful fashion. For us, it is useful.
You stopped playing shooter games in 2004.
The Phillies 1B played himself in the office, IIRC. He pitched some absurd idea to his marketing guys about a movie wherein he was a super hero. Very tongue in cheek, I found it pretty funny.
You probably don't need a double barrel shotgun for suicide, either. A single break-action would do. If someone's fired both barrels of a double barrel shotgun in a suicide, it's probably not a suicide :)
Donating to charity (whether it is time or money) sounds way too loser like (letting others walk all over you) to bring much happiness. I get working in say an animal shelter, but you only get on life and it shouldn't be wasted.

As for impressing a date, who really wants to date a doormat.
Because whenever a reporter asks investors at Demo Day for a comment, and they ask themselves "what could I say that would be in my interest to have reprinted?" the obvious choice is "prices are coming down."

And it's not true, incidentally. We don't have all the data yet but it's clear valuations remained high last batch.
Revenue does not equal profit and they want to scale quickly. They may have only $150k in profit on $1M in revenue and want to run operations at $250k in monthly expenses.
They were here for such a long time, way before anyone else and yet they are practically forgotten now. I wish it had been given the attention it deserved by the good folks at MIT.
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Argh, one more "works on my computer" article. The answer is dependent on the processor. Intel Cores that are recent enough don't take perrformance hit for unaligned
access. But when you compile the code you compile it for every user not for those with the same computers like you.
OSX == Unix. [1]

OSX != Linux.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/apple/2007/08/mac-os-x-leopard-receiv...
It is not that hard to find time for something. 6 months will not change anything most probably because at first you must have something to work on. While I wouldn't mind 6 months: I could walk around the town, talk with people about their life and problems, maybe it will take less than 6 months to find out some cool problems (actually one is enough) to solve so I would have some time to solve those problems.
The below statement has to be sarcastic right?

Hire a freelance developer to build a prototype -
Many freelance developers love working with entrepreneurs to develop MVPs and prototypes. …
I'd guess the legal difference could be between taking something you have no right to (theft) and keeping hold of something you had a right to but should have given back (he could argue he forgot, or hadn't yet sent it back).

But from a cultural point of view it's obviously completely different. Anyone sane who let an employee go and realised he hadn't given back his laptop would tell them to give it back, not scream for jail team.
Agreed! And for OSX as well :).

They're going to have to I think if they want to compete with League of Legends.
That article is wordy and hard as hell to parse. I wish the author would just speak plainly. What's he mean anyways? 'The entrepreneurs are the new labor'
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The fact is that calling the U.S. McCarthyist is a wild exaggeration, but calling China a repressive communist regime is totally accurate. Perspective... do you have any?
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Archive.org? (though this doesn't 100% match their mission)
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The major one: a really decent free SSH client is built into every Mac.

You must download (featured but inelegant) PuTTY in order to do this on Windows.

Also, until somewhat recently (Win7), the lack of symlinks (junctions) caused all sorts of problems when pulling down a source tree locally for editing if it contained symbolic links.

Other than that, I agree.
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This is a nonsense question with no real answer. It could be $0 to > $1,000,000,000,000. Are you building an MVP around a new cat-picture-sharing-website or an MVP around an idea for a new stealth fighter jet?

If you can actually say "Oh, an MVP, developed by a freelancer, will cost between $15,000-$30,000" (or whatever) then that's a damn sad statement about the state of startups. If we've become that homogeneous and generified in our efforts, what does that say about how innovative any of this stuff actually is?
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Greed for a huge exit.

I'm not sure this theme will survive much longer. It seems no coincidence that the founders of the two most successful YC companies, Dropbox and Airbnb, weren't interested in any "big exit". (Drew remarked on his YC app that he'd find it difficult to turn down a million dollars for 6 months of work, but even that reads like he probably would've passed on such an offer.)

The most promising founders seem not to be interested in exiting.
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The competitive aspect of demo day and investing in YC companies drives prices up. Investors are trying to maximize returns and some may feel these prices are not justified or that their capital can be put to better use investing in a company with similar results and a lower price tag. I do think this can be a mistake because the resources a YC company has at their disposal can increase their odds of success and create opportunities other companies will struggle to secure. I know that we have had more opportunities because of our YC status and that has made our company more valuable.