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Also, looking at the actual content on your front page I'm somewhat lost.

Slide 1/2 - Both slides push "New Designer Collections". What does that even mean? If Vastrm is positioning itself as high quality custom polos then everything on the site should speak to that level of quality and be recognizable as "designerware" by the Vastrm brand, not just because you say it's part of a designer collection."

Slide 3 - It's a decent idea in that it pushes something that I'm going to assume is unique about your brand (the woven collar), but I still have no idea what that means or how it's going to benefit me.

Slide 4 - vCool fabric? I don't particularly care that my shirt has "moisture wicking" fabric, I care that it's high quality, comfortable, and is going to help me look damn good.

Slide 5 - This is your entire business! Why in the hell is it the last slide? Less than 10% of people will ever stick around to see the last slide and it's the most important one you've got. The imagery itself leaves something to be desired, but designing my own shirt is one of the biggest selling point for Vastrm.

The thirds columns below are decent but aren't that convincing (first one is the best of the bunch but needs to be shown on an actual model showing how damn good of a fit it really is). What are these details that make it a luxury shirt? Why is the call to action on the video "Learn More" instead of "Watch the Video" or something more specific to its content?

The "Home Try On Program" block is again one of the most important parts of your business (it's risk free! Try it on and send what you don't like back!), and it's at the bottom of the page. Sell this idea!

Also, your 100 years of history looks great! This tells me your company has a story, a history. This is the type of BS that people love to know is there (even if they dont' bother reading the page) - that you're not some big chain retailer but a small business with a family history that's sticking it to "The Man".

The actual product grid pages look decent, but the single product pages are overwhelming me with an accordion of options. I understand the idea is allowing people to customize their shirt, but I'd have to click at least 20 different times to open/select each option and then add the product to cart.

Make it responsive!

Obligatory Plug - I'm an SF based web designer/front-end developer with experience doing responsive Magento stores for clients.
Nah, seriously though, fuck'em.

Especially for older browsers, by all means show them easy ways of getting a modern experience--but if they refuse to upgrade, and you business sector is not handholding, well, not much to be done.

Accessibility for the disabled is something worth doing, though, just out of decency.
Yeah I don't like the idea of going to space for a quick trip very much. Rockets are incredibly powerful, and hence dangerous, machines. Never mind all the inherent dangers of the environment. It's just not enough pay off for me.

One could always take a lift on the vomit comet if they want to feel weightless: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduced_gravity_aircraft

A trip to the ISS though? Holy cow I'd risk my life to go there. 300km orbit for a few weeks? It's just too much to pass up.
>However as English isn't tonal, there's a larger margin for error

True. The tones are critical in a way that can be very difficult for non-native speakers to grasp. Here are the four tones used with the words mā (mother), má (hemp), mǎ (horse) and mà (to curse) with an extra for ma indicating a question http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRkCf6Djprs.

And in that video she pronounces them far clearer than would be used in actual conversation.
I know it would probably not be easy[1], but it seems like someone who bought a parking lot then started building the app might get pretty good result.

1) buying costs $ and running is a pain
I'd often wondered if the patchwork, self-contradicting, non-standard, anarchistic nature of PHP was a reflection of the mind-set of the creators.
Thanks for sharing. Somehow, in the wake of my new post my old one resurfaced...
Why stop at a headline? Why not a /.-like summary or quote that represents the article? Headlines are made for enticing clicks, not informing the reader.
Democracy is not a beautiful thing. Democracy is tyranny of the unsympathetic majority.
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Many EU countries have regulators that make sure there is a proper market. I think that kind of regulation has indeed helped a lot.

You need to consider where we come from. Back in the 80s most EU countries had exactly one telco, which was owned and operated by the government. I remember very well that prices back then were exorbitant compared to the US.

When they privatised the industry, they created regulators to make sure private competitors could even enter the markets that were still dominated by the formerly state run behemoths. So all of a sudden there were tons of telcos, they were very well regulated and tried to expand beyond their national borders creating even more competition in the process. That's what led to lower prices.

But the kind of regulation that creates functioning markets is very different from the kind of crude price regulation they are attempting to do now. What we're seeing now is the EU trying to be populist and shake their image as being remote and disconnected from people's needs.

The telecom sector has been consolidating for a while now and we don't have as many players in the market as before. That's what regulators should focus on, not prices of particular services.
Scaled Composites had an accident back in 2007 with SpaceShipTwo that killed three people while they were testing their N2O tanks on the ground. I think that may have set them back a few years.
You shouldn't think of YC as an alternative to work. It's an accelerator, it should just accelerate what you're already doing. It's not the endpoint for a startup or non-profit. If you've already started a non-profit and would continue to either way then this could add a lot of value.
> minimize the number of places where I handle state

The idea isn't to minimize places where you handle state. If you want to manage state, use a State monad. Here are some examples in Scala -
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7734756/scalaz-state-mona...
The things people put in their bodies never cease to amaze me. And, my coffee will now start randomly tasting like artificial chicken flavor. Yum. Way to start ruining your brand Keurig. Greedy much?
It took me two years, but I figured that out exactly. This post is two years old. See mine from yesterday where I slap myself in the face:
http://chrishoog.com/the-helloparking-postmortem-a-look-back...
SpotHero is operating in Boston now, too.
"SSL's not perfect, but we need to make surveillance as expensive as possible"

So this is why the NSA budget get increased every year? And there does the money come from? ;)
Where can I find tiers and pricing? Just curious..
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Installing Apache is a single command, enabling mod proxy is a single command and two lines of config. So yes, they are both trivially simple to do, even if Nginx is slightly simpler. Neither should be seen as a barrier of complexity.
Could you make it possible to use the "wrong" interface? I'd love to try the iOS look on my Android phone
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Funny how this old post resurfaced after my new published last night. This post is two years old. See my new insight on where we went wrong, where I slap myself in the face:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6340820
That rumor actually makes sense.

I recently heard of a startup that is disrupting the valet industry by helping them get rid of their cash boxes (which apparently are prone to theft) and use mobile payments. They're lining up customers quickly because the product essentially pays for itself by resolving the theft problem alone.

I wondered why we haven't seen anything similar for parking spaces, but the tax dodging, money laundering idea seems like it nails it. These folks wouldn't want anything that creates a paper trail.
The reviewer is indulging in Pynchon-esque language here. Pynchon is hard to read, and people still debate the meaning of his books. You might enjoy them if you let go of expecting every sentence to make logical sense.
How long did the pain go away in your primary mousing hand after switching to the other?
Instead of down voting maybe explain why it is OK that Sweden helps the evil empire.

Fucking useless Eurofags.
You don't seem to be gaining much from this, at least in JavaScript. The Jatha small LISP library that hasn't been updated since 2007 returns factorial(32768) in 5 seconds on a middling machine. (Disclosure: I'm the author of Jatha)
Welcome to modern literature. If you can understand what they are saying, then it isn't any good. It's like abstract art applied to words.
I agree it could add a lot of value. I am skeptical that the financial contribution will be significant.
It seems all of those that are doing well (SpotHero, ParkWhiz) have strayed from the "rent my spot" model to the Parking yield management model...
Does Julia do any of the copy-on-write tricks that other numerical packages do? I.e. when I make a copy of an array does it immediately need space for a full copy of the original?
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This applies to all of the talk of platform convergence in general, including what MS has been attempting with Windows. I just don't understand this desire to merge lots of different platforms and applications together.

People must be playing too much Katamari Damacy or something.
Aaaaaand now we'll start to see a lot of accelerators throwing non-profits in with their other companies, because YC did.

I don't think that--in the vast majority of cases--this will be particularly helpful.
Okay, I can set an Indian fallback number, but did not get the SMS.
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I've seen an analysis which said that the revenue source isn't going to space and back, but going really fast between 2 points on earth. The analysis basically said that with mail delivery you pay up to 5 times as much for the fastest delivery tier as you do fo the second fastest and that there are about 10% as many deliveries at the fastest tier as at the second fastest. So if you could use space ship 2 for an even faster tier and could get 10% of the current fastest market for 5x the price, then there should be enough mail to pay for up to 1 flight per day across the country.
Isn't releasing the source code a condition of using the open source Chromium code? Putting your code out should be effortless. Just put it out there; cleaning it up can happen later.
> In other words, it is sensical for a for-profit startup founder to accept zero salary…

*sensible
Having launched a non-profit and accepted close-to-zero salary for well over a year, I can confirm that it is nonsensical.
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Just plop whatever you have in it's current state on Github. _Any_ code is better than no code. No one will use this unless it's open sourced.
Finally The actual prices for insurance under Obamacare.
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Thanks for explaining your views; I think I understand you better now.

I disagree that it would have been a good thing for me to have been taken away from my parents because of the curriculum they chose. I can't even imagine what that would have done to me and my siblings.
http://www.slate.com/authors.troy_patterson.html
i don't get the objection. from an engineering standpoint, the keurig machine seems to be a way to mix hot water with the contents of a packet to make a single cup of hot drink. it should be relatively easy to see to it that the flavours of the various packets don't contaminate each other, shouldn't it?
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Is it really that onerous (from a regulatory and compliance standpoint both) to say "You are not allowed to charge roaming fees?"

It's not as if they're regulating the price of minutes or packages or something, here. They're outlawing a very particular class of charges with a very particular meaning, with what appears to be a very good reason.
Would you mind starting the conversation by addressing the 'What about existing solutions?' portion of the article?

edit: rephrase
> if you want to make a hardware device that syncs with the cloud

...you can equip that device with one of the many standard, open protocols already in ubiquitous use.

Browser-based hardware drivers in JavaScript? Seriously?
I agree with the side note ;)

Coincidentally, you probably could use Nginx as a rudimentary database at least since it can be extended with Lua. You can probably make it function as a database proper by using OpenResty. In fact, there are quite a few modules just for that purpose http://openresty.org/#Components
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Have you checked out http://thetechblock.com recently? I like what they're doing.
Nonprofits are notoriously non-technical; run by people who just aren't able to use tech to advance their cause. So I think this makes sense.
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It seems like you're implying that these non-profit founders put a lot of weight in salary as a consideration to whether or not they pursue their vision. That's something I'd disagree with (though admittedly my opinion off is based off the folks behind Watsi).

The non-profit startups that are going to fit YC are going to be the ones that aren't in dire need of a market salary, who don't need the potential of a huge cash windfall to keep on grinding.

The sacrifices here will be made in the pursuit of 'success' (however you define that), and the pursuit of watching your organization be large enough to make a difference (these are also primary motivators of for-profit startups in my experience).
Any one know how this compares with SRWare Iron?
If that's true, it might be lucky that the worst thing that happened to them was their business didn't work out! The Mob is not usually a group that takes kindly to being "disrupted" :D
False equivalence. Explosive quantities of nitroglycerin are regulated.

Actually, wait a sec. So is government snooping of communications, the problem is they're not following the existing regulations.
This is one of the more ideal scenarios. Aren't browsers doing something similar when they send a "Do not Track header"? I can think of other instances where this kind of browser configuration can be very useful.
But when you visit sites that google searches take you, they are full of trackers.
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The only major site where I see it checked by default is GMail. Any others?
If I remember correctly the details of why Nginx might be better at handling massive amount of clients is that it has event-driven architecture.

If you consider a slow client that consumes 1mb of html in, say, half a minute, an Apache thread(2.0)/process serving him would be effectively locked during this time. And thread/process has a relatively big overhead, both memory and cpu wise. Nginx, on the other hand, would just switch to serving the next client/clients, whos socket is ready (using epoll/select).
If YC is in the business of matching cofounders, I am unaware of it.

Without that, you're still suggesting that they fund a team that is so uninspired that they can't spend a little time on the application. YC does not have unlimited resources with which to filter applicants, so increasing the number of applicants and decreasing their average quality (an argument that this wouldn't happen would be interesting if you have one) seems like a lose-lose situation.
They need to ask:

1. At what percentage will your entity spend on administration costs?

2. Will you agree to keep it to less
than 10%, if we give you funds?"

3. Flat out ask the future non-profit, "How much money
do you feel
The new dissidents.
it's delightful!
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I played both, and I also really enjoyed both AOEII's.
I think you will love 0ad. It's more complex than AOE IMO - some upgrade paths exclude others, so you have to make tradeoffs, there are sophistiscated terrain bonuses (e.g. view distance of towers depends on their location), soldiers can gather resources so you have to tradeoff economy vs. military even more... I just find it deeper. You'll love it!
Well...NSA is built by a democracy. The people wanted war..their representatives gave it. The people wanted spying...their representatives gave it to them. Only a minority doesn't want these. In a democracy, minority loses. Unfortunately, it turns out the majority are stupid..anywhere in the world. So, just have to live with it, hoping they get intelligent someday.
I actually think the biggest danger is the NSA digging up dirt on politicians a la J. Edgar Hoover. If details of my sex life were made public I'd be embarrassed but my employer wouldn't care and my life would go on. For a politician, though, scandal means losing your job.
And order is important and splicing is a common task and the list is large enough or copying elements expensive enough that other schemes are not viable...

Linked lists really have a very narrow use case.
2 hours + a few bucks to be exact. I've got this book from a friend of mine but hadn't chance to read it yet
The equivalent term in linguistics is "dialect continuum" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialect_continuum
Wasn't there some "export" function for .py files?
Also those people are purely native speakers, meaning people whose first language is Hindi - while there are many whose command over Hindi is very strong but their first language is Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi etc.

If you count all those people who can speak/write Hindi then the count goes way over 500 Million ....
Seems to apply to just about every social movement in the context of any problem domain, really. People are far too cavalier about universalizing their own needs and preferences.
The catch-22 here is that revealing specific details might both "aid the enemy" and aid ordinary people to protect their privacy. Because the government only cares about the former, any appeal to the merits of the latter will fall on deaf ears. The Guardian & NYT know this and the pertinent individuals don't want to end up in court getting the Manning treatment.

The government wanted to use its treatment of Manning to deter leaking of future information, and it has already succeeded in doing so here. It's rule by intimidation, making our government little more than a well organized mafia.
A bit of a self serving post, with alarming, invalid stats. Suggesting that all sites that use old versions of WordPress (and other CMSes) are "not safe" is disingenuous.

WP 3.6 (current version) has no security updates listed in the release notes (http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.6), and it's entirely possible they (WP) added vulnerabilities in this release. Just because it's newer doesn't mean it's better.

Sucuri, you just lost my respect. You should know better.
This second this is on github, I will download it. I look forward to it.
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Why is the on the frontpage? This is just a copy/dumb down of the original presentation. Also, the practical use of this idea is extremely limited.

Also the poster seems to have an agenda; this is just marketing.
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A new Pynchon is huge news. And contrary to what some posters here seem to believe, he's not hard to understand, other than certain passages in "Gravity's Rainbow" in which even he apparently doesn't remember what he was talking about. I think a lot of people are simply thrown by his constantly shifting perspectives from one character to another and his weird humour. Plus he has a technical background so he throws a lot of offhand engineering references in there.

I recommend starting with "The Crying of Lot 49", then "V." Both are amazing and both were written when he was quite young (20s). "V." in particular is a stupendous debut novel. I've read it twice and both times I felt a sort of buzz that lasted for a few days, a sure sign I've read something meaningful in some sense (to me, anyway).
This game also features a similar system, but it's more sophisticated.
has a mini-tournament on each story for the most informative headline.

Sometimes it seems like HN is quite the opposite- editor changes to headlines are often more ambiguous than the original titles.
I guess it depends on what other operations you need. If the only operation you need is concatenation then trees are definitely faster. Otherwise it depends.
I'd agree, another subhed-line or even short blurb could be added to the collaborative-tournament process.
I like the fact that you argue the point that yahoo's brand is or is not: (insert completely meaningless addwords)
Don't be so negative. If you look around, you will see that the game is very playable at this point!
It makes a lot of sense. I'm currently working on a large Rails app and we've felt a lot of pain with an off the shelf CI System (Jenkins) and the idea of writing our own CI has been mentioned a few times.

For Team City, here's the cost breakdown:

TeamCity Enterprise = $1,999

229 Build agents @ $299/each = $68,741

Total yearly license cost ~ $70K

This doesn't include the time that a team of developers will spend configuring the build and babysitting it during through the early growing pains of adopting a CI system. Also you'll probably still need a build/release engineering team to manage the server when you have a team of 100+ devs like Square does.

When you add it all up, building a custom CI setup makes a lot of sense. And I'm sure they grew it over time, with an initial version that was usable being completed in just a few months. What they've open sourced is the end result of spending that time.

When you really adopt testing as part of your culture, CI becomes totally critical so engineering should spend the time to make it a solid and viable solution.
1) You data has value and it belongs to you. If it is taken with out permission, that is stealing. Bad thing.

2) Taking one cent from your back account every day wont make your day to day life worse. Day to day being worse is not a standard that is useful.
This is exactly what R does. It's a huge timesaver. Best. docs. ever.
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Let me explain you what buggy means. Buggy means heavy, overweight, with thousands of configuration lines just to end up with something slow and crashing.
Great blog on evolution weirdness
> use a State monad

Sure, I agree that that's the proper, academic, and purely functional way to handle state. Whether or not that introduces its own set of problems I'll leave as a thought exercise for the reader.

The key phrase in my comment was "casual FP practitioner." I'd only hoped to show OP a way to painlessly introduce some principles from the FP world , ones with, IMO, real and immediately obvious benefits, without cramming "monads and combinators and category theory oh my!" down his or her throat.

I tend to prefer simple, dumb, readable code to academic elegance, and I've found that treating data as immutable (whether it actually is or not under the covers) and preferring data transformation to state manipulation are two ways to get closer to that goal.
Very cool. I just wish they called this "The Reading Rainbow" ;).
>For example: Google "lump in the testicles" and browse medical sites. Then wait one week and try to get mortgage or insurance.

I'm calling bullshit on this one unless you can provide a concrete example.
For distributed build, testing this is the best tool I've used: http://www.incredibuild.com/. Unfortunately, it is not open source.
Does anyone know of a free alternative to incredibuild with a similar feature set?