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I didn't want to believe this, but the other day I watched the new Hobbit movie in 48fps with some friends and apparently I was the only one that noticed anything different.

The obvious difference in the scenarios you mentioned is interactivity. I find something charming about the 24hz look of traditional film (often even lower in animation, where "animating on twos or threes" can drop the effective framerate down to 12 or even 8 FPS), but I sure as hell wouldn't want to use a computer at 24FPS. Even outside of games, 120hz feels significantly better than 60hz just moving a mouse cursor around on a desktop.

I'm holding onto the idea that it's something that has to be pointed out to you before you really care, but beforehand there is still an unconscious negative effect. Say, you're talking about the steps you took to eliminate a frame of lag from a game, and it seems ridiculous and pointless to a layman, but then they turn around and complain that their game feels "unresponsive" or "floaty" ("I pressed the button and he didn't do anything!") The problem still affected them, they just didn't know what to attribute it to (or perhaps having not experienced, say, a PC FPS played on a CRT monitor, they don't have a frame of reference for how responsive a game should feel).
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Because it's as naive an implementation as it can be, as I said.

Programming can be a verb and a noun, and it just happens they have it tagged as a verb -- context and syntax be damned.

(Or actually, it's Apple's API that does the tagging. They just take advantage of it, and do the oh-so-difficult work of highligting the tagged words)

Unlike, say, Word's "syntax correct" feature, "Syntax Control" has very little to do with recognising syntax.
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No, Musk started Tesla to force the transition to electric cars. He has already succeeded at that. A buy-out would give Musk the ability to cash out his own shares to keep SpaceX going, if hardships are encountered.

(Disclaimer: I don't own any Tesla stock.)
Why do so many startups shut down instead of selling?
Don't see it happening, just based on Musk's personality and his strong control of the company/board.
Involuntary manslaughter? (eg: auto accident)
I'll take issue with this claim: "Work environments are a very personal thing. They exist to serve only one person: you. Me-me-me is a winning attitude when dealing with your environment."

I think it's considerably more important to have a (basically good) work environment in which your colleagues can sit down and use fluently than to have one that's absolutely optimized to your individual tastes.
I doubt that very much. I don't think Musk is interested in a pile of cash anymore - he's already got more than he'll ever need. Changing the world seems to be his current game plan.

The only way I see him selling is if he feels the cash might help him get the hyperloop off the ground - the hyperloop and tesla seem to be linked though so I still think its unlikely.
my top two as well! third is probably "men at arms"
Watch what? The site you're plugging may as well be a parked domain.
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To look at it the opposite way...

Could you quit and re-start? If you have employees, maybe they quit and follow you? Perhaps your investors would go with you too.
Standard OS X terminal, seems to work just fine for me. The --stack option running in fullscreen mode is pretty nice.
Respectfully, I think you ask should at least ask, as an optional question. Even on your application, it might be nice to know who's applying and how people of different ethnicities/racial identities perform in the process. The fact that you have provided just one example of a black YC founder, out of who knows how many, speaks to the fact, for whatever reason, black folks are not getting in the door. Even if this is simply the result of a whole bunch of things that happened before the application, it seems like something your organization should be able to speak intelligently about, as the clear leaders in the space. That's my opinion at least.
I am not seeing how this indicates that Oracle is in trouble. What about this effort leads you to think so?
"But if points have zero extension then even an infinity of them cannot sum to anything greater than zero."

Infinities are weird; anybody who wants to learn math has to accept that. 0.99999… does equal 1, there are as many even numbers as integers, etc. these things are 'true' not because they make sense initially, but because they make the most sense of all the other things we have thought of so far. Similarly, a set of Aleph-0 points can completely cover a line.
As the previous poster said, a laying hen eats a couple of ounces a day, no where near a half a pound.
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I agree that development is challenging in Oracle - depending on org you end up working for.

But, you might have basic misunderstanding of Oracle as a whole and position in the market. Oracle is an excellent acquisition and integration machine: They did excellent job with BEA, PeopleSoft, Sibel, GoldgenGate, etc. That is the key of Oracle: very well tuned system (marketing, support, sales, engineering, DDR, etc.) which can make a lot of money in enterprise environment.
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What's really amusing is that after the penalty, most searches that include "rap genius" now have this result on the first page: How Rap Genius Won the SEO Game

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/5812335/how-rap-geniu...
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I think GPL is fine for a full application, as long as the reusable parts are made into a library under a different permissive license.
I found this particularly insightful: "Startups are all about learning and iterating and failing fast, so competitors are a bunch of experiments that have already been done."

I'm trying hard to learn to getting to know the competition and appreciate it but it can be very discouraging to find out that your killer app is just another player in a saturated market. Nevertheless, I feel that I'm more honest with myself if I do a competitive analysis very early on; even one that takes a few minutes is incredibly useful.
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This article is a great Impostor Syndrome trigger.
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something easier to fix in the short term is your logo, which was saved as a lossy JPG. the artifacts are subtly visible and it looks ugly. or it might be an antialiasing issue. part of it might also be the border/thinness but thats another discussion. if you have the source as a vector and saving to PNG doesn't improve it, try saving it as a very large bitmap and resizing it down.
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Since Apple provides the metadata tagging of the words via NSLinguisticTagger, then is this the web equivalent:

//dim non-anchor tags

$('*').not('a').addClass('dim');

//hightlight anchor tags

$('a').addClass('highlight');

If the browser provided the syntax metadata, then I don't see how this example with anchor tags is logically different. This appears to be obvious and trivial, where a patent requires non-obviousness and non-trivialness given the state of the art.

The linked demo at https://github.com/macguru/SyntaxCheck also seems to show the trivialness of this.
What do you mean by "represented with a finite amount of information"? Are you referring to their representation in a positional notation like decimal or binary? Or are you referring to the much subtler and more advanced fact that almost all reals are uncomputable? The former isn't really true, and the latter, while true, is subtle enough that it doesn't matter for the vast majority of mathematics (and to replace the reals with the computable numbers would make most of mathematics messy).
That's quite good I must say.
Out of curiosity, are you both technical cofounders doing programming or are you both overlapping and trying to do sales and marketing? What is that situation like?
> it wouldn't matter much because all the data brokers have already bought that information and are under no obligation to remove the information from their databases.

That's actually not right. If you get a criminal record expunged, the FCRA requires those data brokers to not release those records ever again to whoever runs a background check on you. If they do it, they're in violation of the FCRA.

The thing that sucks is that there is NOT some kind of big hammer that comes out of the sky and smashes them if they screw up in this way. The process is basically that you'd contact them after the fact to let them know the record was expunged and they'd remove it... which doesn't help if you just failed to get a job because of the record. But they're supposed to stay on top of things and preemptively remove records like this before it becomes an issue.

I'd guess it's worth getting an expungement if you're done with your probation. In some places it's easier than others.
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I definitely know what you mean, it can be incredibly discouraging. But, hopefully you can copy what they have done well and improve what they haven't.
> A co-ordinator of a college program for the inmates told me that they have a CS course, but can't find anyone to teach it because the students will not be allowed to use computers.

Huh, interesting. It reminds me of this business school assignment where groups were given $5 and were tasked to make as much money form it as possible. The groups who ended up doing the best were the groups who realized that $5 was dangerously close to $0, and just worked on ideas that required no capital to get started instead of figuring out how to best invest the $5.

The point being that here, maybe you could teach some sort of math course? Teaching CS stuff like algorithms, theory of computation, etc. without computers. It could be interesting.
Tesla has the potential to be GM. I think Musk knows that.

In 10 years the 30k USD electric sedan will be affordable and everyone will want one because it will be safer, faster 0-60, cheaper to maintain, and cheaper to charge than a comparable gasoline sedan.
It's a movie about a terrible dotcom bubble startup that prominently features a founder breakup.
Actually it could work very well. "Look what I built on top of your public APIs. Would you like to talk about my integrating it into your platform?"
That's why I try to write some code (or at least read about it) every day, even if just for a little bit. I'm not sure where I'd be, skill-wise, without it.
This is beautiful looking, and seems exactly what I'm looking for as an Emulation Station. But it seems to be Mac only; any plans for Linux or Windows releases?
For those who are interested, there are many sources for this story (and related), giving different levels of detail, and making different claims. You can see some of them here, although there are no comments on any of them:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6951470 (wired.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6949089 (phys.org)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6946928 (youtube.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6946485 (youtube.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6946366 (ethz.ch)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6945337 (boingboing.net)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6943508 (theverge.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6942360 (robohub.org)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6942335 (thetechblock.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6941890 (digg.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6941104 (youtube.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5285021 (robohub.org)

This one is different, but clearly related. And it has comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6494517 (kurzweilai.net)
Indeed:

"In 2012, [the Corrections Corporations of America] sent a letter to 'prison officials in 48 states offering to buy prisons from these states in exchange for a 20-year management contract and a guaranteed occupancy rate of 90%.'"

(http://www.annarbor.com/news/opinion/passing-house-bill-will...)
Yup, is this about the arrow keys scrolling the page along with the paddles? While the arrow keys work, the hints at the beginning suggest using 'w' and 's.'
Ah the joys of "SmartPost". SmartPost is popular for residential deliveries in a large part because it doesn't have the residential surcharge which other options do. SmartPost shipments also generally don't have guaranteed delivery dates so they may be more likely to experience delays during peak load time (e.g. this month).
You might want to put those in a different order to not get confused with the other BDSM.
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And for females, the pressure to get married before age 30.

My understanding is the issue here isn't that women are supposed to get married, rather that they're supposed to drop out of the workforce immediately thereafter. With a country short of young workers, this is problematic.

Again I love the culture of Japan, but much of the inter-dependence that makes it fascinating also promotes working for large companies rather doing ones own thing.
Assuming that OP has no EU citizenship I imagine it would be very, very difficult to obtain a (work) visa with a a US criminal record. Showing that you have no criminal record in any of the countries you have lived in the last X years is a standard part of visa applications anywhere.
I'm black and I've worked with black youth to get them involved with tech and here's what I've found:

Black youth don't necessarily need to find other black idols to look up to. They - much like any other youth - need to feel like they have access to the same tools that everyone else does to succeed. Tools = access, technology, opportunity, mentors, funds, etc...

Typically, these youths assume that others that look like them had access to the same tools that they have/had hence why they "need" to see successful people that look like them. As a result, if you truly want help them succeed in the long run, rather than simply show/tell them about successful black people (who may/may not have had a similar upbringing), help them gain access to those same tools.
I ordered something from Williams Sonoma, who was promising that orders up through Friday would be delivered by Christmas with standard shipping. What was really ballsy was that it turned out they used UPS Ground, and just hoped that using a regionally close warehouse would mean it would be delivered in time. And it worked out, they shipped on Friday and it was delivered on Tuesday. I guess the money they save on UPS Ground makes up for the occasional packages that miss Christmas.
You should enlist a friend or a mentor to help you prepare with this situation. They can come up with tough questions that the board might ask you and make sure that you have a coherent, clear answer. That has helped me tremendously in clarifying my own thoughts.

You should also roleplay with this person as if he is your cofounder. Have him be a dick and make any argument you can see you cofounder make at any point. I've learned that winning arguments and being right are two different things. This way, if your cofounder is good with the former, you need to be prepared and roleplaying will give you a great edge!

Also, write down all possible scenarios. So if the board asks you "what will happen if the employees quit?" you need to have already thought through that use-case. They will probably be very impressed if you have a document that has these use-cases and possible plans.
I'm in the uncommon position of having actually had to do this. It wasn't a "firing" per se as much as a parting of ways which I initiated, but here's what I learned:

• Discuss it very frankly with at least one board member you trust. Depending on their involvement with the business they may already suspect that something is wrong. Outline to this board member your concerns that Co-Founder is going to take this the wrong way and derail the business.

• Discuss with Co-Founder the specific areas you feel Co-Founder isn't pulling his weight (it isn't okay, even if it's the truth, to say "he isn't doing anything"). Make an irreducible list: start with what are obviously his strengths, and then list the ways in which he is not playing to them. Make it inarguable and prevent it from turning into a personal matter.

• Keep the focus on company not him. For the company to succeed, you need to accomplish XYZ.

• Explain very clearly what his options are. You are not trying to screw him, but you are displeased with his input. You would like to amicably resolve this so that the board doesn't have to be involved, but failing that you will take it to the board and ask them to do their job by sorting it out. He can accept reduced equity and no day-to-day involvement, or he can kick up a fuss and you will move him on. Either way he should accept the reality that his involvement is coming to an end and that his decision now is how it ends.

Your board, if they have any kind of experience in running a business whatsoever, will know that this is one of a billion things which will go "wrong" over the four or five years it will take to make or break your biz. You can influence a lot in the way you communicate this event to them. It sounds to me like it's not truly a crisis but a significant opportunity for you to offload someone who is not contributing and reallocate capital to someone who will put in the hours.

My overriding advice is that you should not worry about this. Next time you start a company be sure to finalise your divorce before you finalise your marriage (i.e. very clearly delineate duties for founders and establish what success for your roles looks like), but other than running out of capital or not growing, very few things are disastrous for a startup.
Interesting, so you say it is also a problem to track the jobs that company offers? I totally agree that ODesks, elance, etc. are very poor to find a good match between project and interest and rate. These platforms are really about "out-"sourcing, often not about developing solutions to your unique problems.

Well, the main problem is that companies often don't know what skills they really need, and employees don't get a sense for the work culture from vague job descriptions.

Last, from what I heard was that most freelance jobs go via the personal network anyhow.

Just curious if there are others interested in discussing a better project platform for freelancers, and the way to meaningful work? Have a look at http://voki.me for a rough prototype.
You should know who your competitors are, but focusing on them is a waste of time.

"The last thing you want is to find out that hundreds of other people have already thought of it and Andreesen just backed three of them."

This is a pretty naive point of view. Who cares if they are all startups.

Spend the time and energy this post recommends spending on your competitors and direct it towards your own customers instead.

Also see #4 here: http://paulgraham.com/startuplessons.html
Make sure you're running New Relic or another monitoring service that can give you some insight into various parts of your application. If you can't see what is slow, then you can't fix it.

Fixing bad queries (n+1 is a common thing that will get you in trouble), and caching API calls (Rail.cache.fetch is your friend) will help a ton.

Background any tasks that must be slow. I like using Resque/Redis myself.

At some point it helps to cache HTTP requests when possible too. I've been working trying to get a special Buildpack working with Nginx for better caching on Heroku, but I'm not done yet. Also make sure that you aren't serving static assets from Heroku, and you're using something like CloudFront for it.

Email me if you need more help. I can normally make these things fly.
> Ignoring oppression is not the opposite. It is the tacit approval of oppression.

I agree wholeheartedly. And you should fight the opressor.

I understand the need to relate by example, but am I wrong to insist on a reality where race/ethnicity has jack to do with success in tech entrepreneurship?
Buy it with what? GM and Ford have market caps of $60B. Tesla has a market cap of $20B. It couldn't be an acquisition, it would have to be a merger. A merger would:

- put Elon Musk de facto in control of Ford/GM, as by far the largest shareholder;

- give people who are now holding big chunks of Tesla stock big chunks of Ford/GM stock.

I can't imagine Ford/GM being happy about #1, and I can't imagine Tesla shareholders (including Elon) being happy about #2.
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That matches my experience working for a fair-sized customer: our high six figure annual support got access to an everything-is-broken portal, out of date documentation and very responsive support people who would quickly tell you something is fixed in the next paid upgrade or cannot be reproduced / is probably your fault. When IE8 was released and incompatible with a major app, I called and was told they had no plans yet for a patch – and the next week I received a call from a support manager asking if they could distribute my monkey patch to other customers…

I'm skeptical Amazon has anything to worry about.
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+1 on the lambda calculus stuff. Here's a related talk about deriving the Y combinator in Ruby by Jim Weirich:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FITJMJjASUs

(skip to about 28:00 if you're impatient)

There are additional versions of this same presentation circulating with the code in Javascript and (I believe) Clojure. Full disclosure: Jim is a co-worker of mine.
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> I mean algebraic structures in the mathematical sense you mentioned (rings, groups, &c.)

I know you meant those. And I meant those as well.
At the early stage of a company, equity is very important to keep people's incentives aligned to work really hard in the best interest of the growing the company. This generally initially expresses itself in the founders, who have a lot of equity and little or no salary, and then continues on with early employees. So just from this perspective, spending a ton of equity on somebody who isn't contributing is a massive opportunity cost.

Additionally, there is a reason successful solo founders are rare. It is hard to found a company, especially without somebody who is 100% aligned with you (at least economically) the whole journey. I'd imagine that a situation where you start with 2 founders and go down to 1* makes it even harder, because you are like a single founder but with all of this stress you are accumulating right now on things that aren't related to making a great product.

Now this isn't to say that founder strife is something that doesn't happen in successful companies. It does. It is just the magnitude and early-ness of your strife seems pretty large. Making a successful company is really really hard, and you really want to put yourself in the best position to succeed. If you aren't in a good situation, and getting to a good situation doesn't seem likely, then just leaving and starting something else might be your best available option.

Note: I have no idea how large your company is, so this post is assuming your company is 2 or 3 people and is very early stage. If your company is doing really well or is much larger, this advice basically doesn't apply at all, because then "sticking with it" starts to look like a good option.

*: I'm extrapolating that you had 2 founders based on your post. If for instance you had 4 founders and were going down to 3 I don't think it would be as big a deal.