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Toss in a healthy dose of MIT becoming a shell of its former hacker-self, and Harvard being, well, Harvard, and I'd say Cambridge is the least exciting aspect of the greater Boston area.

Besides the fact that Bostonians are most definitely infatuated with pop culture and hipness. Maybe across the bridge things get more intellectual, but not so you'd notice.

I will say in PG's defense that I've never seen a city more excited about selling you a master's degree as the key to your new future life ; - ) So I suppose they do value education (an brick-for-brick there's probably more post-secondary schools in the area around Boston than almost anywhere else in the U.S. or even the world.).
I like what I do too, but I'm not some ephemeral being, I have material needs. Anyway, It's always about compensation, environment and camaraderie is part of compensation.

If it weren't about compensation I would work on my own stuff or open source.
The hardest part is when the kid asks for something and you don't have money.
I recollect this being posted earlier.
This computer won't let you do "quantum computing" of the kind that's usually discussed - eg, you can't implement Shor's algorithm for factoring. It does claim to be able to solve optimization problems via "true" quantum annealing / tempering, so you'd want to look up what kinds of problems are particularly well suited for those optimization approaches.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adiabatic_quantum_computation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_tempering

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_annealing
When you get content for free, you do it under the agreement you're going to look at their ads. Decide sifting through ads isn't worth it? Close the tab.

Ad blockers allow people to break this "agreement". If less people are viewing ads, the quality of the content has to drop or the advertising (what funds all that "free" content) has to increase.

Just like all those "why I pirate" things, its just a long way of saying "I'm too lazy/cheap to compensate people for the content they produce"
It's not too bad. Unfortunately what I really wanted them to change wasn't just the "face" of their website, but the whole website, especially the domain managing features and whatnot. Those kept the same early 2000 design. I'm hoping it's because they didn't have time to finish redesigning everything, but why not just wait until they did?
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Windows only -- really? It's 2013. If you're trying to get traction with a highly technical identity platform, windows probably shouldn't be your top pick.
> They add emphasis, reformat my code/paragraphs etc.

That's the reason I left SO while still in my noob phase - they'd make really strange changes, such as adding typos or removing paragraph breaks. And it's obvious why, too: yes, they get points for it and their name is now right next to the answer. I also found they had generally insane amounts of karma. Yeah, I really don't get SO, for lots of reasons.
According to Carl Munck in "The Code" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw9lTB0hTNU), radians were the unit of measure used to build and position the megaliths.
I agree. I think if you're someone who really wants to make an impact with technology then get around people like you and stop trying to make the people around you like you. At this point, I am talking to myself :)
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Startups are essentially a high risk casino, that collects cash from muppets (individual investors and funds with more money than brains) and redistributes it with ratio about 100:1. Like musical chairs - 100 people and one chair. Most of these 100 people don't even know where the chair is and can barely hear the music. One person close to the chair collects the payout and shares it with few others who helped him to push the muppets away.

It seems that Europe either doesn't like this game, or just doesn't know to play it.
After the AI Winter they where of course still both used, but its absolutly clear that they did not have the addoption other languages had.

At no point was it among the couple of most common used languages at least in the last 30 years. Look at jobs, popularity or any ranking for as we long as we have data.
Bluntly, that attitude is incredibly naive and, in the extreme, obsequious.

I have a passion for doing a great many things. I believe I should be compensated for expending time--literally quantums of my very life--if employed in the service of another. These two things aren't mutually exclusive.
Depends on where, but the nice parts of LA seem more down-to-earth and transit-friendly to me than the nice parts of San Francisco, believe it or not. If you consider only the Westside, bounded roughly by the 10 / Culver Blvd. on the south, Hollywood Hills on the north, the Pacific Ocean on the west, and Elysian Park on the east [1], which is roughly comparable in area to SF, imo it's much more livable than SF. Better transit & cheaper housing overall.

[1] Roughly: http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1738808199#map=12/34.0541/...
In case anyone missed this amazing optical illusion from the article, it's worth looking at. I've never been so visually/mentally conflicted.

The center pieces (grey on the left, and yellow on the right) are actually the exact same color.

http://i.imgur.com/UYRtqA5.png

My brain simply cannot accept it, even after confirming it w/ photoshop.
I believe in the post he said that his views are by no means nationalistic and that he feels someplace like Atlanta has the same problem as Munich. But I actually think this was in a "Startup Hubs" essay.
Maybe we live in the same city! But...

>>> no one around you cares about the same things you do

is what I like. The diversity. I can get completely lost in a tech problem that I'm working on, and when I go out and talk to a neighbor, or chat with parents at soccer practice, the topic might be astronomy, biology, politics, or agriculture.
Exactly. I was trying to avoid any mathematical jargon while describing monoids because they are such general and pervasive structures in programming. Further, being able to construct useful new monoids is crucial for making full use of a finger tree and I didn't want to have someone find an interesting structure unapproachable because they had to walk through an abstract algebra jargon storm in order to understand it. I realize I referenced associativity without describing it, so I didn't quite achieve my goal, but hopefully the examples got the idea across to someone who might otherwise have dismissed it due to the perception that it was too academic and unapproachable.

As an aside, trying to remove the jargon from a definition like this is surprisingly hard and really expands the size of the definition. I think it is still worthwhile to try when writing for a general audience because algebraic structure is everywhere and very useful to recognize for people who are interested in rigorously manipulating abstraction, i.e. programmers.
My 2c.

Concentrate on one thing and get it done.
Break it down into chunks.
Write them in a todo.txt.
Get one chunk done and finished and committed before moving on to the next one.

For chunk size; I think a chunk is gonna take me 1-5 hours, and it usually ends up taking 0-5 days.
You need to get out! I'm in the Midwest too and am planning my escape route.
There is a class of people that takes advertisements at face value, as sources of information.

Not in America there isn't. Well, not a social class. The amount of tv the average American watches is insane, something like 4 hours a day. It is impossible to watch that much tv without developing some rudimentary media literacy. Maybe less, and less sophisticated than smarter, more educated people but the number of people who think drinking Bud Light will actually make them more popular and win them a hotter mate is pretty damned small.

I agree with almost everything else you said. I do suspect that every YC cohort has at least one American who grew up poor by American standards though. I'm sure they're underrepresented though.
The Ghost Incognito extension allows you to force certain sites to always use Incognito mode. I realize using an extension to accomplish this objective is somewhat ironic, but seems like it'd work in this case if you can trust that one extension.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ghost-incognito/ge...
I'm confused by their claim of hashing and THEN salting authentication codes.

On the server-side, we don't store the authentication
code in plaintext. We hash it with PBKDF2 / SHA-256,
salt it, then store it.
I feel like despite the great things these projects are trying to achieve, in the end they are just hacks. I think its time we try to shift the web standards to meet modern needs rather than trying to build around the limitatns right now. The web is the future, and there's no point putting off the inevitable.
According to the presentation, Valve sees tremendous value in VR, but doesn't necessarily want to be the one to develop the hardware themselves. What you describe sounds completely consistent with that.
A MacBook Air isn't really hard to take apart if you have the magic screwdriver. The RAM being soldered would probably be a serious obstacle, though.
His comment took me a while to parse too. The way I ultimately interpreted his comment was "Since 1(d) = 2(r), it's only natural that 1(rotation) = 2(PI radians)". Which is ironic. I.e. the inequality between the coefficients is actually the tau-ists' primary argument against pi. Also, I don't know how it's relevant to its parent comment, which was about "1 rotation being defined as 360 degrees" being arbitrary.
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> the east and west coast have a lot in common

We really don't. We (barely) share a language and are held hostage together in a room by dead white male slaveholders who a vocal minority have turned into a new American Pantheon.

The west coast has some political common ground with the northeast, but there are still huge cultural gaps, and the "east coast" extends a long way south of Maryland and DC. This isn't some big mystery, just a big continent.
Recently in HN: """Comparing the performance of the device on random spin glass instances with limited precision to simulated classical and quantum annealers, we find no evidence of quantum speedup""" http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1643
How many of these are OS-specific? I run OpenJDK on Linux - how much should I worry?
> What part doesn't make sense?

The part where the article is about Java security vulnerabilities and instead switches to talking about JavaScript, as if they were the same thing?

I get the difference and don't need the education. I was wondering what this had to do with Java. If you care to explain that, I'll be happy to hear it ;)
Not for an individual as not everyone has the necessary qualifications to study at a university but nevertheless everyone has to pay taxes that finance the education of those that do.
Taken in sufficient context, I think your point is a good one. But I get the sense that this is not the main thing bugging the author; what seems to be bugging him is that he is under pressure to justify his positions to a broader audience than would have existed in the past, and he may be having a hard time doing that.

If he's making a point during a conversation with other experts about the cumulative costs in litigation of a certain policy implemented in some state in 1979, he's the boss. But if he's making a broad point about the welfare state, he's got a larger group of (well-informed) interlocutors to deal with and convince. I suspect he wants his expertise to carry weight on these larger questions as well.
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I am the founder of a end-end cloud management & monitoring product with cool features like visual designing of deployments and configurable dashboards.
We have raised a small angel fund with all other funds are bootstrapped through savings so far.

We have had several beta sign ups and in total we have around 150+ users.

We went live few weeks back. So far - sign ups are trickling very slowly. The feedback to whom we have demoed like what we have done and problem we are trying to solve. However the feedback from beta customers are slow to say the least. We thought we could get some quick signups, users using the system and then feedback. It is not happening much. Can some one suggest me what we can do better to reach out more prospects? Receive quick feedback from customers and get some coverage.

Unfortunately - we running short of cash and it is a deadlock with investors asking for paid customers.

As founder, I have exhausted all my savings on the venture (including 401K, college savings) on this. I am not willing to give up, but ground realities are just hard.
> Define "Java proper".

Java not running in the browser, i.e. running as a service on the target platform.

Personally I am not a proponent of running Java in a browser, but I am a proponent of the JVM as a service. So please educate me on the security issues as they relate to running Java not in a browser.
> Mostly my peers were their employees, not in the founder social group; the founder social group had a remarkable ability to raise "friends & family" money despite having no product

Wow, that kinda hit me. I grew up a relatively poor, at times in the lower-middle class. I took a weird path to college and graduated very late. $750k doesn't seem like a huge amount of money to me anymore, but perspectives change.

I did a thought experiment...had I graduated high school, went straight to college and graduated and decided to do a startup...at that point (22 year old me), how many steps out in my family would I have to go for their entire net worths could combine into $750,000 at that time. Not free money available for investment, I mean every penny everybody had.

I gave up when I hit second cousins.

Things are better these days, if I were 22 today and fresh faced out of school and wanted to start a company, I could probably run the same experiment and hit $750k before I ran out of siblings (they live comfortable middle-class lives for the most part), but again, that's not money available for investment. That's the entirety of their assets.

Having family who could pitch in that much runway without it bankrupting them is something I could never have conceived of at that age. When I was 22, $750k may as well have been a hundred trillion dollars for all the relationship it had to my life.

My second real job was with a bootstrapped startup that was the result of 4 founders maxing out their credit cards. I think their combined startup capital worked out to around $40k.

I'm old enough now where I've handled much more money than that, and I have a good sense how much of a business that buys...it's surprisingly less than you think. But given a fat seed like that I bet I could have recruited a few other poor 22 year old looking for work grads for pennies into some startup and written a vastly different story of my life.
>The lesson I learned is not to use anything bloated or to use it to target a specific issue,while keeping the core of my codebase totally decoupled from framework X or Z

That's a bad lesson. JavaScript, on it's own, does not give you enough to write proper large-scale applications. You will have to commit to some framework, whether one your wrote yourself or one you got from somewhere else. And this isn't just a JavaScript issue. Even better designed languages (Java, C++, C#) will require some sort of framework to augment their language constructs, in specific cases and when working with code of a certain size. Packages and classes are just not enough sometimes.

>I feel for people migrating from ExtJS to AngularJS for instance , it basically means rewriting all the code.

Then don't do it. There's nothing wrong with having a code-base in ExtJS in a world in which Angular is popular. If ExtJS is doing its job and your software is doing what it's supposed to, why would you migrate to Angular? Why would you rewrite anything? Because Angular is more popular? So what?! You may have 100k lines of working, battle-tested code, 3 developers have been working on for several years. No sane person would just throw that away with a rewrite.
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I'll never figure out how it is possible that periodically, someone tries to convince us that putting all the eggs in the same basket has become a good idea.
Your forgot the part about allegedly ordering a guy tortured to get his money back.
> Your culture and values are not universal.

You're exactly right. There's a lot of crap culture and values in the world.

> Children can adapt to and thrive in much worse environments than mostly only see Dad at the weekend.

True as well. Doesn't make it any less horrible.

Rationalizing away being a good parent is selfish. My mother died when I was 11 and my father (a director in his company) worked incredibly hard to manage the balance of the demands at work and taking the time and care to raise my sister and I. He did an extraordinary job and was very self-sacrificing, and so when I see comments along the lines of "I'm going to do what I want to do with my life and the kids will just have to adapt", it really kind of pisses me off.
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Here are some cities I've lived in:

Tokyo, Xi'an, Harbin, Rome, Assisi, Florence, Jerusalem, Berlin, Munich, Lyon, Palo Alto, DC, Boston, Providence, Philadelphia

My general assessment is that American cities feel more vibrant while European cities feel more sleepy. Cambridge is one locus of intellect for its own, perhaps the best left although I think American pragmatism chokes great thinking. For true intellectual engagement I think you have to poke around Europe and find the older generation of scholars and artists. As for Florence, pg should know folks like Pietro Annigoni that at least were keeping old traditions alive. Europe is in many ways like a very wonderful museum with a few old curators, but that old museum beats most new museums by a large margin.
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The particular packages you need might be obtainable from Launchpad PPAs, which Debian doesn't really have an equivalent of unless you're willing to maintain your own.

If you don't want to phase-in updates rather than depend directly on a third-party PPA, you can also setup your own PPA and copy packages to it as you wish.
Yeah, I can kinda see what you mean by that. Durham seems like a nice, charming sitting with a quirky blend of different attitudes. Raleigh has more of "business orientation" thing, but seems less startup oriented in general. Although since the ATC opened the American Underground, the Underground @ Main, and the new Raleigh location, that has really contributed a lot of the energy of the local startup scene.

That said, one thing I love about living here (well, Chapel Hill) is that the weather is relatively pleasant pretty much all year round (read: it doesn't get really cold here, at least not usually for more than a day or two at a time). I could probably handle living in the Bay Area, but Cambridge would never work for me. Too damn cold. Same for Chicago...I love Chicago, but no way would I want to live there year round.
Yeah, I agree with you, but what does that quote in this article have anything to do with Java security issues?

Though sometimes it seems that the JavaScript malware "obfuscations" appear to be more incriminating than if they had used legitimate obfuscations, right? At least every time I look at some post on a blog about malware it seems that the malware author could have benefitted from some sort to standard obfuscation technique like grunt, etc.
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That's a weak argument. Integrating 2a * x is also insanely common in dealing with integrals. And really if you're deriving the area of a circle and integrating 2pi * r gives you pause you're not on a good road to begin with and removing a 2 from some equations isn't going to help much.

edit: forgot that * would make everything italicized.
Interesting observations.

I have noticed the inverse is also true (as a few posters have already pointed out).

Some places just scream ignorance and sloth.

But hey... do you want good conversation or good weather?

If you do want good conversation how much is it worth to you?

Enough to spend 50% of your income on housing?

Sometimes being alone is where you get real thinking done.

Not always, but often.
I will ignore you continuing to be a prick, and instead provide further details upon the topic you are clearly emotive about. Thinking it such "gold." From the now dead Michael Hastings:

"Barrett Brown, another investigative journalist who has written for Vanity Fair, among others publications, exposed the connections between the private contracting firm HB Gary (a government contracting firm that, incidentally, proposed a plan to spy on and ruin the reputation of the Guardian’s Greenwald) and who is currently sitting in a Texas prison on trumped up FBI charges regarding his legitimate reportorial inquiry into the political collective known sometimes as Anonymous[1]."

Is this something to insulting about when a journalist is referencing the situation and the players involved? Or just when I link to the material myself?

[1] http://www.buzzfeed.com/mhastings/why-democrats-love-to-spy-...
I just submitted this to HN expecting to be taken to the most recent submission of it, but was surprised to discover it hasn't ever been submitted. Sorry. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7083393
Yes, it is backwards incompatible. Perhaps it could be enforced in HTTP 2?
Don't multitask. Focus on one task at a time.
Check email only twice a day (11am, and 4pm for example). Definitely don't leave your email app/tab open.
No, you don't get any points for making edits unless you're under 2000, and even then it has to be robo-approved blindly by three other users.
I don't think I'd be able to keep from constantly laughing.
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Interesting... It took a few clicks to find out what Box is: https://support.box.com/hc/en-us/articles/201207836-What-is-...

I wonder, what's the incentive to use Box instead of Dropbox? The space is nice, but trust isn't so easily earned. I'm wondering why to trust Box with personal files.
ClojureScript specially has taken off. This project, then you have the extreamly cool (but a bit hard to understand) pedestal (https://github.com/pedestal/pedestal), the Om (https://github.com/swannodette/om) library has made a splash even in the JS community.

A lot of exitment around core.asnyc (witch allows CSP like Go) on the web.
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Yeah, I hear ya. I feel the same thing that another commenter here mentioned, it's the "nobody else around here is interested in the same things I am" thing. Even among the local startup community, we're one of a small number of enterprise software plays, and an even smaller number who are passionately focused on OSS. There are the OpenNMS guys, and I think Alfresco have an office around here somewhere, and Cloudera have something of a presence here... but still, by and large, I don't feel like there's much passion for enterprise stuff.

And yeah, obviously Red Hat are here as well, but they're way past "startup" stage. Same for IBM, Cisco, etc. There are people here who do enterprise stuff, but they're mostly sequestered away inside big shops like IBM, Microsoft, Cisco, EMC, etc. and not really participating in the startup scene.