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> It's hard for two guys in a garage to build a prototype 10X battery or come up with innovative biotechnology.

In the early late 1800s and early 1900s, governments and industrial titans around the world were spending unbelievable amounts of resources on what was the hardest problem of their day: human flight. The primary focus of their efforts was increasing engine power. Of course, it must have seemed, only the most powerful entities had any business trying to fly.

Two "guys in a garage" were obsessed with a different approach, which they called solving "the flying problem." To most everyone in the world they must have seemed crazy, like overenthusiastic children who had never grown up.

Guess who won?

Perhaps that's the role YC could fill: to find, inspire and support the Wright brothers of today with just enough resources to keep on going but not enough to change who they are underneath: two guys (or girls) in a metaphorical garage with a crazy obsession.

(The Wright brothers weren't the financial success they should have been, given the magnitude of what they accomplished. YC & the modern Silicon Valley ethic could certainly help in improving that outcome as well. Google is a good analog here).
Um, did you miss the yellow block on the left side of the front page? It says...

100% FREE, ALWAYS

Invoicing with no monthly fee, because you have enough bills already! Free, now and
forever! Quality invoicing to build your business and get paid.

There are references to "Free" all over the front page.
I don't have experience with ClojureScript yet, but CoffeeScript is trivial to debug since the source and the compiled JavaScript are structurally very similar.
Just wanted to let you know (but wanted to wait before somebody would down vote such a comment here) that I really enjoyed your game, thanks and cheers!
I didn’t know most of the people named as minority influencers were non-white (with the exception of Microsoft’s Satya Nadella). I read every blog post by Drummond and I had no idea he was African American. These are thought leaders who, like Neil deGrasse Tyson, are not “expert about being black” and I think they do a lot more good than Jesse Jackson.

I’m not saying there isn’t a problem -- but the solution seems to me that it should come through a system that allows a candidate to say: “There are rumors my skillset is going through a shortage. I believe I have been discriminated against by the recruitment process (no matter what that was: if you list grievances, too young, too old, too female, too male, too nerdy, too black, etc. they pretty much define a pavement of all job seekers) and it doesn’t matter. Give me a job, tell me what I can learn to be the ideal candidate, or sh-t the f-ck -p.” I haven’t been to San Francisco a lot, but everytime I was shocked by the amount of candidates throwing their CV at me; they were of every age, color, skillset and gender that I could think of. I represented a company based in Europe and they complained that European companies do not open offices in SF fast enough to hire the local talent… (which came out as… well, mind-blowing self-serving and unworldly to me).

I hate to ask but… Is he really going after a guy called Gomez about diversity in power positions? And I’m sur HP was iconic when Jesse Jackson was more active, but… isn’t there more iconic companies around? They might not have public shareholder meetings.
it seems buggy, let's fix together!
Cheers for that.

Yes, especially Halide looks interesting.
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The article might describe it as a 'product development group' but really that's just a lab for engineers rather than scientists. It's not like Los Alamos where it was science-centric research, rather it's more like PARC or what Stark Labs would be like, in that it's 'product'-centric because it's the engineering rather than scientific version of a research lab.
..."in a non-Enterprise environment" - yes...well..expanding into an enterprise; using BizTalk server (Microsoft).

I design and create SOA solutions through services exposed by/through BizTalk and build an ESB solution to orchestrate the services which acts as a substrate for 'composable' applications (again, using BizTalk and apps that use the services are web-based, or whatever client apps the organization wants to use; many apps are integrations between systems like line of business using various approaches that include EDI, etc).
I used cross assemblers in DOS to program 803x series of micro-controllers in 80's. To debug the hardware, I used a toggle switch to single step the programs and a LED probe to check the address lines to verify that the program branched to correct location, keeping a printout of the intermediate output from the compiler which showed assigned address for each instructions.

To avoid stepping through several hundred lines of instructions before reaching a particular routine say floating-point arithmetic, I would set beginning of the routine in question at a convenient address like 0x400, and wire the address line (A10) to break the program.

I have created several useful products using these humble tools.
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That does sound like a decent day out though doesn't it? Thanks.
> “If you are asserting a patent against people who have never heard of your technology and they never embodied it in commercial product, or otherwise you have no real reason to think they copied you,” he says. “And if you’re doing that, and your patent isn’t something that is very specific, and is in general vague, that is a pretty clear sign that you are a patent troll.”

This is really the gist of it.
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> Octave: Matlab is closed-source (and expensive)

We're GNU. We don't care so much about the closed/open distinction as we care about the free/non-free distinction. The goal is that you should be able to run and share your code without anyone's permission.

I'm also planning to make Octave expensive as well. :-) Hopefully I'll manage to get this Octave startup off the ground.
A Stanford tour looks interesting, looks like they have a general walking tour and more specific science/engineering tours that you can book.
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There is some leaky Java, and it can be painful at times.
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"Companies could increase the representation of younger people in programming by paying extra money to programmers below a certain age."

With ageism being considered "natural", what about giving incentive for old developers to keep coding instead ?
Seems to me those are goals, not fixes. I'd like to see a list that matches languages to problems and domains.
When I was travelling through SF to Burning Man I visited Apple and Intel.

Intel had a not-hugely-amazing but still kinda-interesting museum. I particularly enjoyed it because I'm a bit of a 4004 nerd and I liked seeing the big silicon ingots.
I'm wondering if covering your plate to obscure it from view to protect your privacy is now a defense tactic that might play out in court to unleverage this program. What's interesting is here in NYS the Cuomo has instituted revokation of driving rights for tax / toll evasion. Intersting tactic, although unrelated. It bands together the parts of the state government in certain ways to give rights to some but take away rights to another. shrug - neat article either way.
Your mention of sexism in the technology industry suggests to me that you interpreted my comment as men slut-shaming women. I agree that sexism in the technology industry is an important and sensitive issue.

My comment wasn't intended to suggest one gender slut-shaming the other gender; people of a gender can (and certainly do) slut-shame members of that same gender to control them and keep them in line. This is the comparison I was making.

In retrospect, I see that my comment was not sufficiently clear in this regard. Please re-consider my comment from this clarified point of view.

My point is that many of the comments in this thread suggest that Meta is like a cult or a sweatshop, or that the situation is "fucked up", etc. The commenters are implicitly trying to punish Meta for engaging in a behaviour with which those commenters do not agree.

What is wrong with someone choosing to devote themselves to a start-up about which they are enthusiastic? What's wrong with believing in something and devoting yourself to it for a while? Does it hurt anyone other than themselves? Why then is it so important for other people to disparage that person's choice so vocally?

Likewise, what is so wrong about a company where enthusiastic employees live in this arrangement? If you accept my axiom that the employees are enthusiastic about the start-up (based upon the reasons I outlined in my original comment), then why is this arrangement "fucked up"?

I hope you will re-consider your assertion that I am uneducated and that I am vomiting ignorant comments.
You can keep pressing left all the time and you will you see some numbers appearing and disappearing. Sometimes moving to the line on top.

Pressing down results in errors on line 111. let and board giving "bad array expected", "expression expected".

Edit: I am on Mac OS.
While foreign policy is definitely a weak spot for Obama, but the real reason the US will do nothing is Europe, and Putin's follies actually make Europe more dependent on the US and seeking to limit dependence on Russia. Obama's biggest screw up IMO is the healthcare changeover which has been an unmitigated disaster.
Having to load the "free" version from the variance cdn is the showstopper here.

I really refrain from sending my users data to anyone else, that is without my control. So sadly, as beautiful, as I find this, I have to refrain from using it in my non profit projects.
It's actually in the source of the page, just commented out:

Javascript: Java is scary.

Also hidden in the source:

Python: Modula-3 is scary.
Curl: Lisp syntax is scary, and XML is redundant.
Arc: Scheme has no libraries, and both could be denser.

There are a lot of languages I haven't been able to figure out
how to describe this way. Suggestions would be appreciated about any
languages missing from the list. What I'm looking for is not exactly what
motivated the language designer (Smalltalk was originally intended
for children) but what niche the language first lodged in. What was
the appeal of the language to its first users?
I did the same. It worked well. Do not ask for a pay cut, one thing you must consider is that you might need to become contractor. My company made me a contractor because I was working out of state and it was easier for them to keep me as contractor.

A contractor is self employed, and you actually pay a lot more taxes (and the company pays less).
Invoiceable is nice too. Pity it doesn't get regular updates.
Are there any cool, generous Googlers here that would be able to arrange a tour? My email is in my profile, I would be very appreciative.
that was my assumption too but the charging papers disclosed, as reported by the Seattle PI, make very clear that that's not the case:

- "prompting corporate investigators to dredge the Hotmail account the blogger"

- "While searching the blogger’s account, Microsoft investigators found an email"
Sorry, what was the one principle? The US certainly didn't stop randomly invading countries after WWII.
Worth to mention that people from Twitter reported (on Twitter commenting this story) that their public data about Redis is outdated and probably summing all the instances they are using for different purposes (timeline caching is not the sole use case apparently) you get more than 18TB.

EDIT: btw, the reason why I don't know much about this use cases is that the hardcore hackers at Twitter and Weibo simply never ask for help. They know Redis internals perfectly so can fix their stuff, tune everything and so forth. That's quite cool.
Today is different of course. But the biotech example is surprisingly approachable. DNA processing equipment has come down about a millionfold in the last decades. MRI devices are handheld and available. Its more approachable than maybe its ever been?
Minimal Color-Only A/B test.
It's declarative at any rate. It's verbose but as long as it isn't used like an imperative language, I don't find it ugly.
Hm, what are the data protection act implications of this ?
Another data point: Toll Collect in Germany. A fee is collected from Trucks for using the Autobahn, with compliance being monitored via plate-scanning cameras on all Autobahnen. We were assured that the data for cars would not be used for policing, even though it exists (the system scans all plates and only later finds out whether or not the plate belongs to a truck).

The data in the system is legally protected and cannot be used by the police. In the ten years that have passed, "security politicians" have been relentlessly hammering this restriction in the hope that it will fall[1].

So far they haven't been successful, but who knows what the future brings. You can be certain they won't stop to try.

[1] http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&pre...
So you're saying we should continue to do whatever we want, dump toxic waste into the ocean, strangle dolphins with our plastic debris because "life, uh, finds a way"?
"If Agile is the ability to respond to change then it's obviously a matter of good craft because software has never been made pliable with a magic methodology wand".

To me this would suggest a good design in the first place, rather than a load of automated tests. Maybe waterfall is more agile than agile...
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Why does PG not put a post date on his posts??? Maybe so people keep thinking it something new?
This characterisation of Haskell bugs me a lot, because most reputable mathematicians would have nothing to do with Haskell either. The mathematical parts of Haskell seem to attract logicians, not general mathematicians. General mathematiicians much prefer Sage or Mathematica.

Don't get me wrong, Haskell is a great language, but it's not very "mathematical". It just has terrible ambassadors that give the impression that category theory and Haskell are synonymous. They're not, Haskell has its own breed of categeory theory that I prefer to call Haskellory theory.

This is a reasonable introduction to Haskell that does away with that Haskegorical nonsense:

http://book.realworldhaskell.org/
Alternatively perhaps the market undervalues the task of software development
I assume for Apple it is just the company store at their HQ they let people into? Or can you tour the rest of it?
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Surely Java should be more like:

Because when I get a int, it should definitely be a bloody int.
When the only thing you care about is performance that is a valid comparison. Besides, Nashorn is fast, was ment to be fast, and they are working on making it faster.
Doesn't that imply that there is a shortage of programmers worth their salary?
Manual audits? What is this, the Cretaceous period?
This is fantastic! I have one piece of feedback / improvement.

With the 'due date' field have an automatic +30 days / +60 days / + 90 days option.
He will be remembered for being the first black president, remarkable in his unremarkableness and continuation of the status quo.
If we really are making statements predicting how future generations will remember a current figure:

"History will remember Obama for being the First African American President of the United States", will supersede any other statement in the long run (50-100+ years).
I saw some tweets yesterday from which I inferred there have been some DNS propagation issues. I notice the IP is an S3 one so I tried.. http://s3.amazonaws.com/speakingjs.com/es5/index.html and it seems to work, so might be a good temporary workaround.
Yeah, if you can get away with that model things are simpler. The best first step into SOA to take is offloading work that doesn't need a user response to a pool of workers (often by publishing to a message bus, as mentioned elsewhere in the thread). I've implemented systems like that using Rabbit and Redis and it worked fairly well.

However, some kinds of requests are fundamentally about integrating the results of a bunch of different services into a response to send to the user. In that case you somehow need to gather the results of your rpcs/events in one place to integrate them. An example is Google search where the normal results, ads, and various specialized results/knowledge graph data need to be integrated to present to the user.

Another consideration is how much you want to be able to isolate services. If you have a user/auth service as in the article which completely encapsulates the database and other resources needed for data about users then you'll end up with a lot of calls into that service. It's a disadvantage because of all the reasons in my original comment, but it's great from the perspective of being able to isolate failures and build resilient systems
Author here, I did not notice any numbers disappearing on several games, maybe it is because of different versions of bash, you can try running it as:

./bash2048.sh | tee qqq.log

then remove color codes from log by running:

sed -r -i "s/\x1B\[([0-9]{1,2}(;[0-9]{1,2})?)?[m|K]//g" qqq.log

you can then see each round in the log and it should be easy to find the spot where numbers disappeared, if you could post that log somewhere it may help me find the problem.
The answer yes is not reasonable for Russell's paradox and therefore most likely not conforming, too. (Assuming the program really encodes Russell's paradox which I did not try to verify.)

UPDATE: Forget the part about conformance - if it is undefined behavior every result is of course correct. I made the wrong assumption that the result should definitely be an error if the correct behavior is not defined or can not be attained.
Your solution to your concern that some people (the police) have access to data that tracks your whereabouts it to give everyone access to track your whereabouts?
I hit it at 500 a few weeks ago. Ok, not sure exactly but definitely not more than 510 :)
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For those who care, please reduce your plastic use!

Please try to pollute less all around.
I agree that money is the solution to such problems, however reducing the incentive once enough programmers have entered the workforce would compel people to leave the field and do something else. If it was known that this reduction would come, it's likely that it might not have a positive effect on programmers and many people would not necessarily pursue a career in the field.

Also, one has to take into account that most people will just not cut it as programmers, no matter how much time or even practice they may put in.
I don't understand how this could be a lawful arrangement. How do you run a company that structurally precludes hiring people with families?
Surgery as well. So far so good.
Just pay extra money to all programmers.
It is easy to tell how much money someone spends, but much harder to tell how much they make. Maybe it depends on the job. My parents' salaries are public record, but that isn't the case for most people.
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Any recommended coffee shops?
This is a rather forceful and coercive way to solve this (alleged) problem. I'd expect to see lots of mediocre labor pop up as a result.
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Love that this is open source and developed with Laravel. Great job!
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I was wondering if someone would say this...
I really like this, obviously a lot of attention to usability.

Minor niggle: the invoice redraws a lot when it doesn't have to, e.g. changing focus without actually modifying any fields. That's a bit flickery and distracting.
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Great idea, small bug in switching currencies. When I change the theme of an invoice it defaults back to USD and does not revert back to the currency set in the preferences.
....I really don't want to try another invoicing app. There's already dozens, everything from heavy PayPal, to Intuit Network, to light Harvest...
Comedian Joe Rogan has a great bit about Wesley Snipes' tax-evasion jail term and how if you owe a friend money there's nothing he can do but if you owe the government money they lock you up and put you in a cage.
And if I start a home improvement store using a tomatoish orange and call it "Bob's Home Store" would that also fall afoul of trademark in your book?

In the case of the DMM in question, it's not direct knock-off of a Fluke and according to SF the color is more of an orange-yellow than the Fluke safety yellow. SF's whole point is that the TM terms are too vague. Gray with a yellow border. What shade of gray? What shade of yellow? I don't get to claim a whole primary color and say you can make a DMM using any color even close to this.
I'm pretty sure those who care are already doing this.
There's quite a pile of information on CIA rendition flights. They seem to have used EU member states air space [1][2].

The Washington Post suggests there was at least some journalistic field work plane spotting in the US [3].

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/jan/23/usa.eu

[2] http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/news-room/content/2012...

[3] http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/ten-ye...
I would be surprised if it were. All languages I know says NaN == NaN is false.
> Watch out for ReaderWriterLockSlim.

Yes.

And if you register this in a using-statement thinking it will be disposed, you may encounter a edge case where the lock has been created, but not assigned and thus wont get disposed and you will have orphaned locks jamming up your system.

Where I worked, we had complete system crashes which could be traced back to "incorrect" usage of this very class[1]. It only happened in production, it was hell to debug, and we had to use more low-level tools than I ever thought should be needed for .NET code.

We replaced it with a traditional lock {} and never looked back.

[1] "Incorrect" as in not having around 50 lines of boilerplate which has to be tediously and 100% correctly done, on a per lock-invocation basis, since generalizing the implementation will ruin its correctness.
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Google "plane watching CIA". Second hit: http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/dec/10/usa.terrorism1 : How planespotters turned into the scourge of the CIA
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Bare in mind that particular advice is from a group expressly interested in security. The article is talking about usability. There is often a balance to be struck.
Does Mr McGeehan's move signal a move by FB into currency exchange?

Just imagine what FB would know: when and where you were born; who you are related to; who you know; where you shop; what you buy; how much you paid and how much money you have got left. Basically, your whole credit history is up for grabs.

That's got to be the most lucrative data set ever.

Damn - too late again. Back to the day job ...
Neither did the USSR for that matter. And both significantly interfered with the running of many countries they did not outright invade.
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There would hopefully be a huge backlash against this collection once people are acutely aware of what the police are seeing.
The ideal setup for people who literally have absolutely no life besides work. Kudos.
Seems to be open-source: https://github.com/maidsafe/MaidSafe/wiki
Don't make me your strawman. That's not what I am saying at all. I just think all life is special.