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> For what they do, C and C++ don't really have serious challengers yet

Only if you define "what they do" in a way that makes that a trivial tautology (e.g., as "things for which C and C++ don;t really have serious challengers"). Over time, a lot of serious challengers have arisen and competed with (and even displaced) C and C++ in areas where those languages have been widely used. There may still be areas where they don't have serious competition, but those areas keep getting smaller.
Physician here. I personally believe patients should do their own research, up to a certain point. There is a reason physicians have tens of thousands of hours of training. We quickly learn medicine is rarely black and white and straight from the textbooks. The art of medicine is a skill that takes a lifetime to develop, and is still not perfect.

Sure, you can search pubmed for the best therapies, but patients often don't know how to fully interpret a study. Was there enough power? Does the patient fit the studied population? Are the primary endpoints significant in this scenario? The knowledge is out there, but dangerous in the wrong hands.

Its generally a subpopulation of patients that give a reasonably self informed patient a bad reputation. Many patients (especially in the low income brackets) treat their physician like a McDonald's drive through. I want this, this, and this and I don't care about your extensive training and clinical judgement.
This website has horrible usability. Visualizations look amazing, but too bad I wont be able to see them due to the un-usability of the site.
Cool! reply back when you have read it, would like to know what you thought about it.
> Practical Aspect: How do I structure things with my co-founders.

Have a written scorecard with specific team member accountabilities, review weekly.

The People Component, getting the right people in the right seats will be a your most critical task. It's helpful to understand your core strengths vi-a-vis your co-founders. And making sure everyone is operating in areas of their unique abilities.

Recommend reading Traction by Gino Wickman > http://www.amazon.com/Traction-Get-Grip-Your-Business/dp/193...
What a sport, but lately it's been kind of a tragic story. I started playing around 2003, and played competitively in Canada through to what basically became the sport's peak.

In 2007 we were playing division 1 in a league with Impact - they'd later become a pro XBall team - and the first 7-man tournament in that division, we spent $750 per person for paint and entry for the weekend tournament. We shot more than 30 cases (that's 60,000 paintballs). We squeaked by into semis, and then got annihilated.

It made me realize that (a) being competitive at the highest levels of a sport requires incredible dedication on the part of everyone on a team, and (b) nobody would start playing paintball if they knew the endpoint of it was to drop a grand on a single weekend of play.

The dynamics of play got especially rough for new entrants - if you didn't have the gear that let you shoot fast enough and accurately enough to put in someone who was posted on you, you'd get stuck and frustrated. The more paint in the air, the fewer strategic options you had (other than putting more paint in the air), and the more prohibitively expensive the sport got.

I still love the sport but it set itself up to die the moment there was a recession, which, of course, came in 2008.
What the others pointed out, sorry for not linking directly. I was on iPad and searching on a separate tab, copying and all the hassle was slightly too cumbersome... And you may have already seen it :)
> As an aside, the best co-founder relationships are formed on complimentary skill sets. You can do what they can't (or struggle with), and vice versa. As such, I would encourage you to find a sales person/designer/hustler, as opposed to another developer.

On the face of it, this advice seems reasonable. But this advice will result in precisely the asymmetry to OP is worried about. If you have a technology product, I strongly discourage you from taking on a non-technical cofounder.

I made a huge mistake co-founding a company with someone whom I thought had a skill set that would compliment mine. He was, of course, a non-technical. While I coded for 90 hours a week trying to build an MVP, he did thought experiments, worried about competitors, and fretted about the color of our logo. In short, he did very little to move the product forward other than arbitrarily tweaking design specifications (before we had MVP and were even able to A/B test or validate with users). It was an extremely counterproductive and demoralizing experience.

This may sound like an edge case, but I meet people all the time whose startups failed because the team couldn't get along. This is usually caused by one person feeling like they're doing all the work. And that's usually because one person IS doing all the work - the other person is a non-technical cofounder, and can't do much meaningful work, only look busy by trying to get twitter followers, having lunch meetings with reporters, and doing competitor analysis - all work that is meaningless if you don't have an MVP you can use to validate and iterate toward product-market fit.

My advice is simple: find a technical cofounder who also has the confidence to pitch. Find a technical cofounder who can help validate an MVP and iterate it to product-market fit. Find a technical cofounder who isn't daunted by needing to pick up new skills. This is a startup. You're looking for generalists, not specialists. Whether someone can code is a good litmus test for whether they are serious about doing tech startups, or merely dabbling.
Freezing paintballs is an urban myth. The hard ones are those that are left out in the sun and humidity the shell absorbs moisture which causes them to "rubberize", they bounce rather than breaking which transferred more energy to the player. Paint made in the 80s and 90s is nothing like modern paintballs, bad manufacturers/brands like Monsterball are long since dead. Safety is still important masks and gun safety prevents 99.99% of paintball specific major injuries. (bruises and small cuts can still happen).
Number 14 on Redmonk.

http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2014/06/13/language-rankings-6-14...

"The next JVM language to learn" (Java-focused survey): Scala leads comfotably with 47%.

http://zeroturnaround.com/rebellabs/interview-with-typesafe-...

Apart from that, you are completely missing the context. People are not looking for a random language, but for a language which is compatible with Java and Android, allows gradual migration and protects existing investment.

Scala is the top-contender here.
> This fear gets amplified when the co-founder is not a technical person, which means I'll certainly need to take care of the development aspect myself, while the other person focuses on the business aspects, which in my opinion are much less demanding on software related projects.

This statement is potentially an indicator that you're not great at fairly measuring others' contributions.
Indeed. Developers look to Google to set an example, but it seems that Google itself is looking to developers to set an example. Hence we have a circular pattern of language adoption :) But it doesn't have to be that way.
Maybe 2% developers.

Mind share ... are there any great minds left in the Java ecosystem? Doesn't feel that way.
At first I was like, "Wow that's neat that it saves what I upvote"

But after being here for 6 years, my "favorites" are a mess, as one could imagine.
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This is a great service! I am always looking for feedback on my projects!
Looks pretty good, shame about the promises.
Installed, got soundcloud and spotify installed on OSX Mavericks, set to full screen. Tried to play a song, got an audio device not available error. Turned off peer upnp and restarted. Crashes on load.
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I absolutely agree. There are bad doctors out there. The medical community, like every other professional community, will stand together to protect each other from what they feel are unfair attacks, but they---like every other professional community---don't particularly care for the bad doctors either. The situation can be improved, but it won't unless someone complains.
As someone who also played competitively, I can agree it was the money that drove everyone from the game. Unlike all my other hobbies growing up that I grew out of, this became a financial choice without question. Ordering a palette of paint because our local practice field would let us bring 1-1 was a common occurrence.
Total accident. Many of us were all hanging out by the cars and one of the guns went off.
It looks like the $30 is a 3-month subscription. Seems a bit pricey considering the target demographic.
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Even with alcohol, it's the indirect mechanism of storing consumed fat when consuming ethanol-energy rather than turning the ethanol into fat. Ethanol is a VERY poor fat precursor. Converting ethanol to lipids is an extremely inefficient process; when it happens only a few % of ethanol-calories end up being converted into fat-calories.

Through a similar mechanism to alcohol, one can start up DNL much faster with large acute fructose consumption, but even in that "worst case scenario" we still only convert about 1% of surplus fructose into fat - http://www.nutritionandmetabolism.com/content/9/1/89

Somewhat ironically, a scenario where we make more fat from the carbs & protein we eat is when we consume very little fat. Eat less than 10% fat in your diet and this will cause DNL to ramp up. This is explained more in the "how we get fat" link in my previous comment.
Getting Lucky it is not random, it is a skill
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The great thing about gnome-shell is you can have it however you want:

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/15/alternatetab/
What's stopping you from debugging coffeescript? Firefox was the first browser with source maps support.
Weirdly, I've found the same thing but primarily with general practitioners. I started going to internal medicine specialists (Asthma, don'tyaknow) and have had much better treatment.
Brian is going off the deep end I guess?
Real food diet is good for you, news at 11.
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I think technically he is in Ecuador.

I don't understand the distinction you make between the two cases. Both people are wanted for trial in another country.
He mentioned that his pitch ratio to new clients was 10:1 over his co-founder.

If he's doing all the code AND most of the pitching, I think that his fear is justified.

If he's thinking that the code is more important than the business early on...maybe. Both need to be there in spades but there are probably more good business people floating around than there are coders.

What he probably wants is a business unicorn who can either code or at least understand data normalization - and why not, higher success rate that way and lower co-founder friction.
Agree. I'd love to see it that people who make that claim also come up with some specific points.

But usually it's like:

"so which concept do you think is superfluous?"

"crickets"
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How easy is this to use without AngularJS? Additionally, if not, does anyone know of any alternative JS (or perhaps Python) libraries for what Satellizer does?
> They NEED to see a product, and they need to see that it can make an impact. If you approached them this winter with just an idea, your pitch would be instantly forgotten. Ideas are a dime a dozen, products are worth so much more.

By "they" do you mean YC? By my understanding, YC really gives emphasis to investing in the founders, not the idea, and they fully embrace the fact that the idea will evolve and may be completely different by the end of the program. For instance, Codecademy only came up with their idea a few weeks before Demo Day.

With that in mind, there's no reason not to apply to YC this winter. Best case, he gets in. Worst case, he doesn't and he learned more about his startup by really thinking about the application questions.
Could you mention which are the superfluous concepts?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8152663

Evaluate for yourself whether or not he may have fallen a few notches lately.
Prisoners (ala Larry Niven's "The Jigsaw Man").

Hospital brokered Markets (if we ever legalize sales).

tldr; Bre Pettis via Erin Griffith's answer: 3D printing.
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It seems like a lot of this heavy lifting is left to api / backend implementors and is not explicitly addressed. I don't think that is a short-coming of the module but perhaps some additional documentation on best practices could be helpful.
Which sets us up for the anecdotes posted elsewhere on this thread. Doctors become cynical, discount every patient's questions and ideas; patients with real problems get ignored; HN fills up with horror stories.

Do you have a solution in mind?
The link brings up the initial article's image, two opening paragraphs and then shows a subscription link below the opening paragraphs. After roughly 5 seconds, a subscription popup that completely obscures the text is displayed.
Causation doesn't imply correlation either, as the causative effect may be cancelled by other effects.
As some other people already pointed out, Paintball is just too expensive for a lot of people. I really wish I could play again regularly, but I don't have the money for it.
For some definition of "his basic thesis" meaning "radical misrepresentation of his basic thesis," sure.

Whether you like the ideology behind the forces at work in the American South or not, the real effect of these policies is to make the lives of the poorest and most marginalized people in these states worse. In the American South, it just so happens that this means black folks.

I don't know what you'd want out of an article on this issue, but I sure hope it wouldn't be a false rendering of the realities of the situation in the hopes of pandering to some sense of feel-good political ecumenicalism.
Excellent observation. But still not sexism. Its gotten popular to use blaming language, paint everything with the sexism brush, and generally polarize discussions about workplaces. I don't think that helps get us anywhere. If only more folks thought like you.
> Why isn't there something that can grab data from anywhere in any common format and import it into a relational database

IME, the issue is not tooling so much as dirty data. Even if a tool is a perfect solution, the data is (in the majority of companies) so dirty and inconsistently sparse that automated tooling breaks down.
The great thing is that as soon as people mention C++, it's immediately clear that this person has not a single clue what he/she is talking about.
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There is SimpleAuth[1] on the Ember.js side.

[1] https://github.com/simplabs/ember-simple-auth
On the second question, Typically a web scraper just interacts with the output of a web server, is shouldn't matter if it is asp.net or any other system.
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Multi vs. Single Environment configuration
Many frameworks like Rails or Laravel do provide support for different environments from default which you can specify via environment variables oder they get detected automatically via hostname or stuff like this.

I don't like it to put hostnames and/or credentials into the repository to make it ready for different scenarios.

I tend to create an .env file for every environment which exists. This also includes a production and development environment for my local machine because I want to see how the application behaves when set to production and of course even if I'm in "production" on my dev machine I use a different database than on a real server.

What do you think about this approach?
Weird. Maybe he saw those comments and changed it.
> You realize that Swift is not only resembles Scala syntax closely, but also adopts many of the same concepts?

If you think that superficial syntax comparison is a fair comparison of the two languages, then you haven't written idiomatic Scala code. It's true that Swift looks a lot like imperative Scala. But that means nothing as nobody writes or should want to write imperative Scala.

> Oh, right. Just the usual Scala bashing ... I think you have forgotten to mention C++.

Did you miss the part where I said I wrote mostly Scala for the last couple of months? Look at my post history, I love Scala.
use the usual trick: google the url and click the link on google.
Put this in your hosts file:
127.0.0.1 meter-svc.nytimes.com
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Me too. I'm still an awesomewm diehard. It seems most of the tiling WM users have moved on to more active projects like XMonad but I'm still clinging to awesome. awesome is currently on shaky ground by nature since it was designed for XCB, the ultra-modern way forward for X11 that wasn't and is now considered a deprecated API.

I tried XMonad once but hit a snag (don't remember what it was) and went back to awesome. Some people have actually laughed at me when they've seen that I'm still using awesome.
Preliminary results here (N=43): http://imgur.com/oZKKOYo
It sounds like you've probably read the 10 articles the NYT allows you read each month for free. I haven't run into this since I subscribed to the Sunday NYT.

That said, here's a share link, which may work for you: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/18/business/media/view-of-fer...
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> I can look at Swift without having ever written any and know roughly what it's doing. I can't with Scala.

You realize that Swift not only resembles Scala syntax closely, but also adopts many of the same concepts?
Single point WiFi database. List of networks, their cost, what services they allow you onto (HTTP, any TCP, VPN, etc), their speed, et al. Have it be filterable, so if I am sitting in airport X then I can look for "WiFi which supports VPN tunneling."

Just like Amazon's product catalogue but with WiFi networks.
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Exactly. Work with people you respect. Your co-founders should be better than you (at least you should think so). And they likely think you are better than them.

You can only find out how the dynamics of the team will work once you try it, so work with people you already know, or try out new people for an extended period of time before comitting.
If the child is at an age where you should be worried about their ability to handle the game, you should be monitoring their usage as well. Unless you can keep them away from all of the different ways they can find addictive games to play (hello flash player) then it seems to me better to be involved and encouraging responsible use?

I don't know that minecraft needs to be beneficial. I certainly doubt super mario or sonic the hedgehog were when I was young. It's a game. It allows lots of creativity, it has lots of variety. No mod will change the fact that it's still a computer game. Treat it as such and I don't see a problem?
So, how would this work if I'm using Python-Social-Auth as the provider as an interface to Django?

Most sites implementing social auth don't do it in the client directly, but as an interface to the oauth and then just trusting that authentication as canon, while simultaneously invoking a non-oAuth login() method at the tail end of the oAuth login. Not sure how this relates directly.

That said, this is a FANtastic, and very necessary module, and hopefully it covers what I think is the most common use pattern.
Ive been investigating the grunt fund [0] concept lately and plan to use it with my current startup to bring on a partner. I think it would go along way to ease your concerns.

[0] Http://slicingpie.com
Are you working too hard? Are you burning yourself out?
Thanks! We changed the url to v3.
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They store the keys of people who give them their keys.

Microsoft's code is the most heavily reverse engineered in the industry. It's 2014, not 1995; you can't summon a "closed source" boogieman to win arguments about what they do and don't do.
Or when it moves at the wrong moment as you go to scroll/pinch and then counts it as a click and opens the new page. At the very least let me close the damned thing, I've seen and read it enough to interact. Now let me read the site.
Bottom line: native speakers of English don't grok morphology. When exposed to it, the best among them get fascinated and keen, the worst are cast into despair and ennui. But hey, this way of dealing with words is quite common as languages go. Greek, Arabic, Russian, Turkish, Swahili, all of them work by affixing lots of grammar markers onto roots, sometimes changing the roots and the affixes in subtle ways. (Actually, English used to be like that, too, no more than a thousand years ago.)
> a value `v` annotated as `str` could still be changed as follows:

> v = 1234

Surely at least this could be caught by a static type checker? If `v` is annotated to be of type `str`, assigning it a constant int should be a type error, though I'm sure Python provides more indirect ways of setting `v` that would be harder to catch statically (like globals()['v'] = ...).

But your comment raises an interesting question: are the annotations MyPy is relying on (static) type annotations, or value annotations?

I tend to think of the difference between static and dynamic typing as whether types attach to expressions or to values. If annotations only attach to the value to which a variable is initially bound in some context, I can see how they really wouldn't be much help in this scenario, since `v = 1234` is simply rebinding `v` to a value of a different type, and a previous annotation wouldn't preclude that. But if annotations attach to expressions, then it would be inconsistent to bind `v` to a value like 1234, since the constant "1234" is of a different type than `v` is.
nytimes.com links do that. The protocol I usually follow is:

1) copy the headline from Hacker News

2) open a new private browsing window

3) search google for the headline with site:nytimes.com prepended

4) click the link

It's annoying, but it works.
Thanks to reveals like Echelon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON), every big/strategic (e.g. energy/arms) business in Europe has been aware of this since the late 80s (at least). For instance in the 90s, a common strategy when negotiating with US companies was to send misinformation via email or fax internally knowing that the NSA would pass it on. From the results of the negotiations it appeared that the NSA were not aware that they were being played in this way.

Anyway, so that's why I think you're not hearing too much about that scandal - it comes as no shock to anyone it affects.
The Wikipedia term for an article like this is a coatrack. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Coatrack
Does KDE do these?

It sounds like the setup you describe is only possible with a huge amount of configuration.

With enough configuration, Emacs could do all those things too.
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