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Great to hear that quality meta tooling is making it's ways into the industry full of outdated and bad engineering practices.
I think Lem wrote sci-fi just by coincidence. Soviets would not allow any sort of criticism on serious stuff. But they adored sci-fi and cosmic future of mankind. Lem could write undisturbed on this field.

Western sci-fi authors such as Asimov and Clarke were great, but they were not best what literature can offer. In many cases they use story as boilerplate to present some technical marvel. Lem was one of the best authors, even outside sci-fi.
JIRA integration seems like a no-brainer since that's such a common tool in startups and other development shops. Why isn't it mentioned on the signup page where you list several tools? All you're doing there is asking which tools the users use, so it seems there would be no harm in letting people give you the input that they're using it, even if you don't integrate with it yet.
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i sure hope you are beeing sarcastic, if not, consider this: it is possible to use javascript to override ctrl+f or other keystrokes. if that site would have displayed the list, and someone used ctrl+f on it, they could have simply used such a technique to add your input to the list to generate positive findings on the fly.

http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/12/how-script-kiddies-c...
Maybe missions should give some money up front in some cases, sucks when you don't have any money and you need to upgrade for a mission. Either that or maybe I just suck at hacking others lol.
It's bothersome when pricing pages strike out a higher price and display a lower price - like a fabulous discount offer - when there are as-good-as-free services like https://www.svyft.com/ and https://slack.com/. Even https://www.hipchat.com/ is free.
Apparently it's "Tesco is expected to confirm this week that one pound in every seven that is spent in British shops goes through its tills." So house sales not included.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1548742/1-in-every-se...
you should reconsider this, because it is possible to use javascript to override ctrl+f or other keystrokes. if that site would have displayed the list, and someone used ctrl+f on it, they could have simply used such a technique to add your input to the list to generate positive findings on the fly.

http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/12/how-script-kiddies-c...
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Even if we suppose it were "sober rational thinking" that doesn't mean it's also not a "negative-connotation". Fifty years ago a southern business would have been engaged in "sober rational thinking" to deny service to blacks or at worst to make sure they were "properly" segregated.

In more modern times a more apt comparison would be with respect to pregnant women. Suppose he'd written instead "This is one reason I'd take the childless, single 25 year old woman over the married 32 year old. By 33 she'll probably be pregnant or have a baby."

That's very clearly discrimination, and very clearly in the negative-connotation sense.

For similar reasons, PG's statements re: age are very clearly "negative-connotation" age discrimination. Moreover, there's nothing particularly "sober" or even "rational" about it, considering the heaps of evidence regarding age and people who are very successful in running businesses (hint: "young" isn't exactly a word that comes to mind).
nice.. i'll use grep instead, thanks for the effort though
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Hi natch, thanks for pointing this out! We set out initially with compiling a small survey of the tools that are most widely used among startups, since we figured they're the ones who're most likely to become Early Adopters. Doing this, we saw that most (some 90 something per cent) where using GitHub, DropBox and Google Drive, so we set out to add these first. However, we're of course always trying to figure out what our potential users might be most interested in so we're asking everyone what their favorite integrations would be - hence the feedback box during the sign up process. We've already identified a dozen tools and services we need to integrate with (Trello, for instance, will go live early next week) and we're working full time on adding as many as possibly as soon as possible. If you'd like to, I'd be happy to personally notify you once JIRA is live?
This is awesome!! Played around with it for awhile. Very snappy, great UI. Very functional! Well done.
Thank you for your nice comments :)
He is not being downvoted for those fake-impassionate reasons. Some others have negated this bullshit and re-upvoted, but during the worst of it, all of his comments, even the ones that didn't exhibit what you say, were downvoted multiple times.
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Regular expressions just need 3 things: sequence, alternatives (|), and repetition(*). Everything else is an extension.
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Load performance is mostly due to the few number of files that are being included, though minification also helps.

Application performance is typical of modern, hand-coded JS. Or rather, I should say, the only reason I can see for why people tolerate bloated frameworks is because they've just come to expect JS to be slow. There is a reason some of us insist on sticking to vanilla JS. It's not because we're crotchety, old, greybeards. We wouldn't be touching JS at all if that were the case.

It appears they might also be using layered canvases to render different parts of the workspace that update at different rates. So that prevents them from having to redraw the checkered background every time you move the drawing. And it prevents them from having to redraw the existing drawing every time you add a new element and are still adjusting it.

Pretty standard techniques for anyone with experience working with Canvas, actually.
2 things.

1. Y = C + I + G + (X − M) .

2. but C is 250838 GBP Million in the first quarter of 2014, 249105 GBP Million in the fourth quarter of 2013. so C is around 1 billion.
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Do you have something like presentation with comparison with such widely used (sadly) tools like Skype and Lync?
Thanks but that appears to be the opposite of how it works when being critical of drug consumption. Check all the posts I made on it and how they have been downvoted.

It's a travesty that rational discussion is impossible.
> Cantaloupe can kill me (allergy), so I choose not to eat it. Darwin at work... For similar reasons, I'm not pro-drugs.

OT, but why do you drink if you feel this way? Alcohol is perhaps one of the least safe recreational drugs there is. Of course, with proper dosage management and supervision from a sober individual, the risk is minimal. But that applies to all drugs, doesn't it?
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The term of a patent has nothing to do with independent invention, it is meant to allow an inventor an opportunity to capture the rewards of their invention. Both licensing and product development (even for software) can take many years to happen, and 4 or 5 years is laughably inadequate. Not to mention, of course, that patent offices take a few years for a patent to grant in the first place. What advantage is a patent if it expires just in time for others to start ripping you off?

In any case, I am not aware of any quantitative study of independent invention. But using patents as a sample, considering only 0.1% being involved in interferences and that only 0.1% of issued patents ever being asserted, one rough guess could be that most patentable ideas are never independently re-invented. On the other hand, given how narrow patents usually are, this is not surprising. Then again, most patents are licensed without litigation, and these deals are confidential, so this is a really rough guess.

> … Against Intellectual Monopoly …

Heh, I guessed that would come up. Unfortunately, that book contains many fabrications and mischaracterizations of other work, which calls into question anything they say. I've already pointed it out once:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7889290

Another example of similar shenanigans from the same authors:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8157206

It's unfortunate that many people believe their work without critical thought because it confirms their biases. The second comment linked above links a few studies showing the beneficial effects of patents and ends with a reference to a more balanced and honest overview of the current state of patent economics. I'd encourage you to read those instead.
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>> "What front-end frameworks/technologies did you use?"

Why is that everyone's first question? I get this constantly when I demo my stuff at meetups and hackathons. None. The answer is none. And they look at me like I just admitted to being a person who prefers to breath water. Vanilla JS is not that hard. It's a sight easier to know one language than to have to relearn the darling framework of the year all the time.
Rails. In w10, we were one of two non-rails users, though it seems that has changed to larger diversity.

Most YC companies use CircleCI, so we get to see some of the diversity. While I haven't got concrete stats on this, I think it leans slightly more heavily rails than usual (and usual is about 50%). Bear in mind that that's skewed in some ways: if they were using C# for example they couldn't use us.
Hi kajarya! Well, for once, we're only displaying a discount for committing yourself for 12 months, that's fair, wouldn't you agree? Furthermore, neither Slack nor Hipchat are available for fee if you want to use it at its full potential.

Most importantly, with ChatGrape we're going beyond of simply providing a chat based communication solution. On ChatGpape, we're offering a smart engine that automatically triggers workflows based on your communication, such as, let's meet at 2pm tomorrow - automatically adds a calendar event.

There's more than that, of course, but the essence is that we're running a quite extensive engine in the background to make your team's communication easier and more efficient, and that takes up actual processing power.

Finally, considering that our aim to to save you time that you can use better on building your own baby, instead of wasting time searching for documents you ant to share and issues you want to reference - the average startup using ChatGrape has access to all the features for around 35 bugs per month, which is really a reasonable price, don't you think?
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ASU is on a roll. They've done quite a bit of work on the Mars Rovers. They recently announced tuition assistance for Starbucks employees to make college education without crippling debt more widely available. Now they're advancing human augmentation. Maybe more Sun Devils should apply to YC.

Mars:
http://www.asu.edu/feature/mars/

http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/tempe/2014/07/31/m...

Starbucks:
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/06/16/us/starbucks-to-provide...
http://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/
Are you arguing that we shouldn't pursue fission because we won't need as much power in one place as is provided by efficient large-scale fusion designs? Because that seems very weird to me. Power is great. Our civilization thrives on power. The costs of making things energy efficient are large.

Now, the current thinking is that available power sources either cause harm (fossil fuels) or are expensive and intermittent (renewables). And that thinking is prudent. But if we can solve all this with fusion...that would be fantastic! Think of all the things you could do if you had cheap power, and all the regulations you could dispose of. Is your argument really that we won't find a way to make use of cheap, clean power?
How do you deal with continuity and being able to write articles weekly?. This is my biggest problem, if you are not dedicated and have other side projects, it will be very very difficult to sustain. Users want fresh content and will quickly disappear if you are not dedicated.
interesting - makes you think perhaps online book sellers should be hosting AMAs.
Given the choice between two systems[1], I can prefer one and still see the tradeoffs each has.

[1] Of course there are more than 2 choices.
I have no idea in what is going on or what this is about, but adding the Video for unsupported browsers is a great idea.
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What's the exit strategy for customers?

I might not choose those exact words, but IMHO the fundamental issue this raises is something any SaaS company ought to be addressing in a transparent and up-front way these days if they want any credibility. Unfortunately, there aren't many who do yet.
I thought he was Polish.
Every other solution for this currently sucks. Someone needs to do it the right way. It's possible that Apple could do it better.
Here's a broader look at tech stacks used by startups on Angel List: http://codingvc.com/which-technologies-do-startups-use-an-ex...
As mentioned in the article, Apple is taking advantage of required changes in POS systems to help make this push.
We've been educating and cracking down for decades. I'm not suggesting an alternative, rather an additional tool. I think a bomb might be quite educational. I would be happy with peaceful monitor drones, thermal imaging cctv, a DARPA challenge for autonomous vehicles to fly over reserves and locate poachers, maybe tag them, or dart them, then alert authorities, but that has far less chance of happening than military training exercises with an added benefit.

Edit: I have more to say.

AI monitoring is needed because the areas are too large for people to watch. Is a geostationary satellite able to scan a large reserve for people, or are numerous cameras closer to ground level needed? Securing the reserve boundaries - how far away are we from forcefields? Towers with some sort of array of detectors monitoring the boundaries, broken beams? Radar? Lidar? Seismometers? Pressure sensors? Money often talks louder than education, as does short-term mindedness over long-term. Education hasn't stopped murder, burglary, mugging, rape, ... if it does stop poaching, it won't be any time soon. This sounds like the opportunity for challenges which techies like to solve. My knowledge of technology is unfortunately too broad and superficial, as you've probably gathered, but someone's surely got to be tempted.
Yes, it's compatible with standard contactless EMV terminals. However it won't be supported here until at least 2015.
Moneyball is a totally different matter. Moneyball is simply saying the metrics used in the past were wrong.

Let me ask you this. Who do you think would win a chess match. The top 5 rated players in the world on one team, our five random adults chosen from the population who knows the game of chess?

Furthermore I'm dating their theory need not be tested with a poor computational model. You can easily test it with real people with problems to solve.

Lastly you add the caveat of "with no hard data". The paper makes the EXACT opposite claim, which is, if you HAVE hard data you should NOT pick the top performing individuals but rather sample randomly to create a team.
It's a legitimate question because Uber and Lyft are a "new thing" and they're international brand names, something that's not true of regular cab services.

If a cab driver in New York City rapes and kills a passenger, it wouldn't make people distrust all cabs in NYC, much less cabs in other cities; there's no brand name to be damaged by news coverage, and as a news story it probably wouldn't even be covered by media outside of the NYC area.

But if an Uber driver rapes and kills a passenger, it will be covered by media everywhere, because Uber is a newsworthy company and because Uber has a global presence, and the Uber brand will be damaged worldwide, not just locally. Because Uber is a "new thing" there will be lots of people/media asking questions about the safety of Uber (in many cases stupid questions, but still).
Another factor is that Scala runs on JRE 6 and 7. There's still a huge amount of Java 6 in production environments, and much much less Java 8.
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Lem had a genuine and lifelong interest in technology. Polish authors found plenty of ways to be critical without having to divert into genre fiction. Lem wrote it because he loved it.

I wholeheartedly agree that the need to read between the lines politically, and the belief that science fiction is a serious literary endeavor, put Polish and Soviet scifi on a completely different level of quality than in the West. (The same is likely true for other countries in the Eastern Bloc, but I'm out of my depth there).
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Costs more than Slack with less service integrations.
Bitter ending in that it was the lack of education on local wildlife that lead to this baby elephants death in the end.
Person behind devv.tv here.

I built this landing page at the end of the last Ludum Dare compo/when Notch began streaming his Doom build.

I'm currently trying to think of ways to attract developers to stream. There seems to be lots of interest in people wanting to watch good quality streams but I feel the challenge lies in providing these good quality streams.

I plan on streaming myself building the MVP in the near future.
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Probably only with things such as Laravel, but I guess it's frowned upon.
When you say crufty, I'm going to assume you're talking about LLVM
Censorship in Poland had a funny element, as weird as that may sound. It wasn't un-typical for postcards or letters to contain 'greetings to the censor' at the end or even as the salutation.
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even though the discussion often gets reframed. Around catchphrases like "corporate personhood" in the case of Citizens United.

That's a funny one to listen for: people who think that Citizens United had anything to do with corporate personhood.
>What invention is needed to invent the algorithm, once you know the math?

Math and algorithm are overloaded terms that often mean the same thing, so it's not possible to answer that question. However, to clarify what jandrewrogers meant: at the time modular exponentiation was a known mathematical construct; what was invented and patented was a new, previously unknown algorithm that used that mathematical construct as part of an encryption technique.

Now both can be seen as "math" or "algorithm", but the key difference is that the encryption algorithm has practical utility (i.e. providing security) whereas modular exponentiation by itself has none.
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If a bunch of people on HN scream "overvalued" it means the valuation is fair.
Why is it that almost every time I hear about a stupid law on the web, 90% of the time it comes from California?

Do the legislators there just love making people more problems?
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This adds an amazing amount of verification, but it doesn't mean that the resulting code is slow. Doing unit checks is awesome. The grid state machine view makes it easier to catch errors and refactor the transitions.
> Scale is completely separate from the legal ban of commercial drone operations.

Its actually not. While the limit on commercial application doesn't directly limit scale, there is a very big difference in the overall expected scale when something can only be done for personal enjoyment vs. when it can be both done for that and for commercial purposes.

One can argue that prohibiting commercial use isn't the most desirable way to influence overall scale, but one cannot -- without willful blindness -- argue that banning commercial use has no impact on expected overall scale, even if it does nothing to directly limit either overall scale or the scale of any particular operation.

> I can legally build a dozen quadcopters with 26" propellers and set them flying formations for fun.

Yes, but how many people will vs. how many will when they can do it for fun or profit?
You didn't answer the question, "why?".
and then they will add "driving attendants" attractive people to serve you the drinks etc on your trip
As an anecdote - in my circles I observe that PHP is very popular among people who started working in web ~2000, while ruby is popular among those who started in ~2007. Nothing to do with seniority etc, I think it's simply the default choice of whatever was in vogue at the time when the person started hacking, and by now many PHP guys skew older and are out of the startup game (i.e. working in established companies on established products).

As another example, I'm still astonishingly productive with PHP for backend APIs and rapid development projects. The symfony/Doctrine community has done a phenomenal job at bringing world-class tools to the language.
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Hey Steve,

Who do we have to harangue to get Rust to rename "Vector"? It is kind of embarrassing and confusing terminology, and there is no reason to propagate it. Just call an array an array and an immutable array an immutable array.

There's no good reason to perpetuate the mistakes of the C++ people.

(Note to those not understanding the objection: A vector is defined an element of a group that is closed under addition and multiplication. This is a very specific and very widely-useful meaning, and any program that does stuff with math is going to use vectors. So when you come along and put into your standard the idea that 'vector' means an arbitrary collection of elements that probably are not even scalars, you not only show that you don't know what vector means, but you confuse the programs of many many of your users, because now they have two totally different things both of which are called Vector and that are both used very heavily. [There is no way in hell anyone is going to call a math vector anything but vector, since that would be insanely confusing.])
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> trying to find a solution for an already solved problem can easily take from them the solutions already implemented

The 'solution already implemented' in this case seems to be 'Email the PAUSE admins who will deal with each case individually'. It seems kinda condescending to imply that 'have more volunteers' is something that the ruby community just hasn't thought of; as if projects short of manpower just need to learn from the wisdom of the perl community in just, y'know, having more.

One of the main motivations for Benjamin to write his post seems to have been the reply in the initial thread from the Rubygems admin saying "I want these decisions to not be on my (or anyone's) shoulders. It's stressful and nerve-wracking if I get it wrong"[0]. Given that, a reply saying, essentially, 'What's the problem, just get the RubyGems admin to make the decisions' seems.... unconstructive at best.

[0] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rubygems-org/niS5ZO9DNgk/9gF...
What other Polish or Soviet authors are worth reading? (and translated into English)

I love Lem's work but that's the extent of my familiarity with Eastern Bloc sci-fi.
Never heard of Flowdock. Checked iOS app. Zero reviews, ever. So, "been around for a while" doesn't feel like a true validation.
Indeed, I watched all those youtube channels for quite a long time before deciding to build a foundry; there is excellent stuff out there! The Gingery books are really very good for books, but for a lot of these tasks it is so much more clear to watch someone do the work.