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> Now that the dominant languages seem to be dynamic languages like Python, Ruby & JavaScript,

That's incorrect. Regardless of the metric (TIOBE, job boards, StackOverflow, ...), you will see that the top five languages are 90% statically typed (usually Java, C, C++, C#).
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I'm a Yii fan but it takes some time learning the "yii" way of doing things i.e. structure, naming conventions. I decided to move on though because the community and module ecosystem are small.
Pitching to an angel tomorrow. Any last minute tips
Hey all,

I am still in the office writing the docs for the meeting tomorrow. This will be my first pitch to an investor and I just want to know what you would recommend to make the pitch as good as possible.

The business is www.venteo.co (busy improving the site, I know the video is shitty)

In overview the app puts all the pictures taken at an event by anyone attending into same album.

We are working with a bunch of event organisers who use Venteo to not only save on photographer cost but to capture the real raw moments and get more engagement.

So whats your thoughts. Will be in the office for the rest of the night.
Yeah when I say above checks against millions of records ... Those records would be over many years and possibly many many years of data that can point to data points showing this X group of people died of this disease and their specimen(urine too) all had this same trait.
I might be suffering from listening to too small a sample (though they were right...), but I heard much more positive commentary about Sotomayor before she was confirmed than Kagan. It seemed like party insiders liked Kagan because she was an insider, but that was all.
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I would recommend you know as much as you can about a) your competition b) your marketing strategy c) monetization
Good luck!
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Yeah, this is pretty much the talk of the town these days. A hem-onc fellow I surf with told me about it in July. There are real problems to work out (surviving the pretreatment and the treatment) but there's definitely a lot of buzz around it. Had one of the Moores Cancer Center pharmacists over for pizza last night. She said it's pretty crazy. They get this $250,000 package on dry ice and wait for a phone call.
I'm sure many password managers, including LastPass, meet the security bar for the threat models of most people.

However,

* I don't trust any software that uploads data to a centralized service (encrypted or not)

* Especially when that software is not open source / free software.
I can believe that, but it doesn't by itself show the full effect of the patent system. The threat of a legal case is important in a lot of places where no actual legal case develops. For example, Stanford's CCRMA computer-music research lab has been funded over the past few decades largely by patent royalties, from licensing patents to synth-makers like Yamaha. IMO that's an example of the patent system functioning largely as intended: R&D group develops something, licenses it to a commercialization group, which develops a product and pays a small percentage as royalties to the R&D group. No court actual court case happened anywhere here, because everyone played by the rules. Yet the possibility of one was necessary, or else there'd be no reason for Yamaha to pay anything at all.

So for a full picture of the effect of the patent system, I think you need to look at total licensing royalties, including both court-ordered and contractually agreed ones.
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I think you're just confused. From the post:

> The graph below shows the time it took to run versus the size of [the array]
One of the huge wins of rust is that the devs put a lot of effort into its basic infrastructure. Testing, documenting, and benchmarking are almost too easy.
If I were the investor I'd ask you these questions:

1. Why would anyone use Venteo instead of Facebook's shared album feature? http://mashable.com/2013/08/26/facebook-shared-photo-albums/

2. Why don't I know anyone who has used Facebook's shared album feature?
Agreed! And also the fact that F1 seems to be one of the only professional sports that has no problem changing the rules and regs each season (sometimes dramatically), which makes for much less predictable seasons..

I can't think of any other major yearly league or sport that does that. Imagine if they tried to change the rules in football or baseball like that every season or two?
I don't know if this fits the bill exactly, but I've been dying to have time to play around with Overtone[1] and Emacs Live[2]!

[1]: http://overtone.github.io
[2]: http://overtone.github.io/emacs-live/
"One of the strengths that Java has over Lisp is that it's statically typed."

Common Lisp has optional static typing. Unlike Java, you have the choice, depending on what you're doing.
You're welcome :)

Looks like a cool project!
Marijuana should be legal to possess, to produce, and to sell.

Shrooms should be legal to possess, to produce, and to sell.

Cocaine should be legal to possess, and to sell (perhaps licensed).

Heroin (and associated opiates) should be legal to possess, to produce, and to sell (perhaps only licensed sales).

Meth should be legal to possess, to produce (for large licensed companies), and to sell.

When I use the word "drugs" in the context of this conversation, I am referring to recreational drugs. I'm not necessarily saying that antibiotics should be available without prescription.

Rohypnol isn't a typical recreational drug. Considering that its only use seems to be covertly drugging third parties, I do not advocate that it be legal to buy or sell.

You definitely understood what I meant. You're fallaciously trying to find a counter-example that can be used to undermine my arguments.
If the W3C and the major browser vendors could agree to the API and Keychain specifics, it would help a lot.

So far, both the W3C and the browser vendors have been AWOL for the most part on real solutions to this problem.

If you are interested, I'm looking for folks to help flesh it out and promote it. Any and all help is welcome!
If you only have three attempts entering the PW, how is that remarkably insecure?
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I was thinking of using sox as well - turns out a lot a lot of the audioop module in the Stdlib comes directly from sox :)

relevant comment in the audioop source: https://github.com/python-git/python/blob/master/Modules/aud...
Damn beat me to it.
So the internet is going back to its roots, armed with some new technology? That would make me very happy from a privacy point of view, but I'm dubious of whether it's actually going to happen...
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Hey HN! Next tuesday about 10 kids from central Indiana with a passion for innovation will be visiting SF, and Silicon Valley. We will be in the city for about 5 days and are excited to experience technology and innovation in this awesome city. We have already scheduled tours of Facebook, Google, and plan on going to the Computer History Museum. We are interested in maybe seeing some startups or really anything (does not have to be tech related). Let me know if you think there is some place that we shouldn't miss! Thanks!
I believe the transistor-level simulation came from these images:

http://www.visual6502.org/images/pages/Atari_10444D_TIA.html

There are gate-level schematics for the TIA too:

https://atariage.com/2600/archives/schematics_tia/index.html
Anyone tracking the time periods of of the ebb and flow of centralized and decentralized? I guess a lot of things are decentralized and a lot of things are centralized, but it makes sense that perhaps the current subset of the general public that is becoming more and more internet aware are now starting to become aware of the benefits of decentralization.
This was debunked in an article I saw recently, where it turned out that the data was cherrypicked pretty dramatically. Let me try and locate it.
Does this handle concurrent logins from multiple devices reasonably? If every login essentially resets the "password", either all other existing sessions are terminated (bad usability) or kept (possibly insecure).

The linked more technical description suggests that the latter is done (sessions on trusted devices are valid for 1 year), so you apparently cannot stop someone with a stolen device from accessing your account (while the session is active / the cookie persists).
curious to see more detailed data, this seems to include research companies that, in fields like pharma, are real companies and their major product is patents.
No disrespect to the unfortunate, but even if those numbers plummet, 50% out of a last-resort would still be amazing.

Mind sharing what you're doing w/ the python/pg for your research?
It's a shared system, in that other people can access the same server the files are actually located on. The DRM is definitely meant to stop other users of the system from accessing the files, and only permit me to view it through a thin terminal when showing the proper credentials.

You seem to have an ideological need to call DRM bad in all cases and tell me how every other use of DRM is not "True DRM!", but I'm using it to stop people with access to the server from being able to open certain files even if they somehow break other security features which should prevent them from even getting access to the bits.

I'm not sure how much more DRM you can get than stopping people from viewing content unless they show their credentials to prove they're an authorized user.
oh damn, updated the readme but not the dot-com.

Fixed. I really need to automate that :/
Well I was born in '84 so it's all history to me ;) I've only ever known compiled, high performing Lisps with unnoticable GC. So it's weird when I still hear people trotting out the old "bloated, interpreted, slow" line.

I sometimes think that the AI winter really took computing in a weird turn, not just Lisp, but computing in general. It feels like we stopped trying to make computers do all the work for us and decided that humans should be doing the work for the computer. So we ended up heading down the path of manual memory management in the C style languages, verbose constrained programming in Java and static typing instead of the easier dynamic. Whilst I agree that at one point, hardware performance was a serious consideration and we needed to squeeze everything we could out of computers - that is no longer the case. We're overwhelmed by hardware performance in most cases. Perhaps that's why we're seeing a resurgence in Lispy languages nowadays?
pydub does it, but it shells out to ffmpeg, not sure if that's acceptable
Yes you can robots cannot program themselves or repair themselves.

Robots lack self awareness, common sense, compassion, empathy, any emotions, and the slight change in programming can ruin their work.

I always made my living doing quality control and security checks, I would get hired to fix the mistakes of other people who attempted to write a program but it was of low quality, slow, and insecure.

Robots can program, but not very well. Sure you got autogeneration like Ruby on Rails but it still needs to be modified to be security and do more advanced things. Sure there are other tools that autogenerate code, but it still needs to be modified.

I used to fix problems in code written by people who got the work offshored to them. Now these nations they work at have improved their economy so the labor costs more, so businesses are turning to robots that work for free.

Not just physical robots, but web robots and software robots. The whole idea is to automate everything so that human beings are no longer needed. But when you automate things without common sense, empathy, etc people start to notice what is wrong.

For example I signed up to a website that had a web based chat with therapists, after a few questions I learned I was talking to a web chatbot. One who didn't know who Maslow was, one who had a picture taken from photo stock and used on other websites, one who was claimed to be a certified therapist, but seemed to know next to nothing about therapy or human beings. That website quickly went out of business, but when one fails, there will be several more to take the place and tweak the web chatbot so it appears to be more human. Won't pass a Turniing test, won't have empathy for the patient, nothing more that an Eliza BASIC clone ported to a new language and modified. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA
> We don't have a solution for agriculture yet but parched places such as CA central valley will probably have to give up on ag.

The Central Valley is probably the most productive agricultural region in the world. According to the USGS, "Using fewer than 1% of U.S. farmland, the Central Valley supplies 8% of U.S. agricultural output (by value) and produces 1/4 of the Nation's food, including 40% of the Nation's fruits, nuts, and other table foods."[1] California supplies about a third of the nation's lettuce and is responsible for more than 90% of the organic output of grapes, strawberries and other fruits and vegetables[2].

Ag is an important part of California's economy and a critical part of the United States food supply. The loss of California agriculture would be devastating to California and the entire nation on a number of levels[3].

I assume you weren't advocating for the state to "give up on ag" but frankly, that's not going to happen and treating ag as a silo is not realistic. It's easy for many to see this issue as a battle between cities and farms, but most people haven't spent any time in the Central Valley and don't understand how important and unique it is. The number of people in California who don't consume the state's agricultural products and benefit from their contributions to the economy is literally 0.

It's cliché, but we literally are all in this together when it comes to water.

[1] http://ca.water.usgs.gov/projects/central-valley/about-centr...

[2] http://giannini.ucop.edu/media/are-update/files/articles/v14...

[3] http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/explainer/2...
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Certainly the Art of Writing is the most miraculous of all things man has devised. Odin's Runes were the first form of the work of a Hero; Books, written words, are still miraculous Runes, the latest form! In Books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream. Mighty fleets and armies, harbors and arsenals, vast cities, high-domed, many-engined,—they are precious, great: but what do they become? Agamemnon, the many Agamemnons, Pericleses, and their Greece; all is gone now to some ruined fragments, dumb mournful wrecks and blocks: but the Books of Greece! There Greece, to every thinker, still very literally lives: can be called up again into life. No magic Rune is stranger than a Book. All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men.

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they should also buy chicken.com , which I do not own btw
This is an app for booking doctors appointments online? But you don't think it should have access to your id, location, wifi? Why is that unreasonable. The only strange one is the photos access.
It's simply plotting 'seconds' over 'items'. Neither axis is a compound unit.
> A revolutionary bit of technology called the block chain

Nice overview, but something that bugs me whenever someone talks about Bitcoin (particularly some VCs): they talk about the blockchain independently, as a "technology," without recognizing that, in fact, it's as much a triumph of technology as it is a triumph of clever incentives. Small semantic point in this article, but more broadly applicable when folks say "they don't love Bitcoin, but they love the 'blockchain technology.'"

Spoiler alert: the blockchain is both reputable and trustless because there are thousands of miners securing the network by hashing the night away. And why do they do it? Because of the unit of account they generate by participating.

Whenever I hear someone talk about how they love "the technology of the blockchain" without explicitly mentioning the incentives at play, I automatically become suspect of whether they actually understand what's going on. (I'm looking at you, venture capitalists) Less of a problem with this article, but I think it's worth highlighting all the same.
It depends what you're using the feces to accomplish. Usually FMT is done for people suffering from CDiff infections. The healthy gut flora outcompete the CDiff, causing the infection to go away.

Mother's milk is mostly viruses, so it's unlikely this would work against CDiff. For other users is sounds interesting though!
Thanks for the thoughtful reply and reference!
Hey Peter,

1. Facebooks shared albums are limited to 50 users with a max of 200 pics. The average person at a gig takes 20+ pictures as an example. FB shared albums cannot cater for this.

Also with Facebooks shared albums its limited to your own friends, on Venteo its an open platform where people can collaborate in the same album because they are attending the same event.

2. Good point, when I tell people about this they always ask "really, how do I find it". FB have never really marketed it nor ever made significant improvements since day 1.
Lead paint was recommended by the Federal government and required for many projects for much of the 20th century. This is a (admittedly biased, just look at the URL) page discussing some examples of the history:

http://www.leadlawsuits.com/index.php?s=699
What does mesh have to do with Internet connectivity? A WiFi network can also be off the Internet.

Also, note that Thread is at least a year from being baked.
"Most services today are centralized — sharing photos via social networks"

Yes, this service is centralized by virtue of choice. You can very easily share your photos via email, which is decentralized. Of course, you won't get all the features of a photo feed, but still, you can do it with no central authority.

Still, decentralized systems (in the context of the article) are great, but they present one little challenge: What incentives do people get in order to host a participating node/agent? In the case of bitcoin, the miners get a reward ($) each time they solve a new block, but unless all these decentralized systems leverage an existing blockchain/cryptocurrency system and have a system of rewards of some sort, they'll have a hard time springing into existence.
Well, it is a MVP, if it works you are gonna to throw it away and build something more scalable...

Anyway Ema is built in Clojure (and mongo at the moment), but it can run as standalone and serve over HTTP...

To answer your question I would probably build it in Clojure at least you don't really need something in python... Also JS could fit, but the project need,to be not extremely complex
Hey guys! I wanted to get your thoughts on the new app we released called Watsup (iOS only).
Looking forward to it.
So much more enjoyable when it was called "fuckedcompany.com", if for no other reason the FC guys didn't make you log in to fully use the site, which is incredibly douchey and a guarantee I'll never take another look at the site.
Re: shared device use, yes, you would continue to do password management best practices (fingerprint scans, master passwords, etc.).

I see the transferability as an export/import format issue. W3C, browser vendors and password managers need to agree on a format for keychain export/import.

Note that this technique could still be used in conjunction with multi-factor auth. Since it is just an evolution of passwords, those type of mechanisms are still relevant and compatible (though, eliminating knowledge factors should reduce need for a second factor).
Hey man, first of all, good luck!

Be ready to do your pitch with or without graphics, with or without white board,, with or without aids of any kind.

If you were pitching to Steve Jobs, rest assured that after your fourth slide, or 30 seconds of video, he would interrupt to say you're full of shit. Chances are, you won't encounter that kind of abruptness. Just saying, be ready for anything.

Most investors are pragmatists. They will want to know HOW you know that customers will come; they'll want to know what your market research consists of; you'll need to provide some kind of market "proof." Do a mock preso with somebody interrupting all the time to say "That's pie in the sky. Prove to me it's not pie in the sky."

How many customers do you need to make this thing fly? How soon? What's the timmetable? Where will those customers come from? How many will come from each channel? How do you KNOW they'll come? What market testing have YOU done already? Those are the types of questions to expect. (Among others, of course.)

If you don't have those kinds of answers, be ready to tell how you'll get them. What are your income milestones? How can you prove you'll hit them? What happens if you don't? How soon will you be able to prove you're on track? What form does the proof take?

Angels see and hear good ideas all the time. What they want to know is why you're the one to do this and how you know it will work; why this is the right time; why no one else can execute on this; why it will succeed if YOU do it.

Best of luck to you. Hope this helps.
While preferring decentralization is relatively uncontroversial, the simple problem is the economic incentives to do it do not exist, and run very far in the opposite direction.

This isn't as simple as saying Google, Facebook etc. have a vested interest in promoting a centralized view, but that it's basically impossible to make money competing against them with a decentralized system.

There's a definite trend towards late 90s techno-utopianism appearing again.
While many other points may be valid, I'd say that mesh networks would be valuable in fringe situations (disaster relief, mass protests, etc) but cannot hope to replace the current Internet connectivity infrastructure.

Billions have been spent to create the IP transport networks. Building and operating them at current capacities, or even at 1% of current capacity, is of out of reach for most people who would run peer nodes of a mesh network.

Any node that'd happen to be in the bottleneck connecting two large segments, or just on a route to a very desired host, would be hit by a huge demand to pass traffic. Top-of-the-line 300 mbit wi-fi will be easily choked by that, not giving the node nearly enough bandwidth for its own requests. Huge fiber cables and microwave lines exist for a reason, and are not going to disappear.

The shape of the traffic they carry might change, though. E.g. with the advent of bittorrent, much of the traffic worldwide has become peer-to-peer / decentralized. This did not affect major carriers too much, except that they had to add bandwidth.
And your weissman score is?

(yes I know that's a fictional thing.. I'm just surprised nobody's brought up Pied Piper yet)
It is actually not too bad. I picked up all of these things in my undergraduate studies and some side classes.
I'm beginning to think the patent system is a mechanism for lawyers to extract money from people. The odds of another lawyer turning off that spigot seems low.
If you let people predict with play money only, it should be legal in most countries.